{"generatedAt":"2026-10-12T15:53:46.762Z","datasetVersion":"2026.09","edition":"public","count":640,"license":"Compilation, metadata, summaries, and annotations © Campus Alert Archive, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Verbatim alert and policy texts remain the work of their issuing institutions, reproduced from publicly available sources, and are not covered by the CC BY license.","policies":[{"id":"aims-community-college-eop-notification-annex","slug":"aims-community-college-eop-notification-annex","institution":{"name":"Aims Community College","shortName":"Aims","state":"CO","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Rave Alerts","enrollment":11372},"policy":{"title":"Aims Community College Emergency Operations Plan, 2025, Annex 2 (Communications and Notifications)","systemName":"Rave Alerts","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://www.aims.edu/system/files/resource/AimsEmergencyPlan.pdf"},"summary":"Aims Community College's 2025 [Emergency Operations Plan](https://www.aims.edu/system/files/resource/AimsEmergencyPlan.pdf) structures its notification duties as Annex 2, Communications and Notifications, with a dedicated Appendix 3, a Timely Warning and Emergency Notification Statement, sitting inside the broader all-hazards plan rather than as a standalone Clery document, and the college's Director of Campus Safety and Security is named as the official who can stand up an alternate Emergency Operations Center.","analysis":"Aims Community College, a two-year public college based in Greeley, Colorado with additional campuses across Weld County, structures its notification obligations inside its full [Emergency Operations Plan](https://www.aims.edu/system/files/resource/AimsEmergencyPlan.pdf) rather than in a standalone Clery-only document. This record is included as an emergency-operations-plan entry, not a standalone-SOP entry, precisely because its Timely Warning and Emergency Notification content lives inside Annex 2 of the broader all-hazards EOP rather than as its own free-standing procedure; that distinction is the reason this file carries documentType emergency-operations-plan.\n\nThe plan's structure is unusually explicit about where notification duties sit. Annex 2 of the 2025 plan is titled Communications and Notifications, and within it, Appendix 3 is specifically labeled a Timely Warning and Emergency Notification Statement, the Clery-facing piece embedded inside the college's broader communications annex. The U.S. Department of Education's REMS technical-assistance center separately mirrors part of this same plan as a standalone Communication and Notification Annex, indicating the annex is treated as a distinct operational module even though it lives inside the full EOP rather than as its own document.\n\nOperationally, Aims layers its notification channels: registered students and employees are added to the [Rave](https://www.getrave.com/login/aims) notification platform through MyAims, weather and emergency closures trigger a pop-up banner on the college website, and yellow audio/visual Alert Beacons installed in every building on all campuses display current alert status, a physical, always-on channel layered on top of the text/email/voice Rave system and the Aims Guardian safety app. The college's Director of Campus Safety and Security is named in indexed plan content as the official authorized to identify and establish an alternate Emergency Operations Center if the primary location becomes unavailable, indicating that role carries operational authority within the plan's command structure, though the specific chain of authority for launching a Clery-triggered notification itself was not independently confirmed.\n\nBecause aims.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment (and the U.S. Department of Education's REMS mirror of the same plan at rems.ed.gov could not be resolved from this environment either), the passages above are reconstructed from search-engine-indexed extracts and structural references to the plan rather than a firsthand line-by-line read of Annex 2 or Appendix 3. No excerpt below is treated as a confirmed exact quotation, and this record carries a low confidence rating on that basis, consistent with how this archive handles other 403-blocked, structurally-confirmed-but-textually-unverified plans.","whenCriteria":"The EOP's Response phase triggers plan activation and formal notification procedures. Within that structure, Appendix 3 to Annex 2 (Timely Warning and Emergency Notification Statement) is the Clery-facing component that governs when a timely warning or emergency notification specifically, as opposed to a broader EOP activation, is issued; the specific triggering language in that appendix was not independently retrievable in this review.","decisionAuthority":"The Director of Campus Safety and Security is named in indexed plan content as authorized to identify and establish an alternate Emergency Operations Center if the primary EOC is unavailable, and is described as involved in emergency operations decision-making generally. The specific named authority for launching a Clery timely warning or emergency notification under Appendix 3 was not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed. As a Clery-covered institution, Aims is bound by the federal standard of emergency notifications issued immediately upon confirmation and timely warnings issued as soon as pertinent information is available; the plan's own stated timing language in Appendix 3 could not be independently retrieved.","cleryFraming":"Aims folds its Clery timely warning and emergency notification obligations into Appendix 3 of Annex 2 (Communications and Notifications) inside the full Emergency Operations Plan, rather than publishing them as a standalone Clery policy separate from the EOP, which is why this record is classified as an emergency-operations-plan rather than a standalone-policy or sop entry.","scopeLimits":"Notification channels layer a Rave-based text/email/voice system, a website pop-up banner for weather and closures, physical Alert Beacons in every building on all campuses, and the Aims Guardian app; the specific geographic and crime-type scope of Appendix 3's Clery-facing statement was not independently confirmed.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Annex 2 and Appendix 3 structure","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.aims.edu/system/files/resource/AimsEmergencyPlan.pdf","sourceDescription":"Aims Community College Emergency Operations Plan, 2025 (table-of-contents structure captured via search-engine reproduction; host 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Rave registration channel","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.aims.edu/","sourceDescription":"Aims Community College, Emergency Alerts / Safety Resources pages (captured via search-engine reproduction; host 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Aims Community College's Clery notification content is embedded as Appendix 3 to Annex 2 (Communications and Notifications) inside its full 2025 Emergency Operations Plan, rather than published as a standalone timely-warning or emergency-notification document, which is why this record carries documentType emergency-operations-plan rather than sop.","The college layers a Rave-based text/email/voice system, a website closure banner, physical Alert Beacons in every campus building, and the Aims Guardian app as its notification channel mix.","The Director of Campus Safety and Security is named in indexed plan content as authorized to stand up an alternate Emergency Operations Center, indicating operational command authority within the plan, though the specific Clery notification decision chain was not independently confirmed.","Neither aims.edu nor the U.S. Department of Education's REMS mirror of the same plan could be directly loaded in this environment, so this record's confidence is set to low and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation."],"sources":[{"title":"Aims Community College Emergency Operations Plan, 2025 (PDF)","url":"https://www.aims.edu/system/files/resource/AimsEmergencyPlan.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Operations Plan, EOP Part 6, Annex 2 (Communication and Notification Annex), REMS Technical Assistance Center mirror","url":"https://rems.ed.gov/docs/Aims_CC_Communication_Notification_Annex.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Alerts, Aims Community College","url":"https://safety.aims.edu/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"low","tags":["policy","emergency-operations-plan","timely-warning","emergency-notification","clery-act","rave","community-college","colorado"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"alabama-am-bulldog-alerts-policy","slug":"alabama-am-bulldog-alerts-policy","institution":{"name":"Alabama A&M University","shortName":"AAMU","state":"AL","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"Bulldog Alerts (myBulldog Alert)","enrollment":6100},"policy":{"title":"Bulldog Alerts Emergency Notification & Timely Warning Policy","systemName":"Bulldog Alerts","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.aamu.edu/campus-life/campus-safety/bulldog-alerts/index.html","lastReviewed":"2025-01-01"},"summary":"Alabama A&M University, a public land-grant HBCU in Huntsville, notifies its campus through [Bulldog Alerts](https://www.aamu.edu/campus-life/campus-safety/bulldog-alerts/index.html), a multi-platform myBulldog Alert system delivered over the Blackboard Connect platform that reaches faculty, staff, and students by phone call, SMS, and email; the university frames the system as its mechanism for meeting the [Higher Education Opportunity Act / Clery](https://www.aamu.edu/campus-life/campus-safety/emergency-information-procedures.html) duty to warn the campus of threats to life, safety, and security.","analysis":"Alabama A&M University (AAMU) is a public, land-grant HBCU in Normal/Huntsville, Alabama whose campus emergency-notification system is branded [Bulldog Alerts](https://www.aamu.edu/campus-life/campus-safety/bulldog-alerts/index.html), administered through a vendor portal AAMU calls 'myBulldog Alerts' and powered by the Blackboard Connect mass-notification platform. AAMU describes Bulldog Alerts as a 'multi-platform notification system' that can notify the recipient 'via telephone, cell phone, text message (SMS) to a mobile device, or by email of emergencies, severe weather notifications, and other important announcements' — phrasing that appeared identically across multiple official AAMU-page retrievals and is therefore marked verbatim here.\n\nAAMU automatically enrolls its community: by default all faculty, staff, and students are enrolled based on the AAMU email and primary number in Self-Service Banner, with an emergency text and phone call transmitted via the Blackboard Connect System and an email alert sent to AAMU accounts. Members can refine their delivery preferences (email, mobile, text) by logging into the [myBulldog Alerts portal](https://aamubulldogalerts.bbcportal.com/). AAMU explicitly ties the system to federal law, stating on its [emergency information page](https://www.aamu.edu/campus-life/campus-safety/emergency-information-procedures.html) that 'the Higher Education Opportunity Act (Public Law 110-315) requires institutions to inform their respective campuses of conditions posing a threat to life, safety, and security so that members of the community can take necessary precautions to protect themselves' — the Clery/HEOA warning duty.\n\nThe honest, on-the-record limitation of this system is timeliness in practice. After a March 2024 shooting in the Knight Student Housing Complex, AAMU students told [WAAY 31](https://www.waaytv.com/news/it-made-me-feel-unsafe-alabama-a-m-students-concerned-over-campus-alert-system-following/article_5663cc9a-e716-11ee-9c7f-f7ff3f862fe1.html) they learned of the shooting — from family calls and social-media video of bullet holes in a stairwell — before the Bulldog Alert reached them, and described feeling unsafe; it was the second campus shooting that year. That coverage is a real reliability data point and is cited rather than smoothed over.\n\nAAMU's published pages confirm the brand, the channels (phone/SMS/email), the automatic-enrollment model, and the Clery/HEOA framing, but the granular procedural fields a full standalone policy would specify — the exact named position authorized to trigger a Bulldog Alert, the precise 'without delay / upon confirmation' timing sentence, and any periodic-test cadence — were not byte-for-byte confirmable here because aamu.edu and the Annual Security Report blocked automated fetching (HTTP 403), so those fields draw on indexed snippets and are flagged where reconstructed.","whenCriteria":"Bulldog Alerts are used for emergencies, severe weather, and other urgent conditions 'posing a threat to life, safety, and security' so the community can take protective action; AAMU's emergency-information page ties issuance to the HEOA/Clery duty to warn. The exact confirmation-threshold sentence was not byte-for-byte confirmable (aamu.edu blocked automated fetch).","decisionAuthority":"Bulldog Alerts is administered by AAMU's Department of Public Safety, which transmits emergency messages via the Blackboard Connect System. The specific position authorized to confirm a threat and trigger a Bulldog Alert was not confirmed verbatim in this review (aamu.edu and the ASR returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching).","timingStandard":"AAMU frames the system around the HEOA/Clery duty to inform the campus of threats 'so that members of the community can take necessary precautions to protect themselves.' A precise 'without delay / immediately upon confirmation' timing sentence was not byte-for-byte confirmable here; March 2024 local coverage documents students reporting a perceived notification delay after a campus shooting.","cleryFraming":"AAMU explicitly cites the Higher Education Opportunity Act (Public Law 110-315) as the legal basis for Bulldog Alerts and treats the system as its means of issuing emergency notifications and timely warnings to the campus community.","testingCadence":"AAMU encourages the community to keep contact information current in Self-Service Banner; a precise published periodic test cadence for Bulldog Alerts was not confirmed verbatim in this review (aamu.edu/ASR blocked automated fetching).","scopeLimits":"All faculty, staff, and students are automatically enrolled based on the AAMU email and primary number on file in Self-Service Banner, so full reach (call/text) depends on current contact data; members manage delivery preferences in the myBulldog Alerts portal. Reliability in practice has been questioned publicly — after a March 2024 campus shooting, students reported learning of the incident before the Bulldog Alert reached them.","channels":["phone-call","sms","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Bulldog Alerts system definition / delivery channels","quotedText":"The myBulldog Alert multi-platform notification system can notify you via telephone, cell phone, text message (SMS) to a mobile device, or by email of emergencies, severe weather notifications, and other important announcements.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.aamu.edu/campus-life/campus-safety/bulldog-alerts/index.html","sourceDescription":"Alabama A&M University — Bulldog Alerts page","annotations":["Establishes the system brand (myBulldog Alert) and its three delivery channels — voice call, SMS, and email. This wording surfaced identically across multiple official AAMU-page retrievals, so it is marked isVerbatimConfirmed:true despite aamu.edu returning HTTP 403 to direct automated fetching."],"characterCount":228},{"label":"Automatic enrollment via Self-Service Banner","quotedText":"By default, all faculty, staff and students are automatically enrolled to receive emergency alerts based on your AAMU email and primary number provided in Self-Service Banner.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.aamu.edu/campus-life/campus-safety/bulldog-alerts/frequently-asked-questions.html","sourceDescription":"Alabama A&M University — Bulldog Alerts FAQ (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Documents the auto-enrollment model and that reach depends on the email and primary number stored in Self-Service Banner. Surfaced via the search index rather than a confirmed live fetch (aamu.edu returned HTTP 403), so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":175},{"label":"HEOA / Clery legal basis","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.aamu.edu/campus-life/campus-safety/emergency-information-procedures.html","sourceDescription":"Alabama A&M University — Emergency Information & Procedures (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Student-reported notification delay (March 2024 shooting)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.waaytv.com/news/it-made-me-feel-unsafe-alabama-a-m-students-concerned-over-campus-alert-system-following/article_5663cc9a-e716-11ee-9c7f-f7ff3f862fe1.html","sourceDescription":"WAAY 31 (ABC, Huntsville) — local-media coverage","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Automatic enrollment for emergency alerts","quotedText":"By default, all faculty, staff and students are automatically enrolled to receive emergency alerts based on your AAMU email and primary number provided in Self-Service","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.aamu.edu/campus-life/campus-safety/bulldog-alerts/index.html","sourceDescription":"AAMU Bulldog Alerts enrollment page","annotations":["Documents default enrollment tied to Self-Service contact data."],"characterCount":167},{"label":"Lockdown Blackboard Connect channels","quotedText":"An emergency cell phone text message and phone call will be transmitted via the Blackboard Connect System to faculty, staff, and students, who have registered for emergency messages via Bulldog Alerts .","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.aamu.edu/campus-life/campus-safety/emergency-information-procedures.html","sourceDescription":"AAMU Emergency Information & Procedures - lockdown notification","annotations":["Names Blackboard Connect as the transmission stack for lockdown text/phone."],"characterCount":202}],"keyFindings":["AAMU's emergency-notification system is Bulldog Alerts, administered through the 'myBulldog Alerts' portal and delivered over the Blackboard Connect platform by voice call, SMS, and email.","All faculty, staff, and students are automatically enrolled based on the AAMU email and primary number in Self-Service Banner; delivery preferences are managed in the myBulldog Alerts portal.","AAMU explicitly cites the Higher Education Opportunity Act (PL 110-315) as the legal basis, framing Bulldog Alerts as its Clery/HEOA warning mechanism.","Local coverage (WAAY 31) documents students reporting that the Bulldog Alert lagged the events after a March 2024 campus shooting — an honest reliability caveat.","The named decision authority, exact timing sentence, and any periodic test cadence could not be confirmed verbatim (aamu.edu and the ASR blocked automated fetching); one channel-definition excerpt was confirmed verbatim across multiple official-page retrievals.","Consolidated 2026-08-31: absorbed the duplicate policy file alabama-am-university-bulldog-alerts-policy (same Bulldog Alerts system, same policy URL; filed 2026-07-26 under the long-form institution name), adopting its confirmed excerpts and unique sources."],"sources":[{"title":"Alabama A&M University — Bulldog Alerts","url":"https://www.aamu.edu/campus-life/campus-safety/bulldog-alerts/index.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Alabama A&M University — Bulldog Alerts FAQ","url":"https://www.aamu.edu/campus-life/campus-safety/bulldog-alerts/frequently-asked-questions.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Alabama A&M University — Emergency Information & Procedures","url":"https://www.aamu.edu/campus-life/campus-safety/emergency-information-procedures.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"AAMU myBulldog Alerts portal (Blackboard Connect)","url":"https://aamubulldogalerts.bbcportal.com/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"WAAY 31 — 'It made me feel unsafe': Alabama A&M students concerned over campus alert system following shooting","url":"https://www.waaytv.com/news/it-made-me-feel-unsafe-alabama-a-m-students-concerned-over-campus-alert-system-following/article_5663cc9a-e716-11ee-9c7f-f7ff3f862fe1.html","type":"local-media"},{"title":"AAMU DPS Clery Report 2024","url":"https://www.aamu.edu/campus-life/campus-safety/_documents/_clery-report/aamu-department-of-public-safety-clery-report-2024.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","hbcu","alabama","bulldog-alerts","blackboard-connect","notification-delay"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"alabama-state-university-asualert-policy","slug":"alabama-state-university-asualert-policy","institution":{"name":"Alabama State University","shortName":"ASU","state":"AL","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"ASUALERT","enrollment":4081},"policy":{"title":"ASUALERT Emergency Notification — 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","systemName":"ASUALERT","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.alasu.edu/_qa/2024-asu-security-and-fire-report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2024"},"summary":"Alabama State University — a public [HBCU](https://www.alasu.edu/_qa/2024-asu-security-and-fire-report.pdf) in Montgomery, Alabama — operates its emergency notification system as **ASUALERT**, described in the University's [2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.alasu.edu/_qa/2024-asu-security-and-fire-report.pdf) as \"an emergency notification service available to students, faculty and staff\" that is \"a closed, opt-out system\" delivered on the **Regroup** mass-notification platform. NOTE ON NAMING: this case was assigned under the label \"Hornet Alert,\" but the University's official documentation brands the system ASUALERT; the file uses the documented name and flags the discrepancy.","analysis":"Alabama State University's emergency-alert program is officially named **ASUALERT**. The University's [2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.alasu.edu/_qa/2024-asu-security-and-fire-report.pdf) states plainly that \"ASUALERT is an emergency notification service available to students, faculty and staff\" and that \"ASUALERT is a closed, opt-out system\" — meaning members of the campus community are enrolled by default and must affirmatively opt out, a design that maximizes reach for immediate-threat messaging. The assignment referenced a \"Hornet Alert\" brand (after ASU's Hornet mascot), but no official ASU documentation reviewed uses that name for the notification system; the documented brand is ASUALERT, so this file adopts ASUALERT and records the naming discrepancy here for transparency.\n\n**Platform / vendor.** ASU uses **Regroup** (Regroup Mass Notification) to provide alerts via ASUALERT. The University layers additional, lower-tech channels on top of the Regroup-driven text/voice/email push: per ASU materials, notification methods include voice mail, e-mail blasts, building announcements delivered by each floor's Building Safety Coordinator, and announcements aired on ASU's campus radio station, WVAS (90.7 FM). This radio + building-coordinator approach is a distinctive secondary-channel design that extends reach beyond personal devices.\n\n**Decision authority and response.** Emergency notification at ASU is managed by the **Department of Public Safety**. The University's [Disaster/Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan](https://www.alasu.edu/_qa/public-safety-emergency-preparedness-plan.pdf) was \"designed for the Alabama State University Department of Public Safety to ensure a set response and action will take place by the Emergency Management Team prior to or directly following an emergency situation,\" placing confirmation and activation of ASUALERT within Public Safety and the Emergency Management Team.\n\n**Clery framing.** As a Clery-covered institution, ASU's Annual Security and Fire Safety Report carries the federally required emergency-notification and timely-warning policy statements — emergency notifications for confirmed significant emergencies or dangerous situations involving an immediate threat, issued without delay subject to the standard mitigation exception, alongside timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes that pose a serious or ongoing threat. The exact verbatim text of ASU's without-delay and testing-cadence statements was not reproduced in the snippets reviewed (the host 403-blocks direct PDF fetch), so those specifics are paraphrased here rather than quoted.","whenCriteria":"ASUALERT is activated for emergency notifications to students, faculty and staff upon confirmation of an emergency or dangerous situation. As a Clery-covered institution, ASU issues emergency notifications for significant emergencies or dangerous situations involving an immediate threat to health or safety, and timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes posing a serious or ongoing threat (specific verbatim trigger language not captured in the snippets reviewed).","decisionAuthority":"The Alabama State University Department of Public Safety, working through the Emergency Management Team, confirms emergencies and activates ASUALERT per the University's Disaster/Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan.","timingStandard":"Consistent with the Clery Act, emergency notifications are issued without delay upon confirmation of an immediate threat, subject to the standard mitigation exception; the exact ASU-specific timing wording was not reproduced in the material reviewed.","cleryFraming":"As a Clery-covered institution, ASU's Annual Security and Fire Safety Report carries the two-track framework: emergency notifications via ASUALERT for confirmed immediate-threat situations, and timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes that pose a serious or ongoing threat.","testingCadence":"Not reproduced verbatim in the sources captured; the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report addresses Clery testing of emergency response and evacuation procedures, but the exact cadence and announced/unannounced practice were not surfaced in the snippets reviewed.","scopeLimits":"ASUALERT is a closed, opt-out system for students, faculty and staff, so the campus community is enrolled by default. Delivery channels include text/voice/email push via Regroup plus voice mail, e-mail blasts, building announcements by each floor's Building Safety Coordinator, and announcements aired on ASU's WVAS (90.7 FM) radio station.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"ASUALERT definition and opt-out design","quotedText":"ASUALERT is an emergency notification service available to students, faculty and staff. ASUALERT is a closed, opt-out system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.alasu.edu/_qa/2024-asu-security-and-fire-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Alabama State University 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","annotations":["Defines the system and establishes its closed, opt-out enrollment model; reproduced identically across multiple official search snippets from the 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report."],"characterCount":125},{"label":"Notification methods including radio and building coordinators","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.alasu.edu/_qa/public-safety-emergency-preparedness-plan.pdf","sourceDescription":"Alabama State University Public Safety Emergency Preparedness Plan","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Public Safety / Emergency Management Team response design","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.alasu.edu/_qa/public-safety-emergency-preparedness-plan.pdf","sourceDescription":"Alabama State University Public Safety Emergency Preparedness Plan","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["ASU's emergency notification system is officially branded ASUALERT, not 'Hornet Alert' (the assigned label); no official ASU documentation reviewed uses 'Hornet Alert' for the system.","ASUALERT is 'a closed, opt-out system' for students, faculty and staff — the campus community is enrolled by default and must affirmatively opt out.","ASU delivers ASUALERT on the Regroup mass-notification platform.","Secondary channels are notably broad: voice mail, e-mail blasts, building announcements by each floor's Building Safety Coordinator, and announcements aired on ASU's WVAS (90.7 FM) campus radio station.","The Department of Public Safety and the Emergency Management Team confirm emergencies and activate ASUALERT per the University's Disaster/Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan."],"sources":[{"title":"Alabama State University 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.alasu.edu/_qa/2024-asu-security-and-fire-report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Alabama State University 2023 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.alasu.edu/_qa/ASU%20Annual%20Security%20and%20Fire%20Report%202023.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Alabama State University Public Safety Emergency Preparedness Plan (PDF)","url":"https://www.alasu.edu/_qa/public-safety-emergency-preparedness-plan.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Alabama State University Enrollment — Institutional Data","url":"https://www.alasu.edu/_qa/enrollment.php","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","hbcu","alabama","regroup"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"alamance-community-college-alertaware-asr","slug":"alamance-community-college-alertaware-asr","institution":{"name":"Alamance Community College","shortName":"Alamance CC","state":"NC","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"ACC Alert / AlertAware","enrollment":4500},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warnings and Emergency Notification Process (AlertAware) - Annual Security Report","systemName":"ACC Alert / AlertAware","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.alamancecc.edu/_resources/images/public-safety/2023-Annual-Security-Report-rev.11.23-2.pdf","lastReviewed":"2023-11-01"},"summary":"Alamance Community College publishes a detailed [Timely Warning procedure and AlertAware emergency notification process](https://www.alamancecc.edu/_resources/images/public-safety/2023-Annual-Security-Report-rev.11.23-2.pdf) in its ASR, including dual-person review of timely warnings when time allows and highest-ranking on-duty public safety authority for imminent threats.","analysis":"Alamance Community College (Graham, NC) documents Clery timely-warning and emergency-notification procedures in its [2023 Annual Security Report](https://www.alamancecc.edu/_resources/images/public-safety/2023-Annual-Security-Report-rev.11.23-2.pdf). Timely Warnings are issued case-by-case for crimes on or near campus posing serious or ongoing threat (homicide, sexual offenses, aggravated assault, robbery, force/violence crimes, arson). The senior officer on duty informs the Director of Public Safety; the Director consults the Senior Vice President of Facilities when time allows; if practical the SVP notifies the President and Executive VP. The Director or designee drafts the notice; at least one other person reviews it before transmission via the ACC Emergency Notification System when available and time allows.\n\nFor imminent exigent threats (e.g., active shooter), the highest-ranking on-duty public safety person may authorize immediate Alert broadcast without the multi-person review. Emergency notifications use AlertAware plus email, fire alarms, electronic message boards, verbal announcements, and PA. Templates accelerate messaging; Public Information and Marketing may assist when practical. The ACC Alert / AlertAware system is described as opt-in/opt-out with automatic enrollment and contact-info updates encouraged. College-wide tests occur at various times throughout the academic year. Complements archive cases for multi-day virtual weather operations.","whenCriteria":"Timely Warning: crimes on or near campus posing serious or ongoing threat. Emergency notification: confirmed emergency or dangerous situation posing immediate threat to health or safety of the campus community; may delay if notification would compromise response.","decisionAuthority":"Timely Warning: Director of Public Safety or designee after consultation path with SVP Facilities / President office when time allows; dual-person review before send when available. Imminent threat: highest-ranking on-duty public safety person. EN initiation: Director of Public Safety or designee(s) after confirmation.","timingStandard":"Immediate for imminent exigent threats. Multi-step consultation and dual review only when practical and time allows. EN without delay upon confirmation unless compromise exception applies.","cleryFraming":"ASR procedure sections for Timely Warnings and Emergency Notification Process with named AlertAware platform and Clery crime categories.","scopeLimits":"No timely warning required for crimes reported only to pastoral or professional counselors. Dual review waived when time of the essence. EN may be delayed if it would compromise victim assistance or mitigation, then issued once condition clears if threat continues.","testingCadence":"College-wide test of the ACC Emergency Notification system at various times throughout the academic year.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system","digital-signage","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Case-by-case timely warning decision factors","quotedText":"The decision to broadcast a Timely Warning will be made on a case-by-case basis in light of the individual facts, including factors such as the nature of the crime, the continuing danger or risk to the campus community and the possible risk of compromising law enforcement efforts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.alamancecc.edu/_resources/images/public-safety/2023-Annual-Security-Report-rev.11.23-2.pdf","sourceDescription":"Alamance CC 2023 ASR - Timely Warnings procedure","annotations":["Three-factor case-by-case TW standard."],"characterCount":281},{"label":"Imminent threat immediate broadcast authority","quotedText":"In a situation that poses an imminent and exigent threat to the campus community where time is of the essence (e.g., Active Shooter), the highest-ranking on-duty public safety person has authority to authorize immediate broadcast of an Alert.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.alamancecc.edu/_resources/images/public-safety/2023-Annual-Security-Report-rev.11.23-2.pdf","sourceDescription":"Alamance CC 2023 ASR - Timely Warnings imminent authority","annotations":["On-duty highest-ranking public safety may skip multi-person review."],"characterCount":242},{"label":"AlertAware and multi-channel EN methods","quotedText":"Methods of communication include the campus emergency notification system (AlertAware), the College's email system, building fire alarm systems, electronic message boards, verbal announcements and announcements made over our public address system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.alamancecc.edu/_resources/images/public-safety/2023-Annual-Security-Report-rev.11.23-2.pdf","sourceDescription":"Alamance CC 2023 ASR - Emergency Notification Process","annotations":["Named AlertAware platform plus layered campus channels."],"characterCount":247}],"keyFindings":["Dual-person review of timely warnings when time allows; waived for active shooter-class threats.","AlertAware named as campus emergency notification system with auto enrollment.","Director of Public Safety + SVP Facilities consultation path for non-exigent TW."],"sources":[{"title":"Alamance Community College 2023 Annual Security Report PDF","url":"https://www.alamancecc.edu/_resources/images/public-safety/2023-Annual-Security-Report-rev.11.23-2.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Alamance CC Public Safety Clery Act / Crime Awareness page","url":"https://www.alamancecc.edu/public-safety/cleary-act-crime-awareness/index.php","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["north-carolina","community-college","clery-asr","alertaware","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"albany-state-university-alert-policy","slug":"albany-state-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Albany State University","shortName":"ASU","state":"GA","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"LiveSafe / Blackboard Connect 5","enrollment":6809},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications (Albany State University Police Department)","systemName":"LiveSafe app + Blackboard Connect 5 + outdoor/indoor siren system","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.asurams.edu/presidents-office/police/connect5.php","lastReviewed":"2024-01-01"},"summary":"Albany State University, a public HBCU in Albany, Georgia, issues Clery [timely warnings and emergency notifications](https://www.asurams.edu/presidents-office/police/connect5.php) through a layered system: the [LiveSafe mobile app](https://www.asurams.edu/presidents-office/police/livesafe.php) plus university email as the primary channels, backed by the [Blackboard Connect 5 mass-notification system and outdoor/indoor early-warning sirens](https://www.asurams.edu/university-operations/office-of-emergency-management/about-us/emergency-notifications.php). The ASU Police Department issues timely warnings as soon as pertinent information is available and issues emergency notifications, without delay, upon confirmation of an immediate threat to health or safety.","analysis":"Albany State University (ASU) is a historically Black university in Albany, Georgia, in the University System of Georgia. A naming caution is worth stating up front for this archive: ASU's abbreviation collides with Arizona State, Alabama State, Angelo State and Appalachian State, and its emergency systems are NOT a single product called 'ASU Alert' and are NOT branded Rave. Albany State (whose domain is asurams.edu — the 'RAMS' mascot) instead runs a layered program documented on its [University Police 'Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications' page](https://www.asurams.edu/presidents-office/police/connect5.php), whose very filename ('connect5.php') reflects the legacy Blackboard Connect 5 platform.\n\nASU follows the Clery two-track model with clear trigger language. For crime alerts, 'The Albany State University Police department will issue Timely Warnings, as soon as the pertinent information is available, for any Clery Act crimes that the University determines represent an ongoing threat to the safety of students, employees or the University Community.' For broader threats, 'The Albany State University Police department will, without delay, and considering the safety of the community, issue an Emergency Notification upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, employees or University Community' — wording that tracks the federal Clery standard closely. Both are described as issued by the communications officer on duty; timely warnings go out via the [LiveSafe App](https://www.asurams.edu/presidents-office/police/livesafe.php), and emergency notifications go out via the LiveSafe App and the university email system, and 'may be segmented if appropriate.'\n\nThe redundancy layer is substantial for a campus this size. Per the [Office of Emergency Management notifications page](https://www.asurams.edu/university-operations/office-of-emergency-management/about-us/emergency-notifications.php), 'The Blackboard Connect 5, Outdoor Early Warning Siren System, and Indoor Early Warning Siren are in place to notify faculty, staff, students, and visitors of potential disasters, inclement weather, active shooter situations, and any other activities on campus,' and updates 'can be posted on the Albany State University home webpage at http://www.asurams.edu or the ASU PD Facebook page.' ASU also lists the university police vehicles' PA system and an outdoor public-address system among its channels. The 'Audible Siren System' is explicitly framed as reaching people 'who may not have access to electronic communication devices or who may be outdoors on campus.' ASU's broader procedures are documented in its [2023-2024 Emergency Operations Plan](https://www.asurams.edu/presidents-office/police/126232023-2024-ASU%20Emergency-Operations-Plan.pdf).\n\nLiveSafe is also a two-way tool — students can report tips and communicate with ASU Police — and ASU maintains LiveSafe download and FAQ pages. What could not be confirmed verbatim here is the named decision authority beyond 'the communications officer on duty,' and any precise published test cadence; the asurams.edu hosts and the EOP PDF return HTTP 403 to automated fetching. The timely-warning trigger, the emergency-notification trigger, and the Connect 5/siren description appeared with consistent wording across multiple independent retrievals from official ASU pages and are quoted in the excerpts below.","whenCriteria":"Timely warnings are issued for Clery Act crimes the University determines represent an ongoing threat to the campus community, as soon as pertinent information is available. Emergency notifications are issued, without delay, upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community.","decisionAuthority":"The Albany State University Police Department issues both timely warnings and emergency notifications; messages are sent by 'the communications officer on duty.' The specific senior position with final issuance authority was not confirmed verbatim in this review (asurams.edu hosts and the EOP PDF blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications are issued 'without delay' upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation, considering the safety of the community — consistent with the federal Clery standard. Timely warnings are issued 'as soon as the pertinent information is available.'","cleryFraming":"ASU explicitly separates the two Clery functions: timely warnings (Clery Act crimes representing an ongoing threat) and emergency notifications (any significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety). Emergency notifications may be campus-wide or segmented if appropriate.","testingCadence":"Not confirmed verbatim in this review. ASU documents emergency-preparedness procedures and an Emergency Operations Plan, and maintains outdoor/indoor early-warning sirens that are typically tested periodically, but the precise published test cadence was not confirmable (asurams.edu hosts and the EOP PDF blocked automated fetching).","scopeLimits":"Electronic channels (LiveSafe app, email) reach those who have the app and current contact information; the outdoor/indoor Audible Siren System is deliberately layered in to reach people without access to electronic devices or who are outdoors on campus. Notifications may be segmented to the affected portion of campus when appropriate.","channels":["push-notification","email","siren","pa-system","website","facebook","sms","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely warning trigger","quotedText":"The Albany State University Police department will issue Timely Warnings, as soon as the pertinent information is available, for any Clery Act crimes that the University determines represent an ongoing threat to the safety of students, employees or the University Community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.asurams.edu/presidents-office/police/connect5.php","sourceDescription":"Albany State University — Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications page","annotations":["Defines the timely-warning trigger and timing ('as soon as the pertinent information is available'). Identical wording appeared across multiple official asurams.edu retrievals."],"characterCount":274},{"label":"Emergency notification trigger","quotedText":"The Albany State University Police department will, without delay, and considering the safety of the community, issue an Emergency Notification upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, employees or University Community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.asurams.edu/presidents-office/police/connect5.php","sourceDescription":"Albany State University — Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications page","annotations":["Tracks the federal Clery 'without delay, upon confirmation' standard for emergency notifications. Identical wording appeared across multiple official asurams.edu retrievals."],"characterCount":317},{"label":"Blackboard Connect 5 + siren systems","quotedText":"The Blackboard Connect 5, Outdoor Early Warning Siren System, and Indoor Early Warning Siren are in place to notify faculty, staff, students, and visitors of potential disasters, inclement weather, active shooter situations, and any other activities on campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.asurams.edu/university-operations/office-of-emergency-management/about-us/emergency-notifications.php","sourceDescription":"Albany State University — Office of Emergency Management, Emergency Notifications page","annotations":["Confirms the mass-notification vendor (Blackboard Connect 5) and the layered outdoor/indoor siren systems. Identical wording appeared across multiple official asurams.edu retrievals."],"characterCount":260},{"label":"LiveSafe app as the primary push channel","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.asurams.edu/presidents-office/police/livesafe.php","sourceDescription":"Albany State University — LiveSafe page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Audible Siren reaches those without devices / outdoors","quotedText":"The Audible Siren System provides an additional layer of emergency notification by using warning sirens, chimes, and audible messages.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.asurams.edu/presidents-office/police/emergency-preparedness.php","sourceDescription":"Albany State University — Emergency Preparedness page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Explains the siren layer's purpose — reaching people without electronic devices or who are outdoors. Surfaced via the search index, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":134}],"keyFindings":["Albany State's system is NOT 'ASU Alert' and NOT Rave (the prompt's guesses) — it is the LiveSafe app plus Blackboard Connect 5 mass notification and outdoor/indoor early-warning sirens. ('Connect5.php' is the literal policy-page filename.)","Name-collision caution confirmed: Albany State is asurams.edu (RAMS); the 'ASU Alert' brand belongs to Arizona State / Alabama State / Angelo State, not Albany State.","ASU uses clear Clery trigger language: timely warnings 'as soon as the pertinent information is available'; emergency notifications 'without delay ... upon the confirmation' of an immediate threat — both issued by the communications officer on duty.","Redundant channels for a smaller campus: LiveSafe app + email (primary), plus Blackboard Connect 5, outdoor/indoor sirens, university website, ASU PD Facebook, and police-vehicle PA; notifications may be segmented.","The senior decision authority and exact test cadence could not be confirmed verbatim (asurams.edu hosts and the EOP PDF blocked automated fetching); three excerpts were confirmed verbatim across multiple official-page retrievals."],"sources":[{"title":"Albany State University — Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications (University Police)","url":"https://www.asurams.edu/presidents-office/police/connect5.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Albany State University — Office of Emergency Management: Emergency Notifications","url":"https://www.asurams.edu/university-operations/office-of-emergency-management/about-us/emergency-notifications.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Albany State University — LiveSafe (University Police)","url":"https://www.asurams.edu/presidents-office/police/livesafe.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Albany State University — Emergency Preparedness (University Police)","url":"https://www.asurams.edu/presidents-office/police/emergency-preparedness.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Albany State University — 2023-2024 Emergency Operations Plan (PDF)","url":"https://www.asurams.edu/presidents-office/police/126232023-2024-ASU%20Emergency-Operations-Plan.pdf","type":"after-action-report"},{"title":"Albany State University Enrollment Continues to Flourish (Fall 2024 enrollment 6,809) — ASU News","url":"https://www.asurams.edu/news/2024/enrollmentincrease.php","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","hbcu","georgia","livesafe","blackboard-connect-5","siren","multi-channel"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"alcorn-state-university-timely-warning-alert-policy","slug":"alcorn-state-university-timely-warning-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Alcorn State University","shortName":"Alcorn State","state":"MS","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"Connect-Ed / Big Voice / campus emergency alert","enrollment":3000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning and Emergency Alert Notification Policy","systemName":"Connect-Ed / Big Voice emergency notification","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.alcorn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Campus-Safety-Report-Official-2025.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-09-01"},"summary":"Alcorn State University, a public HBCU in Mississippi, documents Clery timely-warning and multi-channel emergency notification practice in its [2025 Campus Safety Report](https://www.alcorn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Campus-Safety-Report-Official-2025.pdf), including Connect-Ed, Big Voice, email, and cell-phone distribution.","analysis":"Alcorn State University (ASU) publishes timely-warning and emergency-notification procedures in its [official Campus Safety Report (ASR)](https://www.alcorn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Campus-Safety-Report-Official-2025.pdf). Timely warnings are framed as \"timely notification\" of crimes that may present an ongoing threat, with the Chief of Police or designee deciding whether a situation constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat. Distribution channels named in the ASR include the university email system, cell phones, the Connect-Ed system, the \"Big Voice\" system, campus radio and television stations, and the campus student newspaper, with optional printed postings. The ASR also states ASU will issue timely warnings immediately once reported information has been verified and an immediate threat to the community is evident. This record documents the ASR timely-warning/alert framework rather than a separate standalone SOP PDF.","whenCriteria":"Timely warnings for crimes that may present an ongoing or continuing threat to the campus community, on a case-by-case basis considering nature of the crime, continuing danger, and risk of compromising law enforcement efforts.","decisionAuthority":"Chief of Police or designee determines whether a timely warning will be issued and distributed.","timingStandard":"ASR states ASU will issue timely warnings immediately once reported information has been verified and it is determined that an immediate threat to the community is evident; ED guidance cited that warnings should issue as soon as pertinent information is available.","cleryFraming":"Section 1.8 Timely Warnings in the Campus Safety Report implements Clery timely-warning obligations for ongoing crime threats using multi-channel campus notification systems.","testingCadence":"Not confirmed as a separate published periodic test cadence in the ASR excerpt reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Warnings distributed via email, cell phones, Connect-Ed, Big Voice, campus radio/TV, student newspaper, and optional printed postings; reach depends on current contact data and system availability.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","pa-system","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely warning purpose","quotedText":"Timely warnings are given to provide students, faculty, and staff with “timely notification” of crimes that may present an ongoing threat to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.alcorn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Campus-Safety-Report-Official-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Alcorn State University 2025 Campus Safety Report - Timely Warnings","annotations":["Defines the ongoing-threat purpose of timely warnings."],"characterCount":162},{"label":"Distribution channels","quotedText":"The warning will be issued and distributed to students, faculty, and staff through the university e-mail system and cell phones. The university community will be notified through the Connect-Ed system, the “Big Voice” system, the campus radio and television stations, and the campus student newspaper.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.alcorn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Campus-Safety-Report-Official-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Alcorn State University 2025 Campus Safety Report - Timely Warnings distribution","annotations":["Names Connect-Ed, Big Voice, email, cell, radio/TV, and newspaper channels."],"characterCount":301}],"keyFindings":["Chief of Police or designee decides timely warnings for ongoing threats.","Connect-Ed and Big Voice are named emergency-notification systems alongside email and cell phones.","ASR commits to immediate issuance once information is verified and an immediate threat is evident."],"sources":[{"title":"2025 Campus Safety Report","url":"https://www.alcorn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Campus-Safety-Report-Official-2025.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Campus Police Timely Warning page","url":"https://www.alcorn.edu/campus-police/timely-warning/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["hbcu","mississippi","timely-warning","connect-ed","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"american-samoa-community-college-alert-policy","slug":"american-samoa-community-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"American Samoa Community College","shortName":"ASCC","state":"AS","type":"territory","alertSystemName":"ASCC Disaster Emergency Plan","enrollment":843},"policy":{"title":"American Samoa Community College Disaster Emergency Plan (DEP) — 2024 Update","systemName":"Disaster Emergency Plan","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://www.amsamoa.edu/files/2024/03.March/2024-02-29%20-%20ASCC%20Disaster%20Emergency%20Plan%20-%20Approved.pdf","effectiveDate":"2024-02-29","lastReviewed":"2024-02-29"},"summary":"American Samoa Community College — the sole accredited institution of higher education in the U.S. territory of American Samoa — manages campus emergencies through its [Disaster Emergency Plan (DEP)](https://www.amsamoa.edu/files/2024/03.March/2024-02-29%20-%20ASCC%20Disaster%20Emergency%20Plan%20-%20Approved.pdf), approved February 29, 2024, with the [Campus Security Division](https://cpanel.server.amsamoa.edu/Departments_Offices/Divisions/security.html) providing safety services and the President directed to establish the response procedures.","analysis":"American Samoa Community College (ASCC) in Mapusaga is the only college in American Samoa, a U.S. territory in the South Pacific roughly 2,600 miles southwest of Hawaii. Its emergency framework is anchored by the [Disaster Emergency Plan (DEP)](https://www.amsamoa.edu/files/2024/03.March/2024-02-29%20-%20ASCC%20Disaster%20Emergency%20Plan%20-%20Approved.pdf), updated and approved on February 29, 2024, which the college describes as a comprehensive plan outlining definitions and procedures to manage and respond to emergencies that may pose a threat to the security of the college and the ASCC community. Geography drives the plan's design: American Samoa faces a high baseline of natural-hazard risk — cyclones/typhoons, earthquakes, and tsunamis (the September 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami killed dozens in the territory) — so the DEP emphasizes orderly, rapid evacuation and the protection of life over property.\n\nDecision authority is set at the top of the institution. The DEP states that the President shall establish administrative procedures and plans of action to enable the faculty, staff, and students to respond appropriately during emergency situations, and frames predetermined plans for orderly and expeditious campus evacuation and rapid communications as central to saving lives. Day-to-day, the [Campus Security Division](https://cpanel.server.amsamoa.edu/Departments_Offices/Divisions/security.html) carries the operational load: its stated mission is to provide safety and security services for students, faculty, staff, and the general public on college property, to deter crime, protect property, preserve the peace, and enforce applicable federal, territorial, and local laws, and it facilitates planning and training particular to evacuation plans during natural or other disasters.\n\nThe plan also integrates ASCC into the territory's broader homeland-security architecture: the college's Multi-Purpose Center (MPC) is designated as an alternate Emergency Operations Center for the American Samoa Government / Homeland Security in the event the territory's primary EOC is compromised — an unusually direct civil-emergency role for a community college, reflecting the small, tightly coupled nature of territorial government. For population-wide hazard warnings (tsunami, cyclone), the territory relies on the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center and Wireless Emergency Alerts, NOAA Weather Radio, outdoor sirens, and broadcast media — channels that reach the campus alongside any college-specific notice.\n\nAs a U.S. Title IV / Clery-covered institution, ASCC is bound by the federal two-track obligation to issue timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes representing a continuing threat and emergency notifications upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety. However, the specific branded campus mass-notification platform (text/email/app vendor), the exact decision-authority chain for a Clery emergency notification, the timeliness language, and the testing cadence were not retrievable in this review: the amsamoa.edu and cpanel.server.amsamoa.edu hosts (including the DEP PDF) return HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so the elements below are paraphrased from search-engine reproductions of the DEP and Security Division pages and are honestly flagged as reconstructed. No exact verbatim policy quote could be confirmed, so this record carries low confidence.","whenCriteria":"The Disaster Emergency Plan provides procedures to manage and respond to emergencies that may pose a threat to the security of the college and the ASCC community, emphasizing orderly and expeditious evacuation and rapid communications to protect lives. As a Clery-covered institution, ASCC is subject to the federal standards for timely warnings (Clery-reportable crimes representing a continuing threat) and emergency notifications (confirmation of a significant emergency or immediate threat). Specific written criteria language was not retrievable in this review and is reconstructed from the Clery framework and indexed pages.","decisionAuthority":"Per the Disaster Emergency Plan, the President shall establish administrative procedures and plans of action enabling faculty, staff, and students to respond appropriately during emergencies. Operational safety and evacuation response is handled by the Campus Security Division. The specific authority designated to launch a campus-wide emergency notification was not separately confirmed in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed. As a Clery-covered institution, ASCC is bound by the federal standard of issuing emergency notifications immediately upon confirmation and timely warnings as soon as pertinent information is available.","cleryFraming":"Standard federal two-track distinction applies (timely warning vs emergency notification). The college's Clery-specific written procedures (annual security report criteria) were not retrievable in this review; framing reconstructed from the Clery standard.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed. The Disaster Emergency Plan references planning and training around evacuation, but a published test cadence for any mass-notification system was not confirmed.","scopeLimits":"The specific campus mass-notification platform and channel mix (whether ASCC operates a branded SMS/email/app alert system in addition to PA/siren and territorial WEA/PTWC warnings) was not confirmed. Population-wide tsunami/cyclone warning for American Samoa is delivered through territorial systems (Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, Wireless Emergency Alerts, NOAA Weather Radio, outdoor sirens, broadcast media) rather than a college-only channel.","channels":["pa-system","website","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Campus Security Division mission","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://cpanel.server.amsamoa.edu/Departments_Offices/Divisions/security.html","sourceDescription":"ASCC Security Division page (captured via search-engine reproduction; host 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"President establishes emergency procedures (DEP)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.amsamoa.edu/files/2024/03.March/2024-02-29%20-%20ASCC%20Disaster%20Emergency%20Plan%20-%20Approved.pdf","sourceDescription":"ASCC Disaster Emergency Plan, 2024 Update (captured via search-engine reproduction; amsamoa.edu PDF 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["ASCC, the only college in the U.S. territory of American Samoa, anchors its emergency response in a Disaster Emergency Plan (DEP) updated and approved February 29, 2024.","The DEP places authority to establish emergency procedures with the President; the Campus Security Division provides day-to-day safety services and facilitates evacuation planning and training for natural and other disasters.","ASCC's Multi-Purpose Center is designated as an alternate Emergency Operations Center for the American Samoa Government / Homeland Security, an unusual civil-emergency role for a community college.","Natural-hazard exposure (cyclones, earthquakes, tsunamis — including the deadly 2009 Samoa tsunami) shapes the plan's emphasis on rapid, orderly evacuation; territory-wide warnings come via PTWC, WEA, NOAA Weather Radio, sirens, and broadcast media.","The specific branded mass-notification platform, exact Clery decision chain, timeliness language, and test cadence could not be retrieved (amsamoa.edu hosts 403-block automated fetching); all such fields are reconstructed and the record carries low confidence with no confirmed verbatim quote."],"sources":[{"title":"ASCC — Security Division","url":"https://cpanel.server.amsamoa.edu/Departments_Offices/Divisions/security.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"ASCC Disaster Emergency Plan — 2024 Update (PDF)","url":"https://www.amsamoa.edu/files/2024/03.March/2024-02-29%20-%20ASCC%20Disaster%20Emergency%20Plan%20-%20Approved.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"ASCC — Departments and Divisions / Support Services","url":"https://www.amsamoa.edu/Departments_Offices.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"ASCC 2020 Policy & Governance Manual (PDF)","url":"https://www.amsamoa.edu/files/2021-01-07-ASCC_2020_Policy_Governance_Manual.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"American Samoa Community College — AACC profile","url":"https://www.aacc.nche.edu/college/american-samoa-community-college/","type":"other"},{"title":"American Samoa Community College Student Population (IPEDS 2024-25) — Univstats","url":"https://www.univstats.com/colleges/american-samoa-community-college/student-population/","type":"other"}],"confidence":"low","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","territory","american-samoa","community-college","tsunami","disaster-emergency-plan"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"american-samoa-community-college-annual-security-report","slug":"american-samoa-community-college-annual-security-report","institution":{"name":"American Samoa Community College","shortName":"ASCC","state":"AS","type":"territory","alertSystemName":"ASCC Disaster Emergency Plan","enrollment":843},"policy":{"title":"ASCC 2025 Annual Campus Safety and Security Report","systemName":"Disaster Emergency Plan","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M84VplTseZot4Tq2XDp-toqHpsWkpHCA/view","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"American Samoa Community College's [2025 Annual Campus Safety and Security Report](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M84VplTseZot4Tq2XDp-toqHpsWkpHCA/view) (10 pages, linked from the [Institutional Effectiveness campus-crime-statistics page](https://ie.amsamoa.edu/archive_1/campus-crime-statistics)) is the college's Clery ASR: it identifies CSAs, encourages immediate reporting of crimes and emergencies, and states that in an emergency the college uses multiple methods to communicate timely warnings and emergency notifications as categorized in the Disaster Emergency Plan. It is a distinct document from the DEP PDF already on file.","analysis":"This file sits alongside [american-samoa-community-college-alert-policy.json](https://www.amsamoa.edu/files/2024/03.March/2024-02-29%20-%20ASCC%20Disaster%20Emergency%20Plan%20-%20Approved.pdf) (documentType emergency-operations-plan). The ASR is the Clery annual report; the DEP is the operations plan. Excerpts do not overlap.\n\nThe 2025 ASR (text layer, second read) is short. It states ASCC's commitment to a safe, secure, and supportive environment, identifies Campus Security Authorities (security personnel, Dean of Student Services, athletic directors and coaches, faculty advisors and club moderators, and any official with significant responsibility for student and campus activities), and encourages students, employees, and visitors to immediately report crimes, emergencies, or suspicious activity to Campus Security or American Samoa Department of Public Safety (911).\n\nSection III.B is the alerting statement: the college maintains a comprehensive Disaster Emergency Plan that outlines official response to natural and human-caused emergencies. In the event of an emergency, the college uses multiple methods to communicate timely warnings and emergency notifications, categorized as outlined in the DEP (persons with disabilities, natural disasters, emergency active threats, environmental hazards, plus the disaster-recovery / continuation-of-operations alert and escalation procedures). The ASR does not reprint the DEP's full issuance chain or a without-delay paragraph; those live in the DEP file.\n\nCampus Security is described as non-sworn, working with ASDPS without a formal MOU. The report is published annually by October 1 via email, physical posting, and the ASCC website.\n\nEvery excerpt below was character-checked against the PDF text layer. The existing DEP-file excerpt 'The President shall establish administrative procedures...' is not in the 2024 DEP PDF opened this run, and the existing security-page mission sentence live-reads 'operatred' for 'operated'; those are P1 deltas, not this file.","whenCriteria":"In the event of an emergency the college uses multiple methods to communicate timely warnings and emergency notifications as categorized in the Disaster Emergency Plan (persons with disabilities, natural disasters, emergency active threats, environmental hazards, plus DR/COOP alert and escalation).","decisionAuthority":"The ASR points to the DEP for categorization and activation. Contact list includes Campus Security, the CIO, both vice presidents, and the President. The ASR does not name a single Clery-notification decision-maker beyond that DEP reference.","timingStandard":"Immediate reporting of crimes and emergencies is encouraged. The ASR does not reprint a without-delay issuance sentence.","cleryFraming":"The ASR uses both 'timely warnings' and 'emergency notifications' as the DEP's communication categories. Detailed two-track procedures live in the DEP, not in this 10-page report.","testingCadence":"Not stated in the 2025 ASR.","scopeLimits":"Reporting encouragement covers students, employees, and visitors. Confidential/anonymous statistical reports may go to a CSA or the Dean of Student Services. Security personnel are non-sworn.","channels":["phone-call","pa-system","website","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"CSA definition","quotedText":"The College identifies certain individuals as Campus Security Authorities (CSAs) who have a duty to report crimes disclosed to them.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M84VplTseZot4Tq2XDp-toqHpsWkpHCA/view","sourceDescription":"ASCC 2025 Annual Campus Safety and Security Report (PDF, linked from ie.amsamoa.edu)","annotations":["Section II.B. The following lines list security personnel, Dean of Student Services, athletic directors and coaches, faculty advisors and club moderators, and officials with significant student-activity responsibility."],"characterCount":132},{"label":"Immediate reporting encouragement","quotedText":"All students, employees, and visitors are strongly encouraged to immediately report all crimes, emergencies, or suspicious activity to Campus Security or the American Samoa Department of Public Safety (911), as deemed necessary.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M84VplTseZot4Tq2XDp-toqHpsWkpHCA/view","sourceDescription":"ASCC 2025 Annual Campus Safety and Security Report (PDF, linked from ie.amsamoa.edu)","annotations":["Section III.A.1, page 5 of the PDF."],"characterCount":228},{"label":"DEP as the response plan","quotedText":"The American Samoa Community College maintains a comprehensive Disaster Emergency Plan (DEP) that outlines the College's official response to a wide range of natural and human-caused emergencies.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M84VplTseZot4Tq2XDp-toqHpsWkpHCA/view","sourceDescription":"ASCC 2025 Annual Campus Safety and Security Report (PDF, linked from ie.amsamoa.edu)","annotations":["Section III.B opening. Apostrophe in College's is ASCII 0x27 in this sentence of the text layer."],"characterCount":195},{"label":"Timely warnings and emergency notifications via the DEP","quotedText":"In the event of an emergency, the College uses multiple methods to communicate timely warnings and emergency notifications, which are categorized as outlined in the College’s Disaster Emergency Plan:","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M84VplTseZot4Tq2XDp-toqHpsWkpHCA/view","sourceDescription":"ASCC 2025 Annual Campus Safety and Security Report (PDF, linked from ie.amsamoa.edu)","annotations":["Section III.B.1. Apostrophe in College's is U+2019 in this sentence of the text layer. The colon is live; the category list follows."],"characterCount":199}],"keyFindings":["The 2025 ASR is a 10-page Clery report, distinct from the 2024 DEP PDF already on file.","It states that emergency communications (timely warnings and emergency notifications) use multiple methods categorized in the DEP.","CSAs are defined and listed; immediate reporting to Campus Security or ASDPS 911 is encouraged.","The ASR does not reprint a without-delay paragraph or a named mass-notification vendor."],"sources":[{"title":"ASCC 2025 Annual Campus Safety and Security Report (PDF)","url":"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M84VplTseZot4Tq2XDp-toqHpsWkpHCA/view","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"ASCC Institutional Effectiveness - Campus Crime Statistics (ASR link)","url":"https://ie.amsamoa.edu/archive_1/campus-crime-statistics","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","territory","american-samoa"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"american-university-alert-policy","slug":"american-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"American University","shortName":"AU","state":"DC","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"AU Alerts","enrollment":12300},"policy":{"title":"Policy on Clery Timely Warning Notices, Safety Advisories and Emergency Notification","systemName":"AU Alerts","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.american.edu/policies/safety-risk-management/upload/clery-timley-warning-notices-safety-advisories-and-emergency-notification-policy.pdf"},"summary":"American University's [Policy on Clery Timely Warning Notices, Safety Advisories and Emergency Notification](https://www.american.edu/policies/safety-risk-management/policy-on-clery-notifications.cfm) is a published Safety and Risk Management policy that defines three distinct notification categories and routes them through the [AU Alerts](https://www.american.edu/emergency/au-alerts.cfm) system.","analysis":"American University's policy establishes three distinct notification types under one framework. A [Clery Timely Warning Notice](https://www.american.edu/policies/safety-risk-management/upload/clery-timley-warning-notices-safety-advisories-and-emergency-notification-policy.pdf) is issued for Clery Act crimes that represent a serious or continuing threat; the policy enumerates qualifying incident categories including criminal homicide (nonnegligent and negligent manslaughter), sex offenses (forcible/nonforcible), aggravated assault, burglary (occupied rooms/offices), motor vehicle theft, arson, robbery, hate crimes, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking. A Safety Advisory is a lower-threshold communication the university issues to notify students and employees when it determines there is a string of criminal activity, usually property-crime related or other activity that is not subject to the timely-warning standard required by the Clery Act, such as burglaries of unoccupied rooms/buildings/structures and minor thefts. An Emergency Notification addresses an immediate significant emergency or dangerous situation involving a threat to health or safety.\n\nFor Emergency Notifications the policy adopts the Clery Act standard nearly verbatim: the notification will be issued without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, and American University will determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system, unless issuing the notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist victims or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency. That compromise exception is the principal limit on the otherwise-without-delay obligation.\n\nNotifications are delivered through the [AU Alerts](https://www.american.edu/emergency/au-alerts.cfm) system, which AU describes as providing information on what is happening, what to do, and links to additional information through text alerts, e-mail alerts, AU computer (desktop) screen messages, indoor yellow AlertUs emergency beacon boxes, and outdoor speakers located throughout campus, supplemented by social media such as the [@AUAlerts](https://x.com/aualerts) account. Faculty, staff, and students are automatically enrolled to receive AU Alerts via their AU e-mail address.\n\nThe broader compliance framing appears in AU's [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.american.edu/police/annual-security-and-fire-reports-clery.cfm), published each fall and distributed to the community around October 1, which documents the same timely-warning, safety-advisory, and emergency-notification procedures. American University also tests its alerting components: AU notes that test runs of AU Desktop Alerts are performed two to three times a year with advance notice. Scope is bounded by Clery geography and the threat criteria, with timely warnings reserved for serious/continuing-threat Clery crimes and safety advisories used for lower-level patterns of crime that fall outside the Clery timely-warning standard.","whenCriteria":"Timely Warning Notice: a Clery Act crime within Clery geography that poses a serious or continuing threat (homicide, sex offenses, aggravated assault, burglary of occupied space, motor vehicle theft, arson, robbery, hate crimes, domestic/dating violence, stalking). Safety Advisory: a string of criminal activity (usually property crime such as burglary of unoccupied space or minor theft) not subject to the Clery timely-warning standard. Emergency Notification: confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety.","decisionAuthority":"American University determines the content of an Emergency Notification and initiates the notification system; responsible authorities exercise professional judgment, including whether issuance would compromise response efforts.","timingStandard":"Emergency Notification will be issued without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, unless issuing it would compromise efforts to assist victims or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","cleryFraming":"Three-tier framework expressly tied to the Clery Act: Timely Warning Notices for serious/continuing-threat Clery crimes, Safety Advisories for non-Clery-threshold criminal patterns, and Emergency Notifications for immediate significant emergencies.","testingCadence":"Test runs of AU Desktop Alerts are performed two to three times a year, with advance notice to the community; procedures are documented in the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report published each fall (around October 1).","scopeLimits":"Timely Warnings are limited to Clery crimes in Clery geography meeting the serious-or-continuing-threat standard; Safety Advisories cover lower-level patterns outside that standard; Emergency Notifications may be withheld where issuance would compromise response or victim-assistance efforts.","channels":["sms","email","desktop-popup","pa-system","website","twitter-x","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency Notification timing and exception","quotedText":"Emergency Notification will be issued without delay and taking into account the safety of the community. American University will determine the content of an Emergency Notification and initiate the notification system, unless the notification will compromise efforts to assist victims or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.american.edu/policies/safety-risk-management/upload/clery-timley-warning-notices-safety-advisories-and-emergency-notification-policy.pdf","sourceDescription":"AU Policy on Clery Timely Warning Notices, Safety Advisories and Emergency Notification (PDF)","annotations":["Mirrors the Clery Act emergency-notification standard, including the 'compromise efforts' exception."],"characterCount":348},{"label":"Safety Advisory definition","quotedText":"American University issues Safety Advisories to notify students and employees when it is determined that there is a string of criminal activity, usually property crime related or other criminal activity that is not subject to the timely warning standard required by the Clery Act.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.american.edu/policies/safety-risk-management/upload/clery-timley-warning-notices-safety-advisories-and-emergency-notification-policy.pdf","sourceDescription":"AU Policy on Clery Timely Warning Notices, Safety Advisories and Emergency Notification (PDF)","annotations":["Distinguishes Safety Advisories from Clery timely warnings; examples include burglary of unoccupied space and minor thefts."],"characterCount":280},{"label":"AU Alerts channels","quotedText":"AU notifies the campus community of emergency and crisis situations using AU Alerts, with messages that provide information on what is happening, what to do, and links to available additional information. Communication tools include text alerts, e-mail alerts, AU computer screen messages, indoor yellow AlertUs emergency beacon boxes and outdoor speakers located throughout campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.american.edu/emergency/au-alerts.cfm","sourceDescription":"AU Alerts | American University","annotations":["Enumerates the AU Alerts delivery channels, including AlertUs beacon boxes and outdoor speakers."],"characterCount":382}],"keyFindings":["American University maintains a single published policy covering three notification tiers: Clery Timely Warning Notices, Safety Advisories, and Emergency Notifications.","Emergency Notifications must be issued 'without delay' unless issuance would compromise efforts to assist victims or mitigate the emergency.","Safety Advisories are a deliberately lower-threshold tool for property-crime patterns that fall outside the Clery timely-warning standard.","AU Alerts delivers via text, email, AU desktop screen messages, indoor AlertUs beacon boxes, and outdoor speakers; community members are auto-enrolled via AU email.","AU Desktop Alerts are tested two to three times a year with advance notice, and procedures are restated in the annually published Annual Security and Fire Safety Report."],"sources":[{"title":"Policy on Clery Timely Warning Notices, Safety Advisories, and Emergency Notification (PDF)","url":"https://www.american.edu/policies/safety-risk-management/upload/clery-timley-warning-notices-safety-advisories-and-emergency-notification-policy.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Timely Warning Notices, Safety Advisories and Emergency Notification | American University","url":"https://www.american.edu/policies/safety-risk-management/policy-on-clery-notifications.cfm","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"AU Alerts | American University, Washington, DC","url":"https://www.american.edu/emergency/au-alerts.cfm","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual Security and Fire Reports and Clery Compliance | American University","url":"https://www.american.edu/police/annual-security-and-fire-reports-clery.cfm","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"AU Alerts (@AUAlerts) / X","url":"https://x.com/aualerts","type":"official-social"},{"title":"Fast Facts | American University, Washington, DC","url":"https://www.american.edu/about/fast-facts.cfm","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","safety-advisory","washington-dc","private-r1"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-02","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"amherst-college-alert-policy","slug":"amherst-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Amherst College","shortName":"Amherst","state":"MA","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"AC Alert","enrollment":1900},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification Policy (AC Alert)","systemName":"AC Alert","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.amherst.edu/emergency/alert/policy","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"Amherst College, a small private liberal-arts college in western Massachusetts, issues emergency notifications through [AC Alert](https://www.amherst.edu/emergency/alert), a multi-channel mass-notification system that reaches students, faculty, staff and visitors via text, voice, email, digital signs and outdoor speakers, and its published [Emergency Notification Policy](https://www.amherst.edu/emergency/alert/policy) commits the College to notify the community 'without delay' upon confirmation of an incident that poses an immediate threat to health or safety.","analysis":"Amherst College is a roughly 1,900-student private liberal-arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. Its emergency-notification platform is branded [AC Alert](https://www.amherst.edu/emergency/alert), and the College publishes a discrete, standalone [Emergency Notification Policy](https://www.amherst.edu/emergency/alert/policy) rather than burying the rules inside an Annual Security Report, a level of public transparency that is comparatively rare among small colleges and that makes Amherst a useful liberal-arts data point for this archive.\n\nThe policy maps cleanly onto the federal Clery emergency-notification standard. Amherst states that it is the College's policy 'to provide, without delay, immediate notification to the community upon confirmation of an incident or emergency that poses an immediate threat to the health or safety' of the campus community, and that in the event of a significant emergency or dangerous situation the College may notify the community using the [AC Alert system](https://www.amherst.edu/emergency/alert). AC Alerts are explicitly multi-channel, delivered via text, voice, email, digital signs and outdoor speakers, so the system layers SMS, automated phone calls, email, digital signage and outdoor public-address speakers. Community members opt in by texting 'ACAlert' to 78015.\n\nThe policy is notable for documenting a consultation step in the decision chain. When possible, the authorized individual considering an emergency notification 'shall attempt to consult with another colleague' from the list of people authorized to distribute an immediate notification, to confirm the need for the alert; but the policy also recognizes that certain emergencies will preclude consultation and that 'timeliness ... may be more critical than inclusion and consultation.' Issuance proceeds without delay and taking into account the safety of the community 'unless such notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, investigate or otherwise mitigate an emergency', verbatim the Clery exception clause. A 2026-08-02 fact-check search independently corroborated both the consultation-step language and the exception clause word for word against indexed copies of the policy page (direct WebFetch to amherst.edu still returns HTTP 403 from this environment, a known sandbox limitation, not evidence of drift), so both excerpts have been upgraded to verbatim-confirmed. The specific named positions authorized to trigger AC Alert are still listed only inside the full policy document and could not be individually confirmed by this tool, so that field remains described generically. A search for a stated test cadence found only a comparable neighbor institution's (UMass Amherst) schedule, not one specific to Amherst College itself, so testingCadence is deliberately left unstated rather than borrowed from a different institution.","whenCriteria":"AC Alert is used upon confirmation of an incident or emergency that poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of the Amherst College community — i.e., a significant emergency or dangerous situation. The College's policy is to notify the community 'without delay' once such an incident is confirmed.","decisionAuthority":"Amherst designates specific positions authorized to develop and initiate immediate (emergency) notifications. When possible, the authorized individual must attempt to consult with another colleague from the authorized list to confirm the need for an immediate notification; certain emergencies preclude consultation. The exact list of named authorizing positions is contained in the full policy document and was not byte-for-byte confirmable to this tool, so it is described generically.","timingStandard":"The College's stated policy is to provide notification 'without delay' upon confirmation of an incident posing an immediate threat, taking into account the safety of the community — consistent with the federal Clery 'immediately, upon confirmation' standard. Issuance is withheld only if it would, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, investigate or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","cleryFraming":"The Emergency Notification Policy tracks the Clery Act emergency-notification language closely, including the verbatim exception clause permitting notification to be withheld when it would compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain/respond to/investigate/mitigate an emergency. The policy governs immediate (emergency) notifications to the community.","testingCadence":"Amherst's published policy materials describe the AC Alert system and registration but did not, in the indexed snippets available to this review, state a specific periodic test cadence; that field is left unstated rather than reconstructed.","scopeLimits":"AC Alert reaches students, faculty, staff and visitors. Mass notifications may use any combination of methods, and most notifications require some or all of the AC Alert channels but do not necessarily require the outside audible (outdoor) speakers, which are reserved for situations warranting an outdoor broadcast. Text/voice reach depends on community members having opted in (text ACAlert to 78015) and keeping current contact information on file.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","digital-signage","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency notification policy statement ('without delay')","quotedText":"It is the policy of Amherst College to provide, without delay, immediate notification to the community upon confirmation of an incident or emergency that poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of the AC community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.amherst.edu/emergency/alert/policy","sourceDescription":"Amherst College — Emergency Notification Policy","annotations":["Sets the core activation standard at 'without delay ... upon confirmation' of an immediate threat to health or safety — Amherst's mapping of the federal Clery emergency-notification standard. Identical wording appeared across multiple official Amherst-page retrievals (amherst.edu/emergency/alert/policy and amherst.edu/emergency/alert)."],"characterCount":224},{"label":"AC Alert system description / channels","quotedText":"In the event of a significant emergency or dangerous situation, Amherst College may notify the community using the AC Alert system. AC Alerts provide students, faculty, staff, and visitors with information that may be critical to their safety via text, voice, email, digital signs, and outdoor speakers.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.amherst.edu/emergency/alert","sourceDescription":"Amherst College — Get AC Alerts","annotations":["Enumerates the five AC Alert delivery channels (text, voice, email, digital signs, outdoor speakers) and the 'significant emergency or dangerous situation' trigger language drawn from Clery. Identical wording appeared across multiple official Amherst-page retrievals."],"characterCount":303},{"label":"Consultation requirement before notifying","quotedText":"When at all possible, the authorized individual considering an emergency notification shall attempt to consult with another colleague from the list of individuals authorized to make a decision to distribute an immediate (emergency) notification to the community to confirm the need for an immediate notification to the community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.amherst.edu/emergency/alert/policy","sourceDescription":"Amherst College — Emergency Notification Policy","annotations":["Documents a two-person confirmation step in the decision chain, balanced against a recognition that timeliness can override consultation. Direct WebFetch to amherst.edu still 403s from this environment, but a 2026-08-02 web search independently returned this exact wording quoted from the indexed policy page, so it is now marked isVerbatimConfirmed:true.","2026-09-20: excerpt completed to the live sentence's actual ending, \"...to confirm the need for an immediate notification to the community.\" — the committed text had truncated at \"...an immediate notification.\", dropping the trailing \"to the community\" that SuperGrok Heavy verified against the live page on 2026-09-13; ruling R4."],"characterCount":329},{"label":"Clery exception clause for withholding notification","quotedText":"unless such notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, investigate or otherwise mitigate an emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.amherst.edu/emergency/alert/policy","sourceDescription":"Amherst College — Emergency Notification Policy","annotations":["The verbatim Clery exception that permits notification to be withheld only when it would compromise victim assistance or emergency mitigation. Direct WebFetch to amherst.edu still 403s from this environment, but a 2026-08-02 web search independently returned this exact clause from the indexed policy page, so it is now marked isVerbatimConfirmed:true."],"characterCount":200}],"keyFindings":["Amherst College's emergency-notification system is AC Alert (text, voice, email, digital signs, outdoor speakers); community members opt in by texting 'ACAlert' to 78015.","Amherst publishes a discrete, standalone Emergency Notification Policy — unusual transparency for a small liberal-arts college — rather than only embedding the rules in an Annual Security Report.","The policy commits the College to notify 'without delay' upon confirmation of an incident posing an immediate threat to health or safety, with the verbatim Clery exception for withholding notification.","The decision chain includes a consultation step: when possible, the authorized individual must attempt to consult another authorized colleague before notifying, but timeliness can override consultation.","The named authorizing positions and a specific periodic test cadence remain unconfirmed and are described generically/left unstated (a found test-cadence figure belonged to a neighboring institution, UMass Amherst, not Amherst College, and was deliberately not used); all four excerpts in this file, the 'without delay' statement, the AC Alert channel list, the consultation-step language, and the Clery exception clause, are now confirmed verbatim via multiple official-page retrievals and independent 2026-08-02 web-search corroboration."],"sources":[{"title":"Amherst College — Emergency Notification Policy","url":"https://www.amherst.edu/emergency/alert/policy","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Amherst College — Get AC Alerts","url":"https://www.amherst.edu/emergency/alert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Amherst College — Emergency (overview)","url":"https://www.amherst.edu/emergency","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Amherst College — Emergency Response Handbook","url":"https://www.amherst.edu/emergency/handbook","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","private-liberal-arts","massachusetts","ac-alert","multi-channel"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"angelo-state-university-asualert-policy","slug":"angelo-state-university-asualert-policy","institution":{"name":"Angelo State University","shortName":"ASU","state":"TX","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"ASUAlert","enrollment":10500},"policy":{"title":"ASUAlert Emergency Notification System","systemName":"ASUAlert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.angelo.edu/administrative-support/university-police/asualertindex.php","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Angelo State University's [ASUAlert page](https://www.angelo.edu/administrative-support/university-police/asualertindex.php) describes ASUAlert as the communication system for time-sensitive emergency notifications via voice, text, and angelo.edu email, with automatic email enrollment and optional voice/SMS via RamPort.","analysis":"Angelo State University is a public master's university in San Angelo, Texas. Its [ASUAlert](https://www.angelo.edu/administrative-support/university-police/asualertindex.php) University Police page is institution-specific: ASUAlert sends time-sensitive emergency notifications by voice messages, text messages, and angelo.edu email to students, faculty, and staff; emergency notifications automatically go to ASU email; community members are strongly encouraged to register phone numbers for voice and text through RamPort; the system is used only for campus or regional emergencies as defined by university officials; contact information is used solely for emergency notification; departments' main office phones are included automatically; TTY/TDD is supported. This record documents the ASUAlert system overview rather than a full Clery ASR rewrite.","whenCriteria":"Campus or regional emergency as defined by university officials; time-sensitive emergency notifications and warnings.","decisionAuthority":"University officials define qualifying campus or regional emergencies; operational ASUAlert program contact is asualert@angelo.edu on the public page.","timingStandard":"Time-sensitive emergency notifications; exact Clery without-delay phrasing is not restated on the ASUAlert overview page.","cleryFraming":"ASUAlert is the operational multi-channel emergency notification system supporting campus safety communications; formal timely-warning procedure details are addressed separately in ASUPD Timely Warning Policy materials.","testingCadence":"Not confirmed verbatim on the public ASUAlert page reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Email is automatic for active ASU addresses; voice and SMS require RamPort registration and carrier opt-in confirmation; non-university email addresses are not supported.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"ASUAlert system definition","quotedText":"ASUAlert is a communication system that allows Angelo State University to send time-sensitive emergency notifications via voice messages, text messages and angelo.edu email to Angelo State students, faculty and staff.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.angelo.edu/administrative-support/university-police/asualertindex.php","characterCount":217},{"label":"Automatic email and recommended voice/text signup","quotedText":"Emergency notifications will automatically be sent to your ASU email. However, we highly recommend you sign up to receive voice and text message notifications as well.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.angelo.edu/administrative-support/university-police/asualertindex.php","characterCount":167},{"label":"Use limited to defined emergencies","quotedText":"The system will only be used to reach you in the event of a campus or regional emergency as defined by university officials.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.angelo.edu/administrative-support/university-police/asualertindex.php","characterCount":124}],"sources":[{"title":"ASUAlert","url":"https://www.angelo.edu/administrative-support/university-police/asualertindex.php","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["public-masters","texas","emergency-notification","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"anoka-technical-college-star-alert-asr","slug":"anoka-technical-college-star-alert-asr","institution":{"name":"Anoka Technical College","shortName":"ATC","state":"MN","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Star Alert / Alertus","enrollment":2000},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification and Timely Warnings (Star Alert / Alertus) - Annual Campus Security Report","systemName":"Star Alert / Alertus","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://arccpublicsafety.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/acsr-atc-2025.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-01-01"},"summary":"Anoka Technical College documents [Star Alert Blackboard Connect opt-out mass notification and Alertus active messaging](https://arccpublicsafety.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/acsr-atc-2025.pdf) with VP Academics and Student Affairs EN activation authority and Star Alert/Alertus timely warnings.","analysis":"Anoka Technical College (Anoka, MN; Minnesota State, shared public safety with Anoka-Ramsey) publishes Emergency Notification Systems and Timely Warnings in its [2025 Annual Campus Security Report](https://arccpublicsafety.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/acsr-atc-2025.pdf). Emergency notifications fire upon confirmation of a significant emergency, dangerous situation, or crime posing immediate and/or continuing threat. The President or designee (for ATC, normally the Vice President of Academics and Student Affairs), Chief Information Officer/Marketing, and Public Safety may activate ENS without delay when professional opinion holds a real threat exists.\n\nENS channels include Alertus (speakers, marquees, beacons, AlertAware), Star Alert (Blackboard Connect SMS/phone/email; opt-out with automatic student enrollment), outdoor/interior loudspeakers, campus email, and social media. Star Alert and Alertus notifications are synonymous for campus EN so students and employees receive identical messaging. Timely Warnings issue through Star Alert, Alertus, AlertAware, Blackboard, and ENS communication mediums; determined through the President's office (normally VP Academics and Student Affairs for ATC). Annual emergency response and evacuation testing minimum. Complements ARCC and NHCC Minnesota State Star Alert coverage.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notification: confirmed significant emergency, dangerous situation, or crime posing immediate and/or continuing threat to health or safety on campus. Timely warning: crimes representing a threat to students and employees as determined through the President's office.","decisionAuthority":"EN activation: President or designee (normally VP Academics and Student Affairs for ATC), CIO/Marketing, in coordination with Public Safety. TW determination through President's office (normally VP Academics and Student Affairs for ATC).","timingStandard":"EN without delay when real threat criteria met. Annual emergency response and evacuation testing minimum.","cleryFraming":"ASR Protocols for Emergency Notification and Timely Warnings with named Star Alert / Blackboard Connect and Alertus / AlertAware systems.","scopeLimits":"Students auto-enrolled in Star Alert (opt-out). Star Alert and Alertus deliver identical EN content. Pre-activation checklist includes 911, danger, active threat, and LE impedance.","testingCadence":"Emergency response and evacuation procedures tested at minimum annually.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system","digital-signage","website","facebook","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Star Alert opt-out auto-enrollment","quotedText":"This is an opt out system and students are automatically enrolled.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://arccpublicsafety.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/acsr-atc-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"ATC 2025 ASR - Star Alert individual messaging","annotations":["Star Alert opt-out with automatic student enrollment."],"characterCount":66},{"label":"Timely Warnings via Star Alert and Alertus","quotedText":"Timely Warnings will be issued through Star Alert, Alertus, AlertAware, blackboard and communication mediums associated with the Emergency Notification System (ENS).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://arccpublicsafety.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/acsr-atc-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"ATC 2025 ASR - Timely Warnings","annotations":["Multi-platform TW including Star Alert and Alertus."],"characterCount":165},{"label":"Star Alert and Alertus synonymous EN","quotedText":"Star Alert and Alertus notifications are synonymous for Emergency Notifications on campus, this means students and employees will receive messaging that is identical regardless of how they receive it.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://arccpublicsafety.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/acsr-atc-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"ATC 2025 ASR - Star Alert and Alertus synonymy","annotations":["Identical EN content across Star Alert and Alertus."],"characterCount":200}],"keyFindings":["Star Alert / Blackboard Connect opt-out with automatic student enrollment.","Alertus active messaging synonymous with Star Alert for identical EN content.","VP Academics and Student Affairs is normal ATC EN/TW presidential designee."],"sources":[{"title":"Anoka Technical College 2025 Annual Campus Security Report PDF","url":"https://arccpublicsafety.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/acsr-atc-2025.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["minnesota","community-college","clery-asr","star-alert","alertus","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"anoka-ramsey-community-college-star-alert-asr","slug":"anoka-ramsey-community-college-star-alert-asr","institution":{"name":"Anoka-Ramsey Community College","shortName":"ARCC","state":"MN","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Star Alert / Alertus","enrollment":8000},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification and Timely Warnings (Star Alert / Alertus) - Annual Campus Security Report","systemName":"Star Alert / Alertus","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://arccpublicsafety.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/acsr-arcc-2025-1.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-01-01"},"summary":"Anoka-Ramsey Community College documents [Star Alert Blackboard Connect and Alertus multi-modal emergency notifications](https://arccpublicsafety.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/acsr-arcc-2025-1.pdf) with student auto-enrollment, employee account setup, and Star Alert/Alertus timely warnings.","analysis":"ARCC (Coon Rapids/Cambridge, MN; Minnesota State) publishes Emergency Notification Systems and Timely Warnings procedures in its [2025 Annual Campus Security Report](https://arccpublicsafety.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/acsr-arcc-2025-1.pdf). Emergency notifications issue upon confirmation of a significant emergency, dangerous situation, or crime posing immediate and/or continuing threat to health or safety on campus. Authorized activators include the President or designee, Vice Presidents, and Director of Communications/Marketing in coordination with Public Safety, without delay when professional opinion holds a real threat exists (criminal, facility hazard, major accident, weather).\n\nENS channels include Alertus (speaker array, marquees, digital signage, beacons, AlertAware app), Star Alert (Blackboard Connect SMS/phone/email; students auto-enrolled, employees must establish accounts), campus loudspeakers/runners, text-to-speech speakers, campus-wide email, websites, blogs, and social media. Active/passive/individual messaging tiers mirror other Minnesota State campuses. Pre-activation checklist covers 911 contact, danger, active threat, people at risk, scene security, crime-scene preservation, and LE impedance. Timely Warnings issue through Star Alert and Alertus for Clery crime categories and other threats; President Office, Public Safety, Marketing, and Dean of Student Affairs assist. If ENS is used for immediate threat, separate TW not required for same circumstances but follow-up is required. Annual emergency response/evacuation tests (announced or unannounced). Complements NHCC Star Alert Minnesota State coverage.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notification: confirmed significant emergency, dangerous situation, or crime posing immediate and/or continuing threat to health or safety of students, employees, or others on campus. Timely warning: Clery crimes and threats warranting campus-wide warning via Star Alert and Alertus.","decisionAuthority":"EN activation: President or designee, Vice Presidents, Director Communications/Marketing in coordination with Public Safety; ideally collaborate with Director of Public Safety, on-scene Fire/Police Chief, VP Finance and Administration. TW: President Office and Public Safety with Marketing and Dean Student Affairs.","timingStandard":"EN without delay when real threat criteria met. Annual emergency response and evacuation tests; procedures publicized with at least one test per calendar year.","cleryFraming":"ASR Protocols for Emergency Notification and Timely Warnings with named Star Alert / Blackboard Connect and Alertus / AlertAware systems.","scopeLimits":"Students auto-enrolled in Star Alert; employees must establish accounts. Separate TW not required if ENS used for same circumstances, but follow-up required. Systems Office notification when time permits.","testingCadence":"Emergency response and evacuation procedures tested at minimum annually (announced or unannounced); full-spectrum ENS drills preferred; documentation of description, date, time, announced/unannounced status.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system","digital-signage","website","facebook","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Star Alert Blackboard Connect enrollment","quotedText":"ARCC utilizes an emergency notification system branded Star Alert, provided by Blackboard Connect, which disseminates emergency notification through SMS text, direct phone calls and email, at the selection of the recipient. Students are automatically enrolled in Star Alert. Employees must establish an account.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://arccpublicsafety.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/acsr-arcc-2025-1.pdf","sourceDescription":"ARCC 2025 ASR - Individual messaging / Star Alert","annotations":["Named Star Alert with student auto-enrollment and employee account setup."],"characterCount":311},{"label":"Timely Warnings via Star Alert and Alertus","quotedText":"Timely Warnings will be issued through Star Alert and Alertus to both students and campus populations.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://arccpublicsafety.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/acsr-arcc-2025-1.pdf","sourceDescription":"ARCC 2025 ASR - Timely Warnings","annotations":["Dual Star Alert and Alertus path for TW."],"characterCount":102},{"label":"Authorized EN activators without delay","quotedText":"The President, or his/her designee (administrator of the day), Vice Presidents, Director Communications/Marketing in coordination with Public Safety are authorized to activate the Emergency Notification systems, without delay, when there is a real threat and could affect the campus community within their professional opinion that a criminal, facility hazard, major accident or weather emergency exists that satisfies the above criteria.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://arccpublicsafety.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/acsr-arcc-2025-1.pdf","sourceDescription":"ARCC 2025 ASR - Emergency Notification activation authority","annotations":["Multi-role EN activation authority without delay."],"characterCount":438}],"keyFindings":["Star Alert / Blackboard Connect with student auto-enrollment; employees establish accounts.","Alertus / AlertAware layered with Star Alert for active campus messaging.","Pre-activation checklist and multi-administrator EN authority without delay."],"sources":[{"title":"Anoka-Ramsey Community College 2025 Annual Campus Security Report PDF","url":"https://arccpublicsafety.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/acsr-arcc-2025-1.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"ARCC Public Safety Annual Security Reports page","url":"https://arccpublicsafety.com/2025/01/01/annual-security-reports-arcc-atc/","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["minnesota","community-college","clery-asr","star-alert","alertus","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"appalachian-state-university-appstate-alert-policy","slug":"appalachian-state-university-appstate-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Appalachian State University","shortName":"App State","state":"NC","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"AppState-ALERT","enrollment":21798},"policy":{"title":"AppState-ALERT Emergency Notification System and Clery Timely Warning Policy","systemName":"AppState-ALERT","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://emergency.appstate.edu/appstate-alert","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"[AppState-ALERT](https://www.appstatealert.com/) is Appalachian State University's 24/7 emergency-notification system, run through the Office of Environmental Health, Safety, and Emergency Management, which combines text and voice messaging, an outdoor siren in Boone, Alertus desktop alerts, email, and web banners to reach the Boone and Hickory campus communities; the [Appalachian Police Department](https://police.appstate.edu/warnings) issues separate Clery timely warnings for crimes that may pose a serious or ongoing threat.","analysis":"Appalachian State University — a UNC System member that earned the [Carnegie R2 'high research activity' classification in February 2025](https://today.appstate.edu/2025/02/13/r2) — disseminates emergency information through [AppState-ALERT](https://www.appstatealert.com/), its branded 24/7 emergency messaging system. The system is administered by the Office of Environmental Health, Safety, and Emergency Management, the unit the [Emergency Notification System policy](https://policy.appstate.edu/Emergency_Notification_System) makes responsible for the overall implementation and readiness of the campus emergency notification system. App State describes AppState-ALERT as combining text messaging, voice messaging, the outdoor siren warning system in Boone, desktop alerts, email, and web technologies to reach students, faculty, staff, and their families across the Boone and Hickory campuses.\n\nThe activation threshold is framed around an 'imminent threat.' App State's [Emergency Preparedness page](https://emergency.appstate.edu/appstate-alert) defines an imminent threat as 'a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the life or safety of the Boone and Hickory campus communities,' and the [Appalachian Police Department](https://police.appstate.edu/warnings) states that in the event of such a situation the university 'will issue emergency notifications without delay' — the Clery 'without delay, upon confirmation' standard. Cell text and voice messages are sent only to registered users when an imminent threat exists, while desktop alerts (delivered through the Alertus system), email, web banners, and the Boone siren provide broader coverage that does not depend on individual cell registration.\n\nApp State keeps the two Clery functions distinct. Emergency notifications go out through AppState-ALERT for imminent threats; separately, the university 'issues timely warnings in accordance with the Clery Act to notify the campus community of Clery Act-defined crimes within the campus Clery geography that have already occurred but may still pose a serious or ongoing threat to safety,' disseminated through emails, texts, and other means. The Clery program lives under the [Division of Institutional Integrity](https://dii.appstate.edu/clery-act/alerts), which publishes the university's Annual Security and Fire Safety Report covering the Boone main campus, the Leon Levine Hall of Health Sciences, and the Hickory campus. App State tests the full system on a published cadence: full emergency-notification tests are normally conducted twice annually, in February and September.\n\nTwo limits of this review should be stated honestly. First, the App State .edu hosts and the ASR PDFs returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, so all quoted wording below was captured from search-index snippets and corroborated across multiple independent retrievals rather than read from a rendered page; the five marked-verbatim excerpts each appeared word-for-word identically across two or more independent retrievals from official-attributed pages. Second, the [Emergency Notification System policy](https://policy.appstate.edu/Emergency_Notification_System) delegates activation authority to 'Responsible University Authorities' whose specific position titles are deferred to a separate Standard Operating Procedures document that did not surface, so the named decision-maker is reconstructed at the role level rather than quoted, and AppState-ALERT was not corroborated as using WEA/IPAWS, a PA system, or a dedicated mobile-app push.","whenCriteria":"AppState-ALERT cell text and voice messages are sent to registered users only when an emergency exists that is considered an 'imminent threat' — defined as a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the life or safety of the Boone and Hickory campus communities. In such a situation the university issues emergency notifications without delay. Separately, the Appalachian Police Department issues Clery timely warnings for Clery-defined crimes that have already occurred but may still pose a serious or ongoing threat.","decisionAuthority":"Under App State's Emergency Notification System policy, Responsible University Authorities (RUAs) are delegated the authority to issue emergency alerts, and the Office of Environmental Health, Safety, and Emergency Management is responsible for the overall implementation and readiness of the campus emergency notification system, including oversight, system access, and RUA training. The specific position titles of the RUAs are listed in a separate Standard Operating Procedures document that was not available in this review, so the named decision-maker is reconstructed at the role level rather than quoted verbatim.","timingStandard":"The Appalachian Police Department states that for a significant, active emergency or dangerous situation posing an immediate threat, the university 'will issue emergency notifications without delay' — consistent with the federal Clery 'immediately, upon confirmation' standard. Timely warnings are issued as soon as pertinent information is available so the community can take protective action.","cleryFraming":"App State separates the two Clery obligations: AppState-ALERT emergency notifications for imminent threats to life or safety, and Clery timely warnings issued by the Appalachian Police Department for Clery Act-defined crimes that have already occurred but may still pose a serious or ongoing threat. The Clery program is administered by the Division of Institutional Integrity, which publishes the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report covering the Boone main campus, the Leon Levine Hall of Health Sciences, and the Hickory campus.","testingCadence":"Full emergency notification tests are normally conducted twice annually, in February and September; test announcements describe a full test of the emergency notification system 'including, but not limited to, email, voice and text messaging and the Alertus desktop notification system.' Outdoor siren tests are sometimes announced separately.","scopeLimits":"Email, Alertus desktop alerts, web banners, and the Boone outdoor siren provide broad coverage that does not depend on individual registration, while cell text and voice messages are sent only to users who register their numbers through their Appalnet accounts — so the cell tier's reach depends on community members keeping current contact information. Parents and families can register only for test-only AppState-ALERTs by texting 'appstatefamily' to 67283. AppState-ALERT was not corroborated as using WEA/IPAWS, a PA system, or a dedicated mobile-app push.","channels":["sms","phone-call","siren","desktop-popup","email","website","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"AppState-ALERT system & channels","quotedText":"AppState-ALERT uses a combination of text messaging, voice messaging, the siren warning system in Boone, desktop alerts, email, and web technologies to provide App State students, faculty and staff members in Boone and Hickory -- and their families -- with timely information in the event of a campus emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.appstatealert.com/","sourceDescription":"AppState-ALERT official site / Emergency Preparedness page","annotations":["Defines the AppState-ALERT channel mix — text, voice, the Boone outdoor siren, desktop alerts, email, and web — and its coverage of the Boone and Hickory campuses plus families. Identical wording appeared across 4+ independent official-attributed retrievals; the .edu host 403-blocked direct fetch."],"characterCount":311},{"label":"Activation threshold (imminent threat)","quotedText":"An 'imminent threat' is defined as a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the life or safety of the Boone and Hickory campus communities.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.appstate.edu/appstate-alert","sourceDescription":"App State Emergency Preparedness — AppState-ALERT overview","annotations":["Sets the activation threshold for cell text/voice messages at an 'imminent threat' to life or safety. Identical wording appeared across 3 independent official-attributed retrievals."],"characterCount":178},{"label":"Emergency notification timing standard","quotedText":"In the event of a significant, active emergency or dangerous situation that poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community, Appalachian State University will issue emergency notifications without delay.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.appstate.edu/warnings","sourceDescription":"Appalachian Police Department — Emergency notifications and timely warnings","annotations":["States the Clery 'without delay' timing standard for emergency notifications. Identical wording appeared across 2 independent official-attributed retrievals."],"characterCount":229},{"label":"Timely warning definition","quotedText":"Appalachian State University issues timely warnings in accordance with the Clery Act to notify the campus community of Clery Act-defined crimes within the campus Clery geography that have already occurred but may still pose a serious or ongoing threat to safety. These timely warnings are disseminated through emails, texts, and/or other means and include information that promotes safety through increased awareness without compromising law enforcement efforts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.appstate.edu/warnings","sourceDescription":"Appalachian Police Department / Division of Institutional Integrity (Clery)","annotations":["Establishes that timely warnings cover already-occurred Clery crimes that may still pose a serious or ongoing threat, distinct from imminent-threat emergency notifications. Identical wording appeared across 2 independent official-attributed retrievals."],"characterCount":462},{"label":"Testing cadence","quotedText":"Full emergency notification tests are normally conducted twice annually, in February and September.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.appstate.edu/appstate-alert","sourceDescription":"App State Emergency Preparedness / Appalachian Today test announcements","annotations":["States the published periodic test cadence: full tests twice per year, in February and September. Identical wording appeared across 3+ independent official-attributed retrievals."],"characterCount":99},{"label":"Parent/family test-only registration","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.appstate.edu/parents","sourceDescription":"App State Emergency Preparedness — emergency info for parents/family","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["App State's emergency-notification system is AppState-ALERT, a 24/7 messaging system run by the Office of Environmental Health, Safety, and Emergency Management for the Boone and Hickory campuses.","Cell text/voice messages are reserved for an 'imminent threat' — a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to life or safety; the university issues emergency notifications without delay.","AppState-ALERT is multi-channel: text, voice, the Boone outdoor siren, Alertus desktop alerts, email, and web banners; WEA/IPAWS, a PA system, and a dedicated app push were not corroborated.","Clery functions are kept distinct: the Appalachian Police Department issues timely warnings for already-occurred Clery crimes that may still pose a serious or ongoing threat, and the Division of Institutional Integrity publishes the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.","Full emergency-notification tests are normally conducted twice annually, in February and September; the named RUA decision-maker titles are deferred to a separate SOP and could not be confirmed verbatim, and all quoted wording was corroborated via search-index snippets because the .edu hosts 403-blocked automated fetching."],"sources":[{"title":"AppState-ALERT — Appalachian State University emergency messaging","url":"https://www.appstatealert.com/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"AppState-ALERT — Emergency Preparedness (App State)","url":"https://emergency.appstate.edu/appstate-alert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Notification System Policy — App State Policy Manual","url":"https://policy.appstate.edu/Emergency_Notification_System","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency notifications and timely warnings — Appalachian Police Department","url":"https://police.appstate.edu/warnings","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Alerts & Emergency Reporting — Division of Institutional Integrity (Clery)","url":"https://dii.appstate.edu/clery-act/alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://dii.appstate.edu/sites/default/files/2025_asfsr.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"App State earns Research 2 (R2) Carnegie Classification — Appalachian Today","url":"https://today.appstate.edu/2025/02/13/r2","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"21,798 Mountaineers enroll at App State for fall 2025 — Appalachian Today","url":"https://today.appstate.edu/2025/09/05/enrollment","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","appstate-alert","public-r2","north-carolina","unc-system","siren"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"arizona-state-university-asu-alert-policy","slug":"arizona-state-university-asu-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Arizona State University","shortName":"ASU","state":"AZ","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"ASU Alert","enrollment":79818},"policy":{"title":"ASU Alerts and Advisories / Clery Timely Warning (Crime Alerts)","systemName":"ASU Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://cfo.asu.edu/alerts-and-advisories-faqs","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"Arizona State University's [ASU Alert](https://cfo.asu.edu/alerts-and-advisories-faqs) is the university's emergency messaging system for communicating potentially life-threatening situations to the ASU community via email, text, push notification and social media, while non-life-threatening but operationally disruptive events are sent as ASU Advisories; separately, [ASU Police issues Clery timely warnings as Crime Alerts](https://cfo.asu.edu/clery-timely-warning) for crimes that may represent an ongoing threat.","analysis":"Arizona State University separates its mass communications into two distinct lanes. The first is the [ASU Alert and Advisory](https://cfo.asu.edu/alerts-and-advisories-faqs) system: ASU Alert messages are sent to communicate potentially life-threatening situations to the ASU community (the university's own example is a fire in a residential hall), whereas ASU Advisories are sent to communicate primarily non-life-threatening situations that may substantially impact university operations, such as road closures or building closures. The dividing line is explicit and consequential — life-threat versus operational disruption — and both message types use the same delivery rails: text, email, and push notification via smartphones, plus social media.\n\nReach and registration differ by message type and urgency. In the case of a life-threatening situation, all ASU students, faculty and staff receive ASU Alerts via their ASU email, and recipients may also receive text messages if they have provided a mobile phone number in their My ASU profile. This means email is the universal default channel for life-threatening alerts, with SMS as an opt-in overlay tied to the self-service My ASU directory. ASU has also enhanced the alert/advisory system over time with new options and a mobile-app pathway via the ASU LiveSafe app.\n\nThe second lane is Clery compliance. [ASU Police issues Clery timely warnings in the form of Crime Alerts](https://cfo.asu.edu/clery-timely-warning) to heighten safety awareness by notifying students, faculty, and staff of crimes that may represent an ongoing threat to the campus community. Per ASU's own description, Crime Alerts are created and published by the ASU Clery Determination group and the ASUPD Public Information Officer, and are disseminated using a variety of methods that include, at a minimum, mass email and posting to the ASU Police website, with information also potentially shared via social media and posted bulletins on campus. The Clery Act requires a timely warning when a Clery Act crime occurs within the university's defined Clery geography and it is determined the crime poses a serious or ongoing threat to the campus community.\n\nOn Clery framing, the architecture maps to both Clery obligations: ASU Alert is the emergency-notification instrument for immediate life-threats, while the Crime Alert is the timely-warning instrument for serious or ongoing criminal threats. ASU's police operations and Clery procedures are documented in the ASU Police Department Manual (hosted on PowerDMS) and the university's Annual Security & Fire Safety Report. Because the official asu.edu and PowerDMS pages return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from the official ASU CFO/Business-and-Finance page text as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries; remaining detail (system enhancements, testing) is paraphrased.","whenCriteria":"ASU Alert: sent to communicate potentially life-threatening situations to the ASU community (e.g., a fire in a residential hall). ASU Advisory: sent for primarily non-life-threatening situations that may substantially impact university operations (e.g., road closures, building closures). Crime Alert (timely warning): issued when a Clery Act crime occurs within ASU's defined Clery geography and is determined to pose a serious or ongoing threat.","decisionAuthority":"ASU Police issues Clery timely warnings as Crime Alerts; Crime Alerts are created and published by the ASU Clery Determination group and the ASUPD Public Information Officer. The ASU Alert/Advisory emergency-messaging system is operated by the university's emergency-preparedness/public-safety functions.","timingStandard":"ASU Alert is the instrument for immediate, potentially life-threatening situations; Crime Alerts are issued to heighten safety awareness of crimes that may represent an ongoing threat to the campus community, consistent with the Clery 'timely warning' standard.","cleryFraming":"Maps to Clery's two obligations: ASU Alert = emergency notification (immediate life-threats); Crime Alert = timely warning (serious or ongoing criminal threats within Clery geography). ASU Advisory is a non-Clery operational-disruption tier.","testingCadence":"ASU has historically conducted campus-wide tests of the ASU Alert and Advisory system (a January test was referenced when ASU adopted its mass-notification platform); precise current cadence was not reproduced verbatim in the consulted sources.","scopeLimits":"ASU Alerts are reserved for potentially life-threatening situations; ASU Advisories cover non-life-threatening operational impacts. Crime Alerts are limited to Clery Act crimes occurring within ASU's defined Clery geography that pose a serious or ongoing threat. SMS delivery for alerts is contingent on a mobile number being present in My ASU; email is the universal channel for life-threatening alerts.","channels":["sms","email","push-notification","twitter-x","facebook","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"ASU Alert definition","quotedText":"ASU Alert messages are sent to communicate potentially life-threatening situations to the ASU community. An example may include a fire in a residential hall.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://cfo.asu.edu/alerts-and-advisories-faqs","sourceDescription":"ASU Business and Finance — Alerts and Advisories","annotations":["Sets the ASU Alert trigger at 'potentially life-threatening,' illustrated with a residence-hall fire."],"characterCount":157},{"label":"ASU Advisory definition","quotedText":"ASU Advisories are sent to communicate primarily non-life-threatening situations to the ASU community that may substantially impact university operations (i.e., road closures, building closures, etc.).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://cfo.asu.edu/alerts-and-advisories-faqs","sourceDescription":"ASU Business and Finance — Alerts and Advisories","annotations":["Defines the Advisory tier by operational impact rather than life-safety, the inverse of the Alert tier."],"characterCount":201},{"label":"Channels and registration for life-threatening alerts","quotedText":"In the case of a life-threatening situation, all ASU students, faculty and staff will receive ASU Alerts via their ASU email. You may also receive text messages if you provide a mobile phone in your My ASU profile.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://cfo.asu.edu/alerts-and-advisories-faqs","sourceDescription":"ASU Business and Finance — Alerts and Advisories","annotations":["Email is the universal default for life-threatening alerts; SMS is an opt-in overlay keyed to the My ASU directory."],"characterCount":214},{"label":"Crime Alert (timely warning) purpose","quotedText":"In order to heighten safety awareness, ASU Police will issue crime alerts to notify students, faculty, and staff of crimes that may represent an ongoing threat to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://cfo.asu.edu/clery-timely-warning","sourceDescription":"ASU Business and Finance — Clery Timely Warning / Crime Alerts","annotations":["Establishes 'Crime Alert' as ASU's branding for the Clery timely warning, scoped to crimes posing an ongoing threat."],"characterCount":184}],"keyFindings":["ASU separates communications into ASU Alert (life-threatening emergencies), ASU Advisory (non-life-threatening operational impacts), and Crime Alerts (Clery timely warnings).","ASU Alerts and Advisories are delivered by text, email, push notification, and social media; for life-threatening alerts, email reaches all students/faculty/staff while SMS is an opt-in tied to the My ASU profile.","ASU Police issues Clery timely warnings as Crime Alerts to heighten safety awareness about crimes posing an ongoing threat within ASU's Clery geography.","Crime Alerts are created and published by the ASU Clery Determination group and the ASUPD Public Information Officer, disseminated at minimum via mass email and the ASU Police website.","The model maps to both Clery obligations: ASU Alert = emergency notification; Crime Alert = timely warning; ASU Advisory sits outside the Clery mandate."],"sources":[{"title":"Alerts and Advisories — Arizona State University (Business and Finance)","url":"https://cfo.asu.edu/alerts-and-advisories-faqs","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Timely Warning / Crime Alerts — Arizona State University","url":"https://cfo.asu.edu/clery-timely-warning","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Campus Crime and Clery Act — Arizona State University","url":"https://cfo.asu.edu/campuscrime","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"ASU Police Department Manual (PowerDMS)","url":"https://public.powerdms.com/ASU/documents/1559122","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report — ASU Police","url":"https://www.asu.edu/police/PDFs/ASU-Clery-Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","asu-alert","crime-alert","public-r1","arizona"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-23","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"arkansas-state-university-a-state-alert-policy","slug":"arkansas-state-university-a-state-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Arkansas State University","shortName":"A-State","state":"AR","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"A-State emergency alert system (Emergency Notification Service)","enrollment":14000},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification Policy and Alerting Protocol (Annual Security Report)","systemName":"A-State Emergency Notification Service","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.astate.edu/student-life/student-support/campus-safety/files/2025-annual-security-report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Arkansas State University in Jonesboro operates an [emergency alert system](https://www.astate.edu/student-life/student-support/campus-safety/index.html) that auto-enrolls all students and delivers text and email notifications for weather warnings, closures, and campus emergencies, with its Clery emergency-notification and timely-warning rules documented in the [2025 Annual Security Report](https://www.astate.edu/student-life/student-support/campus-safety/files/2025-annual-security-report.pdf).","analysis":"Arkansas State University (A-State), the flagship of the ASU System and a public R2 university in Jonesboro, runs a campus [emergency alert system](https://www.astate.edu/student-life/student-support/campus-safety/index.html) that the university describes plainly: 'A-State uses an emergency alert system to keep you in the loop during urgent situations,' sending messages 'by text and email if there's a weather warning, class cancellation, or any emergency on campus.' A-State also refers to the program as an 'Emergency Notification Service' provided 'for faculty, staff, students, and other members of the university community.'\n\nA defining feature is automatic enrollment with opt-out: 'Every student is automatically signed up,' and members may update their settings in the [Pack Portal](https://pack.astate.edu/) (older materials reference a myCampus portal opt-out). That auto-enroll posture closes the opt-in coverage gap that limits keyword-subscription systems and guarantees baseline reach to enrolled students. The physical safety layer on the Jonesboro campus includes emergency call boxes — red with a blue light on top — and blue-light emergency phone towers that flash when activated and connect directly to [University Police](https://www.astate.edu/a/police/services/).\n\nA-State's Clery alert-and-warning rules are documented in its [Annual Security Report (published October 1, 2025)](https://www.astate.edu/student-life/student-support/campus-safety/files/2025-annual-security-report.pdf), which contains explicit sections titled 'Emergency Notification Policy and Alerting Protocol,' 'Emergency Procedures,' 'Evacuation Procedures,' and 'Tests of Emergency Procedures.' The [Office of Environmental Health, Safety & Risk Management / Safety & Emergency Management](https://www.astate.edu/a/ehs/emergency-services/) coordinates emergency planning alongside University Police.\n\nTwo honesty caveats apply. First, this review could not confirm that A-State publishes a distinct trademarked brand name (e.g., 'A-State Alert' or a Red Wolves-themed name) for the notification system; the official pages consistently call it an 'emergency alert system' or 'Emergency Notification Service' rather than a branded product, so this record uses that descriptive name rather than inventing one. Second, astate.edu hosts and the ASR PDF return HTTP 403 to automated fetching here, so the exact confirmation-and-timing wording from the ASR's Emergency Notification Policy section could not be captured byte-for-byte; the excerpts below are drawn from indexed snippets of official A-State pages, none are marked verbatim-confirmed without a second independent corroboration, and the overall confidence is set to medium accordingly.","whenCriteria":"A-State's emergency alert system is used for urgent situations — severe weather warnings, class cancellations, and campus emergencies. Per Clery and the ASR's Emergency Notification Policy and Alerting Protocol, emergency notifications are issued for significant emergencies or dangerous situations posing an immediate threat to health or safety, and timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes representing an ongoing threat; the exact ASR wording was not confirmable verbatim here.","decisionAuthority":"University Police and the Office of Environmental Health, Safety & Risk Management (Safety & Emergency Management) coordinate A-State's emergency notifications and Clery warnings. The specific position with final authority to confirm and trigger an emergency notification was not confirmed verbatim (astate.edu and the ASR PDF blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"A-State's ASR addresses emergency-notification timing under Clery (issuance without delay upon confirmation), but the precise internal timing language was not confirmable verbatim in this environment.","cleryFraming":"A-State's Annual Security Report (Oct. 1, 2025) contains dedicated sections for Emergency Notification Policy and Alerting Protocol, Emergency Procedures, Evacuation Procedures, and Tests of Emergency Procedures, framing the program around Clery emergency-notification and timely-warning obligations.","testingCadence":"The ASR includes a 'Tests of Emergency Procedures' section, indicating A-State documents periodic tests of its emergency systems; the exact published cadence was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","scopeLimits":"All students are automatically enrolled in the alert system (opt-out via the Pack Portal / myCampus), guaranteeing baseline text/email reach to enrolled students; the campus supplements electronic alerts with red call boxes and blue-light emergency phone towers that connect directly to University Police.","channels":["sms","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency alert system description and channels","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.astate.edu/student-life/student-support/campus-safety/index.html","sourceDescription":"A-State — Campus Safety page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Automatic enrollment with opt-out","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.astate.edu/student-life/student-support/campus-safety/index.html","sourceDescription":"A-State — Campus Safety page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"ASR section: Emergency Notification Policy and Alerting Protocol","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.astate.edu/student-life/student-support/campus-safety/files/2025-annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"A-State 2025 Annual Security Report (table-of-contents heading; PDF blocked automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["A-State (Jonesboro) runs a campus emergency alert system delivering text and email for weather warnings, closures, and emergencies.","Every student is automatically enrolled, with opt-out and settings managed in the Pack Portal.","Clery alert-and-warning rules live in the 2025 Annual Security Report, which has explicit sections for Emergency Notification Policy and Alerting Protocol, Emergency Procedures, Evacuation, and Tests of Emergency Procedures.","The physical layer includes red emergency call boxes and blue-light phone towers connecting directly to University Police.","Could NOT confirm a distinct branded product name for the system (official pages call it an 'emergency alert system' / 'Emergency Notification Service'); astate.edu and the ASR PDF blocked automated fetching, so no excerpt is verbatim-confirmed and confidence is medium."],"sources":[{"title":"A-State — Campus Safety","url":"https://www.astate.edu/student-life/student-support/campus-safety/index.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"A-State — 2025 Annual Security Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.astate.edu/student-life/student-support/campus-safety/files/2025-annual-security-report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"A-State — Safety & Emergency Management (EHS)","url":"https://www.astate.edu/a/ehs/emergency-services/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"A-State — University Police Services","url":"https://www.astate.edu/a/police/services/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"A-State — Pack Portal","url":"https://pack.astate.edu/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","public-r2","arkansas","a-state","auto-enroll","annual-security-report"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"arkansas-tech-university-alert-policy","slug":"arkansas-tech-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Arkansas Tech University","shortName":"ATU","state":"AR","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"ATU Alert","enrollment":8746},"policy":{"title":"Arkansas Tech University Emergency Operations Plan","systemName":"ATU Alert","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://www.atu.edu/emergency/docs/ATU%20EOP%202018.pdf"},"summary":"[Arkansas Tech University](https://www.atu.edu/emergency/index.php) in Russellville, a public master's-granting institution enrolling about 8,700 students, maintains a formal [Emergency Operations Plan](https://www.atu.edu/emergency/docs/ATU%20EOP%202018.pdf) developed under delegation from the University President by the Department of Emergency Management and Administration, paired with the [ATU Alert](https://www.atu.edu/emergency/campus-safety-technology.php) mass-notification system plus RAVE Guardian and ALERTUS in-building beacons.","analysis":"Arkansas Tech University (ATU) is a public, master's-granting institution in Russellville, in Arkansas's River Valley region, enrolling roughly 8,700 students as of the 2024-2025 academic year. Its comprehensive response framework is documented in an [Emergency Operations Plan (EOP)](https://www.atu.edu/emergency/docs/ATU%20EOP%202018.pdf) maintained by the university's [Office of Emergency Management](https://www.atu.edu/emergency/index.php); an earlier May 2012 edition (Version 2.0) was also publicly posted through the Department of Public Safety before the emergency-management office's own current version superseded it. The plan is described as a controlled and numbered document, with distribution of revised versions the responsibility of the university, and it covers the full range of hazards ATU is exposed to, addressing actions before, during, and after an emergency.\n\nPlan development authority is delegated from the top of the institution: the Department of Emergency Management and Administration, operating under delegation from the University President, is responsible for developing the Tech Emergency Operations Plan. Revisions are submitted for approval and release by the University President, whether on an annual basis or whenever a change is needed to correct a major plan deficiency or reflect significant changes in university organization or procedures; the plan also calls for periodic activation as a simulated emergency to validate readiness.\n\nNotification runs primarily through [ATU Alert](https://www.atu.edu/emergency/campus-safety-technology.php), into which students, faculty, and staff enroll through the OneTech portal, with each enrolled individual receiving an email, text, and phone call for alert messages, a triple-channel design meant to maximize the odds any given person is reached. ATU layers this with the RAVE Guardian mobile app and ALERTUS desktop/beacon technology for in-building notification. As a Title IV, Clery-covered institution, ATU is bound by the standard federal split between timely warnings for continuing threats and emergency notifications upon confirmation of an imminent danger, although this review could not independently confirm ATU's exact Annual Security Report notification-criteria wording.\n\nA sourcing caveat: atu.edu, including both EOP PDFs, returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this review's environment, so the passages above are reconstructed from search-engine-indexed excerpts of the plan and its supporting pages rather than a directly retrieved copy of the document. No excerpt below is confirmed word-for-word against the source, so this record carries medium confidence.","whenCriteria":"The EOP is described as covering the full range of hazards to which ATU is exposed, with defined actions before, during, and after an emergency, rather than enumerating a narrow list of qualifying incident types.","decisionAuthority":"The Department of Emergency Management and Administration, operating under delegation from the University President, develops the Tech Emergency Operations Plan; plan revisions are submitted for approval and release by the University President.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed. As a Clery-covered institution, ATU is bound by the federal standard of emergency notifications issued without delay upon confirmation and timely warnings as soon as pertinent information is available.","cleryFraming":"Standard federal two-track distinction applies (timely warning vs. emergency notification). ATU's specific Annual Security Report notification-criteria language was not independently retrievable and is reconstructed from the federal standard.","testingCadence":"Plan revisions occur annually or whenever a change is required to mitigate a major plan deficiency or reflect significant organizational change; the plan also calls for periodic activation as a simulated emergency to validate readiness and assess the university's preparedness, though a fixed public exercise schedule was not independently confirmed.","scopeLimits":"ATU Alert enrollment runs through the OneTech portal and delivers email, text, and phone-call notifications to each enrolled individual. The plan is layered with the RAVE Guardian mobile app and ALERTUS desktop/beacon in-building technology; exact opt-in/opt-out mechanics were not independently confirmed.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","desktop-popup"],"excerpts":[{"label":"EOP as a controlled, all-hazards document","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.atu.edu/psafe/docs/ATUEPlan.pdf","sourceDescription":"Arkansas Tech University Emergency Operations Plan, Version 2.0 (captured via search-engine-indexed excerpt; atu.edu PDF host 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Delegated authority to develop the plan","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.atu.edu/emergency/index.php","sourceDescription":"ATU Office of Emergency Management (captured via search-engine-indexed excerpt)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Annual revision and deficiency-driven update cycle","quotedText":"Plan revisions will be submitted for approval and release by the University President annually or anytime a change is required to mitigate a major plan deficiency or reflect significant changes in University organization or procedures.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.atu.edu/psafe/docs/ATUEPlan.pdf","sourceDescription":"Arkansas Tech University Emergency Operations Plan, Version 2.0 (captured via search-engine-indexed excerpt)","annotations":["Defines the plan's review and revision cadence, tying updates to both a calendar schedule and deficiency triggers. Captured from search-indexed text, so flagged unconfirmed."],"characterCount":235}],"keyFindings":["ATU's EOP is developed by the Department of Emergency Management and Administration under delegation from the University President, who must approve and release plan revisions.","The plan calls for annual revision or deficiency-driven updates, plus periodic simulated-emergency activation to validate readiness.","ATU Alert delivers a triple-channel notification (email, text, phone call) to each enrolled individual via the OneTech portal, layered with RAVE Guardian and ALERTUS in-building technology.","A newer 2018 EOP edition supersedes the publicly posted May 2012 Version 2.0 plan, both hosted on atu.edu.","atu.edu, including both EOP PDFs, 403-blocks automated fetching in this review's environment, so all quoted language is reconstructed from search-indexed excerpts rather than a directly retrieved document; confidence is medium, not high."],"sources":[{"title":"Arkansas Tech University Emergency Operations Plan, 2018 (PDF)","url":"https://www.atu.edu/emergency/docs/ATU%20EOP%202018.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Arkansas Tech University Emergency Operations Plan, Version 2.0, May 2012 (PDF)","url":"https://www.atu.edu/psafe/docs/ATUEPlan.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"ATU Office of Emergency Management","url":"https://www.atu.edu/emergency/index.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"ATU Campus Safety Technology","url":"https://www.atu.edu/emergency/campus-safety-technology.php","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-operations-plan","arkansas","public-masters","rave-guardian","alertus","emergency-notification","timely-warning"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"asheville-buncombe-technical-community-college-regroup-asr","slug":"asheville-buncombe-technical-community-college-regroup-asr","institution":{"name":"Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College","shortName":"A-B Tech","state":"NC","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Regroup / Campus Safety Alert","enrollment":7500},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warnings and Emergency Notification (Regroup) - Annual Security Report","systemName":"Regroup / Campus Safety Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://abtech.edu/sites/default/files/2025-09/2024-abtech-annual-security-report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2024-10-01"},"summary":"A-B Tech publishes [Chief-of-Police timely warnings and President-initiated emergency mass notification](https://abtech.edu/sites/default/files/2025-09/2024-abtech-annual-security-report.pdf) in its 2024 ASR, with Regroup-backed emergency text enrollment via Self-Service and multi-channel EN including pop-ups and social media.","analysis":"Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College documents Timely Warnings and Emergency Notification in its [2024 Annual Security Report](https://abtech.edu/sites/default/files/2025-09/2024-abtech-annual-security-report.pdf). Campus-wide timely warnings issue when the Chief of Police or designee judges an ongoing or continuing threat to health or safety (on or off campus). Warnings go to all registered curriculum students and current employees via college email; optional text alerts are available. Decisions weigh crime nature, continuing danger, and law-enforcement interference risk. Reports should go to A-B Tech Police at 828-398-7125 so a Campus Safety Alert can be assessed.\n\nFor immediate threats (severe weather, armed intruder), the President or designee initiates the mass notification process upon confirmation by direct observation or credible report, unless notification would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Channels include the mass notification system, emergency text messages, computer pop-up messages, and college/social media website postings. Emergency text enrollment is via Self-Service phone type \"Emergency Alert Messages\"; changes take effect after the next Regroup upload cycle at 5:00 a.m. A MY-EOP app carries the Emergency Plan. Complements western NC community-college coverage alongside Blue Ridge, Isothermal, and Wilkes policies already in the archive.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning: situation on or off campus constituting ongoing or continuing threat to health or safety in judgment of Chief of Police or designee. Emergency notification: confirmed immediate threat (e.g., severe weather, armed intruder).","decisionAuthority":"Timely warning: Chief of Police or designee. Emergency notification initiation: President or designee upon confirmation.","timingStandard":"Emergency notification immediately upon confirmation unless professional judgment holds it would compromise victim assistance, containment, response, or mitigation. Regroup profile changes effective next 5:00 a.m. upload cycle.","cleryFraming":"ASR Timely Warnings and Emergency Notification sections with Campus Safety Alert brand and Regroup-backed text enrollment.","scopeLimits":"Victim names confidential and excluded from notifications. Text alerts optional via Self-Service Emergency Alert Messages phone type; email is the default TW path.","testingCadence":"Not specified as a fixed cadence in the Timely Warnings / Emergency Notification ASR sections reviewed; MY-EOP app referenced for Emergency Plan access.","channels":["email","sms","desktop-popup","website","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Email timely warnings with optional text","quotedText":"Timely warnings are sent to all currently registered curriculum students and current employees using the college email system. Students and employees should take responsibility for checking their email accounts frequently. Students and employees also have the option to receive text alerts, in addition to an email.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://abtech.edu/sites/default/files/2025-09/2024-abtech-annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"A-B Tech 2024 ASR - Timely Warnings","annotations":["Email default for TW; optional SMS add-on."],"characterCount":315},{"label":"President initiates EN on confirmation","quotedText":"Upon confirmation of an immediate threat, through direct observation or a credible report, the President or designee will immediately initiate the notification process unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim, contain the emergency, respond to the emergency or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://abtech.edu/sites/default/files/2025-09/2024-abtech-annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"A-B Tech 2024 ASR - Emergency Notification","annotations":["President-level EN initiation with compromise exception."],"characterCount":384},{"label":"Regroup upload cycle for text enrollment","quotedText":"All of these changes take effect the next time the Regroup upload cycles, at 5:00 a.m. the following morning.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://abtech.edu/sites/default/files/2025-09/2024-abtech-annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"A-B Tech 2024 ASR - emergency text signup","annotations":["Named Regroup backend with next-day 5am sync."],"characterCount":109}],"keyFindings":["Chief of Police owns TW; President owns EN initiation.","Regroup-backed emergency text via Self-Service with 5:00 a.m. upload cycle.","EN stack includes mass notification, SMS, desktop pop-ups, and social/web postings."],"sources":[{"title":"A-B Tech 2024 Annual Security Report PDF","url":"https://abtech.edu/sites/default/files/2025-09/2024-abtech-annual-security-report.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["north-carolina","community-college","clery-asr","regroup","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"auburn-university-alert-policy","slug":"auburn-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Auburn University","shortName":"AU","state":"AL","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"AU ALERT","enrollment":33015},"policy":{"title":"AU ALERT Emergency Notification System","systemName":"AU ALERT","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://auburn.edu/administration/campus-safety/aualert/index.php","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"[AU ALERT](https://auburn.edu/administration/campus-safety/aualert/) is Auburn University's emergency notification system, which the university describes as \"designed to communicate time-sensitive emergency messages in a number of ways in an effort to alert all students, employees and visitors about potentially dangerous situations.\" Auburn issues [emergency notifications for significant emergencies and timely warnings](https://auburn.edu/administration/campus-safety/clery.php) for certain crimes representing an ongoing threat, and tests AU ALERT on a fixed monthly cadence.","analysis":"AU ALERT is the branded multi-channel mass-notification platform Auburn University's Department of Campus Safety & Security operates to reach students, employees, and visitors during emergencies. Per the [official AU ALERT page](https://auburn.edu/administration/campus-safety/aualert/index.php), the system \"is designed to communicate time-sensitive emergency messages in a number of ways in an effort to alert all students, employees and visitors about potentially dangerous situations,\" and the university states that \"contacts are only made through the system in the event of an emergency or for periodic system tests\" — a clear scope limit confining the platform to emergencies and tests rather than routine communications.\n\nThe activation standard follows the Clery framework. Auburn instructs that \"for any situation or incident on campus that involves a significant emergency or dangerous situation that may involve an immediate or on-going threat to the health and safety of the campus community,\" community members should immediately notify the Auburn University Department of Public Safety & Security. The university's [Clery compliance page](https://auburn.edu/administration/campus-safety/clery.php) makes the two-track structure explicit: Auburn \"issues emergency notifications for significant emergencies, and timely warnings for certain crimes representing an ongoing threat to the campus community,\" and incidents reported to Campus Safety & Security \"will be assessed for emergency and timely warning notification and potential inclusion in the annual statistical disclosure.\" That distinguishes the immediate emergency-notification trigger (significant emergency / immediate threat) from the slower timely-warning trigger (Clery-reportable crimes posing an ongoing threat).\n\nDelivery is intentionally redundant. AU ALERT sends notifications via text messages, voice messages to multiple registered phone numbers, and email, and Auburn's [emergency notifications page](https://auburn.edu/administration/campus-safety/emergency/emergency_notifications.php) describes additional channels: desktop alerts on campus computer screens, cable-television emergency alerts (carrying both National Weather Service / government emergency-management messages and university-specific messages), digital display devices in many campus buildings, push notifications through the Auburn Safety app, social-media posts, and website postings. A documented routine test, for example, sent the test message \"via text, voice and email to all numbers and email addresses registered with AU Alert, digital displays in some campus buildings, computer screens, social media sites, website postings and the Auburn Safety app.\"\n\nThe system is exercised on a fixed cadence: AU ALERT is tested on the 4th Wednesday of every month at noon, weather permitting. Detailed authorization and decision-procedure language (who specifically signs off on activation, and any numeric timing standard) is governed by Auburn's broader emergency-operations guidance and Annual Security and Fire Safety Report rather than reproduced verbatim on the public AU ALERT pages; the decision-authority and timing fields below are therefore paraphrased from the operating offices and Clery framing, not quoted.","whenCriteria":"Used to communicate time-sensitive emergency messages about potentially dangerous situations — i.e., any significant emergency or dangerous situation that may involve an immediate or on-going threat to the health and safety of the campus community. Contacts are only made through the system in the event of an emergency or for periodic system tests.","decisionAuthority":"Operated by the Auburn University Department of Campus Safety & Security / Department of Public Safety & Security; incidents reported to Campus Safety & Security are assessed for emergency and timely-warning notification. The public AU ALERT pages do not name an individual authorizer (reconstructed from operating offices, not quoted).","timingStandard":"Communicates time-sensitive emergency messages and is built to make immediate notifications without delay; the public pages do not state a numeric timing standard (no fabricated metric).","cleryFraming":"Two-track Clery structure: Auburn issues emergency notifications for significant emergencies, and timely warnings for certain crimes representing an ongoing threat to the campus community; incidents are assessed for emergency and timely-warning notification and potential inclusion in the annual statistical disclosure.","testingCadence":"AU ALERT is tested on the 4th Wednesday of every month at noon, weather permitting.","scopeLimits":"Contacts are only made through the system in the event of an emergency or for periodic system tests.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","push-notification","desktop-popup","digital-signage","twitter-x","facebook","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"System purpose","quotedText":"AU ALERT is designed to communicate time-sensitive emergency messages in a number of ways in an effort to alert all students, employees and visitors about potentially dangerous situations.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://auburn.edu/administration/campus-safety/aualert/index.php","sourceDescription":"AU ALERT official page (Campus Safety and Security)","annotations":["States the platform's purpose and audience — students, employees, and visitors — for time-sensitive, potentially dangerous situations."],"characterCount":188},{"label":"Emergency-and-test-only scope","quotedText":"Contacts are only made through the system in the event of an emergency or for periodic system tests.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://auburn.edu/administration/campus-safety/aualert/index.php","sourceDescription":"AU ALERT official page (Campus Safety and Security)","annotations":["Scope limit: the system is reserved for emergencies and tests, not routine messaging."],"characterCount":100},{"label":"Clery two-track framing","quotedText":"Auburn University issues emergency notifications for significant emergencies, and timely warnings for certain crimes representing an ongoing threat to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://auburn.edu/administration/campus-safety/clery.php","sourceDescription":"Auburn University Clery Act Compliance page","annotations":["Explicitly separates the immediate emergency-notification trigger from the timely-warning trigger for ongoing-threat crimes."],"characterCount":172},{"label":"Report trigger for the campus community","quotedText":"For any situation or incident on campus that involves a significant emergency or dangerous situation that may involve an immediate or on-going threat to the health and safety of the campus community, all members of the Auburn University community should immediately notify the Auburn University Department of Public Safety & Security at 334-750-9795.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://auburn.edu/administration/campus-safety/emergency/emergency_notifications.php","sourceDescription":"Auburn University Emergency Notifications page","annotations":["Defines the reporting threshold that feeds the emergency-notification assessment — significant emergency or immediate/ongoing threat to health and safety."],"characterCount":350}],"keyFindings":["AU ALERT is purpose-built to communicate time-sensitive emergency messages to students, employees, and visitors about potentially dangerous situations.","Use is strictly scoped: contacts are only made through the system in the event of an emergency or for periodic system tests.","Auburn runs a two-track Clery structure — emergency notifications for significant emergencies, timely warnings for certain ongoing-threat crimes — with incidents assessed for both.","Delivery is highly redundant: text, voice to multiple phones, email, desktop alerts, cable-TV alerts, in-building digital displays, the Auburn Safety app, social media, and website postings.","AU ALERT is tested on the 4th Wednesday of every month at noon, weather permitting."],"sources":[{"title":"AU Alert — Campus Safety and Security","url":"https://auburn.edu/administration/campus-safety/aualert/index.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Notifications — Campus Safety and Security","url":"https://auburn.edu/administration/campus-safety/emergency/emergency_notifications.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Act Compliance — Campus Safety and Security","url":"https://auburn.edu/administration/campus-safety/clery.php","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.auburn.edu/administration/campus-safety/pdf/AU-ASFSR-Final.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","au-alert","auburn-university","mass-notification"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"augsburg-university-augsburg-alerts-policy","slug":"augsburg-university-augsburg-alerts-policy","institution":{"name":"Augsburg University","shortName":"Augsburg","state":"MN","type":"private-bachelors","alertSystemName":"Augsburg Alerts"},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification Services - Augsburg Alerts","systemName":"Augsburg Alerts","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.augsburg.edu/dps/emergency-preparedness/"},"summary":"Augsburg University, a private-bachelors campus in Minneapolis, auto-enrolls students, staff, and faculty in [Augsburg Alerts](https://www.augsburg.edu/dps/emergency-preparedness/), an opt-out text/voice/email system reserved for weather closings and active emergencies. Separate Clery timely warnings are issued by the [Department of Public Safety](https://www.augsburg.edu/dps/crime-alerts-and-logs/) for serious or ongoing threats.","analysis":"Augsburg had six filed cases and no policy file. The live [Emergency Preparedness](https://www.augsburg.edu/dps/emergency-preparedness/) page (HTTP 200, second read 2026-09-14) names the consumer system Augsburg Alerts: all students, staff, and faculty are automatically registered; it is an opt-out system; Augsburg emails and cell numbers on file are added; members may remove themselves or add family via SSO; the tool is limited to weather closings and active emergencies (gas leak, fire, bomb threat, active violence, power failure) and will not be used for enrollment deadlines or sporting events.\n\nClery timely warnings live on a different DPS page and as individual warning posts. This file quotes only the emergency-notification product from the preparedness page. The 2023 ASR PDF is still posted; a 2024 HTML button exists without a fetchable PDF path in this pass, so ASR without-delay language is not quoted here.\n\nEvery excerpt below was character-checked against the live HTML.","whenCriteria":"Augsburg Alerts communicate timely information regarding active emergencies or weather closures. Examples include unscheduled weather closings, gas leak, fire, bomb threat, active violence, or power failure. Not used for non-emergency information.","decisionAuthority":"The preparedness page does not name a single issuing official for Augsburg Alerts. Timely warnings are issued by the Department of Public Safety.","timingStandard":"Augsburg Alerts is described as communicating timely information. No minutes-based SLA is stated on the preparedness page.","cleryFraming":"Augsburg Alerts is the emergency-notification / weather-closure product. Timely warnings for serious or ongoing threats are a separate DPS instrument.","scopeLimits":"Auto-enrollment covers students, staff, and faculty with Augsburg email and cell numbers on file. Opt-out is available. Family members may be added. Not used for routine university notices.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Automatic registration","quotedText":"All students, staff, and faculty are automatically registered for Augsburg Alerts, an emergency notification system operated by Augsburg University.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.augsburg.edu/dps/emergency-preparedness/","sourceDescription":"Augsburg DPS Emergency Preparedness page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Opens About Augsburg Alerts."],"characterCount":148},{"label":"Opt-out design","quotedText":"Augsburg Alerts is an opt-out system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.augsburg.edu/dps/emergency-preparedness/","sourceDescription":"Augsburg DPS Emergency Preparedness page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Followed by the email-and-cell auto-add sentence."],"characterCount":37},{"label":"Use restriction","quotedText":"Augsburg Alerts will only be used to communicate important information related to weather closings or during an active emergency, to help individuals make sound decisions about their personal safety.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.augsburg.edu/dps/emergency-preparedness/","sourceDescription":"Augsburg DPS Emergency Preparedness page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Use-restriction sentence. A following sentence lists example hazards."],"characterCount":199}],"keyFindings":["Augsburg Alerts auto-enrolls students, staff, and faculty and is explicitly opt-out.","The system is reserved for weather closings and active emergencies, not routine notices.","Clery timely warnings are a separate DPS product and are not quoted in this file."],"sources":[{"title":"Augsburg University DPS - Emergency Preparedness","url":"https://www.augsburg.edu/dps/emergency-preparedness/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Augsburg University DPS - Crime Logs and Reports","url":"https://www.augsburg.edu/dps/crime-alerts-and-logs/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","system-overview","emergency-notification","minnesota","private-bachelors","opt-out"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"austin-community-college-acc-emergency-alert-asr","slug":"austin-community-college-acc-emergency-alert-asr","institution":{"name":"Austin Community College","shortName":"ACC","state":"TX","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"ACC Emergency Alert","enrollment":40000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warnings / Crime Alerts and Emergency Notifications (ACC Emergency Alert / RAVE) - Annual Security Report","systemName":"ACC Emergency Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.austincc.edu/asr","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Austin Community College documents the [RAVE-powered ACC Emergency Alert system](https://www.austincc.edu/asr) for district-wide email/text emergency notifications and Clery crime alerts, with Chief of Police decision authority and thrice-yearly Emergency Preparedness Week testing.","analysis":"Austin Community College (multi-campus district, TX) publishes ACC Emergency Alert, Timely Warnings/Crime Alerts, and Emergency Notifications procedures in its official [Annual Security Report](https://www.austincc.edu/asr) (hosted via ACC's published ASR link). ACC Emergency Alert, powered by RAVE Mobile Safety (getrave.com/login/austincc), communicates urgent messages via text and ACC email. Students and employees are automatically registered for email alerts; those with a mobile number on file are auto-registered for text. Partners and families can opt in by texting ACCPARTNERS or ACCFAMILY to 780-15.\n\nWhen a crime is reported to ACC District Police or the Clery compliance officer, it is assessed for Clery crime status, Clery geography, and serious/continuing threat; the chief of police or designee decides whether to issue a crime alert, often with the Clery compliance officer. Crime alerts issue as soon as pertinent information is available and withhold victim names. Public safety advisories may cover non-Clery or off-geography situations. If an emergency notification is issued, a separate timely warning/crime alert is not required for the same circumstances, but follow-up must be provided as needed.\n\nEmergency notifications issue upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus involving immediate threat to student/employee health or safety, without delay unless notification would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. ACC District Police generally learn of emergencies first; public health and emergency management handle disease and weather exceptions. Content is often pre-scripted; otherwise chief of police and emergency management coordinator develop messages for incident commander approval. Distribution is generally district-wide email and text at minimum, with optional alert beacons, homepage, Newsroom, social networks, and face-to-face. The emergency management coordinator typically initiates the alert system. Communication procedures are tested three times per year during Emergency Preparedness Week (third week of fall, spring, and summer). Complements the archive's large ACC case volume.","whenCriteria":"Crime alert/timely warning: Clery crime in Clery geography presenting serious or continuing threat after chief of police assessment. Emergency notification: confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus involving immediate threat to health or safety of students or employees.","decisionAuthority":"Crime alert: ACC chief of police or designee, often with Clery compliance officer. Emergency confirmation: ACC District Police, public health (disease), or emergency management coordinator (weather). EN content: chief of police and emergency management coordinator for incident commander approval. Alert system initiation: typically emergency management coordinator or designee.","timingStandard":"Crime alerts as soon as pertinent information is available. Emergency notifications without delay upon confirmation, taking campus safety into account, unless professional judgment holds notification would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Communication systems tested three times per year.","cleryFraming":"ASR sections on ACC Emergency Alert, Timely Warnings/Crime Alerts, and Emergency Notifications with RAVE backend and explicit dual-purpose crime-alert vs EN distinction.","scopeLimits":"No crime alert required for crimes reported only to professional or pastoral counselors. EN may substitute for TW on same circumstances with required follow-up. Segmented building/population notifications allowed when threat is limited. Partner/family text opt-in is separate from student/employee auto-enrollment.","testingCadence":"Three times per year during Emergency Preparedness Week (third week of every semester: fall, spring, and summer); at minimum activates alert beacons and district-wide email/text messaging.","channels":["sms","email","website","facebook","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"ACC Emergency Alert auto-enrollment","quotedText":"\"ACC Emergency Alert\" is the system used to communicate urgent messages to students and employees via text message and ACC email. Students and employees are automatically registered to receive alerts via email. Additionally, students and employees with a mobile number on file are automatically registered to receive alerts via text message.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.austincc.edu/asr","sourceDescription":"ACC ASR - ACC Emergency Alert section","annotations":["Named ACC Emergency Alert with auto email and conditional SMS enrollment."],"characterCount":341},{"label":"Chief of police crime alert decision path","quotedText":"When a crime is reported to ACCDPD or the Clery compliance officer, the crime is initially assessed to determine if it is a Clery crime, in Clery geography, that presents a serious or continuing threat. If it is determined that all conditions may be true, the ACC chief of police or their designee is contacted to determine whether a crime alert will be issued.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.austincc.edu/asr","sourceDescription":"ACC ASR - Timely Warnings / Crime Alerts","annotations":["Three-condition assessment before chief of police TW decision."],"characterCount":361},{"label":"Emergency notification confirmation standard","quotedText":"ACC issues emergency notifications upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on campus involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.austincc.edu/asr","sourceDescription":"ACC ASR - Issuing an Emergency Notification","annotations":["On-campus immediate threat confirmation standard for EN."],"characterCount":202},{"label":"Thrice-yearly Emergency Preparedness Week testing","quotedText":"Communication procedures are tested three times per year during Emergency Preparedness Week (held the 3rd week of every semester - fall, spring, and summer).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.austincc.edu/asr","sourceDescription":"ACC ASR - Testing of Communication Procedures","annotations":["Fixed thrice-yearly emergency communications testing cadence."],"characterCount":157}],"keyFindings":["RAVE-backed ACC Emergency Alert with auto email and auto SMS when mobile on file.","Chief of police decides crime alerts after Clery crime/geography/threat assessment.","Communication procedures tested three times per year during Emergency Preparedness Week."],"sources":[{"title":"Austin Community College Annual Security Report (official ASR link)","url":"https://www.austincc.edu/asr","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["texas","community-college","clery-asr","acc-emergency-alert","rave","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"austin-community-college-acc-emergency-alert-policy","slug":"austin-community-college-acc-emergency-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Austin Community College District","shortName":"ACC","state":"TX","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"ACC Emergency Alert","enrollment":43941},"policy":{"title":"ACC Emergency Alert","systemName":"ACC Emergency Alert (Rave Mobile Safety)","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://offices.austincc.edu/emergency-management/acc-emergency-alert/","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"[ACC Emergency Alert](https://offices.austincc.edu/emergency-management/acc-emergency-alert/) is Austin Community College District's mass-notification system, powered by [Rave Mobile Safety](https://offices.austincc.edu/emergency-management/acc-emergency-alert/), that 'sends safety and security-related notifications via email and text message' to advise the community of threats on campus, certain reported crimes, impending weather, and campus closures. The formal Clery-Act emergency-notification and timely-warning procedures are documented in ACC's [Annual Security Report](https://catalog.austincc.edu/campus-safety-and-security/annual-security-reportclery-act-2/), published by October 1 each year.","analysis":"Austin Community College District — a large multi-campus open-admission system serving roughly 44,000 students across the Austin metro — runs its mass-notification program under the brand [ACC Emergency Alert](https://offices.austincc.edu/emergency-management/acc-emergency-alert/), with [Rave Mobile Safety](https://www.ravemobilesafety.com/industries/higher-education/) as the named service provider/vendor. ACC describes the system plainly: it 'sends safety and security-related notifications via email and text message,' and those alerts 'advise you of threats on campus, certain crimes that were reported, impending weather, and campus closures.' That sentence quietly spans both Clery instruments — the immediate-threat emergency notification and the prevention-oriented timely warning ('certain crimes that were reported') — without using the formal Clery vocabulary on the consumer-facing page.\n\nEnrollment in the alert system is partly automatic and partly self-managed. Every account holder's ACC email address is permanently enrolled — ACC states 'you will always receive ACC Alert emails' to the ACCmail account, which cannot be edited out. Beyond that mandatory email channel, users add text/voice contact paths themselves: ACC lets each person 'provide up to three emails and three mobile phone numbers,' managed by logging into the Rave Mobile Safety portal with an ACCeID and entering 'Austin Community College' as the site name. ACC is explicit about scope and privacy: 'ACC Alert is used only in the event of a safety or security-related incident and for occasional testing of the system,' the system sends no unsolicited messages, and contact information 'will not be shared with anyone else.'\n\nThe Clery framing lives on the compliance side. ACC District complies with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act and publishes its [Annual Security Report](https://catalog.austincc.edu/campus-safety-and-security/annual-security-reportclery-act-2/) by October 1 each year; the ASR's documented topics include 'emergency notifications and crime alerts,' the ACC District Police's law-enforcement authority and response actions, and the role of [Campus Security Authorities](https://offices.austincc.edu/equal-opportunity-compliance/clery-act/campus-security-authorities/) who must report Clery-Act crimes to ACC District Police. ACC District Police and the Emergency Management office are the operational hubs; Emergency Management states its mission is to 'ensure the safety and security of students, faculty, and staff through timely emergency notifications, preparedness initiatives, and training opportunities.'\n\nThe public ACC Emergency Alert page confirms occasional testing but does not byte-publish a fixed testing cadence, the named official who authorizes a notification, or a 'without delay upon confirmation' timing clause; those procedural elements are maintained in the ACC Annual Security Report and emergency-management materials on austincc.edu. Because the austincc.edu hosts 403-block direct fetch in this environment, every quote below was captured from repeated search-snippet renderings of the official pages and cross-checked across multiple independent retrievals before being flagged verbatim.","whenCriteria":"ACC Emergency Alerts 'advise you of threats on campus, certain crimes that were reported, impending weather, and campus closures.' The system 'is used only in the event of a safety or security-related incident and for occasional testing of the system.' The detailed emergency-notification 'significant emergency or dangerous situation' standard and the timely-warning 'serious or continuing threat' standard are set out in the ACC Annual Security Report.","decisionAuthority":"ACC District Police and the Office of Emergency Management are the operational hubs for emergency response and alerting; Campus Security Authorities must report Clery-Act crimes to ACC District Police. The specific named officials who authorize emergency notifications and timely warnings are identified in the ACC Annual Security Report.","timingStandard":"ACC Emergency Management's stated mission is to ensure safety 'through timely emergency notifications'; the formal 'without delay, taking into account the safety of the community' timing language is maintained in the ACC Annual Security Report rather than on the public alert page.","cleryFraming":"The consumer-facing ACC Emergency Alert page blends both Clery instruments (immediate threats on campus and 'certain crimes that were reported') into one description; the formal separation of emergency notifications from timely/crime warnings, and the Clery Act basis, are documented in the ACC Annual Security Report published by October 1 each year.","testingCadence":"ACC states the system is used 'for occasional testing,' but a fixed testing schedule (e.g., annual or per-semester) is not byte-confirmed on the public page; the documented testing cadence lives in the ACC Annual Security Report.","scopeLimits":"Every ACC email account is permanently enrolled ('you will always receive ACC Alert emails'); users may add up to three emails and three mobile phone numbers for text/voice alerts, managed through the Rave Mobile Safety portal with an ACCeID. The system sends no unsolicited messages and does not share contact information.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"What ACC Emergency Alert is","quotedText":"ACC Emergency Alert is the system that sends safety and security-related notifications via email and text message. ACC Emergency Alerts advise you of threats on campus, certain crimes that were reported, impending weather, and campus closures.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://offices.austincc.edu/emergency-management/acc-emergency-alert/","sourceDescription":"ACC Emergency Alert page (austincc.edu)","annotations":["Spans both Clery triggers in one description: 'threats on campus' (emergency notification) and 'certain crimes that were reported' (timely/crime warning). Reproduced identically across multiple independent retrievals of the official page; the austincc.edu host 403-blocks direct fetch, so it could not be byte-confirmed against the live page."],"characterCount":243},{"label":"Vendor and contact capacity","quotedText":"Rave Mobile Safety is ACC's service provider. You can provide up to three emails and three mobile phone numbers for notifications.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://offices.austincc.edu/emergency-management/acc-emergency-alert/","sourceDescription":"ACC Emergency Alert page (austincc.edu)","annotations":["Names the platform/vendor (Rave Mobile Safety) and the per-user cap of three emails plus three mobile numbers. Reproduced consistently across retrievals; host 403-blocks direct fetch."],"characterCount":130},{"label":"Scope and privacy limits","quotedText":"ACC Alert is used only in the event of a safety or security-related incident and for occasional testing of the system. You won't receive unsolicited messages and your name and phone number will not be shared with anyone else through this system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://offices.austincc.edu/emergency-management/acc-emergency-alert/","sourceDescription":"ACC Emergency Alert page (austincc.edu)","annotations":["Limits use to safety/security incidents plus 'occasional testing'; this is the only testing reference on the public page (no fixed cadence stated). Reproduced consistently across multiple independent retrievals; host 403-blocks direct fetch."],"characterCount":245},{"label":"Mandatory ACCmail enrollment","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://offices.austincc.edu/emergency-management/acc-emergency-alert/","sourceDescription":"ACC Emergency Alert page (austincc.edu)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["ACC Emergency Alert is a multi-campus mass-notification system powered by Rave Mobile Safety that sends safety/security notifications via email and text message.","Alerts cover threats on campus, certain reported crimes, impending weather, and campus closures — spanning both Clery emergency-notification and timely-warning purposes.","Every user's ACCmail address is permanently enrolled ('you will always receive ACC Alert emails'); users add up to three emails and three mobile numbers via the Rave portal using their ACCeID.","Use is limited to safety/security incidents and 'occasional testing'; the system sends no unsolicited messages and does not share contact data.","Formal Clery timely-warning / emergency-notification criteria, decision authority, 'without delay' timing, and a fixed testing cadence live in ACC's Annual Security Report (published by October 1 each year), not on the public alert page."],"sources":[{"title":"ACC Emergency Alert | Emergency Management","url":"https://offices.austincc.edu/emergency-management/acc-emergency-alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Notifications | Austin Community College District","url":"http://www.austincc.edu/emergency-notifications","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Procedures - ACC Catalog & Student Handbook","url":"https://catalog.austincc.edu/campus-safety-and-security/emergency-procedures/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual Security Report / Clery Act - ACC Catalog & Student Handbook","url":"https://catalog.austincc.edu/campus-safety-and-security/annual-security-reportclery-act-2/","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Campus Security Authorities | Clery Act","url":"https://offices.austincc.edu/equal-opportunity-compliance/clery-act/campus-security-authorities/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Management | Austin Community College District","url":"https://offices.austincc.edu/emergency-management/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","community-college","acc-emergency-alert","rave-mobile-safety","texas"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"azusa-pacific-university-timely-warning-emergency-notification-policy","slug":"azusa-pacific-university-timely-warning-emergency-notification-policy","institution":{"name":"Azusa Pacific University","shortName":"APU","state":"CA","type":"private-masters","alertSystemName":"APU Immediate Notification / Timely Warning","enrollment":6272},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warnings and Immediate Notification System","systemName":"APU Immediate Notification / Timely Warning","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.apu.edu/campus-safety/warnings/","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Azusa Pacific University [Timely Warnings page](https://www.apu.edu/campus-safety/warnings/) and [Emergency Notifications page](https://www.apu.edu/campus-safety/warnings/notifications/) document Clery Timely Warnings for ongoing threats and an Immediate Notification system for serious crimes, natural disasters, or other emergencies posing an immediate threat to the university community.","analysis":"Azusa Pacific University is a private master's university in California. Its Campus Safety [Timely Warnings](https://www.apu.edu/campus-safety/warnings/) criteria page states warnings issue when APU determines an incident may pose an ongoing threat to community members, and lists covered incident types including robbery. The companion [Emergency Notifications](https://www.apu.edu/campus-safety/warnings/notifications/) page brands the Immediate Notification system for serious crime, natural disaster, or other emergencies posing an immediate threat, covering the main campus in Azusa, regional campuses, and other APU facilities.","whenCriteria":"Timely Warnings when APU determines an incident may pose an ongoing threat to APU community members; Immediate Notification when a serious crime, natural disaster, or other emergency poses an immediate threat to the university community or a segment of the campus community.","decisionAuthority":"Department of Campus Safety / Azusa Pacific University (as stated on the Timely Warnings criteria page).","timingStandard":"Timely Warnings issued when determined to pose an ongoing threat; Immediate Notification for immediate threats.","cleryFraming":"Pages explicitly cite Jeanne Clery Act provisions for Timely Warnings and Immediate Notification.","scopeLimits":"Main campus in Azusa, regional campuses, and other APU facilities as stated for Immediate Notification.","testingCadence":"Not stated on the Timely Warnings overview pages reviewed.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely Warning ongoing-threat criteria","quotedText":"The Department of Campus Safety posts Timely Warning notices to inform members of These Timely Warnings will be issued when it is determined by APU that the incident may pose an ongoing threat to APU community members.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.apu.edu/campus-safety/warnings/","sourceDescription":"APU Timely Warnings criteria page","annotations":["Local APU decision framing for ongoing threat Timely Warnings."],"characterCount":218},{"label":"Immediate Notification system scope","quotedText":"In compliance with provisions of the Jeanne Clery Act, the university has developed an Immediate Notification system. This system is used to notify Azusa Pacific University students, faculty, and staff if a serious crime, natural disaster, or other emergencies occur that poses an immediate threat to the university community or a segment of the campus community. Notifications may be communicated to all Azusa Pacific University students, faculty, and staff at the main campus in Azusa, regional campuses, and other APU facilities","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.apu.edu/campus-safety/warnings/notifications/","sourceDescription":"APU Emergency Notifications page","annotations":["Local Immediate Notification brand and multi-campus scope."],"characterCount":531}],"keyFindings":["APU brands Timely Warnings and Immediate Notification with multi-campus scope.","Private-masters California institution policy fills a thin type slot."],"sources":[{"title":"Timely Warnings - Azusa Pacific University Campus Safety","url":"https://www.apu.edu/campus-safety/warnings/","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"},{"title":"Emergency Notifications - Azusa Pacific University","url":"https://www.apu.edu/campus-safety/warnings/notifications/","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["private-masters","california","timely-warning","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"ball-state-university-public-safety-advisory-policy","slug":"ball-state-university-public-safety-advisory-policy","institution":{"name":"Ball State University","shortName":"Ball State","state":"IN","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"Public Safety Advisory"},"policy":{"title":"2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - Public Safety Advisories and Emergency Notifications","systemName":"Public Safety Advisory","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.bsu.edu/-/media/www/departmentalcontent/student-conduct/clery/bsu-2025-clery-asr-fsr.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Ball State University's [2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.bsu.edu/-/media/www/departmentalcontent/student-conduct/clery/bsu-2025-clery-asr-fsr.pdf) brands Clery timely warnings as campus-wide Public Safety Advisories issued by the Department of Public Safety for serious or continuing threats on Clery geography, and requires emergency notifications without delay (with the standard mitigation exception) once a significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus is confirmed.","analysis":"Ball State (Indiana public-masters, five filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [2025 ASR PDF](https://www.bsu.edu/-/media/www/departmentalcontent/student-conduct/clery/bsu-2025-clery-asr-fsr.pdf) (HTTP 200, text layer, second read). Timely warnings are named Public Safety Advisories: criminal activity on Clery geography that, in the judgment of Public Safety, constitutes a serious or continuing threat triggers a campus-wide advisory. The live sentence uses a curly apostrophe in Ball State's and curly quotes around Public Safety Advisory and timely warning, and a wrapped 'non- campus' hyphenation from the PDF line break, all preserved.\n\nEmergency response: the university has an emergency management plan for a significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus involving an immediate threat. Once confirmed, Public Safety consults other officials on the segment to notify, then without delay (em dashes in the live sentence) determines content and initiates the system unless issuance would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Every excerpt was character-checked against the PDF text layer.","whenCriteria":"Public Safety Advisory: Clery-geography crime that Public Safety judges a serious or continuing threat. Emergency notification: confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus involving an immediate threat to health or safety.","decisionAuthority":"Department of Public Safety judges Public Safety Advisories and directs emergency notifications, in collaboration with other appropriate University officials based on the nature of the emergency.","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications without delay, considering community safety, unless issuance would compromise victim assistance or mitigation.","cleryFraming":"Timely warnings are branded Public Safety Advisories. Emergency notifications are a separate immediate-threat track under the emergency management plan.","scopeLimits":"Fishers and INDY campuses receive the same Public Safety Advisories as the main campus. Text alerts are subscription-based for students and employees.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Public Safety Advisory as timely warning","quotedText":"In the event of criminal activity occurring on Ball State’s Clery geography (on campus, on-campus housing, public property adjacent to and immediately accessible from campus, or on certain other non- campus properties owned or controlled by the University) that, in the judgment of the Department of Public Safety constitutes a serious or continuing threat to members of the campus community, a campus-wide “Public Safety Advisory” (a.k.a., “timely warning”) will be issued.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bsu.edu/-/media/www/departmentalcontent/student-conduct/clery/bsu-2025-clery-asr-fsr.pdf","sourceDescription":"Ball State University 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Live PDF wrap leaves a space in 'non- campus'. Curly apostrophe and curly quotes preserved."],"characterCount":474},{"label":"Emergency management plan trigger","quotedText":"The University has an emergency management plan designed to ensure there is a timely and effective response in the event of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on campus involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of members of the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bsu.edu/-/media/www/departmentalcontent/student-conduct/clery/bsu-2025-clery-asr-fsr.pdf","sourceDescription":"Ball State University 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Opens the Emergency Response/Notifications overview."],"characterCount":280},{"label":"Without-delay initiation","quotedText":"In collaboration with other appropriate personnel, the Department of Public Safety will determine who should be notified, and will—without delay, and considering the safety of the community—determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system, unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bsu.edu/-/media/www/departmentalcontent/student-conduct/clery/bsu-2025-clery-asr-fsr.pdf","sourceDescription":"Ball State University 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Em dashes around without delay are live PDF punctuation, not editorial."],"characterCount":463}],"keyFindings":["Ball State brands Clery timely warnings as Public Safety Advisories issued by the Department of Public Safety.","Emergency notifications run without delay after confirmation, with the federal mitigation exception.","The same advisories go to the Fishers and INDY campuses."],"sources":[{"title":"Ball State University 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.bsu.edu/-/media/www/departmentalcontent/student-conduct/clery/bsu-2025-clery-asr-fsr.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Ball State Emergency Text Alerts","url":"https://www.bsu.edu/about/administrativeoffices/marketing-communications/comm-center/emergency-text","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","indiana","public-masters"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"bard-college-at-simons-rock-alert-policy","slug":"bard-college-at-simons-rock-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Bard College at Simon's Rock","shortName":"Simon's Rock","state":"MA","type":"private-bachelors","alertSystemName":"Emergency Alert System","enrollment":314},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Alert System/Emergency Alert Notification","systemName":"Emergency Alert System","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://simons-rock.edu/student-life/living-on-campus/campus-safety/emergency-alert.php","lastReviewed":"2026-07-20"},"summary":"Bard College at Simon's Rock, a small early-college campus that grants only associate's and bachelor's degrees, runs a free [Emergency Alert System](https://simons-rock.edu/student-life/living-on-campus/campus-safety/emergency-alert.php) that reaches the community by cell and landline phone, email, and voicemail, with campus-wide Clery timely warnings sent separately through the College email system to all students and employees.","analysis":"Simon's Rock is a tiny, four-year early-college campus (314 students in 2024-25) that nonetheless publishes a full [Emergency Alert System page](https://simons-rock.edu/student-life/living-on-campus/campus-safety/emergency-alert.php) distinguishing it from the routine Clery [timely-warning process](https://simons-rock.edu/early-college/contact-us/offices-and-departments/campus-safety/clery-act.php). The Emergency Alert System is described as designed to alert individual participants when an emergency occurs that requires immediate community attention or action, reaching people through several redundant channels at once: phone calls to registered cell and landline numbers, email, voicemail, and direct messages to all voicemail accounts campus-wide.\n\nThe page gives unusually concrete technical detail for a campus this size: caller-ID-enabled phones will show the alert as coming from a specific number, 413-644-4772, and alert emails arrive from a dedicated address, EmergencyAlert@simons-rock.edu. That level of specificity (a single documented outbound number and sender address) is exactly the kind of detail that lets a recipient verify a real alert against a spoofed one, and is rare among the small-college policies in this archive.\n\nRegistration responsibility is placed squarely on the individual: it is the responsibility of students, faculty, and staff to keep contact information accurate and up to date in order to receive notifications, and participation carries no cost, a detail the College states explicitly (\"provided free of charge... with no cost associated with participation in the service\"). Simon's Rock separates the Emergency Alert System from its Clery timely-warning obligation: when a situation constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat, a campus-wide timely warning is issued through the College email system to all students and employees, and that timely warning may be supplemented by, but is not synonymous with, the Emergency Alert System. Campus Safety, which staffs the campus 24 hours a day, operates alongside the Office of Campus Life, the Council for Equity and Inclusion, the Wellness Center, and Physical Plant in the College's broader emergency-response structure.","whenCriteria":"The Emergency Alert System is designed to alert individual participants when an emergency occurs that requires immediate community attention or action. Separately, a campus-wide timely warning is issued when a situation constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat to the community.","decisionAuthority":"The Campus Safety office, which is staffed 24 hours a day, operates the Emergency Alert System and works closely with the Office of Campus Life, the Council for Equity and Inclusion, the Wellness Center, and Physical Plant; a single named approving official beyond Campus Safety was not found in the public sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"A specific minutes-based timing standard was not found in the public sources reviewed; the system is framed around immediate community attention or action for emergencies and the timely-warning process for ongoing threats.","cleryFraming":"Simon's Rock separates its Clery-mandated timely warning, issued campus-wide by email to all students and employees for ongoing or continuing threats, from its broader Emergency Alert System, which may supplement (but is not required for) a timely warning.","testingCadence":"A stated testing cadence was not found in the public sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Participation is free of charge to active students, faculty, and staff, but delivery depends on accurate, self-maintained contact information; the College states it is the responsibility of students, faculty, and staff to keep that information current.","channels":["phone-call","email","sms"],"excerpts":[{"label":"What the Emergency Alert System does","quotedText":"Bard College at Simon's Rock's Emergency Alert System is designed to alert individual participants when an emergency occurs that requires immediate community attention or action.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://simons-rock.edu/student-life/living-on-campus/campus-safety/emergency-alert.php","sourceDescription":"Simon's Rock Campus Safety - Emergency Alert System/Emergency Alert Notification","annotations":["Frames the system around individual-participant alerting for emergencies requiring immediate attention, distinct from the College's separate timely-warning process."],"characterCount":178},{"label":"Caller-ID and sender identification","quotedText":"Caller-ID enabled phones will receive messages from 413-644-4772, and email messages will come from EmergencyAlert@simons-rock.edu.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://simons-rock.edu/student-life/living-on-campus/campus-safety/emergency-alert.php","sourceDescription":"Simon's Rock Campus Safety - Emergency Alert System/Emergency Alert Notification","annotations":["Publishes a specific outbound phone number and sender email address so a recipient can verify a genuine alert."],"characterCount":131},{"label":"Free of charge, self-maintained registration","quotedText":"The Emergency Alert system is provided free of charge to active Bard College at Simon's Rock staff, faculty, and students, with no cost associated with participation in the service.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://simons-rock.edu/student-life/living-on-campus/campus-safety/emergency-alert.php","sourceDescription":"Simon's Rock Campus Safety - Emergency Alert System/Emergency Alert Notification","annotations":["States the no-cost basis of participation for the full active campus community."],"characterCount":181},{"label":"Timely warning distinct from the Emergency Alert System","quotedText":"When a situation arises that constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat, a campus-wide timely warning is issued to the campus community through the College email system to all students and employees, and may be supplemented by the College's Emergency Alert System.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://simons-rock.edu/student-life/living-on-campus/campus-safety/emergency-alert.php","sourceDescription":"Simon's Rock Campus Safety - Emergency Alert System/Emergency Alert Notification","annotations":["Draws the line between the Clery timely-warning channel (campus email) and the multi-channel Emergency Alert System, which is a supplement, not a substitute."],"characterCount":265}],"keyFindings":["Simon's Rock enrolls only 314 students yet publishes a fully documented, multi-channel Emergency Alert System (phone, email, voicemail) with a specific caller-ID number and sender address.","The College explicitly separates its Clery timely-warning process (campus email to all students and employees) from the broader Emergency Alert System, which supplements but does not replace it.","Participation is free of charge, but the College places the burden of keeping contact information current on individual students, faculty, and staff.","As a bachelor's-granting early-college campus with no graduate programs, Simon's Rock fills a genuinely under-documented institutional niche in campus alerting policy."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Alert System/Emergency Alert Notification - Bard College at Simon's Rock","url":"https://simons-rock.edu/student-life/living-on-campus/campus-safety/emergency-alert.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Campus Safety Department - Bard College at Simon's Rock","url":"https://simons-rock.edu/student-life/living-on-campus/campus-safety/index.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Act Information and Reports - Bard College at Simon's Rock","url":"https://simons-rock.edu/early-college/contact-us/offices-and-departments/campus-safety/clery-act.php","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","private-bachelors","massachusetts","early-college","small-college"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-20","lastUpdated":"2026-07-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"baylor-university-alert-policy","slug":"baylor-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Baylor University","shortName":"Baylor","state":"TX","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"Baylor Alert","enrollment":19858},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications & Timely Warnings — Baylor Alert","systemName":"Baylor Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://risk.web.baylor.edu/compliance/clery-compliance/clery-notifications-policies/emergency-notifications-timely-warnings","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"[Baylor Alert](https://dps.web.baylor.edu/emergency-management/baylor-alert) is Baylor University's emergency notification system, run on the Rave Mobile Safety platform and delivering warnings via outdoor sirens and loudspeakers, email, text, official social media, and the main Baylor website. Per Baylor's [Emergency Notifications & Timely Warnings policy](https://risk.web.baylor.edu/compliance/clery-compliance/clery-notifications-policies/emergency-notifications-timely-warnings), the Baylor University Department of Public Safety has primary responsibility for confirming the need for, coordinating, and determining the content and delivery methods of emergency notifications, timely warnings, and safety notifications.","analysis":"Baylor Alert is Baylor University's branded emergency notification system. Per Baylor's [Emergency Notifications & Timely Warnings policy](https://risk.web.baylor.edu/compliance/clery-compliance/clery-notifications-policies/emergency-notifications-timely-warnings), the university defines a three-tier notification scheme: \"A Baylor emergency notification is notification of an incident that is currently occurring on, or imminently threatening the campus,\" \"A Baylor Timely Warning is notification of Clery crime(s) that have already occurred and are considered by the institution to represent a serious or continuing threat to students and employees,\" and \"A Baylor Safety Notification may be issued when an incident or crime has occurred and may affect members of the campus community, but an emergency notification or timely warning is not required.\" This explicit emergency-notification / timely-warning / safety-notification taxonomy maps cleanly to the Clery distinction between imminent threats and already-occurred crimes that pose a continuing threat.\n\nDecision authority is centralized in public safety. The Baylor University Department of Public Safety (BUDPS) is responsible for confirming facts that indicate a notification is necessary, and has primary responsibility for issuing, coordinating, and determining content and methods of delivery of emergency notifications, timely warnings, and safety notifications. For timely warnings specifically, the [Chief of University Police](https://dps.web.baylor.edu/emergency-management/baylor-alert) generally makes the determination, in consultation with other University officials, whether a timely warning is required. The policy spells out the timely-warning criteria — that there is a substantial risk to the physical safety of other community members because of the crime, and that the University determines the incident represents an on-going threat — and notes BUDPS may issue timely warnings when there is a pattern of crimes against persons or property, while isolated incidents (such as an assault between two individuals who know each other and pose no ongoing threat) might not merit one.\n\nDelivery is multi-channel. Per Baylor's communications guidance, [Baylor Alert](https://news.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2025/baylor-alert-emergency-notification-system-enhances-campus-safety) uses multiple tools including outdoor sirens and loudspeakers, email and text messages, official University social media channels, and the main Baylor website. The system runs on the Rave Mobile Safety platform — Baylor Alert email notifications are sent from baylor@email.getrave.com. Enrollment in the system is automatic: students are auto-opted in and can update contact information through BearWeb, while employees are auto-opted in and update theirs through the Ignite system.\n\nOn testing cadence, Baylor conducts joint testing of its outdoor tornado sirens with city and county partners at 10 a.m. on the first Friday of each month; each test begins with a test voice announcement followed by an outdoor siren test lasting about 60 seconds, and Baylor's monthly announcements pair the siren test with a test of the Baylor Alert emergency communications system.","whenCriteria":"A Baylor emergency notification is notification of an incident that is currently occurring on, or imminently threatening the campus. A Baylor Timely Warning addresses Clery crimes that have already occurred and represent a serious or continuing threat. A Baylor Safety Notification may be issued when an incident or crime has occurred and may affect the community but neither an emergency notification nor a timely warning is required.","decisionAuthority":"The Baylor University Department of Public Safety (BUDPS) confirms facts indicating a notification is necessary and has primary responsibility for issuing, coordinating, and determining the content and methods of delivery of emergency notifications, timely warnings, and safety notifications. The Chief of University Police generally determines, in consultation with other University officials, whether a timely warning is required.","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications address incidents currently occurring on or imminently threatening the campus; timely warnings are issued to enable community members to protect themselves from similar incidents. BUDPS confirms the facts indicating a notification is necessary and coordinates issuance.","cleryFraming":"Explicit three-tier taxonomy — emergency notification (imminent/ongoing threat), timely warning (already-occurred Clery crime posing a serious or continuing threat), and safety notification (incident that may affect the community but does not require the other two). Timely-warning criteria require substantial risk to physical safety and an on-going threat; pattern crimes may also prompt a timely warning while isolated incidents may not.","testingCadence":"Baylor conducts joint testing of outdoor tornado sirens with city and county partners at 10 a.m. on the first Friday of each month; testing begins with a test voice announcement followed by an outdoor siren test lasting about 60 seconds, paired with a test of the Baylor Alert emergency communications system.","scopeLimits":"Crimes that present no continuing threat — such as an assault between two individuals who have a disagreement and know each other, an isolated event posing no ongoing threat to the community — might not merit a timely warning. Students and employees are automatically opted in to Baylor Alert and update contact information via BearWeb (students) and the Ignite system (employees).","channels":["siren","pa-system","email","sms","twitter-x","facebook","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Three-tier notification definitions","quotedText":"A Baylor emergency notification is notification of an incident that is currently occurring on, or imminently threatening the campus. A Baylor Timely Warning is notification of Clery crime(s) that have already occurred and are considered by the institution to represent a serious or continuing threat to students and employees. A Baylor Safety Notification may be issued when an incident or crime has occurred and may affect members of the campus community, but an emergency notification or timely warning is not required.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://risk.web.baylor.edu/compliance/clery-compliance/clery-notifications-policies/emergency-notifications-timely-warnings","sourceDescription":"Baylor University Compliance and Risk Services — Emergency Notifications & Timely Warnings","annotations":["Sets out Baylor's distinctive three-tier scheme: emergency notification (imminent/ongoing), timely warning (already-occurred Clery crime), and safety notification (lower tier)."],"characterCount":521},{"label":"BUDPS primary responsibility","quotedText":"The Baylor University Department of Public Safety (BUDPS) is responsible for confirming facts that indicate a notification is necessary, and has primary responsibility for issuing, coordinating, and determining content and methods of delivery of emergency notifications, timely warnings, and safety notifications.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://risk.web.baylor.edu/compliance/clery-compliance/clery-notifications-policies/emergency-notifications-timely-warnings","sourceDescription":"Baylor University Compliance and Risk Services — Emergency Notifications & Timely Warnings","annotations":["Places fact-confirmation, issuance, coordination, content, and delivery-method decisions all within BUDPS."],"characterCount":313},{"label":"Timely-warning judgment example","quotedText":"An assault between two individuals who have a disagreement and know each other. This may be an isolated event and presents no ongoing threat to the community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://risk.web.baylor.edu/compliance/clery-compliance/clery-notifications-policies/emergency-notifications-timely-warnings","sourceDescription":"Baylor University Compliance and Risk Services — Emergency Notifications & Timely Warnings","annotations":["Illustrates the 'no ongoing threat' carve-out for crimes that do not merit a timely warning."],"characterCount":158}],"keyFindings":["Baylor Alert is Baylor University's emergency notification system, run on the Rave Mobile Safety platform (alerts sent from baylor@email.getrave.com).","Baylor uses a distinctive three-tier scheme: emergency notification (imminent/ongoing threat), timely warning (already-occurred Clery crime posing a serious or continuing threat), and safety notification (lower-tier informational).","BUDPS confirms the facts indicating a notification is necessary and has primary responsibility for issuing, coordinating, and determining content and delivery methods; the Chief of University Police generally decides whether a timely warning is required.","Channels include outdoor sirens and loudspeakers, email, text, official social media, and the main Baylor website; students and employees are automatically opted in.","Outdoor tornado sirens are jointly tested with city/county partners at 10 a.m. on the first Friday of each month, paired with a Baylor Alert system test."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notifications & Timely Warnings — University Compliance and Risk Services — Baylor University","url":"https://risk.web.baylor.edu/compliance/clery-compliance/clery-notifications-policies/emergency-notifications-timely-warnings","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Baylor Alert — Department of Public Safety — Baylor University","url":"https://dps.web.baylor.edu/emergency-management/baylor-alert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Baylor Alert Emergency Notification System Enhances Campus Safety — Baylor Media & Public Relations","url":"https://news.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2025/baylor-alert-emergency-notification-system-enhances-campus-safety","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Baylor to Test Outdoor Tornado Sirens, Baylor Alert Emergency Notification System at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 7 — Baylor Media & Public Relations","url":"https://news.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2025/baylor-test-outdoor-tornado-sirens-baylor-alert-emergency-notification-system-10-am","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Inside Baylor's Emergency Alert System: How It Works and Who It Reaches — KCEN-TV","url":"https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/how-baylor-universitys-emergency-alert-system-works-and-how-sign-up/500-71703534-face-438e-943e-8fed9afdbefa","type":"local-media"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","baylor-alert","rave-mobile-safety","siren"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"bennett-college-belle-alert-policy","slug":"bennett-college-belle-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Bennett College","shortName":"Bennett","state":"NC","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"Belle Alert","enrollment":400},"policy":{"title":"Belle Alert Emergency Notification and Emergency Response Notification Policy","systemName":"Belle Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.bennett.edu/bennett-college-apps/","lastReviewed":"2019-09-01"},"summary":"Bennett College, a private women's HBCU in Greensboro, North Carolina, notifies its community through [Belle Alert](https://www.bennett.edu/bennett-college-apps/), its emergency notification system for security and weather alerts, with timely-notification expectations also stated in the [Emergency Response and Crisis Management Plan](https://www.bennett.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/emergency_response_plan_2019_v1.pdf).","analysis":"Bennett College brands its emergency notification channel as [Belle Alert](https://www.bennett.edu/bennett-college-apps/). The College apps page describes Belle Alert as delivering security alerts, weather alerts, and other important notifications as text messages to phones. The [2019 Emergency Response and Crisis Management Plan](https://www.bennett.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/emergency_response_plan_2019_v1.pdf) states College policy to notify students, faculty, staff, and other stakeholders in a timely manner of any activity or condition that constitutes a threat to personal safety or to the wholesomeness of the College community. Student-handbook materials separately encourage registration for BelleAlert as the College emergency alert system. This record documents the Belle Alert system overview and notification policy language rather than a full Clery ASR rewrite.","whenCriteria":"Security alerts, weather alerts, and other important notifications; activities or conditions that constitute a threat to personal safety or the wholesomeness of the College community.","decisionAuthority":"Emergency Response Team leadership (President or designee and cabinet officers named in the Emergency Response Plan) with Campus Safety as a primary operational partner; the apps page does not name a single exclusive trigger position for Belle Alert sends.","timingStandard":"Emergency Response Plan: notify stakeholders in a timely manner of threatening activity or conditions; exact Clery 'without delay' phrasing is not restated on the Belle Alert apps page.","cleryFraming":"Belle Alert is the operational emergency-notification channel supporting campus safety communications; formal Clery timely-warning procedure details, if separate, are not fully reproduced on the apps page reviewed.","testingCadence":"Not confirmed verbatim on the public Belle Alert apps page reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Text-message delivery depends on community members having current phone numbers registered for Belle Alert.","channels":["sms","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Belle Alert system definition","quotedText":"Belle Alert is our emergency notification system. Through this system, you will receive updates on vital information such as security alerts, weather alerts, and other important notifications as text messages to your phone.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bennett.edu/bennett-college-apps/","sourceDescription":"Bennett College Apps - Belle Alert description","annotations":["Defines Belle Alert as the emergency notification system and names security/weather text channels."],"characterCount":223},{"label":"Timely notification policy","quotedText":"Notify students, faculty, staff and other stakeholders in a timely manner of any activity or condition that constitutes a threat to personal safety or to the wholesomeness of the College community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bennett.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/emergency_response_plan_2019_v1.pdf","sourceDescription":"Bennett College Emergency Response and Crisis Management Plan (2019)","annotations":["States College policy to notify stakeholders of personal-safety threats in a timely manner."],"characterCount":197}],"keyFindings":["Belle Alert is Bennett College's branded emergency notification system.","Public description emphasizes security and weather text alerts to phones.","Emergency Response Plan commits to timely notification of threats to personal safety and community well-being."],"sources":[{"title":"Bennett College Apps - Belle Alert","url":"https://www.bennett.edu/bennett-college-apps/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Response and Crisis Management Plan 2019","url":"https://www.bennett.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/emergency_response_plan_2019_v1.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["hbcu","north-carolina","belle-alert","emergency-notification","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"berkeley-college-berkalert-policy","slug":"berkeley-college-berkalert-policy","institution":{"name":"Berkeley College","state":"NJ","type":"for-profit","alertSystemName":"BerkAlert","enrollment":4128},"policy":{"title":"BerkAlert","systemName":"BerkAlert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://berkeleycollege.edu/current-students/public-safety/berkalert/index.html","lastReviewed":"2026-08-23"},"summary":"Berkeley College, a private for-profit college with campuses in New Jersey and New York City, runs [BerkAlert](https://berkeleycollege.edu/current-students/public-safety/berkalert/index.html), a text-and-email mass-notification system that can target messages to only the campuses affected by an emergency, with timely-warning decisions initiated by the [Assistant Vice President for Public Safety](https://berkeleycollege.edu/current-students/public-safety/index.html) or a designee under the college's Clery procedures.","analysis":"Berkeley College is one of the relatively few for-profit institutions in this archive with a branded, publicly documented alert system. [BerkAlert](https://berkeleycollege.edu/current-students/public-safety/berkalert/index.html) is described on the college's Public Safety pages as its mass-notification system, delivering emergency alerts by text and email to keep the campus community informed; before or during an emergency the college can notify students, faculty, staff, and others via text messaging, emails, cell phones, and home and business phones of any pending emergency. Contact information must be current for the messages to arrive, and updates are made through the college's Engage system, so delivery accuracy rides on a self-maintained student record, as at most institutions in this archive.\n\nThe operationally interesting published detail is geographic targeting. Berkeley operates multiple campuses across two states, midtown Manhattan plus New Jersey locations including Woodland Park and Newark, and its materials state that the system can send messages to a particular group, with calls potentially directed only to campuses affected by an emergency. A bomb threat at one location, as in this archive's June 2018 Berkeley College case, need not page students in another state, and the system design acknowledges that.\n\nOn the Clery side, search-indexed text of the college's [campus security report](https://berkeleycollege.edu/pdf/Campus_Security_Report_NYC_Midtown.pdf) materials describes an intake-and-assessment chain for serious crimes: any college associate who receives a report of a sexual assault, intimate partner violence, or stalking on or adjacent to college property must promptly report it to the Public Safety Department, and the Assistant Vice President for Public Safety or a designee then initiates a conversation about whether a serious or continuing threat to the campus community exists such that a Timely Warning Notification would be issued. That places the timely-warning trigger decision with a named senior public-safety role fed by a mandatory internal reporting duty. The college publishes [annual security reports for all locations](https://berkeleycollege.edu/current-students/annual-security-reports/index.html) in Clery compliance.\n\nBerkeley College is a proprietary institution founded in 1931, accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, with about [4,128 students in 2025](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_College) across its New York and New Jersey campuses and online programs; this file is housed under its New Jersey headquarters state, matching the existing Berkeley College case in this archive.\n\nProvenance caveat: berkeleycollege.edu refused automated fetching from this research environment, so the excerpts below are reconstructed from search-index reproductions of the official pages and are marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false. A minutes-based timing standard and a published testing calendar were not reproduced in the reviewed material.","whenCriteria":"BerkAlert is used prior to or during an emergency situation, a pending emergency affecting one or more campuses; Timely Warning Notifications follow an assessment that a reported Clery crime represents a serious or continuing threat to the campus community.","decisionAuthority":"The Assistant Vice President for Public Safety or a designee initiates the assessment of whether a serious or continuing threat exists such that a Timely Warning Notification would be issued, fed by a mandatory duty on all college associates to report qualifying crimes to the Public Safety Department.","timingStandard":"A minutes-based service-level standard was not confirmed in the sources reviewed in this session; associates must promptly report qualifying incidents to Public Safety, and warnings follow the threat assessment.","cleryFraming":"Berkeley College publishes annual security reports for all of its locations under the Clery Act; the timely-warning procedure reproduced here sits inside those reports, and BerkAlert is the emergency mass-notification vehicle.","testingCadence":"A published testing schedule for BerkAlert was not confirmed in the sources reviewed in this session.","scopeLimits":"Coverage spans multiple campuses in New Jersey and New York plus online students; the system can direct messages to a particular group, with calls potentially limited to only the campuses affected by an emergency. Contact information must be kept current through the college's Engage system for alerts to arrive.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"System definition","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://berkeleycollege.edu/current-students/public-safety/berkalert/index.html","sourceDescription":"Berkeley College, BerkAlert (host blocked automated fetch; text reconstructed from search-index reproduction)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Multi-campus targeting","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://berkeleycollege.edu/current-students/public-safety/berkalert/faq/index.html","sourceDescription":"Berkeley College, BerkAlert Frequently Asked Questions (host blocked automated fetch; text reconstructed from search-index reproduction)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Timely-warning intake and decision chain","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://berkeleycollege.edu/pdf/Campus_Security_Report_NYC_Midtown.pdf","sourceDescription":"Berkeley College, Campus Security Report, New York City Midtown (host blocked automated fetch; text reconstructed from search-index reproduction)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["BerkAlert is one of the few branded, publicly documented alert systems at a for-profit institution in this archive, delivering by text, email, and phone call.","The system supports geographic targeting across Berkeley's New Jersey and New York campuses, so alerts can go only to the locations affected.","Timely-warning decisions rest with the Assistant Vice President for Public Safety or a designee, fed by a mandatory duty on all associates to report qualifying crimes.","Delivery depends on contact information kept current through the college's Engage system.","No minutes-based timing standard or published test calendar surfaced in the reviewed material; both are recorded as unconfirmed."],"sources":[{"title":"Berkeley College, BerkAlert","url":"https://berkeleycollege.edu/current-students/public-safety/berkalert/index.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Berkeley College, BerkAlert Frequently Asked Questions","url":"https://berkeleycollege.edu/current-students/public-safety/berkalert/faq/index.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Berkeley College, Campus Security Report, New York City Midtown","url":"https://berkeleycollege.edu/pdf/Campus_Security_Report_NYC_Midtown.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Berkeley College, Annual Security Reports","url":"https://berkeleycollege.edu/current-students/annual-security-reports/index.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Wikipedia, Berkeley College","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_College","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","berkalert","for-profit","new-jersey","new-york","multi-campus"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-23","lastUpdated":"2026-08-23","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"bethune-cookman-university-alert-policy","slug":"bethune-cookman-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Bethune-Cookman University","shortName":"B-CU","state":"FL","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"Wildcat Alert","enrollment":3123},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification / B-CU Emergency Alerts","systemName":"Wildcat Alert (e2Campus) and Wildcat Safe","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.cookman.edu/emergency-management/b-cu-emergency-alerts.html","lastReviewed":"2025-10"},"summary":"Bethune-Cookman University — a [private HBCU in Daytona Beach, Florida](https://www.cookman.edu/emergency-management/index.html) — communicates emergencies through its mass-notification system, [\"Wildcat Alert\" on the e2Campus (Omnilert) platform](https://www.cookman.edu/emergency-management/b-cu-emergency-alerts.html), and the companion [Wildcat Safe mobile app](https://www.cookman.edu/campussafety/alerts.html), sending text-message or email alerts on emergency conditions including weather cancellations and delays.","analysis":"Bethune-Cookman's emergency-alert program centers on two complementary tools. The [Office of Emergency Management states that the department \"aims to effectively communicate to the campus community in emergent situations through the university's mass notification system (E2 Campus) and the Wildcat Safe Application.\"](https://www.cookman.edu/emergency-management/b-cu-emergency-alerts.html) The mass-notification engine is branded **Wildcat Alert** and runs on **e2Campus**, a product of the vendor **Omnilert**; the **Wildcat Safe** app is the University's official mobile safety app and the only app that integrates with B-CU's safety and security systems, pushing safety alerts and providing access to campus safety resources.\n\n**Scope and bounding.** The University is explicit that the channel is reserved for genuine emergencies: [E2 Campus / Wildcat Alert messages \"will be sent through the system only in an emergency and for periodic testing,\"](https://www.cookman.edu/emergency-management/b-cu-emergency-alerts.html) and the alert system \"will only send information regarding emergency conditions, including weather cancellations and delays.\" That bounded scope — emergencies plus weather operations, nothing else — is a deliberate design choice that protects the credibility of the alert channel. Sign-up is opt-in by text: students, faculty, and staff [text COOKMAN to 237233](https://www.cookman.edu/campussafety/alerts.html) and receive a confirmation message; they may choose text messages or email.\n\n**Clery framing and operations.** B-CU's [Department of Campus Safety](https://www.cookman.edu/campussafety/index.html) publishes an Annual Security & Fire Safety Report in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Act, and campus-safety officer training includes Clery and Title IX compliance. Emergencies are reported to Campus Safety at (386) 481-2900, and questions about e2Campus notification are directed to the Department of Campus Safety. The system was exercised in a real event on [September 11, 2025, when a potential threat placed the campus on lockdown](https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2025/09/11/potential-threat-prompts-lockdown-at-bethune-cookman-university-classes-canceled/) — \"a campus alert sent through the Wildcat Safe system instructed students, faculty and staff\" to follow lockdown protocols and shelter in place, after which the lockdown was lifted when no credible threat was found. B-CU was one of several HBCUs across the Southeast to receive coordinated threats that day.","whenCriteria":"Wildcat Alert / e2Campus messages are sent only in an emergency and for periodic testing; the alert system will only send information regarding emergency conditions, including weather cancellations and delays. Wildcat Safe pushes safety alerts during emergencies (e.g., the September 11, 2025 lockdown instruction to shelter in place).","decisionAuthority":"The Department of Campus Safety / Office of Emergency Management operates the mass-notification system and the Wildcat Safe app; emergencies are reported to Campus Safety at (386) 481-2900 and e2Campus notification questions are directed to the Department of Campus Safety.","timingStandard":"Not stated verbatim on the public page; the system is positioned to 'effectively communicate to the campus community in emergent situations,' consistent with the Clery immediate-notification standard. In the September 11, 2025 lockdown, the campus alert and the University's public Facebook lockdown notice went out the same midday window.","cleryFraming":"B-CU's Department of Campus Safety publishes an Annual Security & Fire Safety Report in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Act; campus-safety officer training includes Clery and Title IX compliance. The mass-notification system serves the emergency-notification function alongside the University's Clery reporting.","testingCadence":"E2 Campus / Wildcat Alert messages are sent only in an emergency and for periodic testing; a specific recurring cadence is not stated verbatim on the public page.","scopeLimits":"The alert system will only send information regarding emergency conditions, including weather cancellations and delays; E2 Campus messages are sent only in an emergency and for periodic testing. Sign-up is opt-in (text COOKMAN to 237233); Wildcat Safe is the only app that integrates with B-CU's safety and security systems.","channels":["sms","email","push-notification","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Mass-notification system and app","quotedText":"The department aims to effectively communicate to the campus community in emergent situations through the university's mass notification system (E2 Campus) and the Wildcat Safe Application.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.cookman.edu/emergency-management/b-cu-emergency-alerts.html","sourceDescription":"B-CU Emergency Alerts — Office of Emergency Management","annotations":["Names both delivery mechanisms: the e2Campus mass-notification system (Wildcat Alert) and the Wildcat Safe app. Returned consistently as quoted text across multiple search captures of the live page."],"characterCount":189},{"label":"Emergency-only / testing scope","quotedText":"E2 Campus messages will be sent through the system only in an emergency and for periodic testing.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.cookman.edu/emergency-management/b-cu-emergency-alerts.html","sourceDescription":"B-CU Emergency Alerts — Office of Emergency Management","annotations":["Bounds the channel to genuine emergencies plus periodic tests, and confirms a testing practice."],"characterCount":97},{"label":"Wildcat Safe app description","quotedText":"Wildcat Safe is the official safety app of Bethune-Cookman University and the only app that integrates with Bethune-Cookman's safety and security systems. The app will send you important safety alerts and provide instant access to campus safety resources.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.cookman.edu/campussafety/alerts.html","sourceDescription":"Wildcat Alerts — Department of Campus Safety","annotations":["Establishes the Wildcat Safe app as the official, integrated safety-alert channel for the University."],"characterCount":255},{"label":"Wildcat Alert sign-up and content","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.cookman.edu/campussafety/alerts.html","sourceDescription":"Wildcat Alerts — Department of Campus Safety","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["B-CU's alert program is 'Wildcat Alert' on the e2Campus mass-notification platform (vendor: Omnilert) plus the 'Wildcat Safe' official mobile safety app.","The channel is expressly bounded: messages are sent only in an emergency and for periodic testing, and the system 'will only send information regarding emergency conditions, including weather cancellations and delays.'","Sign-up is opt-in — users text COOKMAN to 237233 and may choose text messages or email; Wildcat Safe is the only app that integrates with B-CU's safety and security systems.","The Department of Campus Safety / Office of Emergency Management operates the system and publishes a Clery-compliant Annual Security & Fire Safety Report.","The system was used in a real event on September 11, 2025, when a Wildcat Safe / campus alert directed a campus-wide lockdown and shelter-in-place during a (later uncredited) threat affecting several HBCUs."],"sources":[{"title":"B-CU Emergency Alerts — Office of Emergency Management","url":"https://www.cookman.edu/emergency-management/b-cu-emergency-alerts.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Wildcat Alerts — Department of Campus Safety","url":"https://www.cookman.edu/campussafety/alerts.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Management — Bethune-Cookman University","url":"https://www.cookman.edu/emergency-management/index.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Bethune-Cookman University Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (2025)","url":"https://www.cookman.edu/campus-safety/_files/2025-safety-fire-report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Lockdown lifted after 'potential threat' cancels classes at Bethune-Cookman University — ClickOrlando/News 6","url":"https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2025/09/11/potential-threat-prompts-lockdown-at-bethune-cookman-university-classes-canceled/","type":"local-media"},{"title":"Bethune-Cookman University sees over 20 percent increase in enrollment (Fall 2024: 3,123 students)","url":"https://www.cookman.edu/news/2024/08/bethune-cookman-university-sees-over-20-percent-increase-in-enrollment.html","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","hbcu","florida"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"bevill-state-community-college-bear-alert-asr","slug":"bevill-state-community-college-bear-alert-asr","institution":{"name":"Bevill State Community College","shortName":"Bevill State","state":"AL","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"BEAR Alert","enrollment":4000},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications (Timely Warnings) and BEAR Alert (2024 ASR)","systemName":"BEAR Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.bscc.edu/Content/Uploads/bscc.edu/images/2024%20Clery%20Report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2024-10-01"},"summary":"Bevill State Community College documents [Emergency Notifications (Timely Warnings) via BEAR Alert](https://www.bscc.edu/Content/Uploads/bscc.edu/images/2024%20Clery%20Report.pdf) in its 2024 ASR, with Director of Safety and Security authority, phone/email/text delivery, website warnings via Public Relations, and periodic system tests.","analysis":"Bevill State Community College, a multi-campus Alabama Community College System institution, publishes Clery-facing notification practice in its [2024 Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.bscc.edu/Content/Uploads/bscc.edu/images/2024%20Clery%20Report.pdf). The ASR section titled Emergency Notifications (Timely Warnings) assigns analysis and issuance of Alerts to the Director of Safety and Security or designee. BEAR Alert is the named emergency alert notification system delivering phone calls, e-mails, and text messages to registered faculty, staff, and students. Registration of cell and email information is the preferred method of notification.\n\nAlerts issue for natural or man-made disasters. In addition to BEAR Alert, the Director may issue website warnings via the College Public Relations Department and may use Public Relations, public address systems in BSCC-PD patrol cars, and any other method deemed appropriate. Periodic tests ensure system effectiveness. The ASR also notes cooperative local and state law enforcement relationships that can surface off-campus crime information warranting alerts.","whenCriteria":"Situations arising on and/or concerning BSCC campuses that warrant Alerts; natural or man-made disasters; crimes reported to outside law enforcement that may warrant appropriate alerts.","decisionAuthority":"Director of Safety and Security or designee analyzes information and issues Alerts; Public Relations supports website warnings; BSCC Police Department contact listed for information warranting an Alert.","timingStandard":"Issue Alerts in a timely manner; no fixed minutes standard stated.","cleryFraming":"ASR section Emergency Notifications (Timely Warnings) implements Clery-facing multi-channel alert practice under the BEAR Alert system name, with Director of Safety and Security authority.","scopeLimits":"Preferred reach depends on registrant contact data; website and patrol-car PA are supplemental channels.","testingCadence":"Tests of BEAR Alert conducted periodically; ASR also references annual emergency response exercises including tests of emergency notification systems.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Director of Safety and Security authority","quotedText":"In the event a situation arises on and/or concerning the campuses of Bevill State Community College, the Director of Safety and Security or his designee will analyze information and issue Alerts in a timely manner.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bscc.edu/Content/Uploads/bscc.edu/images/2024%20Clery%20Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"BSCC 2024 ASR Emergency Notifications (Timely Warnings)","annotations":["Names Director of Safety and Security as alert authority."],"characterCount":214},{"label":"BEAR Alert multi-channel delivery","quotedText":"Emergency Alerts will be issued by the College’s emergency alert notification system (BEAR Alert). This method offers emergency communications to all faculty, staff, and students registered in the system by phone calls, e-mails and text messages.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bscc.edu/Content/Uploads/bscc.edu/images/2024%20Clery%20Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"BSCC 2024 ASR BEAR Alert description","annotations":["Names BEAR Alert and phone/email/text channels."],"characterCount":246},{"label":"Natural or man-made disaster trigger","quotedText":"An Alert will be sent in the event of a natural or man-made disaster. Tests of this system will be conducted periodically to ensure the effectiveness of the system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bscc.edu/Content/Uploads/bscc.edu/images/2024%20Clery%20Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"BSCC 2024 ASR disaster trigger and testing","annotations":["Disaster trigger and periodic test cadence."],"characterCount":164}],"keyFindings":["Director of Safety and Security issues Alerts in a timely manner.","BEAR Alert delivers phone, email, and text to registered community members.","Periodic BEAR Alert tests; supplemental website and patrol-car PA channels available."],"sources":[{"title":"BSCC 2024 Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report","url":"https://www.bscc.edu/Content/Uploads/bscc.edu/images/2024%20Clery%20Report.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Bear Alert student page","url":"https://www.bscc.edu/students/current-students/bear-alert","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["alabama","community-college","clery-asr","bear-alert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"big-sandy-community-and-technical-college-snap-asr","slug":"big-sandy-community-and-technical-college-snap-asr","institution":{"name":"Big Sandy Community and Technical College","shortName":"BSCTC","state":"KY","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"SNAP","enrollment":4000},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification (SNAP) and Timely Warning - Annual Security Report","systemName":"SNAP","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://bigsandy.kctcs.edu/about/student-life/campus-safety/annual-security-report.aspx","lastReviewed":"2025-09-30"},"summary":"Big Sandy Community and Technical College documents the [KCTCS Safety Notification Alert Process (SNAP)](https://bigsandy.kctcs.edu/about/student-life/campus-safety/annual-security-report.aspx) for multi-channel emergency notifications and Clery timely warnings via campus-wide email, flyers, and website banners.","analysis":"Big Sandy Community and Technical College (eastern KY multi-campus KCTCS institution) publishes Emergency Notification and Timely Warning policy on its official [Annual Security Report 2025](https://bigsandy.kctcs.edu/about/student-life/campus-safety/annual-security-report.aspx) page. KCTCS SNAP communicates information quickly: students are automatically signed up at enrollment; faculty, staff, and interested individuals can sign up online. Immediate campus notification uses SNAP Alert for text, voice, broadcast, and email; face-to-face is the technology-failure fallback.\n\nEach KCTCS college has a SNAP Team using consultation to confirm significant emergencies or dangerous situations involving immediate threat to health or safety of students or employees on campus. The college President confirms emergencies with administrators, local first responders, and/or the National Weather Service. Upon confirmation the college without delay determines content and initiates notification unless that would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Content and scope consider segments at risk (targeted areas, campus-wide, building-specific).\n\nTimely warnings for serious criminal activity posing ongoing threat are decided by Campus Security Authorities, generally via campus-wide email bulletin, with optional flyers and website/digital banners. CSA may partner with campus departments, KCTCS Office of General Counsel, and KCTCS Safety and Emergency Services. Complements Madisonville SNAP KCTCS coverage with eastern Kentucky case volume.","whenCriteria":"SNAP Alert: incident requiring immediate notification for confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat to health or safety of students or employees on campus. Timely warning: serious criminal activity likely to pose ongoing or continued threat to students, staff, faculty, and guests.","decisionAuthority":"President confirms emergencies with administrators, first responders, and/or NWS; SNAP Team/designated personnel determine content and segment scope. Timely warning: Campus Security Authorities decide and primarily issue; may partner with KCTCS OGC and Safety and Emergency Services.","timingStandard":"EN without delay upon confirmation taking community safety into account, unless professional judgment holds notification would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. TW as soon as pertinent information and resources are available.","cleryFraming":"ASR Emergency Notification and Timely Warning sections implementing Clery Act duties via KCTCS SNAP and multi-channel TW distribution.","scopeLimits":"Segmented SNAP notifications by area/building allowed. SNAP student auto-enrollment; faculty/staff opt-in. Face-to-face when technology fails.","testingCadence":"Not specified as a fixed cadence on the Annual Security Report page sections reviewed.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","digital-signage","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"SNAP system and auto student enrollment","quotedText":"KCTCS uses a Safety Notification Alert Process (SNAP) for communicating information quickly. Students are automatically signed up when they enroll at an KCTCS college. Faculty, staff and interested individuals can sign up to receive SNAP messages online.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://bigsandy.kctcs.edu/about/student-life/campus-safety/annual-security-report.aspx","sourceDescription":"BSCTC Annual Security Report - Emergency Notification / SNAP","annotations":["Named SNAP with student auto-enrollment across KCTCS."],"characterCount":254},{"label":"SNAP Alert multi-channel immediate notification","quotedText":"In the event of an incident that requires the immediate notification to the campus community, a SNAP Alert will be issued, that will provide text, voice, broadcast and e-mail messages to all members of the college community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://bigsandy.kctcs.edu/about/student-life/campus-safety/annual-security-report.aspx","sourceDescription":"BSCTC Annual Security Report - SNAP Alert","annotations":["SNAP Alert text, voice, broadcast, and email for immediate EN."],"characterCount":224}],"keyFindings":["KCTCS SNAP with student auto-enrollment and multi-channel SNAP Alert.","President confirms emergencies; SNAP Team determines content and segments.","Timely warnings primarily via campus-wide email bulletin with CSA authority."],"sources":[{"title":"Big Sandy Community and Technical College Annual Security Report 2025 (SNAP and Timely Warning)","url":"https://bigsandy.kctcs.edu/about/student-life/campus-safety/annual-security-report.aspx","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["kentucky","community-college","clery-asr","snap","kctcs","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"biola-university-crime-alert-policy","slug":"biola-university-crime-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Biola University","shortName":"Biola","state":"CA","type":"private-masters","alertSystemName":"Biola Crime Alert","enrollment":5500},"policy":{"title":"Crime Alerts (Timely Warnings) Criteria and Dissemination","systemName":"Biola Crime Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.biola.edu/campus-safety/clery","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Biola University's [Campus Safety Clery page](https://www.biola.edu/campus-safety/clery) brands Crime Alerts for serious or continuing threats on Biola Clery geography, names the Chief of Campus Safety (or listed designees) as decision authority for content and dissemination, and describes email-blast distribution to Biola-assigned accounts plus posters, campus newspaper, and website, with Public Safety Advisories for non-required notices.","analysis":"Biola University is a private master's university in La Mirada, California. Its [Campus Safety Clery / Crime Alerts page](https://www.biola.edu/campus-safety/clery) is institution-specific: Crime Alerts issue for Clery geography crimes presenting a serious or continuing threat, distributed as soon as pertinent information is available while withholding victim names; the Chief of Campus Safety or designee decides threat, content, and dissemination method; typical channels include email blast to all Biola University assigned email accounts, posters, campus newspaper, and main University website; designees are named (Administrative Operations Manager, Deputy Chief, Captain, Investigations and Clery Compliance Manager, Emergency Operations Manager, and Campus Safety officers); non-required notices may issue as Public Safety Advisories; investigation sources may include University video and card access systems and the City of La Mirada Department of Public Safety.","whenCriteria":"Crimes on Biola Clery geography (On Campus, Public Property, Noncampus) presenting a serious or continuing threat; typically murder, aggravated assault (case-by-case for known parties), robbery involving force or violence, sexual assault (case-by-case), major arson, and other Clery crimes as determined necessary.","decisionAuthority":"Chief of Campus Safety or designee (Campus Safety Administrative Operations Manager, Deputy Chief, Captain, Investigations and Clery Compliance Manager, Emergency Operations Manager, and Campus Safety officers).","timingStandard":"Distributed as soon as pertinent information is available.","cleryFraming":"Explicit Timely Warning notice requirements of the Clery Act; Crime Alert is Biola's local name for that function.","scopeLimits":"Current students and employees via Biola-assigned email; pastoral/professional counselor confidential reports are not required to trigger Crime Alerts though counselors may refer voluntary reporting.","testingCadence":"Not stated on the Crime Alerts criteria section.","channels":["email","website","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Crime Alert trigger and timing","quotedText":"The Department of Campus Safety will issue Crime Alerts for crimes occurring on Biola's Clery Geography (On Campus, Public Property and Noncampus property) that present a serious or continuing threat to the campus community, as required by the timely warning notice requirements of the Clery Act to aid in the prevention of similar occurrences. Crime Alerts will be distributed as soon as pertinent information is available, in a manner that withholds the names of victims as confidential, and with the goal of aiding in the prevention of similar occurrences.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.biola.edu/campus-safety/clery","sourceDescription":"Biola Campus Safety Clery / Crime Alerts page","annotations":["Local Crime Alert brand and Clery geography framing."],"characterCount":559},{"label":"Chief of Campus Safety decision authority and designees","quotedText":"Based on the information available, the Chief of Campus Safety or his designee shall determine the content of the Crime Alert, the method by which to disseminate the warning to the campus community, and will issue/initiate the distribution of the Crime Alert. The Chief of Campus Safety's designee may include: the Campus Safety Administrative Operations Manager, Deputy Chief, Captain, Investigations and Clery Compliance Manager, Emergency Operations Manager, and Campus Safety officers.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.biola.edu/campus-safety/clery","sourceDescription":"Biola Campus Safety Clery / Crime Alerts page","annotations":["Named chief role and enumerated designee titles."],"characterCount":489},{"label":"Email blast and secondary channels","quotedText":"Crime Alerts will typically be issued to current students and employees via email blast to all Biola University assigned email accounts. Crime Alerts may also be issued using some or all of the following methods of communication: posters, the campus newspaper, and the main University website.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.biola.edu/campus-safety/clery","sourceDescription":"Biola Campus Safety Clery / Crime Alerts page","annotations":["Institution-specific email-blast primary channel and secondary media."],"characterCount":293},{"label":"Public Safety Advisories for non-required notices","quotedText":"Crime Alerts may be issued for other Clery crimes as determined necessary by the Chief of Campus Safety, or his designee in his absence. Notices for other crime classifications and locations, even though not required by the law, may be issued as Public Safety Advisories.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.biola.edu/campus-safety/clery","sourceDescription":"Biola Campus Safety Clery / Crime Alerts page","annotations":["Local Public Safety Advisories brand for optional notices."],"characterCount":271}],"keyFindings":["Crime Alert is Biola's Timely Warning brand with named chief/designees.","Private-masters California policy with La Mirada DPS partnership note in investigative sources."],"sources":[{"title":"Clery Act Information / Crime Alerts - Biola University Campus Safety","url":"https://www.biola.edu/campus-safety/clery","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["private-masters","california","crime-alert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"bishop-state-community-college-alert-policy","slug":"bishop-state-community-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Bishop State Community College","shortName":"Bishop State","state":"AL","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"Wildcat Alert","enrollment":4500},"policy":{"title":"Bishop State Community College Emergency Management and Safety Planning","systemName":"Wildcat Alert","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://www.bishop.edu/assets/uploads/pages/Bishop-State-Emergency-Management-and-Safety-Planning-2021-2022.pdf","effectiveDate":"2021-09-01"},"summary":"Bishop State Community College, a historically Black two-year college in Mobile, maintains an [Emergency Management and Safety Planning](https://www.bishop.edu/assets/uploads/pages/Bishop-State-Emergency-Management-and-Safety-Planning-2021-2022.pdf) document (revised September 2021) alongside campus-safety pages describing the [Wildcat Alert](https://www.bishop.edu/about-us/campus-safety) notification system, which reaches students, faculty, and staff by email, text, and voice call, most recently exercised during a January 2026 threat that closed the college for a day before officials [confirmed the threat was not credible](https://www.fox10tv.com/2026/01/22/bishop-state-community-college-transitions-virtual-learning-due-threat-officials-say/).","analysis":"Bishop State Community College is one of a small number of historically Black institutions in the country that operate as public two-year colleges rather than four-year universities; it was formed through a series of mergers of historically Black postsecondary programs in Mobile, Alabama, and today enrolls roughly 4,500 students across its Central, Baker-Gaines Central City, and Southwest campuses. The college maintains a standing [Emergency Management and Safety Planning](https://www.bishop.edu/assets/uploads/pages/Bishop-State-Emergency-Management-and-Safety-Planning-2021-2022.pdf) document that is revised annually alongside its academic year; the version on file is dated September 2021 for the 2021-2022 academic year, with prior editions covering 2020-2021 also posted publicly, indicating the college treats the plan as a living document updated on a yearly cycle rather than a one-time filing.\n\nDay-to-day notification runs through the [Wildcat Alert](https://www.bishop.edu/about-us/campus-safety) system: in the event of inclement weather, mechanical or power failure, or other emergencies, students, faculty, and staff are notified through email, text, and voice alerts, and the college posts periodic updates on the status of campus closings and openings for the duration of the situation. Bishop State layers a second, complementary tool on top of that baseline: the college has adopted the LiveSafe mobile application, which is configured to send push notifications and text messages directly to registered smartphones so that people can receive immediate awareness of fires, active-shooter situations, or severe weather, while also putting campus police's contact resources directly in users' hands.\n\nThe college's Campus Police Department maintains 24-hour officer coverage, and students are directed, absent an app or alert, to ask any faculty or staff member for assistance or to call the college's main service line. The specific written activation criteria in the Emergency Management and Safety Planning document itself, including who holds formal decision authority to trigger a Wildcat Alert and what testing cadence the system follows, were not independently confirmed in this review: bishop.edu blocks automated direct fetching of the PDF, so the excerpts below reflect search-engine reproductions of the college's public campus-safety pages rather than the plan document itself.\n\nThe system was exercised for real in January 2026, when Bishop State transitioned to virtual learning after receiving a threatening email; [local television coverage](https://www.fox10tv.com/2026/01/22/bishop-state-community-college-transitions-virtual-learning-due-threat-officials-say/) reported that President Olivier Charles said authorities determined the threat was not credible, and the college resumed normal in-person operations the following day. As a Title IV, Clery-covered institution, Bishop State is bound by the standard federal framework requiring emergency notifications for confirmed significant emergencies and timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes representing a continuing threat.","whenCriteria":"Notification is triggered by inclement weather, mechanical or power failure, or other emergencies affecting the health and safety of the campus community; the college also uses LiveSafe for real-time awareness of fires, active-shooter situations, or severe weather. As a Clery institution, Bishop State separately follows the federal standards for emergency notifications and timely warnings.","decisionAuthority":"Not stated in exact language in the public sources reviewed; college leadership (per the January 2026 incident, President Olivier Charles) is reported publicly confirming threat assessments and campus status decisions. The precise internal chain for activating Wildcat Alert was not independently confirmed.","timingStandard":"Not stated in exact language in the sources reviewed; the college describes notifying the community and providing periodic status updates for the duration of a closing or emergency situation.","cleryFraming":"Standard federal two-track distinction applies (timely warning vs. emergency notification); the specific Clery-framed written criteria in the Emergency Management and Safety Planning document were not independently confirmed in this review.","testingCadence":"Not confirmed in the sources reviewed; a published testing frequency for Wildcat Alert or LiveSafe was not located.","scopeLimits":"The Emergency Management and Safety Planning document is revised on an annual academic-year cycle (2020-2021 and 2021-2022 editions were both located); Wildcat Alert covers weather, utility failure, and other emergencies, with LiveSafe layered on for real-time threat awareness and a direct line to campus police.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","push-notification","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Wildcat Alert notification scope","quotedText":"In the event of inclement weather, mechanical or power failure, or other emergencies, students, faculty, and staff will be notified via the Wildcat Alert notification system's email, text, and voice alerts and periodically updated on the College's status of campus closings and openings during the duration of the situation.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bishop.edu/about-us/campus-safety","sourceDescription":"Bishop State Community College, Campus Safety page (captured via search-engine reproduction; bishop.edu blocks automated direct fetch)","annotations":["Names the trigger conditions (weather, mechanical/power failure, other emergencies) and commits to periodic status updates rather than a single one-time alert."],"characterCount":324},{"label":"LiveSafe app as a complementary threat-awareness tool","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bishop.edu/about-us/campus-safety","sourceDescription":"Bishop State Community College, Campus Safety page (captured via search-engine reproduction; bishop.edu blocks automated direct fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Bishop State is a historically Black two-year college in Mobile, Alabama, one of the small number of HBCUs organized as a public community college rather than a four-year institution.","The college revises its Emergency Management and Safety Planning document on an annual academic-year cycle; the 2021-2022 edition (dated September 2021) and a prior 2020-2021 edition are both posted publicly.","Notification is layered: Wildcat Alert (email/text/voice) handles weather and utility emergencies with periodic status updates, while the LiveSafe app adds real-time push/text awareness for fires, active shooters, and severe weather plus direct campus-police contact.","The system was exercised in a real incident in January 2026, when a threatening email prompted a one-day shift to virtual learning before officials determined the threat was not credible.","The exact internal activation authority and testing cadence were not independently confirmed; bishop.edu blocks automated direct fetching, so sourcing here is search-engine reproduction of public pages."],"sources":[{"title":"Bishop State Community College Emergency Management and Safety Planning, 2021-2022 (PDF)","url":"https://www.bishop.edu/assets/uploads/pages/Bishop-State-Emergency-Management-and-Safety-Planning-2021-2022.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Bishop State Community College Police Department, Campus Safety","url":"https://www.bishop.edu/about-us/campus-safety","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Bishop State Community College to resume normal operations Friday, officials say","url":"https://www.fox10tv.com/2026/01/22/bishop-state-community-college-transitions-virtual-learning-due-threat-officials-say/","type":"local-media"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","emergency-operations-plan","alabama","hbcu","community-college","wildcat-alert","livesafe"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"bismarck-state-college-ens-alert-policy","slug":"bismarck-state-college-ens-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Bismarck State College","shortName":"BSC","state":"ND","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Emergency Notification System (ENS)","enrollment":4206},"policy":{"title":"Emergency / Immediate Notification (Emergency Notification System) — Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report and General/Student Emergency Notification Policy","systemName":"Emergency Notification System (ENS)","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://bismarckstate.edu/uploads/71/2024CampusSecurityFireSafetyReportV1.pdf","lastReviewed":"2024-01-01"},"summary":"Bismarck State College, North Dakota's polytechnic community college, issues emergency alerts through a multi-modal [Emergency Notification System (ENS)](https://bismarckstate.edu/uploads/80/EmergencyNotification.pdf) — email, cell text/voice, sirens, PA and digital signage — that the [Campus Police Chief or Designee can trigger without delay](https://bismarckstate.edu/students/resources/HealthandSafety/CampusSafety/), and it issues separate Clery [timely warning notices](https://bismarckstate.edu/students/resources/HealthandSafety/CampusSafety/timely-warning-notices) for crimes posing an ongoing threat. (This is the first North Dakota policy in the archive.)","analysis":"Bismarck State College (BSC) is a public, open-admission community/polytechnic college in Bismarck, North Dakota, and the state's largest two-year institution. It is the first North Dakota institution documented in this policy archive, adding both state coverage and community-college type diversity. BSC's [Emergency Notification System (ENS)](https://bismarckstate.edu/uploads/80/EmergencyNotification.pdf) is described in its Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report as a system 'designed to assist the College in immediately notifying the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on or near the campus that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees' — language that mirrors the federal Clery emergency-notification standard.\n\nWhat distinguishes BSC's policy is an unusually explicit and well-bounded decision-authority structure. Per the [BSC Campus Police](https://bismarckstate.edu/students/resources/HealthandSafety/CampusSafety/) and the Annual Security Report, 'The Campus Police Chief or Designee has the ability and authority to issue an alert without delay and without further consultation with any other College official.' Crucially, BSC also documents the inverse case: 'In situations lacking the presence of an imminent threat, the Campus Police Chief or Designee consults with the Vice President for Student Affairs, and/or other members of the Crisis Management Team (CMT) prior to an alert being issued.' This two-track design — unilateral authority for imminent threats, consultative process otherwise — is a clean, auditable articulation of the Clery 'without delay' principle.\n\nBSC's ENS is multi-modal. The college's materials describe email, cell-phone text and voice messaging, in-building audible voice notification devices, fire alarms, public-address systems / outdoor speakers, social media, digital signage, local media, the college webpage, and alert sirens for shelter-in-place situations. Confirmation of an emergency 'typically involves the response and assessment by Campus Police officers, sometimes in conjunction with campus administrators and other college officials, local police and first responders and/or the national weather center,' and the situations that may warrant a notification are enumerated (armed/hostile intruder, bomb/explosives threat, communicable-disease outbreak, severe weather, terrorist incident, civil unrest, natural disaster, hazardous-materials incident, and structural fire).\n\nOn testing, BSC commits that 'the Emergency Notification System (ENS) will be tested at least each academic semester to ensure that all systems are working properly and that CMT members maintain a working knowledge of the system,' and frames those tests as community-education moments. BSC separately maintains published [timely warning notices](https://bismarckstate.edu/students/resources/HealthandSafety/CampusSafety/timely-warning-notices) for Clery-reportable crimes that pose an ongoing threat, keeping the two Clery functions distinct. The bismarckstate.edu and Issuu hosts return HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so excerpts were corroborated across multiple independent retrievals; the decision-authority sentence, the ENS definition, and the semester-test commitment each appeared identically across two or more searches and are marked verbatim-confirmed.","whenCriteria":"The ENS is activated upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation, on or near campus, that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees. Enumerated triggering situations include armed/hostile intruder, bomb/explosives threat, communicable-disease outbreak, severe weather, terrorist incident, civil unrest, natural disaster, hazardous-materials incident, and structural fire. Confirmation typically involves assessment by Campus Police, sometimes with administrators, local first responders, and/or the national weather center.","decisionAuthority":"The Campus Police Chief or Designee has the authority to issue an alert without delay and without further consultation with any other College official. In situations lacking an imminent threat, the Campus Police Chief or Designee consults with the Vice President for Student Affairs and/or other members of the Crisis Management Team (CMT) before an alert is issued.","timingStandard":"The ENS is 'designed to assist the College in immediately notifying the campus community upon confirmation' of a qualifying emergency; the Campus Police Chief or Designee may 'issue an alert without delay,' tracking the federal Clery 'immediately, upon confirmation' standard.","cleryFraming":"BSC keeps the two Clery functions distinct: ENS emergency/immediate notifications for confirmed significant emergencies posing an immediate threat to health/safety, and separate timely warning notices for Clery-reportable crimes that pose an ongoing threat. BSC prepares and discloses crime statistics in an Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report.","testingCadence":"The Emergency Notification System (ENS) will be tested at least each academic semester to ensure all systems are working properly and that CMT members maintain a working knowledge of the system; tests double as community-education moments.","scopeLimits":"ENS reach combines opt-in/registered channels (cell text/voice via the registered contact list) with broadcast layers that do not depend on registration — in-building audible devices, fire alarms, PA/outdoor speakers, sirens, digital signage, the college webpage, social media, and local media — reducing single-channel and non-enrollment coverage gaps.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","siren","pa-system","digital-signage","facebook","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"ENS definition / activation threshold","quotedText":"The emergency notification system (ENS) is designed to assist the College in immediately notifying the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on or near the campus that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://bismarckstate.edu/uploads/80/EmergencyNotification.pdf","sourceDescription":"BSC — Emergency Notification policy / Annual Security & Fire Safety Report","annotations":["Mirrors the federal Clery emergency-notification standard ('immediately, upon confirmation'). Identical wording appeared across multiple independent retrievals of BSC's ENS policy and Annual Security Report; the bismarckstate.edu host returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so this is corroborated cross-search."],"characterCount":303},{"label":"Decision authority — unilateral for imminent threats","quotedText":"The Campus Police Chief or Designee has the ability and authority to issue an alert without delay and without further consultation with any other College official.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://bismarckstate.edu/students/resources/HealthandSafety/CampusSafety/","sourceDescription":"BSC — Campus Police / Annual Security & Fire Safety Report","annotations":["A clean articulation of unilateral 'without delay' authority that removes any consultation bottleneck for imminent threats. Identical wording surfaced across multiple independent retrievals; host 403-blocked direct fetch."],"characterCount":163},{"label":"Decision authority — consultative for non-imminent situations","quotedText":"In situations lacking the presence of an imminent threat, the Campus Police Chief or Designee consults with the Vice President for Student Affairs, and/or other members of the Crisis Management Team (CMT) prior to an alert being issued.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://bismarckstate.edu/students/resources/HealthandSafety/CampusSafety/","sourceDescription":"BSC — Campus Police / Annual Security & Fire Safety Report","annotations":["Documents the two-track design: unilateral authority for imminent threats, consultation with the VP for Student Affairs and Crisis Management Team otherwise. Surfaced identically across multiple cross-searches; host 403-blocked direct fetch."],"characterCount":236},{"label":"Per-semester test commitment","quotedText":"The Emergency Notification System (ENS) will be tested at least each academic semester to ensure that all systems are working properly and that CMT members maintain a working knowledge of the system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://bismarckstate.edu/students/resources/HealthandSafety/CampusSafety/","sourceDescription":"BSC — Annual Security & Fire Safety Report","annotations":["Establishes an at-least-per-semester test cadence and ties it to keeping Crisis Management Team members proficient. Identical wording appeared across multiple independent retrievals."],"characterCount":199},{"label":"Multi-modal channel description","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://bismarckstate.edu/uploads/80/EmergencyNotification.pdf","sourceDescription":"BSC — Emergency Notification policy (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["BSC's alert system is its Emergency Notification System (ENS), a multi-modal program spanning email, cell text/voice, in-building audible devices, fire alarms, PA/outdoor speakers, sirens, digital signage, social media, local media, and the college webpage.","The ENS activation language mirrors the federal Clery standard: 'immediately notifying the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency... involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees.'","Decision authority is explicit and two-tracked: the Campus Police Chief or Designee may issue an alert 'without delay and without further consultation' for imminent threats, but consults the VP for Student Affairs / Crisis Management Team for non-imminent situations.","The ENS is tested at least each academic semester, with tests doubling as community-education reminders.","BSC keeps Clery functions distinct, issuing separate timely warning notices for crimes posing an ongoing threat.","This is the first North Dakota policy in the archive and adds community/polytechnic-college type diversity.","bismarckstate.edu and the Issuu ASR copies 403-block automated fetching; four excerpts were verbatim-confirmed across multiple independent retrievals and one (full-activation channel sentence) is marked reconstructed."],"sources":[{"title":"Bismarck State College — 2024 Campus Security & Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://bismarckstate.edu/uploads/71/2024CampusSecurityFireSafetyReportV1.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Bismarck State College — General/Student Policy: Emergency Notification (PDF)","url":"https://bismarckstate.edu/uploads/80/EmergencyNotification.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Bismarck State College — Campus Police / Campus Safety","url":"https://bismarckstate.edu/students/resources/HealthandSafety/CampusSafety/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Bismarck State College — Timely Warning Notices","url":"https://bismarckstate.edu/students/resources/HealthandSafety/CampusSafety/timely-warning-notices","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Bismarck State College — Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (Emergency/Immediate Notification, Issuu)","url":"https://issuu.com/bismarckstatecollege/docs/annual_security_and_fire_safety_report_2022-2023/s/16956437","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","community-college","polytechnic","north-dakota","ens","decision-authority","multi-channel"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"blackfeet-community-college-alert-policy","slug":"blackfeet-community-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Blackfeet Community College","shortName":"BFCC","state":"MT","type":"tribal-college","alertSystemName":"RAVE Alert","alertPlatform":"Rave Mobile Safety","enrollment":337},"policy":{"title":"Blackfeet Community College 2025 Annual Campus Security and Safety Report","systemName":"RAVE Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://bfcc.edu/files/galleries/BFCC_2025_ANNUAL_CAMPUS_SECURITY_AND_SAFETY_REPORT_docx.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Blackfeet Community College, a tribally controlled college on the Blackfeet Reservation in Browning, Montana, notifies students, faculty, and staff through [RAVE Alert](https://www.getrave.com/login/bfcc), a text-and-email mass notification system documented in the college's [Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report](https://bfcc.edu/files/galleries/BFCC_2025_ANNUAL_CAMPUS_SECURITY_AND_SAFETY_REPORT_docx.pdf), which the college's Campus Security Office publishes each October 1 in compliance with the Clery Act.","analysis":"Blackfeet Community College (BFCC) is a tribally controlled two-year college on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Browning, Montana, serving roughly 300-650 students depending on term and counting method. The college's Campus Security Office publishes an [Annual Campus Security (ASR) and Fire Safety Report](https://bfcc.edu/files/galleries/BFCC_2025_ANNUAL_CAMPUS_SECURITY_AND_SAFETY_REPORT_docx.pdf) disclosing crime statistics and safety, security, procedure, and service information in compliance with the [Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act](https://www.clerycenter.org/the-clery-act), issued on October 1 of each academic year, matching the federal statutory deadline.\n\nBFCC's emergency notification tool is RAVE Alert, the widely used Rave Mobile Safety mass-notification platform; the college maintains its own branded sign-in page at [getrave.com/login/bfcc](https://www.getrave.com/login/bfcc), through which students and employees register to receive email and text message alerts. Based on secondary reporting summarizing the college's published security report, campus security authorities route information toward the college's president in decisions to notify the campus community of crimes occurring on or near campus, and RAVE Alert then sends direct text messages to subscribed students, faculty, staff, and community members and also delivers to BFCC email addresses. For technical issues with RAVE Alert registration, the college directs students to its Information Technology Department, and for direct campus security concerns to the Security Officer's line.\n\nBecause bfcc.edu (including its hosted PDF gallery) returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, and because search-result reproductions of the Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report's specific policy language were paraphrased rather than consistently reproduced word-for-word across independent queries (unlike this archive's higher-confidence entries), the excerpts below are marked as reconstructed rather than verbatim, and this entry is rated medium confidence rather than high. The RAVE Alert platform name and the getrave.com/login/bfcc portal, by contrast, are directly confirmed institutional facts (the branded URL itself), not paraphrase.","whenCriteria":"Per secondary reporting summarizing the college's published Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report, RAVE Alert is used to notify the campus community of crimes occurring on or near campus and other safety concerns; the exact Clery activation-criteria language from the report itself was not retrievable verbatim in this review.","decisionAuthority":"Per secondary reporting, campus security authorities inform the college president in decisions to notify the community; a specific named title (e.g., a designated Clery Compliance Officer) was not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"BFCC's Campus Security Office publishes an Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report each October 1 in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act; the report's specific timely-warning-versus-emergency-notification language was not retrievable verbatim in this review.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"RAVE Alert reach depends on registration at getrave.com/login/bfcc; the report is published annually on the federal October 1 Clery deadline. Specific geographic-scope or opt-in caveats beyond this were not confirmed verbatim.","channels":["sms","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"RAVE Alert delivery description (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from secondary summarization of the BFCC 2025 Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report; the source PDF itself could not be retrieved to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Blackfeet Community College, on the Blackfeet Reservation in Browning, Montana, uses RAVE Alert (Rave Mobile Safety) for text and email emergency notifications, registered at getrave.com/login/bfcc.","The college's Campus Security Office publishes an Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report each October 1 in Clery Act compliance.","Per secondary reporting, campus security authorities route notification decisions toward the college president; exact decision-authority and timing language could not be retrieved verbatim from the source report.","bfcc.edu (including its hosted report PDF) returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, so this entry is rated medium confidence with reconstructed rather than verbatim excerpts."],"sources":[{"title":"Blackfeet Community College 2025 Annual Campus Security and Safety Report","url":"https://bfcc.edu/files/galleries/BFCC_2025_ANNUAL_CAMPUS_SECURITY_AND_SAFETY_REPORT_docx.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Rave Login - Blackfeet Community College","url":"https://www.getrave.com/login/bfcc","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Blackfeet Community College - official site","url":"https://bfcc.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Blackfeet Community College - Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfeet_Community_College","type":"other"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","tribal-college","rave-alert","montana"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-20","lastUpdated":"2026-07-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"blue-ridge-community-college-nc-blue-ridge-alert-asr","slug":"blue-ridge-community-college-nc-blue-ridge-alert-asr","institution":{"name":"Blue Ridge Community College","shortName":"Blue Ridge CC","state":"NC","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Blue Ridge Alert","enrollment":2500},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning Notices and Emergency Notification System (2025 ASR)","systemName":"Blue Ridge Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.blueridge.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/BRCC-ASR-2025-FINAL.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-09-01"},"summary":"Blue Ridge Community College (North Carolina) documents [Blue Ridge Alert Timely Warning Notices and emergency notifications](https://www.blueridge.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/BRCC-ASR-2025-FINAL.pdf) in its 2025 ASR, with Police Department issuance for continuing threats, a 48-hour timely-manner guideline, automatic Blue Ridge email enrollment, and Crisis Management Team without-delay emergency activation.","analysis":"Blue Ridge Community College, a North Carolina Community College System institution with Henderson County and Transylvania County campuses, publishes Blue Ridge Alert procedures in its [2025 Annual Security Report](https://www.blueridge.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/BRCC-ASR-2025-FINAL.pdf). The Police Department, collaborating with other campus departments, issues Blue Ridge Alerts for crimes posing ongoing or continuing threats. The ASR defines timely manner as generally 48 hours after a CSA learns of an incident—an unusually specific timing guideline.\n\nDistribution uses email, text, phone, and/or audible speaker alerts, plus website and bulletin board posts. All students, faculty, and staff automatically receive Blue Ridge Alert emails at blueridge.edu addresses; SMS/voice require alert.blueridge.edu account setup. For campus emergencies, the Police Chief or designee with the Crisis Management Team determines content and initiates notification without delay unless professional judgment finds compromise of victim assistance or mitigation. The Crisis Management Team includes the President, multiple VPs, Marketing and Communications Director, and Transylvania County Campus Associate VP.","whenCriteria":"Timely Warning Notices for crimes in and around the community potentially constituting ongoing or continuing threat. Emergency notifications for campus emergencies or campus closures posing threat to health and safety.","decisionAuthority":"Police Department issues Timely Warning Blue Ridge Alerts in collaboration with college officials. Police Chief or designee initiates emergency notification process with Crisis Management Team for content and segment decisions.","timingStandard":"Timely manner generally means 48 hours after incident brought to CSA attention. Emergency notifications immediately without delay unless professional judgment finds compromise of victim assistance or mitigation.","cleryFraming":"ASR Timely Warning Notices and Emergency Notification System sections implement Clery two-track messaging under Blue Ridge Alert branding with named 48-hour TW guideline and Crisis Management Team EN authority.","scopeLimits":"Automatic email to blueridge.edu accounts; SMS/voice require signup; victim identity not divulged in alerts; segments may be selected for emergency notifications.","testingCadence":"Drills may include active threats, fire, bomb, earthquake, gas leak, shelter-in-place, and tornado; announced or unannounced with documentation of exercise description, date, time, and announcement status.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"48-hour timely manner guideline","quotedText":"Timely manner generally means 48 hours after an incident has been brought to the attention of a “campus security authority” as defined in the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.blueridge.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/BRCC-ASR-2025-FINAL.pdf","sourceDescription":"BRCC 2025 ASR Timely Warning Notices","annotations":["Institution-specific 48-hour TW timing guideline from CSA notice."],"characterCount":173},{"label":"Automatic Blue Ridge email enrollment","quotedText":"All students, faculty and staff will receive Blue Ridge Alert emails at their blueridge.edu email address automatically.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.blueridge.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/BRCC-ASR-2025-FINAL.pdf","sourceDescription":"BRCC 2025 ASR Emergency Notification System","annotations":["Automatic email enrollment for college email accounts."],"characterCount":120},{"label":"Without-delay emergency initiation","quotedText":"Blue Ridge Community College will immediately without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification, and initiate the notification system, unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.blueridge.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/BRCC-ASR-2025-FINAL.pdf","sourceDescription":"BRCC 2025 ASR Campus Emergency Response and Evacuation","annotations":["Without-delay EN standard with professional-judgment carve-out."],"characterCount":388}],"keyFindings":["Timely manner defined as generally 48 hours after CSA notice—unusually specific.","Blue Ridge Alert emails auto-send to all blueridge.edu accounts; SMS/voice need signup.","Police Chief and Crisis Management Team drive emergency notification content and activation."],"sources":[{"title":"BRCC 2025 Annual Security Report PDF","url":"https://www.blueridge.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/BRCC-ASR-2025-FINAL.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Blue Ridge Alert signup","url":"https://alert.blueridge.edu","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["north-carolina","community-college","clery-asr","blue-ridge-alert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"bluefield-state-university-b-state-alerts-policy","slug":"bluefield-state-university-b-state-alerts-policy","institution":{"name":"Bluefield State University","shortName":"BSU","state":"WV","type":"public-bachelors","alertSystemName":"B-State Alerts","alertPlatform":"Omnilert"},"policy":{"title":"B-State Alerts Text Message System","systemName":"B-State Alerts","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://catalog.bluefieldstate.edu/content.php?catoid=12&navoid=2250","lastReviewed":"2026-09-20"},"summary":"Bluefield State University, a public historically-black-founded university in Bluefield, West Virginia, operates [B-State Alerts](https://bluefieldstate.edu/emergency-services/), an Omnilert-powered text message emergency notification system, documented both on the university's Emergency Services page and in its academic catalog's Alert Text Message System section.","analysis":"Bluefield State University (formerly Bluefield State College) is a public university in Bluefield, West Virginia, founded in 1895 as a historically black institution that later transitioned to a predominantly white student body while retaining its HBCU designation under federal law. The university's [Emergency Services page](https://bluefieldstate.edu/emergency-services/) describes B-State Alerts as the system used for immediately notifying the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous condition involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus -- language that closely tracks the federal Clery Act's own emergency-notification definition. The system uses Omnilert-branded alerts, and the page notes that students can test the system with their own cell phones, implying a self-service verification option for registrants.\n\nBluefield State's academic catalog separately documents the [Alert Text Message System](https://catalog.bluefieldstate.edu/content.php?catoid=12&navoid=2250) as part of its broader Inclement Weather Schedule & BSU Alert Text Message System section, reflecting a combined weather-closure-and-emergency-alert framing common among smaller public universities that fold Clery disclosures into the general catalog rather than a dedicated public-safety micro-site. A companion Bluefield University (a separate, private institution, not to be confused with the public Bluefield State University covered here) also appears in general web search results under similar terms, underscoring the importance of distinguishing the two similarly-named West Virginia institutions.\n\nThis sandbox's network egress could not directly fetch bluefieldstate.edu or catalog.bluefieldstate.edu to confirm the exact wording of either page; the summary above is built from search-engine reproduction of both, corroborated across independent queries. Per this archive's standing policy, that limitation is not treated as grounds to omit or demote the entry -- it is documented honestly as reconstructed pending direct verification.","whenCriteria":"Per the university's Emergency Services page, B-State Alerts is used for immediately notifying the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous condition involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus.","decisionAuthority":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"The page states B-State Alerts is used for immediate notification upon confirmation of a significant emergency; a specific minutes-based standard was not retrievable verbatim from this sandbox.","cleryFraming":"The described activation criteria for B-State Alerts closely track the Clery Act's own emergency-notification definition (confirmed significant emergency or dangerous condition posing an immediate threat to health or safety); the catalog's separate timely-warning language was not retrievable verbatim in this review.","testingCadence":"Per the Emergency Services page, students can test the B-State Alerts system with their own cell phones; a fixed institutional testing calendar was not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"B-State Alerts is documented as a text-message system (Omnilert-branded); the catalog folds the Alert Text Message System into a combined section alongside the university's Inclement Weather Schedule, reflecting overlapping weather-closure and emergency-alert framing.","channels":["sms"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency notification activation criteria (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of the Bluefield State University Emergency Services page; bluefieldstate.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Bluefield State University, founded 1895 as an HBCU in Bluefield, West Virginia, operates B-State Alerts, an Omnilert-powered SMS emergency notification system.","The university's described activation criteria closely track the Clery Act's statutory emergency-notification definition (confirmed significant emergency, immediate threat to health/safety).","bluefieldstate.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox, so the excerpt is marked reconstructed; per archive policy this is not treated as demotion evidence."],"sources":[{"title":"B-State Alerts - Emergency Services - Bluefield State University","url":"https://bluefieldstate.edu/emergency-services/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Bluefield State University Alert Text Message System - Academic Catalog","url":"https://catalog.bluefieldstate.edu/content.php?catoid=12&navoid=2250","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Bluefield State University - Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluefield_State_University","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","public-bachelors","hbcu-founded","west-virginia","omnilert"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-20","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"bluefield-university-ramalert-policy","slug":"bluefield-university-ramalert-policy","institution":{"name":"Bluefield University","shortName":"Bluefield","state":"VA","type":"private-bachelors","alertSystemName":"RamAlert","enrollment":1000},"policy":{"title":"RamAlert Wireless Emergency Notification System (2025 Main Campus ASR)","systemName":"RamAlert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.bluefield.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-Bluefield-University-Main-Campus-ASR-with-Stats.pdf","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Bluefield University's [2025 Main Campus Annual Security Report](https://www.bluefield.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-Bluefield-University-Main-Campus-ASR-with-Stats.pdf) brands RamAlert as the wireless emergency notification system operated by trained and authorized Bluefield administrators, with automatic enrollment of faculty, staff, and students (opt-out) and MyBU/Jenzabar registration paths for text and email delivery.","analysis":"Bluefield University (Bluefield, Virginia) is a private bachelor's institution. Its [2025 Main Campus ASR](https://www.bluefield.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-Bluefield-University-Main-Campus-ASR-with-Stats.pdf) brands RamAlert for crisis communication: trained and authorized Bluefield University administrators send text and/or email with crisis details and any necessary action plan. All faculty, staff, and students are automatically enrolled and must opt out to leave the system; MyBU (Jenzabar ID) hosts the registration path. The ASR also references Campus Safety's role in timely warning notices when appropriate and places emergency evacuation modification authority with the Director of Campus Safety in consultation with the Crisis Management Team. Parent inclusion as RamAlert recipients is an institution-specific audience choice.","whenCriteria":"RamAlert is used during times of crisis on campus to warn of an impending emergency and provide timely information to minimize disruption and potentially prevent harm or protect lives. Campus Safety aids providing timely warning notices to the community when appropriate for reported crimes.","decisionAuthority":"Trained and authorized Bluefield University administrators operate RamAlert. Modification to evacuation procedures during an emergency rests with the Director of Campus Safety in consultation with the Crisis Management Team.","timingStandard":"RamAlert is framed for impending emergencies and timely crisis information; ASR does not state a separate numeric without-delay clause in the RamAlert description beyond the emergency purpose of the system.","cleryFraming":"ASR presents RamAlert as the wireless emergency notification system and separately notes Campus Safety's role in timely warning notices for crime statistics and community warning when appropriate.","scopeLimits":"Main-campus RamAlert targets the BU family on the main campus in Bluefield; faculty, staff, students, and parents may receive messages. Automatic enrollment with opt-out.","testingCadence":"Not stated as a fixed test schedule in the extracted RamAlert section of the 2025 Main Campus ASR.","channels":["sms","email","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"RamAlert brand and authorized administrators","quotedText":"Bluefield University’s RamAlert is a wireless emergency notification system created in an effort to enhance communication to students, parents, faculty and staff during times of crisis on campus. Through RamAlert, trained and authorized Bluefield University administrators are able to warn the campus community of an impending emergency and provide timely information to minimize disruption and potentially prevent harm or protect lives.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bluefield.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-Bluefield-University-Main-Campus-ASR-with-Stats.pdf","sourceDescription":"Bluefield 2025 Main Campus ASR RamAlert description","annotations":["Branded RamAlert with trained/authorized administrator activation."],"characterCount":437},{"label":"Text and email crisis details and action plan","quotedText":"In the case of an emergency, RamAlert subscribers will receive a text and/or e-mail message with details of the crisis and any necessary action plan.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bluefield.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-Bluefield-University-Main-Campus-ASR-with-Stats.pdf","sourceDescription":"Bluefield 2025 Main Campus ASR RamAlert channels","annotations":["Local delivery channels and action-plan content expectation."],"characterCount":149},{"label":"Automatic enrollment with opt-out","quotedText":"All Bluefield University faculty, staff, and students are automatically placed into the system to receive alerts and must opt-out to be removed from the system. Messages sent through a secure web portal are received via cell phone (text) or e-mail.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bluefield.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-Bluefield-University-Main-Campus-ASR-with-Stats.pdf","sourceDescription":"Bluefield 2025 Main Campus ASR RamAlert enrollment","annotations":["Auto-enroll/opt-out model for faculty staff and students."],"characterCount":248},{"label":"MyBU / Jenzabar subscription path","quotedText":"To subscribe to RamAlert, visit MyBU, the intranet portal for Bluefield University students, faculty, staff and alumni. You must log in to MyBU with your username (Jenzabar ID) and password.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bluefield.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-Bluefield-University-Main-Campus-ASR-with-Stats.pdf","sourceDescription":"Bluefield 2025 Main Campus ASR RamAlert registration","annotations":["Institution-specific MyBU/Jenzabar portal path."],"characterCount":190},{"label":"Director of Campus Safety evacuation authority with Crisis Management Team","quotedText":"Modification to evacuation procedures during an emergency will rest with the Director of Campus Safety in consultation with the Crisis Management Team.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bluefield.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-Bluefield-University-Main-Campus-ASR-with-Stats.pdf","sourceDescription":"Bluefield 2025 Main Campus ASR emergency evacuation authority","annotations":["Named Director of Campus Safety and Crisis Management Team."],"characterCount":151}],"keyFindings":["RamAlert is the branded wireless emergency notification system.","Trained and authorized Bluefield administrators issue RamAlert messages.","Faculty, staff, and students are auto-enrolled with opt-out; parents may subscribe.","Director of Campus Safety consults Crisis Management Team on evacuation modifications."],"sources":[{"title":"2025 Bluefield University Main Campus Annual Security Report","url":"https://www.bluefield.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-Bluefield-University-Main-Campus-ASR-with-Stats.pdf","type":"clery-asr","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","private-bachelors","emergency-notification","timely-warning","virginia","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"boise-state-university-bronco-alert-policy","slug":"boise-state-university-bronco-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Boise State University","shortName":"Boise State","state":"ID","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"BroncoAlert","enrollment":28519},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification (Policy 12110)","systemName":"BroncoAlert","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.boisestate.edu/policy/campus-security-and-safety/emergency-notification/","policyNumber":"12110","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"Boise State University's [Emergency Notification Policy 12110](https://www.boisestate.edu/policy/campus-security-and-safety/emergency-notification/) directs the Department of Public Safety Dispatch to send emergency notifications through [BroncoAlert](https://emergencymanagement.boisestate.edu/broncoalert) — a phone- and text-based system — without delay upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation, and is paired with the separate [Timely Warning Policy 12090](https://www.boisestate.edu/policy/campus-security-and-safety/timely-warning-for-crime-prevention/) for Clery crime alerts.","analysis":"Boise State is one of the cleaner examples of a formally codified, numbered campus-alert policy. [Policy 12110, Emergency Notification](https://www.boisestate.edu/policy/campus-security-and-safety/emergency-notification/), cites the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act as the legal basis for the university's responsibilities and procedures for issuing emergency notifications for emergency incidents and/or dangerous situations. Operationally, the Department of Public Safety Dispatch sends Emergency Notifications through BroncoAlert or other communication vehicles, and the Boise State Department of Public Safety Communications Center (208-426-6911) will only send messages through BroncoAlert for urgent situations that could impact the safety of lives and protection of property on or near campus.\n\nThe timing standard mirrors the federal regulatory language closely. The policy states the University will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system, unless issuing a notification would, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency. Scope/targeting is delegated to Public Safety, which determines the appropriate segment (or segments) of the campus community to receive a notification based on which segments of the population need information about the emergency; generally the University will send the entire campus community an Emergency Notification.\n\nBoise State keeps the emergency-notification and timely-warning functions in separate policies. [BroncoAlert](https://emergencymanagement.boisestate.edu/broncoalert) is described as a phone and text-based system allowing the university to proactively notify students, faculty, and staff when an emergency is taking place on or near campus, and is used for critical situations including weather emergencies with the potential to affect health or safety; the system can also deliver alerts by email, phone call, X, Facebook, and RSS. The companion [Timely Warning for Crime Prevention (Policy 12090)](https://www.boisestate.edu/policy/campus-security-and-safety/timely-warning-for-crime-prevention/) governs Clery timely warnings: the decision to issue weighs the nature of the crime, the serious and ongoing threat to the campus community, and the possible risks of sending a notice (such as compromising law enforcement efforts), with the message created in consultation among the individuals listed in the policy's section 5.2 and, as needed, the Office of Communications and Marketing, university vice presidents, the University President, and the Boise Police Department. The section 5.2 list of decision-makers was updated as of a [June 2025 policy update](https://www.boisestate.edu/policy/2025/06/16/policy-update-for-june-2025/).\n\nBecause boisestate.edu hosts return HTTP 403 (and the emergencymanagement.boisestate.edu host refused connection) to automated fetching in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from the official Boise State Policy Manual and Emergency Management page text as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries; specific test cadence and effective/revision dates beyond the noted June 2025 update were not confirmed verbatim and are left unstated rather than guessed.","whenCriteria":"An emergency notification is sent for a significant emergency or dangerous situation on or near campus — urgent situations that could impact the safety of lives and protection of property. BroncoAlert is used for critical situations, including weather emergencies with the potential to affect health or safety. Policy 12090 governs the separate timely-warning trigger for Clery crimes posing a serious and ongoing threat.","decisionAuthority":"The Department of Public Safety Dispatch sends Emergency Notifications through BroncoAlert or other communication vehicles; the Boise State Department of Public Safety Communications Center (208-426-6911) sends BroncoAlert messages. For timely warnings (Policy 12090), the Department of Public Safety creates the message in consultation with the individuals listed in section 5.2 and, as needed, the Office of Communications and Marketing, university vice presidents, the University President, and Boise Police Department.","timingStandard":"The University will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system, unless issuing a notification would, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","cleryFraming":"Two separate codified policies map to the two Clery obligations: Policy 12110 (Emergency Notification, citing the Clery Act as legal basis) for significant emergencies/dangerous situations, and Policy 12090 (Timely Warning for Crime Prevention) for Clery crime warnings posing a serious and ongoing threat.","testingCadence":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed; Boise State references annual reviews and trainings tied to emergency plans, but a specific BroncoAlert test schedule was not located in official text. (Left unstated to avoid fabrication.)","scopeLimits":"Emergency notifications are reserved for urgent situations that could impact the safety of lives and protection of property on or near campus. Public Safety determines which campus segment(s) receive a notification based on need, though generally the entire campus community is notified. A notification may be withheld where, in responsible authorities' professional judgment, it would compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or mitigate the emergency.","channels":["phone-call","sms","email","twitter-x","facebook","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Without-delay timing and professional-judgment exception","quotedText":"The University will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system, unless issuing a notification would, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.boisestate.edu/policy/campus-security-and-safety/emergency-notification/","sourceDescription":"Boise State Policy Manual — Emergency Notification (Policy 12110)","annotations":["Adopts the federal 'without delay' standard verbatim, including the professional-judgment carve-out for victim assistance and emergency mitigation."],"characterCount":364},{"label":"Dispatch authority and BroncoAlert use","quotedText":"The Department of Public Safety Dispatch will send Emergency Notifications through BroncoAlert or other communication vehicles.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.boisestate.edu/policy/campus-security-and-safety/emergency-notification/","sourceDescription":"Boise State Policy Manual — Emergency Notification (Policy 12110)","annotations":["Names Public Safety Dispatch as the sender and BroncoAlert as the primary vehicle, while leaving room for 'other communication vehicles.'"],"characterCount":127},{"label":"Segment-targeting of notifications","quotedText":"The Department of Public Safety will determine the appropriate segment (or segments) of the campus community to receive a notification based on which segments of the University population need information about the Emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.boisestate.edu/policy/campus-security-and-safety/emergency-notification/","sourceDescription":"Boise State Policy Manual — Emergency Notification (Policy 12110)","annotations":["Codifies need-based segmentation of who receives an alert; the policy adds that generally the entire campus community is notified."],"characterCount":225},{"label":"BroncoAlert system description","quotedText":"BroncoAlert is a phone and text-based system allowing the university to proactively notify students, faculty, and staff when an emergency is taking place on or near campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergencymanagement.boisestate.edu/broncoalert","sourceDescription":"Boise State Emergency Management & Continuity — BroncoAlert","annotations":["Frames BroncoAlert as a phone- and text-based proactive notification system scoped to emergencies on or near campus."],"characterCount":172}],"keyFindings":["Boise State codifies emergency notifications in a formal numbered policy (12110), expressly grounded in the Clery Act, and keeps timely warnings in a separate Policy 12090.","The policy adopts the federal 'without delay' standard verbatim, with the professional-judgment exception for compromising victim assistance or emergency mitigation.","Public Safety Dispatch sends notifications through BroncoAlert — a phone- and text-based system that can also reach email, phone call, X, Facebook, and RSS — for urgent situations affecting lives or property on or near campus.","Public Safety targets the appropriate campus segment(s) by need, but generally notifies the entire campus community.","Timely-warning decisions (Policy 12090) weigh the nature of the crime, the serious and ongoing threat, and risks such as compromising law enforcement, with the section 5.2 decision-maker list updated as of June 2025."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notification (Policy 12110) — Boise State Policy Manual","url":"https://www.boisestate.edu/policy/campus-security-and-safety/emergency-notification/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"BroncoAlert Information — Emergency Management & Continuity","url":"https://emergencymanagement.boisestate.edu/broncoalert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Timely Warning for Crime Prevention (Policy 12090) — Boise State Policy Manual","url":"https://www.boisestate.edu/policy/campus-security-and-safety/timely-warning-for-crime-prevention/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report — Boise State University","url":"https://www.boisestate.edu/publicsafety-security/wp-content/uploads/sites/48/2024/10/FINAL-2024-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-tagged.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Policy Updates for June 2025 — Boise State Policy Manual","url":"https://www.boisestate.edu/policy/2025/06/16/policy-update-for-june-2025/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University sets enrollment record with fall 2025 students — Boise State News","url":"https://www.boisestate.edu/news/2025/10/30/university-sets-enrollment-record-with-fall-2025-students/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","broncoalert","policy-12110","public-r1","idaho"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-02","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"boston-college-alert-policy","slug":"boston-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Boston College","shortName":"BC","state":"MA","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"BC Safe / Rave Alert","enrollment":15234},"policy":{"title":"Boston College Emergency Notification System (Communication)","systemName":"BC Safe / Rave Alert Emergency Notification System","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/sites/campus-safety/emergency-management/Communication.html"},"summary":"Boston College's [Emergency Notification System](https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/sites/campus-safety/emergency-management/Communication.html), administered by the Office of Emergency Management, sends campus-wide emails and text messages to students, faculty, and staff and pushes alerts through the [BC Safe mobile app](https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/bcnews/campus-community/around-campus/bc-safe-app.html), with the app integrated into BC's Rave Alert system; website posts, social media, and an emergency information line round out the channels.","analysis":"Boston College routes emergency communication through a single mass-notification platform built on Rave Mobile Safety. Per the Office of Emergency Management's [Communication page](https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/sites/campus-safety/emergency-management/Communication.html), \"The Boston College Emergency Notification System sends out campus-wide emails and text messages to Boston College students, faculty, and staff as well as to the BC Safe Mobile App,\" and \"Postings to websites and social media pages are used as well.\" The university describes the [BC Safe app](https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/bcnews/campus-community/around-campus/bc-safe-app.html) as integrated with \"BC's Rave Alert Emergency Notification System,\" so push notifications, SMS, and email all originate from the same vendor backbone. BC Safe replaced an earlier Crisis Manager application and bundles day-to-day campus resources alongside emergency functions.\n\nThe Office of Emergency Management is the responsible office for managing BC's emergency communications and preparedness; it maintains the @BC_OEM account on X and a dedicated [emergency Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/bcemergency/) as secondary alert channels, and can be reached at bc_emergency@bc.edu or 617-552-4316. During major emergencies, family members and others off campus are directed to the emergency information line at 1-888-BOS-COLL (1-888-267-2655) and the BC Emergency website at www.bc.edu/emergency, which are updated with messages, information, and instructions. The university's published materials describe the channels and responsible office clearly but do not, on the public Communication page, name the specific individual or rank authorized to trigger an alert; activation authority is documented in the Annual Security Report rather than on the public emergency-management pages.\n\nOn Clery framing, the Clery Act establishes the two notification types Boston College operates under: emergency notifications upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat, and timely warnings (BC issues these as \"Crime Alerts\") for Clery-reportable crimes that represent an ongoing threat. BC's public emergency-management pages emphasize the delivery infrastructure (email, text, BC Safe app, web, social media, info line) over the legal-criteria language; the detailed criteria, decision authority, and testing procedures are published annually in BC's Clery [Annual Security Report](https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/sites/campus-safety/emergency-management.html). Because the official .edu pages return HTTP 403 to this research environment, the verbatim excerpts below are drawn from the exact wording surfaced from those official pages; statements not reproducible word-for-word are paraphrased in this analysis rather than quoted.","whenCriteria":"Boston College activates its Emergency Notification System for emergency situations affecting the campus; consistent with the Clery Act, emergency notifications are issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety, while Crime Alerts (timely warnings) are issued for Clery-reportable crimes that pose an ongoing threat.","decisionAuthority":"The Office of Emergency Management is responsible for managing Boston College's emergency communications and preparedness; the specific activation authority (individual/rank) is documented in BC's Annual Security Report rather than on the public emergency-management pages, so it is not quoted here.","timingStandard":"BC's public materials describe the capacity to communicate rapidly with all students, faculty, and staff via email, text, and the BC Safe app during an emergency; specific Clery timeliness language ('without delay' / 'as soon as the situation is confirmed') is set out in the Annual Security Report and is paraphrased rather than quoted.","cleryFraming":"Boston College operates under the Clery Act's two-track structure — emergency notifications for immediate threats and timely warnings (issued as 'Crime Alerts') for ongoing-threat crimes — with the governing criteria published in its Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.","testingCadence":"Boston College conducts periodic tests of its emergency notification system as required under the Clery Act; the precise cadence is published in the Annual Security Report and is not quoted here because the source page could not be reproduced verbatim.","scopeLimits":"The system reaches students, faculty, and staff via campus-wide email, text, and the BC Safe app, with website, social media, and the 1-888-BOS-COLL emergency information line as supplemental channels; activation is bounded by confirmation of an emergency and managed by the Office of Emergency Management.","channels":["email","sms","push-notification","website","twitter-x","facebook","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency Notification System channels","quotedText":"The Boston College Emergency Notification System sends out campus-wide emails and text messages to Boston College students, faculty, and staff as well as to the BC Safe Mobile App.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/sites/campus-safety/emergency-management/Communication.html","sourceDescription":"Communication | Boston College Emergency Management","annotations":["Exact wording returned identically from the official BC Office of Emergency Management Communication page across multiple searches; the page itself returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch in this environment."],"characterCount":180},{"label":"Website and social media as additional channels","quotedText":"Postings to websites and social media pages are used as well.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/sites/campus-safety/emergency-management/Communication.html","sourceDescription":"Communication | Boston College Emergency Management","annotations":["Confirms web and social media (@BC_OEM on X, bcemergency on Facebook) as supplemental alert channels."],"characterCount":61},{"label":"BC Safe app integration with Rave Alert","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/bcnews/campus-community/around-campus/bc-safe-app.html","sourceDescription":"Boston College launches mobile BC Safe app | BC News","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Boston College's Emergency Notification System delivers campus-wide email, SMS, and BC Safe app push alerts to students, faculty, and staff, with website, social media, and the 1-888-BOS-COLL info line as supplemental channels.","The BC Safe mobile app (which replaced the Crisis Manager app) is integrated with BC's Rave Alert system, so push, text, and email originate from the same Rave Mobile Safety backbone.","The Office of Emergency Management manages BC's emergency communications and preparedness and runs the @BC_OEM (X) and bcemergency (Facebook) accounts as secondary alert sources.","BC operates under the Clery two-track model — emergency notifications for immediate threats and 'Crime Alerts' (timely warnings) for ongoing-threat crimes — with detailed criteria, authority, and testing in the Annual Security Report.","Public emergency-management pages emphasize channels and the responsible office; the specific activation authority and testing cadence live in the Annual Security Report and are paraphrased here, not quoted, because the source pages 403-blocked direct fetch."],"sources":[{"title":"Communication | Boston College Emergency Management","url":"https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/sites/campus-safety/emergency-management/Communication.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Boston College launches mobile BC Safe app | BC News","url":"https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/bcnews/campus-community/around-campus/bc-safe-app.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Management | Boston College","url":"https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/sites/campus-safety/emergency-management.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Boston College Emergency Management (@BC_OEM) | X","url":"https://x.com/bc_oem?lang=en","type":"official-social"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","rave-alert","bc-safe","massachusetts","private-r1"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"boston-university-alert-policy","slug":"boston-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Boston University","shortName":"BU","state":"MA","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"BU Alert","enrollment":37737},"policy":{"title":"BU Alert Emergency Notification System","systemName":"BU Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.bu.edu/em/bu-alert/"},"summary":"[BU Alert](https://www.bu.edu/em/bu-alert/) is Boston University's emergency notification system, established to communicate with the campus community for weather closures, utility outages, emergencies, or situations requiring University response, delivering messages via text, phone, email, and the [Everbridge](https://www.bu.edu/tech/services/cccs/campus-safety/bu-alert/) mobile app and meeting the emergency-notification requirements of the Clery Act.","analysis":"Boston University frames BU Alert broadly. Per [BU Emergency Management](https://www.bu.edu/em/bu-alert/), \"Boston University has established the BU Alert notification system for the purpose of communicating with the campus community for weather closures, utility outages, emergencies, or situations requiring the response or attention of the University community.\" The stated intent is to provide guidance and information on how individuals can secure themselves and make decisions for their own safety. The system spans BU's three campuses (Charles River, Fenway, and Medical) and is designed to communicate with cell phones (text and voice), landlines, email systems, and the Everbridge mobile app during a crisis or time-sensitive situation.\n\nDecision authority sits with the BU Police command structure. As documented in BU's [Annual Security Report](https://www.bu.edu/police/safetyoncampus/annual-security-report/), the Chief of the Boston University Police Department or a member of the command staff (including Deputy Chief, Captain, Lieutenant, or Sergeant) is responsible for confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the University; upon confirmation, they determine the appropriate segment(s) of the BU community to notify, determine the content of the message, and initiate the notification system. This mirrors the Clery Act emergency-notification structure.\n\nOn Clery framing, BU's [TechWeb description of the BU Emergency Notification System](https://www.bu.edu/tech/services/cccs/campus-safety/bu-alert/) states that the system also meets the emergency notification requirements of the Clery Act, and that timely warning messages will be issued through the BU Alert system, sent via text message or email and also posted on the BUPD website. The system thus serves both the Clery emergency-notification and timely-warning functions through the same channels.\n\nEnrollment is mandatory for students — enrollment in BU Alert is a prerequisite for course registration, with contact information maintained through the MyBU Student Portal (Personal tab). Parents and visitors can opt in by texting the keyword BUALERT to 888777. Boston University runs an annual federally mandated test of the system: recent tests have been held in the fall (for example, September 19, 2025, around 4:50 p.m., and September 15, 2023, around 4:00 p.m.), with the test message simultaneously posted to the BU homepage, BU Today, the Emergency Management website, and the @BUPolice account on X. Scope is bounded by the confirmation requirement and the command-staff judgment about which community segments to notify and what content to send.","whenCriteria":"BU Alert is used for weather closures, utility outages, emergencies, or situations requiring the response or attention of the University community, and upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the University.","decisionAuthority":"The Chief of the Boston University Police Department or a member of the command staff (Deputy Chief, Captain, Lieutenant, or Sergeant) confirms the emergency, determines which segment(s) of the community to notify and the message content, and initiates the notification system.","timingStandard":"Upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety, BUPD command staff initiate the notification system; the system is designed for rapid, reliable mass communication consistent with Clery emergency-notification requirements.","cleryFraming":"BU Alert meets the emergency-notification requirements of the Clery Act and is also used to issue timely warning messages (via text message or email and posted on the BUPD website), serving both Clery functions through one system.","testingCadence":"Boston University conducts an annual federally mandated test of BU Alert, typically in the fall semester (e.g., September 19, 2025, and September 15, 2023), with the test message posted to the BU homepage, BU Today, the Emergency Management website, and @BUPolice on X.","scopeLimits":"Activation requires confirmation of a significant emergency by BUPD command staff, who exercise judgment over which community segments to notify and what content to send; the system covers operational events (weather, utility outages) as well as immediate health-and-safety threats.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","push-notification","website","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Purpose and scope of BU Alert","quotedText":"Boston University has established the BU Alert notification system for the purpose of communicating with the campus community for weather closures, utility outages, emergencies, or situations requiring the response or attention of the University community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bu.edu/em/bu-alert/","sourceDescription":"BU Alert | Boston University Emergency Management","annotations":["Scope expressly includes operational events (weather closures, utility outages), not only immediate dangers."],"characterCount":256},{"label":"Clery emergency-notification and timely-warning framing","quotedText":"The system also meets the emergency notification requirements of the Clery Act.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bu.edu/tech/services/cccs/campus-safety/bu-alert/","sourceDescription":"BU Emergency Notification System | TechWeb, Boston University","annotations":["BU's TechWeb page also states timely warning messages will be issued through BU Alert, via text or email and posted on the BUPD website."],"characterCount":79},{"label":"Decision authority and activation","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bu.edu/police/safetyoncampus/annual-security-report/","sourceDescription":"Boston University Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["BU Alert's stated purpose covers weather closures, utility outages, emergencies, and situations requiring University response — broader than life-safety alone.","BUPD command staff (Chief, Deputy Chief, Captain, Lieutenant, or Sergeant) confirm the emergency, set message content and audience, and initiate the notification system.","BU Alert meets the Clery Act emergency-notification requirements and also delivers timely warnings via text/email and the BUPD website.","Delivery channels include text, voice/phone, email, and the Everbridge mobile app across the Charles River, Fenway, and Medical campuses.","Student enrollment in BU Alert is a prerequisite for course registration; the system is tested annually each fall under the federal mandate."],"sources":[{"title":"BU Alert | Boston University Emergency Management","url":"https://www.bu.edu/em/bu-alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"BU Emergency Notification System | TechWeb, Boston University","url":"https://www.bu.edu/tech/services/cccs/campus-safety/bu-alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual Security Report | Boston University Police Department","url":"https://www.bu.edu/police/safetyoncampus/annual-security-report/","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Annual Test of BU Emergency Alert System | BU Today","url":"https://www.bu.edu/articles/2023/annual-bu-emergency-alert-system-test/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","everbridge","massachusetts","private-r1"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"bowdoin-college-alert-policy","slug":"bowdoin-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Bowdoin College","shortName":"Bowdoin","state":"ME","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"Bowdoin Emergency Notification System (AppArmor) / Bowdoin SAFE","enrollment":1841},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification System and Timely Warning Policy","systemName":"Bowdoin Emergency Notification System (AppArmor + Alertus) / Bowdoin SAFE","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.bowdoin.edu/security/emergency-planning/emergency-notification-system.html","lastReviewed":"2025-10-03"},"summary":"Bowdoin College, a private liberal-arts college in Brunswick, Maine, runs its [Emergency Notification System](https://www.bowdoin.edu/security/emergency-planning/emergency-notification-system.html) on the AppArmor platform (paired with Alertus desktop alerting and the Bowdoin SAFE mobile app), pushing emergency messages simultaneously by phone, email, text, computer screen takeover, and app notification. The college's [Office of Safety and Security](https://www.bowdoin.edu/security/timely-warnings-and-security-alerts/index.html) separately issues Clery timely-warning notices for crimes or situations that may pose a serious or continued threat to the community.","analysis":"Bowdoin College is an undergraduate-only private liberal-arts college in Brunswick, Maine, with 1,841 students on campus in fall 2025 (plus about 186 more studying away through approved off-campus programs). Its campus mass-notification capability is described on the college's own pages as the [Bowdoin Emergency Notification System](https://www.bowdoin.edu/security/emergency-planning/emergency-notification-system.html), which 'uses a secure, web-based service to selectively store electronic contact information provided by students, faculty, and staff.' The underlying platform is AppArmor, paired with Alertus for desktop computer-screen takeover, with a companion Bowdoin SAFE mobile app launched in November 2021. (AppArmor was acquired by Rave Mobile Safety in 2022 and is now part of Motorola Solutions, but Bowdoin's public-facing brand is 'AppArmor / Bowdoin SAFE,' not 'Bowdoin Alert' or 'Rave Alert' — a distinction worth preserving against the common assumption.)\n\nBowdoin emphasizes speed and redundancy: the college states it 'uses a multi-faceted emergency mass notification system (App Armor and Alertus) - designed for speed-to-notification - to send emergency messaging simultaneously via phone, email, text, computer screen takeover, and to the BowdoinSAFE app.' This combination of voice, SMS, email, desktop takeover, and push notification gives a small campus a notably layered delivery stack. The college also commits to follow-up messaging: 'In the event of a campus emergency, the College will alert the Bowdoin community as to the nature of the emergency and provide safety information and instructions. Subsequent messages will be sent as necessary with further instructions and situational updates.'\n\nThe [Office of Safety and Security](https://www.bowdoin.edu/security/timely-warnings-and-security-alerts/index.html) — an IACLEA-accredited department — is the decision authority for the Clery timely-warning function. Bowdoin states it 'will issue a timely warning notice to the College community regarding any crime or situation that may pose a serious or continued threat to the College community,' with the decision made case-by-case by the Executive Director or Associate Director of Safety and Security in coordination with other College officials and/or local law enforcement. Victim identifying information is kept confidential.\n\nSeveral fields are environment-limited or honestly unverified. Bowdoin's emergency-notification page and ASR PDFs returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, and Bowdoin's [timely-warning/security-alert archive](https://www.bowdoin.edu/security/security-reporting/index.html) is password-protected, so historical alert texts are not publicly retrievable. The specific federal timing phrases ('without delay,' 'immediately upon confirmation') and the exact 'significant emergency or dangerous situation' trigger language were not found in any Bowdoin-attributed snippet, so the timing standard is reported as the corroborated 'speed-to-notification' framing rather than the statutory phrasing. A confirmed test cadence for the notification system itself was not found; what is corroborated is an annual emergency exercise plus two lockout drills per academic year (one per semester). Four excerpts appeared with stable wording across multiple independent retrievals and are marked verbatim-confirmed; two (a timely-warning verb variant and a single-snippet lockdown line) are marked reconstructed.","whenCriteria":"The Emergency Notification System is activated for campus emergencies — examples Bowdoin's planning materials cite include situations deemed an immediate threat to personal life safety, where Safety and Security may order a lockdown. Timely warnings are issued for any crime or situation that may pose a serious or continued threat to the College community.","decisionAuthority":"Bowdoin's Office of Safety and Security (IACLEA-accredited) administers the Emergency Notification System and issues timely warnings; the decision to issue a timely warning is made case-by-case by the Executive Director of Safety and Security or the Associate Director of Safety and Security, in coordination with other College officials and/or local law enforcement.","timingStandard":"Bowdoin describes its mass-notification system as 'designed for speed-to-notification.' The specific federal Clery timing phrases ('without delay' / 'immediately upon confirmation') were not corroborated in any Bowdoin-attributed source available to this review (the emergency-notification page and ASR PDFs returned HTTP 403), so the statutory wording is not asserted here.","cleryFraming":"Bowdoin keeps the two Clery functions distinct: the AppArmor/Alertus Emergency Notification System for campus emergencies (e.g., immediate threats to life safety, including lockdowns), and timely-warning notices issued by the Office of Safety and Security for crimes or situations posing a serious or continued threat. The college publishes an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.","testingCadence":"A confirmed test cadence for the notification system itself was not located. Bowdoin holds an annual emergency exercise to test its all-hazards Campus Emergency Management Plan and conducts two lockout drills every academic year (one per semester).","scopeLimits":"Emergency messages are sent simultaneously across phone, email, text, computer screen takeover (Alertus), and the Bowdoin SAFE app, reducing single-channel dependency; reach by phone/text depends on contact information members provide to the secure web-based service. Bowdoin's timely-warning and security-alert archive is password-protected, so historical alert texts are not publicly retrievable.","channels":["phone-call","email","sms","desktop-popup","push-notification","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency Notification System definition (AppArmor)","quotedText":"The Bowdoin Emergency Notification System (AppArmor) uses a secure, web-based service to selectively store electronic contact information provided by students, faculty, and staff.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bowdoin.edu/security/emergency-planning/emergency-notification-system.html","sourceDescription":"Bowdoin College — Emergency Notification System (official safety page)","annotations":["Names the platform as AppArmor and confirms the system is opt-out by default (contact info is stored from the directory). Identical wording appeared across 3+ independent retrievals; the bowdoin.edu host returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching."],"characterCount":179},{"label":"Multi-channel, speed-to-notification delivery","quotedText":"the College uses a multi-faceted emergency mass notification system (App Armor and Alertus) - designed for speed-to-notification - to send emergency messaging simultaneously via phone, email, text, computer screen takeover, and to the BowdoinSAFE app.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bowdoin.edu/security/emergency-planning/emergency-notification-system.html","sourceDescription":"Bowdoin College — Emergency Notification System (official safety page)","annotations":["Lists the full channel stack — phone, email, text, Alertus desktop screen takeover, and the Bowdoin SAFE app — and the explicit 'speed-to-notification' design goal. Core wording appeared near-identically across 4+ retrievals (some snippets truncated the channel list)."],"characterCount":251},{"label":"Initial alert and follow-up commitment","quotedText":"In the event of a campus emergency, the College will alert the Bowdoin community as to the nature of the emergency and provide safety information and instructions. Subsequent messages will be sent as necessary with further instructions and situational updates.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bowdoin.edu/security/emergency-planning/emergency-notification-system.html","sourceDescription":"Bowdoin College — Emergency Notification System (official safety page)","annotations":["Commits the college to both an initial nature-of-emergency message and follow-up situational updates. Identical wording appeared across 2 independent retrievals."],"characterCount":260},{"label":"Timely-warning threshold","quotedText":"The Office of Safety and Security will issue a timely warning notice to the College community regarding any crime or situation that may pose a serious or continued threat to the College community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bowdoin.edu/security/timely-warnings-and-security-alerts/index.html","sourceDescription":"Bowdoin College — Timely Warnings and Security Alerts (official safety page)","annotations":["Sets the timely-warning threshold at any crime or situation that 'may pose a serious or continued threat,' and names the Office of Safety and Security as issuer. Identical wording appeared across 3+ retrievals."],"characterCount":196},{"label":"Timely-warning decision authority","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bowdoin.edu/security/timely-warnings-and-security-alerts/index.html","sourceDescription":"Bowdoin College — Timely Warnings and Security Alerts (official safety page)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Lockdown authority (immediate threat to life safety)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bowdoin.edu/security/emergency-planning/emergency-response-guidelines.html","sourceDescription":"Bowdoin College — Emergency Response Guidelines (official safety page)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Bowdoin's mass-notification system runs on AppArmor plus Alertus (desktop takeover), with a companion Bowdoin SAFE app — the public-facing brand is AppArmor / Bowdoin SAFE, not 'Bowdoin Alert' or 'Rave Alert.'","Emergency messages are sent simultaneously via phone, email, text, computer screen takeover, and the Bowdoin SAFE app, in a system 'designed for speed-to-notification.'","The IACLEA-accredited Office of Safety and Security is the decision authority; timely warnings are decided case-by-case by the Executive Director or Associate Director of Safety and Security.","Timely warnings cover any crime or situation that may pose a serious or continued threat to the College community.","The exact federal timing phrases ('without delay' / 'immediately upon confirmation') and a notification-system test cadence were not corroborated for Bowdoin; an annual emergency exercise plus two lockout drills per year (one per semester) are confirmed.","Verbatim text was environment-limited (bowdoin.edu and ASR PDFs returned HTTP 403; the alert archive is password-protected); four excerpts were confirmed across multiple independent retrievals, two are marked reconstructed."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notification System — Bowdoin College","url":"https://www.bowdoin.edu/security/emergency-planning/emergency-notification-system.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Timely Warnings and Security Alerts — Bowdoin College","url":"https://www.bowdoin.edu/security/timely-warnings-and-security-alerts/index.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Security Reporting (Clery / ASR availability) — Bowdoin College","url":"https://www.bowdoin.edu/security/security-reporting/index.html","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Campus Emergency Management Plan (CEMP) — Bowdoin College","url":"https://www.bowdoin.edu/security/pdf/cemp.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Office of Safety and Security releases 2024 Clery Report — The Bowdoin Orient (Oct 3, 2025)","url":"https://bowdoinorient.com/2025/10/03/office-of-safety-and-security-releases-2024-clery-report/","type":"student-newspaper"},{"title":"Bowdoin SAFE app streamlines security resources — The Bowdoin Orient (Nov 12, 2021)","url":"https://bowdoinorient.com/2021/11/12/bowdoin-safe-app-streamlines-security-resources/","type":"student-newspaper"},{"title":"Bowdoin College Institutional Research — Enrollment (fall 2025: 1,841 on campus, 186 in approved off-campus study)","url":"https://www.bowdoin.edu/ir/data/enrollment.html","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","private-liberal-arts","maine","apparmor","alertus","multi-channel"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"bowie-state-university-bees-alert-policy","slug":"bowie-state-university-bees-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Bowie State University","shortName":"BSU","state":"MD","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"BEES (Bowie State University Electronic Emergency System) Alert System","enrollment":5970},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification / BEES Alert System and Emergency Preparedness Policy","systemName":"BEES (Bowie State University Electronic Emergency System)","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.bowiestate.edu/about/administration-and-governance/division-of-administration-and-finance/police-and-public-safety/emergency-preparedness/index.php","lastReviewed":"2025-01-01"},"summary":"Bowie State University, Maryland's oldest HBCU, alerts its community through the [BEES Alert System](https://www.bowiestate.edu/about/administration-and-governance/division-of-administration-and-finance/police-and-public-safety/emergency-preparedness/index.php) — the Bowie State University Electronic Emergency System — an Omnilert-powered service that sends emergency text and email alerts and is supplemented by web, telephone, and media channels, with registration at [bowie.omnilert.net](https://bowie.omnilert.net/).","analysis":"Bowie State University (BSU), in Bowie, Maryland, is the state's oldest historically Black university and part of the University System of Maryland. Its emergency-notification system is branded [BEES — the Bowie State University Electronic Emergency System](https://helpdesk.bowiestate.edu/hc/en-us/articles/4408184451095-BEES-Bowie-State-University-Electronic-Emergency-System) (sometimes written 'Bowie State Electronic Emergency System'). BEES is the campus-facing alert layer that pushes instant text and email messages to students, faculty, and staff for inclement weather and other incidents affecting safety on or around campus.\n\nBEES is operated through the external vendor Omnilert. Registration is done at [bowie.omnilert.net](https://bowie.omnilert.net/), and BSU encourages all students, faculty, and staff to sign up. The university's [Emergency Preparedness](https://www.bowiestate.edu/about/administration-and-governance/division-of-administration-and-finance/police-and-public-safety/emergency-preparedness.php) materials describe BEES as the mechanism BSU uses to provide emergency alerts in times of inclement weather and other incidents impacting safety, and frame it within a broader communications plan: in an emergency, communications are maintained via the web, e-mail, telephone, and BSU and external media depending upon the continued availability of each option. University landline telephones, supported by essential staff, can disseminate critical information via recorded voice-mail messages — a deliberate redundancy if the network or vendor channel degrades.\n\nThe communications plan is notably stakeholder-broad. BSU describes BEES/emergency communications as reaching not only the campus but surrounding communities, the University System of Maryland (USM) office, the Board of Regents, families, and media — an unusually explicit external-coordination scope for a campus notification policy, reflecting BSU's place within the USM governance structure. Weather-related closing decisions are handled through the same Emergency Preparedness apparatus.\n\nBecause the bowiestate.edu host returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the exact wording was captured from indexed search snippets and corroborated across multiple independent retrievals (the Emergency Preparedness pages, the IT help-desk BEES article, and the Omnilert subscriber portal) rather than from a byte-for-byte live fetch. Two excerpts — the BEES definition/use and the multi-channel communications-maintained sentence — appeared consistently across retrievals and are marked verbatim-confirmed. The precise named decision authority for triggering a BEES alert and any formal test cadence could not be confirmed word-for-word and are flagged. Given the corroboration across an official help-desk article, the Omnilert subscriber portal, and Emergency Preparedness pages, confidence is set to high.","whenCriteria":"BEES is used to provide emergency alerts in times of inclement weather and other incidents impacting safety on or around campus; broader emergency communications (web, email, telephone, media) are activated for incidents requiring coordination with the campus, USM, Board of Regents, families, and media. The exact Clery 'significant emergency or dangerous situation' trigger sentence was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","decisionAuthority":"Bowie State's Department of Police and Public Safety / Emergency Preparedness function administers BEES and the broader emergency communications plan. The specific position authorized to confirm and trigger a BEES alert was not confirmed verbatim in this review (bowiestate.edu host blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"BSU's Emergency Preparedness materials describe BEES as providing instant alerts via text and email and maintaining communications across web/email/telephone/media as channels remain available; the precise Clery 'without delay / immediately upon confirmation' timing language was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","cleryFraming":"BSU publishes a Clery Annual Security and Fire Safety Report covering emergency response/evacuation procedures, missing-student notification, and crime prevention. BEES is the operational emergency-notification channel that supports the institution's Clery obligations; this record documents the BEES system overview and emergency-communications plan rather than the ASR text itself.","testingCadence":"BSU encourages all students, faculty, and staff to register for BEES and conducts emergency-preparedness activities; the exact published periodic test cadence for BEES was not confirmed verbatim in this review (bowiestate.edu host blocked automated fetching).","scopeLimits":"BEES text/voice reach depends on community members registering at bowie.omnilert.net and keeping contact information current. BSU layers redundancy via web, recorded landline voice-mail, and external media so a single-channel or vendor outage does not silence the community; the plan explicitly extends communications to USM, the Board of Regents, families, and media.","channels":["sms","email","website","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"BEES definition and use","quotedText":"The Bowie State University Electronic Emergency System (BEES) is used to provide emergency alerts to students, faculty, and staff in times of inclement weather and other incidents impacting safety on or around campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://helpdesk.bowiestate.edu/hc/en-us/articles/4408184451095-BEES-Bowie-State-University-Electronic-Emergency-System","sourceDescription":"Bowie State University IT Help Desk — BEES article (host blocked automated fetch; identical wording across multiple official retrievals)","annotations":["Defines the BEES brand and sets its activation scope (inclement weather and other safety-impacting incidents). Identical wording appeared across the IT help-desk article and Emergency Preparedness page retrievals via the search index; the host returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching."],"characterCount":217},{"label":"Multi-channel communications redundancy","quotedText":"Communications will be maintained via the use of the web, e-mail, telephone, and the BSU and external media depending upon the continued availability of each of these options.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bowiestate.edu/about/administration-and-governance/division-of-administration-and-finance/police-and-public-safety/emergency-preparedness/index.php","sourceDescription":"Bowie State University — Emergency Information / Preparedness (host blocked automated fetch; identical wording across multiple official retrievals)","annotations":["Documents BSU's deliberate channel redundancy — web, email, telephone, and BSU/external media — as a hedge against any single channel failing. The same sentence appeared across multiple official emergency-preparedness retrievals via the search index; the host returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching."],"characterCount":175},{"label":"Omnilert registration","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://bowie.omnilert.net/","sourceDescription":"Bowie State University BEES subscriber portal (Omnilert) — text from search index","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Bowie State's emergency-notification system is branded BEES — the Bowie State University Electronic Emergency System — confirmed across an official IT help-desk article and the Omnilert subscriber portal.","BEES is operated through the external vendor Omnilert and pushes instant text and email alerts; registration is at bowie.omnilert.net.","BSU layers redundancy: web, e-mail, telephone (including recorded landline voice-mail), and BSU/external media, depending on each channel's availability.","The emergency-communications plan explicitly extends to surrounding communities, the USM office, the Board of Regents, families, and media — reflecting BSU's University System of Maryland governance.","Two excerpts (BEES definition and the multi-channel redundancy sentence) are verbatim-confirmed across retrievals; the named decision authority and test cadence could not be confirmed verbatim (bowiestate.edu blocked automated fetching)."],"sources":[{"title":"Bowie State University — Emergency Information / Emergency Preparedness","url":"https://www.bowiestate.edu/about/administration-and-governance/division-of-administration-and-finance/police-and-public-safety/emergency-preparedness/index.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Bowie State University — IT Help Desk: BEES (Bowie State University Electronic Emergency System)","url":"https://helpdesk.bowiestate.edu/hc/en-us/articles/4408184451095-BEES-Bowie-State-University-Electronic-Emergency-System","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Bowie State University — BEES Subscriber Portal (Omnilert)","url":"https://bowie.omnilert.net/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Bowie State University — Weather-related Closings","url":"https://www.bowiestate.edu/about/administration-and-governance/division-of-administration-and-finance/police-and-public-safety/emergency-preparedness/weather-related-closings.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Bowie State University — Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowie_State_University","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","bees","omnilert","hbcu","maryland","system-overview","multi-channel"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"bowling-green-state-university-alertbg-policy","slug":"bowling-green-state-university-alertbg-policy","institution":{"name":"Bowling Green State University","shortName":"BGSU","state":"OH","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"AlertBG"},"policy":{"title":"Campus Security Report - Emergency Notification and AlertBG","systemName":"AlertBG","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.bgsu.edu/public-safety/campus-security-and-fire-safety-report/campus-security-report.html"},"summary":"Bowling Green State University's [Campus Security Report](https://www.bgsu.edu/public-safety/campus-security-and-fire-safety-report/campus-security-report.html) issues emergency notifications immediately upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to students, employees, guests or visitors on campus, via AlertBG text, digital signage, mass email, social media, and the home page. The [AlertBG page](https://www.bgsu.edu/public-safety/bgsu-emergency-management-and-response/alertbg.html) auto-enrolls students, faculty, and staff who have a cell number on file in MyBGSU.","analysis":"BGSU (Ohio public-r2, five filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [Campus Security Report](https://www.bgsu.edu/public-safety/campus-security-and-fire-safety-report/campus-security-report.html) (HTTP 200). Emergency notifications issue immediately upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, employees, guests or visitors on campus, via AlertBG text, digital signage, mass email, BGSU-operated social media, and the home page. The live [AlertBG page](https://www.bgsu.edu/public-safety/bgsu-emergency-management-and-response/alertbg.html) (HTTP 200) describes a comprehensive, multi-channel system. Students, faculty, staff with a current cell number on file in MyBGSU automatically receive a text alert. Students, faculty and staff automatically receive an email alert. The BGSU Police Department manages and sends all AlertBG notifications. A timely-warning Crime Alert sentence contains an NBSP and is not quoted. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live HTML.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notification immediately upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to students, employees, guests or visitors on campus.","decisionAuthority":"The BGSU Police Department manages and sends all AlertBG notifications.","timingStandard":"Immediately upon confirmation.","cleryFraming":"The Campus Security Report distinguishes emergency notifications from timely warnings or crime alerts.","scopeLimits":"Students, faculty, and staff are auto-enrolled for email and for text if a cell number is on file. Guests and visitors may opt in.","channels":["sms","email","digital-signage","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency notification upon confirmation","quotedText":"Emergency notifications will be issued immediately upon confirmation that any significant emergency or dangerous situation exists that involves the immediate threat to the health or safety of students, employees, guests or visitors on campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bgsu.edu/public-safety/campus-security-and-fire-safety-report/campus-security-report.html","sourceDescription":"BGSU Campus Security Report (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Guests or visitors are in the live sentence."],"characterCount":242},{"label":"AlertBG EN channels","quotedText":"An emergency notification will be issued via an AlertBG text message, digital signage, mass email, and posts to BGSU-operated social media and the BGSU home page.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bgsu.edu/public-safety/campus-security-and-fire-safety-report/campus-security-report.html","sourceDescription":"BGSU Campus Security Report (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Named EN channels."],"characterCount":162},{"label":"AlertBG system definition","quotedText":"AlertBG is a comprehensive, multi-channel communication system designed to deliver accurate, real-time information during emergencies to ensure the safety of our campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bgsu.edu/public-safety/bgsu-emergency-management-and-response/alertbg.html","sourceDescription":"BGSU AlertBG page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Consumer definition."],"characterCount":179},{"label":"Automatic text enrollment","quotedText":"Students, faculty, staff who have a current cell phone number on file in MyBGSU will automatically receive a text alert.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bgsu.edu/public-safety/bgsu-emergency-management-and-response/alertbg.html","sourceDescription":"BGSU AlertBG page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["No serial comma after faculty."],"characterCount":120},{"label":"Police send AlertBG","quotedText":"The BGSU Police Department manages and sends all AlertBG notifications.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bgsu.edu/public-safety/bgsu-emergency-management-and-response/alertbg.html","sourceDescription":"BGSU AlertBG page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Named sender."],"characterCount":71}],"keyFindings":["Emergency notifications issue immediately upon confirmation of an immediate on-campus threat.","AlertBG auto-enrolls students, faculty, and staff for email and for text when a cell number is on file.","BGSU Police manages and sends AlertBG."],"sources":[{"title":"BGSU Campus Security Report","url":"https://www.bgsu.edu/public-safety/campus-security-and-fire-safety-report/campus-security-report.html","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"BGSU AlertBG","url":"https://www.bgsu.edu/public-safety/bgsu-emergency-management-and-response/alertbg.html","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","ohio","public-r2"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"brazosport-college-bc-alert-policy","slug":"brazosport-college-bc-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Brazosport College","shortName":"Brazosport","state":"TX","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"BC Alert System","enrollment":4000},"policy":{"title":"BC Alert System / Campus Emergency Plan","systemName":"BC Alert System","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://catalog.brazosport.edu/content.php?catoid=33&navoid=5548","lastReviewed":"2025-01-01"},"summary":"Brazosport College, a Texas Gulf Coast community college, notifies its community through the [BC Alert System](https://www.brazosport.edu/bcalert/) and documents emergency response expectations in its [Campus Emergency Plan](https://catalog.brazosport.edu/content.php?catoid=33&navoid=5548) catalog section covering threats to physical safety and multi-channel warning.","analysis":"Brazosport College operates a dedicated [BC Alert](https://www.brazosport.edu/bcalert/) public archive of operational notices (weather, infrastructure, and protective-action messages) alongside the catalog [Campus Emergency Plan](https://catalog.brazosport.edu/content.php?catoid=33&navoid=5548). The plan frames BC Alert as the mechanism that alerts the college community of threats to physical safety, including severe weather, hazardous materials accidents, violence, fire, and other physical-safety threats. The public archive shows how those notices are issued in practice: multi-paragraph website posts mirrored on official social channels and email for tropical weather, winter closures, power outages, and shelter-in-place events such as the nearby chlorine leak. This policy record documents the system overview and activation scope rather than a standalone PDF SOP.","whenCriteria":"BC Alert is used for threats to physical safety, including severe weather, hazardous materials accidents, physical threats from violence, fire, and other threats to the physical safety of the college community.","decisionAuthority":"College administration and emergency/public-safety partners issue BC Alert operational notices; the catalog emergency plan situates alerts within the broader campus emergency response framework. A single named position with exclusive trigger authority is not separately labeled in the public catalog excerpt reviewed.","timingStandard":"Public BC Alert posts are issued as conditions warrant and updated as forecasts or restoration status change; the catalog does not restate a separate Clery 'without delay' timing sentence in the excerpt reviewed.","cleryFraming":"BC Alert operational notices support emergency notification for immediate threats; Clery timely-warning practice for ongoing crime threats is handled under the college's broader Clery/ASR framework and is not the focus of this system-overview record.","testingCadence":"Not confirmed verbatim in the public catalog excerpt reviewed.","scopeLimits":"BC Alert reach depends on community members monitoring the website, official social media, BC email, and the BC Alert System channels referenced in operational posts.","channels":["website","email","sms","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"BC Alert physical-safety activation scope","quotedText":"The BC Alert system alerts the college community of threats to physical safety. These threats include severe weather, hazardous materials accidents, physical threats from violence, fire, and other threats to the physical safety of the college community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://catalog.brazosport.edu/content.php?catoid=33&navoid=5548","sourceDescription":"Brazosport College catalog Campus Emergency Plan","annotations":["Defines BC Alert activation categories for physical-safety threats."],"characterCount":253}],"keyFindings":["BC Alert is the branded public notification channel for physical-safety threats at Brazosport College.","The catalog Campus Emergency Plan lists severe weather, hazmat, violence, fire, and related physical threats as in-scope.","A multi-year public BC Alert archive documents operational weather, IT, and shelter-in-place notices."],"sources":[{"title":"Campus Emergency Plan (catalog)","url":"https://catalog.brazosport.edu/content.php?catoid=33&navoid=5548","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"BC Alert archive home","url":"https://www.brazosport.edu/bcalert/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["community-college","texas","bc-alert","emergency-notification","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"broward-college-bc-alert-policy","slug":"broward-college-bc-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Broward College","shortName":"Broward","state":"FL","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"BC Alert (Everbridge)","enrollment":50000},"policy":{"title":"BC Alert Mass Notification, Timely Warning Notices, and Emergency Notifications (2024-25 ASR)","systemName":"BC Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.broward.edu/safety/_docs/2025/annual-security-report-2024-25.pdf","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Broward College's [2024-25 Annual Security Report](https://www.broward.edu/safety/_docs/2025/annual-security-report-2024-25.pdf) brands BC Alert on Everbridge, names the Associate Vice President of Safety, Security and Emergency Preparedness as Timely Warning decision authority, documents classroom emergency phones as part of BC Alert, and requires without-delay emergency notifications with Fall/Spring full-system tests.","analysis":"Broward College is a multi-campus Florida community college. Its [2024-25 ASR](https://www.broward.edu/safety/_docs/2025/annual-security-report-2024-25.pdf) is institution-specific: Timely Warning Notices issue under Policy 6Hx2-2.20 when the AVP of Safety, Security and Emergency Preparedness judges an ongoing serious threat in Clery geography, with detailed UCR/NIBRS category guidance. Warnings may use email, hard-copy postings, websites, local media, and BC Alert multi-channel stack (text, phone, computer interruptions, social media, website banners). BC Alert mass notification covers immediate threats; classroom emergency phones receive alert messages. Message creators/senders include AVP of Public Safety, Senior Director of Emergency Management, Public Safety Captains, and SOC Manager. Full BC Alert component tests occur at least twice per year, normally Fall and Spring terms, announced to the community. Public registration is available at member.everbridge.net/BCAlert.","whenCriteria":"Timely Warning for criminal situations in Clery geography that, in the judgment of the AVP of Safety, Security and Emergency Preparedness, constitute an ongoing serious threat (typical UCR/NIBRS categories listed with case-by-case notes for assault, robbery, sexual assault). BC Alert college-wide alert when an incident poses an immediate threat to health and safety of the Broward College community.","decisionAuthority":"Timely Warning judgment: Associate Vice President of Safety, Security and Emergency Preparedness (or designee). BC Alert message creation/sending roles include AVP of Public Safety, Senior Director of Emergency Management, Public Safety Captains, SOC Manager; approval authority tables name AVP of Public Safety as primary for approving and sending in time-sensitive incidents.","timingStandard":"Timely means as soon as pertinent information is available. College will initiate and provide, without delay, immediate notifications to appropriate segments upon confirmation of significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat, unless sending would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Full BC Alert system component tests at least twice per year (normally Fall and Spring).","cleryFraming":"ASR separates Timely Warning Notices (ongoing serious threat Clery crimes under Policy 6Hx2-2.20) from BC Alert mass notification for immediate threats; Timely Warnings aim to prevent similar occurrences and withhold victim-identifying information.","scopeLimits":"Timely Warnings designed to reach the entire College community regardless of where the incident occurred. Emergency notifications target appropriate segment(s). Classroom phones receive BC Alert messages when issued.","testingCadence":"Full testing of BC Alert system components at least twice per year, normally scheduled during Fall and Spring terms and announced to the College community. Tests documented with description, date, time, announced/unannounced status.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","desktop-popup","website","facebook","twitter-x","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"AVP Timely Warning judgment under Policy 6Hx2-2.20","quotedText":"In accordance with Broward College Policy 6Hx2- 2.20, Broward College issues Timely Warning notifications to notify the campus community about certain crimes in and around the Broward College community. For the purposes of policy, \"timely\" means as soon as the pertinent information is available as defined in the Clery Act. If a criminal situation arises within the Broward College Clery Geography (on campus, public property and non -campus property), that, in the judgment of the Associate Vice President of Safety, Security and Emergency Preparedness, constitutes an ongoing ser ious threat, a college wide \"Timely Warning Notice\" will be issued.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.broward.edu/safety/_docs/2025/annual-security-report-2024-25.pdf","sourceDescription":"Broward 2024-25 ASR Timely Warning","annotations":["Named AVP title and local policy number 6Hx2-2.20."],"characterCount":650},{"label":"BC Alert multi-channel Timely Warning delivery","quotedText":"Depending on the circumstances of the crime/incident, especially in all situations that could pose a serious or ongoing threat to the College community and individuals, the transmittals may additionally come in the form of BC Alerts, e-mails, text messages, phone calls, computer interruptions, social media notifications, and alert banners on the Broward College website.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.broward.edu/safety/_docs/2025/annual-security-report-2024-25.pdf","sourceDescription":"Broward 2024-25 ASR Timely Warning channels","annotations":["Branded BC Alert plus computer interruptions and website banners."],"characterCount":372},{"label":"Without-delay emergency notification standard","quotedText":"The College will initiate and provide, without delay, immediate notifications to the appropriate segment(s) of the College community upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat to the health and safety of students, faculty, staff, and visitors.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.broward.edu/safety/_docs/2025/annual-security-report-2024-25.pdf","sourceDescription":"Broward 2024-25 ASR emergency notification timing","annotations":["Local without-delay EN standard with segment targeting."],"characterCount":299},{"label":"Classroom emergency phones on BC Alert","quotedText":"As part of the BC Alert system, classroom emergency phones will receive alert messages when issued. This technology was recommended by the Health, Safety, and Security Committee after extensive research was done to determine best practices for emergency communication in higher education.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.broward.edu/safety/_docs/2025/annual-security-report-2024-25.pdf","sourceDescription":"Broward 2024-25 ASR classroom phones","annotations":["Institution-specific classroom phone integration with BC Alert."],"characterCount":288},{"label":"Twice-yearly announced BC Alert full tests","quotedText":"Full testing of the BC Alert system components occurs at least twice per year. This test is normally scheduled during the Fall and Spring terms. These tests will be announced to the College community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.broward.edu/safety/_docs/2025/annual-security-report-2024-25.pdf","sourceDescription":"Broward 2024-25 ASR BC Alert testing","annotations":["Local Fall/Spring announced full-system test cadence."],"characterCount":200}],"keyFindings":["BC Alert is the branded Everbridge mass-notification system.","AVP of Safety, Security and Emergency Preparedness decides Timely Warnings under Policy 6Hx2-2.20.","Classroom emergency phones receive BC Alert messages.","Full BC Alert tests at least twice per year in Fall and Spring terms."],"sources":[{"title":"Annual Security Report 2024-25 - Broward College","url":"https://www.broward.edu/safety/_docs/2025/annual-security-report-2024-25.pdf","type":"clery-asr","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","community-college","timely-warning","emergency-notification","everbridge","florida","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"brown-university-alert-policy","slug":"brown-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Brown University","shortName":"Brown","state":"RI","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"BrownAlert","enrollment":11956},"policy":{"title":"BrownAlert Emergency Notification System and Timely Warning Policy","systemName":"BrownAlert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://publicsafety.brown.edu/sites/default/files/2025-09/2025-Annual-Security_Fire-Safety-Report_MP-4178_FNL.pdf"},"summary":"Brown University's emergency notification system, [BrownAlert](https://www.brown.edu/emergency/brownalert-system) (also called Brown ENS), runs on the Rave Mobile Safety platform and contacts the community by text, voice call, and email, backed by the three-siren [BrownSiren](https://www.brown.edu/emergency/brown-siren) outdoor warning system. Per Brown's [Department of Public Safety and Emergency Management](https://dps.brown.edu/alerts), the University will, \"without delay,\" issue an emergency notification upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus, and the Vice President of Public Safety and Emergency Management (or designee) issues timely warnings for serious or continuing Clery threats.","analysis":"Brown's emergency-alert program is branded **BrownAlert** (also referred to as the Brown Emergency Notification System, or ENS) and is operated by the [Department of Public Safety and Emergency Management (DPS)](https://dps.brown.edu/alerts). The system runs on the **Rave Mobile Safety** platform, broadcasting urgent information \"via text, phone call, and email,\" and is paired with **BrownSiren**, an outdoor Emergency Siren Warning System of three strategically placed sirens used \"to warn the University community in the event of a life threatening emergency.\" During critical events Brown also posts to its [emergency webpage](https://www.brown.edu/emergency), which carries \"information about the nature of the emergency, steps taken to address the situation, the emergency's current status and a cumulative chronology of BrownAlert information.\"\n\n**When and how it activates.** Per Brown's Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, \"Upon confirmation that a significant emergency, or dangerous situation is occurring on campus, the University will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification\" — the standard Clery emergency-notification trigger, applied after the threat is confirmed.\n\n**Decision authority and Clery framing.** Brown runs the two-track Clery model. Emergency notifications follow confirmation of an immediate threat; timely warnings are governed separately: \"The Department of Public Safety will issue a timely warning for Clery Act crimes that occur on Brown University's Clery Act geography that (a) are reported to a campus security authority and (b) considered by the Vice President of Public Safety and Emergency Management or their designee to represent a serious or continuing threat to students and employees.\" This locates the timely-warning judgment with the VP of Public Safety and Emergency Management or a designee.\n\n**Testing and context.** Brown tests BrownAlert and BrownSiren together at least bi-annually, with tests announced in advance (for example, the systems were tested on April 16, 2024 and October 22, 2024, and on April 4, 2023 and October 17, 2023). Brown's notification timeliness drew federal scrutiny after the December 13, 2025 on-campus shooting that killed two students: the U.S. Department of Education [announced a program review](https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-announces-review-of-brown-university-potential-clery-act-violations) examining whether the University's emergency response complied with the Clery Act, after students reported that the active-shooter notification was delayed. The platform/vendor is Rave Mobile Safety.","whenCriteria":"Upon confirmation that a significant emergency or dangerous situation is occurring on campus, the University will, without delay, determine and issue an emergency notification via BrownAlert. Timely warnings are issued separately for Clery Act crimes within Brown's Clery geography that are reported to a campus security authority and judged to be a serious or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"The Department of Public Safety and Emergency Management (DPS) operates BrownAlert; for timely warnings, the determination of a serious or continuing threat rests with the Vice President of Public Safety and Emergency Management or their designee.","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications are issued 'without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community,' upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation, consistent with the Clery Act.","cleryFraming":"Two-track Clery model: emergency notifications via BrownAlert upon confirmation of an immediate-threat significant emergency, and timely warnings for reported Clery Act crimes on Brown's Clery geography judged a serious or continuing threat by the VP of Public Safety and Emergency Management or designee.","testingCadence":"BrownAlert and BrownSiren are tested together at a minimum bi-annually, announced in advance; e.g., tests were conducted on April 16, 2024 and October 22, 2024, and on April 4, 2023 and October 17, 2023.","scopeLimits":"BrownAlert reaches students, faculty, staff and others via text, phone call, and email on the Rave Mobile Safety platform; BrownSiren is an outdoor system of three sirens reserved for life-threatening emergencies; an emergency webpage provides a cumulative chronology of BrownAlert information during an event.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","siren","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency-notification trigger and without-delay standard","quotedText":"Upon confirmation that a significant emergency, or dangerous situation is occurring on campus, the University will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://publicsafety.brown.edu/sites/default/files/2025-09/2025-Annual-Security_Fire-Safety-Report_MP-4178_FNL.pdf","sourceDescription":"Brown University 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","annotations":["Standard Clery emergency-notification trigger, applied after confirmation of the threat; reproduced consistently across Brown's 2024 and 2025 Annual Security Report snippets."],"characterCount":226},{"label":"Timely-warning authority and standard","quotedText":"The Department of Public Safety will issue a timely warning for Clery Act crimes that occur on Brown University's Clery Act geography that (a) are reported to a campus security authority and (b) considered by the Vice President of Public Safety and Emergency Management or their designee to represent a serious or continuing threat to students and employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://publicsafety.brown.edu/sites/default/files/2025-09/2025-Annual-Security_Fire-Safety-Report_MP-4178_FNL.pdf","sourceDescription":"Brown University 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","annotations":["Locates the timely-warning judgment with the VP of Public Safety and Emergency Management or designee and ties it to reported Clery crimes on Brown's Clery geography."],"characterCount":358},{"label":"BrownAlert platform and channels","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.brown.edu/emergency/brownalert-system","sourceDescription":"Brown University — BrownAlert System","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"BrownSiren outdoor warning system","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.brown.edu/emergency/brown-siren","sourceDescription":"Brown University — About BrownSiren","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Brown's emergency notification system is branded BrownAlert (a.k.a. Brown ENS) and runs on the Rave Mobile Safety platform, delivering alerts by text, phone call, and email.","BrownAlert is backed by BrownSiren, an outdoor warning system of three sirens reserved for life-threatening emergencies.","Emergency notifications issue 'without delay' upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus.","Timely-warning authority rests with the Vice President of Public Safety and Emergency Management (or designee) for reported Clery crimes posing a serious or continuing threat.","BrownAlert and BrownSiren are tested at least bi-annually with advance notice; Brown's notification timeliness became the subject of a December 2025 U.S. Department of Education Clery program review after a fatal on-campus shooting."],"sources":[{"title":"Brown University 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://publicsafety.brown.edu/sites/default/files/2025-09/2025-Annual-Security_Fire-Safety-Report_MP-4178_FNL.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"BrownAlert System | Brown University","url":"https://www.brown.edu/emergency/brownalert-system","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"About BrownSiren | Brown University","url":"https://www.brown.edu/emergency/brown-siren","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Alerts | Public Safety | Brown University","url":"https://dps.brown.edu/alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"U.S. Department of Education Announces Review of Brown University for Potential Clery Act Violations","url":"https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-announces-review-of-brown-university-potential-clery-act-violations","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","rhode-island","rave-mobile-safety","ivy-league"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"bucknell-university-b-alert-policy","slug":"bucknell-university-b-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Bucknell University","shortName":"Bucknell","state":"PA","type":"private-r2","alertSystemName":"B-Alert"},"policy":{"title":"2026 Security and Fire Safety Report - Emergency Notification and Timely Warning","systemName":"B-Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.bucknell.edu/sites/default/files/public-safety/public_safety_clery_report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2026"},"summary":"Bucknell University's [2026 Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.bucknell.edu/sites/default/files/public-safety/public_safety_clery_report.pdf) sends an emergency notification without delay upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to life, safety or security on campus, and issues a campus-wide Timely Warning when a Clery Act crime on Bucknell Clery Geography presents a serious or continuing threat. The [emergency page](https://www.bucknell.edu/life-bucknell/health-wellness-safety/public-safety/emergency) uses Rave Alert (B-Alert / BSAFE) for text, email, phone, desktop, and app delivery.","analysis":"Bucknell University (private-r2, Pennsylvania, four filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [2026 Security and Fire Safety Report PDF](https://www.bucknell.edu/sites/default/files/public-safety/public_safety_clery_report.pdf) (HTTP 200, reporting year 2025). Any member of the Department of Public Safety is authorized to initiate an emergency notification upon confirmation. Timely Warnings are decided by the Chief of Public Safety and the Clery Compliance Officer in consultation with the Dean of Students and General Counsel, sent by email and by text to those who provided a cell number, with TIMELY WARNING in the subject line. The live emergency HTML names Rave Alert as the mass-notification vendor and BSAFE as the app. Consumer B-Alert is the campus name for that Rave path. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF or HTML.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notification upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the life, safety or security of the campus community on campus. Timely Warning when a Clery Act crime on Bucknell Clery Geography presents a serious or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"Any member of the Department of Public Safety may initiate an emergency notification upon confirmation. Timely Warning: Chief of the Department of Public Safety and the Clery Compliance Officer in consultation with the Dean of Students and General Counsel.","timingStandard":"Emergency notification without delay upon confirmation. Timely Warning as soon as pertinent information is available.","cleryFraming":"The ASR keeps Emergency Notification distinct from Timely Warning. Emails and texts that are Timely Warnings are identified as TIMELY WARNING in the subject line.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","desktop-popup","push-notification","siren","pa-system","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency notification without delay","quotedText":"Upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the life, safety or security of the campus community occurring on campus, the Department of Public Safety will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of an emergency notification message and initiate the emergency notification system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bucknell.edu/sites/default/files/public-safety/public_safety_clery_report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Bucknell University 2026 Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Trigger is life, safety or security, not only health or safety."],"characterCount":387},{"label":"Timely Warning serious or continuing threat","quotedText":"The Department of Public Safety will issue a campus-wide “Timely Warning” to the campus community when a Clery Act crime is reported to have occurred on the Bucknell Clery Geography and presents a serious or continuing threat to students and employees in the judgment of the Chief of the Department of Public Safety and the Clery Compliance Officer in consultation with the Dean of Students and General Counsel.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bucknell.edu/sites/default/files/public-safety/public_safety_clery_report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Bucknell University 2026 Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Named decision-makers are the Chief, the Clery Compliance Officer, the Dean of Students, and General Counsel."],"characterCount":411},{"label":"Rave Alert / BSAFE channels","quotedText":"Public Safety utilizes Rave Alert, a real-time, mass notification system, to send alerts via desktop notification (on Bucknell-owned computers only), text message, email, phone calls and the BSAFE app as quickly as possible.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bucknell.edu/life-bucknell/health-wellness-safety/public-safety/emergency","sourceDescription":"Bucknell In an Emergency page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Desktop notification is limited to Bucknell-owned computers."],"characterCount":224}],"keyFindings":["Emergency notifications go out without delay for an immediate threat to life, safety or security on campus.","Timely Warnings are campus-wide notices for Clery crimes on Bucknell Clery Geography that present a serious or continuing threat.","Rave Alert (B-Alert / BSAFE) is the mass-notification vendor path."],"sources":[{"title":"Bucknell University 2026 Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.bucknell.edu/sites/default/files/public-safety/public_safety_clery_report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Bucknell University In an Emergency","url":"https://www.bucknell.edu/life-bucknell/health-wellness-safety/public-safety/emergency","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","pennsylvania","private-r2","rave"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"bunker-hill-community-college-bhcc-alert-policy","slug":"bunker-hill-community-college-bhcc-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Bunker Hill Community College","shortName":"BHCC","state":"MA","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"BHCC Alert (Rave Mobile Safety)"},"policy":{"title":"BHCC Alert Emergency Notification and Crime Alert Policy","systemName":"BHCC Alert (Rave Mobile Safety)","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.bhcc.edu/emergency/"},"summary":"Bunker Hill Community College, the largest community college in Massachusetts, delivers emergency notifications through [BHCC Alert](https://www.bhcc.edu/alertsignup/) — a Rave Mobile Safety text, text-to-voice and email system — and issues Clery [crime alerts](https://www.bhcc.edu/emergency/) through its Office of Public Safety and Campus Police.","analysis":"Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC), a large Boston community college, runs its emergency-notification function on [BHCC Alert](https://www.bhcc.edu/alertsignup/), which the college built by partnering with Rave Mobile Safety to provide emergency text messaging, text-to-voice and emails in the event of an emergency. The college layers automatic and opt-in coverage: currently-enrolled students and active faculty and staff have their BHCC email addresses loaded into the Rave system each semester, so every member receives at least email alerts, while anyone who visits campus is encouraged to add SMS coverage by texting the keyword BHCCAlert to the short code 226787.\n\nThe channel mix is text, voice and email. BHCC describes Rave as 'the college's emergency alert system providing text, voice and email messages, with all students automatically enrolled to email alerts using their BHCC email address' — a design that guarantees a baseline email reach to the whole student body while inviting the faster SMS/voice channels through self-registration. BHCC publishes its [emergency alerts and procedures](https://www.bhcc.edu/library/policies/bhccemergencyalertsprocedures/) so that the campus community knows what an alert looks like and how to respond.\n\nOn the Clery side, BHCC keeps the emergency-notification and crime-alert functions distinct. The college's [Office of Public Safety and Campus Police](https://www.bhcc.edu/publicsafety/) is responsible for issuing crime alerts in compliance with the Clery Act, and BHCC states this information is provided in compliance with State and Federal Law and the Clery Act specifically. The college documents its crime-alert and emergency-notification obligations in its [Annual Security Report](https://www.bhcc.edu/media/03-documents/publicsafety/BHCC-ASR.pdf).\n\nBHCC's .edu host returned HTTP 403 to direct automated fetching, so the excerpts below were captured from indexed search snippets of the college's official emergency and signup pages. The BHCC Alert / Rave brand, the BHCCAlert-to-226787 SMS keyword, and the automatic-email-enrollment design appeared consistently across multiple retrievals, but because none could be byte-for-byte confirmed against a live official fetch they are marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false and overall confidence is set to medium. The named position authorized to trigger BHCC Alert and the precise published test cadence were not confirmable in this review.","whenCriteria":"BHCC sends BHCC Alert messages in the event of an emergency. Its Office of Public Safety and Campus Police issues Clery crime alerts when a reported crime represents a threat, in compliance with State and Federal Law and the Clery Act. The exact published activation-threshold wording was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","decisionAuthority":"BHCC's Office of Public Safety and Campus Police is responsible for issuing crime alerts in compliance with the Clery Act. The specific position authorized to trigger a BHCC Alert emergency notification was not confirmed verbatim in this review (bhcc.edu blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"BHCC describes BHCC Alert as the college's emergency alert system used in the event of an emergency; a specific 'without delay / upon confirmation' Clery timing clause was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","cleryFraming":"BHCC separates the two Clery functions: BHCC Alert (emergency notifications via Rave) for emergencies, and crime alerts issued by the Office of Public Safety and Campus Police in compliance with the Clery Act, documented in the college's Annual Security Report.","testingCadence":"BHCC loads enrolled students' and active employees' BHCC email addresses into the Rave system each semester. The exact published periodic test cadence for BHCC Alert was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","scopeLimits":"All students are automatically enrolled for email alerts via their BHCC email address each semester; SMS and voice coverage is opt-in via the BHCCAlert keyword to short code 226787, so the fastest channels depend on self-registration. Campus visitors are encouraged to sign up for SMS.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Rave Mobile Safety partnership / channel set","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bhcc.edu/emergency/","sourceDescription":"BHCC — Emergency Alerts & Procedures (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"SMS keyword signup","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bhcc.edu/alertsignup/","sourceDescription":"BHCC — BHCC Alert Signup (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Clery crime-alert responsibility","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bhcc.edu/publicsafety/","sourceDescription":"BHCC — Public Safety (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["BHCC's emergency-notification system is BHCC Alert, built on Rave Mobile Safety, delivering text, text-to-voice and email messages.","All students are automatically enrolled for email alerts via their BHCC email address each semester; SMS/voice coverage is opt-in via the keyword BHCCAlert to short code 226787.","The Office of Public Safety and Campus Police is responsible for issuing Clery crime alerts in compliance with State, Federal Law and the Clery Act.","Campus visitors are encouraged to self-register for SMS, extending reach beyond the enrolled community.","BHCC's .edu host blocked automated fetching, so excerpts are from indexed snippets and marked reconstructed; the named alert-trigger authority and exact test cadence could not be confirmed, so confidence is medium."],"sources":[{"title":"BHCC — Emergency Alerts & Procedures","url":"https://www.bhcc.edu/emergency/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"BHCC — BHCC Alert Signup","url":"https://www.bhcc.edu/alertsignup/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"BHCC — Public Safety","url":"https://www.bhcc.edu/publicsafety/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"BHCC — 2025 Annual Security Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.bhcc.edu/media/03-documents/publicsafety/BHCC-ASR.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"BHCC — Emergency Alerts & Procedures (library policy copy)","url":"https://www.bhcc.edu/library/policies/bhccemergencyalertsprocedures/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","crime-alert","community-college","massachusetts","boston","rave","clery"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"butler-community-college-ks-grizzlysafe-asr","slug":"butler-community-college-ks-grizzlysafe-asr","institution":{"name":"Butler Community College","shortName":"Butler CC","state":"KS","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"GrizzlySAFE","enrollment":8000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warnings and Emergency Response (GrizzlySAFE) - Annual Security Report","systemName":"GrizzlySAFE","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.butlercc.edu/sites/default/files/2025-09/2025%20Annual%20Security%20Report%20Butler%20Community%20College_0.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-09-01"},"summary":"Butler Community College (Kansas) documents [President/VP Student Services/Chief of Campus Police timely warnings and GrizzlySAFE multi-channel emergency notifications](https://www.butlercc.edu/sites/default/files/2025-09/2025%20Annual%20Security%20Report%20Butler%20Community%20College_0.pdf) with each-semester emergency response testing.","analysis":"Butler Community College (El Dorado/Andover multi-campus, KS) publishes Timely Warnings and Emergency Response procedures in its [2025 Combined Annual Security Report and Fire Safety Report](https://www.butlercc.edu/sites/default/files/2025-09/2025%20Annual%20Security%20Report%20Butler%20Community%20College_0.pdf). Campus-wide timely warnings issue when the President, Vice President of Student Services, or Director of Public Safety/Chief of Campus Police judges criminal activity (on or off campus) a serious or continuing threat (examples: sexual assault, series of motor vehicle thefts). Reports warranting warnings go to Public Safety (316-321-7657) or VP Student Services; local LE is asked to notify the College of warranting reports.\n\nEmergency response covers confirmed significant emergencies or dangerous situations on campus involving immediate threat to health or safety (tornadoes, bomb threats, chemical spills, disease outbreaks, fires, active shooters, etc.). The same three roles confirm danger and initiate response, determine segments, and without delay determine content and initiate notification unless compromise exception applies. Methods include website postings (no signup), GrizzlySAFE app automated text/email/voicemail (App Armor/GrizzlySAFE), and public address system branded GrizzlySAFE. Critical-incident information may also post to BCC's web and student portal. Emergency response and evacuation procedures are tested each semester (announced or unannounced). Complements archive Andover gas-leak case coverage.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning: criminal activity on or off campus constituting serious or continuing threat in judgment of President, VP Student Services, or Director of Public Safety/Chief of Campus Police. Emergency notification: confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus involving immediate threat to health or safety.","decisionAuthority":"President, Vice President of Student Services, or Director of Public Safety/Chief of Campus Police confirm danger, select segments, determine content, and direct issuance of notifications.","timingStandard":"Without delay for EN taking community safety into account, unless professional judgment holds notification would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Emergency response and evacuation tests each semester.","cleryFraming":"ASR Timely Warnings and Emergency Response sections with named GrizzlySAFE / App Armor channels and PA system.","scopeLimits":"Segmented notifications allowed with differing content by segment. Local media notified for larger community awareness at direction of same three roles. GrizzlySAFE app also supports anonymous crime reporting.","testingCadence":"Emergency response and evacuation procedures tested each semester (announced or unannounced); VP Student Services maintains records; procedures redistributed with at least one test.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Three-role timely warning judgment","quotedText":"In the event of criminal activity occurring either on campus or off campus that in the judgment of the President, Vice President of Student Services, or the Director of Public Safety/Chief of Campus Police constitutes a serious or continuing threat to members of the campus community, a campus-wide \"timely warning\" will be issued.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.butlercc.edu/sites/default/files/2025-09/2025%20Annual%20Security%20Report%20Butler%20Community%20College_0.pdf","sourceDescription":"Butler CC 2025 ASR - Timely Warnings","annotations":["President, VP Student Services, or Chief of Campus Police TW judgment."],"characterCount":331},{"label":"GrizzlySAFE automated channels","quotedText":"Automated Text/Email/Voicemail through App Armor/GrizzlySAFE","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.butlercc.edu/sites/default/files/2025-09/2025%20Annual%20Security%20Report%20Butler%20Community%20College_0.pdf","sourceDescription":"Butler CC 2025 ASR - Methods for Issuing TW and EN","annotations":["Named GrizzlySAFE/App Armor for automated multi-channel alerts."],"characterCount":60},{"label":"Each-semester emergency testing","quotedText":"The College tests its emergency response and evacuation procedures each semester.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.butlercc.edu/sites/default/files/2025-09/2025%20Annual%20Security%20Report%20Butler%20Community%20College_0.pdf","sourceDescription":"Butler CC 2025 ASR - Testing and Documentation","annotations":["Semester cadence for emergency response and evacuation tests."],"characterCount":81}],"keyFindings":["GrizzlySAFE / App Armor for automated text, email, and voicemail alerts.","Three-role authority: President, VP Student Services, Chief of Campus Police.","Emergency response and evacuation tested each semester."],"sources":[{"title":"Butler Community College 2025 Combined Annual Security Report and Fire Safety Report PDF","url":"https://www.butlercc.edu/sites/default/files/2025-09/2025%20Annual%20Security%20Report%20Butler%20Community%20College_0.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["kansas","community-college","clery-asr","grizzlysafe","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"butler-county-community-college-bc3-alerts-policy","slug":"butler-county-community-college-bc3-alerts-policy","institution":{"name":"Butler County Community College","shortName":"BC3","state":"PA","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"BC3 Alerts","enrollment":2317},"policy":{"title":"BC3 Alerts / Emergency Notifications","systemName":"BC3 Alerts","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://bc3.edu/services/police-security/bc3-alerts.html"},"summary":"Butler County Community College in western Pennsylvania, distinct from Butler Community College in Kansas, publishes [BC3 Alerts](https://bc3.edu/services/police-security/bc3-alerts.html) as its opt-in mass notification system, promising instant text and email notification of delays, cancellations, power outages, or any type of emergency situation at any BC3 location, backed by a standing [BC3 Emergency Information page](https://bc3.edu/emergency/) and a published delayed-start class schedule convention.","analysis":"Butler County Community College, a roughly 2,300-student public community college based in [Butler Township, Pennsylvania](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butler_County_Community_College) with additional locations including BC3 @ Armstrong, BC3 @ Brockway, and BC3 @ Cranberry, documents its alerting practice across a small cluster of public pages rather than a single numbered policy: the [BC3 Alerts page](https://bc3.edu/services/police-security/bc3-alerts.html) maintained by Campus Police and Security, a parallel copy in the Pioneer Life section, the standing [BC3 Emergency Information page](https://bc3.edu/emergency/) that displays active notifications, and a [delayed-start information page](https://bc3.edu/services/police-security/delayed-start-information.html) that pre-publishes exactly which classes run when a late start is called.\n\nThe system description is scope-broad and trigger-plain: BC3 Alerts covers a delay or cancellation related to weather, a power outage, or any type of emergency situation at any BC3 location, which folds routine weather operations and life-safety alerting into one subscriber channel. Enrollment is opt-in by signup rather than automatic, with subscribers able to opt out at any time, and the college makes an explicit data-stewardship promise that contact information will not be used for advertising or shared or sold to third parties. The delayed-start page removes ambiguity from the most common alert genre this archive holds for BC3, its winter weather delays: on a late start, classes that start and end before 10 AM are canceled, classes starting after 10 AM run as scheduled, and classes that span 10 AM begin at 10 AM. Weather alerts are additionally posted to the BC3 website, official social media accounts, and local radio and television stations, a channel mix visible in practice in [local coverage of BC3 delayed starts](https://butlerradio.com/bc3-on-a-delayed-start/).\n\nThe college's eight weather-operations cases in this archive from 2024 through 2025 show the system exercising exactly this playbook, including per-location targeting of its Brockway site. No standalone Clery timely-warning or emergency-notification policy statement is publicly search-indexed for BC3 beyond these operational pages; the college's Annual Security Report was not reachable from this research environment. Because bc3.edu blocks automated fetches from this sandbox, all excerpts below are reconstructed from search-engine-indexed extracts of the cited pages and are marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false, with confidence held at medium.","whenCriteria":"BC3 Alerts activates for a delay or cancellation related to weather, a power outage, or any type of emergency situation at any BC3 location; the standing BC3 Emergency Information page displays active notifications and states when there are none.","decisionAuthority":"The pages are maintained by BC3 Campus Police and Security; the public materials do not name the specific official who authorizes an activation.","timingStandard":"The system promises instant notification on activation; no Clery timeliness language is stated on the public pages.","cleryFraming":"The public BC3 Alerts pages present one unified mass-notification channel and do not draw the Clery emergency-notification versus timely-warning distinction; no separate public timely-warning criteria page was found.","scopeLimits":"Signup is opt-in for text and email rather than automatic enrollment; coverage spans all BC3 locations including the main Butler Township campus and additional sites such as Brockway and Cranberry, with alerts able to name specific locations; the college pledges that contact information is not used for advertising or shared or sold to third parties.","channels":["sms","email","website","facebook","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"System scope and trigger","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://bc3.edu/services/police-security/bc3-alerts.html","sourceDescription":"BC3 Alerts, Butler County Community College Campus Police and Security; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Data stewardship promise","quotedText":"Your information will not be used to distribute advertising or other unsolicited content and will not be shared or sold to third parties.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://bc3.edu/services/police-security/bc3-alerts.html","sourceDescription":"BC3 Alerts, Butler County Community College Campus Police and Security; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":["An explicit no-advertising, no-resale pledge aimed at the opt-in enrollment model, where subscriber trust determines coverage."],"characterCount":137},{"label":"Opt-in enrollment","quotedText":"Once you sign up, you can opt-out at any time.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://bc3.edu/pioneer-life/safety-security/bc3-alerts.html","sourceDescription":"BC3 Alerts, Butler County Community College Pioneer Life section; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":["BC3 uses voluntary signup rather than the automatic enrollment common at larger institutions, so the reachable population is whoever chose to subscribe."],"characterCount":46}],"keyFindings":["BC3 documents its alerting practice through operational pages (system signup, standing emergency page, delayed-start schedule rules) rather than a numbered policy or public Clery criteria page.","Enrollment in BC3 Alerts is opt-in with an any-time opt-out, unlike the automatic enrollment most institutions in this archive use.","The delayed-start page pre-publishes exact class-schedule consequences of a late start (before-10 AM classes canceled, spanning classes begin at 10 AM), removing per-event ambiguity.","Weather alerts flow to local radio and television in addition to text, email, website, and social media, a small-college channel mix visible in the archive's eight BC3 weather cases."],"sources":[{"title":"BC3 Alerts (Emergency Alerts), Butler County Community College","url":"https://bc3.edu/services/police-security/bc3-alerts.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"BC3 Alerts | Emergency Notifications (Pioneer Life), Butler County Community College","url":"https://bc3.edu/pioneer-life/safety-security/bc3-alerts.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"BC3 Emergency Information, Butler County Community College","url":"https://bc3.edu/emergency/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Delayed Start Information, Butler County Community College","url":"https://bc3.edu/services/police-security/delayed-start-information.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"BC3 On a Delayed Start, ButlerRadio.com","url":"https://butlerradio.com/bc3-on-a-delayed-start/","type":"local-media"},{"title":"Butler County Community College, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butler_County_Community_College","type":"reference"},{"title":"Butler County Community College Student Population, Univstats","url":"https://www.univstats.com/colleges/butler-county-community-college/student-population/","type":"reference"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["butler-county-community-college-extreme-weather-multi-day-2025-01-21","butler-county-community-college-all-campuses-10am-weather-delay-2024-01-09","butler-county-community-college-brockway-delayed-start-2024-12-06"],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","system-overview","mass-notification","pennsylvania","community-college","opt-in-enrollment","weather-operations","delayed-start"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-31","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"caldwell-community-college-and-technical-institute-regroup-asr","slug":"caldwell-community-college-and-technical-institute-regroup-asr","institution":{"name":"Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute","shortName":"CCC&TI","state":"NC","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Regroup","enrollment":4000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warnings and Emergency Notification (Regroup) - Annual Security Report","systemName":"Regroup","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://cccti.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Campus-Safety-and-Security-Survey-2025.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-09-01"},"summary":"Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute documents [Regroup-based timely warnings and multi-modal emergency alerts](https://cccti.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Campus-Safety-and-Security-Survey-2025.pdf) in its September 2025 ASR, covering Caldwell and Watauga campuses with intercom and runner fallbacks.","analysis":"CCC&TI (Hudson/Boone-area Watauga Campus, NC) publishes Timely Warnings and emergency notification procedures in its [2025 Campus Annual Security Report](https://cccti.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Campus-Safety-and-Security-Survey-2025.pdf). When campus security authorities and/or senior administration judge an ongoing or continuing threat (on or off campus), a campus-wide timely warning is issued via the electronic emergency notification system currently Regroup, plus email, social media, and the College website. For immediate threats, senior administrators may also employ the intercom system available on both Caldwell and Watauga campuses.\n\nPublished warnings include date, audience, crime of concern, protective actions, information requests about similar crimes, contact information, and how to report. For emergency initiation, security authorities or senior administration determine content before notifying the affected community. Primary emergency alert and warning means include the ReGroup notification system, intercom, fire alarm, email, phone, walkie-talkies, air horns, mega horns, and runners for immediate transmission and evacuation. Campus Security Authorities disseminate emergency information; local law enforcement/fire are notified via 911. The campus security page also states the Vice President of Student Services provides timely warnings for Clery Act crimes representing serious or continuing threats. Complements multi-site mountain NC CC coverage with A-B Tech, Wilkes, Blue Ridge, and Isothermal.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning: situation on or off campus constituting ongoing or continuing threat in judgment of campus security authorities and/or senior administration. Emergency alerts for evacuation or special actions warranted by campus emergencies.","decisionAuthority":"Campus security authorities and/or senior administrators issue timely warnings and determine emergency notification content. Vice President of Student Services provides timely warnings for Clery Act crimes per campus security page. Campus Security Authorities disseminate emergency information to College and larger community.","timingStandard":"Immediate transmission of emergency information to affected campus areas; intercom used for more immediate notification when threat is imminent. No fixed minutes standard stated.","cleryFraming":"ASR Timely Warnings and emergency notification initiation sections with named Regroup electronic emergency notification system.","scopeLimits":"Intercom available on Caldwell and Watauga campuses. Dual contracted law enforcement (Town of Hudson officers; Watauga County Sheriff) both reporting to VP of Operations.","testingCadence":"Not specified as a fixed cadence in the Timely Warnings section reviewed.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system","website","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Regroup timely warning channels","quotedText":"The warning will be issued through an electronic emergency notification system (currently Regroup), email, social media, and the College website to students and employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://cccti.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Campus-Safety-and-Security-Survey-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"CCC&TI 2025 ASR - Timely Warnings","annotations":["Named Regroup as current electronic EN/TW system."],"characterCount":171},{"label":"CSA/senior admin TW trigger","quotedText":"In the event that a situation arises, either on or off-campus, that, in the judgment of the campus security authorities and/or senior administration, constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat, a campus-wide \"timely warning\" will be issued by campus security authorities and/or senior administrators.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://cccti.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Campus-Safety-and-Security-Survey-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"CCC&TI 2025 ASR - Timely Warnings trigger","annotations":["CSA or senior administration joint TW judgment."],"characterCount":301},{"label":"Multi-modal emergency alert means","quotedText":"The ReGroup notification system, intercom system, fire alarm system, email system, phone system, walkie-talkies, air horns, mega horns and runners are the primary means of emergency alerts and warning","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://cccti.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Campus-Safety-and-Security-Survey-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"CCC&TI 2025 ASR - Initiate the Notification System","annotations":["Layered EN including runners and air horns as fallbacks."],"characterCount":200}],"keyFindings":["Regroup named as current electronic emergency notification system.","Dual-campus intercom for immediate threats; runners and air horns as fallback channels.","CSA and senior administration share TW and EN content authority."],"sources":[{"title":"CCC&TI 2025 Campus Annual Security Report PDF","url":"https://cccti.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Campus-Safety-and-Security-Survey-2025.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"CCC&TI Campus Security page","url":"https://cccti.edu/campus-security/","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["north-carolina","community-college","clery-asr","regroup","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"cal-poly-slo-polyalert-policy","slug":"cal-poly-slo-polyalert-policy","institution":{"name":"California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo","shortName":"Cal Poly","state":"CA","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"PolyAlert","enrollment":22485},"policy":{"title":"Cal Poly Emergency Notification (PolyAlert) and Timely Warning Policy","systemName":"PolyAlert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://afd.calpoly.edu/police/police-administration/poly-alert","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"[PolyAlert](https://afd.calpoly.edu/police/police-administration/poly-alert) is Cal Poly San Luis Obispo's primary emergency-notification system, a text-messaging service that distributes brief messages by email, SMS text, and voice in situations posing imminent physical threats to the campus community; its Clery framing is set out in the Cal Poly University Police [Annual Security Report](https://afd.calpoly.edu/clery/reports/annual-security-report.pdf).","analysis":"PolyAlert is described by the [Cal Poly Police Department](https://afd.calpoly.edu/police/police-administration/poly-alert) as 'the Cal Poly Emergency Notification System ... a text messaging service that distributes brief messages in situations posing imminent physical threats to the campus community.' The university's [Department of Emergency Management](https://afd.calpoly.edu/emergency/readiness/stay-informed-get-notified/) calls it 'Cal Poly's primary tool for delivering critical emergency information,' noting that 'PolyAlert can distribute emergency notifications through email, SMS text, and voice.' Typical alerts include warnings of potential hazards, emergency instructions, evacuation orders, and other similar messages. Cal Poly email addresses are automatically enrolled, but the university urges anyone with a Cal Poly Portal account to register up to two cell-phone numbers via the Personal Info tab at my.calpoly.edu so they also receive text alerts.\n\nThe Clery framework behind PolyAlert lives in the Cal Poly University Police [Annual Security Report](https://afd.calpoly.edu/clery/reports/annual-security-report.pdf). Emergency notifications are issued upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus — the standard Clery emergency-notification trigger. The decision is made by University Police leadership in conjunction with the Clery Director, and the notification is issued without unnecessary delay, subject to the usual exception for situations where notification would compromise efforts to contain or respond to the emergency.\n\nCal Poly keeps emergency notifications distinct from Clery timely warnings. Per the ASR, a timely warning is issued when it is determined that a serious or ongoing threat to the campus community exists, following a report of a Clery Act crime that occurred on Clery Act geography; when University Police is notified of such a crime, the Chief of Police confers with the Clery Director to determine whether the incident meets all of the necessary factors. Timely warnings 'must be issued in a prompt manner, appropriate for the circumstances, without unnecessary delay,' and a single PolyAlert message can serve as either an emergency notification or, where appropriate, a timely-warning distribution channel.\n\nBecause Cal Poly's official afd.calpoly.edu host returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from official Cal Poly Police and Emergency Management page text as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries; the Clery-specific decision-authority and testing detail is paraphrased from the Annual Security Report. The ASR's exact testing-cadence sentence was not reproducible in search results, so it is reported only as the general Clery 'at least annually' expectation rather than quoted.","whenCriteria":"PolyAlert distributes brief messages in situations posing imminent physical threats to the campus community — typically warnings of potential hazards, emergency instructions, and evacuation orders. Under the Clery Act, an emergency notification is issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees on campus. A separate timely warning is issued when a serious or ongoing threat to the campus community exists following a reported Clery Act crime on Clery Act geography.","decisionAuthority":"University Police leadership (Chief of Police) in conjunction with the Clery Director determine whether to issue an emergency notification; for timely warnings, the Chief of Police confers with the Clery Director to determine whether the incident meets all necessary factors.","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications are issued without unnecessary delay upon confirmation; timely warnings must be issued in a prompt manner, appropriate for the circumstances, without unnecessary delay.","cleryFraming":"Emergency notifications (immediate threat, confirmation standard) and timely warnings (serious or ongoing threat from a Clery crime on Clery geography) are handled as distinct Clery obligations, with PolyAlert available as a distribution channel for either.","testingCadence":"Cal Poly's published PolyAlert material does not state an exact testing-cadence sentence reproducible here; the Cal Poly University Police Annual Security Report describes testing of the emergency notification system consistent with the Clery requirement to test at least annually. (Not verbatim-confirmed.)","scopeLimits":"PolyAlert is reserved for imminent physical threats; routine information is not sent through it. SMS/voice delivery requires registering a cell-phone number (up to two) in the Cal Poly Portal, while Cal Poly email addresses are enrolled automatically. Emergency notification may be withheld where it would compromise efforts to contain or respond to the emergency; timely warnings are limited to Clery crimes on Clery Act geography that pose a serious or ongoing threat.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"What PolyAlert is and when it is used","quotedText":"The Cal Poly Emergency Notification System is a text messaging service that distributes brief messages in situations posing imminent physical threats to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://afd.calpoly.edu/police/police-administration/poly-alert","sourceDescription":"Poly Alert — Cal Poly Police Department","annotations":["Defines PolyAlert's threshold ('imminent physical threats') and its core delivery method (a text-messaging service)."],"characterCount":174},{"label":"Delivery channels","quotedText":"Using Short Message System (SMS) technology, the system conveys messages to registered cellular phones, other wireless devices and all Cal Poly email addresses.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://afd.calpoly.edu/police/police-administration/poly-alert","sourceDescription":"Poly Alert — Cal Poly Police Department","annotations":["Confirms SMS to registered devices plus all Cal Poly email addresses; the broader emergency-management page adds voice as a third channel."],"characterCount":160},{"label":"Primary tool / channels","quotedText":"PolyAlert is Cal Poly's primary tool for delivering critical emergency information to help ensure the safety of our community. PolyAlert can distribute emergency notifications through email, SMS text, and voice.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://afd.calpoly.edu/emergency/readiness/stay-informed-get-notified/","sourceDescription":"Stay Informed / Get Notified — Cal Poly Department of Emergency Management","annotations":["Establishes PolyAlert as the primary emergency channel and lists all three delivery modes: email, SMS text, and voice."],"characterCount":211},{"label":"Typical alert content","quotedText":"Typical alerts sent out on this system include warnings of potential hazards, emergency instructions, evacuation orders, and other similar messages.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://afd.calpoly.edu/police/police-administration/poly-alert","sourceDescription":"Poly Alert — Cal Poly Police Department","annotations":["Illustrates the action-oriented scope of PolyAlert messages: hazard warnings, instructions, and evacuation orders."],"characterCount":148}],"keyFindings":["PolyAlert is Cal Poly San Luis Obispo's primary emergency-notification system — a text-messaging service that sends brief messages in situations posing imminent physical threats, via email, SMS text, and voice.","Cal Poly email addresses are auto-enrolled; students, faculty, staff, and auxiliary employees may register up to two cell-phone numbers in the Cal Poly Portal to also receive text alerts.","Emergency notifications follow the Clery standard — confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation with an immediate threat to health or safety on campus — issued without unnecessary delay.","Timely warnings are a separate Clery track for serious or ongoing threats from a reported Clery crime on Clery geography; the Chief of Police confers with the Clery Director on whether the incident meets all necessary factors, and warnings must be issued promptly without unnecessary delay.","Typical PolyAlert messages are action-oriented: warnings of potential hazards, emergency instructions, and evacuation orders."],"sources":[{"title":"Poly Alert — Cal Poly Police Department","url":"https://afd.calpoly.edu/police/police-administration/poly-alert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Stay Informed / Get Notified — Cal Poly Department of Emergency Management","url":"https://afd.calpoly.edu/emergency/readiness/stay-informed-get-notified/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Cal Poly University Police Annual Security Report (PDF)","url":"https://afd.calpoly.edu/clery/reports/annual-security-report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Poly Alert History — Cal Poly Department of Emergency Management","url":"https://afd.calpoly.edu/emergency/status/polyalert-history","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","polyalert","public-masters","california","csu"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"cal-state-fullerton-titan-alert-policy","slug":"cal-state-fullerton-titan-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"California State University, Fullerton","shortName":"CSUF","state":"CA","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"Titan Alert","enrollment":45863},"policy":{"title":"CSUF Emergency Alerts (Titan Alert) and Clery Notifications / Timely Warnings","systemName":"Titan Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://police.fullerton.edu/emergency-alerts/index.html","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"[Titan Alert](https://police.fullerton.edu/emergency-alerts/index.html) is California State University, Fullerton's emergency-notification program, run by the CSUF Police Department, which sends Emergency Alerts by email, phone call, and text message (with follow-up posted to the department website, X, and campus digital signage) and issues separate Clery Notifications / Timely Warnings; the underlying Clery framework follows the CSU systemwide public-alert policy and is documented in the CSUF [Annual Security Report](https://hr.fullerton.edu/risk-management/clery-act).","analysis":"California State University, Fullerton — the largest campus in the CSU system — disseminates emergency information through [Titan Alert](https://police.fullerton.edu/emergency-alerts/index.html), administered by the CSUF Police Department. The department's Emergency Alerts page draws a clean distinction between two Clery obligations. Per that page, 'Emergency Alerts' may be sent via email, phone call, or text message, with the messaging subsequently accessible on the department website and on X; in the event of a critical emergency, the CSUF campus digital signage is activated to visually display notifications. Separately, the university issues 'Clery Notifications' (Timely Warnings) via email, the website, and X in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Act to give the community preventative information aimed at helping members avoid becoming the victim of a similar crime.\n\nThe governing policy is the CSU Police Systemwide Public Alert policy, which describes the procedures used to immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students and/or employees occurring on the campus, as required by the Clery Act. As a CSU campus, CSUF's emergency-notification decision authority and 'without delay' timeliness obligation mirror the standard CSU framing vested in the Chief of Police and/or the Clery Director (or their management designees), who prepare the notification content, determine which segment of the community is threatened, and transmit the notification subject to the Clery containment/life-saving exception. The current [Annual Security Report](https://hr.fullerton.edu/risk-management/clery-act) — which CSUF describes as containing its security and safety-related policy statements, emergency preparedness and evacuation information, and crime- and sexual-assault-prevention information — is the document where these criteria, decision authority, and testing cadence are formally stated.\n\nEnrollment in Titan Alert text/phone delivery is tied to the contact information students and employees maintain in the campus PeopleSoft/Student Center and HR systems; CSUF directs community members to keep their personal contact information current so they receive Titan Alert messages. In January 2026 the CSUF Police Department also launched the [TitanSafety mobile app](https://news.fullerton.edu/2026/01/csuf-police-department-launches-titansafety-mobile-app/), which complements Titan Alert by letting users call 911, reach counseling services, and chat directly with CSUF PD.\n\nBecause CSUF's official .edu hosts return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from official CSUF Police Department page text as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries; the CSU systemwide-policy and ASR criteria, decision-authority, and testing details are paraphrased from the corroborated standard CSU framing rather than quoted, because the exact ASR sentences could not be reproduced verbatim from the source here.","whenCriteria":"Emergency Alerts (Titan Alert) are issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students and/or employees occurring on the campus, as required by the Clery Act. Clery Notifications / Timely Warnings are issued separately to provide preventative information about Clery crimes that pose a serious or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"Consistent with the CSU Police Systemwide Public Alert policy, the Chief of Police and/or the Clery Director (or their management designees) prepare the content, determine which members of the campus community are threatened and need to be notified, and authorize transmission of the emergency notification. (Paraphrased from the standard CSU framing; exact CSUF ASR wording not reproduced verbatim here.)","timingStandard":"Following the CSU systemwide framing, the notification is transmitted without delay, taking into account the safety of the community, unless doing so would delay the ability to mitigate and/or contain the emergency, including the ability to provide immediate, life-saving measures.","cleryFraming":"CSUF treats Emergency Alerts (Titan Alert emergency notifications) and Clery Notifications / Timely Warnings as distinct obligations: Emergency Alerts go out by email, phone call, and text for immediate threats, while Clery Notifications / Timely Warnings are sent by email, website, and X for serious or continuing Clery-crime threats.","testingCadence":"As a CSU campus, the Emergency Notification System is tested at least once annually (announced or unannounced), with the formal cadence stated in the Annual Security Report. (Paraphrased standard CSU framing; exact CSUF ASR sentence not reproduced verbatim here.)","scopeLimits":"Notification may be withheld or its segment-targeting deferred if doing so would delay the ability to mitigate or contain the emergency or provide life-saving measures. Text/phone delivery depends on community members keeping current contact information in CSUF's PeopleSoft/Student Center and HR systems.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","twitter-x","website","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency Alert channels","quotedText":"\"Emergency Alerts\" may be sent via email, phone call, or text message. The messaging will subsequently be accessible on this website and X. In the event of a critical emergency, the CSUF campus digital signage will be activated, which will visually display notifications.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.fullerton.edu/emergency-alerts/index.html","sourceDescription":"CSUF Police Department — Emergency Alerts page","annotations":["Lists the Titan Alert emergency-notification channels (email, phone call, text) plus the follow-up posting to the website, X, and campus digital signage during a critical emergency."],"characterCount":271},{"label":"Clery Notifications / Timely Warnings","quotedText":"\"Clery Notifications\" or Timely Warnings are sent via email, published on this website, and via X, and in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Act.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.fullerton.edu/emergency-alerts/index.html","sourceDescription":"CSUF Police Department — Emergency Alerts page","annotations":["Establishes that Clery Notifications / Timely Warnings are a separate channel set (email, website, X) issued for Clery Act compliance, distinct from Titan Alert emergency notifications."],"characterCount":143},{"label":"CSU systemwide public-alert purpose","quotedText":"The CSU Police Systemwide Public Alert policy describes the procedures that will be used to immediately notify the Campus community upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students and/or employees occurring on the Campus, as required by the Clery Act.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.fullerton.edu/emergency-alerts/index.html","sourceDescription":"CSUF Police Department — Emergency Alerts page (CSU systemwide policy description)","annotations":["Identifies the CSU Police Systemwide Public Alert policy as the governing framework and states the Clery confirmation-of-a-significant-emergency trigger."],"characterCount":341}],"keyFindings":["Titan Alert is run by the CSUF Police Department and sends Emergency Alerts by email, phone call, and text message, with follow-up posted to the department website, X, and (during a critical emergency) campus digital signage.","CSUF keeps Emergency Alerts (emergency notifications) and Clery Notifications / Timely Warnings as distinct obligations; Timely Warnings go out by email, website, and X for serious or continuing Clery-crime threats.","The governing framework is the CSU Police Systemwide Public Alert policy, which immediately notifies the community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat, as required by the Clery Act.","Decision authority and the 'without delay' timeliness obligation follow the standard CSU framing vested in the Chief of Police and/or Clery Director (or designees); the current Annual Security Report (hosted via CSUF Risk Management) is the formal policy document.","CSUF complements Titan Alert with the TitanSafety mobile app (launched January 2026) for 911 calls, counseling access, and direct chat with CSUF PD."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Alerts | CSUF Police Department","url":"https://police.fullerton.edu/emergency-alerts/index.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Act / Annual Security Report — CSUF Risk Management","url":"https://hr.fullerton.edu/risk-management/clery-act","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Emergency Notification — CSUF Division of Administration and Finance","url":"https://adminfin.fullerton.edu/emergency/EmergencyNotification.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"CSUF Police Department Launches TitanSafety Mobile App — CSUF News","url":"https://news.fullerton.edu/2026/01/csuf-police-department-launches-titansafety-mobile-app/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","titan-alert","public-r2","california","csu"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"csulb-beachalert-policy","slug":"csulb-beachalert-policy","institution":{"name":"California State University, Long Beach","shortName":"CSULB","state":"CA","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"BeachALERT","enrollment":42003},"policy":{"title":"CSULB BeachALERT Emergency Notification System and Clery Timely Warning Policy","systemName":"BeachALERT","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.csulb.edu/university-police/emergency-notification-system","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"[BeachALERT](https://www.csulb.edu/university-police/emergency-notification-system) is California State University, Long Beach's emergency-notification system, run by University Police, which sends messages without delay once an immediate threat is confirmed through phones, text, email, desktop notification, and the campus public address system; CSULB keeps it distinct from [Clery Timely Warnings](https://www.csulb.edu/equity-compliance/timely-warnings-emergency-notifications), and all current students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled.","analysis":"California State University, Long Beach (with [enrollment climbing to record levels in fall 2025](https://www.csulb.edu/news/article/csulb-student-enrollment-for-fall-2025-climbs-to-record-levels), the second-largest campus in the CSU system and a [Carnegie R2 'high research activity' university](https://carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/institution/california-state-university-long-beach/)) disseminates emergency information through [BeachALERT](https://www.csulb.edu/university-police/emergency-notification-system), the CSULB BeachALERT Emergency Notification System administered by University Police. CSULB ties activation to the federal Clery standard: emergency notifications are issued upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus, and operationally 'a BeachALERT notification will be sent without delay once an immediate threat to campus safety is identified and confirmed.'\n\nDecision authority rests with University Police leadership. CSULB's [Equity & Compliance office](https://www.csulb.edu/equity-compliance/timely-warnings-emergency-notifications) describes the Chief of Police conferring with the Clery Director to prepare content when there is an immediate or imminent threat, with the Chief of Police and/or the Clery Director (or, in their absence, a management designee) transmitting the notification — and the university 'will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, transmit the emergency notification unless doing so would delay the ability to mitigate and/or contain the emergency, including the ability to provide immediate, life saving measures.' That life-safety containment exception is the standard CSU/Clery carve-out.\n\nCSULB draws a sharp line between its two Clery functions. Timely warnings 'are issued when it is determined that a serious or ongoing threat to the campus community exists, following a report of a Clery Act crime that occurred on Clery Act geography,' and CSULB explicitly states that if an emergency notification is issued, a timely warning shall not be issued for the same incident — a clean de-duplication rule that not every institution states outright. These policies are documented in CSULB's [Annual Security Report](https://www.csulb.edu/equity-compliance/annual-security-report) (the Jeanne Clery disclosure), with the 2025 edition covering 2022 through 2024.\n\nThe channel set is delivered through phones, text messaging, email, desktop notification, and the campus public address system, with CSULB describing text as the quickest and most reliable channel; during an actual emergency the university supplements these with the CSULB webpage, email announcements, toll-free emergency lines, voice-mail broadcasts, and University Police presence. The @CSULBPolice account on X is used in practice to push BeachALERT messages, though social media was not corroborated as a named verbatim policy channel and no outdoor siren, WEA/IPAWS, or app-push layer was found. On testing, CSULB's operational pages state the system 'is tested each semester' and that 'with the exception of semester tests, the University will only send text messages during emergency situations,' while the ASR commits to testing at least once annually, announced or unannounced. All current CSULB students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled, with non-affiliates able to opt in by texting 'BeachAlert' to 77295. One honesty note: the CSULB .edu hosts and the ASR PDF returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so the seven marked-verbatim excerpts below were captured from search-index snippets corroborated across two or more independent retrievals rather than read from a rendered page.","whenCriteria":"Emergency Notifications are issued upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus, and a BeachALERT notification will be sent without delay once an immediate threat is identified and confirmed. Timely warnings are issued separately when a serious or ongoing threat exists following a report of a Clery Act crime on Clery geography.","decisionAuthority":"The Chief of Police confers with the Clery Director to prepare content when there is an immediate or imminent threat, and the Chief of Police and/or the Clery Director (or, in their absence, a management designee) transmit the emergency notification; the Chief of Police (or management designee) confirms the emergency, may confer with appropriate public officials, and determines whether to notify the larger community or a specific segment. University Police and the campus Emergency Manager run the system operationally.","timingStandard":"CSULB states it 'will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, transmit the emergency notification unless doing so would delay the ability to mitigate and/or contain the emergency, including the ability to provide immediate, life saving measures' — and operationally that a BeachALERT will be sent without delay once an immediate threat is identified and confirmed.","cleryFraming":"CSULB separates the two Clery functions: BeachALERT emergency notifications for confirmed immediate threats, and Clery timely warnings for serious or ongoing threats following a report of a Clery Act crime on Clery geography. The university applies a de-duplication rule — if an emergency notification is issued, a timely warning shall not be issued for the same incident — and documents both in its Annual Security Report (Jeanne Clery disclosure).","testingCadence":"CSULB's operational pages state the Emergency Notification System 'is tested each semester' and that 'with the exception of semester tests, the University will only send text messages during emergency situations'; the Annual Security Report commits to testing at least once annually, announced or unannounced, alongside an annual spring evacuation drill.","scopeLimits":"All current CSULB students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled to receive BeachALERT notifications, but must keep contact information current via CSULB Single Sign-On each semester (and, for texts, list a mobile number as both 'Mobile' and 'Preferred'); non-affiliates, community members, and auxiliaries opt in by texting 'BeachAlert' to 77295. No outdoor siren, WEA/IPAWS, or dedicated app-push layer was corroborated, and social media is a confirmed practice rather than a named verbatim policy channel.","channels":["phone-call","sms","email","desktop-popup","pa-system","website","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"BeachALERT operational trigger","quotedText":"A BeachALERT notification will be sent without delay once an immediate threat to campus safety is identified and confirmed.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.csulb.edu/university-police/emergency-notification-system","sourceDescription":"CSULB University Police — Emergency Notification System page","annotations":["States the operational 'without delay, once identified and confirmed' trigger for a BeachALERT. Identical wording appeared across 3+ independent official-attributed retrievals; the .edu host 403-blocked direct fetch."],"characterCount":123},{"label":"Emergency Notification activation threshold","quotedText":"Emergency Notifications are issued upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.csulb.edu/equity-compliance/timely-warnings-emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"CSULB Equity & Compliance — Timely Warnings & Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Maps the activation threshold directly onto the federal Clery 'confirmation of a significant emergency' standard. Identical wording appeared across 2+ independent official-attributed retrievals."],"characterCount":206},{"label":"Timely Warning definition","quotedText":"Timely Warnings are issued when it is determined that a serious or ongoing threat to the campus community exists, following a report of a Clery Act crime that occurred on Clery Act geography.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.csulb.edu/equity-compliance/timely-warnings-emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"CSULB Equity & Compliance — Timely Warnings & Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Establishes the timely-warning trigger (serious or ongoing threat after a Clery crime on Clery geography), distinct from emergency notifications. Identical wording appeared across 2+ independent official-attributed retrievals."],"characterCount":191},{"label":"Channel list","quotedText":"...send emergency messages and instructions simultaneously to individuals through phones, text messaging, email, desktop notification, and the campus public address system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.csulb.edu/university-police/emergency-notification-system","sourceDescription":"CSULB University Police — Emergency Notification System page","annotations":["Enumerates the BeachALERT delivery channels: phone, text, email, desktop notification, and the campus public address system. Identical wording appeared across 2 independent official-attributed retrievals."],"characterCount":172},{"label":"Transmission timing / life-safety exception","quotedText":"...will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, transmit the emergency notification unless doing so would delay the ability to mitigate and/or contain the emergency, including the ability to provide immediate, life saving measures.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.csulb.edu/equity-compliance/timely-warnings-emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"CSULB Equity & Compliance / 2025 Annual Security Report","annotations":["States the 'without delay' standard plus the standard Clery containment/life-saving exception. Identical wording appeared across 2 independent official-attributed retrievals."],"characterCount":259},{"label":"Testing cadence / text-only rule","quotedText":"With the exception of semester tests, the University will only send text messages during emergency situations.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://daf.csulb.edu/projects/beach_alert/","sourceDescription":"CSULB Police — BeachALERT project guide","annotations":["Confirms per-semester testing and the discipline that text messages are otherwise reserved for real emergencies. Identical wording appeared across 2 independent official-attributed retrievals."],"characterCount":110},{"label":"Automatic enrollment","quotedText":"All current CSULB students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled to receive BeachALERT notifications...","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.csulb.edu/university-police/emergency-notification-system","sourceDescription":"CSULB University Police — Emergency Notification System page","annotations":["Confirms automatic enrollment of all current students, faculty, and staff (with the caveat that contact info must be kept current). Identical wording appeared across 2+ independent official-attributed retrievals."],"characterCount":112}],"keyFindings":["CSULB's emergency-notification system is BeachALERT (the CSULB BeachALERT Emergency Notification System), run by University Police.","BeachALERT is triggered upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat, and sent without delay once that threat is identified and confirmed.","Decision authority rests with the Chief of Police and/or Clery Director (or a management designee), subject to the standard Clery containment/life-saving exception.","CSULB keeps emergency notifications and timely warnings distinct and applies a de-duplication rule: if an emergency notification is issued, a timely warning shall not be issued for the same incident.","Channels are phone, text, email, desktop notification, and the campus public address system (plus the @CSULBPolice X account in practice); the system is tested each semester and at least annually; all current students/faculty/staff are auto-enrolled. No siren/WEA/app-push found; all quoted wording was corroborated via search-index snippets because the .edu hosts 403-blocked automated fetching."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notification System — CSULB University Police","url":"https://www.csulb.edu/university-police/emergency-notification-system","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Timely Warnings & Emergency Notifications — CSULB Equity & Compliance","url":"https://www.csulb.edu/equity-compliance/timely-warnings-emergency-notifications","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"BeachALERT project guide — CSULB Police","url":"https://daf.csulb.edu/projects/beach_alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual Security Report — CSULB Equity & Compliance","url":"https://www.csulb.edu/equity-compliance/annual-security-report","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"2025 Annual Security Report / Jeanne Clery Disclosure (PDF)","url":"https://www.csulb.edu/sites/default/files/2025/documents/2025_Clery_ASR.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"How to Sign Up for BeachALERT — CSULB IT Knowledge Base","url":"https://csulb.teamdynamix.com/TDClient/1993/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=73988","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"California State University, Long Beach — Carnegie Classification record","url":"https://carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/institution/california-state-university-long-beach/","type":"other"},{"title":"Annual spring evacuation drill at CSULB set for Feb. 21 — Long Beach Current","url":"https://lbcurrent.com/news/2025/02/08/annual-spring-evacuation-drill-at-csulb-set-for-feb-21","type":"student-newspaper"},{"title":"CSULB student enrollment for fall 2025 climbs to record levels","url":"https://www.csulb.edu/news/article/csulb-student-enrollment-for-fall-2025-climbs-to-record-levels","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","beachalert","public-r2","california","csu"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-02","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"cal-state-la-eagle-alert-policy","slug":"cal-state-la-eagle-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"California State University, Los Angeles","shortName":"Cal State LA","state":"CA","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"Eagle Alert"},"policy":{"title":"Eagle Alert","systemName":"Eagle Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.calstatela.edu/alerts/eagle-alert"},"summary":"Cal State LA's [Eagle Alert](https://www.calstatela.edu/alerts/eagle-alert) sends emergency notification and safety advisory messages to campus email addresses, mobile phones by text, and the campus Guardian app for fires, earthquakes, acts of violence, or other situations posing an imminent threat to life, health, or safety, with all currently enrolled students, faculty, and staff automatically enrolled using contact information drawn from the university's Student Administration and Human Resources systems.","analysis":"Cal State LA's [Department of Public Safety](https://www.calstatela.edu/alerts/eagle-alert) describes Eagle Alert as the university's emergency notification and safety advisory system, used to send messages to all students, faculty, and staff by campus email, text message to mobile phones, and the campus Guardian mobile app. The stated trigger list, fires, earthquakes, and acts of violence or situations posing an imminent threat to life, health, or the safety of the campus community, mirrors a fairly standard all hazards Clery emergency notification standard, and the university states that messages are only sent after carefully assessing a situation and determining it is serious enough to warrant a notification, or to periodically conduct system tests, with such messages clearly labeled as a Cal State LA Emergency Notification.\n\nEnrollment in Eagle Alert is not opt in for the core campus population; the university states that all currently enrolled Cal State LA students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled in Eagle Alert using contact information already on file in the university's Student Administration and Human Resources systems, with that data feed described as refreshed monthly. That automatic, systems fed enrollment model is a deliberate design choice against the more common opt in registration portal used by many peer campuses, intended to close the gap between a campus population and its actual alert subscriber list.\n\nBecause calstatela.edu returned blocked connections to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below are reconstructed from search engine indexed extracts of the official page rather than a firsthand character by character read, and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation; this record is scored at medium confidence on that basis.","whenCriteria":"Cal State LA Emergency Notifications are sent when emergency situations arise, such as fires, earthquakes, and acts of violence or situations posing an imminent threat to life, health, or the safety of the campus community, after the university carefully assesses the situation and determines it warrants notification.","decisionAuthority":"Cal State LA's Department of Public Safety is presented as administering Eagle Alert and assessing whether a situation is serious enough to warrant a notification; a single named approving official was not confirmed in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"Eagle Alert notifications are sent only after Cal State LA carefully assesses a situation and determines it is serious enough to warrant notification; a specific minutes based timeliness standard was not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"Eagle Alert is framed as Cal State LA's emergency notification and safety advisory system, with messages explicitly labeled Cal State LA Emergency Notification, tying the system to the Clery Act's emergency notification requirement in the language captured.","scopeLimits":"All currently enrolled students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled in Eagle Alert using contact information from the university's Student Administration and Human Resources systems, refreshed monthly, rather than through opt in self registration.","testingCadence":"Cal State LA states it may send Eagle Alert messages to periodically conduct system tests; a fixed calendar cadence was not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed.","channels":["email","sms","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"What Eagle Alert is","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.calstatela.edu/alerts/eagle-alert","sourceDescription":"Cal State LA, Eagle Alert (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Activation and labeling standard","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.calstatela.edu/alerts/eagle-alert","sourceDescription":"Cal State LA, Eagle Alert (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Automatic enrollment","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.calstatela.edu/alerts/eagle-alert","sourceDescription":"Cal State LA, Eagle Alert (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Eagle Alert is Cal State LA's emergency notification and safety advisory system, reaching campus email, mobile text, and the Guardian app.","Notifications are sent after a deliberate assessment that a situation, such as fire, earthquake, or violence, poses an imminent threat, and are consistently labeled Cal State LA Emergency Notification.","Enrollment is automatic for all currently enrolled students, faculty, and staff, drawn from existing Student Administration and Human Resources data and refreshed monthly, rather than opt in registration.","Calstatela.edu could not be directly loaded in this environment, so this record is scored at medium confidence and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation."],"sources":[{"title":"Eagle Alert, Cal State LA","url":"https://www.calstatela.edu/alerts/eagle-alert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Alerts, Cal State LA","url":"https://www.calstatela.edu/alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Department of Public Safety, Cal State LA","url":"https://www.calstatela.edu/publicsafety","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","eagle-alert","public-masters","california","csu"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-27","lastUpdated":"2026-09-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"california-state-university-northridge-matadorready-policy","slug":"california-state-university-northridge-matadorready-policy","institution":{"name":"California State University, Northridge","shortName":"CSUN","state":"CA","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"CSUN Emergency Notification / MatadorReady","enrollment":38000},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Management, MatadorReady, and Multi-Channel Emergency Notification","systemName":"CSUN Emergency Notification / MatadorReady","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://www.csun.edu/emergency-management","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"CSUN's [Emergency Management page](https://www.csun.edu/emergency-management) places the Office of Emergency Management under Department of Police Services per CSU Executive Order 1056, brands MatadorReady preparedness communications, and states Police Services will use redundant methods including email, voicemail, text, social media posts, and emergency signage for emergency messages and updates, with named Emergency Manager Nelson Cox.","analysis":"California State University, Northridge is a public R2 campus. Its [Emergency Management](https://www.csun.edu/emergency-management) page is institution-specific: the Office of Emergency Management is a unit of Department of Police Services charged with coordinating preparation and response for natural and man-made emergencies; campus emergency management program responsibility under California State University Executive Order 1056 is delegated to Police Services; MatadorReady is the local preparedness brand (MatadorReady Reader newsletter, #MatadorReady); Department of Police Services will utilize redundant methods of communication to send emergency messages and updates via email, voicemail, text, social media posts and emergency signage; Emergency Manager Nelson Cox is named with phone (818) 677-5973; active-shooter procedure language (Get Out / Hide Out / Help Out / Fight) is published for students, faculty, and staff.","whenCriteria":"Natural and man-made emergency situations requiring campus emergency management coordination and multi-channel emergency messages/updates.","decisionAuthority":"Department of Police Services (delegated under CSU Executive Order 1056); Office of Emergency Management; named Emergency Manager Nelson Cox.","timingStandard":"Not a fixed minute SLA; multi-channel redundant emergency messages and updates are used during emergencies.","cleryFraming":"Page is emergency-management oriented under CSU EO 1056 rather than a standalone Clery Timely Warning criteria boilerplate page.","scopeLimits":"CSUN campus community; multi-channel emergency messaging (email, voicemail, text, social media, emergency signage).","testingCadence":"Preparedness events and Emergency Preparedness Training are referenced; specific drill cadence not stated on this overview page.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","twitter-x","facebook","website","digital-signage","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Police Services EO 1056 emergency management delegation","quotedText":"The Office of Emergency Management is a unit of the Department of Police Services that is charged with coordinating all activities needed to prepare for and respond to both natural and man-made emergency situations. The responsibility for a campus emergency management program as required in California State University Executive Order #1056, has been delegated to the Department of Police Services.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.csun.edu/emergency-management","sourceDescription":"CSUN Emergency Management page","annotations":["Local OEM/Police Services structure and CSU EO 1056 citation."],"characterCount":399},{"label":"Redundant multi-channel emergency messaging","quotedText":"Additionally, the Department of Police Services will utilize redundant methods of communication to send emergency messages and updates via email, voicemail, text, social media posts and emergency signage.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.csun.edu/emergency-management","sourceDescription":"CSUN Emergency Management page","annotations":["Explicit multi-channel emergency communication methods."],"characterCount":204},{"label":"MatadorReady brand and named Emergency Manager","quotedText":"Unlocking Our Preparedness: Introducing the MatadorReady Reader. Dive into our inaugural issue for essential updates, expert insights, and tips to keep our CSUN community safe and informed. Stay ahead, stay #MatadorReady! Contact Us: Nelson Cox, Emergency Manager (818) 677-5973.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.csun.edu/emergency-management","sourceDescription":"CSUN Emergency Management page","annotations":["Local MatadorReady brand and named emergency manager contact."],"characterCount":279}],"keyFindings":["MatadorReady branding with CSU EO 1056 Police Services emergency management program.","Public-r2 thin-type EOP-adjacent policy with named Emergency Manager."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Management - California State University, Northridge","url":"https://www.csun.edu/emergency-management","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["public-r2","california","matadorready","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"sacramento-state-ens-alert-policy","slug":"sacramento-state-ens-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"California State University, Sacramento","shortName":"Sacramento State","state":"CA","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"Emergency Notification System (ENS)","enrollment":31307},"policy":{"title":"Sacramento State Emergency Notification System (ENS) and Clery Emergency Notification / Timely Warning Policy","systemName":"Emergency Notification System (ENS)","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.csus.edu/campus-safety/police-department/news-alerts/emergency-notification-system-ens.html","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"Sacramento State's [Emergency Notification System (ENS)](https://www.csus.edu/campus-safety/police-department/news-alerts/emergency-notification-system-ens.html) automates delivery of urgent alerts from the Sacramento State Police Department to students, employees, and eligible participants — by text, email, phone call, an audio warning, a [Campus Alerts](https://www.csus.edu/alert/) web page, and digital signage — with Clery criteria, decision authority, and testing set out in the Sacramento State [2025 Annual Security Report](https://www.csus.edu/campus-safety/_internal/_documents/clery/clery_report.pdf).","analysis":"California State University, Sacramento (Sacramento State) disseminates emergency information through its [Emergency Notification System (ENS)](https://www.csus.edu/campus-safety/police-department/news-alerts/emergency-notification-system-ens.html), administered by the Sacramento State Police Department. Per the ENS page, the system automates delivery of urgent alerts from the Sacramento State Police Department to students, employees, and eligible participants in the event of a campus shooting, bomb threat, hazardous material spill, flood, fire, campus closure, or other event that may cause immediate harm. The system reaches the community through text messages, email, phone calls, and an audio warning, and it can also distribute alerts across multiple university-managed platforms — including a dedicated [Campus Alerts](https://www.csus.edu/alert/) web page (with information and links for both emergency and non-emergency alerts) and digital signage on stand-alone campus kiosks and TV monitors in the University Union, The Well, Library, AIRC, and Lassen, Mariposa, Sacramento, and Tahoe Halls.\n\nThe ENS page describes the message sequence: in the event of an emergency, Public Safety may send a notification message; a follow-up notification can be sent shortly thereafter with more specific details of the event and safety procedures, or an 'all-clear' message is sent when the threat has ended. The Clery framework behind ENS is set out in the Sacramento State [2025 Annual Security Report](https://www.csus.edu/campus-safety/_internal/_documents/clery/clery_report.pdf), which the university prepares in accordance with the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act and which contains its security and safety-related policy statements, emergency-preparedness and evacuation information, crime- and sexual-assault-prevention information, and Clery crime statistics. Consistent with Clery's relationship between the two obligations, where an emergency notification is issued for an incident a separate timely warning is not required for the same incident, and the Chief of Police and/or Clery Director (or their respective designees) provide updates to the emergency notification with pertinent updates or direction for safety as new information becomes available.\n\nAs a CSU campus, Sacramento State's emergency-notification decision authority and 'without delay' timeliness obligation track the standard CSU framing vested in the Chief of Police and/or the Clery Director (or their management designees), who prepare the notification content, determine the threatened segment of the community, and authorize transmission subject to the Clery containment/life-saving exception; the formal criteria, decision authority, and at-least-annual testing cadence are stated in the Annual Security Report.\n\nBecause Sacramento State's official .edu hosts return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from official Sacramento State Police Department ENS page text as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries. The decision-authority, 'without delay' timing, the timely-warning-not-required relationship, and the testing cadence are paraphrased from the corroborated standard CSU/Clery framing rather than quoted, because those exact ASR sentences could not be reproduced verbatim from the source here.","whenCriteria":"ENS issues urgent alerts in the event of a campus shooting, bomb threat, hazardous material spill, flood, fire, campus closure, or other event that may cause immediate harm. Under the Clery Act, an emergency notification follows confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety; a timely warning is issued for Clery crimes posing a serious or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"ENS alerts are sent by the Sacramento State Police Department / Public Safety. Consistent with the CSU framing, the Chief of Police and/or the Clery Director (or their respective designees) prepare the content, determine the threatened segment of the community, authorize transmission, and provide updates as new information becomes available. (Decision-authority and 'without delay' wording paraphrased from the standard CSU framing; exact Sacramento State ASR sentences not reproduced verbatim here.)","timingStandard":"Following the CSU systemwide framing, the notification is transmitted without delay, taking into account the safety of the community, unless doing so would delay the ability to mitigate and/or contain the emergency, including providing immediate, life-saving measures. (Paraphrased standard CSU framing; exact Sacramento State ASR sentence not reproduced verbatim here.)","cleryFraming":"Emergency notifications (ENS) and timely warnings are distinct Clery obligations documented in the Clery Act-mandated Annual Security Report; where an emergency notification is issued for an incident, a separate timely warning is not required for the same incident, and the Chief of Police and/or Clery Director (or designees) issue updates with pertinent direction for safety.","testingCadence":"As a CSU campus, the Emergency Notification System is tested at least once annually (announced or unannounced), with the formal cadence stated in the Annual Security Report. (Paraphrased standard CSU framing; exact Sacramento State ASR sentence not reproduced verbatim here.)","scopeLimits":"Notification may be withheld if transmitting it would delay the ability to mitigate or contain the emergency or provide life-saving measures. ENS targets students, employees, and eligible participants and distributes across multiple university-managed platforms (text, email, phone, audio warning, Campus Alerts page, and digital signage/kiosks/TV monitors). Personal-device delivery depends on student/employee-provided contact information.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system","website","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"ENS purpose and triggers","quotedText":"Sacramento State's Emergency Notification System (ENS) automates delivery of urgent alerts from the Sacramento State Police Department to students, employees, and eligible participants in the event of a campus shooting, bomb threat, hazardous material spill, flood, fire, campus closure, or other event that may cause immediate harm.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.csus.edu/campus-safety/police-department/news-alerts/emergency-notification-system-ens.html","sourceDescription":"Sacramento State — Emergency Notification System (ENS) page","annotations":["Defines ENS, names the Sacramento State Police Department as the sender, identifies the recipient population, and enumerates the triggering incident types."],"characterCount":333},{"label":"ENS distribution platforms","quotedText":"ENS can distribute emergency alerts across multiple University-managed platforms, and to student/employee-provided personal contact information, including Campus Alerts page (dedicated web page with information/links for both emergency and non-emergency alerts) and Digital alerts (Digital signage on stand-alone campus kiosks, and TV monitors in the University Union, The Well, Library, AIRC, and Lassen, Mariposa, Sacramento and Tahoe Halls).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.csus.edu/campus-safety/police-department/news-alerts/emergency-notification-system-ens.html","sourceDescription":"Sacramento State — Emergency Notification System (ENS) page","annotations":["Lists the multi-platform delivery surfaces, including the Campus Alerts web page and named buildings with digital signage and TV monitors."],"characterCount":444},{"label":"Message sequence and all-clear","quotedText":"In the event of an emergency, Public Safety may send a notification message. A follow-up notification can be sent shortly thereafter, with more specific details of the event and safety procedures, or an \"all-clear\" message sent when the threat has ended.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.csus.edu/campus-safety/police-department/news-alerts/emergency-notification-system-ens.html","sourceDescription":"Sacramento State — Emergency Notification System (ENS) page","annotations":["Describes the initial / follow-up / all-clear message sequence and that the all-clear is sent only when the threat has ended."],"characterCount":254}],"keyFindings":["ENS automates delivery of urgent alerts from the Sacramento State Police Department to students, employees, and eligible participants for campus shootings, bomb threats, hazmat spills, floods, fires, closures, or other events that may cause immediate harm.","ENS reaches the community by text, email, phone call, and an audio warning, plus a dedicated Campus Alerts web page and digital signage on kiosks and TV monitors in named campus buildings.","The message sequence is initial notification, then a more detailed follow-up, or an 'all-clear' sent only when the threat has ended.","Decision authority and the 'without delay' timing follow the standard CSU framing (Chief of Police and/or Clery Director or designees); the 2025 Annual Security Report is the formal policy document.","Emergency notifications and timely warnings are distinct Clery obligations; where an emergency notification is issued, a timely warning is not separately required for the same incident, and updates are provided as new information becomes available."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notification System (ENS) | Sacramento State","url":"https://www.csus.edu/campus-safety/police-department/news-alerts/emergency-notification-system-ens.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Sacramento State 2025 Annual Security Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.csus.edu/campus-safety/_internal/_documents/clery/clery_report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Campus Alerts | Sacramento State","url":"https://www.csus.edu/alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"The Jeanne Clery Act | Sacramento State","url":"https://www.csus.edu/campus-safety/clery-act/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","emergency-notification-system","public-r2","california","csu"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-31","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"cape-fear-community-college-campus-safety-alert-policy","slug":"cape-fear-community-college-campus-safety-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Cape Fear Community College","shortName":"CFCC","state":"NC","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Emergency Alert and Mass Notification System","enrollment":14000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning Notices and Emergency Alert System (ASR)","systemName":"Emergency Alert and Mass Notification System","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://cfcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Clery-Report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Cape Fear Community College's [2025 Clery Report](https://cfcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Clery-Report.pdf) assigns campus-wide timely warnings to the judgment of the Campus Safety Office or designee, brands Campus Safety Alerts, and describes an Emergency Alert and Mass Notification System for voice, email, and text with periodic testing.","analysis":"Cape Fear Community College (Wilmington, North Carolina) publishes Timely Warning Notices practice in its [2025 Clery Report](https://cfcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Clery-Report.pdf). Institution-specific content includes Campus Safety Office decision authority, the local report phone 910.362.7855 to CFCC Security, the Campus Safety Alert label, and an Emergency Alert and Mass Notification System that sends voice, email, and text with periodic testing.\n\nThose local roles, phone number, and system description are what this record captures.","whenCriteria":"Campus-wide timely warning when Campus Safety Office or designee judges an ongoing or continuing threat to health or safety, on or off campus. Emergency system activation for emergency situations requiring rapid faculty/staff/student notice.","decisionAuthority":"Campus Safety Office or designee decides timely warnings. Campus Safety personnel activate the Emergency Alert and Mass Notification System. Incidents reported to CFCC Security at 910.362.7855 for Campus Safety Alert consideration.","timingStandard":"Quick notice via voice, email, and text when the emergency system is activated; periodic testing conducted for safety measures.","cleryFraming":"ASR Timely Warning Notices section ties continuing-threat warnings to Clery duties and pairs them with the Emergency Notification Plan system.","scopeLimits":"On or off campus situations in Campus Safety judgment; personal information from the alert system not used for other purposes.","testingCadence":"Periodic testing of the Emergency Alert and Mass Notification System.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Campus Safety Office timely-warning judgment","quotedText":"In the event that a situation arises, either on or off campus, that, in the judgment of the Campus Safety Office or their designee, constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat to health or safety of the college, a campus wide \"timely warning\" will be issued.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://cfcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Clery-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"CFCC 2025 Clery Report Timely Warning Notices","annotations":["Named Campus Safety Office as decision authority."],"characterCount":258},{"label":"Local Security phone and Campus Safety Alert","quotedText":"Members of the college who know of a crime or other serious incident should report the incident immediately by phone (910.362.7855) to Cape Fear Community College Security so that a Campus Safety Alert can be issued, if warranted.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://cfcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Clery-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"CFCC 2025 Clery Report","annotations":["Local phone 910.362.7855 and Campus Safety Alert brand."],"characterCount":230},{"label":"Emergency Alert and Mass Notification System","quotedText":"The college has adopted an Emergency Alert and Mass Notification System as part of its Emergency Notification Plan. This system allows Campus Safety personnel to notify faculty/staff/students quickly by sending voice, email and text messages should an emergency situation occur.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://cfcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Clery-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"CFCC 2025 Clery Report","annotations":["Local EN system for voice, email, text."],"characterCount":278},{"label":"Activation and periodic testing","quotedText":"In the event of an emergency and upon activation of the system, participants will receive notification at any and all of the contact numbers provided. Furthermore, periodic testing of the system will be conducted for safety measures.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://cfcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Clery-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"CFCC 2025 Clery Report","annotations":["All registered contacts notified; periodic testing."],"characterCount":233}],"keyFindings":["Campus Safety Office or designee issues campus-wide timely warnings for continuing threats.","Report path is CFCC Security at 910.362.7855 for Campus Safety Alert consideration.","Emergency Alert and Mass Notification System sends voice, email, and text with periodic testing."],"sources":[{"title":"2025 Clery Report - Cape Fear Community College","url":"https://cfcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Clery-Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","timely-warning","emergency-notification","community-college","north-carolina"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"capella-university-alert-policy","slug":"capella-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Capella University","shortName":"Capella","state":"MN","type":"for-profit","alertSystemName":"Capella Emergency Notification System"},"policy":{"title":"Campus Security Narrative (Timely Warnings, Safety Advisories, and Emergency Notification)","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.capella.edu/content/dam/capella/PDF/2025_CU_Narrative.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Capella University, an online for-profit institution headquartered in Minneapolis, publishes its emergency notification and timely warning procedures in the [Campus Security Narrative](https://www.capella.edu/content/dam/capella/PDF/2025_CU_Narrative.pdf) that accompanies its annual Clery Act disclosures, with policy details also indexed on the [University Policies](https://www.capella.edu/university-policies/) page.","analysis":"Because Capella does not maintain a traditional residential campus, per the [Campus Security Narrative](https://www.capella.edu/content/dam/capella/PDF/2025_CU_Narrative.pdf), its published notification framework is scoped to the learning spaces the university actually uses: in-person residencies and any Capella-owned or Capella-leased locations. The narrative states plainly that as an accredited university offering programs of study online, Capella does not maintain a campus, and the disclosure requirements tied to campus geography apply only where the university uses space in direct support of its educational purpose, chiefly at required residencies.\n\nWithin that footprint, Capella commits to issuing timely warnings of reportable Clery Act crimes that constitute a threat to students and employees. The stated delivery methods for a timely warning or safety advisory are notably print and in-person, not purely electronic: email announcements, flyers posted at local campuses, and in-class announcements are named as the appropriate means, alongside other appropriate means left otherwise unspecified. For a residency in progress, the timely-warning obligation is carried by a residency-specific channel, the Walden or Capella Residency timely warning system, which reaches students, faculty, and staff attending that particular residency by email and phone; an Incident Commander determines whether a situation is a significant emergency or dangerous situation and which segment of the community needs to receive the notification.\n\nFor a live emergency, the narrative describes an escalation and recovery sequence rather than a single trigger-and-forget alert: the university sends all-clear notices and updates about continuing steps taken to respond to the emergency, including residency cancellations and facility closures. Testing is addressed at the institutional level, not merely per-residency, the narrative states that the university will annually publicize its emergency response and evacuation procedures in conjunction with annual tests of the emergency mass notification system, tying the public-facing testing commitment to the same annual disclosure cycle as the rest of the Clery narrative.\n\nCapella's sister institution [Walden University](https://www.waldenu.edu/media/23151/annual-disclosure-2023-2024-student-right-to-know-and-campus-security-clery-act-3-27-24), both owned by the same parent company, uses close to identical residency-based emergency notification language, which is consistent with a shared compliance template across the corporate family rather than two independently drafted policies.","whenCriteria":"A timely warning is issued for reportable Clery Act crimes that constitute a threat to students and employees within Capella's Clery geography (chiefly in-person residencies and Capella-owned or leased space). An Incident Commander determines whether a situation is a significant emergency or dangerous situation warranting notification during a residency.","decisionAuthority":"An Incident Commander determines if there is a significant emergency or dangerous situation and what segment of the campus community needs to receive a notification during a residency.","timingStandard":"Timely reports or warnings will be issued when a potentially dangerous threat to the University community arises; a specific minutes-based or hours-based numeric standard was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"The narrative is structured directly around Clery Act obligations: timely warnings for reportable crimes that threaten students and employees, plus the annually publicized emergency response and evacuation procedures required by the same disclosure framework.","testingCadence":"Capella states it will annually publicize its emergency response and evacuation procedures in conjunction with annual tests of the emergency mass notification system.","scopeLimits":"Capella does not maintain a traditional campus; disclosure and notification obligations are scoped to learning spaces used in direct support of the university's educational purpose, primarily required in-person residencies plus Capella-owned or leased property.","channels":["email","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"No traditional campus, scoped disclosure","quotedText":"As an accredited university offering programs of study online, Capella does not maintain a campus and, as such, the required disclosure requirements for campuses are not applicable.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.capella.edu/content/dam/capella/PDF/2025_CU_Narrative.pdf","sourceDescription":"Capella University Campus Security Narrative (PDF)","annotations":["Explains why Capella's Clery geography is limited to required residencies rather than a physical campus footprint."],"characterCount":181},{"label":"Timely warning commitment","quotedText":"Capella University will issue timely warnings of reportable Clery Act crimes that constitute a threat to students and employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.capella.edu/content/dam/capella/PDF/2025_CU_Narrative.pdf","sourceDescription":"Capella University Campus Security Narrative (PDF)","annotations":["The core Clery timely-warning commitment, stated as a direct obligation rather than a discretionary practice."],"characterCount":128},{"label":"Delivery methods for warnings","quotedText":"When a potentially dangerous threat to the University community arises, timely reports or warnings will be issued through e-mail announcements, the posting of flyers at local campuses, in-class announcements, or other appropriate means.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.capella.edu/content/dam/capella/PDF/2025_CU_Narrative.pdf","sourceDescription":"Capella University Campus Security Narrative (PDF)","annotations":["Notable for naming print and in-person channels (flyers, in-class announcements) alongside email, reflecting the residency-based delivery model."],"characterCount":236},{"label":"Annual testing commitment","quotedText":"The University will annually publicize its emergency response and evacuation procedures in conjunction with annual tests of the emergency mass notification system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.capella.edu/content/dam/capella/PDF/2025_CU_Narrative.pdf","sourceDescription":"Capella University Campus Security Narrative (PDF)","annotations":["Ties the public testing commitment to the same annual disclosure cycle as the rest of the Clery narrative."],"characterCount":163}],"keyFindings":["Capella's Clery geography is scoped to required in-person residencies and Capella-owned or leased property rather than a traditional campus, since the university describes itself as not maintaining a campus.","Timely warnings are delivered through a mix of email, posted flyers at local campuses, and in-class announcements, not solely through electronic mass notification.","During a residency, an Incident Commander determines whether a situation is a significant emergency and which segment of the community must be notified.","The emergency mass notification system is tested annually, timed to the same cycle as the university's public disclosure of its emergency response and evacuation procedures.","The residency-based notification language closely parallels that of Walden University, Capella's sister institution under the same corporate parent."],"sources":[{"title":"Capella University Campus Security Narrative 2025 (PDF)","url":"https://www.capella.edu/content/dam/capella/PDF/2025_CU_Narrative.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"University Policies | Capella University","url":"https://www.capella.edu/university-policies/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","for-profit","online-university","minnesota","residency-based"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"carleton-college-carlalert-policy","slug":"carleton-college-carlalert-policy","institution":{"name":"Carleton College","shortName":"Carleton","state":"MN","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"CarlAlert","enrollment":2086},"policy":{"title":"CarlAlert Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Policy (Annual Security and Fire Safety Report)","systemName":"CarlAlert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://carleton-wp-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/sites/316/2024/09/2024-Annual-Clery-Report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2024-09-01"},"summary":"Carleton College issues emergency notifications through [CarlAlert](https://www.carleton.edu/emergency/service/), branded on the Everbridge Mass Notification System, to notify the community of time-sensitive information involving an immediate threat to health and safety. Per its [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://carleton-wp-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/sites/316/2024/09/2024-Annual-Clery-Report.pdf), Security Services and the Dean of Students determine when to issue both emergency notifications and Clery Act Timely Warning Notices.","analysis":"Carleton College is a small private liberal-arts college in Northfield, Minnesota whose emergency-notification system is branded [CarlAlert](https://www.carleton.edu/emergency/service/) — one word — and runs on Everbridge, not (as is sometimes assumed) the Rave platform; the Rave association belongs to the unrelated Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Carleton's [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://carleton-wp-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/sites/316/2024/09/2024-Annual-Clery-Report.pdf) states plainly: 'Carleton College uses the Everbridge Mass Notification System (branded as CarlAlert) to notify students, faculty, and staff with time sensitive information involving an immediate threat to their health and safety.' The same core policy block appears byte-for-byte identical across Carleton's 2023, 2024, and 2025 ASR editions, which makes the wording unusually well-corroborated.\n\nThe activation and timing standard tracks the federal Clery language closely: 'Upon confirmation of a significant threat, emergency, or dangerous situation on campus, the College without delay and considering the safety of the community, will initiate the campus emergency notification system.' Crucially, Carleton names its decision authority explicitly — the same ASR sentence assigns review to 'The Dean of Students, Director of Security or their designee,' and the emergency-notification provision adds that 'The offices of Security Services, External Relations, Dean of Students, and the President are authorized to determine the content and issue emergency notifications.' That named, multi-office authority structure is exactly the kind of detail many smaller institutions leave vague.\n\nOn channels, the ASR is specific: 'CarlAlert uses e-mail, text messaging, social media and campus message boards to broadcast pertinent information, and when appropriate provides directions to those in affected areas.' Carleton also frames CarlAlert as an opt-out benefit — 'Carleton's CarlAlert Emergency Notification service is an \"opt-out\" benefit' — meaning community members are enrolled by default, which maximizes baseline reach. For public-safety alerts and timely warnings more broadly, the report states they 'are prepared and distributed through the Security department website, text messaging, electronic mail, and/or posted in selected locations throughout campus.' Timely warnings are framed around Clery crimes: '[Timely Warning Notices](https://www.carleton.edu/security/reporting/clery-annual-report/) are usually distributed for Clery Act crimes and may also be posted for other crime classifications depending on the facts of the case and the information known by Security Services.'\n\nOne field changed between editions, which the archive records honestly. The testing-cadence sentence read 'The CarlAlert system is tested three times during each academic year' in the 2023 and 2024 ASRs (covering CY2022 and CY2023), but the 2025 corrected ASR (CY2024) revised it to 'The CarlAlert system is tested each academic year.' Both versions are quoted from official documents; a separately-circulating 'severe weather awareness week' detail could not be corroborated in any ASR and is excluded. No outdoor siren or voice/phone-call channel appears in Carleton's official text. Five excerpts are marked verbatim-confirmed because they were extracted from the ASR PDF text and matched identically across multiple ASR editions.","whenCriteria":"Upon confirmation of a significant threat, emergency, or dangerous situation on campus, the College without delay (considering the safety of the community) initiates the campus emergency notification system. Timely Warning Notices are issued when a reported crime poses a serious on-going threat to the Carleton community, usually for Clery Act crimes.","decisionAuthority":"The Dean of Students, Director of Security, or their designee reviews reported information to determine whether a Timely Warning is warranted; for emergency notifications, the offices of Security Services, External Relations, Dean of Students, and the President are authorized to determine content and issue notifications. This is stated verbatim in Carleton's Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.","timingStandard":"Carleton's ASR states that upon confirmation of a significant threat, emergency, or dangerous situation, the College 'without delay and considering the safety of the community, will initiate the campus emergency notification system' — the federal Clery 'without delay, upon confirmation' standard.","cleryFraming":"Carleton keeps the two Clery functions distinct: CarlAlert (Everbridge) emergency notifications for immediate threats to health and safety, and Timely Warning Notices for Clery Act crimes that pose a serious ongoing threat (and, depending on the facts, other crime classifications). Carleton publishes an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (its Annual Clery Report).","testingCadence":"The CarlAlert system testing cadence is stated in the ASR. The 2023 and 2024 editions (CY2022/CY2023) read 'The CarlAlert system is tested three times during each academic year'; the 2025 corrected edition (CY2024) revised this to 'The CarlAlert system is tested each academic year.' A 'severe weather awareness week' detail circulating elsewhere could not be corroborated in any ASR and is excluded.","scopeLimits":"CarlAlert is an opt-out benefit, so community members are enrolled by default; reach via personal cell/SMS depends on contact information members maintain. A companion CarlAlert Safety App can deliver alerts even when cellular/SMS service is down. No outdoor siren or voice/phone-call channel appears in Carleton's official text.","channels":["email","sms","twitter-x","facebook","digital-signage","website","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Everbridge / CarlAlert system and activation threshold","quotedText":"Carleton College uses the Everbridge Mass Notification System (branded as CarlAlert) to notify students, faculty, and staff with time sensitive information involving an immediate threat to their health and safety.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://carleton-wp-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/sites/316/2024/09/2024-Annual-Clery-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Carleton College — 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF, public S3 host)","annotations":["Confirms the vendor (Everbridge) and brand (CarlAlert) and sets the activation threshold at an immediate threat to health and safety. Identical wording was extracted from the 2023, 2024, and 2025 ASR PDFs."],"characterCount":213},{"label":"Timing standard + decision authority","quotedText":"Upon confirmation of a significant threat, emergency, or dangerous situation on campus, the College without delay and considering the safety of the community, will initiate the campus emergency notification system. The Dean of Students, Director of Security or their designee reviews information that is reported to Security Services by members of the community, by Campus Security Authorities and by the Northfield Police to determine if a reported crime poses a serious on-going threat to members of the Carleton Community and if the distribution of a Timely Warning Notice is warranted.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://carleton-wp-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/sites/316/2024/09/2024-Annual-Clery-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Carleton College — 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF, public S3 host)","annotations":["States the 'without delay, upon confirmation' timing standard and names the Dean of Students / Director of Security (or designee) as the reviewing authority, including the Northfield Police as an information source. Identical wording was extracted from the 2023, 2024, and 2025 ASR PDFs."],"characterCount":589},{"label":"Emergency-notification authority and channels","quotedText":"The offices of Security Services, External Relations, Dean of Students, and the President are authorized to determine the content and issue emergency notifications. CarlAlert uses e-mail, text messaging, social media and campus message boards to broadcast pertinent information, and when appropriate provides directions to those in affected areas. Carleton's CarlAlert Emergency Notification service is an \"opt-out\" benefit.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://carleton-wp-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/sites/316/2024/09/2024-Annual-Clery-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Carleton College — 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF, public S3 host)","annotations":["Lists the four authorizing offices, the four delivery channels (email, SMS, social media, campus message boards), and the opt-out enrollment default. Identical wording was extracted from the 2023, 2024, and 2025 ASR PDFs."],"characterCount":424},{"label":"Timely Warning Clery scope","quotedText":"Timely Warning Notices are usually distributed for Clery Act crimes and may also be posted for other crime classifications depending on the facts of the case and the information known by Security Services.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://carleton-wp-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/sites/316/2024/09/2024-Annual-Clery-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Carleton College — 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF, public S3 host)","annotations":["Defines the scope of Timely Warning Notices (Clery crimes, plus other classifications case-by-case). Identical wording was extracted from the 2023, 2024, and 2025 ASR PDFs."],"characterCount":205},{"label":"Public-safety-alert distribution channels","quotedText":"If circumstances warrant, public safety alerts are prepared and distributed through the Security department website, text messaging, electronic mail, and/or posted in selected locations throughout campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://carleton-wp-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/sites/316/2024/09/2024-Annual-Clery-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Carleton College — 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF, public S3 host)","annotations":["Describes the broader public-safety-alert channels: Security website, SMS, email, and physical campus postings. Identical wording was extracted from the 2023, 2024, and 2025 ASR PDFs."],"characterCount":204},{"label":"Testing cadence (edition change)","quotedText":"The CarlAlert system is tested three times during each academic year.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://carleton-wp-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/sites/316/2024/09/2024-Annual-Clery-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Carleton College — 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF, public S3 host)","annotations":["The 2023 and 2024 ASRs state CarlAlert is tested three times per academic year; the 2025 corrected ASR revised this to 'tested each academic year.' This excerpt quotes the 2024 edition verbatim and the change is documented in the testingCadence field."],"characterCount":69}],"keyFindings":["Carleton's emergency-notification system is branded CarlAlert (one word) and runs on the Everbridge Mass Notification System — not Rave; the Rave association belongs to the unrelated Carleton University in Ottawa.","CarlAlert is reserved for time-sensitive information involving an immediate threat to health and safety and is initiated 'without delay' upon confirmation of a significant threat, emergency, or dangerous situation.","Decision authority is explicitly named: the Dean of Students, Director of Security, or designee review timely warnings, and Security Services, External Relations, Dean of Students, and the President are authorized to issue emergency notifications.","Channels are email, text messaging, social media, and campus message boards (plus Security website and physical postings for broader public-safety alerts); CarlAlert is an opt-out benefit, so members are enrolled by default.","Policy wording was confirmed verbatim across three ASR editions (2023, 2024, 2025) extracted directly from PDF text; the only edition change is the test cadence, which moved from 'three times during each academic year' to 'each academic year' in the 2025 corrected report."],"sources":[{"title":"Carleton College — 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://carleton-wp-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/sites/316/2024/09/2024-Annual-Clery-Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Carleton College — 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, Corrected (PDF)","url":"https://carleton-wp-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/sites/316/2025/10/2025-Annual-Clery-Report-Corrected.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Carleton College — CarlAlert Emergency Notification Service","url":"https://www.carleton.edu/emergency/service/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Carleton College — Security Services","url":"https://www.carleton.edu/security/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Carleton College — Clery Annual Report (landing page)","url":"https://www.carleton.edu/security/reporting/clery-annual-report/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Carleton College — Carleton at a Glance (enrollment)","url":"https://www.carleton.edu/about/carleton-at-a-glance/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","private-liberal-arts","minnesota","carlalert","everbridge","opt-out"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-31","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"casper-college-cc-alert-policy","slug":"casper-college-cc-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Casper College","shortName":"CC","state":"WY","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"CC Alert","alertPlatform":"Rave","enrollment":3476},"policy":{"title":"CC Alert","systemName":"CC Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.caspercollege.edu/alert/","lastReviewed":"2026-07-03"},"summary":"Casper College's [CC Alert](https://www.caspercollege.edu/alert/) is a Rave Mobile Safety-powered emergency notification system that automatically enrolls students and employees after each fall and spring registration period and delivers text, email, and voice-call alerts for emergencies, closures, and other urgent campus situations.","analysis":"Casper College operates [CC Alert](https://www.caspercollege.edu/alert/) as its primary emergency notification channel, built on the Rave Mobile Safety platform (registration portal at getrave.com/login/caspercollege, per search-indexed page content). The system follows the now-common community-college pattern of hybrid opt-in/auto-enrollment: students and employees are automatically signed up following the fall and spring enrollment periods, and can separately log into a CC Alert profile to add or update an email address for redundant delivery or a phone number for voice-call notification, in addition to the default text-message channel.\n\nCC Alert is described as free to the recipient, though standard carrier text-messaging rates may apply. The [Casper College Security office](https://www.caspercollege.edu/security/) maintains a parallel [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.caspercollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2020-CC-Annual-Security-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf) required under the Clery Act, and the college has used CC Alert operationally, including during a 2022 incident that the [Casper Star-Tribune reported](https://trib.com/news/local/education/casper-college-says-active-shooter-emergency-alert-was-false-alarm/article_34d75a9e-3613-5312-a9ac-2669814a6d4b.html) was ultimately a false alarm, illustrating the system in live use rather than only in policy language.\n\nThis environment's outbound network returns HTTP 403 for direct fetches of caspercollege.edu (a limitation this archive has documented before for other .edu alert-archive hosts), so the excerpts below were captured from official CC Alert page text as reproduced in search-engine indexing and cross-checked across independent queries. Only the single short sentence that returned byte-identical across separate queries is marked as verbatim-confirmed; the surrounding descriptive detail (voice-call mechanics, sign-up flow, cost disclaimer) is reported as reconstructed paraphrase rather than asserted as exact wording, and no decision-authority language or specific testing cadence could be confirmed for CC Alert from the sources reviewed.","whenCriteria":"CC Alert is used for emergencies, campus closures, and other urgent situations affecting campus operations, not for routine or marketing communications.","decisionAuthority":"Not confirmed in the sources reviewed; Casper College's Security office (which also produces the Clery Annual Security and Fire Safety Report) appears to be the operational owner of the system, but no single named approving official was reproduced verbatim in the material available.","timingStandard":"No specific minutes-based timeliness standard was reproduced verbatim; the system is described as delivering text, email, and voice-call notifications to enrolled recipients during active emergencies.","cleryFraming":"Not explicitly stated in the CC Alert page content reviewed; Casper College separately maintains a Clery Annual Security and Fire Safety Report that would ordinarily house the formal emergency-notification versus timely-warning distinction.","testingCadence":"No confirmed recurring testing cadence was found; one unverified secondary reference described a historical joint siren-and-RAVE test on a specific date, but this was not confirmed as a stated recurring policy.","scopeLimits":"Coverage depends on automatic enrollment following each fall and spring registration period, supplemented by self-managed contact details in the CC Alert profile; reach is therefore tied to current registration and profile data rather than a campus-wide siren or PA layer.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"What CC Alert is","quotedText":"CC Alert is Casper College's emergency notification system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.caspercollege.edu/alert/","sourceDescription":"CC Alert - Casper College","annotations":["This exact sentence returned identically across two independent search queries of the CC Alert page, the strongest corroboration available given this environment's block on direct caspercollege.edu fetches."],"characterCount":59},{"label":"Registration channels","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.caspercollege.edu/alert/","sourceDescription":"CC Alert - Casper College","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Automatic enrollment","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.caspercollege.edu/alert/","sourceDescription":"CC Alert - Casper College","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Voice-call option and cost","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.caspercollege.edu/alert/","sourceDescription":"CC Alert - Casper College","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["CC Alert is a Rave Mobile Safety-powered emergency notification system, free to recipients aside from standard carrier text rates.","Enrollment is hybrid: students and employees are automatically signed up after each fall and spring registration period, and can add email or a voice-call number in their CC Alert profile.","No specific decision-authority language, minutes-based timing standard, or recurring test cadence could be confirmed for CC Alert from the sources available in this session.","Casper College separately maintains a Clery Annual Security and Fire Safety Report; the CC Alert page itself does not visibly draw the emergency-notification versus timely-warning distinction."],"sources":[{"title":"CC Alert - Casper College","url":"https://www.caspercollege.edu/alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Security - Casper College","url":"https://www.caspercollege.edu/security/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Casper College says active shooter emergency alert was false alarm - Casper Star-Tribune","url":"https://trib.com/news/local/education/casper-college-says-active-shooter-emergency-alert-was-false-alarm/article_34d75a9e-3613-5312-a9ac-2669814a6d4b.html","type":"local-media"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","cc-alert","rave","clery-act","community-college","wyoming"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"catawba-valley-community-college-informacast-asr","slug":"catawba-valley-community-college-informacast-asr","institution":{"name":"Catawba Valley Community College","shortName":"CVCC","state":"NC","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"InformaCast","enrollment":5000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications (InformaCast) - Annual Security Report","systemName":"InformaCast","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://cvcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2024-Catawba-Valley-Community-College-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2024-10-01"},"summary":"Catawba Valley Community College publishes [timely warning and multi-method emergency notification procedures](https://cvcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2024-Catawba-Valley-Community-College-Annual-Security-Report.pdf) naming InformaCast for cell alerts, with Campus Safety and Security as the primary mass-notification relay office.","analysis":"CVCC (Hickory, NC) documents Timely Warnings and emergency notifications in its [2024 Annual Security Report](https://cvcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2024-Catawba-Valley-Community-College-Annual-Security-Report.pdf). Campus-wide timely warnings issue when a situation constitutes a serious or continuing threat; anyone with warranting information should report to the College switchboard. Emergency notifications use a layered channel stack: indoor/outdoor mass notification system announcements, InformaCast cell-phone alerts, campus email, pre-recorded main-line voicemail, website banner, digital signage, local media, social media, printed exterior-door notices, and bullhorns.\n\nMass notification announcements and InformaCast Alerts are generally relayed by the Campus Safety and Security Office; digital signage is shared with Marketing; website and media sit with the Public Information Officer / Marketing / IT. Sample notification scripts and retained prior messages reduce drafting time during active response. CVCC will immediately determine content and initiate notification considering community safety, unless notification would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Emergency Operations Plan is published on the Safety and Security site. Emergency response and evacuation procedures are tested at minimum once per year via tabletop, drill, or functional exercise (normally announced). Complements archive case coverage including a social-media threat incident.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning: situation constituting serious or continuing threat to the campus community. Emergency notification: emergencies or dangerous situations warranting immediate multi-channel community notice after confirmation.","decisionAuthority":"Campus Safety and Security Office generally relays mass notification announcements and InformaCast Alerts. Public Information Officer / Marketing / IT handle website, social, and media. Sample scripts retained to speed content during active response.","timingStandard":"Immediate initiation considering community safety unless professional judgment holds notification would compromise victim assistance or emergency mitigation. Annual minimum testing cadence.","cleryFraming":"ASR Timely Warnings and emergency notification methods sections with named InformaCast platform and Clery-aligned threat standard.","scopeLimits":"Any combination of listed methods may be used. Tests normally announced to minimize class/meeting interruption. EOP cross-referenced for operational detail.","testingCadence":"Tabletop exercises, drills, and functional exercises at minimum once per year; normally announced beforehand.","channels":["sms","email","pa-system","phone-call","website","digital-signage","facebook","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"InformaCast cell alert platform","quotedText":"InformaCast – a communications platform used to deliver alerts to cell phones","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://cvcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2024-Catawba-Valley-Community-College-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"CVCC 2024 ASR - emergency notification methods","annotations":["Named InformaCast for mobile emergency alerts."],"characterCount":77},{"label":"Campus Safety relays InformaCast","quotedText":"Mass notification announcements and InformaCast Alerts are generally relayed by the Campus Safety and Security Office.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://cvcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2024-Catawba-Valley-Community-College-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"CVCC 2024 ASR - notification relay roles","annotations":["Campus Safety primary operator for mass notification and InformaCast."],"characterCount":118},{"label":"Annual emergency exercise minimum","quotedText":"The College tests its emergency response and evacuation procedures by conducting a variety of tabletop exercises, drills, and functional exercises, at minimum, once per year.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://cvcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2024-Catawba-Valley-Community-College-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"CVCC 2024 ASR - testing","annotations":["Minimum annual multi-modality emergency testing."],"characterCount":174}],"keyFindings":["InformaCast named for cell alerts; Campus Safety primary relay office.","Ten-plus channel stack including outdoor PA, door postings, and bullhorns.","Sample scripts retained to speed EN content during active response."],"sources":[{"title":"Catawba Valley Community College 2024 Annual Security Report PDF","url":"https://cvcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2024-Catawba-Valley-Community-College-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"CVCC Safety and Security page","url":"https://cvcc.edu/safety-and-security/","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["north-carolina","community-college","clery-asr","informacast","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"cayuga-community-college-everbridge-alert-policy","slug":"cayuga-community-college-everbridge-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Cayuga Community College","shortName":"Cayuga","state":"NY","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Everbridge Alert / RAVE Alert"},"policy":{"title":"2024-2025 Annual Security Report - Emergency Notifications and Everbridge Alerts","systemName":"Everbridge Alert / RAVE Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://cayuga-cc.edu/pdf/public-safety/2024-2025-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Cayuga Community College's [2024-2025 Annual Security Report](https://cayuga-cc.edu/pdf/public-safety/2024-2025-Annual-Security-Report.pdf) issues emergency notifications when a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat occurs on campus or in the immediate adjacent area, without delay unless doing so would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. The [public safety services page](https://www.cayuga-cc.edu/public-safety/services) uses Everbridge Alert notifications for potential emergencies involving imminent danger to health or human safety.","analysis":"Cayuga (New York community college, four filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [2024-2025 ASR PDF](https://cayuga-cc.edu/pdf/public-safety/2024-2025-Annual-Security-Report.pdf) (HTTP 200). Emergency notifications shall be issued when a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurs on the campus or in the immediate area adjacent to campus, and without delay unless doing so would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. The live [public safety services page](https://www.cayuga-cc.edu/public-safety/services) (HTTP 200) says Cayuga uses Everbridge Alert notifications to reach students, faculty and staff for potential emergencies involving imminent danger to health or human safety. The ASR also names a RAVE Alert System among timely-warning channels. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF or HTML.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notifications for a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat on campus or immediately adjacent. Everbridge for potential emergencies involving imminent danger to health or human safety.","decisionAuthority":"The Director of Public Safety/Chief, or in their absence the on-duty Lieutenant, confirms whether a situation merits a warning or notification.","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications will be issued without delay unless doing so would compromise victim assistance or mitigation.","cleryFraming":"The ASR keeps Timely Warnings (Clery-listed crimes) distinct from Emergency Notifications (immediate threat on or adjacent to campus).","channels":["sms","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency notification trigger","quotedText":"Emergency notifications shall be issued when a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurs on the campus or in the immediate area adjacent to campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://cayuga-cc.edu/pdf/public-safety/2024-2025-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Cayuga Community College 2024-2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Adjacent-area scope is live."],"characterCount":236},{"label":"Without-delay issuance","quotedText":"Emergency notifications will be issued without delay unless doing so would compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://cayuga-cc.edu/pdf/public-safety/2024-2025-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Cayuga Community College 2024-2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Without-delay clause."],"characterCount":176},{"label":"Everbridge Alert consumer trigger","quotedText":"Cayuga uses Everbridge Alert notifications to reach students, faculty and staff for potential emergencies involving imminent danger to health or human safety.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.cayuga-cc.edu/public-safety/services","sourceDescription":"Cayuga Community College Public Safety Services page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Consumer page names Everbridge. No serial comma after faculty."],"characterCount":158}],"keyFindings":["Emergency notifications cover an immediate threat on campus or immediately adjacent, issued without delay.","The consumer page names Everbridge Alert for imminent danger to health or human safety.","The ASR also lists a RAVE Alert System among timely-warning channels."],"sources":[{"title":"Cayuga Community College 2024-2025 Annual Security Report (PDF)","url":"https://cayuga-cc.edu/pdf/public-safety/2024-2025-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Cayuga Community College Public Safety Services","url":"https://www.cayuga-cc.edu/public-safety/services","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","new-york","community-college","everbridge"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"central-connecticut-state-university-ens-policy","slug":"central-connecticut-state-university-ens-policy","institution":{"name":"Central Connecticut State University","shortName":"CCSU","state":"CT","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"Central ENS"},"policy":{"title":"2025 Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report - Central Emergency Notification System","systemName":"Central ENS","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://docs.ccsu.edu/CleryReport.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Central Connecticut State University's [2025 Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report](https://docs.ccsu.edu/CleryReport.pdf) automatically enrolls current employees and enrolled students in the Everbridge Emergency Notification System and issues campus-wide timely warnings for Clery crimes that represent a serious or continuing threat. The [ENS page](https://www.ccsu.edu/ens) uses the system for a serious threat to campus safety.","analysis":"Central Connecticut State University (public-masters, Connecticut, five filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [2025 Clery Report PDF](https://docs.ccsu.edu/CleryReport.pdf) (HTTP 200) plus a live [ENS](https://www.ccsu.edu/ens) page (HTTP 200). Distinct from Southern Connecticut State University, which remains a gap. The Chief of Police collaborates with the University President and Vice President of Operations on timely warnings. Live without-delay wording capitalizes UNLESS and has no comma after campus community. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF or HTML.","whenCriteria":"ENS for a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community, and for major university-wide emergencies including severe weather closings. Timely warning for a Clery reportable crime or series of crimes in Clery geography that represents a serious or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"Chief of Police in collaboration with the University President and Vice President of Operations for timely warnings. Confirmation of a significant emergency is generally the Chief of Police in consultation with the President and Incident Commander.","timingStandard":"Emergency notification without delay unless issuing a notification would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Timely warning is campus-wide when the threat standard is met.","cleryFraming":"The ASR keeps campus-wide timely warnings distinct from the Central Emergency Notification System (Everbridge). An emergency notification may be used if warranted for a crime.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","siren","pa-system","digital-signage","push-notification","desktop-popup"],"excerpts":[{"label":"ENS consumer purpose","quotedText":"The ENS will be used to alert the Central community in the event of a serious threat to campus safety.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ccsu.edu/ens","sourceDescription":"Central's Emergency Notification System page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Consumer trigger is a serious threat to campus safety."],"characterCount":102},{"label":"Automatic ENS enrollment","quotedText":"All members currently employed at Central or enrolled in courses at the University are automatically enrolled in the ENS.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ccsu.edu/ens","sourceDescription":"Central's Emergency Notification System page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Students and employees auto-enroll from registration and employment records."],"characterCount":121},{"label":"Everbridge vendor","quotedText":"Central Connecticut State University utilizes an off-site service (Everbridge) to provide quick distribution of time-sensitive emergency messages to multiple devices selected by the individual campus members.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ccsu.edu/ens","sourceDescription":"Central's Emergency Notification System page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Everbridge is the named vendor."],"characterCount":208},{"label":"Without-delay emergency notification","quotedText":"Upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community Central will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system UNLESS issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://docs.ccsu.edu/CleryReport.pdf","sourceDescription":"CCSU 2025 Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Live PDF capitalizes UNLESS and omits a comma after campus community."],"characterCount":500}],"keyFindings":["Central ENS is Everbridge; current employees and enrolled students are auto-enrolled.","Timely warnings are campus-wide notices for a serious or continuing threat in Clery geography.","The without-delay exception is written as UNLESS in the live ASR."],"sources":[{"title":"Central Connecticut State University 2025 Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://docs.ccsu.edu/CleryReport.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Central's Emergency Notification System","url":"https://www.ccsu.edu/ens","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","connecticut","public-masters","everbridge"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"central-georgia-technical-college-alert-policy","slug":"central-georgia-technical-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Central Georgia Technical College","shortName":"CGTC","state":"GA","type":"technical-college","alertSystemName":"CampusCast","enrollment":12700},"policy":{"title":"Public Safety","systemName":"CampusCast","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.centralgatech.edu/public-safety","lastReviewed":"2026-07-20"},"summary":"Central Georgia Technical College, [the largest two-year institution in Georgia](https://www.centralgatech.edu/cgtc-reaches-academic-year-enrollment-record-with-over-15000-students) with more than a dozen campus and center locations across middle Georgia, publishes its emergency-notification practices on its [Public Safety](https://www.centralgatech.edu/public-safety) page around a system it calls **CampusCast**, and in 2025 [announced a parallel partnership with Regroup](https://www.centralgatech.edu/cgtc-launches-new-mass-notification-system-to-enhance-community-safety) to expand its mass-notification reach.","analysis":"CGTC's Public Safety page names its notification system directly: [CampusCast is a service notification system used by the college to connect with students and staff through voice, SMS text, email, and social media](https://www.centralgatech.edu/public-safety). Separately, the college's own news page describes a newer partnership: CGTC has partnered with Regroup to launch a new mass notification system designed to keep the community informed and prepared during critical events, delivering urgent updates through phone calls, text messages, emails, and more. Read together, these two official pages describe either a rebrand of CampusCast onto the Regroup platform or a second, complementary system; this review treats both as accurately reported rather than resolving the ambiguity, since neither GMC-style Wikipedia coverage nor a directly fetchable page was available to adjudicate it.\n\nCGTC documents both an emergency-notification standard and a narrower operational-alert standard. On the Clery emergency-notification side: should a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees arise at CGTC, without delay, the college commits to implement its Emergency Alert Systems, tracking the federal 34 CFR 668.46(g) template. On the operational side, the college documents a broader trigger for routine service-impacting events: should a significant security or weather event arise that may impact services offered by the college, emergency notifications are sent automatically to current credit students and employees, without the immediate-threat-to-health-or-safety qualifier attached to the Clery standard.\n\nThe college's own announcement of the Regroup partnership quotes a named administrator on the record: [\"We're committed to keeping our community safe and informed,\" said Dr. Craig Jackson, CGTC's Vice President for Student Affairs. \"This system gives us the tools to share critical information instantly, so everyone can take the right steps to protect themselves and their loved ones.\"](https://www.centralgatech.edu/cgtc-launches-new-mass-notification-system-to-enhance-community-safety) That quote ties day-to-day ownership of the notification relationship to Student Affairs rather than solely to Public Safety/Campus Police.\n\nBecause centralgatech.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were captured from CGTC's own Public Safety page and news announcements as reproduced in search-engine results and corroborated across multiple independent queries. No fixed testing cadence or minutes-based response standard was reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","whenCriteria":"Emergency Alert Systems are implemented, without delay, when a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees arises at CGTC; a broader class of emergency notifications is also sent automatically for significant security or weather events that may impact services the college offers.","decisionAuthority":"A single named approving official or office was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed; the college's 2025 Regroup-partnership announcement is attributed on the record to Dr. Craig Jackson, CGTC's Vice President for Student Affairs.","timingStandard":"CGTC commits to act 'without delay' for the Clery emergency-notification standard. No separate minutes-based or hours-based SLA was reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"CGTC's 'without delay' Emergency Alert Systems commitment tracks the Clery Act's 668.46(g) emergency-notification standard; a broader, non-Clery-qualified notification is also sent automatically for security or weather events affecting college services.","testingCadence":"A specific testing cadence for CampusCast or the Regroup partnership was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"CampusCast/Regroup notifications reach current credit students and employees across CGTC's many locations in middle Georgia; the college's Public Safety page and 2025 Regroup announcement do not specify whether continuing-education-only or dual-enrollment high school students are covered on the same channel.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"What CampusCast is","quotedText":"CampusCast is a service notification system used by the college to connect with students and staff through voice, SMS text, email, and social media.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.centralgatech.edu/public-safety","sourceDescription":"Central Georgia Technical College - Public Safety","annotations":["Names the branded system (CampusCast) and its four channels: voice, SMS text, email, and social media."],"characterCount":148},{"label":"Emergency-notification 'without delay' commitment","quotedText":"Should a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees arise at CGTC, without delay, we will implement our Emergency Alert Systems.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.centralgatech.edu/public-safety","sourceDescription":"Central Georgia Technical College - Public Safety","annotations":["Tracks the Clery Act's 34 CFR 668.46(g) emergency-notification 'without delay' standard."],"characterCount":209},{"label":"Operational notification trigger","quotedText":"Should a significant security or weather event arise that may impact services offered by the College, emergency notifications will be sent automatically to current credit students and employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.centralgatech.edu/public-safety","sourceDescription":"Central Georgia Technical College - Public Safety","annotations":["Documents a broader, non-Clery-qualified trigger for automatic notifications covering weather and service-impacting security events."],"characterCount":194},{"label":"Regroup-partnership administrator quote","quotedText":"We're committed to keeping our community safe and informed. This system gives us the tools to share critical information instantly, so everyone can take the right steps to protect themselves and their loved ones.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.centralgatech.edu/cgtc-launches-new-mass-notification-system-to-enhance-community-safety","sourceDescription":"Central Georgia Technical College - CGTC Launches New Mass Notification System to Enhance Community Safety","annotations":["On-the-record quote from Dr. Craig Jackson, CGTC's Vice President for Student Affairs, announcing the 2025 Regroup partnership."],"characterCount":212}],"keyFindings":["CGTC names its emergency-notification system CampusCast (voice, SMS text, email, social media) on its Public Safety page.","In 2025 CGTC separately announced a partnership with Regroup for a 'new mass notification system,' without the two official pages clarifying whether this replaces or supplements CampusCast.","CGTC's Clery emergency-notification commitment uses the federal 'without delay' template, alongside a broader automatic-notification trigger for weather/security events affecting college services.","The college's Vice President for Student Affairs, not Public Safety, is the named spokesperson quoted in the Regroup-partnership announcement.","CGTC is the largest two-year institution in Georgia and the largest by fall enrollment among the Technical College System of Georgia's 22 colleges."],"sources":[{"title":"Public Safety - Central Georgia Technical College","url":"https://www.centralgatech.edu/public-safety","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Central Georgia Technical College Emergency Notification (sign-up portal)","url":"https://notify.centralgatech.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"CGTC Launches New Mass Notification System to Enhance Community Safety - Central Georgia Technical College","url":"https://www.centralgatech.edu/cgtc-launches-new-mass-notification-system-to-enhance-community-safety","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Central Georgia Technical College Emergency Operations Plan 2025-2026","url":"https://www.centralgatech.edu/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/publications/CGTC_Emergency_Operations_and_Safety_Plan.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"CGTC Reaches Academic Year Enrollment Record with Over 15,000 Students - Central Georgia Technical College","url":"https://www.centralgatech.edu/cgtc-reaches-academic-year-enrollment-record-with-over-15000-students","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","technical-college","georgia","tcsg","campuscast","regroup"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-20","lastUpdated":"2026-07-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"central-piedmont-community-college-emergency-communications-policy","slug":"central-piedmont-community-college-emergency-communications-policy","institution":{"name":"Central Piedmont Community College","shortName":"Central Piedmont","state":"NC","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Critical Alert (Rave) / Rave Guardian","enrollment":45000},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Communications (Emergency Notifications, Timely Warnings, Critical Alert)","systemName":"Critical Alert (Rave) / Rave Guardian","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.cpcc.edu/about-central-piedmont/administrative-offices/safety-and-security/emergency-management/emergency-communications","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Central Piedmont Community College publishes a public [Emergency Communications](https://www.cpcc.edu/about-central-piedmont/administrative-offices/safety-and-security/emergency-management/emergency-communications) criteria page covering Emergency Notifications, Clery Timely Warnings, Critical Alert opt-in, and multi-channel delivery including Rave Guardian and classroom paging.","analysis":"Central Piedmont Community College, a large multi-campus North Carolina community college system, documents notification practice on a dedicated Emergency Communications page rather than only inside an ASR. Source: [Emergency Communications](https://www.cpcc.edu/about-central-piedmont/administrative-offices/safety-and-security/emergency-management/emergency-communications). Emergency Notifications cover significant emergencies or dangerous situations with immediate threat to health or safety, including weather, hazmat, armed person, and serious contagious disease, and may also serve as a Timely Warning when the incident is a Clery crime.\n\nUpon confirmation, Emergency Notifications go via text, email, desktop notifier, RSS feed, and social media with follow-up messages as available. Timely Warnings issue for Clery crimes presenting a serious or continuing threat, case by case, as soon as clear pertinent information is available. Critical Alert emails always go to Central Piedmont email accounts (cannot opt out); additional mobile, home, work, and personal email contacts are user-managed in MyCollege. Other channels include website posts and classroom paging systems.","whenCriteria":"Emergency Notifications upon confirmation of significant emergency or dangerous situation with immediate threat. Timely Warnings when a Clery Act crime presents a serious or continuing threat, reported to a CSA or local police, on Clery geography, case by case.","decisionAuthority":"Emergency Management issues emergency notifications and/or timely warnings under appropriate circumstances as required by law; confirmation precedes Emergency Notification send.","timingStandard":"Emergency Notifications upon confirmation; Timely Warnings promptly as soon as clear, pertinent information is available.","cleryFraming":"Public criteria page separates Emergency Notifications from Clery Timely Warnings, notes EN may also serve as TW for Clery crimes, and details Critical Alert Rave opt-in/opt-out rules.","scopeLimits":"Central Piedmont email Critical Alerts cannot be opted out; personal device alerts require MyCollege profile updates; no total guarantee of receipt across all channels.","testingCadence":"Not specified on the Emergency Communications page.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","desktop-popup","website","pa-system","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency Notification definition","quotedText":"They are notices of any significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on a Central Piedmont campus that involve an immediate threat to the health or safety of our students or employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.cpcc.edu/about-central-piedmont/administrative-offices/safety-and-security/emergency-management/emergency-communications","sourceDescription":"CPCC Emergency Communications Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Defines immediate-threat Emergency Notification scope."],"characterCount":194},{"label":"Confirmation multi-channel send","quotedText":"Upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation, the college will send an Emergency Notification with instructions and information regarding the incident via text, email, desktop notifier, RSS feed, and social media.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.cpcc.edu/about-central-piedmont/administrative-offices/safety-and-security/emergency-management/emergency-communications","sourceDescription":"CPCC Emergency Communications when/how EN sent","annotations":["Confirmation trigger and multi-channel list."],"characterCount":236},{"label":"Timely as soon as clear pertinent information","quotedText":"The college issues warnings promptly, as soon as clear, pertinent information is available so that members of the campus community may take precautionary measures.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.cpcc.edu/about-central-piedmont/administrative-offices/safety-and-security/emergency-management/emergency-communications","sourceDescription":"CPCC Emergency Communications Timely Warnings timing","annotations":["As-soon-as-clear-pertinent-information timing standard."],"characterCount":163}],"keyFindings":["Emergency Notifications may also serve as Timely Warnings when the incident is a Clery crime.","Critical Alert emails to CPCC email cannot be opted out; personal devices require MyCollege opt-in.","EN delivery includes text, email, desktop notifier, RSS, social media, website, and classroom paging."],"sources":[{"title":"CPCC Emergency Communications page","url":"https://www.cpcc.edu/about-central-piedmont/administrative-offices/safety-and-security/emergency-management/emergency-communications","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"CPCC Annual Security Report 2024 PDF","url":"https://www.cpcc.edu/sites/default/files/2026-02/25628-annual-security-report-2024.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["north-carolina","community-college","criteria-page","critical-alert","rave","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"central-state-university-marauder-alert-policy","slug":"central-state-university-marauder-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Central State University","shortName":"CSU","state":"OH","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"Marauder Alert","enrollment":2708},"policy":{"title":"Marauder Alert Emergency Notification Policy (Alertus-based) and Department of Public Safety","systemName":"Marauder Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.centralstate.edu/student-services/central-state-university-department-public-safety","lastReviewed":"2025-01-01"},"summary":"Central State University, Ohio's only public HBCU, alerts its community through [Marauder Alert](https://www.centralstate.edu/alertus), a campus emergency-notification system managed by the CSU Police Department that delivers messaging during life-threatening emergencies across an [Alertus](https://www.centralstate.edu/news/police-chief-use-alertus-emergency-communications)-based stack of beacons, desktop and mobile apps, digital signage, speaker arrays, and an outdoor siren.","analysis":"Central State University (CSU), in Wilberforce, Ohio, is the state's only public historically Black university (also a land-grant 1890 institution). Its campus emergency-notification system is branded [Marauder Alert](https://www.centralstate.edu/alertus). CSU describes it plainly: in the event of a life-threatening emergency, faculty, staff, and students will receive messaging delivered through Marauder Alert that provides basic information about the type of emergency and safety instructions. The [Central State University Police Department](https://centralstate.edu/marauder-life/central-state-university-police-department) manages the system and is responsible for sending all emergency alerts to the campus.\n\nMarauder Alert is built on the Alertus platform and is one of the more hardware-rich notification stacks in the archive for a campus of its size. CSU has deployed the [Alertus](https://www.centralstate.edu/news/police-chief-use-alertus-emergency-communications) Alert Beacon (a yellow box mounted inside and outside all buildings), Alertus Mobile Apps, Alertus Desktop notification, digital-signage override, a high-power speaker array with a text-to-speech interface, ThreatWatcher weather notification, and panic buttons with USB connectivity. Alertus Desktop is licensed by CSU to deliver notifications to desktop and laptop computers; when activated it pops up a full-screen alert that takes over the whole screen, while the recipient mobile app pushes notifications over Wi-Fi or cellular. The university's CSU Police chief has publicly urged the community to install Alertus desktop and mobile apps as an effective way to receive critical instructions during an emergency.\n\nFor the most serious incidents, CSU layers an outdoor warning siren on top of the electronic stack. The CSU Siren is used when there is a very serious incident on campus and a Shelter-in-Place, Lockdown, or Take Shelter (Tornado) procedure is in effect — giving the campus an audible, no-device-required signal that something is gravely wrong. This combination of beacons, desktop/mobile push, digital signage, speaker array, and siren is intended to reach people whether or not they are carrying a registered phone.\n\nBecause the centralstate.edu host returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the exact wording was captured from indexed search snippets and corroborated across multiple independent retrievals (the Alertus page, the Department of Public Safety page, and the CSU police-chief news item) rather than from a byte-for-byte live fetch. Two excerpts — the Marauder Alert definition and the CSU Siren use — appeared consistently across retrievals and are marked verbatim-confirmed. The precise named individual decision authority within the CSU Police Department and any formal periodic test cadence could not be confirmed word-for-word and are flagged. Given the strong, repeated brand and channel corroboration, confidence is set to high.","whenCriteria":"Marauder Alert is used for life-threatening emergencies, delivering basic information about the type of emergency and safety instructions to faculty, staff, and students. The CSU Siren is reserved for very serious incidents requiring Shelter-in-Place, Lockdown, or Take Shelter (Tornado). The exact Clery 'significant emergency or dangerous situation' trigger sentence was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","decisionAuthority":"The Central State University Police Department manages Marauder Alert and is responsible for sending all emergency alerts to the campus. The specific position within CSUPD authorized to confirm and trigger an alert was not confirmed verbatim in this review (centralstate.edu host blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"CSU frames Marauder Alert as the immediate channel for life-threatening emergencies, supported by full-screen desktop takeovers, mobile push, and an outdoor siren for the gravest incidents; the precise Clery 'without delay / immediately upon confirmation' timing language was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","cleryFraming":"CSU's Department of Public Safety operates Marauder Alert as the institution's emergency-notification mechanism supporting its Clery obligations (emergency response/evacuation, lockdown, shelter-in-place, tornado). This record documents the Marauder Alert system overview rather than the ASR text itself.","testingCadence":"CSU's police chief publicly encourages installing the Alertus desktop and mobile apps, and the stack includes ThreatWatcher weather monitoring; the exact published periodic test cadence for Marauder Alert / the CSU Siren was not confirmed verbatim in this review (centralstate.edu host blocked automated fetching).","scopeLimits":"The Alertus stack is engineered to reach people regardless of device: indoor/outdoor beacons, desktop full-screen takeovers, mobile push (Wi-Fi or cellular), digital-signage override, a high-power speaker array, and an outdoor siren provide no-device-required coverage, while full mobile/desktop reach depends on community members installing the Alertus apps.","channels":["push-notification","desktop-popup","pa-system","siren","digital-signage","sms"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Marauder Alert definition and use","quotedText":"In the event of a life-threatening emergency, faculty, staff, and students will receive messaging delivered through Marauder Alert that provides basic information about the type of emergency and safety instructions.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.centralstate.edu/alertus","sourceDescription":"Central State University — Alertus / Marauder Alert (host blocked automated fetch; identical wording across multiple official retrievals)","annotations":["Sets Marauder Alert's activation threshold ('life-threatening emergency') and message content (type of emergency plus safety instructions). The same sentence appeared across the Alertus page and Department of Public Safety retrievals via the search index; the host returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching."],"characterCount":215},{"label":"CSU Siren use","quotedText":"The CSU Siren is used when there is a very serious incident on campus, and a Shelter-in-Place, Lockdown, or Take Shelter (Tornado) procedure is in effect.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.centralstate.edu/alertus","sourceDescription":"Central State University — Alertus / Marauder Alert (host blocked automated fetch; identical wording across multiple official retrievals)","annotations":["Documents the outdoor-siren layer and the three protective actions it signals. The same sentence appeared across multiple official CSU retrievals via the search index; the host returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching."],"characterCount":154},{"label":"Police Department manages the system","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://centralstate.edu/marauder-life/central-state-university-police-department","sourceDescription":"Central State University — Department of Public Safety (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Central State's emergency-notification system is branded Marauder Alert, managed by the CSU Police Department and used for life-threatening emergencies.","Marauder Alert is built on Alertus: indoor/outdoor Alert Beacons, mobile and desktop apps, digital-signage override, a high-power speaker array, ThreatWatcher weather notification, and panic buttons.","Alertus Desktop pops a full-screen takeover alert; the mobile app pushes over Wi-Fi or cellular — the police chief publicly urges installing both.","An outdoor CSU Siren layers on top for the gravest incidents, signaling Shelter-in-Place, Lockdown, or Take Shelter (Tornado).","Two excerpts (Marauder Alert definition and CSU Siren use) are verbatim-confirmed across retrievals; the named individual decision authority and test cadence could not be confirmed verbatim (centralstate.edu blocked automated fetching)."],"sources":[{"title":"Central State University — Alertus (Marauder Alert)","url":"https://www.centralstate.edu/alertus","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Central State University — Department of Public Safety / Police Department","url":"https://centralstate.edu/marauder-life/central-state-university-police-department","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Central State University — Police chief: Use Alertus for emergency communications","url":"https://www.centralstate.edu/news/police-chief-use-alertus-emergency-communications","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Central State University — Department of Public Safety (Student Services)","url":"https://www.centralstate.edu/student-services/central-state-university-department-public-safety","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Central State University — Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_State_University","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","marauder-alert","alertus","siren","hbcu","ohio","system-overview","multi-channel"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"central-wyoming-college-rustler-alert-policy","slug":"central-wyoming-college-rustler-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Central Wyoming College","shortName":"CWC","state":"WY","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Rustler Alert","enrollment":2200},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Alerts","systemName":"Rustler Alert","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.cwc.edu/studentservices/campussecurity/alerts/","lastReviewed":"2026-07-03"},"summary":"Central Wyoming College's [Emergency Alerts](https://www.cwc.edu/studentservices/campussecurity/alerts/) page describes \"Rustler Alert,\" a phone/text and email mass-notification system that students sign up for through the MyCentral portal, deployed alongside an on- and off-campus siren warning system for the Riverton campus.","analysis":"Central Wyoming College (Riverton, WY) brands its emergency mass-notification system \"Rustler Alert.\" Students sign up for the service by logging into MyCentral and selecting the Rustler Alert icon, and the college's own [Safety & Security Report](https://www.cwc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/CWC-Safety-Security-Report-2024.pdf) (its Clery Annual Security Report) documents the system as part of CWC's broader emergency-response apparatus. Rustler Alert was launched alongside a physical siren warning system audible immediately on and off campus grounds, giving CWC a redundant physical/digital pairing that some peer Wyoming community colleges lack.\n\nAccording to material captured from the college's Clery Safety & Security Report, the CWC Mass Communication System (Rustler Alert) is described as an additional part of the college's emergency notification apparatus that may be used to communicate official information during an emergency or crisis situation disrupting normal campus operations or threatening the health and safety of the campus community. Activation determinations reportedly rest with the President or a designee, and a full campus-wide activation is advertised to both the CWC and Riverton communities, reflecting the college's role as a hub for its surrounding town. Students and staff can opt out of text and phone notifications but not out of email, an asymmetric opt-out structure distinct from LCCC's fully opt-out RAVE system.\n\nThis environment's outbound network returns HTTP 403 for direct fetches of cwc.edu, so the excerpts below come from official page and report text as reproduced in search-engine indexing. Two of the excerpts below returned identically across independently run queries and are marked verbatim-confirmed on that basis; the remaining detail on activation purpose and opt-out asymmetry was captured in a single query only and is reported as reconstructed rather than independently verified, and a specific recurring testing cadence for Rustler Alert itself could not be confirmed.","whenCriteria":"The Rustler Alert / CWC Mass Communication System may be used to communicate official information during an emergency or crisis situation that disrupts normal campus operation or threatens the health and safety of the campus community.","decisionAuthority":"Activation determinations are reported to be made by the President or a designee, with full campus-wide activation advertised to both the CWC and Riverton communities; this detail was captured in only a single query and is reported as reconstructed rather than independently confirmed verbatim.","timingStandard":"No specific minutes-based timeliness standard was reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"Not independently confirmed verbatim for CWC in the sources reviewed; the college's Safety & Security Report is its Clery Annual Security Report and would ordinarily carry the formal emergency-notification-versus-timely-warning distinction.","testingCadence":"A general exercise-documentation practice was referenced (each exercise, announced or unannounced, documented and filed with Campus Security), but no specific recurring cadence dedicated to Rustler Alert itself was confirmed.","scopeLimits":"Students and staff can opt out of Rustler Alert text and phone notifications but cannot opt out of email notifications, per material captured from the college's safety report; the physical siren system provides an additional, non-opt-out layer audible on and off campus.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","siren","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"MyCentral sign-up","quotedText":"Students can sign up for the service by logging into MyCentral and clicking on the Rustler Alert icon in the upper left hand corner of the page.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.cwc.edu/studentservices/campussecurity/alerts/","sourceDescription":"Emergency Alerts - Central Wyoming College","annotations":["Returned byte-identically across two independently run search queries of the Emergency Alerts page."],"characterCount":144},{"label":"Siren system pairing","quotedText":"The alert system was being launched in conjunction with CWC's siren warning system that can be heard immediately on and off campus grounds in the event of an emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.cwc.edu/studentservices/campussecurity/alerts/","sourceDescription":"Emergency Alerts - Central Wyoming College","annotations":["Returned byte-identically across two independently run search queries; confirms the physical siren layer was launched alongside the Rustler Alert digital system."],"characterCount":168},{"label":"Mass Communication System purpose","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.cwc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/CWC-Safety-Security-Report-2024.pdf","sourceDescription":"Safety & Security Report 2024 - Central Wyoming College","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Asymmetric opt-out","quotedText":"Staff and Students can opt out of texts and phone notifications. They cannot opt out of Emails.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.cwc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/CWC-Safety-Security-Report-2024.pdf","sourceDescription":"Safety & Security Report 2024 - Central Wyoming College","annotations":["Single-query capture describing an opt-out structure that keeps email as a mandatory floor channel while allowing opt-out of text/phone; reported as reconstructed rather than independently verified."],"characterCount":95}],"keyFindings":["Central Wyoming College brands its mass-notification system \"Rustler Alert,\" activated by students through the MyCentral portal.","Rustler Alert was launched paired with a physical siren warning system heard on and off the Riverton campus, a redundant digital/physical layering.","Material from CWC's Clery Safety & Security Report describes activation authority resting with the President or designee, with full activations advertised to both the CWC and Riverton communities.","Students and staff can opt out of text and phone alerts but not email, an asymmetric structure distinct from LCCC's fully opt-out RAVE system next door.","No confirmed minutes-based timing standard or Rustler-Alert-specific testing cadence was found in the sources reviewed."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Alerts - Central Wyoming College","url":"https://www.cwc.edu/studentservices/campussecurity/alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Safety & Security Report 2024 - Central Wyoming College","url":"https://www.cwc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/CWC-Safety-Security-Report-2024.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","rustler-alert","clery-act","community-college","wyoming"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"cerritos-college-2025-asr-alert-policy","slug":"cerritos-college-2025-asr-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Cerritos College","shortName":"Cerritos","state":"CA","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"RAVE Alert","alertPlatform":"Rave"},"policy":{"title":"2025 Annual Security Report - Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications","systemName":"RAVE Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.cerritos.edu/police/_includes/docs/2025/2025-ASR_Final_0912_2025_ua.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Cerritos College's [2025 Annual Security Report](https://www.cerritos.edu/police/_includes/docs/2025/2025-ASR_Final_0912_2025_ua.pdf) makes Emergency Notifications to the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to staff and students. A Timely Warning covers certain Clery-reported crimes that pose a continuous and ongoing threat. The District initiates the notification system without delay unless first responders judge that issuing would compromise victim assistance or mitigation.","analysis":"Cerritos (California community college, four filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [2025 ASR PDF](https://www.cerritos.edu/police/_includes/docs/2025/2025-ASR_Final_0912_2025_ua.pdf) (HTTP 200, text layer). Emergency Notifications issue upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health and safety of staff and students. Timely Warning is defined as a warning of certain Clery-reported crimes that pose a continuous and ongoing threat. The District will, without delay, consider community safety, determine content, and initiate the notification system unless first responders, including the Cerritos College Police Department, judge that issuing would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. The ASR also names RAVE Alert for text messaging. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF.","whenCriteria":"Emergency Notifications upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to staff and students. Timely Warning for certain Clery-reported crimes that pose a continuous and ongoing threat.","decisionAuthority":"First responders including the Cerritos College Police Department. The District determines content and initiates the system.","timingStandard":"Without delay, considering the safety of the community.","cleryFraming":"The ASR keeps Emergency Notifications (immediate threat) distinct from Timely Warning (Clery-reported crime, continuous and ongoing threat).","channels":["sms","email","pa-system","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency notification trigger","quotedText":"Emergency Notifications are made to the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health and safety of staff and students.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.cerritos.edu/police/_includes/docs/2025/2025-ASR_Final_0912_2025_ua.pdf","sourceDescription":"Cerritos College 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Staff and students is the live order."],"characterCount":202},{"label":"Timely Warning definition","quotedText":"Timely Warning is a warning of certain Clery-reported crimes that pose a continuous and ongoing threat to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.cerritos.edu/police/_includes/docs/2025/2025-ASR_Final_0912_2025_ua.pdf","sourceDescription":"Cerritos College 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Live wording is continuous and ongoing."],"characterCount":127},{"label":"Without-delay initiation","quotedText":"The District will, without delay, consider the safety of the community; determine the content of the notification; and initiate the notification system, unless issuing a notification will, in the judgment of the first responders (including, but not limited to Cerritos College Police Department), compromise the efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.cerritos.edu/police/_includes/docs/2025/2025-ASR_Final_0912_2025_ua.pdf","sourceDescription":"Cerritos College 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["No comma after not limited to. Semicolons after community and notification are live."],"characterCount":402}],"keyFindings":["Emergency Notifications issue upon confirmation of an immediate threat to staff and students.","Timely Warnings cover Clery-reported crimes that pose a continuous and ongoing threat.","The District initiates the system without delay unless first responders judge that issuing would compromise mitigation."],"sources":[{"title":"Cerritos College 2025 Annual Security Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.cerritos.edu/police/_includes/docs/2025/2025-ASR_Final_0912_2025_ua.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","california","community-college","rave"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"chadron-state-college-2025-asr-alert-policy","slug":"chadron-state-college-2025-asr-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Chadron State College","shortName":"CSC","state":"NE","type":"public-bachelors","alertSystemName":"CSC emergency alert system"},"policy":{"title":"2025-2026 Campus Crime Security and Fire Safety Report - Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings","systemName":"CSC emergency alert system","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.csc.edu/media/website/content-assets/documents/pdf/institutional-research/2025-2026-Campus-Crime-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Chadron State College's [2025-2026 Campus Crime Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.csc.edu/media/website/content-assets/documents/pdf/institutional-research/2025-2026-Campus-Crime-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf) initiates, without delay, an emergency notification of a confirmed threat to health or safety to the appropriate campus segments, with content and population set by the EAP Team. Timely warning is provided as soon as pertinent information is available for a serious crime thought to be a continuing threat.","analysis":"Chadron State (Nebraska public bachelor's college, five filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [2025-2026 ASR PDF](https://www.csc.edu/media/website/content-assets/documents/pdf/institutional-research/2025-2026-Campus-Crime-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf) (HTTP 200, text layer). Emergency notifications go without delay to appropriate segments on a confirmed threat to health or safety, unless issuing would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. The EAP Team determines content and the population to notify. Timely warning is framed as federal law 20 U.S.C. section 1092 for a serious crime thought to be a continuing threat, issued as soon as pertinent information becomes available. Cell numbers in the student information system are loaded into the CSC emergency alert system. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notification of a confirmed threat to health or safety. Timely warning for a serious crime thought to be a continuing threat to members of the campus community.","decisionAuthority":"The EAP Team determines emergency-notification content and the population to be notified.","timingStandard":"Without delay for emergency notifications. Timely warnings as soon as pertinent information becomes available.","cleryFraming":"The ASR keeps Emergency Notifications (confirmed threat to health or safety) distinct from Timely Warnings (serious crime that is a continuing threat).","scopeLimits":"Cell phone numbers listed in the CSC student information system are loaded into the emergency alert system. START Office handles number updates.","channels":["sms","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency notification without delay","quotedText":"Depending on the extent of the situation, CSC will take into account the safety of the campus community and initiate to the appropriate segments of the campus, without delay, an emergency notification of a confirmed threat to health or safety; unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise the efforts to assist victims or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.csc.edu/media/website/content-assets/documents/pdf/institutional-research/2025-2026-Campus-Crime-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Chadron State College 2025-2026 Campus Crime Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Live wording is initiate to the appropriate segments."],"characterCount":441},{"label":"EAP Team sets content and population","quotedText":"The content of the notification and the population to be notified will be determined by the EAP Team.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.csc.edu/media/website/content-assets/documents/pdf/institutional-research/2025-2026-Campus-Crime-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Chadron State College 2025-2026 Campus Crime Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Named decision body for EN content."],"characterCount":101},{"label":"Timely warning for continuing threat","quotedText":"Students, faculty, and staff will be provided timely warning as required by federal law (20 U.S.C. § 1092) as to the occurrence of a serious crime that is thought to be a continuing threat to members of the campus community as soon as pertinent information becomes available.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.csc.edu/media/website/content-assets/documents/pdf/institutional-research/2025-2026-Campus-Crime-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Chadron State College 2025-2026 Campus Crime Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Section sign is live in the PDF."],"characterCount":275},{"label":"Student information system loads alert numbers","quotedText":"Cell phone numbers that are listed in the CSC student information system will be loaded in the CSC emergency alert system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.csc.edu/media/website/content-assets/documents/pdf/institutional-research/2025-2026-Campus-Crime-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Chadron State College 2025-2026 Campus Crime Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Enrollment path for the alert system."],"characterCount":122}],"keyFindings":["Emergency notifications go without delay to appropriate segments on a confirmed health or safety threat.","The EAP Team sets notification content and the notified population.","Timely warnings issue as soon as pertinent information is available for a serious crime thought to be a continuing threat."],"sources":[{"title":"Chadron State College 2025-2026 Campus Crime Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.csc.edu/media/website/content-assets/documents/pdf/institutional-research/2025-2026-Campus-Crime-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","nebraska","public-bachelors"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"champlain-college-alert-policy","slug":"champlain-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Champlain College","shortName":"Champlain","state":"VT","type":"private-bachelors","alertSystemName":"Champlain College Emergency Alert","alertPlatform":"Rave Mobile Safety"},"policy":{"title":"2023-2024 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.champlain.edu/app/uploads/2023/10/2023-2024-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2023-10-01"},"summary":"Champlain College, a private college in Burlington, Vermont, uses a [Rave Mobile Safety-powered alert system](https://www.champlain.edu/office/campus-public-safety/emergency-preparedness/) to send alerts to registered users, supplemented by homepage announcements and an updated outgoing message on the college's main phone line, as documented in its [Annual Security & Fire Safety Report](https://www.champlain.edu/app/uploads/2023/10/2023-2024-Annual-Security-Report.pdf).","analysis":"Champlain College is a private college in Burlington, Vermont, known for career-focused undergraduate programs alongside a large online division. The college's Campus Public Safety Office maintains an [Emergency Preparedness Resources page](https://www.champlain.edu/office/campus-public-safety/emergency-preparedness/) describing a Rave mobile safety alert system used to send alerts to all registered users during a campus emergency.\n\nBeyond the electronic alert system itself, Champlain documents two redundant, lower-tech notification channels: posting announcements on the college's website homepage, and updating the outgoing message on the college's main phone line -- both intended to reach community members (or their families) who may not be actively monitoring a registered mobile device during an unfolding incident. The Campus Public Safety Office prepares the college's [Annual Security Report](https://www.champlain.edu/app/uploads/2023/10/2023-2024-Annual-Security-Report.pdf) in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act, consistent with standard federal Clery ASR practice.\n\nThis sandbox's network egress could not directly fetch champlain.edu to confirm the exact wording of the Emergency Preparedness page or the Annual Security Report's notification-specific sections; the summary above is built from search-engine reproduction of both, corroborated across independent queries. Per this archive's standing policy, that limitation is not treated as grounds to omit or demote the entry -- it is documented honestly as reconstructed pending direct verification.","whenCriteria":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed; the Rave-powered alert system is described as being used to send alerts to registered users during a campus emergency.","decisionAuthority":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed; the Campus Public Safety Office is named as the office preparing the Annual Security Report and maintaining the Emergency Preparedness page.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"Champlain's Annual Security Report is prepared in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act; the report's specific timely-warning-versus-emergency-notification distinction was not retrievable verbatim in this review.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Champlain supplements its Rave-powered mobile alert system with website-homepage announcements and an updated outgoing message on the college's main phone line; registration for mobile alerts is required to receive the primary channel.","channels":["sms","email","website","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Multi-channel alert description (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of the Champlain College Emergency Preparedness Resources page; champlain.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Champlain College uses a Rave Mobile Safety-powered alert system for registered users, supplemented by website homepage announcements and an updated main-line phone message.","The Campus Public Safety Office prepares the college's Annual Security & Fire Safety Report in Clery Act compliance.","champlain.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox, so the excerpt is marked reconstructed; per archive policy this is not treated as demotion evidence."],"sources":[{"title":"Champlain College 2023-2024 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report","url":"https://www.champlain.edu/app/uploads/2023/10/2023-2024-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Emergency Preparedness Resources - Champlain College","url":"https://www.champlain.edu/office/campus-public-safety/emergency-preparedness/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Champlain College - Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champlain_College","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","private-bachelors","vermont","rave-mobile-safety"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-20","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"chapman-university-panther-alert-policy","slug":"chapman-university-panther-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Chapman University","shortName":"Chapman","state":"CA","type":"private-masters","alertSystemName":"Panther Alert","enrollment":10000},"policy":{"title":"Panther Alert Emergency Notification System","systemName":"Panther Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.chapman.edu/campus-services/public-safety/programs/panther-alert.aspx","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Chapman University's [Panther Alert page](https://www.chapman.edu/campus-services/public-safety/programs/panther-alert.aspx) brands Panther Alert as the emergency notification system that simultaneously sends voice, text, and email via Rave (from chapman@getrave.com), tests bi-annually, and limits emergency messages to crisis-alert situations, with companion Panther Guardian app references and Timely Warning/Crime Alert Bulletins elsewhere on Public Safety pages.","analysis":"Chapman University is a private master's university in California. Its [Panther Alert](https://www.chapman.edu/campus-services/public-safety/programs/panther-alert.aspx) page is institution-specific: Panther Alert is Chapman University's emergency notification system designed to quickly send critical messages to preferred mobile phone, landline, and email; messages can be sent simultaneously as voice calls, texts, and email; emergency emails come from chapman@getrave.com addressed as Panther Alert; the University tests the system bi-annually and has determined Panther Alert emergency messages will only be sent during crisis times; FERPA-related rules require student-provided contact information; Public Safety also maintains Timely Warning/Crime Alert Bulletins as a related Clery communication product.","whenCriteria":"Emergencies or unexpected events requiring time-sensitive communication; emergency messages limited to crisis-alert situations (not routine messaging).","decisionAuthority":"University Public Safety / University operation of Panther Alert (specific officer titles not enumerated on this overview page).","timingStandard":"Bi-annual system tests; simultaneous multi-channel delivery during activations.","cleryFraming":"Panther Alert is the emergency notification brand; Timely Warning/Crime Alert Bulletins are listed separately on Public Safety navigation for Clery timely warnings.","scopeLimits":"Students, faculty, and staff via preferred contact methods; student-controlled FERPA contact information; companion Panther Guardian app.","testingCadence":"Bi-annually.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Panther Alert brand and multi-channel delivery","quotedText":"Panther Alert is Chapman University's emergency notification system, designed to quickly send critical messages to your preferred mobile phone, landline, and email-wherever you are.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.chapman.edu/campus-services/public-safety/programs/panther-alert.aspx","sourceDescription":"Chapman Panther Alert page","annotations":["Local Panther Alert brand and multi-channel targets."],"characterCount":181},{"label":"Rave sender address branding","quotedText":"The email you receive will be addressed as a Panther Alert and come from chapman@getrave.com","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.chapman.edu/campus-services/public-safety/programs/panther-alert.aspx","sourceDescription":"Chapman Panther Alert page","annotations":["Institution-specific Rave from-address."],"characterCount":92},{"label":"Bi-annual testing and crisis-only use","quotedText":"While the University will test the system bi-annually, at this time, the University has determined that Panther-Alert emergency messages will only be sent during times of crisis.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.chapman.edu/campus-services/public-safety/programs/panther-alert.aspx","sourceDescription":"Chapman Panther Alert page","annotations":["Named testing cadence and crisis-only activation policy."],"characterCount":178},{"label":"Simultaneous multi-path delivery","quotedText":"Panther-Alert delivers messages to phones, emails, and SMS independently and simultaneously. That means if we were to send emergency messages, they would be delivered to all your listed contact methods at the same time.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.chapman.edu/campus-services/public-safety/programs/panther-alert.aspx","sourceDescription":"Chapman Panther Alert page","annotations":["Local simultaneous multi-channel delivery description."],"characterCount":219}],"keyFindings":["Panther Alert is Chapman’s local emergency notification brand on Rave.","Private-masters California policy with bi-annual testing and crisis-only use."],"sources":[{"title":"Panther Alert: Notification System - Chapman University","url":"https://www.chapman.edu/campus-services/public-safety/programs/panther-alert.aspx","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["private-masters","california","panther-alert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"chattanooga-state-community-college-2025-asr-alert-policy","slug":"chattanooga-state-community-college-2025-asr-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Chattanooga State Community College","shortName":"Chattanooga State","state":"TN","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Immediate Notification / Timely Warning"},"policy":{"title":"2025 Annual Security Report - Timely Warnings and Immediate Notification","systemName":"Immediate Notification / Timely Warning","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.chattanoogastate.edu/sites/default/files/annual-security-report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Chattanooga State Community College's [2025 Annual Security Report](https://www.chattanoogastate.edu/sites/default/files/annual-security-report.pdf) distributes an Immediate Notification or a Timely Warning campus-wide when it is reasonably believed that a reported violent crime may endanger additional campus citizens. The College intends to immediately notify all members of its community of incidents on or near campus property that have the potential to immediately endanger lives or threaten severe bodily injury or extensive property damage.","analysis":"Chattanooga State (Tennessee community college, four filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [2025 ASR PDF](https://www.chattanoogastate.edu/sites/default/files/annual-security-report.pdf) (HTTP 200, text layer). An Immediate Notification or a Timely Warning is distributed campus-wide by the Police Department when it is reasonably believed that a reported violent crime may endanger additional campus citizens, i.e., employees, students, and guests. The College is committed to notifying persons regarding significant types of threatening events or situations that may occur on or near its campus properties. It intends to immediately notify all members of its community of incidents or situations on or near campus property that have the potential to immediately endanger lives or that threaten severe bodily injury or extensive property damage. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF.","whenCriteria":"Immediate Notification or Timely Warning when a reported violent crime may endanger additional campus citizens. Immediate notification of incidents on or near campus that may immediately endanger lives or threaten severe bodily injury or extensive property damage.","decisionAuthority":"Chattanooga State Community College Police Department distributes Immediate Notifications and Timely Warnings.","timingStandard":"Immediate notification. No minutes-based SLA is quoted.","cleryFraming":"The ASR pairs Immediate Notification and Timely Warning in one distribution sentence, then defines emergency notification as properly and immediately notifying persons of events that potentially threaten lives or property.","channels":["sms","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Immediate Notification or Timely Warning","quotedText":"An Immediate Notification or a Timely Warning will be distributed campus-wide by the Chattanooga State Community College Police Department when it is reasonably believed that a reported violent crime may endanger additional campus citizens, i.e., employees, students, and guests.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.chattanoogastate.edu/sites/default/files/annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Chattanooga State Community College 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Police Department is the named distributor."],"characterCount":279},{"label":"Commitment to notify of threatening events","quotedText":"Chattanooga State Community College is committed to notifying persons regarding significant types of threatening events or situations that may occur on or near its campus properties.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.chattanoogastate.edu/sites/default/files/annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Chattanooga State Community College 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["On or near campus properties."],"characterCount":182},{"label":"Immediate notification of endangering incidents","quotedText":"Chattanooga State Community College intends to immediately notify all members of its community of incidents or situations on or near Chattanooga State Community College campus property that have the potential to immediately endanger lives or that threaten severe bodily injury or extensive property damage.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.chattanoogastate.edu/sites/default/files/annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Chattanooga State Community College 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Lives, severe bodily injury, or extensive property damage."],"characterCount":306}],"keyFindings":["The Police Department distributes Immediate Notifications or Timely Warnings campus-wide when a reported violent crime may endanger additional campus citizens.","The College intends immediate notification of incidents on or near campus that may immediately endanger lives or threaten severe injury or extensive property damage."],"sources":[{"title":"Chattanooga State Community College 2025 Annual Security Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.chattanoogastate.edu/sites/default/files/annual-security-report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","tennessee","community-college"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"christopher-newport-university-cnualert-policy","slug":"christopher-newport-university-cnualert-policy","institution":{"name":"Christopher Newport University","shortName":"CNU","state":"VA","type":"public-bachelors","alertSystemName":"CNUAlert"},"policy":{"title":"CNUAlert Emergency Notification System and Policy 1065 Clery Act Compliance","systemName":"CNUAlert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://cnualert.info/","lastReviewed":"2026"},"summary":"Christopher Newport University's [CNUAlert](https://cnualert.info/) page uses an emergency notification system with text messaging and email for real-time emergencies such as a tornado or shooter. [Policy 1065](https://cnu.edu/public/_documents/policy/general-university-policies/cnu-policy-1065_clery_act_compliance.pdf) defines emergency notification as a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat, and timely warning as a serious or continuing threat related to Clery Act crimes.","analysis":"Christopher Newport University (public-bachelors, Virginia, two filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [CNUAlert](https://cnualert.info/) page (HTTP 200), a live [Annual Security Report PDF](https://cnu.edu/police/_documents/annualreport.pdf) (HTTP 200), and live [Policy 1065](https://cnu.edu/public/_documents/policy/general-university-policies/cnu-policy-1065_clery_act_compliance.pdf) (HTTP 200). Consumer text registration is mandatory at no cost. The ASR describes cnualert as an opt-in text system while other channels still notify. Live ASR without-delay wording is taking in account. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live HTML or PDF.","whenCriteria":"ENS text for a real-time emergency (for example tornado or shooter) where the campus needs to take immediate action. Policy 1065 emergency notification for a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat. Timely warning for a serious or continuing threat related to Clery Act crimes.","decisionAuthority":"Emergency management personnel send ENS text. The Chief of Police or the Director of Emergency Management, or designee, may activate emergency notification system components (ASR).","timingStandard":"Policy 1065 says emergency notifications will be sent as soon as the dangerous situation has been identified. ASR without-delay language uses taking in account the safety of the community.","cleryFraming":"Policy 1065 keeps Emergency Notification distinct from Timely Warning. CNUAlert.info is the consumer emergency website.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","siren","pa-system","website","desktop-popup"],"excerpts":[{"label":"ENS primary channels","quotedText":"Christopher Newport's emergency notification system (ENS) employs two primary electronic communication methods: text messaging and email.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://cnualert.info/","sourceDescription":"CNUAlert page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Text and email are the two primary ENS methods."],"characterCount":137},{"label":"Real-time emergency text","quotedText":"In the event of a real-time emergency (e.g., tornado, shooter) where students, faculty and staff need to take immediate action, emergency management personnel will use the ENS to send a text message.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://cnualert.info/","sourceDescription":"CNUAlert page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Tornado and shooter are named examples."],"characterCount":199},{"label":"Mandatory text registration","quotedText":"The system requires mandatory registration at no cost to the CNU community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://cnualert.info/","sourceDescription":"CNUAlert page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Consumer page says mandatory registration; ASR calls the text path opt-in."],"characterCount":75},{"label":"Policy 1065 emergency notification definition","quotedText":"Emergency Notification: A notice provided to the campus community about a “significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health and safety of students, faculty, staff and guests.”","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://cnu.edu/public/_documents/policy/general-university-policies/cnu-policy-1065_clery_act_compliance.pdf","sourceDescription":"CNU Policy 1065 Clery Act Compliance (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Includes guests."],"characterCount":215},{"label":"Policy 1065 timely warning definition","quotedText":"Timely Warning: A notice provided to the community about a “serious or continuing threat to students, faculty, staff and guests” related to or arising from crimes specified in the Clery Act.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://cnu.edu/public/_documents/policy/general-university-policies/cnu-policy-1065_clery_act_compliance.pdf","sourceDescription":"CNU Policy 1065 Clery Act Compliance (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Tied to Clery Act crimes."],"characterCount":190}],"keyFindings":["CNUAlert ENS uses text and email as the two primary methods.","Real-time emergencies such as a tornado or shooter trigger an ENS text.","Policy 1065 keeps emergency notification distinct from timely warning."],"sources":[{"title":"CNUAlert","url":"https://cnualert.info/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Christopher Newport University Policy 1065 Clery Act Compliance (PDF)","url":"https://cnu.edu/public/_documents/policy/general-university-policies/cnu-policy-1065_clery_act_compliance.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Christopher Newport University Annual Security Report (PDF)","url":"https://cnu.edu/police/_documents/annualreport.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","system-overview","emergency-notification","timely-warning","virginia","public-bachelors"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"cincinnati-state-technical-and-community-college-timely-alert-asr","slug":"cincinnati-state-technical-and-community-college-timely-alert-asr","institution":{"name":"Cincinnati State Technical and Community College","shortName":"Cincinnati State","state":"OH","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Timely Alert","enrollment":8000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Alert Warnings and Emergency Campus Notifications - Annual Clery Report","systemName":"Timely Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.cincinnatistate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Annual-Clery-Report-2025-Final-9.18.25.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-09-18"},"summary":"Cincinnati State Technical and Community College documents [Timely Alert Warnings for Clery crimes and non-criminal emergencies](https://www.cincinnatistate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Annual-Clery-Report-2025-Final-9.18.25.pdf) with President/Chief of Police/Vice President discretion and multi-channel emergency notification systems.","analysis":"Cincinnati State (Cincinnati multi-campus, OH) publishes Timely Alert Warnings and Campus Notifications in the Event of an Emergency in its [2025 Annual Clery Report](https://www.cincinnatistate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Annual-Clery-Report-2025-Final-9.18.25.pdf). The college and Cincinnati State Police alert the campus community for certain crimes and safety issues on campus or in the immediate vicinity (generally adjacent streets/sidewalks), and may alert for out-of-area incidents with significant community impact. Alerts are required for Clery Act crimes representing a serious or continuing threat, and may also cover non-Clery crimes and non-criminal emergencies (weather, maintenance, environmental health).\n\nAlerts are issued at the discretion of the College President, Chief of Police, or any Vice President. They post to all student email accounts, full- and part-time employee email, campus computer network, electronic bulletin boards, and the college website. Faculty/staff who learn of warranting information should notify Cincinnati State Police promptly. For in-progress significant emergencies (active shooter, structure fire, hazmat leak), the college without delay determines content and initiates systems unless notification would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Channels include all-campus/student email and/or text accounts, the official college site notification system, and social media. EN alerts are at Chief of Police or designee discretion; all-clear messages follow using the same systems. Complements Ohio technical/community college coverage.","whenCriteria":"Timely Alert for Clery crimes representing serious or continuing threat on campus or immediate vicinity; may also issue for non-Clery crimes and non-criminal emergencies posing significant/continuing threat. Emergency notification for in-progress significant emergency or dangerous incident posing immediate threat (active shooter, structure fire, hazmat, similar).","decisionAuthority":"Timely Alerts: College President, Chief of Police, or any Vice President. Emergency message content/initiation: without delay by responsible authorities; EN alerts at discretion of Chief of Police or designee.","timingStandard":"Without delay for emergency notifications taking community safety into account, unless professional judgment holds notification would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. All-clear after emergency ends.","cleryFraming":"ASR Timely Alert Warnings and Campus Notifications in the Event of an Emergency sections implementing Clery timely warning and HEOA emergency notification duties.","scopeLimits":"Vicinity generally includes adjacent streets/sidewalks; out-of-area alerts when significant community impact. Non-criminal emergencies (weather, maintenance, EHS) may trigger alerts. Segment of campus community may be targeted for some threats.","testingCadence":"Not specified as a fixed cadence in the Timely Alert / Emergency Notifications ASR sections reviewed.","channels":["email","sms","website","digital-signage","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"President/Chief/VP alert discretion","quotedText":"Alerts are issued at the discretion of the College President, Chief of Police, or any Vice President.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.cincinnatistate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Annual-Clery-Report-2025-Final-9.18.25.pdf","sourceDescription":"Cincinnati State 2025 Clery Report - Timely Alert Warnings","annotations":["Three-role discretion for Timely Alert issuance."],"characterCount":101},{"label":"Multi-channel Timely Alert posting","quotedText":"Alerts are posted on all student e-mail accounts, all full-time and part-time employees e-mail accounts, the campus computer network, electronic bulletin boards throughout the campus and college web site.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.cincinnatistate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Annual-Clery-Report-2025-Final-9.18.25.pdf","sourceDescription":"Cincinnati State 2025 Clery Report - alert distribution","annotations":["Email, network, electronic bulletin boards, and website for TW."],"characterCount":204},{"label":"In-progress emergency multi-system EN","quotedText":"If there is an in-progress significant emergency or dangerous incident that poses an immediate threat to the college community such as an active shooter, structure fire, hazardous materials leak, or similar major incident, the college will use some or all of the various communication systems listed below to quickly communicate information to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.cincinnatistate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Annual-Clery-Report-2025-Final-9.18.25.pdf","sourceDescription":"Cincinnati State 2025 Clery Report - Campus Notifications in Emergency","annotations":["EN for in-progress major incidents via multi-system stack."],"characterCount":365}],"keyFindings":["Timely Alerts for Clery crimes and non-criminal emergencies at President/Chief/VP discretion.","Email, network, electronic boards, and website for TW distribution.","EN without delay for active shooter, fire, hazmat; includes email/text and social media."],"sources":[{"title":"Cincinnati State Technical and Community College 2025 Annual Clery Report PDF","url":"https://www.cincinnatistate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Annual-Clery-Report-2025-Final-9.18.25.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["ohio","community-college","clery-asr","timely-alert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"ccsf-alert-policy","slug":"ccsf-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"City College of San Francisco","shortName":"CCSF","state":"CA","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"CCSF Emergency Alert","enrollment":19267},"policy":{"title":"CCSF Emergency Alert / Emergency Notification & Timely Warning Policy","systemName":"CCSF Emergency Alert (Rave)","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.ccsf.edu/sites/default/files/2025/document/annual-security-report-2025.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"[CCSF Emergency Alert](https://www.ccsf.edu/campus-police/emergency-procedures) is the San Francisco Community College District's mass-notification system, run on the Rave platform, delivering official emergency communications by text message and email; any community member can opt in for free by texting 'ccsf' to 67283. The District Police Department issues emergency notifications and timely warnings under the [Annual Security Report](https://www.ccsf.edu/campus-police/clery-act-and-crime-activity-log), with timely-warning decisions made on a case-by-case basis.","analysis":"City College of San Francisco — the large urban community college serving the San Francisco Community College District across its Ocean campus and several Centers, enrolling roughly 19,000 students (plus thousands more in noncredit programs) — runs its mass-notification program as the 'CCSF Emergency Alert.' The District 'has partnered with RAVE to provide important/emergency mass notifications to the CCSF community,' so that 'official CCSF emergency communications and other important information are provided via text message and email.' Enrollment is open and free: 'Any member of the community can receive RAVE text alerts by texting \"ccsf\" to 67283,' and the [self-service Rave portal](https://www.getrave.com/login/ccsf) lets users manage their contact preferences. CCSF also points its community to the citywide AlertSF service run by the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management as a complementary feed.\n\nThe Clery framing is set out in the [Annual Security Report](https://www.ccsf.edu/campus-police/clery-act-and-crime-activity-log) and on the District Police [Emergency Procedures](https://www.ccsf.edu/campus-police/emergency-procedures) page. The District Police Department is responsible for the District's 'CCSF Emergency Alert' notification system, which is activated as needed for significant emergencies, dangerous situations, or other conditions that present an imminent risk or immediate threat to the health and safety of students, employees, or visitors to the Ocean campus and Centers. The ASR describes the trigger sequence: once first responders confirm that there is a significant emergency or dangerous situation posing an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community, they notify the District Police Department to issue an emergency notification.\n\nFor crime alerts, the ASR states that 'the decision to issue a timely warning shall be made on a case-by-case basis after consideration of the available facts, including factors such as the nature of the crime, the continuing danger or risk to the campus community, and the possible risk of compromising law enforcement efforts.' This is the standard Clery case-by-case discretion language. The ASR also confirms a testing cadence: the 'CCSF Emergency Alert' system is tested several times throughout the year.\n\nBecause the ccsf.edu host 403-blocks direct fetch in this environment, the quotes below were captured from repeated search-snippet renderings of the official Annual Security Report and Emergency Procedures page and cross-checked across independent retrievals before being flagged. The Rave vendor relationship and the 'ccsf'-to-67283 opt-in were reproduced consistently across multiple retrievals; the longer ASR trigger and case-by-case passages were captured from the ASR but could not be re-confirmed verbatim across multiple retrievals, so they are flagged accordingly.","whenCriteria":"The CCSF Emergency Alert is activated as needed for significant emergencies, dangerous situations, or other conditions that present an imminent risk or immediate threat to the health and safety of students, employees, or visitors to the Ocean campus and Centers. A timely warning is issued for Clery crimes that represent a serious or continuing threat to the community.","decisionAuthority":"The District Police Department is responsible for the District's emergency notification system and issues emergency notifications; first responders who confirm a threat notify the District Police Department to trigger a notification. Timely-warning decisions are made on a case-by-case basis after considering the nature of the crime, continuing danger, and risk of compromising law enforcement efforts.","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications are activated 'as needed' upon confirmation of an imminent risk or immediate threat; the formal Clery 'without delay' standard is set out in the Annual Security Report.","cleryFraming":"The ASR separates emergency notifications (imminent risk / immediate threat to health and safety) from timely warnings (Clery crime alerts decided case-by-case), both administered by the District Police Department under the Jeanne Clery Act.","testingCadence":"The 'CCSF Emergency Alert' system is tested several times throughout the year, per the Annual Security Report.","scopeLimits":"The system reaches the CCSF community by text and email; opt-in is open to any community member free of charge via the 'ccsf'-to-67283 keyword or the Rave self-service portal. Coverage spans the Ocean campus and the District's Centers. The citywide AlertSF service is a separate, complementary feed run by the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management.","channels":["sms","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Rave partnership and channels","quotedText":"The City College of San Francisco has partnered with RAVE to provide important/emergency mass notifications to the CCSF community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ccsf.edu/campus-police/emergency-procedures","sourceDescription":"CCSF District Police — Emergency Procedures page","annotations":["Names Rave (Rave Mobile Safety / Motorola) as the vendor and text/email as the channels. Reproduced identically across multiple independent retrievals; the ccsf.edu host 403-blocks direct fetch, so it could not be byte-confirmed against the live page."],"characterCount":130},{"label":"Free public opt-in keyword","quotedText":"Any member of the community can receive RAVE text alerts by texting \"ccsf\" to 67283.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ccsf.edu/campus-police/emergency-procedures","sourceDescription":"CCSF District Police — Emergency Procedures page","annotations":["Open, free keyword opt-in lets students, staff, and the public receive the same emergency texts. Reproduced consistently across multiple retrievals; host 403-blocks direct fetch."],"characterCount":84},{"label":"Timely-warning case-by-case standard","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ccsf.edu/sites/default/files/2025/document/annual-security-report-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"SFCCD Police Department Annual Security Report 2025","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"System testing cadence","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ccsf.edu/sites/default/files/2025/document/annual-security-report-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"SFCCD Police Department Annual Security Report 2025","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["CCSF Emergency Alert runs on the Rave platform, delivering official emergency communications by text message and email to the Ocean campus and District Centers.","Opt-in is open and free to anyone by texting 'ccsf' to 67283, or via the Rave self-service portal (getrave.com/login/ccsf).","The District Police Department is responsible for issuing emergency notifications; first responders who confirm a threat notify District Police to trigger one.","Timely-warning decisions are made case-by-case based on the nature of the crime, continuing danger, and risk of compromising law enforcement efforts.","The CCSF Emergency Alert system is tested several times throughout the year, per the Annual Security Report; the citywide AlertSF feed is a complementary external service."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Procedures | CCSF District Police","url":"https://www.ccsf.edu/campus-police/emergency-procedures","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Act and Crime Activity Log | CCSF","url":"https://www.ccsf.edu/campus-police/clery-act-and-crime-activity-log","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"SFCCD Police Department Annual Security Report 2025 (PDF)","url":"https://www.ccsf.edu/sites/default/files/2025/document/annual-security-report-2025.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Rave Login — San Francisco Community College District","url":"https://www.getrave.com/login/ccsf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"AlertSF | SF Department of Emergency Management","url":"https://sfdem.org/sign-alerts","type":"other"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","community-college","rave","california"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"clark-atlanta-university-cau-alerts-system-overview","slug":"clark-atlanta-university-cau-alerts-system-overview","institution":{"name":"Clark Atlanta University","shortName":"CAU","state":"GA","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"CAU Alerts","enrollment":4252},"policy":{"title":"Emergency and Crime Reporting, CAU Alerts, and the Panther Safe App","systemName":"CAU Alerts","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.cau.edu/student-life/campus-life-community/public-safety/emergency-crime-reporting"},"summary":"Clark Atlanta University's [Department of Public Safety pages](https://www.cau.edu/student-life/campus-life-community/public-safety) describe a layered alerting doctrine: the CAU Alerts notification system and the [Panther Safe app](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/panther-safe-cau/id1456405888) built by AppArmor for emergency push notifications, a published [Shelter-In-Place Protocol](https://www.cau.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Shelter-In-Place.pdf) that runs until an all clear from Public Safety, and a timely-warning commitment naming the six Clery crime categories DPS will report in a timely manner.","analysis":"Clark Atlanta University, an Atlanta HBCU with [4,252 students in fall 2024](https://www.cau.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CAU-AT-A-GLANCE_-2024.pdf), documents its alerting posture across several official surfaces rather than one consolidated policy page: the [Emergency and Crime Reporting page](https://www.cau.edu/student-life/campus-life-community/public-safety/emergency-crime-reporting) (on-campus emergencies go to 404-880-8911, or x8911 from campus phones), the [Department of Public Safety section of the university catalog](https://catalog.cau.edu/graduate/department-public-safety/) (which carries the timely-warning commitment and the annual Your Right To Know statistical disclosure supporting Clery compliance), the [Public Safety Information, Policies and Protocols page](https://www.cau.edu/student-life/campus-life-community/public-safety/public-safety-information-policies-protocols), and standalone protocol PDFs such as the [CAU Police Shelter-In-Place Protocol](https://www.cau.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Shelter-In-Place.pdf). The delivery stack is twofold. CAU Alerts is the registration-based emergency notification channel the university tells students and families to sign up for, and the Panther Safe app, [built on the AppArmor platform](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/panther-safe-cau/id1456405888), is described as the only app integrated with CAU's safety systems, carrying instant notifications and instructions from campus safety during on-campus emergencies alongside a mobile bluelight, Friend Walk, and live chat with security. The university's official X account promotes both in one breath, telling students to download Panther Safe, sign up for CAU Alerts, and review the Emergency Response Guide, as it did in a [September 2024 post](https://x.com/CAU/status/1839433521204805639). The Shelter-In-Place Protocol shows how notification and protective action interlock in practice: community members keep phones silenced but nearby to receive emergency alerts and updates, remain inside during a lockdown, and wait for an all clear communicated by the Department of Public Safety, with building coordinators authorized to initiate a lockdown on their own if an imminent threat arrives before instructions do. That doctrine got real use in this archive's Clark Atlanta cases, including the February 2022 HBCU bomb-threat wave, the 2022 and 2023 homecoming shootings, and the September 2025 swatting shelter-in-place. The full emergency-notification policy statement, including activation authority and without-delay language, lives in the [2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.cau.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-2.pdf); cau.edu is egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so that PDF could not be read directly and quoted language below is carried from search-index retrievals of the official pages, marked unconfirmed pending a character-for-character read.","whenCriteria":"The catalog's Public Safety statement commits DPS to reporting six Clery crime categories (aggravated assault, burglary, murder, sexual offenses forcible and non-forcible, robbery, and motor vehicle theft) in a timely manner to alert the CAU community and prevent similar crimes; emergency-notification activation criteria for immediate threats sit in the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, unreadable from this sandbox.","decisionAuthority":"The Department of Public Safety communicates emergency instructions and the all clear; the Shelter-In-Place Protocol also authorizes building coordinators or supervisors to initiate a lockdown without direct instruction from Public Safety when a threat is imminent.","timingStandard":"The published commitment is that qualifying crimes will be reported in a timely manner; a formal without-delay sentence for emergency notifications would sit in the Clery Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, not readable from this sandbox.","cleryFraming":"Timely warnings are framed through the catalog's crime-reporting commitment and the annual Your Right To Know statistical report supporting the Clery Act; immediate-threat messaging runs through CAU Alerts and the Panther Safe app.","scopeLimits":"CAU Alerts is presented as a sign-up service promoted to students and family members; Panther Safe app notifications reach only those who install the app, and the university also posts emergency information to its official social accounts.","channels":["sms","email","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely warning commitment","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://catalog.cau.edu/graduate/department-public-safety/","sourceDescription":"Clark Atlanta University catalog, Department of Public Safety (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Lockdown initiation authority","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.cau.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Shelter-In-Place.pdf","sourceDescription":"CAU Police Shelter-In-Place Protocol (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Shelter-in-place alert-receipt instruction","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.cau.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Shelter-In-Place.pdf","sourceDescription":"CAU Police Shelter-In-Place Protocol (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; imperative phrasing reconstructed from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Official promotion of the alert stack","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://x.com/CAU/status/1839433521204805639","sourceDescription":"Clark Atlanta University official X account, September 2024 (x.com not loadable from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval, leading and mid-post emoji omitted)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["CAU documents its alerting doctrine across several official surfaces (Public Safety pages, the catalog, protocol PDFs, and the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report) rather than one consolidated policy page.","The delivery stack pairs the CAU Alerts sign-up notification system with the Panther Safe app on the AppArmor platform, described as the only app integrated with CAU's safety and security systems.","The Shelter-In-Place Protocol distributes protective-action authority: building coordinators may initiate a lockdown without waiting for Public Safety when a threat is imminent, and only Public Safety communicates the all clear.","The catalog's timely-warning commitment enumerates six Clery crime categories that DPS will report in a timely manner to prevent similar crimes.","The doctrine has been exercised repeatedly in this archive's eight Clark Atlanta cases, spanning the 2022 HBCU bomb-threat wave, two homecoming shootings, and a 2025 swatting shelter-in-place.","No excerpt is verbatim-confirmed: cau.edu, catalog.cau.edu, and x.com are all egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language is carried from search-index retrievals and flagged for direct verification."],"sources":[{"title":"Clark Atlanta University, Emergency and Crime Reporting","url":"https://www.cau.edu/student-life/campus-life-community/public-safety/emergency-crime-reporting","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clark Atlanta University, Public Safety","url":"https://www.cau.edu/student-life/campus-life-community/public-safety","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clark Atlanta University, Public Safety Information, Policies and Protocols","url":"https://www.cau.edu/student-life/campus-life-community/public-safety/public-safety-information-policies-protocols","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clark Atlanta University catalog, Department of Public Safety","url":"https://catalog.cau.edu/graduate/department-public-safety/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clark Atlanta University Police, Shelter-In-Place Protocol (PDF)","url":"https://www.cau.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Shelter-In-Place.pdf","type":"official-statement"},{"title":"Clark Atlanta University, 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.cau.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-2.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Clark Atlanta University official X account, Panther Safe and CAU Alerts promotion","url":"https://x.com/CAU/status/1839433521204805639","type":"official-social"},{"title":"Panther Safe - CAU (App Store listing, AppArmor platform)","url":"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/panther-safe-cau/id1456405888","type":"reference"},{"title":"Clark Atlanta University, CAU At-A-Glance Fall 2024 (PDF)","url":"https://www.cau.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CAU-AT-A-GLANCE_-2024.pdf","type":"official-statement"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["clark-atlanta-university-alexis-crawford-missing-student-2019-10-30","clark-atlanta-university-bomb-threat-2022-02-01","clark-atlanta-university-homecoming-shooting-2022-10-16","clark-atlanta-university-homecoming-shooting-2023-10-20","clark-atlanta-university-bomb-threat-2025-02-20","clark-atlanta-university-swatting-2025-09-11","clark-atlanta-university-winter-weather-remote-operations-2026-01-26"],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","georgia","hbcu","cau-alerts","panther-safe","shelter-in-place","timely-warning","safety-app"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-31","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"clemson-university-cu-alert-policy","slug":"clemson-university-cu-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Clemson University","shortName":"Clemson","state":"SC","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"CU Alerts (formerly CU Safe Alerts)","enrollment":28000},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications — CU Alerts","systemName":"CU Alerts","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.clemson.edu/cusafety/emergency-management/emergency-notifications/index.html","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"Clemson University's emergency notification system — branded [CU Alerts](https://www.clemson.edu/cusafety/emergency-management/emergency-notifications/index.html) after the [former name 'CU Safe Alerts' was retired in early 2026](https://news.clemson.edu/cu-safe-alerts-are-now-cu-alerts/) — warns of imminent threats and major disruptions, sends both Clery emergency notifications and timely warnings by text message, and is tested every month on the second Wednesday at 11:50 a.m. across email, text, desktop alerts, social media, and digital signage.","analysis":"Clemson's emergency notifications are known as CU Alerts, a name that as of early 2026 replaced the older 'CU Safe Alerts' brand; per [Clemson News](https://news.clemson.edu/cu-safe-alerts-are-now-cu-alerts/), the shorter name was adopted to make more efficient use of the roughly 160-character SMS limit so recipients can see more of the emergency information in the text preview window. Per the [CU Safety emergency notifications page](https://www.clemson.edu/cusafety/emergency-management/emergency-notifications/index.html), CU Alerts warn of imminent threats — such as an active threat or severe weather — or disruptions to campus services such as class cancellations, and alerts are only sent when there is a potential threat to safety or a major disruption to campus services, and for monthly tests.\n\nThe Clery framing is explicit and channel-anchored: both emergency notifications and timely warnings (in accordance with the Clery Act) will be sent via text message. Emergency notifications are additionally sent via several methods to warn the University community of imminent threats or disruptions to campus services. Enrollment is mandatory for email and optional for text: all @clemson.edu email addresses automatically receive CU Alerts, while Clemson students, faculty, and staff who add their phone number to their my.Clemson profile receive CU Alert text messages. The university notes you can opt out of text-message alerts but cannot opt out of receiving email alerts — a design choice it frames as ensuring all members of the community can receive emergency notifications and timely warnings.\n\nClemson runs an unusually disciplined, publicly fixed test cadence. Per the CU Safety page, CU Alerts are tested monthly on the second Wednesday of each month at 11:50 a.m., and that monthly test exercises emails, text messages, desktop alerts, social media, and digital signage — the full multi-channel stack. Because the official .edu pages return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were captured from the official Clemson page text as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries; remaining detail is paraphrased.","whenCriteria":"CU Alerts warn of imminent threats — such as an active threat or severe weather — or disruptions to campus services, such as class cancellations. Alerts are only sent when there is a potential threat to safety or a major disruption to campus services, and for monthly tests.","decisionAuthority":"Operated by Clemson University Public Safety / emergency management (CUPD). Specific authorizing officials are not stated verbatim in the reproduced source text; CU Alerts are coordinated by the university's public-safety and emergency-management functions.","timingStandard":"CU Alerts are issued to warn the community of imminent threats; both emergency notifications and Clery timely warnings are delivered via text message to reach recipients quickly. (No explicit 'without delay' minute standard is reproduced in the source text.)","cleryFraming":"Explicit: both emergency notifications and timely warnings (in accordance with the Clery Act) are sent via text message, and the inability to opt out of email is framed as ensuring all members receive both emergency notifications and timely warnings.","testingCadence":"CU Alerts are tested monthly on the second Wednesday of each month at 11:50 a.m. The monthly test includes emails, text messages, desktop alerts, social media, and digital signage.","scopeLimits":"Alerts are only sent for a potential threat to safety, a major disruption to campus services, or monthly tests. All @clemson.edu email addresses receive CU Alerts automatically and email cannot be opted out; text messages require adding a phone number to the my.Clemson profile and can be opted out.","channels":["sms","email","desktop-popup","digital-signage","twitter-x","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"CU Alerts purpose and criteria","quotedText":"Clemson University's emergency notifications, known as CU Alerts, warn of imminent threats, such as an active threat or severe weather, or disruptions to campus services, such as class cancellations.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.clemson.edu/cusafety/emergency-management/emergency-notifications/index.html","sourceDescription":"Clemson CU Safety — Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Defines the CU Alerts brand and scopes it to imminent threats and campus-service disruptions."],"characterCount":199},{"label":"Clery emergency-notification vs timely-warning channel","quotedText":"Both emergency notifications and timely warnings (in accordance with the Clery Act) will be sent via text message.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.clemson.edu/cusafety/emergency-management/emergency-notifications/index.html","sourceDescription":"Clemson CU Safety — Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Explicitly ties both Clery instruments to the SMS channel, signaling that text is the guaranteed delivery path for life-safety messaging."],"characterCount":114},{"label":"Monthly test cadence and channels","quotedText":"CU Alerts are tested monthly on the second Wednesday of each month at 11:50 a.m. This test includes emails, text messages, desktop alerts, social media and digital signage.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.clemson.edu/cusafety/emergency-management/emergency-notifications/index.html","sourceDescription":"Clemson CU Safety — Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Documents a fixed, publicly announced monthly test on the second Wednesday at 11:50 a.m. across the full multi-channel stack."],"characterCount":172},{"label":"Enrollment and opt-out rules","quotedText":"All @clemson.edu email addresses automatically receive CU Alerts. Clemson University students, faculty and staff who add their phone number to their my.Clemson profile will receive CU Alert text messages.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.clemson.edu/cusafety/emergency-management/emergency-notifications/index.html","sourceDescription":"Clemson CU Safety — Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Email coverage is automatic and non-optional; SMS requires self-enrollment via the my.Clemson profile and can be opted out."],"characterCount":204}],"keyFindings":["Clemson's emergency notification system, CU Alerts, was renamed from 'CU Safe Alerts' in early 2026 to fit more emergency information within the ~160-character SMS limit.","CU Alerts warn of imminent threats (active threat, severe weather) or disruptions to campus services, and are sent only for a potential safety threat, a major service disruption, or monthly tests.","Both Clery emergency notifications and timely warnings are delivered via text message, the system's guaranteed life-safety channel.","All @clemson.edu email addresses receive CU Alerts automatically and cannot opt out of email; text alerts require adding a phone number to the my.Clemson profile and are opt-out.","CU Alerts are tested monthly on the second Wednesday at 11:50 a.m. across email, text, desktop alerts, social media, and digital signage."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notifications | Clemson University Public Safety","url":"https://www.clemson.edu/cusafety/emergency-management/emergency-notifications/index.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Notifications | Clemson University (communications)","url":"https://www.clemson.edu/cusafety/EmergencyManagement/communications.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"CU Safe Alerts are now CU Alerts | Clemson News","url":"https://news.clemson.edu/cu-safe-alerts-are-now-cu-alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"CUPD Operations — Warnings | Clemson University Public Safety","url":"https://www.clemson.edu/cusafety/operations/warnings.html","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","cu-alerts","cu-safe-alerts","public-r1","south-carolina"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"coastal-carolina-university-ccu-alert-policy","slug":"coastal-carolina-university-ccu-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Coastal Carolina University","shortName":"CCU","state":"SC","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"CCU Alert","enrollment":12006},"policy":{"title":"CCU Alert and Emergency Notification","systemName":"CCU Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.coastal.edu/emergency/ccualert/"},"summary":"Coastal Carolina University's [CCU Alert pages](https://www.coastal.edu/emergency/ccualert/) describe an opt-in text notification system that reaches all registered mobile phones instantly and simultaneously when actions are required for the health and safety of the campus community, layered inside an [integrated notification approach](https://www.coastal.edu/emergency/notification/) of multiple overlapping technologies that includes the ChantSafe safety app operated by the Department of Public Safety.","analysis":"Coastal Carolina University, a public university in Conway, South Carolina whose [Fall 2025 enrollment reached a record 12,006](https://www.coastal.edu/news/fall2025/ccubreakstotalenrollmentrecordforthirdconsecutiveyear/), documents its warning apparatus across an [Emergency Notification overview](https://www.coastal.edu/emergency/notification/) and a dedicated [CCU Alert section](https://www.coastal.edu/emergency/ccualert/). CCU Alert is described as a notification system that enables the university to notify subscribers of an impending or actual situation in which actions are required for the health and safety of the campus community, instantly and simultaneously to all registered mobile phones, covering an imminent threat from a hazard or an incident on campus and proximate areas. The university is candid about the system's structural caveat, stating that while CCU Alert is an effective system, it can only work for those who sign up; the [sign-up instructions](https://www.coastal.edu/emergency/ccualert/instructions/) walk subscribers through a CCU-credential login, mobile number entry, and a four-digit validation code. Around the SMS core, the university describes an integrated solution utilizing multiple, overlapping technologies to ensure students, faculty, staff, and visitors are notified of emergency situations or conditions that could disrupt campus activities, including [ChantSafe](https://www.coastal.edu/chantsafe/), the official safety app, through which the CCU Department of Public Safety Communications Center sends emergency notifications as in-app pop-ups and home-screen push notifications; the communications center monitors its devices around the clock. This archive's eleven CCU cases, from the 2022 Carolina Pines shots-fired shelter message to the 2026 winter-weather online-operations notices, show the system's operational range. The coastal.edu host is egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language below is carried from search-index retrievals of the official pages and marked unconfirmed pending a direct character-for-character read.","whenCriteria":"An impending or actual situation in which actions are required for the health and safety of the campus community, including an imminent threat from a hazard or an incident on campus and proximate areas, plus conditions that could disrupt campus activities.","decisionAuthority":"The CCU Department of Public Safety Communications Center issues notifications through the system's central control and monitors devices 24/7; the specific titles authorized to activate CCU Alert were not readable from this sandbox (coastal.edu egress-blocked).","timingStandard":"Delivery is described as instant and simultaneous to all registered mobile phones; a precise without-delay sentence from the Clery policy statements was not confirmable from this sandbox.","cleryFraming":"The public pages are emergency-notification system overviews; the imminent-threat, health-and-safety framing tracks the Clery emergency notification standard, with formal policy statements in the Annual Security Report, which was not reachable from this sandbox.","testingCadence":"Not confirmable from this sandbox; no published test schedule surfaced in indexed retrievals of the CCU Alert pages.","scopeLimits":"CCU Alert texts reach only subscribers who sign up with a mobile number, a caveat the university states plainly; the overlapping-technology stack and ChantSafe app extend reach to visitors and app users.","channels":["sms","push-notification","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Activation scope and delivery","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.coastal.edu/emergency/ccualert/","sourceDescription":"Coastal Carolina University, CCU Alert page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Opt-in caveat","quotedText":"While CCU Alert is an effective system, it can only work for those who sign up.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.coastal.edu/emergency/ccualert/","sourceDescription":"Coastal Carolina University, CCU Alert page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":["The university's own statement of the opt-in reach limitation, unusually plain for this genre of page. Unconfirmed pending a direct read."],"characterCount":79},{"label":"Integrated overlapping technologies","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.coastal.edu/emergency/notification/","sourceDescription":"Coastal Carolina University, Emergency Notification page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"ChantSafe app notifications from the Communications Center","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.coastal.edu/chantsafe/","sourceDescription":"Coastal Carolina University, ChantSafe Mobile Safety App page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["CCU Alert is an opt-in SMS system whose activation criteria cover health-and-safety action situations and imminent threats on campus and in proximate areas.","The university states its own reach caveat plainly: the system can only work for those who sign up.","An integrated stack of multiple overlapping technologies, including the ChantSafe app run by the Department of Public Safety Communications Center, backstops the SMS core.","The Communications Center monitors notification devices 24/7 and issues the alerts.","No excerpt is verbatim-confirmed: coastal.edu is egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language is carried from search-index retrievals and flagged for direct verification."],"sources":[{"title":"Coastal Carolina University, CCU Alert","url":"https://www.coastal.edu/emergency/ccualert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Coastal Carolina University, Emergency Notification","url":"https://www.coastal.edu/emergency/notification/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Coastal Carolina University, CCU Alert How to Sign Up","url":"https://www.coastal.edu/emergency/ccualert/instructions/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Coastal Carolina University, ChantSafe Mobile Safety App","url":"https://www.coastal.edu/chantsafe/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Coastal Carolina University News, CCU breaks total enrollment record for third consecutive year","url":"https://www.coastal.edu/news/fall2025/ccubreakstotalenrollmentrecordforthirdconsecutiveyear/","type":"official-statement"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["coastal-carolina-university-carolina-pines-shots-fired-2022-04-26","coastal-carolina-university-cove-apartments-abduction-shelter-2022-10-11","coastal-carolina-university-shooting-2024-01-15","coastal-carolina-university-7-eleven-shootings-2026-03-09"],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","south-carolina","ccu-alert","chantsafe","opt-in"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-23","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"coker-university-omnialert-policy","slug":"coker-university-omnialert-policy","institution":{"name":"Coker University","shortName":"Coker","state":"SC","type":"private-bachelors","alertSystemName":"OmniAlert / Coker Emergency Notification System","enrollment":1200},"policy":{"title":"OmniAlert Emergency Notification and Timely Warnings (2025 ASR)","systemName":"OmniAlert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.coker.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.docx-1.pdf","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Coker University's [2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.coker.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.docx-1.pdf) brands OmniAlert for simultaneous voicemail, email, and text emergency messages, assigns confirmation and activation to the Director of Campus Safety and Security or designee with without-delay issuance, and places Timely Warning decisions with the Director of Safety and Security or designee (Hartsville PD as a report path).","analysis":"Coker University (Hartsville, South Carolina) is a private bachelor's institution. Its [2025 ASR](https://www.coker.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.docx-1.pdf) brands the Coker Emergency Notification System as OmniAlert, a secure web-based service storing student/faculty/staff contact information. The Director of Campus Safety and Security or designee confirms immediate threats and activates some or all of the system without delay unless professional judgment finds compromise of victim assistance or mitigation; the Director determines content and campus segments, consulting the Executive Leadership Team as appropriate. The Emergency Response Team (ERT) may limit notifications to segments of campus. Timely Warnings are decided case-by-case by the Director of Safety and Security or designee, including serious or continuing threat and law-enforcement compromise risk, with Hartsville Police Department listed among reporting paths.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notification for significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat to health or safety of students or employees on campus. Timely warning when serious crime on campus, university property, or near vicinity constitutes ongoing or continuing threat (Clery categories listed plus others as Director/University Administration determine).","decisionAuthority":"Emergency notification: Director of Campus Safety and Security or designee confirms threat and activates system; Director of Campus Safety determines content and segments, consulting campus officials/Executive Leadership Team as appropriate; ERT may segment. Timely Warning: Director of Safety and Security or designee case-by-case.","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications occur without delay, taking into account community safety, unless issuing would compromise victim assistance or mitigation efforts. Subsequent messages with updates as necessary.","cleryFraming":"ASR separates OmniAlert emergency notifications (immediate threat) from Timely Warnings (ongoing/continuing threat crimes), with explicit list of TW crime types and exceptions when no ongoing threat exists.","scopeLimits":"Messages may target all or segments of campus as determined by Director/ERT. Victim names withheld as confidential on Timely Warnings. Near-vicinity crimes may trigger TW.","testingCadence":"Not stated as a fixed numeric cadence in the extracted OmniAlert/Timely Warning sections of the 2025 ASR.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"OmniAlert brand and simultaneous multi-channel delivery","quotedText":"The Coker Emergency Notification System (OmniAlert) uses a secure, web-based service to selectively store electronic contact information provided by students, faculty, and staff, through which the University is able to communicate information and instructions in the event of an emergency. Emergency messages are sent simultaneously via voicemail, email, and/or text messaging to all the numbers and addresses on file for each person.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.coker.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.docx-1.pdf","sourceDescription":"Coker 2025 ASR Emergency Notification System","annotations":["Branded OmniAlert with simultaneous voicemail/email/text."],"characterCount":434},{"label":"Director confirms and activates without delay","quotedText":"In the event of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on the campus the Coker University Director of Campus Safety and Security or designee is responsible for confirming a dangerous situation or immediate threat exists and will activate some or all of the notification system.. The notifications will occur without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim; or to contain, respond to or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.coker.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.docx-1.pdf","sourceDescription":"Coker 2025 ASR EN activation","annotations":["Named Director of Campus Safety and Security with without-delay standard."],"characterCount":667},{"label":"Director content/segment decisions with Executive Leadership Team consult","quotedText":"Once a determination has been made to issue an emergency notification, the content of the notification and the appropriate segment(s) of the campus community who receive the notification will be determined by the Director of Campus Safety. Consultation with campus officials (which may include the Executive Leadership Team) will occur as appropriate.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.coker.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.docx-1.pdf","sourceDescription":"Coker 2025 ASR EN content authority","annotations":["Local Director + optional Executive Leadership Team consult."],"characterCount":351},{"label":"Director of Safety and Security Timely Warning decision","quotedText":"The decision to issue a timely warning shall be decided on a case-by-case basis in compliance with the Clery Act. The decision is made by the Director of Safety and Security, or his designee, considering all available facts, including whether the crime is considered a serious or continuing threat to students or employees, and the possible risk of compromising law enforcement efforts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.coker.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.docx-1.pdf","sourceDescription":"Coker 2025 ASR Timely Warnings","annotations":["Named Director of Safety and Security as TW decision maker."],"characterCount":386},{"label":"Hartsville Police Department reporting path","quotedText":"These crimes may be reported to the Office of Campus Safety and Security, a campus security authority, or to the Hartsville Police Department.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.coker.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.docx-1.pdf","sourceDescription":"Coker 2025 ASR Timely Warnings reporting","annotations":["Local municipal PD named as TW report path."],"characterCount":142}],"keyFindings":["OmniAlert is the branded emergency notification system for voicemail, email, and text.","Director of Campus Safety and Security confirms threats and activates OmniAlert without delay.","Timely Warnings are decided by the Director of Safety and Security or designee.","Hartsville Police Department is an explicit reporting path for crimes that may trigger warnings."],"sources":[{"title":"2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - Coker University","url":"https://www.coker.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.docx-1.pdf","type":"clery-asr","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","private-bachelors","timely-warning","emergency-notification","south-carolina","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"colgate-university-colgate-alert-policy","slug":"colgate-university-colgate-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Colgate University","shortName":"Colgate","state":"NY","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"Colgate Alert"},"policy":{"title":"Colgate Alert / Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings","systemName":"Colgate Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.colgate.edu/alerts","lastReviewed":"2026-06-22"},"summary":"Colgate University's emergency-notification system is branded [Colgate Alert](https://www.colgate.edu/alerts), a Rave-based platform that sends time-sensitive emergency messages via email, text, and voice using the contact information in each person's Colgate portal account; the Clery emergency-notification and [timely-warning](https://www.colgate.edu/about/offices-centers-institutes/dean-college/campus-safety-staff/clery-compliance) functions are documented in Colgate's Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.","analysis":"Colgate University is a private liberal-arts university in Hamilton, New York. Its emergency-notification system is branded [Colgate Alert](https://www.colgate.edu/alerts). Colgate describes it as the system that 'allows Colgate University to send time-sensitive emergency messages to students, faculty, and staff via email and any other contact information listed in your portal account.' The system runs on the Rave platform — Colgate community members are also told they can use the underlying [Rave Alert](https://www.colgate.edu/student-life/safety/emergency-management) system to receive emergency or weather-related cancellation information by text, email, and phone.\n\nThe defining design choice is automatic enrollment from the system of record. Colgate states that 'Colgate Alert automatically utilizes the contact information listed in your portal account, so individual registration is not necessary.' Community members can log in to the Colgate Portal, click the Colgate Alert link, and enter up to three email addresses, three mobile phone numbers, and three voice-only telephone numbers. This was a deliberate fix for a known coverage gap: the [Colgate Maroon-News reported](https://thecolgatemaroonnews.com/9023/news/emergency-alert-system-updated/) that the old 'e2Campus' system could not automatically download contact information from the Colgate database and required students to opt in and register individually, which left a number of students out of the alert system. Switching to a portal-synced, auto-enrolled model closed that gap so that opt-in friction no longer determines who receives a life-safety message.\n\nOn the Clery side, Colgate maintains the two federally required functions and documents them through its [Clery compliance program](https://www.colgate.edu/about/offices-centers-institutes/dean-college/campus-safety-staff/clery-compliance). Like all Title IV institutions, Colgate publishes an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report by October 1 each year covering crime statistics, reporting policies, and its policies and procedures for timely warnings and emergency notifications for the preceding three calendar years. Emergency notifications are reserved for a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the community; timely warnings address Clery-reportable crimes that present a serious or continuing threat.\n\nBecause colgate.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were captured from multiple independent WebSearch retrievals of the official pages. The Colgate Alert definition sentence and the automatic-enrollment sentence each appeared with identical wording across separate retrievals and are marked verbatim-confirmed; the e2Campus history is attributed to the student newspaper and is marked reconstructed.","whenCriteria":"Colgate Alert is used to send time-sensitive emergency messages. Emergency notifications under Clery are reserved for a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees; timely warnings address Clery-reportable crimes that present a serious or continuing threat to the community. The exact threshold wording from Colgate's ASR was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","decisionAuthority":"Colgate's Department of Campus Safety administers Colgate Alert and the Clery compliance program. The specific named position authorized to confirm an emergency and trigger a Colgate Alert was not confirmable verbatim (colgate.edu and the ASR PDF blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"Colgate Alert is described as a system for 'time-sensitive emergency messages,' consistent with the Clery requirement to notify the community immediately upon confirmation of a significant emergency. The precise published timing language was not confirmed byte-for-byte in this review.","cleryFraming":"Colgate maintains the two distinct Clery functions — emergency notifications for immediate threats and timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes posing a serious or continuing threat — and publishes an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report by October 1 each year covering the preceding three calendar years.","testingCadence":"Colgate documents its emergency-notification testing in the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report; the exact published periodic test cadence for Colgate Alert was not confirmed verbatim in this review (colgate.edu and the ASR PDF blocked automated fetching).","scopeLimits":"Registration is not necessary because Colgate Alert automatically uses portal contact data, but reach for text and voice depends on community members keeping that information current; each person may store up to three email addresses, three mobile numbers, and three voice-only numbers. The auto-enrollment model was adopted specifically to eliminate the opt-in coverage gap of the prior e2Campus system.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Colgate Alert definition","quotedText":"Colgate Alert allows Colgate University to send time-sensitive emergency messages to students, faculty, and staff via email and any other contact information listed in your portal account.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.colgate.edu/alerts","sourceDescription":"Colgate University — Alerts page","annotations":["Establishes the branded system name and that delivery keys off the portal account. Identical wording appeared across multiple independent WebSearch retrievals of the official Colgate pages."],"characterCount":188},{"label":"Automatic enrollment from portal account","quotedText":"Colgate Alert automatically utilizes the contact information listed in your portal account, so individual registration is not necessary.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.colgate.edu/alerts","sourceDescription":"Colgate University — Alerts page","annotations":["Documents the auto-enrollment design that removes opt-in friction. Identical wording appeared across two separate WebSearch retrievals of the official page."],"characterCount":136},{"label":"e2Campus replaced to close an opt-in coverage gap","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://thecolgatemaroonnews.com/9023/news/emergency-alert-system-updated/","sourceDescription":"The Colgate Maroon-News — Emergency Alert System Updated (student newspaper; paraphrased in search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Colgate's branded emergency-notification system is Colgate Alert, a Rave-based platform delivering email, text, and voice messages.","Colgate Alert is auto-enrolled: it pulls contact data from each person's Colgate portal account, so individual registration is not required.","Each user may store up to three email addresses, three mobile numbers, and three voice-only numbers in the portal.","Colgate Alert replaced an older opt-in system, e2Campus, which had left some students out of the alert system — the auto-enrolled model was adopted to close that gap.","Colgate maintains distinct Clery emergency-notification and timely-warning functions and publishes an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report by October 1 each year.","Two excerpts were confirmed verbatim across independent retrievals; the e2Campus history is attributed to the student newspaper and marked reconstructed; colgate.edu's 403 blocking prevented confirmation of the ASR threshold/test-cadence language."],"sources":[{"title":"Colgate University — Alerts","url":"https://www.colgate.edu/alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Colgate University — Emergency Management (Student Life: Safety)","url":"https://www.colgate.edu/student-life/safety/emergency-management","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Colgate University — Clery Compliance","url":"https://www.colgate.edu/about/offices-centers-institutes/dean-college/campus-safety-staff/clery-compliance","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"The Colgate Maroon-News — Emergency Alert System Updated","url":"https://thecolgatemaroonnews.com/9023/news/emergency-alert-system-updated/","type":"student-newspaper"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","private-liberal-arts","new-york","colgate-alert","rave","auto-enrollment"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"college-of-charleston-cougar-alert-system-overview","slug":"college-of-charleston-cougar-alert-system-overview","institution":{"name":"College of Charleston","shortName":"CofC","state":"SC","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"Cougar Alert","alertPlatform":"Everbridge","enrollment":11926},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Preparedness and Cougar Alert Notification Types","systemName":"Cougar Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://charleston.edu/public-safety/staying-safe/safer-living/emergency-preparedness.php"},"summary":"The College of Charleston's [emergency preparedness pages](https://charleston.edu/public-safety/staying-safe/safer-living/emergency-preparedness.php) and [emergency site](https://emergency.charleston.edu/) publish a three-tier notification taxonomy: Cougar Alerts on the Everbridge platform reserved for major emergencies or life-threatening situations and impossible for students, faculty, and staff to opt out of, Clery Act Timely Warnings sent by campus email, and Campus Advisories for issues that warrant notification but pose no immediate danger.","analysis":"The College of Charleston, a public university of [11,926 students in fall 2024](https://www.univstats.com/colleges/college-of-charleston/student-population/) on a dense downtown-peninsula campus, has published one of the cleaner three-tier notification taxonomies in this collection since it [moved Cougar Alert onto the Everbridge platform in October 2020](https://today.cofc.edu/2020/10/15/college-announces-everbridge-as-new-cougar-alert-system/). Tier one, the Cougar Alert, is reserved for major emergencies or life-threatening situations occurring on or near campus, examples the College names include active shooter, assault, and homicide, and it is mandatory: students, faculty, and staff cannot opt out, while families, neighbors, and visitors can register. A companion [FAQ](https://today.cofc.edu/2020/10/30/cougar-alert-emergency-notifications-numbers-fs/) even publishes the sender identities so recipients can pre-save them, email displaying as College of Charleston, texts from short code 898-61, and calls from 843.805.5507, an anti-spoofing and anti-ignore measure few institutions in this collection take. Tier two is the Clery Act Timely Warning, sent by campus email for crimes posing a serious or continuing threat. Tier three, the Campus Advisory, covers events that warrant notification but no immediate danger, public-health case updates, facilities issues, and major off-campus incidents such as flooding or street closures affecting access to campus, a tier that maps directly onto the advisory-genre cases in this archive. The full taxonomy is maintained at [emergency.charleston.edu](https://emergency.charleston.edu/), and delivery spans email, phone, text, the Everbridge app, and full-screen pop-up alerts on campus computer workstations, classroom smart boards, and laptops. The system is tested near the start of each semester on announced two-day windows, [January 12 and 13, 2026](https://today.charleston.edu/2026/01/07/cofc-to-test-emergency-alert-system-jan-12-13/) and [September 2 and 3, 2026](https://today.charleston.edu/2026/08/25/college-to-test-emergency-alert-system-sept-2-3/) being the most recent. The taxonomy's stress tests are visible in this archive's seven College of Charleston cases, from Hurricane Hugo in 1989 through the 2015 downtown bomb threat, the 2015 historic flood, hurricanes Irma and Dorian, a residence-hall sexual-assault timely warning, and the 2019 mumps outbreak, which spans all three modern tiers. The charleston.edu hosts are egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language below is carried from search-index retrievals of the official pages and articles and marked unconfirmed pending a character-for-character read.","whenCriteria":"Cougar Alerts issue for major emergencies or life-threatening situations occurring on or near campus, such as active shooter, assault, or homicide; Timely Warnings issue for Clery crimes posing a serious or continuing threat; Campus Advisories issue for events warranting notification without immediate danger to health and safety, including major off-campus incidents affecting access to campus.","decisionAuthority":"The College's emergency notifications are issued institutionally, with the Emergency Management Team activated during major emergencies to provide up-to-date information to campus; the specific titles authorized to trigger a Cougar Alert were not readable from this sandbox (charleston.edu egress-blocked).","timingStandard":"The College describes Cougar Alert as able to reach students, faculty, staff, and parents within minutes of a campus crisis; formal without-delay language would sit in the Annual Security Report, not reachable from this sandbox.","cleryFraming":"The taxonomy separates the Clery genres explicitly: Cougar Alerts serve the emergency-notification function for immediate threats, while Timely Warnings are a distinct email product tied by name to the Jeanne Clery Act, and Campus Advisories carry everything below both thresholds.","testingCadence":"Announced tests of the Cougar Alert system near the start of each semester over two-day windows, most recently January 12-13 and September 2-3, 2026, exercising email, phone, text, and full-screen desktop pop-ups.","scopeLimits":"Students, faculty, and staff cannot opt out of Cougar Alerts; families, neighbors, and visitors may register voluntarily; Campus Advisories explicitly extend to major off-campus incidents in surrounding downtown Charleston that affect access to or departure from campus.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","push-notification","desktop-popup"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Cougar Alert definition","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://today.cofc.edu/2020/10/30/cougar-alert-emergency-notifications-numbers-fs/","sourceDescription":"The College Today, What to Know About CofC's New Emergency Notification System (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Reservation clause","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.charleston.edu/","sourceDescription":"College of Charleston emergency site, notification types (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Mandatory enrollment","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://today.cofc.edu/2020/10/30/cougar-alert-emergency-notifications-numbers-fs/","sourceDescription":"The College Today, What to Know About CofC's New Emergency Notification System (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Timely Warning definition","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.charleston.edu/","sourceDescription":"College of Charleston emergency site, notification types (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Campus Advisory definition","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.charleston.edu/","sourceDescription":"College of Charleston emergency site, notification types (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Published sender identities","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://today.cofc.edu/2020/10/30/cougar-alert-emergency-notifications-numbers-fs/","sourceDescription":"The College Today, What to Know About CofC's New Emergency Notification System (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["The College publishes a clean three-tier taxonomy, Cougar Alert, Timely Warning, Campus Advisory, each with a stated threshold, which few institutions in this collection separate so explicitly.","Cougar Alerts are mandatory for students, faculty, and staff, with no opt-out, while families, neighbors, and visitors may register voluntarily.","The College publishes its exact sender identities (email display name, text short code 898-61, and caller ID 843.805.5507) so recipients can pre-save them.","Delivery spans email, phone, text, the Everbridge app, and full-screen pop-ups on campus computers and classroom smart boards, with announced two-day tests near the start of each semester.","Campus Advisories explicitly cover major off-campus incidents affecting access to the downtown-peninsula campus, an honest acknowledgment of the campus's porous urban boundary.","No excerpt is verbatim-confirmed: the charleston.edu hosts are egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language is carried from search-index retrievals and flagged for direct verification."],"sources":[{"title":"College of Charleston, Emergency Preparedness","url":"https://charleston.edu/public-safety/staying-safe/safer-living/emergency-preparedness.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"College of Charleston, emergency.charleston.edu (notification types and emergency information)","url":"https://emergency.charleston.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"The College Today, CofC Announces Everbridge as New Cougar Alert System (October 15, 2020)","url":"https://today.cofc.edu/2020/10/15/college-announces-everbridge-as-new-cougar-alert-system/","type":"official-statement"},{"title":"The College Today, What to Know About CofC's New Emergency Notification System (October 30, 2020)","url":"https://today.cofc.edu/2020/10/30/cougar-alert-emergency-notifications-numbers-fs/","type":"official-statement"},{"title":"The College Today, College to test emergency alert system Jan. 12, 13 (January 7, 2026)","url":"https://today.charleston.edu/2026/01/07/cofc-to-test-emergency-alert-system-jan-12-13/","type":"official-statement"},{"title":"The College Today, College to test emergency alert system Sept. 2, 3 (August 25, 2026)","url":"https://today.charleston.edu/2026/08/25/college-to-test-emergency-alert-system-sept-2-3/","type":"official-statement"},{"title":"ABC News 4, CofC announces Everbridge as new Cougar Alert System","url":"https://abcnews4.com/news/local/cofc-announces-everbridge-as-new-cougar-alert-system","type":"local-media"},{"title":"Univstats, College of Charleston Student Population and Demographics","url":"https://www.univstats.com/colleges/college-of-charleston/student-population/","type":"reference"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["college-of-charleston-hurricane-hugo-1989-09-21","college-of-charleston-bomb-threat-2015-02-10","college-of-charleston-historic-flood-2015-10-03","college-of-charleston-hurricane-irma-2017-09-08","college-of-charleston-residence-hall-sexual-assault-2017-10-27","college-of-charleston-hurricane-dorian-2019-09-01","college-of-charleston-mumps-outbreak-2019-09-23"],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","south-carolina","cougar-alert","everbridge","three-tier","no-opt-out","timely-warning","campus-advisory","semester-testing"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-31","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"college-of-coastal-georgia-alert-policy","slug":"college-of-coastal-georgia-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"College of Coastal Georgia","shortName":"CCGA","state":"GA","type":"public-bachelors","alertSystemName":"Nixle","enrollment":3468},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Protocol","systemName":"Nixle","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.ccga.edu/heoa/emergency-protocol/","lastReviewed":"2026-07-20"},"summary":"College of Coastal Georgia, a bachelor's-and-associate-degree-only University System of Georgia state college in Brunswick, sends emergency text alerts through the free [Nixle program](https://www.ccga.edu/heoa/emergency-protocol/), backed by a named Public Safety Team and a separate [Timely Warning Policy](https://www.ccga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Timely-Warning-Policy-DRAFT.pdf) that defines \"timely\" as soon as reasonably practicable after a reported incident.","analysis":"College of Coastal Georgia is a public four-year state college in Brunswick with roughly 3,468 students and no graduate programs, offering 18 bachelor's degrees alongside associate degrees. Its [Emergency Protocol page](https://www.ccga.edu/heoa/emergency-protocol/) names a specific commercial platform rather than a generic in-house system: Campus Police send out emergency notifications via text messaging using the Nixle program, which is free for all faculty, staff, and students, with registration by texting \"ccga\" to 888777 and standard messaging rates applying beyond that.\n\nThe College layers channels beyond the single text platform. Email alerts are sent to Division Chairs for potentially threatening conditions, and campus-wide email may be utilized for faculty, staff, and students in immediately threatening conditions such as weather warnings; public safety officers may also use the College's outdoor Emergency Mass Notification System and public address systems on police vehicles or bullhorns to announce information to large crowds in the moment, a design suited to a modest-sized, largely commuter-facing campus where reaching people physically present outdoors matters as much as reaching phones.\n\nCoastal Georgia's governance structure for these decisions is unusually explicit for a school this size. Its [Timely Warning Policy](https://www.ccga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Timely-Warning-Policy-DRAFT.pdf) names a standing Public Safety Team consisting of the President, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Vice President for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, Vice President for Business Affairs, Vice President for Advancement, Chief of Police, and Clery Compliance Coordinator, a seven-role committee spanning nearly the entire senior cabinet rather than leaving the call to Public Safety alone. That same policy defines \"timely\" concretely: \"Timely\" means as soon as reasonably practicable after a reported incident, and sets out the same criteria used across many peer institutions in this archive (nature of the crime, continuing danger to the campus community, and risk of compromising law-enforcement efforts) for the Team's judgment on when a Timely Warning should be issued and its content. The College also documents a discretionary extension beyond Clery-defined crimes: Coastal Georgia reserves the right to issue Timely Warnings for crimes, other than Clery Act Crimes, or other ongoing safety concerns when the crimes or safety concerns pose a serious threat to the campus community, including patterns of criminal behavior against persons or property.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notifications cover immediately threatening conditions (including weather warnings); Timely Warnings are issued when the Public Safety Team determines a crime or ongoing safety concern poses a serious or continuing threat to the campus community, based on the nature of the crime, continuing danger, and risk of compromising law-enforcement efforts.","decisionAuthority":"A standing Public Safety Team consisting of the President, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Vice President for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, Vice President for Business Affairs, Vice President for Advancement, Chief of Police, and Clery Compliance Coordinator determines when a Timely Warning should be issued and its content; Campus Police send routine emergency text notifications via Nixle.","timingStandard":"\"Timely\" means as soon as reasonably practicable after a reported incident, per the College's Timely Warning Policy.","cleryFraming":"Coastal Georgia reserves the right to issue Timely Warnings for crimes other than Clery Act crimes, or other ongoing safety concerns, when those concerns pose a serious threat to the campus community, extending its practice beyond the federal Clery minimum.","testingCadence":"A stated testing cadence was not found in the public sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Nixle text registration requires texting \"ccga\" to 888777 and standard messaging rates apply; email alerts to Division Chairs and campus-wide email are used for potentially or immediately threatening conditions; outdoor mass notification and PA/bullhorn announcements from police vehicles extend reach to people outdoors without a registered phone.","channels":["sms","email","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Nixle text alert registration","quotedText":"Campus Police send out emergency notifications via text messaging using the Nixle program. This free program is available for all faculty, staff, and students, and you can register by texting \"ccga\" to 888777. Standard messaging rates will apply.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ccga.edu/heoa/emergency-protocol/","sourceDescription":"College of Coastal Georgia - Emergency Protocol","annotations":["Reproduced identically across multiple independent search-result summaries of the official Emergency Protocol page, including the exact keyword/short-code registration instruction."],"characterCount":246},{"label":"The Public Safety Team's membership","quotedText":"The Public Safety Team consists of the President, Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs, Vice President for Student Affairs & Enrollment Management, Vice President for Business Affairs, Vice President for Advancement, Chief of Police, and Clery Compliance Coordinator.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ccga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Timely-Warning-Policy-DRAFT.pdf","sourceDescription":"College of Coastal Georgia - Timely Warning Policy","annotations":["Names a seven-role senior-cabinet committee as the Timely Warning decision body, spanning academic affairs, student affairs, business affairs, advancement, police, and Clery compliance."],"characterCount":276},{"label":"Discretionary extension beyond Clery crimes","quotedText":"Coastal Georgia reserves the right to issue Timely Warnings for crimes, other than Clery Act Crimes, or other ongoing safety concerns when the crimes or safety concerns pose a serious threat to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ccga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Timely-Warning-Policy-DRAFT.pdf","sourceDescription":"College of Coastal Georgia - Timely Warning Policy","annotations":["Documents a discretionary extension of Timely Warning practice beyond the federal Clery Act's minimum crime categories."],"characterCount":215},{"label":"Definition of \"timely\"","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ccga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Timely-Warning-Policy-DRAFT.pdf","sourceDescription":"College of Coastal Georgia - Timely Warning Policy (reconstructed from search-result summary; exact original wording not independently confirmed)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["CCGA names Nixle, a specific commercial short-code platform, as its text-alert vehicle, with a documented keyword/number registration path.","A seven-role Public Safety Team spanning the President, Provost, three vice presidents, Chief of Police, and Clery Compliance Coordinator makes Timely Warning decisions, rather than leaving the call to Public Safety alone.","The College's own Timely Warning Policy reserves the right to issue warnings for non-Clery crimes and ongoing safety concerns, extending beyond the federal minimum.","As a bachelor's/associate-degree-only public state college with no graduate programs, CCGA fills a genuine gap in this archive's public-bachelors coverage."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Protocol - College of Coastal Georgia","url":"https://www.ccga.edu/heoa/emergency-protocol/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Timely Warning Policy - College of Coastal Georgia","url":"https://www.ccga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Timely-Warning-Policy-DRAFT.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"2025 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report - College of Coastal Georgia","url":"https://www.ccga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025ASFSR.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","public-bachelors","georgia","state-college","nixle"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-20","lastUpdated":"2026-07-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"college-of-eastern-idaho-rave-alert-policy","slug":"college-of-eastern-idaho-rave-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"College of Eastern Idaho","shortName":"CEI","state":"ID","type":"technical-college","alertSystemName":"RAVE Alert","alertPlatform":"Rave"},"policy":{"title":"Procedure 901: Emergency Notification","systemName":"RAVE Alert","documentType":"sop","url":"https://www.cei.edu/policy/procedure-901-emergency-notification"},"summary":"The College of Eastern Idaho, the two-year technical college in Idaho Falls formerly known as Eastern Idaho Technical College, uses the RAVE Alert system under its named [Procedure 901: Emergency Notification](https://www.cei.edu/policy/procedure-901-emergency-notification), defining an Emergency Notification as a time sensitive communication intended to minimize injury or fatality and a Timely Warning as required for any Clery Act crime representing an ongoing threat, with the Campus Safety department managing the system and testing it at least once each year.","analysis":"The College of Eastern Idaho, renamed from Eastern Idaho Technical College, documents its notification duties in a specifically numbered procedure, [Procedure 901: Emergency Notification](https://www.cei.edu/policy/procedure-901-emergency-notification), stating that CEI utilizes the RAVE Alert system to communicate emergency notifications in a timely manner to enhance the safety and security of faculty, staff, and students, and that these notifications meet the requirements for both Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications under the Clery Act within a single named procedure. The procedure defines Emergency Notifications as time sensitive communication intended to minimize injury or fatality of the target audience, while Timely Warnings are communicated for any Clery Act crime that represents an ongoing threat to the safety of students and employees, cleanly separating the two categories inside one document rather than splitting them across a webpage and a separate ASR section.\n\nDecision authority is scoped to specific named positions authorized to send approved messages using the RAVE Alert System, with the college's Campus Safety department managing the system with assistance from the IT organization. CEI states notifications will be sent through RAVE mobile safety, the CEI website, and local news media via radio and television, and for routine weather closures specifically, the procedure commits to every effort to send notifications by 6:30 A.M. for morning closures and 3:30 P.M. for evening closures, an unusually precise operational commitment for a small technical college. Faculty, staff, and students personalize their notification settings at getrave.com/login/CEI, though CEI email notifications are described as the minimum notification that may not be modified and do not require account creation. The system is tested at least once each year unless a live notification has already been sent for an incident that year, and test messages must clearly state This is a Test at the beginning of the message, with certain messages pre-approved so authorized individuals can send them quickly in applicable emergencies.\n\nBecause cei.edu returned blocked connections to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below are reconstructed from search engine indexed extracts of the official procedure page rather than a firsthand character by character read, and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation; this record is scored at medium confidence on that basis.","whenCriteria":"Emergency Notifications are time sensitive communication intended to minimize injury or fatality of the target audience, communicated upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation. Timely Warnings are communicated for any Clery Act crime that represents an ongoing threat to the safety of students and employees.","decisionAuthority":"Specific positions are authorized to send approved messages using the RAVE Alert System, and the Campus Safety department manages the RAVE Alert System with assistance from the IT organization.","timingStandard":"For weather closures specifically, every effort is made to send notifications by 6:30 A.M. for morning closures and 3:30 P.M. for evening closures; a general live-incident minutes based standard beyond time sensitive was not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"Procedure 901 names both Clery categories inside a single document: Emergency Notifications, defined around minimizing injury or fatality, and Timely Warnings, defined around any Clery Act crime representing an ongoing threat.","scopeLimits":"Notifications are sent through RAVE mobile safety, the CEI website, and local news media via radio and television. CEI email notifications are the minimum notification and cannot be modified or opted out of; faculty, staff, and students may additionally personalize settings by registering at getrave.com/login/CEI.","testingCadence":"The notification system is tested at least once each year, unless a notification has already been sent for an incident that year; test messages must clearly state This is a Test at the beginning of the message.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency Notification definition","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.cei.edu/policy/procedure-901-emergency-notification","sourceDescription":"College of Eastern Idaho, Procedure 901: Emergency Notification (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Registration and minimum notification","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.cei.edu/policy/procedure-901-emergency-notification","sourceDescription":"College of Eastern Idaho, Procedure 901: Emergency Notification (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Weather closure timing standard","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.cei.edu/policy/procedure-901-emergency-notification","sourceDescription":"College of Eastern Idaho, Procedure 901: Emergency Notification (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Annual testing and pre-approved messages","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.cei.edu/policy/procedure-901-emergency-notification","sourceDescription":"College of Eastern Idaho, Procedure 901: Emergency Notification (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["College of Eastern Idaho (formerly Eastern Idaho Technical College) documents both Clery categories, Emergency Notification and Timely Warning, inside a single named Procedure 901.","Decision authority rests with specific named positions authorized to send RAVE Alert messages, managed by the Campus Safety department with IT support.","Weather closures carry a specific clock-time commitment, 6:30 A.M. for morning closures and 3:30 P.M. for evening closures.","The system is tested at least once each year with a required This is a Test disclaimer.","Cei.edu could not be directly loaded in this environment, so this record is scored at medium confidence and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation."],"sources":[{"title":"Procedure 901: Emergency Notification, College of Eastern Idaho","url":"https://www.cei.edu/policy/procedure-901-emergency-notification","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Policy 500: Security and Emergency Management, College of Eastern Idaho","url":"https://www.cei.edu/policy/policy-500-security-and-emergency-management","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Campus Safety, College of Eastern Idaho","url":"https://www.cei.edu/campus-safety","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","rave-alert","technical-college","idaho"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-27","lastUpdated":"2026-09-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"college-of-southern-nevada-csn-alert-policy","slug":"college-of-southern-nevada-csn-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"College of Southern Nevada","shortName":"CSN","state":"NV","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"CSN Alert","alertPlatform":"Omnilert","enrollment":28313},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications, CSN Alert","systemName":"CSN Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://news.csn.edu/info/","lastReviewed":"2026-07-03"},"summary":"The College of Southern Nevada, the state's largest and most ethnically diverse higher-education institution, runs [CSN Alert](https://news.csn.edu/info/), an emergency notification system reserved for incidents presenting an imminent threat to life, health, or safety to CSN students, employees, faculty, and community members. CSN Alert is administered alongside the [CSN MobileSAFETY app](https://www.csn.edu/emergencypreparedness) and University Police Services, which provides law-enforcement coverage for CSN under an agreement with [UNLV Police Department](https://www.unlv.edu/police/csn).","analysis":"The College of Southern Nevada is a multi-campus community college serving the Las Vegas metropolitan area and is described as Nevada's largest and most ethnically diverse institution of higher education. Its emergency-communication system, [CSN Alert](https://news.csn.edu/info/), is defined on the college's own emergency-notifications page as the system used for incidents that present an imminent threat to life, health or safety to CSN students, employees, faculty, and community members, with CSN Alert messages providing emergency information and instructions to protect yourself during an emergency.\n\nDissemination runs through law enforcement: University Police Services is described as the office that disseminates CSN Alert messages to students, faculty, and staff during an emergency. CSN itself does not appear to operate a fully independent sworn police department; its campuses are served by [University Police Services in partnership with the UNLV Police Department](https://www.unlv.edu/police/csn), reflecting the close operational ties among Nevada System of Higher Education institutions in the Las Vegas area.\n\nEnrollment for text and voicemail alerts is contact-information-driven rather than described as fully automatic in the pages reviewed: CSN's [Emergency Preparedness page](https://www.csn.edu/emergencypreparedness) directs students and employees to update their contact information to receive CSN Alert notifications via text and voicemail on their cellphone. Login for the underlying Omnilert-based platform uses the same Canvas/GoCSN credentials the college already issues, lowering the barrier to registering or updating a phone number. The companion [CSN MobileSAFETY app](https://www.csn.edu/emergencypreparedness) extends the system with instant access to campus safety resources and emergency contacts in addition to push alerts.\n\nCSN also publishes a broader tiered notification protocol in its [Emergency Response Guide](https://www.csn.edu/sites/default/files/documents/emergency-preparedness/CSN-Emergency-Response-Guide-2022.pdf) for situations where electronic alerting may not be the fastest option: face-to-face contact by police, fire, or EMS; a 'runner' physically moving between areas; loudspeaker or bullhorn announcements; and existing building fire-alarm systems, layering low-tech methods underneath the CSN Alert text/voicemail/app channel. Because csn.edu and news.csn.edu both returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were reconstructed from search-index snippets of the official pages; the CSN Alert definition sentences reproduced identically across independent retrievals and are marked verbatim-confirmed, while passages that appeared only once are marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false out of caution.","whenCriteria":"CSN Alert is used for incidents that present an imminent threat to life, health, or safety to CSN students, employees, faculty, and community members.","decisionAuthority":"University Police Services, operating in partnership with the UNLV Police Department, disseminates CSN Alert messages to students, faculty, and staff during an emergency; a further named single approving officer was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"A specific minutes-based service-level standard for issuing a CSN Alert notification was not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed in this session.","cleryFraming":"The pages reviewed describe CSN Alert as the college's general emergency-notification system rather than separately labeling a distinct Clery timely-warning process; CSN's Clery crime statistics and policy disclosures are published through its Annual Security Report.","testingCadence":"A specific published testing cadence for CSN Alert was not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed in this session.","scopeLimits":"Text and voicemail alerts depend on students and employees updating their contact information through the Omnilert-based system (accessible with Canvas/GoCSN credentials); the CSN MobileSAFETY app supplements this with push alerts and safety resources on a registered device.","channels":["sms","phone-call","push-notification","pa-system","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"CSN Alert definition and activation threshold","quotedText":"CSN Alert is the emergency notification system used for incidents that present an imminent threat to life, health or safety to CSN students, employees, faculty, and community members.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://news.csn.edu/info/","sourceDescription":"CSN, Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Sets the imminent-threat activation threshold and the covered population; this sentence reproduced identically across independent retrievals of CSN's emergency-notifications page."],"characterCount":183},{"label":"Purpose of CSN Alert messages","quotedText":"CSN Alert messages provide emergency information and instructions to protect yourself during an emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://news.csn.edu/info/","sourceDescription":"CSN, Emergency Notifications","annotations":["States the content purpose of CSN Alert messages, protective instructions plus situational information; this sentence reproduced identically across independent retrievals of the same page."],"characterCount":106},{"label":"Dissemination authority","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://news.csn.edu/info/","sourceDescription":"CSN, Emergency Notifications","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Login and enrollment mechanism","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://news.csn.edu/info/","sourceDescription":"CSN, Emergency Notifications","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["CSN Alert is reserved for incidents presenting an imminent threat to life, health, or safety to the CSN community.","University Police Services, run in partnership with the UNLV Police Department, disseminates CSN Alert messages.","The underlying platform is Omnilert, accessible via the same Canvas/GoCSN credentials students and employees already use.","The CSN MobileSAFETY app supplements text/voicemail CSN Alert messages with push alerts and instant access to safety resources.","CSN's Emergency Response Guide documents a layered, low-tech fallback protocol, face-to-face contact, runners, loudspeakers, and building fire alarms, underneath the electronic CSN Alert channel."],"sources":[{"title":"CSN, Emergency Notifications","url":"https://news.csn.edu/info/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"CSN, Emergency Preparedness","url":"https://www.csn.edu/emergencypreparedness","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UNLV Police Department, College of Southern Nevada","url":"https://www.unlv.edu/police/csn","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"CSN Emergency Response Guide 2025","url":"https://www.csn.edu/sites/default/files/documents/emergency-preparedness/CSN-Emergency-Response-Guide-2022.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","csn-alert","omnilert","community-college","nevada","multi-channel"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"college-of-the-redwoods-timely-warning-emergency-notification-policy","slug":"college-of-the-redwoods-timely-warning-emergency-notification-policy","institution":{"name":"College of the Redwoods","shortName":"Redwoods","state":"CA","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Redwoods emergency text / CRPD alerts","enrollment":4000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning Notices and Emergency Notifications (ASR)","systemName":"Redwoods emergency text message alerts","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.redwoods.edu/about/security/documents/2025%20Annual%20Security%20Report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"College of the Redwoods' [2025 Annual Security Report](https://www.redwoods.edu/about/security/documents/2025%20Annual%20Security%20Report.pdf) names a multi-office decision set (President/Superintendent, Chief of Police, Lead Campus Safety Officer, Vice Presidents) for timely warnings and emergency notifications, and states that alerts will be targeted to the affected campus only.","analysis":"College of the Redwoods (Eureka / California North Coast multi-campus district) documents alert practice in its [2025 ASR](https://www.redwoods.edu/about/security/documents/2025%20Annual%20Security%20Report.pdf). Institution-specific content includes named decision officers for both TW and EN, CRPD plus Director of Facilities and Life Safety Committee evaluation for emergencies, a multi-campus targeting rule (alerts only to the campus involved), and local hazards context (earthquakes, tsunamis, forest fires) alongside active-shooter and hazmat scenarios.\n\nChannels for timely warnings include emergency text, website postings, broadcast email/voicemail, PA, and fliers.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning for serious incidents that may pose an ongoing threat to the Redwoods community. Emergency notification for significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat to health or safety of students or employees or surrounding area (including campus closure or immediate evacuation).","decisionAuthority":"Timely warnings: judgment of President/Superintendent, Chief of Police, Lead Campus Safety Officer, VP of Instruction and Student Development, and/or VP Administrative Services in consultation with relevant staff. Emergency notifications: President/Superintendent, Police Chief, Lead Campus Safety Officer, and/or Vice Presidents. EN evaluation involves CRPD, Director of Facilities, and Life Safety Committee.","timingStandard":"College will issue notifications without delay and consider community safety in determining content; TW decision as circumstances allow.","cleryFraming":"ASR separates Timely Warning Notices from Emergency Notifications; CRPD responsibility to provide timely warnings to aid prevention of similar crimes.","scopeLimits":"Alerts targeted to the campus involved to avoid undue stress on unaffected campuses; multi-campus district awareness.","testingCadence":"Not fully extracted in the TW/EN sections reviewed; see full ASR for drills.","channels":["sms","email","website","phone-call","pa-system","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Named multi-office TW decision set","quotedText":"As circumstances allow the decision to distribute a timely warning notice will be based on the judgment of the President/Superintendent, Chief of Police, Lead Campus Safety Officer, Vice President of Instruction and Student Development, and/or Vice President Administrative Services in consultation with relevant campus staff.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.redwoods.edu/about/security/documents/2025%20Annual%20Security%20Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Redwoods 2025 ASR Timely Warning Notices","annotations":["Named local officers for TW decision."],"characterCount":326},{"label":"TW multi-channel stack","quotedText":"Any of the following may be used to issue timely warnings about serious incidents on campus: emergency text message alerts, prominent postings on the Redwoods website, broadcast email and voicemail, and public address systems. Fliers and other informational materials may also be posted in other campus buildings to inform students, faculty, and staff of ongoing safety concerns.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.redwoods.edu/about/security/documents/2025%20Annual%20Security%20Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Redwoods 2025 ASR","annotations":["Local channel list including PA and fliers."],"characterCount":379},{"label":"EN decision officers","quotedText":"The decision to distribute an emergency notification will be based on the judgment of the President/Superintendent, Police Chief, Lead Campus Safety Officer, and/or Vice Presidents in consultation with relevant campus staff.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.redwoods.edu/about/security/documents/2025%20Annual%20Security%20Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Redwoods 2025 ASR Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Named EN decision officers."],"characterCount":224},{"label":"CRPD Facilities Life Safety Committee evaluation","quotedText":"CRPD and/or other campus authorities become aware of a campus safety concern or potential problem, the CRPD, the Director of Facilities, and the Life Safety Committee will evaluate the issue and determine if it is a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees or the surrounding area.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.redwoods.edu/about/security/documents/2025%20Annual%20Security%20Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Redwoods 2025 ASR","annotations":["Local evaluation triad including Life Safety Committee."],"characterCount":364},{"label":"Campus-targeted alerts only","quotedText":"Any alerts issued will be targeted to the campus involved to avoid making a broad alert notification and causing undue stress to those areas not affected by the situation.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.redwoods.edu/about/security/documents/2025%20Annual%20Security%20Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Redwoods 2025 ASR","annotations":["Multi-campus targeting rule - institution-specific."],"characterCount":171}],"keyFindings":["TW and EN decisions list President/Superintendent, Police Chief, Lead Campus Safety Officer, and VPs.","EN evaluation involves CRPD, Director of Facilities, and Life Safety Committee.","Alerts are targeted to the affected campus only in this multi-campus district.","TW channels include emergency text, website, email/voicemail, PA, and fliers."],"sources":[{"title":"2025 Annual Security Report - College of the Redwoods","url":"https://www.redwoods.edu/about/security/documents/2025%20Annual%20Security%20Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","timely-warning","emergency-notification","community-college","california"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"collin-college-cougaralert-policy","slug":"collin-college-cougaralert-policy","institution":{"name":"Collin College","shortName":"Collin","state":"TX","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"CougarAlert","enrollment":59000},"policy":{"title":"CougarAlert Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Policy","systemName":"CougarAlert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.collin.edu/campus-safety/cougaralert.html","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Collin College brands its emergency notification system as [CougarAlert](https://www.collin.edu/campus-safety/cougaralert.html), which can deliver email, text, and voice messages to students and employees within 90 seconds for unscheduled closures or evacuations. The [Clery Act page](https://www.collin.edu/campus-safety/clery-act.html) states Collin will immediately notify the community upon confirmation of a significant emergency and that timely warning notices for serious or continuing Clery threats are always sent through CougarAlert and posted on the college website.","analysis":"Collin College is a large Texas community college district. Its institution-specific [CougarAlert](https://www.collin.edu/campus-safety/cougaralert.html) page documents a multi-channel ENS (email/text/voice) with a stated 90-second delivery window, activation criteria limited to emergencies requiring unscheduled campus or district closures or evacuations (weather, power outages, police emergencies, catastrophes, hazardous exposures), and explicit non-use for promotions or scheduled holiday closures. Companion channels include the college website and official social media. Employees and for-credit/dual-credit students are auto-subscribed with Collin email and primary phone. The companion [Clery Act](https://www.collin.edu/campus-safety/clery-act.html) page frames emergency notifications under Clery immediate-notification duties and defines timely warnings as Collin College Police Department judgment calls on serious/continuing Clery-geography threats, always disseminated via CougarAlert plus the website.","whenCriteria":"Emergencies necessitating unscheduled campus or district closures or evacuations (weather-related closures, power outages, police emergencies, catastrophes, hazardous exposures); not promotional messages or scheduled holiday closures. Timely warnings when CCPD judges a Clery Act crime in Clery geography is a serious or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"Collin College Police Department judgment for timely warning issuance; college operation of CougarAlert for emergency notifications (specific officer titles not enumerated on these overview pages).","timingStandard":"Email/text/voice delivery within 90 seconds when CougarAlert is activated; immediate notification upon confirmation of a significant emergency (Clery page).","cleryFraming":"CougarAlert is the official emergency notification system; timely warning notices for serious/continuing Clery threats are always sent through CougarAlert and posted on the college website.","scopeLimits":"Students and employees (auto-subscribe for employees and for-credit/dual-credit students); continuing-education students must self-subscribe; community members without Collin login directed to website/social media.","testingCadence":"Not stated on the CougarAlert or Clery overview pages reviewed.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"CougarAlert 90-second multi-channel delivery","quotedText":"When an emergency occurs, the CougarAlert system can deliver email, text, and voice messages to students and employees within 90 seconds.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.collin.edu/campus-safety/cougaralert.html","sourceDescription":"Collin College CougarAlert page","annotations":["Named brand with explicit delivery latency and channel mix."],"characterCount":137},{"label":"Activation criteria and non-use boundaries","quotedText":"CougarAlerts are issued during emergencies that necessitate unscheduled campus or district closures or evacuations. These include, but are not limited to, weather-related closures, power outages, police emergencies, catastrophes, and hazardous exposures. CougarAlerts will not be used for promotional purposes or for scheduled closures, such as holidays.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.collin.edu/campus-safety/cougaralert.html","sourceDescription":"Collin College CougarAlert page","annotations":["Institution-specific when-to-send list and explicit exclusions."],"characterCount":354},{"label":"Website and social media companion channels","quotedText":"In addition to CougarAlerts, Collin College shares emergency and closure information on its website and official social media channels.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.collin.edu/campus-safety/cougaralert.html","sourceDescription":"Collin College CougarAlert page","annotations":["Companion public channels beyond the subscription system."],"characterCount":135},{"label":"Auto-subscribe for employees and credit students","quotedText":"Collin College employees and students enrolled in for-credit or dual credit classes are automatically subscribed with their Collin email and primary phone number.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.collin.edu/campus-safety/cougaralert.html","sourceDescription":"Collin College CougarAlert page","annotations":["Automatic enrollment rule for core populations."],"characterCount":162},{"label":"Emergency notification Clery commitment","quotedText":"In compliance with the Clery Act, Collin College is committed to ensuring its community receives timely, accurate, and useful information in the event of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on campus or in the local area that poses an immediate threat to the health and safety of Collin College students, faculty, and/or staff.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.collin.edu/campus-safety/clery-act.html","sourceDescription":"Collin College Clery Act page","annotations":["Clery emergency-notification framing."],"characterCount":348},{"label":"Immediate notification upon confirmation","quotedText":"Collin College will immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty, and/or staff occurring on campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.collin.edu/campus-safety/clery-act.html","sourceDescription":"Collin College Clery Act page","annotations":["Immediate-notify timing standard."],"characterCount":237},{"label":"CougarAlert as official ENS brand on Clery page","quotedText":"CougarAlert is Collin College’s official emergency notification system, providing critical information to the entire Collin College community via text message, phone message, and/or email.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.collin.edu/campus-safety/clery-act.html","sourceDescription":"Collin College Clery Act page","annotations":["Cross-page brand confirmation and channel list."],"characterCount":188},{"label":"Timely warning criteria","quotedText":"In compliance with the Clery Act, in the event a Clery Act crime occurs within Collin College’s Clery Act geography that, in the judgment of the Collin College Police Department, constitutes a serious or continuing threat to members of the Collin College community, a timely warning notice will be issued.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.collin.edu/campus-safety/clery-act.html","sourceDescription":"Collin College Clery Act page","annotations":["Police-judgment serious/continuing-threat standard."],"characterCount":305},{"label":"Timely warnings always via CougarAlert plus website","quotedText":"Timely warning notices, including official updates to and discontinuance of timely warning notices, will always be sent through CougarAlert and posted on the college website.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.collin.edu/campus-safety/clery-act.html","sourceDescription":"Collin College Clery Act page","annotations":["Mandatory dual-channel dissemination for timely warnings."],"characterCount":174}],"keyFindings":["CougarAlert is the named Collin College emergency notification brand with a 90-second multi-channel claim.","Activation criteria exclude promotional use and scheduled holiday closures.","Timely warnings always go through CougarAlert plus the college website.","Core employees and credit students are automatically subscribed."],"sources":[{"title":"CougarAlert - Collin College","url":"https://www.collin.edu/campus-safety/cougaralert.html","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"},{"title":"Clery Act - Collin College","url":"https://www.collin.edu/campus-safety/clery-act.html","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["community-college","texas","cougaralert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"colorado-college-rave-alert-policy","slug":"colorado-college-rave-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Colorado College","shortName":"CC","state":"CO","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"Rave (Rave Alert / Rave Guardian)","enrollment":2056},"policy":{"title":"Campus Safety — Security Notifications, Timely Warnings, and Emergency Notifications (Rave / Standard Response Protocol)","systemName":"Rave (Rave Alert / Rave Guardian)","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.coloradocollege.edu/offices/campussafety/security-notifications-timely-warnings/","lastReviewed":"2026-06-22"},"summary":"Colorado College's Office of Campus Safety distributes emergency messaging through the [Rave](https://www.getrave.com/login/coloradocollege) notification system, formatted using the [Standard Response Protocol (SRP)](https://www.coloradocollege.edu/offices/campussafety/), and publishes a three-tier framework — [timely warnings, emergency notifications, and security notices](https://www.coloradocollege.edu/offices/campussafety/security-notifications-timely-warnings/) — to keep the community informed of potentially dangerous situations at or near campus under the Clery Act.","analysis":"Colorado College, a private liberal-arts college in Colorado Springs, runs its campus alert function out of the [Office of Campus Safety](https://www.coloradocollege.edu/offices/campussafety/) on the Rave platform (the vendor login portal at getrave.com/login/coloradocollege confirms the relationship). All CC faculty, staff, and students automatically receive notifications to their CC email addresses, and individuals can register with Rave to manage how they receive alerts by text, phone call, and email; the College also offers Rave Guardian for personal safety. Distinctively, CC states it uses the [Standard Response Protocol (SRP)](https://www.coloradocollege.edu/offices/campussafety/) for all emergency messaging, so Rave notifications follow the SRP's plain-language action verbs (e.g., Lockdown, Secure, Evacuate, Shelter) — a deliberate choice to standardize the instruction set across incident types.\n\nColorado College publishes a clear three-tier Clery framework on its Campus Safety 'Definitions' page. A Timely Warning is triggered by a crime that has already occurred on Clery geography but represents an ongoing threat; the College states that '[timely warnings are issued to provide information about a potentially dangerous situation at or near Colorado College and to provide our students and employees with the information necessary to make decisions or take appropriate actions to ensure their safety](https://www.coloradocollege.edu/offices/campussafety/security-notifications-timely-warnings/).' An Emergency Notification is triggered by an event currently ongoing on, or imminently threatening, campus — an immediate threat to the health or safety of the community. A Security Notice rounds out the set as a broader advisory; CC states '[timely warnings, emergency notifications, and security notices are issued to inform the community about potentially dangerous situations at or near Colorado College](https://www.coloradocollege.edu/offices/campussafety/security-notifications-timely-warnings/).'\n\nThis three-tier structure (and the maintained 'New Security Notices' / 'Past Security Notifications' archives) lets CC distinguish an imminent threat requiring immediate protective action from a crime posing an ongoing-but-not-immediate threat and from lower-urgency advisories. The College frames the whole apparatus as Clery compliance, noting it must provide a timely warning of any crime that represents an ongoing threat, maintain a crime log, and publish an annual security report.\n\nThe timely-warning definition appeared with identical wording across multiple official CC retrievals and is marked verbatim-confirmed. The exact named decision authority, the precise Security Notice definition sentence, and the published periodic Rave test cadence were not surfaced byte-for-byte in this review (coloradocollege.edu and the ASR PDF 403-block automated fetching here), so those fields draw on indexed snippets and are flagged where reconstructed.","whenCriteria":"Colorado College uses a three-tier framework: an Emergency Notification is triggered by an event currently ongoing on or imminently threatening campus (an immediate threat to health or safety); a Timely Warning is triggered by a crime that has already occurred on Clery geography but represents an ongoing threat; and a Security Notice is a broader advisory to inform the community of a potentially dangerous situation at or near campus.","decisionAuthority":"Colorado College's Office of Campus Safety administers Rave and issues timely warnings, emergency notifications, and security notices. The specific position authorized to confirm a threat and trigger a Rave alert was not confirmed verbatim in this review (coloradocollege.edu blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications address current or imminent threats requiring immediate response and are issued through Rave; timely warnings are issued for crimes representing an ongoing threat so students and employees can make informed decisions — consistent with the Clery standard. The exact internal timing target was not confirmed verbatim.","cleryFraming":"Colorado College publishes a three-tier Clery framework — timely warnings, emergency notifications, and security notices — on its Campus Safety 'Definitions' page, maintains 'New Security Notices' and 'Past Security Notifications' archives and a crime log, and publishes an annual security report. Emergency messaging is formatted using the Standard Response Protocol (SRP).","testingCadence":"Colorado College maintains emergency-preparedness procedures and tests Rave; the exact published periodic test cadence (e.g., per-semester) was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","scopeLimits":"All CC faculty, staff, and students automatically receive notifications to their CC email addresses, making CC email the guaranteed-reach floor; text and phone-call reach require individuals to register and manage their preferences in Rave. Emergency messaging follows the Standard Response Protocol's plain-language action verbs.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely Warning definition","quotedText":"Timely warnings are issued to provide information about a potentially dangerous situation at or near Colorado College and to provide our students and employees with the information necessary to make decisions or take appropriate actions to ensure their safety.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.coloradocollege.edu/offices/campussafety/security-notifications-timely-warnings/","sourceDescription":"Colorado College — Campus Safety, Definitions (Security Notifications & Timely Warnings)","annotations":["Defines the Timely Warning purpose: enable informed decisions/protective action for a potentially dangerous situation at or near campus. Identical wording appeared across multiple official Colorado College Campus Safety retrievals."],"characterCount":260},{"label":"Three-tier notification framework","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.coloradocollege.edu/offices/campussafety/security-notifications-timely-warnings/","sourceDescription":"Colorado College — Campus Safety, Definitions page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Standard Response Protocol use","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.coloradocollege.edu/offices/campussafety/","sourceDescription":"Colorado College — Campus Safety (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Colorado College's emergency-notification platform is Rave (Rave Alert / Rave Guardian); the vendor relationship is confirmed by CC's getrave.com login portal.","All faculty, staff, and students automatically receive notifications to their CC email addresses; text and phone-call reach require registering preferences in Rave.","CC formats emergency messaging using the Standard Response Protocol (SRP), standardizing plain-language action verbs across incident types.","Colorado College publishes a three-tier Clery framework — timely warnings, emergency notifications, and security notices — with maintained 'New' and 'Past' security-notification archives.","The timely-warning definition was confirmed verbatim across multiple official-page retrievals; the named decision authority, the exact Security Notice sentence, and the test cadence could not be confirmed (coloradocollege.edu blocked automated fetching)."],"sources":[{"title":"Colorado College — Campus Safety, Definitions (Security Notifications & Timely Warnings)","url":"https://www.coloradocollege.edu/offices/campussafety/security-notifications-timely-warnings/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Colorado College — Campus Safety","url":"https://www.coloradocollege.edu/offices/campussafety/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Colorado College — Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act & Compliance","url":"https://www.coloradocollege.edu/offices/campussafety/reporting-crimes-and-emergencies/clery-compliance-and-csa.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Colorado College — Rave Login Portal","url":"https://www.getrave.com/login/coloradocollege","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Colorado College — Past Security Notifications","url":"https://www.coloradocollege.edu/offices/campussafety/security-notifications-timely-warnings/past-security.html","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","security-notice","private-liberal-arts","colorado","rave","standard-response-protocol"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"colorado-school-of-mines-mines-alert-policy","slug":"colorado-school-of-mines-mines-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Colorado School of Mines","shortName":"Mines","state":"CO","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"Mines Alert"},"policy":{"title":"Mines Alert and Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications","systemName":"Mines Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.mines.edu/emergency/mines-emergency-alert/","lastReviewed":"2026"},"summary":"Colorado School of Mines's [Mines Alert](https://www.mines.edu/emergency/mines-emergency-alert/) page is an emergency notification service for a campus emergency or weather-related closure, sending cell phone text and voice messages and Mines email. The [Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications](https://www.mines.edu/emergency/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications/) page issues Timely Warnings for Clery crimes that are a serious or continuing threat.","analysis":"Colorado School of Mines (public-r2, Colorado, four filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes live [Mines Alert](https://www.mines.edu/emergency/mines-emergency-alert/) and [Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications](https://www.mines.edu/emergency/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications/) pages (HTTP 200) plus a live [2025 ASR PDF](https://spl.cde.state.co.us/artemis/ucsmserials/ucsm2510internet/ucsm25102025internet.pdf) (HTTP 200). Students and faculty are automatically enrolled. An Emergency Notifications sentence on the criteria page contains NBSPs and is not quoted. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live HTML or PDF.","whenCriteria":"Mines Alert for a campus emergency or weather-related closure. Timely Warnings for certain Clery crimes on Mines associated property within Clery geography that are a serious or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"University officials send Mines Alert messages. Timely Warnings are decided case by case.","timingStandard":"Mines Alert is a fast means of communicating to the campus community. Not a minutes-based SLA on the quoted sentences.","cleryFraming":"The criteria page keeps Timely Warnings, Emergency Notifications, and Safety Bulletins as three products. Mines Alert is the mass-notification path.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Mines Alert purpose","quotedText":"The Mines Alert system keeps you informed in the event of a campus emergency or weather-related closure.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mines.edu/emergency/mines-emergency-alert/","sourceDescription":"Mines Alert page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Weather-related closure sits with campus emergency."],"characterCount":104},{"label":"Mines Alert channels","quotedText":"This system is an emergency notification service that allows university officials to quickly communicate emergency messages to students, faculty and staff via cell phone text and voice messages, and Mines email.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mines.edu/emergency/mines-emergency-alert/","sourceDescription":"Mines Alert page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Text, voice, and Mines email."],"characterCount":211},{"label":"Timely Warning trigger","quotedText":"Timely Warnings are issued when certain crimes (see definitions below) that occurred on Mines associated property and within Clery Act geography that are considered a serious or continuing threat to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mines.edu/emergency/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications/","sourceDescription":"Mines Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Clery geography. Serious or continuing threat."],"characterCount":220},{"label":"Automatic enrollment","quotedText":"Students and faculty are automatically enrolled into the Mines Alert system through the Mines Department of Information & Technology Solutions to receive emergency messages.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://spl.cde.state.co.us/artemis/ucsmserials/ucsm2510internet/ucsm25102025internet.pdf","sourceDescription":"Colorado School of Mines 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Students and faculty auto-enroll. Employees must enter cell numbers on the consumer page."],"characterCount":173}],"keyFindings":["Mines Alert covers campus emergencies and weather-related closures.","Students and faculty are auto-enrolled.","Timely Warnings are for Clery crimes that are a serious or continuing threat."],"sources":[{"title":"Mines Alert","url":"https://www.mines.edu/emergency/mines-emergency-alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Mines Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications","url":"https://www.mines.edu/emergency/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Colorado School of Mines 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://spl.cde.state.co.us/artemis/ucsmserials/ucsm2510internet/ucsm25102025internet.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","system-overview","emergency-notification","timely-warning","colorado","public-r2","everbridge"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"colorado-state-university-alert-policy","slug":"colorado-state-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Colorado State University","shortName":"CSU","state":"CO","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"CSU Alert (Everbridge)","enrollment":34412},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings / Types of Alerts and Advisories Used at CSU","systemName":"CSU Alert (Everbridge)","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://clery.colostate.edu/emergency-notifications-and-timely-warnings/","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"Colorado State University delivers campus warnings through the [Everbridge notification system supported by the Larimer Emergency Telephone Authority (LETA)](https://clery.colostate.edu/emergency-notifications-and-timely-warnings/), reaching all students and employees with a colostate.edu email automatically plus opt-in text alerts, and it organizes messages into [four tiers — Emergency Alerts, Safety Alerts (timely warnings), Safety Advisories, and University Closure Notices](https://safety.colostate.edu/types-of-alerts-and-advisories/).","analysis":"CSU runs its emergency communications on the [Everbridge platform supported by the Larimer Emergency Telephone Authority (LETA) but activated for CSU-related emergencies by CSU personnel](https://clery.colostate.edu/emergency-notifications-and-timely-warnings/). The system issues email notifications to all CSU students and employees who maintain a colostate.edu email address, and text-alert notifications go to employees and students who have a telephone number on file with the university. Students and employees cannot opt out of the emailed emergency messages, while cell-phone notifications are made only to those who have opted in — making the campus email channel the universal, mandatory backbone of the program.\n\nCSU draws the standard Clery distinction between two life-safety tiers. Per the [CSU Clery program](https://clery.colostate.edu/emergency-notifications-and-timely-warnings/), an emergency notification is triggered by an event that is currently ongoing on, or imminently threatening, the campus, whereas a timely warning is triggered by a Clery Act crime reported on Clery geography when CSU determines there is a serious or continuing threat to the university community. CSU notes that the Clery Act does not define 'timely,' but the intent of the warning is to promptly provide information to help people prevent or protect themselves from similar crimes. On its public-facing [Types of Alerts and Advisories page](https://safety.colostate.edu/types-of-alerts-and-advisories/), CSU expands this into four named levels: Emergency Alerts (confirmed immediate threat to safety), Safety Alerts (the timely-warning tier, sent in accordance with Clery Act guidelines for crimes on or near campus such as criminal homicide, sex offenses, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft, arson, hate crimes, and domestic violence), Safety Advisories (non-threat information that may impact campuses), and University Closure Notices (weather-driven closures, which apply to all Larimer County campuses).\n\nDecision authority for timely warnings is explicitly distributed. Per the CSU Clery program, determinations may be made by the Chief of Police or their designee, the Clery compliance program director or their designee, the Assistant Vice President for Safety and Risk Services or their designee, or the Vice President of University Operations. Once an initial report that may fit the timely-warning criteria is received, the determination is made using an established Timely Warning matrix, weighing the information reported, the timing of the report, and whether a continuing threat to the university community is present.\n\nEnrollment and testing round out the framework. CSU [tests its notification systems twice per year](https://safety.colostate.edu/sign-up-for-emergency-alerts/) to help prepare for emergencies and dangerous situations. Students subscribe to emergency text alerts through RAMweb (Manage My Student Record) and faculty/staff through Administrative Applications and Resources (AAR); CSU also offers a self-service text opt-in by texting CSUALERT to 888777, with separate keywords for event and operational notifications. Because every CSU official .edu page (clery.colostate.edu, safety.colostate.edu) returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were captured from the official CSU page text as reproduced and corroborated across multiple independent search queries rather than fetched directly; they are therefore marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false and the remaining detail is paraphrased.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notification (Emergency Alert): an event currently ongoing on, or imminently threatening, the campus — a confirmed immediate threat to the safety of those on site or near Main Campus in areas of high student populations. Timely warning (Safety Alert): a Clery Act crime reported on Clery geography (criminal homicide, sex offenses, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft, arson, hate crimes, domestic violence, and drug/alcohol/weapons arrests and referrals) for which CSU determines a serious or continuing threat exists. Safety Advisory: non-threat activity that may impact campuses. University Closure Notice: weather conditions preventing normal operations (all Larimer County campuses).","decisionAuthority":"Timely warning determinations may be made by the Chief of Police or their designee, the Clery compliance program director or their designee, the Assistant Vice President for Safety and Risk Services or their designee, or the Vice President of University Operations. A determination is made using an established Timely Warning matrix. The Everbridge system is activated for CSU-related emergencies by CSU personnel.","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications are issued for events currently ongoing or imminently threatening the campus. For timely warnings, the Clery Act does not define 'timely'; the intent is to promptly provide information so people can prevent or protect themselves from similar crimes.","cleryFraming":"Two-tier Clery model expressed as four named levels: Emergency Alerts (Clery emergency notifications for ongoing/imminent threats), Safety Alerts (Clery timely warnings for already-occurred crimes posing a serious or continuing threat), plus non-Clery Safety Advisories and University Closure Notices.","testingCadence":"The university tests its notification systems twice per year to help prepare for emergencies and dangerous situations.","scopeLimits":"Email notifications reach all CSU students and employees with a colostate.edu address and cannot be opted out of; text-alert notifications reach only those who have opted in / have a phone number on file. Emergency alerts are sent to affected campuses; University closures due to weather apply to all Larimer County campuses. Subscription is via RAMweb (students), AAR (faculty/staff), or texting CSUALERT to 888777.","channels":["email","sms","website","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Everbridge system and email/text delivery","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://clery.colostate.edu/emergency-notifications-and-timely-warnings/","sourceDescription":"CSU Clery — Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Safety Alert = Clery timely warning","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.colostate.edu/types-of-alerts-and-advisories/","sourceDescription":"CSU Safety — Types of Alerts and Advisories Used at CSU","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Safety Advisory definition","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.colostate.edu/types-of-alerts-and-advisories/","sourceDescription":"CSU Safety — Types of Alerts and Advisories Used at CSU","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Timely warning decision authority","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://clery.colostate.edu/emergency-notifications-and-timely-warnings/","sourceDescription":"CSU Clery — Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["CSU runs its alerts on Everbridge supported by the Larimer Emergency Telephone Authority (LETA) but activated by CSU personnel, reaching all colostate.edu email holders (no opt-out) plus opt-in text subscribers.","Messages are organized into four named levels: Emergency Alerts (immediate threat), Safety Alerts (Clery timely warnings for crimes on/near campus), Safety Advisories (non-threat info), and University Closure Notices (weather, all Larimer County campuses).","Timely-warning authority is distributed across four roles — Chief of Police, Clery compliance program director, Assistant VP for Safety and Risk Services, or the VP of University Operations — using an established Timely Warning matrix.","An emergency notification is for an ongoing or imminently threatening event; a timely warning is for an already-occurred Clery crime posing a serious or continuing threat; CSU notes the Clery Act does not define 'timely.'","CSU tests its notification systems twice per year; students subscribe via RAMweb, faculty/staff via AAR, and anyone can text CSUALERT to 888777 for text alerts."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings — CSU Clery","url":"https://clery.colostate.edu/emergency-notifications-and-timely-warnings/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Types of Alerts and Advisories Used at CSU — CSU Safety","url":"https://safety.colostate.edu/types-of-alerts-and-advisories/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Alerts & Safety Notifications (Sign Up) — CSU Safety","url":"https://safety.colostate.edu/sign-up-for-emergency-alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Response and Evacuation Procedures — CSU Clery","url":"https://clery.colostate.edu/emergency-response-and-evacuation-procedures/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Students share perceptions of safety on campus following increased alerts — The Rocky Mountain Collegian","url":"https://collegian.com/articles/news/2024/11/category-news-students-share-perceptions-of-safety-on-campus-following-increased-alerts/","type":"student-newspaper"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","everbridge","csu-alert","public-r1","colorado"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"colorado-technical-university-alert-policy","slug":"colorado-technical-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Colorado Technical University","shortName":"CTU","state":"CO","type":"for-profit","alertSystemName":"CTU Emergency Notification System"},"policy":{"title":"Policies Regarding Safety and Security at Campuses","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.coloradotech.edu/financial-aid/campus-security-reports"},"summary":"Colorado Technical University, a for-profit institution based in Colorado Springs with an online division, publishes its Clery Act timely-warning and campus-safety obligations in its student handbook policy on [Policies Regarding Safety and Security at Campuses](https://coloradotech.smartcatalogiq.com/en/2024/ctu-student-handbook/student-support-services/safety/policies-regarding-safety-and-security-at-campuses), with the same commitments restated in CTU's [Annual Security Report](https://www.coloradotech.edu/financial-aid/campus-security-reports).","analysis":"CTU's published safety policy reads as boilerplate Clery-Act compliance language shared across many of the university's brick-and-mortar and online-hybrid campuses (Colorado Springs, Aurora/Denver South, and CTU Online). The core commitment mirrors the statutory timely-warning standard closely: the university will provide timely warning to the campus community concerning the occurrence of any crime includable in the annual security report that is reported to campus security or local police and that is considered to be a threat to students or employees. That formulation ties the warning obligation directly to the crime categories already tracked for the Annual Security Report, rather than defining a separate list of triggering offenses.\n\nCTU's student handbook also places an affirmative reporting duty on the community itself: if anyone has knowledge of a situation that would have an impact or effect on the safety or well-being of another student, faculty, or staff member, it must be reported to Campus Security Authority personnel immediately. That two-way structure, a duty to report paired with a duty to warn, is consistent with how the Clery Act's Campus Security Authority framework is generally implemented at multi-campus for-profit institutions.\n\nBecause CTU operates a network of physical campuses (Colorado Springs and Aurora/Denver South at the time of this review) alongside a large online-only population, the university maintains separate Annual Security Reports per physical location (for example, a Colorado Springs report and an Aurora report) plus consumer-information materials addressing the online-only population. The public-facing safety hub, [University Safety](https://www.coloradotech.edu/financial-aid/campus-security-reports), frames the university's broader commitment as covering the physical safety at any CTU campus, protection of sensitive personal and financial information, and maintaining a community free from all forms of harassment, alongside prevention and awareness campaigns and annual training for employees, faculty, and students.\n\nCTU's own website and catalog infrastructure returned HTTP 403 responses to automated fetching in this environment, so the excerpts below were captured from CTU's official student-handbook and financial-aid pages as reproduced in search-engine results and corroborated across multiple independent queries; this is treated as a medium-confidence reproduction rather than a directly fetched verbatim capture, and no precise minutes-based timing standard, named approving official, or specific text-alert opt-in mechanism was reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","whenCriteria":"A timely warning is provided for the occurrence of any crime includable in the Annual Security Report that is reported to campus security or local police and that is considered to be a threat to students or employees.","decisionAuthority":"A named approving official or office was not reproduced verbatim in the public sources reviewed; the student handbook directs anyone with knowledge of a safety-affecting situation to report it to Campus Security Authority personnel immediately.","timingStandard":"A specific minutes-based or hours-based timely-warning standard was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed; the policy uses the general Clery 'timely warning' formulation.","cleryFraming":"CTU frames its obligation directly around the statutory timely-warning standard, tying the trigger to crimes already includable in the Annual Security Report and reported to campus security or local police.","testingCadence":"A specific testing cadence for CTU's emergency notification system was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"CTU maintains separate Annual Security Reports by physical campus (for example, Colorado Springs and Aurora/Denver South) in addition to consumer-information materials for its online-only population; the reviewed excerpts reflect the shared student-handbook policy language rather than a single per-campus notification mechanism.","channels":["website","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely warning commitment","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.coloradotech.edu/Media/Default/CTU/documents/about-ctu/campus-security-report-online.pdf","sourceDescription":"CTU Annual Security Report / University Policies (Campus Security Reports hub)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Community reporting duty","quotedText":"If anyone has knowledge of a situation that would have an impact/effect on the safety or well-being of another student, faculty or staff member, it must be reported to Campus Security Authority personnel immediately.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://coloradotech.smartcatalogiq.com/en/2024/ctu-student-handbook/student-support-services/safety/policies-regarding-safety-and-security-at-campuses","sourceDescription":"CTU Student Handbook, Policies Regarding Safety and Security at Campuses","annotations":["Places an affirmative reporting duty on students, faculty, and staff, feeding the Campus Security Authority process that in turn triggers timely warnings."],"characterCount":216},{"label":"General safety commitment","quotedText":"Colorado Technical University is committed to ensuring a safe and secure environment that fosters positive experiences and academic growth for our students, from the physical safety at any CTU campus, to protection of sensitive personal and financial information, as well as to maintaining a community that is free from all forms of harassment.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.coloradotech.edu/financial-aid/campus-security-reports","sourceDescription":"University Safety | CTU Online","annotations":["Frames the university's safety commitment broadly across physical campuses and its online student population before narrowing to Clery-specific obligations."],"characterCount":344}],"keyFindings":["CTU's timely-warning standard is worded to attach directly to any crime includable in the Annual Security Report that is reported to campus security or local police and considered a threat to students or employees.","The student handbook imposes an affirmative duty on any community member with knowledge of a safety-affecting situation to report it to Campus Security Authority personnel immediately.","CTU maintains separate Annual Security Reports by physical campus location (Colorado Springs, Aurora/Denver South) alongside consumer-information materials for its online-only population.","No precise minutes-based timing standard, named approving official, or specific text-alert opt-in mechanism was reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed, which is why confidence is rated medium rather than high.","CTU's public safety framing extends beyond Clery crime categories to include protection of financial and personal information and freedom from harassment."],"sources":[{"title":"University Safety | CTU Online (Campus Security Reports hub)","url":"https://www.coloradotech.edu/financial-aid/campus-security-reports","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"CTU Annual Security Report, Online/Colorado Springs (PDF)","url":"https://www.coloradotech.edu/Media/Default/CTU/documents/about-ctu/campus-security-report-online.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Policies Regarding Safety and Security at Campuses, CTU Student Handbook","url":"https://coloradotech.smartcatalogiq.com/en/2024/ctu-student-handbook/student-support-services/safety/policies-regarding-safety-and-security-at-campuses","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","for-profit","colorado","multi-campus"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"columbia-college-chicago-emergency-communications-policy","slug":"columbia-college-chicago-emergency-communications-policy","institution":{"name":"Columbia College Chicago","shortName":"Columbia Chicago","state":"IL","type":"private-bachelors","alertSystemName":"Campus Safety Alert","alertPlatform":"Everbridge","enrollment":4461},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Communications and Everbridge","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://students.colum.edu/safety/emergency-communications-everbridge"},"summary":"Columbia College Chicago's [Emergency Communications and Everbridge page](https://students.colum.edu/safety/emergency-communications-everbridge) presents Everbridge as the college's emergency communications system, used to immediately inform the campus community of emergency situations as well as cancelations and closures caused by severe weather, backed by an [Alertus desktop layer](https://students.colum.edu/safety/alertus-desktop-emergency-alerts) on networked computers and a [Crime Advisories page](https://students.colum.edu/safety/campus-safety-alerts) where Clery-genre campus safety alerts are posted.","analysis":"Columbia College Chicago, an arts-and-media college in Chicago's South Loop whose [fall 2025 enrollment fell to 4,461](https://columbiachronicle.com/campus/breaking-columbia-sees-sharp-enrollment-decline/), documents its warning apparatus across the Campus Safety and Security section of its student site rather than in a single standalone policy. The [Everbridge page](https://students.colum.edu/safety/emergency-communications-everbridge) names the platform plainly: Everbridge is the college's emergency communications system, used to immediately inform the campus community of emergencies and of severe-weather cancelations and closures, delivering text messages, phone calls, and emails to contact information that students maintain themselves in the MyColumbia portal. Around that mass-notification core sit an [Alertus desktop application](https://students.colum.edu/safety/alertus-desktop-emergency-alerts) that takes over the full screen of computers connected to the college network when a Columbia emergency alert is active, a 24-hour Security Command Center described on the [Campus Safety and Security page](https://students.colum.edu/safety/) alongside alarm system monitoring, campus emergency telephones, and AlertWave public address technology, and the [student handbook's safety chapter](https://students.colum.edu/handbook/navigation/campus-safety-and-security), which describes a written Emergency Operations and Management Plan with annual training for an Emergency Policy Group, table-top exercises, and tests of the emergency notification systems. The Clery timely-warning genre lives on the separate [Crime Advisories page](https://students.colum.edu/safety/campus-safety-alerts); this archive's roughly three dozen Columbia College Chicago cases are dominated by exactly that genre, short Campus Safety Alert emails about street-level robberies, batteries, and weapons incidents in the blocks around the Wabash and Michigan Avenue campus buildings, with the college's [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://students.colum.edu/safety/annual-report) compiled under the Clery Act and the Higher Education Opportunity Act. The colum.edu hosts are egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language below is carried from search-index retrievals of the official pages and marked unconfirmed pending a direct character-for-character read.","whenCriteria":"Emergency situations affecting the campus community, plus cancelations and closures caused by severe weather; crime advisories for Clery-genre offenses are posted separately on the Crime Advisories page.","decisionAuthority":"The Office of Campus Safety and Security operates the program and a 24-hour Security Command Center; the specific titles authorized to activate Everbridge were not readable from this sandbox (colum.edu egress-blocked).","timingStandard":"The Everbridge page describes notification as immediate (used to immediately inform the campus community); a formal without-delay sentence would sit in the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, which was not reachable from this sandbox.","cleryFraming":"Emergency communications (Everbridge, Alertus, AlertWave) are described separately from the Crime Advisories page where timely-warning-genre notices are posted; the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report is compiled under the Clery Act and HEOA.","testingCadence":"The student handbook describes annual training on the Emergency Operations and Management Plan for the Emergency Policy Group, which may include table-top exercises along with tests of the emergency notification systems; no fixed public test calendar surfaced.","scopeLimits":"Everbridge delivery depends on contact information students keep current in MyColumbia; the Alertus full-screen layer reaches only computers connected to the college network, though it can also be installed on personal computers.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","desktop-popup","pa-system","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Everbridge as the emergency communications system","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://students.colum.edu/safety/emergency-communications-everbridge","sourceDescription":"Columbia College Chicago, Emergency Communications and Everbridge page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Delivery channels and immediacy","quotedText":"You will receive text messages, phone calls, and/or emails immediately as news pertaining to any form of emergency situation is issued.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://students.colum.edu/safety/emergency-communications-everbridge","sourceDescription":"Columbia College Chicago, Emergency Communications and Everbridge page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":["The subscriber-facing delivery promise, three channels with an immediacy claim. Students update contact information in MyColumbia under My Profile. Unconfirmed pending a direct read."],"characterCount":135},{"label":"Alertus full-screen desktop takeover","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://students.colum.edu/safety/alertus-desktop-emergency-alerts","sourceDescription":"Columbia College Chicago, Alertus Desktop Emergency Alerts page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Emergency Operations and Management Plan and notification tests","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://students.colum.edu/handbook/navigation/campus-safety-and-security","sourceDescription":"Columbia College Chicago Student Handbook, Campus Safety and Security chapter (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Columbia College Chicago documents its alerting across a set of Campus Safety and Security web pages rather than one standalone policy: Everbridge for mass notification, Alertus for networked desktops, AlertWave public address, and a separate Crime Advisories page for the Clery timely-warning genre.","One Everbridge activation covers both life-safety emergencies and severe-weather cancelations and closures.","Delivery depends on self-maintained contact information in the MyColumbia portal, and the full-screen Alertus layer reaches only computers on the college network.","Notification-system tests are described as part of annual Emergency Operations and Management Plan training for the Emergency Policy Group, not as a fixed public calendar.","No excerpt is verbatim-confirmed: colum.edu is egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language is carried from search-index retrievals and flagged for direct verification."],"sources":[{"title":"Columbia College Chicago, Emergency Communications and Everbridge","url":"https://students.colum.edu/safety/emergency-communications-everbridge","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Columbia College Chicago, Alertus Desktop Emergency Alerts","url":"https://students.colum.edu/safety/alertus-desktop-emergency-alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Columbia College Chicago, Campus Safety and Security","url":"https://students.colum.edu/safety/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Columbia College Chicago Student Handbook, Campus Safety and Security","url":"https://students.colum.edu/handbook/navigation/campus-safety-and-security","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Columbia College Chicago, Crime Advisories","url":"https://students.colum.edu/safety/campus-safety-alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Columbia College Chicago, Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","url":"https://students.colum.edu/safety/annual-report","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Columbia Chronicle, Breaking: Columbia sees sharp enrollment decline","url":"https://columbiachronicle.com/campus/breaking-columbia-sees-sharp-enrollment-decline/","type":"student-newspaper"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["columbia-college-chicago-holden-court-shooting-2026-03-07","columbia-college-chicago-eleventh-street-stabbing-2026-01-19","columbia-college-chicago-michigan-avenue-weapon-fired-2025-09-05","columbia-college-chicago-dearborn-van-buren-shell-casings-2025-05-07","columbia-college-chicago-email-bomb-threat-2018-07-01"],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","illinois","everbridge","alertus","crime-advisories","urban-campus"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-31","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"columbia-university-cu-alert-policy","slug":"columbia-university-cu-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Columbia University","shortName":"Columbia","state":"NY","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"Emergency Notification System","enrollment":35978},"policy":{"title":"Columbia University Emergency Notifications and Clery Crime Alerts","systemName":"Emergency Notification System","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/text"},"summary":"[Columbia University Public Safety](https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/text) manages the University's Emergency Notification System, sending real-time email and text alerts during emergencies; separately, it issues Clery Timely Warnings — which Columbia calls [Clery Crime Alerts](https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/content/clery-crime-alerts) — when Clery Act crimes pose a continuing or significant danger to the campus community.","analysis":"Columbia University operates a two-track system that mirrors the Clery Act's distinct emergency-notification and timely-warning obligations. The University's [Emergency Notification System](https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/text) is managed by Columbia University Public Safety, which states that it \"sends real-time notifications by email and text during emergency events and in accordance with the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act.\" Emergency Notifications are issued to alert students, faculty, staff, and visitors of significant threats to health or safety occurring on or near campus, so individuals can take appropriate protective actions.\n\nA defining feature of Columbia's policy is its deliberate restraint on the text channel: text-message alerts \"will only be used in rare cases where ongoing events pose an immediate threat or have a significant impact,\" with possible scenarios including severe weather conditions, emergency campus closures, and crimes in progress that may endanger the community. Columbia further assures enrollees that telephone numbers in the system will not be retrieved or used for anything other than text messaging during serious emergencies — a privacy commitment that reinforces the narrow-use framing. Columbia has [expanded the emergency text-alert system](https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/news/columbia-universitys-emergency-text-alert-system-expanded-non-affiliate-and-community-access) so non-affiliates and community members can register their name, email, and phone number, verify via a confirmation code, and receive alerts.\n\nOn the Clery side, Columbia issues Timely Warning Notifications it brands as [Clery Crime Alerts](https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/content/clery-crime-alerts). These alert the community when Clery Act crimes are alleged to have occurred in Columbia's Clery-Reportable Geography and pose a continuing or significant danger to the campus community; notably, Public Safety can also issue such an alert for a crime that is not a Clery crime or did not occur within Clery geography, provided it nonetheless poses a continuing or significant danger. Clery Crime Alerts are distributed by email and posted online for the current calendar year, distinguishing them from the multi-channel (email + text) Emergency Notification path. Columbia's broader Clery program is documented in its Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, published October 1 each year with three years of crime data, policies, prevention programs, and Clery geography for all Columbia campuses. The search environment did not surface a specifically named alert vendor (e.g., Everbridge or Rave) or a stated testing cadence for the University-wide system, so those details are left unstated here rather than guessed.","whenCriteria":"Emergency Notifications are sent when there is an immediate emergency threatening the safety of the campus community (significant threats to health or safety on or near campus). Text alerts specifically are used only in rare cases where ongoing events pose an immediate threat or have a significant impact (e.g., severe weather, emergency campus closures, crimes in progress). Clery Crime Alerts are issued when Clery Act crimes pose a continuing or significant danger to the campus community.","decisionAuthority":"Columbia University Public Safety manages the University's Emergency Notification System and issues Clery Crime Alerts.","timingStandard":"Public Safety sends real-time notifications by email and text during emergency events, in accordance with the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act (the search environment did not surface a verbatim 'without delay' clause for the University-wide system).","cleryFraming":"Two-track Clery framework: Emergency Notifications (email + text) for immediate threats to safety, and Clery Crime Alerts — Columbia's name for Clery Timely Warnings — issued when Clery Act crimes pose a continuing or significant danger to the campus community, including, at Public Safety's discretion, certain non-Clery or out-of-geography crimes.","testingCadence":"Not stated in the sources surfaced; Columbia references periodic emergency text-messaging system tests but no fixed cadence was reproduced.","scopeLimits":"Emergency Notifications cover significant threats to health or safety on or near campus. Text-message alerts are reserved for rare cases of immediate threat or significant impact. Enrolled phone numbers are used only for emergency text messaging. Clery Crime Alerts are limited to Clery Act crimes posing a continuing or significant danger (with discretion to issue for certain non-Clery/out-of-geography crimes that still pose such danger).","channels":["email","sms","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency Notification System scope and channels","quotedText":"Columbia University Public Safety manages the University's Emergency Notification System and sends real-time notifications by email and text during emergency events and in accordance with the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/text","sourceDescription":"Emergency Notifications, Columbia University Public Safety","annotations":["Identifies Public Safety as the operator and ties the system to the Clery Act; email and text are the two stated channels."],"characterCount":223},{"label":"Restraint on the text channel","quotedText":"Text message alerts will only be used in rare cases where ongoing events pose an immediate threat or have a significant impact. Possible scenarios include severe weather conditions, emergency campus closures, and crimes in progress that may endanger the community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/text","sourceDescription":"Emergency Notifications, Columbia University Public Safety","annotations":["Defines a deliberately narrow trigger for SMS and enumerates the qualifying scenarios."],"characterCount":264},{"label":"Clery Crime Alert standard","quotedText":"These notifications alert the campus community when Clery Act crimes are alleged to have occurred in Columbia's Clery-Reportable Geography and when those crimes pose a continuing or significant danger to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/content/clery-crime-alerts","sourceDescription":"Clery Crime Alerts, Columbia University Public Safety","annotations":["Columbia's articulation of the Clery timely-warning trigger, branded as a Clery Crime Alert."],"characterCount":225}],"keyFindings":["Columbia University Public Safety runs the Emergency Notification System, delivering real-time email and text alerts under the Clery Act.","Text-message alerts are reserved for rare cases of immediate threat or significant impact (severe weather, emergency closures, crimes in progress).","Enrolled phone numbers are used only for emergency text messaging, not for any other purpose.","Clery Crime Alerts (Columbia's Timely Warnings) fire when Clery crimes pose a continuing or significant danger; Public Safety may also issue them for some non-Clery or out-of-geography crimes.","Clery Crime Alerts go out by email and are posted online; the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report is published October 1 each year."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notifications, Columbia University Public Safety","url":"https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/text","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Crime Alerts, Columbia University Public Safety","url":"https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/content/clery-crime-alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Columbia University's Emergency Text Alert System Expanded for Non-Affiliate and Community Access","url":"https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/news/columbia-universitys-emergency-text-alert-system-expanded-non-affiliate-and-community-access","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"What is the Clery Act? – Columbia University Public Safety","url":"https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/clery-act-about","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","crime-alert","new-york","private-r1"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"columbus-state-community-college-rave-asr","slug":"columbus-state-community-college-rave-asr","institution":{"name":"Columbus State Community College","shortName":"CSCC","state":"OH","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"RAVE","enrollment":25000},"policy":{"title":"Clery Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings (RAVE) - Annual Security Report","systemName":"RAVE","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.cscc.edu/services/police/pdf/Annual%20Security%20Report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Columbus State Community College documents [auto-enrolled RAVE alerts as the primary multi-campus emergency notification mode](https://www.cscc.edu/services/police/pdf/Annual%20Security%20Report.pdf) with Police Department case-by-case timely warnings and multi-role EN initiation authority.","analysis":"Columbus State Community College (Columbus/Delaware and regional learning centers, OH) publishes RAVE enrollment and Clery Emergency Notifications and Warnings in its [Annual Security Report](https://www.cscc.edu/services/police/pdf/Annual%20Security%20Report.pdf). Students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled in RAVE alerts by College IT; after login they update profiles for emergency and operational messages via text and email. Text STOP to 67283 or 22678 to opt out of texts. Rave Guardian app supports crime tips. RAVE is the primary alert mode for Columbus campus, Delaware campus, and all regional learning centers.\n\nEmergency notifications warn of significant critical incidents representing sustained and impending threat to life or property; authorized initiators include Police Department Administration, Communication Technicians, Emergency Management Coordinator, College President, and Senior Vice President of Administration, without unreasonable delay. Channels include email, media, and the emergency notification system. Timely warnings for serious and continuing dangers (Clery crime list) are Police Department case-by-case decisions weighing nature, continuing danger, Clery criteria, and investigation compromise; issued via email, texts, media, or other systems. Complements Ohio coverage with Owens Alert.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notification: significant critical incident representing sustained and impending threat to life or property of the campus community. Timely warning: crimes representing serious and continuing danger per Clery Act crime categories.","decisionAuthority":"EN initiation: Police Administration, Communication Technicians, Emergency Management Coordinator, President, Senior VP Administration. Timely warning: Police Department case-by-case assessment.","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications without unreasonable delay. Timely warnings after known facts assessed case-by-case.","cleryFraming":"ASR Rave and Clery Emergency Notifications and Warnings sections with primary RAVE mode for multi-campus system.","scopeLimits":"Text opt-out available; email/profile remains. RAVE covers Columbus, Delaware, and regional learning centers. Rave Guardian is tip/app layer separate from mass alerts.","testingCadence":"Not specified as a fixed cadence in the Rave / Clery EN/TW ASR sections reviewed; public RAVE page notes use for emergencies and snow days.","channels":["sms","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Automatic RAVE enrollment","quotedText":"Columbus State Students, Faculty, and Staff are automatically enrolled in RAVE alerts by the College IT","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.cscc.edu/services/police/pdf/Annual%20Security%20Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"CSCC ASR - Rave enrollment","annotations":["IT auto-enrolls students/faculty/staff in RAVE."],"characterCount":103},{"label":"RAVE primary multi-campus mode","quotedText":"The RAVE emergency notification system is the primary mode for alerts for the Columbus campus, Delaware campus, and all regional learning centers.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.cscc.edu/services/police/pdf/Annual%20Security%20Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"CSCC ASR - Clery Timely Crime Warning channels","annotations":["RAVE primary for all campuses and learning centers."],"characterCount":146},{"label":"Police timely warning purpose","quotedText":"To promote safety and prevent additional crimes, the police department will issue a timely warning of crimes","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.cscc.edu/services/police/pdf/Annual%20Security%20Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"CSCC ASR - Clery Timely Crime Warning","annotations":["Police Department owns TW for serious continuing dangers."],"characterCount":108}],"keyFindings":["RAVE auto-enrollment for students/faculty/staff; primary multi-campus alert mode.","Five named roles may initiate EN without unreasonable delay.","Police case-by-case TW considering nature, danger, Clery criteria, and investigation risk."],"sources":[{"title":"Columbus State Community College Annual Security Report PDF","url":"https://www.cscc.edu/services/police/pdf/Annual%20Security%20Report.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"CSCC RAVE Emergency Alerts page","url":"https://www.cscc.edu/services/rave/","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["ohio","community-college","clery-asr","rave","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"community-college-of-allegheny-county-alert-policy","slug":"community-college-of-allegheny-county-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Community College of Allegheny County","shortName":"CCAC","state":"PA","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Rave Alert System","alertPlatform":"Rave"},"policy":{"title":"Procedures and Criteria for Issuing Emergency Notifications, Timely Warnings and Other Alerts","systemName":"Rave Alert System","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.ccac.edu/about/_resources/_documents/policies/administrative-regulations-manual-rev20240801.pdf"},"summary":"The Community College of Allegheny County states it intends to comply with all aspects of the Jeanne Clery Act as amended by the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008, issuing alerts under a named regulation, [Procedures and Criteria for Issuing Emergency Notifications, Timely Warnings and Other Alerts](https://www.ccac.edu/about/_resources/_documents/policies/administrative-regulations-manual-rev20240801.pdf), inside its Administrative Regulations Manual, and layering the Rave Mobile Safety alert system with the public address system, e-mail, social media, local television and radio, the college website, building alarms, digital signage, and direct person-to-person communication.","analysis":"CCAC's Administrative Regulations Manual states that the college intends to comply with all aspects of the Jeanne Clery Act mandates as issued under the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008, and issues emergency notifications, timely warnings, and other alerts in accordance with a specifically named regulation, [Procedures and Criteria for Issuing Emergency Notifications, Timely Warnings and Other Alerts](https://www.ccac.edu/about/_resources/_documents/policies/administrative-regulations-manual-rev20240801.pdf), the full text of which sits inside the broader Administrative Regulations Manual rather than as a standalone public safety webpage, which is why this record is classified as a standalone-policy entry.\n\nThe college describes a wide channel mix for issuing alerts: announcements via the public address system, the Rave Alert System, e-mail and social media, local television and radio media, the college website, building alarms, digital signage boards, closed-circuit television monitors, and direct person-to-person communication, spanning CCAC's four campuses and multiple centers across Allegheny County. CCAC also documents a testing regime with unusual specificity for a community college: the college states that at regular intervals the various aspects of the emergency notification system are tested by certified professionals and a record is made of the tests, that the public address system is routinely tested by the directors of safety and security as is the two-way radio system, and that a building evacuation alarm test is conducted each semester in conjunction with the public address system test.\n\nBecause ccac.edu returned blocked connections to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below are reconstructed from search engine indexed extracts of the official documents rather than a firsthand character by character read, and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation; this record is scored at medium confidence on that basis.","whenCriteria":"CCAC issues emergency notifications, timely warnings, and other alerts in accordance with its named Procedures and Criteria for Issuing Emergency Notifications, Timely Warnings and Other Alerts regulation, consistent with Jeanne Clery Act and Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 mandates.","decisionAuthority":"CCAC's directors of safety and security are named as responsible for routine testing of the public address and two-way radio systems; a single named official with sign off authority to trigger a specific alert was not confirmed in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"Not specified with a numeric standard in the sources reviewed; the college frames its obligation around Clery Act and HEOA 2008 compliance generally.","cleryFraming":"CCAC states it intends to comply with all aspects of the Jeanne Clery Act mandates as issued under the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008, and names a specific regulation governing both emergency notifications and timely warnings together, Procedures and Criteria for Issuing Emergency Notifications, Timely Warnings and Other Alerts.","scopeLimits":"Alerts are distributed via the public address system, Rave Alert System, e-mail, social media, local television and radio, the college website, building alarms, digital signage, closed-circuit television monitors, and direct person-to-person communication across CCAC's multiple campuses and centers.","testingCadence":"The emergency notification system is tested at regular intervals by certified professionals with a record made of each test; the public address system and two-way radio system are tested routinely by the directors of safety and security, and a building evacuation alarm test is conducted each semester alongside the public address system test.","channels":["pa-system","sms","email","facebook","twitter-x","website","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Clery Act compliance commitment","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ccac.edu/about/_resources/_documents/policies/administrative-regulations-manual-rev20240801.pdf","sourceDescription":"CCAC, Administrative Regulations Manual (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Testing regime","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ccac.edu/_resources/documents/ccac-2024-annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"CCAC, 2024 Annual Security Report (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Channel mix","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ccac.edu/_resources/documents/ccac-2024-annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"CCAC, 2024 Annual Security Report (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["CCAC names a specific regulation, Procedures and Criteria for Issuing Emergency Notifications, Timely Warnings and Other Alerts, inside its Administrative Regulations Manual to govern both Clery duties together.","The college layers the Rave Alert System with a public address system, e-mail, social media, local broadcast media, building alarms, digital signage, closed-circuit television, and direct person-to-person communication.","CCAC documents an unusually specific testing regime: certified-professional tests at regular intervals, routine PA and two-way radio testing by safety and security directors, and a semester building evacuation alarm test.","Ccac.edu could not be directly loaded in this environment, so this record is scored at medium confidence and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation."],"sources":[{"title":"Administrative Regulations Manual, Community College of Allegheny County","url":"https://www.ccac.edu/about/_resources/_documents/policies/administrative-regulations-manual-rev20240801.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual Security Report 2024, Community College of Allegheny County","url":"https://www.ccac.edu/_resources/documents/ccac-2024-annual-security-report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Safety and Security, Community College of Allegheny County","url":"https://www.ccac.edu/campus-life/safety-and-security.php","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","rave-alert","community-college","pennsylvania"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-27","lastUpdated":"2026-09-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"community-college-of-baltimore-county-campus-alert-policy","slug":"community-college-of-baltimore-county-campus-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Community College of Baltimore County","shortName":"CCBC","state":"MD","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Campus Alert","enrollment":50000},"policy":{"title":"Campus Alert Emergency Notifications","systemName":"Campus Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.ccbcmd.edu/Student-Life/Safety-Security/Emergency-Notifications/index.html","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"CCBC's [Emergency Notifications / Campus Alert page](https://www.ccbcmd.edu/Student-Life/Safety-Security/Emergency-Notifications/index.html) describes automatic student/employee enrollment, content expectations (type/location, protective advice, timely warnings), and Rave management for community opt-in.","analysis":"The Community College of Baltimore County is a large Maryland multi-campus community college. Its [Campus Alert Emergency Notifications](https://www.ccbcmd.edu/Student-Life/Safety-Security/Emergency-Notifications/index.html) page is institution-specific: Campus Alert covers weather, regional power outages, and campus emergencies such as fire; enrolled students and employees are automatically opted in (text opt-out via myCCBC/SIMON is allowed but email cannot be opted out); parents and community members can opt in via the Rave portal; expected alert content includes emergency type and location, action advice (evacuate, hide, shelter-in-place), and Clery-style timely warnings for confirmed crimes. Public Safety contact is listed as 443.840.1111. This record documents the Campus Alert system overview rather than a full ASR rewrite.","whenCriteria":"Emergencies and closures including bad weather, regional power outages, campus-based emergencies (e.g., fire), and timely warnings for confirmed crimes.","decisionAuthority":"CCBC Department of Public Safety confirms crimes for timely-warning content; operational Campus Alert program is described on the public safety emergency notifications page.","timingStandard":"Timely warnings framed as federal-law compliance; exact without-delay emergency-notification clock language is not restated on the overview page.","cleryFraming":"Page explicitly ties some alerts to federal timely-warning requirements for confirmed crimes.","testingCadence":"Not confirmed verbatim on the public emergency notifications page reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Students/employees auto-enrolled; text SMS may be opted out but email cannot; carrier fees may apply; personal data not shared for other purposes per page.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Campus Alert purpose","quotedText":"Stay informed when there's an emergency or closure at CCBC with Campus Alert.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ccbcmd.edu/Student-Life/Safety-Security/Emergency-Notifications/index.html","characterCount":77},{"label":"Hazard examples weather power fire","quotedText":"From bad weather and regional power outages to campus-based emergencies such as a fire, Campus Alert is a free, smart and convenient way to get the news and stay safe.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ccbcmd.edu/Student-Life/Safety-Security/Emergency-Notifications/index.html","characterCount":167},{"label":"Type and location content","quotedText":"Alerts will describe the nature and location of the emergency, such as smoke in a specific building on one of our three campuses or three extension centers.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ccbcmd.edu/Student-Life/Safety-Security/Emergency-Notifications/index.html","characterCount":156},{"label":"Protective action advice","quotedText":"Alerts provide advice that pertains to most campus occupants, such as a suggestion to evacuate, hide or shelter-in-place.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ccbcmd.edu/Student-Life/Safety-Security/Emergency-Notifications/index.html","characterCount":121},{"label":"Timely warnings for confirmed crimes","quotedText":"In accordance with federal law, alerts may include timely warnings regarding reported crimes that have been confirmed by the CCBC Department of Public Safety.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ccbcmd.edu/Student-Life/Safety-Security/Emergency-Notifications/index.html","characterCount":158}],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notifications","url":"https://www.ccbcmd.edu/Student-Life/Safety-Security/Emergency-Notifications/index.html","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["community-college","maryland","emergency-notification","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"community-college-of-denver-alert-policy","slug":"community-college-of-denver-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Community College of Denver","shortName":"CCD","state":"CO","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Auraria Campus Emergency Notification System (Rave) / AHEC Alert"},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification and Alert Policy (Office of Emergency Management)","systemName":"Auraria Campus Emergency Notification System (Rave)","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.ccd.edu/ccd-office-emergency-management"},"summary":"The Community College of Denver shares the Auraria Campus and relies on the [Auraria Campus emergency notification system](https://aurariacampus.edu/services-departments/emergency-preparedness/emergency-notifications/) — a Rave text-and-email platform in which CCD students, faculty and staff are automatically enrolled — with emergency messages issued by either the [Auraria Higher Education Center (AHEC) Alert System or directly by CCD's Office of Emergency Management](https://www.ccd.edu/ccd-office-emergency-management).","analysis":"The Community College of Denver (CCD) is one of three institutions — alongside Metropolitan State University of Denver and CU Denver — that share the downtown [Auraria Campus](https://aurariacampus.edu/services-departments/emergency-preparedness/emergency-notifications/). That shared-campus arrangement shapes CCD's alert policy: rather than running a single standalone brand, CCD describes a layered model in which, per its [Office of Emergency Management](https://www.ccd.edu/ccd-office-emergency-management), emergency messages 'may be issued by either the Auraria Higher Education Center (AHEC) Alert System or directly by the Community College of Denver (CCD).'\n\nThe underlying technology is the Rave-based Auraria Campus Emergency Notification System (ENS). The Auraria Campus states that during an emergency or to notify the community of closures it 'utilizes a text and email emergency notification system to deliver important information to faculty, staff, and students,' and that in the event of a campus closure, delayed start or early dismissal, students and employees 'will receive a text message and/or email from the Rave Emergency Notification Alert System with current information.' Enrollment is automatic and broad: CCD, MSU Denver and CU Denver faculty, staff and students — plus Auraria Campus staff, vendors and Auraria Early Learning Center parents — are automatically enrolled in the system. Contact data is refreshed from each institution's Banner Self Service portal every semester, so members are urged to keep cell-phone numbers current.\n\nCCD's coverage extends beyond the Auraria Campus, and the policy is explicit that the issuing system depends on location. The Lowry Campus uses an emergency-management system managed by the Colorado Community College System (CCCS) office, from which urgent messaging originates during an event; the Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC) may receive emergency communications from CCD's Office of Emergency Management or from its leadership directly. CCD's crisis-response process pairs the Office of Emergency Management with Marketing & Communications to deliver alerts through multiple channels. As a CCCS institution, CCD's Clery emergency-notification and timely-warning obligations are documented through the Annual Security Report process.\n\nBecause CCD shares the Auraria platform, its alert governance is distributed across AHEC, CCD, and CCCS, and the precise named decision authority for triggering an alert (versus AHEC's) was not byte-for-byte confirmable in this review. The Auraria-platform host and CCD's .edu pages returned HTTP 403 to direct automated fetching, so the excerpts below were captured from indexed search snippets of those official pages; the automatic-enrollment and dual-issuer descriptions appeared consistently across multiple retrievals but are conservatively marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false, and overall confidence is set to medium.","whenCriteria":"CCD/Auraria issue emergency notifications during an emergency or to notify the community of campus closures, delayed starts or early dismissals. Messages may originate from the AHEC Alert System or directly from CCD's Office of Emergency Management on the Auraria Campus; from the CCCS-managed system at the Lowry Campus; or from CCD's Office of Emergency Management or local leadership at the Advanced Manufacturing Center.","decisionAuthority":"On the shared Auraria Campus, emergency messages may be issued by either the Auraria Higher Education Center (AHEC) Alert System or directly by CCD's Office of Emergency Management; the Lowry Campus messaging is managed by the Colorado Community College System (CCCS) office. CCD's Office of Emergency Management coordinates with Marketing & Communications on crisis communications. The specific position authorized to trigger an alert was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","timingStandard":"The Auraria Campus describes sending text/email notifications during an emergency and ahead of closures, delayed starts and early dismissals; a specific 'without delay / upon confirmation' Clery timing clause for CCD was not confirmed verbatim in this review (CCD/Auraria hosts blocked automated fetching).","cleryFraming":"As a Colorado Community College System institution sharing the Auraria Campus, CCD's Clery emergency-notification and timely-warning obligations are documented through the Annual Security Report process; the precise published timely-warning criteria text was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","testingCadence":"Contact information for the Auraria emergency-notification system is uploaded from each institution's Banner Self Service portal each semester, and members are urged to keep numbers current. The exact published periodic test cadence for the system was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","scopeLimits":"Automatic enrollment covers CCD, MSU Denver and CU Denver faculty, staff and students plus Auraria Campus staff, vendors and Auraria Early Learning Center parents; full reach depends on current cell-phone numbers carried over from Banner Self Service each semester. CCD's non-Auraria sites (Lowry; Advanced Manufacturing Center) are served by separate CCCS or local channels.","channels":["sms","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Dual-issuer model on the shared Auraria Campus","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ccd.edu/ccd-office-emergency-management","sourceDescription":"CCD — Office of Emergency Management (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Rave text/email closure notifications","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://aurariacampus.edu/services-departments/emergency-preparedness/emergency-notifications/","sourceDescription":"Auraria Campus — Emergency Notifications (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Automatic enrollment across the shared campus","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://aurariacampus.edu/services-departments/emergency-preparedness/emergency-notifications/","sourceDescription":"Auraria Campus — Emergency Notifications (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["CCD shares the downtown Auraria Campus and uses the Rave-based Auraria Campus Emergency Notification System rather than a single standalone CCD brand.","Emergency messages on the Auraria Campus may be issued by either the AHEC Alert System or directly by CCD's Office of Emergency Management.","Automatic enrollment is unusually broad — CCD/MSU Denver/CU Denver faculty, staff and students plus Auraria staff, vendors and early-learning-center parents — with contact data refreshed from Banner Self Service each semester.","CCD's non-Auraria sites are served separately: the Lowry Campus by the CCCS-managed system and the Advanced Manufacturing Center by CCD Emergency Management or local leadership.","Distributed AHEC/CCD/CCCS governance plus 403-blocked official hosts meant the named decision authority and exact timing/test cadence could not be confirmed verbatim; excerpts are from indexed snippets and confidence is medium."],"sources":[{"title":"CCD — Office of Emergency Management","url":"https://www.ccd.edu/ccd-office-emergency-management","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"CCD — Office of Emergency Management (overview)","url":"https://www.ccd.edu/office-emergency-management","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Auraria Campus — Emergency Notifications","url":"https://aurariacampus.edu/services-departments/emergency-preparedness/emergency-notifications/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University of Colorado Denver — 2025 Annual Security Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.cuanschutz.edu/docs/librariesprovider34/default-document-library/2025-denver-asr.pdf?sfvrsn=e68374b4_1","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","community-college","colorado","rave","auraria","shared-campus"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"ccri-rave-alert-policy","slug":"ccri-rave-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Community College of Rhode Island","shortName":"CCRI","state":"RI","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"CCRI Alert (Rave)"},"policy":{"title":"Rave Emergency Alerts and Timely Warning Policy","systemName":"Rave Emergency Alerts (CCRI Alert)","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.ccri.edu/emergency/rave.html"},"summary":"The Community College of Rhode Island delivers emergency notifications through [Rave Emergency Alerts](https://www.ccri.edu/emergency/rave.html) — a text, voice and email system in which all registered students, faculty and staff are automatically enrolled — and issues separate Clery [timely warnings](https://www.ccri.edu/campuspolice/clery/report/timely-warning.html) through CCRI Police when a crime represents a serious or continuing threat.","analysis":"The Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI), Rhode Island's only public community college and one of the largest community colleges in New England, runs its emergency-notification function on [Rave Emergency Alerts](https://www.ccri.edu/emergency/rave.html), the Rave Mobile Safety platform. CCRI describes the service as one that delivers text messages and email messages to members of the CCRI community during emergencies and when adverse weather conditions affect normal campus operations, and states that all registered students, faculty and staff are automatically enrolled. Emergency email is sent both to the CCRI address and to the personal email address provided in the MyCCRI portal, and messages can also reach home phones, so the system layers SMS, voice and multiple email addresses.\n\nCCRI ties activation to the federal Clery standard. The college says the emergency notification system 'will be activated upon confirmation of an emergency situation that poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty, and staff on campus, or when there is an event that requires closing the campus or limiting access (e.g., severe weather).' On its [emergency-procedures](https://www.ccri.edu/campuspolice/emergency-procedures/index.html) page, CCRI organizes Rave Alerts around three message types that map to protective actions — shelter in place (for chemical spills, environmental emergencies, and weather emergencies such as tornados and hurricanes), limited lockdown (while police investigate a potential but not imminent threat), and full lockdown (only for an immediate confirmed threat such as an active shooter) — giving recipients a pre-defined response for each alert.\n\nCCRI keeps the Clery emergency-notification and timely-warning functions distinct. Under its [Timely Warning Policy](https://www.ccri.edu/campuspolice/clery/report/timely-warning.html), when a situation on or off campus — in the judgment of CCRI Police in consultation with the Director of Administration — constitutes a serious or continuing threat to students and employees, a campus-wide 'alert' or 'timely warning' is issued through the college email system. The policy names major incidents of arson, criminal homicide and robbery as typical alert-triggering crimes, with aggravated assault and sex offenses weighed case-by-case. For immediate threats the college will, 'without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community,' determine the content of the message and initiate the emergency messaging system unless doing so would compromise efforts to assist a victim or mitigate the situation — the standard Clery carve-out.\n\nThe activation-threshold sentence and the 'without delay' timing language appeared with consistent wording across multiple retrievals of CCRI's official emergency and Clery pages and are marked verbatim-confirmed; CCRI's .edu host returned HTTP 403 to direct automated fetching, so other excerpts drawn from indexed snippets are marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false and carry a slightly lower confidence. The precise published periodic test cadence for the Rave system was not byte-for-byte confirmable in this review.","whenCriteria":"CCRI activates Rave Emergency Alerts upon confirmation of an emergency situation that poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty and staff on campus, or when an event requires closing the campus or limiting access (e.g., severe weather). Timely warnings are issued for crimes that, in the judgment of CCRI Police in consultation with the Director of Administration, constitute a serious or continuing threat — major arson, criminal homicide and robbery are typical triggers, with aggravated assault and sex offenses weighed case-by-case.","decisionAuthority":"CCRI Police, in consultation with the Director of Administration, determine whether a situation constitutes a serious or continuing threat warranting a timely warning. The college (through its Police Department and responsible authorities) determines the content of and initiates the emergency messaging system for emergency notifications.","timingStandard":"For emergency notifications CCRI states it will act 'without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community,' to determine the message content and initiate the emergency messaging system — consistent with the Clery 'immediately, upon confirmation' standard — unless issuing a message would jeopardize efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the situation.","cleryFraming":"CCRI separates the two Clery functions: Rave Emergency Alerts (emergency notifications) for immediate threats to health/safety and campus-closing events, and a campus-wide 'alert' or 'timely warning' issued through the college email system for Clery-reportable crimes that pose a serious or continuing threat.","testingCadence":"CCRI automatically loads registered students, faculty and staff into Rave each enrollment cycle and periodically asks the community to verify contact information in MyCCRI. The exact published periodic test cadence for Rave Emergency Alerts was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","scopeLimits":"All registered students, faculty and staff are automatically enrolled, with email guaranteed to both CCRI and personal addresses on file; full reach (text/voice/home phone) depends on current contact information in MyCCRI, which the college periodically asks the community to update.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Rave emergency-notification activation threshold","quotedText":"The emergency notification system will be activated upon confirmation of an emergency situation that poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty, and staff on campus, or when there is an event that requires closing the campus or limiting access (e.g., severe weather).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ccri.edu/emergency/rave.html","sourceDescription":"CCRI — Rave Emergency Alerts page","annotations":["Sets the activation threshold at an immediate threat to health or safety, and expressly extends the system to campus-closure events such as severe weather. Wording was consistent across multiple retrievals of CCRI's official emergency pages."],"characterCount":295},{"label":"Timely-warning serious-or-continuing-threat standard","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ccri.edu/campuspolice/clery/report/timely-warning.html","sourceDescription":"CCRI — Timely Warning Policy (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"'Without delay' emergency-message timing","quotedText":"The College will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the emergency message and initiate the emergency messaging system, unless issuing a message will, in the judgment of the Police Department or other responsible authorities, jeopardize or compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency situation.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ccri.edu/campuspolice/clery/report/timely-warning.html","sourceDescription":"CCRI — Timely Warning Policy","annotations":["Adopts the Clery 'without delay' timing standard verbatim, including the standard carve-out for victim assistance and incident mitigation. The timing sentence appeared with identical wording across retrievals of CCRI's official Clery page."],"characterCount":409},{"label":"Three Rave message types","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ccri.edu/campuspolice/emergency-procedures/index.html","sourceDescription":"CCRI — Emergency Preparedness / Procedures (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["CCRI's emergency-notification system is Rave Emergency Alerts (Rave Mobile Safety), with all registered students, faculty and staff automatically enrolled and reachable by SMS, voice and multiple email addresses.","Activation is tied to confirmation of an immediate threat to health or safety, and also covers campus-closure events such as severe weather.","CCRI organizes Rave alerts into three pre-defined message types — shelter in place, limited lockdown and full lockdown — each mapped to a protective action.","Clery functions are kept distinct: CCRI Police, in consultation with the Director of Administration, issue email timely warnings for crimes posing a serious or continuing threat (typically arson, homicide, robbery).","CCRI's .edu host blocked automated fetching; the activation-threshold and 'without delay' timing sentences were confirmed verbatim across multiple retrievals, while other excerpts drawn from indexed snippets are flagged reconstructed."],"sources":[{"title":"CCRI — Rave Emergency Alerts","url":"https://www.ccri.edu/emergency/rave.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"CCRI — Timely Warning Policy","url":"https://www.ccri.edu/campuspolice/clery/report/timely-warning.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"CCRI — Emergency Information","url":"https://www.ccri.edu/emergency/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"CCRI — Emergency Preparedness / Procedures","url":"https://www.ccri.edu/campuspolice/emergency-procedures/index.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"CCRI — Rave Login portal","url":"https://www.getrave.com/login/ccri","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","community-college","rhode-island","rave","clery"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"community-college-of-rhode-island-rave-alertus-policy","slug":"community-college-of-rhode-island-rave-alertus-policy","institution":{"name":"Community College of Rhode Island","shortName":"CCRI","state":"RI","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Rave Alert / ALERTUS","enrollment":14000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications (2024-2025 ASR)","systemName":"Rave Alert / ALERTUS","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.ccri.edu/campuspolice/clery/docs/annual-security-report-2024-2025.pdf","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Community College of Rhode Island's [2024-2025 Annual Security Report](https://www.ccri.edu/campuspolice/clery/docs/annual-security-report-2024-2025.pdf) brands Rave Alert with ALERTUS desktop takeover and multi-campus PA, names CCRI PD in consultation with the Vice President of Administration and Finance for serious/continuing-threat judgments, and assigns notification content decisions to the Chief of Campus Police and/or that VP with campus-segmented delivery (e.g., Warwick vs Lincoln).","analysis":"Community College of Rhode Island is a multi-campus community college. Its [2024-2025 ASR](https://www.ccri.edu/campuspolice/clery/docs/annual-security-report-2024-2025.pdf) is institution-specific: Timely Warnings/alert emergency notifications issue when CCRI PD, in consultation with the Vice President of Administration and Finances, judges a serious or continuing threat. Emergency stack includes Rave Alert (text, home phones, multiple emails, Twitter/Facebook), ALERTUS for predetermined Rave activations and desktop takeover on all campuses, PA announcements, video screens (Knight Campus Great Hall large screen named), and monthly tests of Blue Light (Liston only), elevator, PA, and safe-zone phones. Content decisions rest with the Chief and/or VP of Administration and Finance; segmenting examples name Warwick, Lincoln, and Newport County campuses. Systems are tested biannually with prior community notification.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning for Clery Act crimes in CCRI geography that represent a serious or continuing threat. Emergency notifications for serious weather or non-Clery crime issues and immediate threats (examples: building fire, earthquake, gas leak, armed intruder) or events requiring campus closure.","decisionAuthority":"Judgment of CCRI PD in consultation with the Vice President of Administration and Finances for serious/continuing threat. Emergency notification system messages typically made by the Chief of Campus Police and/or the Vice President of Administration and Finance; executive leadership included if time permits. Content decided by Chief and/or VP of Administration and Finance.","timingStandard":"Rave Alert for immediate notification; emergency system activated upon confirmation of immediate threat to health or safety. Notification systems tested biannually with full activation and prior community notice; selected hardware phones tested monthly.","cleryFraming":"ASR separates Timely Warnings (Clery crimes, serious/continuing threat) from Emergency Notifications (broader immediate threats including non-Clery weather/crime).","scopeLimits":"Notifications may target selected campus segments (Warwick threat need not notify Lincoln; Newport gas leak may notify only Newport County Campus). Auto-enrollment in Rave if phone number supplied at MyCCRI enrollment.","testingCadence":"All notification systems tested biannually including full activation with prior College community notification. Blue Light phones (Liston only), elevator phones, PA systems, and safe zone phones tested monthly. Rave training and annual tests of Rave and ALERTUS conducted periodically.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","desktop-popup","pa-system","twitter-x","facebook","website","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"CCRI PD with VP Administration and Finance TW/EN judgment","quotedText":"In the event that a situation arises either on or off campus which, in the judgment of CCRI PD in consultation with the Vice President of Administration and Finances, constitutes a serious or continuing threat to students and employees, a campus-wide \"alert emergency notification\" or \"timely warning\" will be issued through the College email and text systems to students, faculty, and staff.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ccri.edu/campuspolice/clery/docs/annual-security-report-2024-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"CCRI 2024-2025 ASR Timely Warnings","annotations":["Named CCRI PD + VP of Administration and Finances consult for TW/EN."],"characterCount":392},{"label":"Rave Alert multi-channel brand","quotedText":"The College contracts with Rave Alert for timely notification services. This allows authorized users to send an immediate notification to all or selected members of the CCRI community who have provided emergency notification contact information. Messages about immediate or potential threats to the community can be sent via text, home phones, multiple email addresses, as well as the College's Twitter and Facebook pages.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ccri.edu/campuspolice/clery/docs/annual-security-report-2024-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"CCRI 2024-2025 ASR Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Branded Rave Alert with social and multi-contact delivery."],"characterCount":422},{"label":"ALERTUS desktop takeover and PA on all campuses","quotedText":"The College has the ALERTUS system at each Campus is used for emergency notifications system. This allows for the immediate activation of predetermined Rave Alerts, the takeover of all desktop computers on all campuses and PA announcements. These desktop alerts are an additional method of ensuring maxi- mum notification to the community. Additionally, video screens (such as the large screen in the Knight Campus Great Hall) and the public address systems on our campuses are also part of the notification system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ccri.edu/campuspolice/clery/docs/annual-security-report-2024-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"CCRI 2024-2025 ASR ALERTUS","annotations":["ALERTUS + Knight Campus Great Hall video screen - institution-specific."],"characterCount":515},{"label":"Chief and/or VP content decision with campus segmentation","quotedText":"A decision will then be made by the Chief and/or Vice President of Administration and Finance as to the content of the notification and the notification will be initiated. For example, a threat to the Warwick Campus would not necessarily affect the Lincoln Campus and such a threat would likely only result in a warning to the Warwick Campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ccri.edu/campuspolice/clery/docs/annual-security-report-2024-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"CCRI 2024-2025 ASR notification content authority","annotations":["Named dual authorizers and multi-campus segmenting examples."],"characterCount":352},{"label":"Biannual full-system testing cadence","quotedText":"All notification systems are tested at biannually to include a full activation with prior College community notification. The emergency Blue Light phones (Liston Campus only), emergency elevator phones, PA systems and safe zone phones are tested monthly.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ccri.edu/campuspolice/clery/docs/annual-security-report-2024-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"CCRI 2024-2025 ASR testing","annotations":["Local biannual full activation plus Liston-only Blue Light monthly tests."],"characterCount":254}],"keyFindings":["Rave Alert is the contracted mass-notification platform; ALERTUS handles desktop takeover.","CCRI PD consults VP of Administration and Finance on serious/continuing-threat judgments.","Chief of Campus Police and/or VP decide notification content; campuses may be segmented.","Notification systems tested biannually; selected hardware phones monthly."],"sources":[{"title":"Annual Security Report 2024-2025 - Community College of Rhode Island","url":"https://www.ccri.edu/campuspolice/clery/docs/annual-security-report-2024-2025.pdf","type":"clery-asr","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","community-college","timely-warning","emergency-notification","rave","rhode-island","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"ct-state-three-rivers-alert-policy","slug":"ct-state-three-rivers-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Connecticut State Community College, Three Rivers","shortName":"CT State Three Rivers","state":"CT","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Everbridge Alert","enrollment":3300},"policy":{"title":"Three Rivers Emergency Action Response Plan","systemName":"Everbridge Alert","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://ctstate.edu/images/Forms-Documents/Safety/TR-Emergency-Action-Response-Plan.pdf","effectiveDate":"2023-07-01"},"summary":"CT State Community College's Three Rivers campus in Norwich operates under a campus-specific [Emergency Action Response Plan](https://ctstate.edu/images/Forms-Documents/Safety/TR-Emergency-Action-Response-Plan.pdf) designed to protect staff, faculty, students, and visitors at properties the college owns, leases, or operates, using the [Everbridge Alert System](https://ctstate.edu/locations/three-rivers) as its primary means of immediately advising the campus community when a significant emergency is determined.","analysis":"Three Rivers is one of the twelve legacy community-college campuses that were consolidated into a single accredited institution, [Connecticut State Community College](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_State_Community_College), effective July 1, 2023. Even after that system-wide merger, individual campuses like Three Rivers (in Norwich, on the site of the historic Norwich State Hospital grounds) retain their own campus-specific emergency plans; the [Three Rivers Emergency Action Response Plan](https://ctstate.edu/images/Forms-Documents/Safety/TR-Emergency-Action-Response-Plan.pdf) states its purpose is to prepare members of the campus for potential emergency situations and to protect staff, faculty, students, and visitors at properties owned, leased, or operated by the college through effective use of campus and outside-agency resources.\n\nNotification runs on three overlapping layers rather than a single channel. The [Everbridge Alert System](https://ctstate.edu/locations/three-rivers) is used to immediately advise staff, faculty, and students by text, voice, and email once campus officials determine there is a significant emergency; electronic mail is used in parallel for less time-critical updates; and an Informacast system, which pages telephones and drives building loudspeakers, is used to reach people who may not be near a phone or a computer when the alert goes out. That layered design mirrors the standard community-college pattern of pairing a mobile mass-notification vendor with a legacy PA/phone system so that no single point of failure silences the whole campus.\n\nAdministratively, the Three Rivers campus is led by a Campus President (also referred to elsewhere in the CT State system as a Campus CEO), a role that sits below the system-wide CT State Community College leadership but retains local operational authority over the campus's day-to-day safety response. The precise, named individual or office holding formal activation authority for an Everbridge alert at Three Rivers, and any published testing cadence for the notification system, were not independently confirmed in this review, since ctstate.edu blocks automated direct fetching of the plan PDF.\n\nAs a Title IV, Clery-covered institution, CT State Three Rivers is bound by the federal two-track framework: emergency notifications upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat, and timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes that represent a continuing threat. The 2023 systemwide consolidation is itself a live compliance consideration for the archive: as the twelve legacy colleges standardize policy under one accreditation, campus-specific plans like this one may eventually be absorbed into a single CT State-wide emergency-management document, making the current campus-level plan worth capturing now.","whenCriteria":"The plan is intended to protect staff, faculty, students, and visitors at properties owned, leased, or operated by the college through effective use of campus and outside-agency resources, activated once campus officials determine there is a significant emergency. As a Clery institution, Three Rivers separately follows the federal standards for emergency notifications and timely warnings.","decisionAuthority":"The Everbridge Alert System is used to immediately advise the community once it is determined that there is a significant emergency; the Three Rivers Campus President/CEO holds local operational authority over campus safety response, though the precise named activation authority was not independently confirmed in this review.","timingStandard":"Not stated in exact language in the sources reviewed; Everbridge is described as providing immediate advisement once a significant emergency is determined, with electronic mail used for less time-critical follow-up information.","cleryFraming":"Standard federal two-track distinction applies (timely warning vs. emergency notification); the reviewed plan itself is framed as an all-hazards campus emergency-action plan rather than Clery-specific notification language.","testingCadence":"Not confirmed in the sources reviewed; a published testing frequency for the Everbridge / Informacast systems at Three Rivers specifically was not located.","scopeLimits":"The plan is campus-specific to Three Rivers, one of twelve legacy campuses folded into the single accredited Connecticut State Community College in July 2023, rather than a unified CT State-wide emergency-management document.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","pa-system","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Purpose of the plan","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://ctstate.edu/images/Forms-Documents/Safety/TR-Emergency-Action-Response-Plan.pdf","sourceDescription":"Three Rivers Emergency Action Response Plan (captured via search-engine reproduction; ctstate.edu blocks automated direct fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Everbridge as primary notification system","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://ctstate.edu/images/Forms-Documents/Safety/TR-Emergency-Action-Response-Plan.pdf","sourceDescription":"Three Rivers Emergency Action Response Plan (captured via search-engine reproduction; ctstate.edu blocks automated direct fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Three Rivers is a campus of the single, accredited Connecticut State Community College formed by the July 1, 2023 merger of Connecticut's twelve legacy community colleges, but it retains its own campus-specific Emergency Action Response Plan.","The plan's stated purpose ties protection explicitly to properties owned, leased, or operated by the college, and it activates once officials determine a significant emergency exists.","Notification is layered: Everbridge (text/voice/email) is primary, supplemented by general email and an Informacast paging/loudspeaker system for people away from a phone or computer.","The named activation authority and testing cadence at the campus level were not independently confirmed; ctstate.edu blocks automated direct fetching of the plan PDF."],"sources":[{"title":"Three Rivers Emergency Action Response Plan (PDF)","url":"https://ctstate.edu/images/Forms-Documents/Safety/TR-Emergency-Action-Response-Plan.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"CT State, Three Rivers campus page","url":"https://ctstate.edu/locations/three-rivers","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Connecticut State Community College, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_State_Community_College","type":"other"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","emergency-operations-plan","connecticut","community-college","everbridge","three-rivers","ct-state"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"coppin-state-university-campus-alerts-policy","slug":"coppin-state-university-campus-alerts-policy","institution":{"name":"Coppin State University","shortName":"Coppin","state":"MD","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"Coppin State University Campus Alerts (Blackboard Connect)","enrollment":2210},"policy":{"title":"Campus Alerts / Emergency Notification Policy (Blackboard Connect) and Campus Emergency Operations Plan","systemName":"Campus Alerts (Blackboard Connect)","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.coppin.edu/campus-alerts","lastReviewed":"2025-01-01"},"summary":"Coppin State University, an HBCU in Baltimore, notifies its community through [Campus Alerts](https://www.coppin.edu/campus-alerts) — an instant emergency-notification system, delivered via [Blackboard Connect](https://www.coppin.edu/blackboard-connect-campus-safety), that sends text and voice messages and email and posts to the Coppin website, managed by Campus Police and registered through EagleLINKS.","analysis":"Coppin State University, a public historically Black university in Baltimore and part of the University System of Maryland, brands its emergency-notification service as [Campus Alerts](https://www.coppin.edu/campus-alerts). The university describes it as a state-of-the-art notification system that sends messages instantly and simultaneously to all registered text-message-capable mobile devices as well as email, posts those messages on the main Coppin website, and 'pops up' on the computer screen for anyone using Google, Yahoo, or AOL as their home page. Coppin also refers to the program as an Early Warning System Emergency Program intended to give instant notice of imminent dangerous conditions.\n\nThe underlying platform is [Blackboard Connect](https://www.coppin.edu/blackboard-connect-campus-safety), a multi-modal mass-notification service. Coppin states Blackboard Connect can schedule, send, and track personalized voice messages to up to six phone numbers for every student and staff member, and that it sends through four different modes of communication: voice messages to home, work, and cell phones, and text messages to cell phones, personal digital assistant (PDA) devices, and networked digital signage. Community members register and maintain their contact numbers and emergency contacts through their [EagleLINKS](https://www.coppin.edu/eaglelinks) self-service account, and Coppin strongly encourages students, faculty, and staff to register.\n\nDecision-making and monitoring sit with [Campus Police](https://www.coppin.edu/campus-police) (410-951-3900), which actively monitors the national threat level as well as specific threats to the Coppin community and, in the event of a safety or security concern, shares information and recommended campus actions through all available means of campus communication. The notification system is one element of a broader [Campus Emergency Operations Plan and Procedure](https://www.coppin.edu/emergency) that Coppin maintains alongside emergency blue-light phones, posted evacuation routes, and active-shooter guidance, with emergency-notification and timely-warning obligations framed by the Jeanne Clery Act.\n\nBecause the coppin.edu host returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the exact wording was captured from indexed search snippets and corroborated across multiple independent retrievals (the Campus Alerts page, the Blackboard Connect for Campus Safety page, and the Campus Police page) rather than from a byte-for-byte live fetch. Two excerpts — the instant-notification description and the Blackboard Connect 'four modes' sentence — appeared consistently across retrievals and are marked verbatim-confirmed. The precise named decision authority for triggering an alert and any formal test cadence could not be confirmed word-for-word and are flagged. Confidence is set to medium accordingly.","whenCriteria":"Coppin's Campus Alerts / Early Warning System is used to give instant notice of imminent dangerous conditions and safety or security concerns on campus; Campus Police monitors the national threat level and Coppin-specific threats and shares information and recommended actions through all available means. The exact Clery 'significant emergency or dangerous situation' trigger sentence was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","decisionAuthority":"Campus Police (410-951-3900) monitors threats and shares information and recommended campus actions through all available means of campus communication. The specific position authorized to confirm and trigger a Campus Alert was not confirmed verbatim in this review (coppin.edu host blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"Coppin describes the system as sending messages 'instantly and simultaneously' to registered devices for imminent dangerous conditions; the precise Clery 'without delay / immediately upon confirmation' timing language was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","cleryFraming":"Coppin maintains a Campus Emergency Operations Plan and Procedure and Clery-governed emergency-notification and timely-warning obligations: timely warnings for crimes representing an ongoing threat, and emergency notifications upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety. This record documents the Campus Alerts system overview rather than the ASR text itself.","testingCadence":"Coppin strongly encourages students, faculty, and staff to register and maintains its Campus Emergency Operations Plan; the exact published periodic test cadence for Campus Alerts was not confirmed verbatim in this review (coppin.edu host blocked automated fetching).","scopeLimits":"Reach depends on community members registering phone numbers and emergency contacts via EagleLINKS and keeping them current; Blackboard Connect can dial up to six numbers per person and supplements text/voice/email with website posts, desktop home-page pop-ups, and networked digital signage to reduce single-channel dependency.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","digital-signage","desktop-popup"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Instant, simultaneous notification description","quotedText":"Coppin State University's state-of-the-art notification system sends messages instantly and simultaneously to all registered text-message capable mobile devices, as well as email.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.coppin.edu/campus-alerts","sourceDescription":"Coppin State University — Campus Alerts (host blocked automated fetch; identical wording across multiple official retrievals)","annotations":["Describes the core delivery behavior — instant, simultaneous text and email to all registered devices. The same sentence appeared across multiple official Campus Alerts / Campus Safety retrievals via the search index; the host returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching."],"characterCount":179},{"label":"Blackboard Connect four modes of communication","quotedText":"Blackboard Connect sends messages through 4 different modes of communication: Voice messages to home phones, work phones, and cell phones; Text messages to cell phones, personal digital assistant (PDA) devices, and networked digital signage.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.coppin.edu/blackboard-connect-campus-safety","sourceDescription":"Coppin State University — Blackboard Connect for Campus Safety (host blocked automated fetch; identical wording across multiple official retrievals)","annotations":["Identifies the underlying platform (Blackboard Connect) and its four delivery modes spanning voice, text, and networked digital signage. The same sentence appeared across multiple official Coppin retrievals via the search index; the host returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching."],"characterCount":241},{"label":"Campus Police threat monitoring","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.coppin.edu/campus-police","sourceDescription":"Coppin State University — Campus Police (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Coppin State's emergency-notification service is branded Campus Alerts (also described as an Early Warning System Emergency Program), delivered via the Blackboard Connect platform.","Blackboard Connect sends through four modes — voice to home/work/cell phones and text to cell/PDA/networked digital signage — plus email, website posts, and desktop home-page pop-ups.","Registration is through EagleLINKS self-service, where community members enter up to six phone numbers and emergency contacts; Coppin strongly encourages everyone to register.","Campus Police (410-951-3900) monitors the national threat level and Coppin-specific threats and triggers community notifications via all available channels.","Two excerpts (instant-notification description and the Blackboard Connect four-modes sentence) are verbatim-confirmed across retrievals; the named decision authority and test cadence could not be confirmed verbatim (coppin.edu blocked automated fetching)."],"sources":[{"title":"Coppin State University — Campus Alerts","url":"https://www.coppin.edu/campus-alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Coppin State University — Blackboard Connect for Campus Safety","url":"https://www.coppin.edu/blackboard-connect-campus-safety","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Coppin State University — Campus Emergency Operations Plan and Procedure","url":"https://www.coppin.edu/emergency","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Coppin State University — Campus Police","url":"https://www.coppin.edu/campus-police","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Coppin State University — EagleLINKS","url":"https://www.coppin.edu/eaglelinks","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","campus-alerts","blackboard-connect","hbcu","maryland","system-overview","multi-channel"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"coppin-state-university-early-warning-eop-policy","slug":"coppin-state-university-early-warning-eop-policy","institution":{"name":"Coppin State University","shortName":"Coppin State","state":"MD","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"Early Warning System / Blackboard Connect","enrollment":2700},"policy":{"title":"Campus Emergency Operations Plan and Early Warning Notification System","systemName":"Early Warning System Emergency Program / Blackboard Connect","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://www.coppin.edu/campus-emergency-operations-plan-and-procedure","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Coppin State University's [Campus Emergency Operations Plan and Procedure page](https://www.coppin.edu/campus-emergency-operations-plan-and-procedure) documents an Early Warning System Emergency Program for instant notification of imminent dangerous conditions, a state-of-the-art multi-channel Campus Emergency Notification System (text, email, and homepage pop-ups), and Blackboard Connect usage for campus notifications including safety alerts.","analysis":"Coppin State University is an HBCU in Maryland. Its [EOP page](https://www.coppin.edu/campus-emergency-operations-plan-and-procedure) is institution-specific: it brands an Early Warning System Emergency Program that provides instant notification of imminent dangerous conditions; on activation, the campus community is directed to seek information from named university channels; the Campus Emergency Notification System sends messages instantly and simultaneously to registered text-capable mobile devices and email, with pop-ups on Google/Yahoo/AOL home pages; [Campus Safety and Security](https://www.coppin.edu/student-life/campus-safety-and-security) further names Blackboard Connect for text alerts and SMS including safety-related notifications authorized by specific University personnel.","whenCriteria":"Early Warning System activation for imminent dangerous conditions; Campus Emergency Notification System and Blackboard Connect for time-sensitive campus and safety notifications.","decisionAuthority":"Incident Response Team of high-level campus administrators and Emergency Operations Center of major resource holders; specific University personnel authorized for Blackboard Connect messages.","timingStandard":"Instant notification upon Early Warning System activation; messages sent instantly and simultaneously across registered channels.","cleryFraming":"Companion Clery Act and Crime Reporting page documents Clery compliance; this EOP page focuses on emergency operations and early warning rather than Timely Warning boilerplate alone.","scopeLimits":"Coppin campus community; registration required for mobile text/email notification; homepage pop-ups for certain portal users.","testingCadence":"Not stated on the EOP overview page.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Early Warning System Emergency Program","quotedText":"Implementing an Early Warning System Emergency Program to provide instant notification of the campus community to imminent dangerous conditions. Upon activation of the Early Warning System Emergency Program","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.coppin.edu/campus-emergency-operations-plan-and-procedure","sourceDescription":"Coppin Campus Emergency Operations Plan and Procedure page","annotations":["Local Early Warning System brand for imminent danger notification."],"characterCount":206},{"label":"Campus Emergency Notification System channels","quotedText":"Coppin State University's state-of-the-art notification system sends messages instantly and simultaneously to all registered text-message capable mobile devices, as well as email. The service also posts","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.coppin.edu/campus-emergency-operations-plan-and-procedure","sourceDescription":"Coppin Campus Emergency Operations Plan and Procedure page","annotations":["Institution-specific simultaneous text/email notification system."],"characterCount":202},{"label":"Blackboard Connect authorized senders","quotedText":"In addition to campus-wide communication through campus email, we also use Blackboard Connect to send text alerts and SMS messages for campus notifications about: Time-sensitive alerts about registration, financial aid, and enrollment. Coppin authorizes specific University personnel to send these types of notifications via text message to mobile devices or recorded messages to a landline phone.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.coppin.edu/student-life/campus-safety-and-security","sourceDescription":"Coppin Campus Safety and Security page","annotations":["Named Blackboard Connect brand and authorized-personnel control."],"characterCount":397}],"keyFindings":["Early Warning System + multi-channel Campus Emergency Notification System are local brands.","HBCU EOP document type fills a thin policy slot."],"sources":[{"title":"Campus Emergency Operations Plan and Procedure - Coppin State","url":"https://www.coppin.edu/campus-emergency-operations-plan-and-procedure","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"},{"title":"Campus Safety and Security - Coppin State","url":"https://www.coppin.edu/student-life/campus-safety-and-security","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["hbcu","maryland","eop","early-warning","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"cornell-university-cornellalert-policy","slug":"cornell-university-cornellalert-policy","institution":{"name":"Cornell University","shortName":"Cornell","state":"NY","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"CornellALERT","enrollment":26000},"policy":{"title":"CornellALERT Emergency Mass Notifications and Timely Warnings","systemName":"CornellALERT","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://publicsafety.cornell.edu/clery/emergency-notifications/"},"summary":"[CornellALERT](https://emergency.cornell.edu/emergency-notifications/) is Cornell University's Emergency Mass Notification (EMN) system, used when the Chief of Cornell Police or a designee determines a situation poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community; it is distinct from the Cornell University Police Department's Clery [Timely Warnings (Crime Alerts)](https://publicsafety.cornell.edu/clery/emergency-notifications/), which address serious or continuing threats.","analysis":"Pursuant to the Clery Act, the [Cornell University Police Department](https://publicsafety.cornell.edu/clery/emergency-notifications/) provides emergency notifications to the Ithaca campus community in two forms: Timely Warnings (Crime Alerts) and Emergency Mass Notifications, branded as CornellALERT. The two tools track the Clery Act's two distinct triggers. A CornellALERT/EMN is issued when, in the judgment of the Chief of Cornell Police or their designee, a situation constitutes a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community; in that case the message is written and distributed without delay to the entire university community. A Timely Warning is issued when, in the judgment of the Chief of Cornell Police or their designee, a situation constitutes a serious or continuing threat to students and employees of the institution.\n\nThe decision authority for both notification types rests with the Chief of Cornell Police or a designee. CornellALERT covers a broad range of scenarios — natural incidents such as a tornado or other dangerous weather, unnatural events such as an explosive device or active shooter, and changes to university operating status driven by an emergency or weather event. The Office of Emergency Management notes that email notification is always sent to @cornell.edu addresses of current students, employees, and affiliates, and that, in addition, voice and SMS (text) messages are delivered to community members who have opted into those systems. For on-campus audibility, sirens/public address messages are also activated to the [four towers on campus](https://emergency.cornell.edu/emergency-notifications/). By contrast, a Timely Warning/Crime Alert is distributed as an email and posted on the Division of Public Safety website rather than blasted through the full multi-channel EMN apparatus.\n\nCornell's Ithaca-campus alerting is built on Rave Mobile Safety; community members can enroll a mobile number or install the [Rave Guardian](https://emergency.cornell.edu/emergency-notifications/) app to receive CornellALERT messages on a cellular phone. (Separate Cornell units run separate platforms — Weill Cornell uses Everbridge for its Weill Cornell Alert, and Cornell Tech runs its own Rave-based mass-notification system in New York City — so this policy is scoped to the Ithaca campus.) Cornell states that the CornellALERT system is tested each semester so the campus community stays familiar with the sounds, messages, and channels used in a real emergency. Clery crime statistics and the Annual Security Report are administered by the Cornell University Clery Compliance Office, which publishes the federally mandated report (\"Campus Watch\") and reports statistics to the U.S. Department of Education.","whenCriteria":"A CornellALERT/Emergency Mass Notification is issued when, in the judgment of the Chief of Cornell Police or their designee, a situation constitutes a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community. A Timely Warning (Crime Alert) is issued when such a situation constitutes a serious or continuing threat to students and employees.","decisionAuthority":"The Chief of Cornell Police or their designee determines whether to issue a CornellALERT/EMN or a Timely Warning.","timingStandard":"When the immediate-threat criterion is met, the Emergency Mass Notification is written and distributed without delay to the entire university community.","cleryFraming":"Two-track Clery framework: Emergency Mass Notifications (CornellALERT) for significant emergencies or dangerous situations posing an immediate threat, and Timely Warnings (Crime Alerts) for serious or continuing threats. Both are administered by the Cornell University Police Department under the Clery Act.","testingCadence":"The CornellALERT system is tested each semester.","scopeLimits":"Scoped to the Ithaca campus community (Weill Cornell and Cornell Tech run separate notification systems). CornellALERT covers natural incidents (e.g., dangerous weather), unnatural events (e.g., explosive device, active shooter), and emergency changes to operating status. Email always reaches @cornell.edu addresses; voice and SMS reach only community members who have opted in.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","siren","pa-system","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Two-form Clery framework","quotedText":"Pursuant to the Clery Act, the Cornell University Police Department provides emergency notifications to the Ithaca campus community in the form of Timely Warnings (Crime Alert) and Emergency Mass Notifications (CornellALERT).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://publicsafety.cornell.edu/clery/emergency-notifications/","sourceDescription":"Emergency Notifications – Clery Act Compliance, Cornell Division of Public Safety","annotations":["Establishes the two distinct Clery tools and limits this policy's scope to the Ithaca campus."],"characterCount":225},{"label":"Immediate-threat trigger and 'without delay'","quotedText":"In the event a situation arises that, in the judgment of the Chief of Cornell Police or their designee, constitutes a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community, an Emergency Mass Notification is written and distributed without delay to the campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://publicsafety.cornell.edu/clery/emergency-notifications/","sourceDescription":"Emergency Notifications – Clery Act Compliance, Cornell Division of Public Safety","annotations":["Vests the activation decision in the Chief of Cornell Police or a designee and adopts the Clery 'without delay' timing standard."],"characterCount":328},{"label":"Timely Warning trigger","quotedText":"In the event that a situation arises, which, in the judgment of the Chief of Cornell Police or their designee, constitutes a serious or continuing threat to students and employees of the institution, a campus-wide timely warning will be issued.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://publicsafety.cornell.edu/clery/emergency-notifications/","sourceDescription":"Emergency Notifications – Clery Act Compliance, Cornell Division of Public Safety","annotations":["The Clery 'serious or continuing threat' standard that separates Crime Alerts from immediate-threat CornellALERT messages."],"characterCount":244},{"label":"Semester testing cadence","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.cornell.edu/emergency-notifications/","sourceDescription":"Emergency Notifications – Office of Emergency Management, Cornell University","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["CornellALERT is Cornell's Emergency Mass Notification (EMN) tool; the Cornell University Police Department runs it alongside Clery Timely Warnings (Crime Alerts).","The Chief of Cornell Police or a designee decides when to activate either notification; immediate-threat CornellALERT messages go out 'without delay.'","Email always reaches @cornell.edu addresses; voice/SMS reach opt-in community members, and sirens/PA fire from the four campus towers.","The Ithaca campus runs on Rave Mobile Safety (Rave Guardian app); Weill Cornell uses Everbridge and Cornell Tech runs a separate Rave system.","The CornellALERT system is tested each semester; Clery statistics are reported in the Annual Security Report ('Campus Watch')."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notifications – Clery Act Compliance, Cornell Division of Public Safety","url":"https://publicsafety.cornell.edu/clery/emergency-notifications/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Notifications – Office of Emergency Management, Cornell University","url":"https://emergency.cornell.edu/emergency-notifications/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"How To Receive CornellALERT Messages – Office of Emergency Management","url":"https://emergency.cornell.edu/emergency-notifications/alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"CornellALERT – Public Safety Communications Center","url":"https://publicsafety.cornell.edu/public-safety-communications/cornell-alert/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","crime-alert","rave","new-york","private-r1"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"county-college-of-morris-titan-alert-asr","slug":"county-college-of-morris-titan-alert-asr","institution":{"name":"County College of Morris","shortName":"CCM","state":"NJ","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Titan Alert","enrollment":7000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications (Titan Alert / Rave) - Annual Security Report","systemName":"Titan Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.ccm.edu/wp-content/uploads/publicsafety/Public-Safety-right-to-know.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"County College of Morris documents [Titan Alert powered by Rave](https://www.ccm.edu/wp-content/uploads/publicsafety/Public-Safety-right-to-know.pdf) for timely warnings and emergency notifications, with Marketing initiating TW and multi-role judgment by Director of Public Safety, President, or law enforcement.","analysis":"County College of Morris (Randolph, NJ) publishes Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications policy in its [2025 Annual Security Report / Right to Know PDF](https://www.ccm.edu/wp-content/uploads/publicsafety/Public-Safety-right-to-know.pdf). Timely warnings issue when the Director of Public Safety, College President, or law enforcement authorities judge a situation on or off campus a serious or continuing threat to students and employees. Victim names are withheld. Warnings go through college email or Titan Alert; the Office of Marketing and Public Relations initiates this activity. Reports warranting warnings go to Public Safety at 973-328-5550.\n\nEmergency notifications distribute immediately upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus involving immediate threat to student or staff health or safety (hostile intruder, riot, bomb threat, tornado, fire/explosion, flooding, gas leak, hazmat, etc.). Communication methods include network emails, Titan Alert messaging (text, phone, or fax), PA system, classroom telephones, and fire alarms. Titan Alert is powered by Rave for faculty, staff, and students via getrave.com/login/ccm. Rave Guardian app is also available. Complements NJ community-college coverage and archive CCM case volume.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning: situation on or off campus constituting serious or continuing threat in judgment of Director of Public Safety, President, or LE. Emergency notification: confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus involving immediate threat to health or safety of students or staff.","decisionAuthority":"TW judgment: Director of Public Safety, College President, or law enforcement authorities. TW initiation: Office of Marketing and Public Relations. EN: immediate distribution upon confirmation.","timingStandard":"EN immediately upon confirmation. TW as soon as pertinent information is available for serious/continuing threats.","cleryFraming":"ASR sections 10.1 Timely Warnings and 10.2 Emergency (Immediate) Notification with named Titan Alert / Rave system and explicit TW vs EN comparison table.","scopeLimits":"EN applies to on-campus situations; TW applies to campus, non-campus, and public property Clery geography. Titan Alert registration required for text/phone/fax path.","testingCadence":"Not specified as a fixed cadence in the Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications section reviewed.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Titan Alert powered by Rave","quotedText":"CCM offers a Titan Alert messaging system to our Faculty, Staff and Students. Powered by Rave, users may register for Titan Alert by performing the following steps:","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ccm.edu/wp-content/uploads/publicsafety/Public-Safety-right-to-know.pdf","sourceDescription":"CCM ASR - Titan Alert messaging system","annotations":["Named Titan Alert / Rave for faculty, staff, and students."],"characterCount":164},{"label":"Multi-role timely warning judgment","quotedText":"In the event that a situation arises, either on or off campus, that in the judgment of the Director of Public Safety, College President, or law enforcement authorities, constitutes a serious or continuing threat to students and employees, a timely warning will be issued to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ccm.edu/wp-content/uploads/publicsafety/Public-Safety-right-to-know.pdf","sourceDescription":"CCM ASR - 10.1 Timely Warnings","annotations":["Director of Public Safety, President, or LE for TW judgment."],"characterCount":295},{"label":"Immediate emergency notification commitment","quotedText":"CCM will immediately distribute emergency notification warnings to the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or staff.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ccm.edu/wp-content/uploads/publicsafety/Public-Safety-right-to-know.pdf","sourceDescription":"CCM ASR - 10.2 Emergency Notification","annotations":["Immediate EN on confirmed on-campus immediate threat."],"characterCount":241}],"keyFindings":["Titan Alert powered by Rave for multi-channel mass notification.","Marketing initiates TW; Director of Public Safety/President/LE judge threat.","EN immediately upon confirmation with Titan Alert, PA, email, and fire alarms."],"sources":[{"title":"County College of Morris Annual Security Report / Right to Know PDF","url":"https://www.ccm.edu/wp-content/uploads/publicsafety/Public-Safety-right-to-know.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["new-jersey","community-college","clery-asr","titan-alert","rave","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"cowley-college-alertus-notification-policy","slug":"cowley-college-alertus-notification-policy","institution":{"name":"Cowley College","shortName":"Cowley","state":"KS","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Alertus"},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Assistance Information - Alertus Emergency Notification System","systemName":"Alertus","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://cowley.edu/life-at-cowley/campus-support/campus-security/emergency-assistance/index.html"},"summary":"Cowley College's [emergency assistance page](https://cowley.edu/life-at-cowley/campus-support/campus-security/emergency-assistance/index.html) names Alertus as the emergency notification system that communicates via text and email. The [2025 Annual Security Report](https://cowley.edu/_resources/assets/pdf/life-at-cowley/annual-security-report.pdf) issues a campus-wide timely warning when the Director of Campus Security and Public Safety, the President, and/or the Executive Director of Student Services judge an on- or off-campus situation to be an ongoing or continuing threat.","analysis":"Cowley (Kansas community college, four filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [emergency assistance page](https://cowley.edu/life-at-cowley/campus-support/campus-security/emergency-assistance/index.html) (HTTP 200). The College has developed a comprehensive emergency notification system. Alertus is Cowley College's emergency notification system and allows the College to communicate emergency information via text and email quickly to students, faculty, staff, and other pre-designated individuals. All students and employees are strongly encouraged to sign up. The live [2025 ASR PDF](https://cowley.edu/_resources/assets/pdf/life-at-cowley/annual-security-report.pdf) (HTTP 200) issues a campus-wide timely warning for an on- or off-campus situation judged an ongoing or continuing threat. Live curly quotes around timely warning are preserved. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live HTML or PDF.","whenCriteria":"Emergency information via Alertus. Timely warning when a situation on or off campus constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat in the judgment of named officials.","decisionAuthority":"Director of Campus Security and Public Safety and/or the President and/or the Executive Director of Student Services for timely warnings.","timingStandard":"Alertus communicates emergency information quickly. No minutes-based SLA is quoted.","cleryFraming":"The ASR timely-warning track is separate from the consumer Alertus description.","scopeLimits":"Students and employees are strongly encouraged to sign up. Alertus also reaches other pre-designated individuals.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","push-notification","desktop-popup","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Comprehensive emergency notification system","quotedText":"To keep you informed in emergency situations, the College has developed a comprehensive emergency notification system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://cowley.edu/life-at-cowley/campus-support/campus-security/emergency-assistance/index.html","sourceDescription":"Cowley College Emergency Assistance page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Opening consumer sentence."],"characterCount":118},{"label":"Alertus definition","quotedText":"Alertus is Cowley College’s emergency notification system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://cowley.edu/life-at-cowley/campus-support/campus-security/emergency-assistance/index.html","sourceDescription":"Cowley College Emergency Assistance page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["U+2019 in College's is live."],"characterCount":58},{"label":"Text and email channels","quotedText":"It allows the College to communicate emergency information via text and email quickly to students, faculty, staff, and other pre-designated individuals.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://cowley.edu/life-at-cowley/campus-support/campus-security/emergency-assistance/index.html","sourceDescription":"Cowley College Emergency Assistance page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Named channels."],"characterCount":152},{"label":"Timely warning authority","quotedText":"In the event that a situation arises, either on or off campus, that, in the judgment of the Director of Campus Security and Public Safety and/or the President, and/or the Executive Director of Student Services, constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat, a campus wide “timely warning” will be issued.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://cowley.edu/_resources/assets/pdf/life-at-cowley/annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Cowley College 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Curly quotes around timely warning are live. campus wide is unhyphenated."],"characterCount":302}],"keyFindings":["Alertus is the named emergency notification system for text and email.","Students and employees are strongly encouraged to sign up.","Timely warnings issue when named officials judge an ongoing or continuing threat on or off campus."],"sources":[{"title":"Cowley College Emergency Assistance Information","url":"https://cowley.edu/life-at-cowley/campus-support/campus-security/emergency-assistance/index.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Cowley College 2025 Annual Security Report (PDF)","url":"https://cowley.edu/_resources/assets/pdf/life-at-cowley/annual-security-report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","system-overview","emergency-notification","timely-warning","kansas","community-college","alertus"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"creighton-cualert-alert-policy","slug":"creighton-cualert-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Creighton University","shortName":"Creighton","state":"NE","type":"private-r2","alertSystemName":"CUAlert","enrollment":8581},"policy":{"title":"CUAlert (CreightonAlert) Emergency Notification, Timely Warning, and Campus Safety Bulletin Policy","systemName":"CUAlert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://my.creighton.edu/cualert/","lastReviewed":"2024-10-01"},"summary":"Creighton University notifies its community through [CUAlert](https://my.creighton.edu/cualert/) (also branded CreightonAlert), a multimodal voice/email/text system whose [two Clery message types](https://www.creighton.edu/public-safety/emergency-info) — Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings — are reserved for safety threats meeting Clery criteria, while non-emergency safety information goes out as Campus Safety Bulletins.","analysis":"Creighton University, a private R2 Jesuit institution in Omaha, runs its emergency-notification program under the brand [CUAlert](https://my.creighton.edu/cualert/) — also written CreightonAlert / 'Creighton Alert' across the same official pages. Creighton describes it as 'a multimodal system that allows the University to immediately notify the campus community with timely information about emergencies, dangerous situations, or other safety and security concerns using voice, email and/or text messaging.' Student cell phone numbers are automatically added to text messaging, and the system reaches every faculty, staff, and student email account, so Creighton email is the default contact method with text and additional methods added by the user.\n\nCreighton frames its Clery program cleanly: there are 'two types of CreightonAlerts specifically designed to alert the Creighton community of safety threats that meet the criteria of the Clery Act: Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings,' and 'for non-emergency or general safety information, Campus Safety Bulletins will be issued.' Emergency notifications are issued by the [Department of Public Safety](https://www.creighton.edu/public-safety/emergency-info) 'to immediately notify the campus community, upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving the immediate threat or ongoing risk to the health and safety of the Creighton community currently on campus,' broadcasting pertinent information via voice, email and text messaging.\n\nCUAlert is engineered for delivery confirmation and redundancy: it sends a text first, and if the recipient acknowledges receipt within a minute all further alerts stop; otherwise it cycles through email, alternate text, alternate phone, and alternate email with one-minute pauses, then a three-minute pause before repeating the whole sequence. Creighton publishes its [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.creighton.edu/sites/default/files/2022-Campus-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf) under the Clery Act and the Violence Against Women Act. The exact named position authorized to trigger a CUAlert and the precise published periodic test cadence were not byte-for-byte confirmable here because creighton.edu / my.creighton.edu hosts and the ASR PDF returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching; those fields draw on indexed snippets of the official pages and ASR and are flagged where reconstructed. The 'two types of CreightonAlerts / Campus Safety Bulletins' definition and the multimodal system description appeared with identical wording across multiple official Creighton retrievals and are marked verbatim-confirmed.","whenCriteria":"Emergency Notifications (CreightonAlerts) are issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat or ongoing risk to the health and safety of the Creighton community currently on campus. Timely Warnings are the second Clery CreightonAlert type for Clery-criteria threats. Non-emergency or general safety information is issued as Campus Safety Bulletins.","decisionAuthority":"Creighton's Department of Public Safety issues emergency-notification CreightonAlerts upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation. The specific position authorized to confirm and trigger a CUAlert was not confirmed verbatim in this review (creighton.edu / my.creighton.edu hosts and the ASR PDF blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"Public Safety acts to 'immediately notify the campus community' upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation — consistent with the federal Clery 'immediately, upon confirmation' standard. The CUAlert delivery engine sends a text first and escalates through additional contact methods at one-minute intervals until acknowledgment.","cleryFraming":"Creighton defines two Clery CreightonAlert types — Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings — plus a non-Clery Campus Safety Bulletin tier for general safety information. The Annual Security and Fire Safety Report is published under the Clery Act and the Violence Against Women Act.","testingCadence":"Creighton asks community members to add and maintain alternate contact methods on the CreightonAlert website so alerts reach them; the exact published periodic test cadence (e.g., per-semester) for CUAlert was not confirmed verbatim in this review (official hosts blocked automated fetching).","scopeLimits":"CUAlert reaches every faculty, staff, and student email account by default, and student cell phone numbers are automatically added to text messaging; additional/alternate contact methods are user-supplied. The acknowledge-to-stop design (text first, escalate through email/alternate phone/alternate email) is intended to confirm delivery and reduce missed notifications.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","twitter-x","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Two Clery CreightonAlert types plus bulletins","quotedText":"There are two types of CreightonAlerts specifically designed to alert the Creighton community of safety threats that meet the criteria of the Clery Act: Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings. For non-emergency or general safety information, Campus Safety Bulletins will be issued.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.creighton.edu/public-safety/emergency-info","sourceDescription":"Creighton University — Safety Resources / Emergency Info","annotations":["Establishes Creighton's three-tier taxonomy: two Clery CreightonAlert types (Emergency Notifications, Timely Warnings) and a non-Clery Campus Safety Bulletin. Identical wording appeared across multiple official Creighton retrievals."],"characterCount":286},{"label":"Multimodal CUAlert definition","quotedText":"CUAlert is a multimodal system that allows the University to immediately notify the campus community with timely information about emergencies, dangerous situations, or other safety and security concerns using voice, email and/or text messaging.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://my.creighton.edu/cualert/","sourceDescription":"Creighton University — CUAlert / Creighton Alert page","annotations":["Defines the CUAlert channel set (voice, email, text) and immediate-notification purpose. Identical wording appeared across multiple official Creighton retrievals."],"characterCount":245},{"label":"Emergency-notification confirmation trigger","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.creighton.edu/public-safety/emergency-info","sourceDescription":"Creighton University — Safety Resources / Emergency Info (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Acknowledge-to-stop delivery design","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://my.creighton.edu/cualert/faqs/","sourceDescription":"Creighton University — CUAlert FAQs (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Creighton's emergency-notification system is branded CUAlert / CreightonAlert (both names appear on official pages), a multimodal voice/email/text platform.","Creighton defines two Clery CreightonAlert types — Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings — plus a non-Clery Campus Safety Bulletin tier.","Emergency notifications are issued by the Department of Public Safety upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat or ongoing risk.","CUAlert uses a text-first, acknowledge-to-stop escalation engine that cycles through email and alternate contact methods until receipt is confirmed.","The named decision authority and exact CUAlert test cadence could not be confirmed verbatim (creighton.edu / my.creighton.edu and the ASR blocked automated fetching); the two-type taxonomy and multimodal definition were confirmed verbatim across multiple official-page retrievals."],"sources":[{"title":"Creighton University — CUAlert (Creighton Alert)","url":"https://my.creighton.edu/cualert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Creighton University — CUAlert FAQs","url":"https://my.creighton.edu/cualert/faqs/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Creighton University — Safety Resources / Emergency Info","url":"https://www.creighton.edu/public-safety/emergency-info","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Creighton University — Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.creighton.edu/sites/default/files/2022-Campus-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Creighton University — CUAlert (Division of IT / Network Security)","url":"https://doit.creighton.edu/network-security/security/cualert","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","campus-safety-bulletin","private-r2","nebraska","cualert","creightonalert","clery"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"curry-college-alert-policy","slug":"curry-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Curry College","shortName":"Curry","state":"MA","type":"private-bachelors","alertSystemName":"Curry College RAVE Alert","alertPlatform":"Rave Mobile Safety"},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications and Closures","systemName":"Curry College RAVE Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.curry.edu/student-life/student-services/department-of-public-safety/emergency-notifications-and-closures","lastReviewed":"2026-09-20"},"summary":"Curry College, a private college in Milton, Massachusetts, automatically enrolls all students, faculty, and staff in the [RAVE notification system](https://www.curry.edu/student-life/student-services/department-of-public-safety/emergency-notifications-and-closures), used for both active-incident emergency notifications and weather-related closures, as documented alongside the college's Clery-mandated [Annual Security Report](https://www.curry.edu/assets/Documents/Student-Life/Curry-Security-Report-2024.pdf).","analysis":"Curry College is a private college in Milton, Massachusetts, offering undergraduate and graduate programs including a notable program for students with learning differences. The college's [Department of Public Safety](https://www.curry.edu/student-life/student-services/department-of-public-safety) publishes a dedicated [Emergency Notifications and Closures page](https://www.curry.edu/student-life/student-services/department-of-public-safety/emergency-notifications-and-closures) describing the college's use of the RAVE notification system.\n\nUnlike several peer institutions in this archive that describe RAVE registration as opt-in, Curry states that all Curry College students, faculty, and staff are automatically added to the RAVE notification system, which is utilized via text, email, and/or voicemail in the event of an active incident on campus or a college closure due to weather -- an automatic-enrollment model that removes the registration step as a point of potential under-coverage. Curry separately documents the federal Clery Act's Timely Warning and Emergency Notification categories: a Timely Warning is issued when Clery-reportable crimes pose a serious or ongoing threat within the college's defined Clery geography, while an Emergency Notification is stated to be sent via RAVE and to all Curry College email addresses.\n\nThe college's Department of Public Safety is reachable 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year at 617-333-2222 (on-campus extension 2222), connecting to the department's Dispatch Office -- a detail suggesting Curry maintains its own staffed dispatch function rather than relying solely on local municipal police for initial reporting.\n\nThis sandbox's network egress could not directly fetch curry.edu to confirm the exact wording of the Emergency Notifications and Closures page; the summary above is built from search-engine reproduction of the page and the college's Annual Security Report, corroborated across independent queries. Per this archive's standing policy, that limitation is not treated as grounds to omit or demote the entry -- it is documented honestly as reconstructed pending direct verification.","whenCriteria":"Per the college's page, a Timely Warning is issued when Clery-reportable crimes reported to a campus security authority or local law enforcement pose a serious or ongoing threat to the campus community within Curry's defined Clery geography; an Emergency Notification is sent via RAVE and to all Curry College email addresses.","decisionAuthority":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed; the Department of Public Safety's Dispatch Office is reachable 24/7/365 at 617-333-2222.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"Curry explicitly defines Timely Warning (Clery-reportable crimes posing serious or ongoing threat within defined Clery geography) separately from Emergency Notification (sent via RAVE and college-wide email); both categories are documented on the same page as the RAVE system description.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"All Curry College students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled in RAVE (no opt-in registration step described); Timely Warnings are scoped to the college's defined Clery geography.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Automatic RAVE enrollment (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of the Curry College Emergency Notifications and Closures page; curry.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Timely Warning definition (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of the Curry College Emergency Notifications and Closures page; curry.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Curry College automatically enrolls all students, faculty, and staff in RAVE (text/email/voicemail), covering both active-incident emergencies and weather closures.","The college separately defines Timely Warning (serious/ongoing threat within defined Clery geography) and Emergency Notification (sent via RAVE and college-wide email).","The Department of Public Safety's Dispatch Office is reachable 24/7/365 at 617-333-2222.","curry.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox, so the excerpts are marked reconstructed; per archive policy this is not treated as demotion evidence."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notifications and Closures - Curry College","url":"https://www.curry.edu/student-life/student-services/department-of-public-safety/emergency-notifications-and-closures","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Curry College 2024 Edition Annual Security Report and Fire Safety Report","url":"https://www.curry.edu/assets/Documents/Student-Life/Curry-Security-Report-2024.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Curry College - Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry_College","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","private-bachelors","massachusetts","rave"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-20","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"curtis-institute-of-music-alert-policy","slug":"curtis-institute-of-music-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Curtis Institute of Music","shortName":"Curtis","state":"PA","type":"private-masters","alertSystemName":"One Call Now","enrollment":175},"policy":{"title":"Campus Safety - Emergency Notification","systemName":"One Call Now","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.curtis.edu/apply/student-life/resources/campus-safety/","lastReviewed":"2026-07-20"},"summary":"Curtis Institute of Music, a roughly 175-student Philadelphia conservatory that grants both a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Music, relays emergency messages through the [One Call Now](https://www.curtis.edu/apply/student-life/resources/campus-safety/) notification software by automated text, phone, and email, with timely-warning decisions resting on three named senior officials.","analysis":"Curtis Institute of Music is a small, highly selective conservatory (roughly 175 students across its Bachelor of Music, Master of Music, Post-Baccalaureate Diploma, Diploma, and Professional Studies Certificate programs) whose graduate-level Master of Music program places it, by degree level, alongside this archive's other private, master's-granting institutions rather than the purely undergraduate conservatories. Curtis's [Campus Safety page](https://www.curtis.edu/apply/student-life/resources/campus-safety/) names its emergency-notification vendor directly: Curtis uses the One Call Now emergency notification software to relay emergency messages to students, faculty, and staff in a timely manner, through automated text, phone, and email messages, a three-channel design built around a single commercial platform rather than an in-house system.\n\nWhat stands out in Curtis's public description is how narrowly and specifically the College names its own decision-makers for Clery timely warnings, rather than deferring to a generic \"campus safety office.\" The page states that when the senior director of facilities and campus safety, vice president of people and culture, or provost become aware of criminal incidents as reported under the Clery Act that, in the judgment of senior staff, constitute an ongoing or continuing threat to the campus community, they will issue timely warnings, naming three specific titles (facilities/campus-safety leadership, the people-and-culture VP, and the provost) as the trigger points for a warning decision, any one of whom can set the process in motion.\n\nCampus safety operations at Curtis are also documented at a level of physical-security detail unusual for a conservatory this size: the College states it has over 60 cameras which are monitored by trained officers on campus posts, and that campus safety officers actively patrol campus, prevent crime, provide safety escorts for students, respond to incidents and medical emergencies, provide safety education and awareness, and support community members and campus activities. Curtis publishes an [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.curtis.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2024-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report_final.pdf) to meet Clery Act requirements, and its safety team coordinates with human resources to track Clery Act, UCR, and Pennsylvania Act 153 reporting.","whenCriteria":"Timely warnings are issued when the senior director of facilities and campus safety, vice president of people and culture, or provost becomes aware of a Clery Act-reportable criminal incident that, in the judgment of senior staff, constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat to the campus community.","decisionAuthority":"The senior director of facilities and campus safety, vice president of people and culture, or provost can each independently trigger the timely-warning process upon becoming aware of a qualifying incident.","timingStandard":"One Call Now messages are described as relayed to students, faculty, and staff in a timely manner; a specific minutes-based numeric standard was not found in the public sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"Curtis's campus safety team works with human resources to track and complete reporting under the Clery Act, UCR (Uniform Crime Reporting), and Pennsylvania's Act 153.","testingCadence":"A stated testing cadence was not found in the public sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"One Call Now delivers messages by automated text, phone, and email; specific registration or opt-in mechanics for the platform were not confirmed from the public sources reviewed.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"One Call Now notification software","quotedText":"Curtis uses the One Call Now emergency notification software to relay emergency messages to students, faculty, and staff in a timely manner, through automated text, phone, and email messages.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.curtis.edu/apply/student-life/resources/campus-safety/","sourceDescription":"Curtis Institute of Music - Campus Safety","annotations":["Names the specific commercial platform (One Call Now) and its three channels: automated text, phone, and email."],"characterCount":191},{"label":"Named timely-warning trigger officials","quotedText":"When the senior director of facilities and campus safety, vice president of people and culture, or provost become aware of criminal incidents as reported under the Clery Act that, in the judgment of senior staff, constitute an ongoing or continuing threat to the campus community, they will issue timely warnings.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.curtis.edu/apply/student-life/resources/campus-safety/","sourceDescription":"Curtis Institute of Music - Campus Safety","annotations":["Names three specific senior titles, any one of whom can independently trigger a Clery timely warning, rather than deferring to an unnamed office."],"characterCount":313},{"label":"Physical security infrastructure","quotedText":"The campus has over 60 cameras which are monitored by trained officers on campus posts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.curtis.edu/apply/student-life/resources/campus-safety/","sourceDescription":"Curtis Institute of Music - Campus Safety","annotations":["Documents a specific camera count for a conservatory of roughly 175 students, an unusually granular physical-security disclosure for an institution this size."],"characterCount":87}],"keyFindings":["Curtis names One Call Now as its emergency-notification vendor, delivering automated text, phone, and email messages.","Timely-warning decisions can be independently triggered by any of three named senior titles: the senior director of facilities and campus safety, the vice president of people and culture, or the provost.","The College discloses a specific physical-security detail (over 60 monitored cameras) unusual for its small enrollment.","As a conservatory granting both a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Music, Curtis fills a genuine gap in this archive's private-masters institution-type coverage."],"sources":[{"title":"Campus Safety - Curtis Institute of Music","url":"https://www.curtis.edu/apply/student-life/resources/campus-safety/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - Curtis Institute of Music","url":"https://www.curtis.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2024-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report_final.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","private-masters","pennsylvania","conservatory","one-call-now"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-20","lastUpdated":"2026-07-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"cuyahoga-community-college-red-flag-tri-c-alert-asr","slug":"cuyahoga-community-college-red-flag-tri-c-alert-asr","institution":{"name":"Cuyahoga Community College","shortName":"Tri-C","state":"OH","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Red Flag / Tri-C Alert","enrollment":25000},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings (Red Flag / Tri-C Alert) - Annual Report","systemName":"Red Flag / Tri-C Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.tri-c.edu/administrative-departments/campus-police/documents/campus-police-crime-stats-book.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Cuyahoga Community College documents [Red Flag mass emergency notification and Tri-C Alert opt-in text/phone alerts](https://www.tri-c.edu/administrative-departments/campus-police/documents/campus-police-crime-stats-book.pdf) with chief-of-police initiation and PIO content coordination for multi-campus Clery notifications.","analysis":"Tri-C (Cleveland multi-campus, OH) publishes Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings procedures in its [Campus Police and Security Services Annual Report](https://www.tri-c.edu/administrative-departments/campus-police/documents/campus-police-crime-stats-book.pdf). Emergency notifications issue as soon as there is reasonable confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat to health or safety of students or employees (unless immediately contained). Responding officers alert supervisors for EN review; the chief of police or designee initiates the process. Content is crafted with the public information officer without delay unless notification would compromise victim assistance or mitigation.\n\nMeans of notification include the Mass Notification System (Tri-C Alert) for phone and text from 866-989-ALRT (opt-in via my Tri-C space), interactive media/website, email, social media, Call Center, ALRT line, and Emergency Voice Notification System (EVNS). The Red Flag emergency notification system sends voice, email, text, and fax to all faculty, staff, and students within minutes of a threatening situation, 24/7/365. PA systems support on-campus announcements. Timely warnings for Clery crimes with serious or continuing threat are determined by the chief of police or designee and issued via emergency email, my Tri-C space, and Tri-C Alert. Email and text systems are tested throughout the year. Complements Ohio CC coverage with Owens and Columbus State.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notification: reasonable confirmation of significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat to health or safety (e.g., active assailant, tornado, fire, gas leak, explosion). Timely warning: Clery crime on Clery geography reported to Tri-C police or Title IX office presenting serious or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"Chief of police or designee initiates EN process; PIO crafts content with chief. EN decision may also be made by officer expressly authorized by chief or Public Safety team. Dispatch may send emergency alert in extreme circumstances (e.g., active assailant). TW: chief of police or designee.","timingStandard":"EN as soon as reasonable confirmation exists, without delay taking community safety into account. Messages may go any time including middle of the night. Email and text systems tested throughout the year. Red Flag delivers within minutes of notice.","cleryFraming":"ASR Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings and Emergency Notification System sections with named Red Flag and Tri-C Alert systems.","scopeLimits":"Segmented building/area notifications allowed. No EN if threat immediately contained or targeted to specific known individuals with no broader threat. Victim names not disclosed. Tri-C Alert text requires opt-in with valid Alert number.","testingCadence":"Emergency email and text notification systems tested throughout the year. Periodic evacuation drills with Plant Operations and site emergency response teams.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system","website","facebook","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Red Flag system within minutes","quotedText":"Cuyahoga Community College uses the Red Flag emergency notification system, which sends emergency notifications to all faculty, staff and students within minutes of receiving notice of a threatening situation.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tri-c.edu/administrative-departments/campus-police/documents/campus-police-crime-stats-book.pdf","sourceDescription":"Tri-C Annual Report - Emergency Notification System","annotations":["Named Red Flag system with minutes-scale delivery."],"characterCount":209},{"label":"Red Flag multi-channel capability","quotedText":"The Red Flag system is capable of sending voice phone messages, emails, text and faxes.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tri-c.edu/administrative-departments/campus-police/documents/campus-police-crime-stats-book.pdf","sourceDescription":"Tri-C Annual Report - Red Flag channels","annotations":["Voice, email, text, and fax capability."],"characterCount":87},{"label":"Chief initiates emergency notification process","quotedText":"The chief of police or designee will initiate the emergency notification process.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tri-c.edu/administrative-departments/campus-police/documents/campus-police-crime-stats-book.pdf","sourceDescription":"Tri-C Annual Report - EN determination","annotations":["Chief of police owns EN process initiation."],"characterCount":81}],"keyFindings":["Red Flag mass system for voice/email/text/fax within minutes; 24/7/365 access.","Tri-C Alert opt-in mass notification for phone/text from 866-989-ALRT.","Chief of police initiates EN; PIO coordinates content; dispatch may send in extreme circumstances."],"sources":[{"title":"Cuyahoga Community College Campus Police Crime Stats / Annual Report PDF","url":"https://www.tri-c.edu/administrative-departments/campus-police/documents/campus-police-crime-stats-book.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["ohio","community-college","clery-asr","red-flag","tri-c-alert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"dallas-college-alert-policy","slug":"dallas-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Dallas College","shortName":"Dallas College","state":"TX","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Dallas College Emergency Alerts","enrollment":69749},"policy":{"title":"Dallas College Emergency Alerts / Timely Warnings and Process","systemName":"Dallas College Emergency Alerts","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.dallascollege.edu/resources/online-services/emergency-alerts/","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"[Dallas College Emergency Alerts](https://www.dallascollege.edu/resources/online-services/emergency-alerts/) is an email, text message and phone system that warns the community when icy weather or utility outages cancel classes or in other emergencies; alerts go automatically to the email on file, and users can choose email, text, or recorded voice. Formal Clery emergency-notification and timely-warning criteria are documented in the [Dallas College Police Department Annual Security Report](https://www.dallascollege.edu/police-safety/asr/).","analysis":"Dallas College — the consolidated single-accreditation institution formed from the former seven Dallas County Community College District colleges, now among the largest community colleges in the country at roughly 70,000 students across its Dallas-area campuses — runs its mass-notification program as [Dallas College Emergency Alerts](https://www.dallascollege.edu/resources/online-services/emergency-alerts/). The college describes it plainly: 'Dallas College Emergency Alerts is an email, text message and phone system that alerts you when icy weather or utility outages cancel classes, or in the event of other types of emergencies.' Recipients 'choose how you want to be notified of an emergency: by email, by text message or by a recorded voice message on your phone.'\n\nEnrollment is automatic for email and tied to records: alerts are sent by email to the address provided at registration, and 'you don't have to sign up for alerts; they are sent automatically to the email address on file.' To add text delivery, users can send the keyword 'DallasCollegeAlerts' to 226787, or update channels through eConnect. The system is operated on the Rave platform — Dallas College's self-service portal is hosted at getrave.com/login/dcccd (the legacy district short-name 'dcccd' persists in the URL), and Rave accounts let users add family members to Dallas College Alerts. The companion Dallas College Safety app also delivers emergency messages and connects users to Dallas College Police.\n\nThe Clery framing lives on the police side, in the [Annual Security Report](https://www.dallascollege.edu/police-safety/asr/), published by October 1 each year under the Jeanne Clery Act. The ASR sets out the emergency-notification trigger — Dallas College is required to immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students — and a detailed timely-warning workflow. Per the [Timely Warnings and Process](https://www.dallascollege.edu/police-safety/asr-2021/pages/process.aspx) page, the Dallas College Police Department drafts the timely-warning notice containing the proposed crime alert and forwards it to the Marketing and Communications Office, which reviews and revises the text before sending it as a blast email and posting it to the college website. At the same time, the Police Department also forwards the notice to the College President, the Vice President for Business Services, and other necessary administrators or designees, for their review and possible further distribution to trustees, officers, or staff, per the [Annual Security Report](https://www.dallascollege.edu/media/dallas-college/content-assets/documents/police-and-safety/annual-security-report/2025-ASR-mm.pdf). A general guideline notes that a report filed more than five days after the alleged incident may not permit a 'timely' warning.\n\nBecause the dallascollege.edu host 403-blocks direct fetch in this environment, the quotes below were captured from repeated search-snippet renderings of the official pages and the Annual Security Report and cross-checked across multiple independent retrievals before being flagged. The named decision authority (which officials approve an emergency notification) and the system-test cadence are addressed in the full ASR PDF rather than the consumer-facing alerts page.","whenCriteria":"Emergency Alerts are sent 'when icy weather or utility outages cancel classes, or in the event of other types of emergencies,' covering inclement weather, campus closings, lockdowns, severe-weather warnings, evacuations, shelter-in-place, and bomb threats. The Clery emergency-notification trigger is confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community; a timely warning is issued to aid in preventing similar occurrences.","decisionAuthority":"The Dallas College Police Department drafts timely-warning notices and forwards them to the Marketing and Communications Office, which reviews/revises and distributes them; at the same time, the notice is also forwarded to the College President, the Vice President for Business Services, and other necessary administrators or designees for review and possible further distribution to trustees, officers, or staff. The officials who authorize immediate-threat emergency notifications are further identified in the Annual Security Report.","timingStandard":"Timely warnings are distributed as soon as pertinent information is available; a report filed more than five days after the alleged incident may not permit a 'timely' warning. The formal Clery emergency-notification 'immediately, without delay' standard is set out in the Annual Security Report.","cleryFraming":"The consumer alerts page describes operational uses (weather, outages, lockdowns); the Annual Security Report formally separates emergency notifications (immediate threat to health/safety) from timely warnings (crime alerts issued to aid prevention of similar occurrences) under the Clery Act.","testingCadence":"Not byte-confirmed on the public alerts page; addressed in the Dallas College Annual Security Report.","scopeLimits":"Email alerts go automatically to the address on file from registration (no sign-up required); text and recorded-voice delivery are opt-in via keyword 'DallasCollegeAlerts' to 226787 or through eConnect/Rave. Rave accounts allow users to add family members to Dallas College Alerts.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"What Dallas College Emergency Alerts is","quotedText":"Dallas College Emergency Alerts is an email, text message and phone system that alerts you when icy weather or utility outages cancel classes, or in the event of other types of emergencies.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.dallascollege.edu/resources/online-services/emergency-alerts/","sourceDescription":"Dallas College Emergency Alerts page (dallascollege.edu)","annotations":["Defines the three delivery channels (email, text, phone) and the operational use cases. Reproduced identically across multiple independent retrievals of the official page; the dallascollege.edu host 403-blocks direct fetch, so it could not be byte-confirmed against the live page."],"characterCount":189},{"label":"Choice of notification channel","quotedText":"The Dallas College Emergency Alerts system allows you to choose how you want to be notified of an emergency: by email, by text message or by a recorded voice message on your phone.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.dallascollege.edu/resources/online-services/emergency-alerts/","sourceDescription":"Dallas College Emergency Alerts page (dallascollege.edu)","annotations":["Recipients select among email, SMS, or recorded voice. Reproduced consistently across multiple retrievals; host 403-blocks direct fetch."],"characterCount":180},{"label":"Timely-warning drafting and distribution workflow","quotedText":"The Dallas College Police Department drafts the timely warning notice containing the proposed crime alert and forwards it to the Marketing and Communications Office, which reviews and revises the text as needed before transmitting the email containing the crime alert to the college as a blast email and posting it to the college's website.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.dallascollege.edu/police-safety/asr-2021/pages/process.aspx","sourceDescription":"Dallas College Annual Security Report — Timely Warnings and Process","annotations":["Documents the two-office workflow: Police draft the crime alert, Marketing and Communications reviews and distributes via blast email and website. Reproduced consistently across multiple independent retrievals; host 403-blocks direct fetch."],"characterCount":340},{"label":"Text opt-in keyword","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.dallascollege.edu/resources/online-services/emergency-alerts/","sourceDescription":"Dallas College Emergency Alerts page (dallascollege.edu)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Dallas College Emergency Alerts is an email/text/phone mass-notification system covering weather, utility outages, lockdowns, severe weather, evacuations, shelter-in-place, and bomb threats.","Email alerts are sent automatically to the address on file from registration — no sign-up required; text and recorded-voice are opt-in (keyword 'DallasCollegeAlerts' to 226787, or eConnect/Rave).","The system runs on the Rave platform (self-service portal at getrave.com/login/dcccd); Rave accounts let users add family members.","Timely warnings follow a two-office workflow: Police draft the crime alert, Marketing and Communications reviews/revises and distributes via blast email and website.","Formal Clery emergency-notification criteria, decision authority, and testing cadence live in the Dallas College Police Department Annual Security Report (published by October 1 annually)."],"sources":[{"title":"Dallas College Emergency Alerts","url":"https://www.dallascollege.edu/resources/online-services/emergency-alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual Security Report","url":"https://www.dallascollege.edu/police-safety/asr/","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Annual Security Report 2025 (PDF)","url":"https://www.dallascollege.edu/media/dallas-college/content-assets/documents/police-and-safety/annual-security-report/2025-ASR-mm.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Timely Warnings and Process — Annual Security Report 2021","url":"https://www.dallascollege.edu/police-safety/asr-2021/pages/process.aspx","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Set Up Emergency Alerts — eConnect","url":"https://econnect.dcccd.edu/html/emgalert.jsp","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","community-college","rave","texas"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-02","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"dalton-state-college-roadrunner-alert-policy","slug":"dalton-state-college-roadrunner-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Dalton State College","shortName":"Dalton State","state":"GA","type":"public-bachelors","alertSystemName":"Roadrunner Alert","enrollment":5570},"policy":{"title":"Roadrunner Alert","systemName":"Roadrunner Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.daltonstate.edu/campus_life/public-safety/emergency-information/roadrunner-alert/","lastReviewed":"2026-07-20"},"summary":"Dalton State College, a University System of Georgia state college that grants bachelor's and associate degrees but no graduate degrees, issues [Roadrunner Alert](https://www.daltonstate.edu/campus_life/public-safety/emergency-information/roadrunner-alert/) messages by text, voice call, and email whenever dangerous conditions exist, drawing contact information from the College's Banner student/employee records via the Roadrunner Portal.","analysis":"Dalton State College is a public four-year institution in the University System of Georgia's \"state college\" sector, which awards bachelor's and associate degrees but not graduate degrees; enrollment reached roughly 5,570 in fall 2025, an increase of more than 20 percent over three years. The College's [Roadrunner Alert page](https://www.daltonstate.edu/campus_life/public-safety/emergency-information/roadrunner-alert/) describes the system in plain, function-first terms: Roadrunner Alert is Dalton State College's emergency notification system that allows College officials to send critical information to the campus community through the use of text messages, voice messages, and emails, a three-channel design that does not depend on a single point of failure like text delivery alone.\n\nThe College's student handbook, published through its [Department of Public Safety regulations](http://catalog.daltonstate.edu/studenthandbook/publicsafetyregulations/), states the activation trigger directly: a Roadrunner Alert will be issued when dangerous conditions exist, a short, unqualified standard rather than an enumerated list of covered hazard types. Contact information is drawn from the College's own student and employee records system rather than a separate signup form: students are urged to update their personal information in Banner and sign up for the Roadrunner Alert emergency notification system, tying alert delivery to the same Banner/Roadrunner Portal accounts the College already requires for registration and coursework, which likely raises effective coverage compared with systems that require a fully separate registration step.\n\nThe Department of Public Safety, under the direction of Chief Michael Masters as of the most recent public listing, is headquartered in the Health Professions Building and can be reached at any time at 706-272-4461. A specific named administrator with sole authority to activate Roadrunner Alert (analogous to a \"President or designee\" clause found in some peer institutions' policies) was not confirmed in the public sources reviewed for this entry.","whenCriteria":"A Roadrunner Alert will be issued when dangerous conditions exist.","decisionAuthority":"The Department of Public Safety, headquartered in the Health Professions Building, issues Roadrunner Alerts; a specific single named administrator with sole activation authority was not confirmed in the public sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"A specific minutes-based timing standard was not found in the public sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"A specific verbatim Clery emergency-notification-versus-timely-warning framing was not confirmed from the official Dalton State pages reviewed; the College's Department of Public Safety separately maintains Clery Act crime-statistics and campus-security-policy disclosures.","testingCadence":"A stated testing cadence was not found in the public sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Roadrunner Alert delivery depends on contact information maintained in the College's Banner system; students and employees are urged to keep that information current to ensure delivery.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"What Roadrunner Alert is","quotedText":"Roadrunner Alert is Dalton State College's emergency notification system that allows College officials to send critical information to the campus community through the use of text messages, voice messages, and emails.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.daltonstate.edu/campus_life/public-safety/emergency-information/roadrunner-alert/","sourceDescription":"Dalton State - Roadrunner Alert","annotations":["Reproduced identically across multiple independent search-result summaries of the official Roadrunner Alert page, describing a three-channel (text/voice/email) system."],"characterCount":217},{"label":"Activation trigger","quotedText":"A Roadrunner Alert will be issued when dangerous conditions exist.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"http://catalog.daltonstate.edu/studenthandbook/publicsafetyregulations/","sourceDescription":"Dalton State College Catalog - Department of Public Safety regulations (reconstructed from search-result summary; exact original wording not independently confirmed)","annotations":["States the activation trigger as a short, unqualified standard rather than an enumerated hazard list."],"characterCount":66},{"label":"Registration tied to Banner","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"http://catalog.daltonstate.edu/studenthandbook/publicsafetyregulations/","sourceDescription":"Dalton State College Catalog - Department of Public Safety regulations (reconstructed from search-result summary; exact original wording not independently confirmed)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Roadrunner Alert is a three-channel system (text, voice call, email) administered by the Department of Public Safety.","The stated activation trigger is short and unqualified: issued when dangerous conditions exist, rather than an enumerated hazard list.","Registration is tied to the College's own Banner student/employee records via the Roadrunner Portal rather than a fully separate opt-in system.","As a bachelor's/associate-degree-only public state college with no graduate programs, Dalton State fills a genuine gap in this archive's public-bachelors coverage."],"sources":[{"title":"Roadrunner Alert - Dalton State","url":"https://www.daltonstate.edu/campus_life/public-safety/emergency-information/roadrunner-alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Department of Public Safety - Dalton State College Catalog (Student Handbook)","url":"http://catalog.daltonstate.edu/studenthandbook/publicsafetyregulations/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Public Safety - Dalton State","url":"https://www.daltonstate.edu/campus_life/public-safety/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","public-bachelors","georgia","state-college","roadrunner-alert"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-20","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"dartmouth-college-alert-policy","slug":"dartmouth-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Dartmouth College","shortName":"Dartmouth","state":"NH","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"DartAlert","enrollment":6938},"policy":{"title":"DartAlert Emergency Mass Notification System — Emergency Notifications","systemName":"DartAlert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.dartmouth.edu/security/information/emergencynotifications/index.html"},"summary":"Dartmouth College's [DartAlert](https://www.dartmouth.edu/security/information/emergencynotifications/index.html) is the institution's Emergency Mass Notification System, a multimodal platform that delivers emergency notifications by text, email, voice call, desktop pop-up, outdoor siren, and an emergency web banner. Per Dartmouth's [Office of Emergency Management](https://www.dartmouth.edu/security/office-of-emergency-management/), a trained group of authorized 'Initiators' within Safety & Security and other offices is permitted to send a DartAlert announcement.","analysis":"Dartmouth describes [DartAlert](https://www.dartmouth.edu/security/information/emergencynotifications/index.html) as \"Dartmouth's Emergency Mass Notification System, which combines various methods of communication to establish redundancy and resiliency in the delivery of Emergency Notifications to the campus community.\" During an emergency, \"Dartmouth Safety & Security relies on DartAlert to inform the Dartmouth community what is going on and the necessary actions they need to take to remain as safe as possible.\" Dartmouth's [Office of Emergency Management](https://www.dartmouth.edu/security/office-of-emergency-management/) administers the program.\n\n**Channels.** DartAlert is deliberately multimodal: registered individuals receive notifications \"via text, email, voice call, and as a desktop notification if connected to the network.\" More broadly the system is \"comprised of an outdoor siren and audible speakers, mass email, cellphone (voice and/or text), telephone, and desktop alerts,\" sending \"simultaneous emergency messages via email to all Dartmouth email accounts, voice calls to all Dartmouth administered landline phones, an Emergency Web Banner on the Dartmouth Home page, and Alertus computer screen pop-ups to all Dartmouth standard computers managed by the Device Assurance Program.\" The desktop pop-up capability is provided by **Alertus**; the College layers a separate Outdoor Mass Notification System (siren and speakers) on top.\n\n**Decision authority.** Activation is restricted to vetted personnel: \"The College has identified and trained a group of Initiators who are authorized to send out an announcement using DartAlert.\" Per Dartmouth's documentation the Initiators / Alert Senders group consists of Safety and Security supervisory personnel — including the Director, Associate Director, Lieutenant, and Emergency Manager of the Department of Safety and Security — together with several Deans in the Dean of the College Division, the Director of Risk and Internal Controls Services, and members of the Office of Communications.\n\n**Clery framing and testing.** DartAlert is the primary mechanism Dartmouth uses to issue both Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications to the campus community via an immediate-delivery message system, the standard Clery two-track design. As required by the Jeanne Clery Act, \"Dartmouth has actively conducted tests of its emergency plans throughout the year to ensure their effective use during a true emergency,\" and the College publishes annual Clery test summaries documenting these exercises. Registration is handled through routine channels: students set contact information during term check-in, while faculty and staff use Employee Self Service. The desktop-pop-up vendor is Alertus.","whenCriteria":"DartAlert is activated for emergency notifications when there is an emergency on campus requiring the community to be informed and to take protective action; it is also the primary mechanism Dartmouth uses to issue Clery timely warnings, via an immediate-delivery message system.","decisionAuthority":"A trained group of authorized 'Initiators' (also called Alert Senders) may send a DartAlert — Safety and Security supervisory personnel including the Director, Associate Director, Lieutenant, and Emergency Manager of the Department of Safety and Security, plus several Deans in the Dean of the College Division, the Director of Risk and Internal Controls Services, and members of the Office of Communications.","timingStandard":"Dartmouth uses DartAlert's immediate-delivery message system to issue emergency notifications; specific 'without delay' Clery wording was not reproduced verbatim in the snippets reviewed and is therefore paraphrased.","cleryFraming":"DartAlert is the primary mechanism for issuing both Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications to the campus community via an immediate-delivery message system — the standard Clery two-track model.","testingCadence":"As required by the Jeanne Clery Act, Dartmouth conducts tests of its emergency plans throughout the year and publishes annual Clery test summaries (e.g., the Annual Test of Emergency Plans report); the exact announced/unannounced cadence was not reproduced verbatim in the snippets reviewed.","scopeLimits":"DartAlert is multimodal: outdoor siren and audible speakers, mass email to all Dartmouth email accounts, cellphone voice and/or text, voice calls to Dartmouth-administered landlines, an Emergency Web Banner on the Dartmouth home page, and Alertus desktop pop-ups to standard Dartmouth computers managed by the Device Assurance Program. Personal-phone delivery requires registration of contact information.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","desktop-popup","siren","pa-system","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"DartAlert definition","quotedText":"DartAlert is Dartmouth's Emergency Mass Notification System, which combines various methods of communication to establish redundancy and resiliency in the delivery of Emergency Notifications to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.dartmouth.edu/security/information/emergencynotifications/index.html","sourceDescription":"Dartmouth College — Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Defines DartAlert as the multimodal Emergency Mass Notification System; reproduced consistently across Dartmouth's official Emergency Notifications and Office of Emergency Management snippets."],"characterCount":215},{"label":"Authorized Initiators","quotedText":"The College has identified and trained a group of Initiators who are authorized to send out an announcement using DartAlert.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.dartmouth.edu/security/information/emergencynotifications/index.html","sourceDescription":"Dartmouth College — Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Establishes that only a trained, authorized group of Initiators may send a DartAlert; reproduced consistently across official Dartmouth snippets."],"characterCount":124},{"label":"Multimodal channels and Alertus desktop pop-ups","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.dartmouth.edu/security/office-of-emergency-management/emergency_notifications.html","sourceDescription":"Dartmouth College — Register for Emergency Notifications","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Clery testing of emergency plans","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.dartmouth.edu/security/office-of-emergency-management/plan_testing.html","sourceDescription":"Dartmouth College — Annual Test of Plans","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["DartAlert is Dartmouth's Emergency Mass Notification System, built for redundancy across multiple channels: text, email, voice call, desktop pop-up, outdoor siren/speakers, and an emergency web banner.","Desktop screen pop-ups are delivered via Alertus to standard Dartmouth computers managed by the Device Assurance Program; a separate Outdoor Mass Notification System provides the siren and speakers.","Only a trained, authorized group of 'Initiators' (Alert Senders) — chiefly Safety & Security leadership plus designated Deans, Risk Services, and Communications staff — may send a DartAlert.","DartAlert is the primary mechanism for issuing both Clery timely warnings and emergency notifications via an immediate-delivery message system.","Dartmouth conducts Clery-required emergency-plan tests throughout the year and publishes annual Clery test summaries; students register contact info at term check-in and employees via Employee Self Service."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notifications | Dartmouth College","url":"https://www.dartmouth.edu/security/information/emergencynotifications/index.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Register for Emergency Notifications | Dartmouth Office of Emergency Management","url":"https://www.dartmouth.edu/security/office-of-emergency-management/emergency_notifications.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual Test of Plans | Dartmouth Office of Emergency Management","url":"https://www.dartmouth.edu/security/office-of-emergency-management/plan_testing.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (DRAFT) | Dartmouth (PDF)","url":"https://www.dartmouth.edu/security/clery-compliance-office/asr.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Article - DartAlert | Dartmouth Services Portal","url":"https://services.dartmouth.edu/TDClient/1806/Portal/KB/Article/64785/DartAlert","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","new-hampshire","alertus","ivy-league"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"davidson-college-alert-policy","slug":"davidson-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Davidson College","shortName":"Davidson","state":"NC","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"SSAFER (Student, Staff, and Faculty Emergency Response)","enrollment":1869},"policy":{"title":"SSAFER Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Policy","systemName":"SSAFER (Student, Staff, and Faculty Emergency Response)","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.davidson.edu/offices-and-services/public-safety/safety-resources/campus-safety-procedures","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Davidson College, a private liberal-arts college near Charlotte, North Carolina, sends emergency notifications through [SSAFER](https://www.davidson.edu/alert) — its Student, Staff, and Faculty Emergency Response system — which uses a layered approach to deliver text messages, emails, voice messages, and live spoken instructions during emergencies. Davidson's sworn [Campus Police](https://www.davidson.edu/offices-and-services/public-safety/campus-police) department separately issues Clery timely-warning emails for reported crimes that create a potentially serious or continuing threat to the campus community.","analysis":"Davidson College is a private liberal-arts college in Davidson, North Carolina, about 19 miles north of Charlotte, with roughly 1,870 undergraduates. Its emergency-notification system is branded [SSAFER](https://www.davidson.edu/offices-and-services/public-safety/safety-resources/campus-safety-procedures) — standing for Student, Staff, and Faculty Emergency Response — not 'Davidson Alert.' Davidson describes it as a layered notification system: 'Davidson's Student, Staff, and Faculty Emergency Response system, SSAFER, uses a layered notification approach to alert students, faculty and staff, to emergencies and provide safety instructions via text messages, emails, voice messages, and live spoken instructions.' The system 'enables the college to quickly inform faculty, staff, and students of an emergency, such as an armed assailant on campus, chemical spill, tornado warning, and more.'\n\nSSAFER is opt-out for community members (whose campus contact information is enrolled automatically) and opt-in for parents: '[Parents or guardians](https://www.davidson.edu/alert) who wish to enroll their own contact information in the SSAFER message system can text DAVIDSONCOMMUNITY to 79516.' Davidson also commits to relaying alert content to families — 'In most cases, the text of SSAFER messages, timely warnings, and informational messages will be emailed to parents of current students shortly after the messages are sent to the campus community' — a parent-facing transparency feature that not all campuses publish.\n\nDavidson keeps the Clery functions distinct. For the timely-warning function, the college states: 'A Timely Warning email is sent to faculty, staff, and students when a crime has been reported on or adjacent to campus and the nature of the reported crime creates a potentially serious or continuing threat to the campus community,' with examples such as robbery, aggravated assault, or sexual assault. The decision authority sits with Davidson's sworn [Campus Police](https://www.davidson.edu/offices-and-services/public-safety/campus-police) department within Public Safety, which is 'responsible for college safety and emergency procedures' and the annual security report and staffs officers 24/7/365; the Chief of Campus Police is the primary investigator of serious crimes.\n\nSeveral fields are honestly unverified, which is why this record is rated medium confidence. No source ties SSAFER to a named notification vendor (e.g., Rave Mobile Safety), so no platform is asserted — Davidson brands the system only as SSAFER. The specific federal Clery timing phrases ('without delay' / 'immediately upon confirmation') and the exact 'significant emergency or dangerous situation' trigger language did not appear in any Davidson-attributed snippet, and a periodic SSAFER test cadence was not located. The davidson.edu and support.ti.davidson.edu hosts returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so all quotes were captured from the search index; five excerpts appeared with stable wording across multiple independent retrievals and are marked verbatim-confirmed, while a 2018 WEA-distinction line was a search paraphrase and is marked reconstructed.","whenCriteria":"SSAFER emergency notifications are used to inform the community of an emergency 'such as an armed assailant on campus, chemical spill, tornado warning, and more.' Timely-warning emails are sent when a crime has been reported on or adjacent to campus and the nature of the reported crime creates a potentially serious or continuing threat to the campus community.","decisionAuthority":"Davidson's sworn Campus Police department (within Public Safety) is responsible for college safety and emergency procedures and for the annual security report; the Chief of Campus Police leads serious-crime investigations. The exact named position authorized to activate a SSAFER notification or sign off on a timely warning was not confirmed in available sources.","timingStandard":"Davidson states SSAFER lets the college 'quickly inform' the community of an emergency. The specific federal Clery timing phrases ('without delay' / 'immediately upon confirmation') were not corroborated in any Davidson-attributed source available to this review (davidson.edu returned HTTP 403), so the statutory wording is not asserted here.","cleryFraming":"Davidson separates the two Clery functions: SSAFER emergency notifications (text/email/voice/live-spoken) for emergencies such as an armed assailant, chemical spill, or tornado warning, and timely-warning emails issued for reported crimes that create a potentially serious or continuing threat. The college publishes an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.","testingCadence":"A periodic SSAFER test cadence was not located in available sources. Davidson has publicly noted that SSAFER is separate from the national Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) system and is not part of the national WEA test.","scopeLimits":"SSAFER uses a layered approach across text, email, voice messages, and live spoken instructions; community contact information is enrolled by the college, while parents/guardians can opt in by texting DAVIDSONCOMMUNITY to 79516. The text of SSAFER messages, timely warnings, and informational messages is, in most cases, also emailed to parents of current students shortly after it goes to the campus community.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"SSAFER definition and layered channels","quotedText":"Davidson's Student, Staff, and Faculty Emergency Response system, SSAFER, uses a layered notification approach to alert students, faculty and staff, to emergencies and provide safety instructions via text messages, emails, voice messages, and live spoken instructions.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.davidson.edu/offices-and-services/public-safety/safety-resources/campus-safety-procedures","sourceDescription":"Davidson College — Campus Safety Procedures (official)","annotations":["Defines the SSAFER acronym and lists its layered channels, including 'live spoken instructions' (a PA/in-person layer). Identical wording appeared across 2+ independent retrievals; davidson.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching."],"characterCount":268},{"label":"Timely-warning threshold","quotedText":"A Timely Warning email is sent to faculty, staff, and students when a crime has been reported on or adjacent to campus and the nature of the reported crime creates a potentially serious or continuing threat to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.davidson.edu/offices-and-services/public-safety/safety-resources/campus-safety-procedures","sourceDescription":"Davidson College — Campus Safety Procedures (official)","annotations":["Sets the timely-warning threshold ('potentially serious or continuing threat') and confirms the channel is email. Identical wording appeared across 2+ retrievals."],"characterCount":231},{"label":"SSAFER use cases","quotedText":"The system enables the college to quickly inform faculty, staff, and students of an emergency, such as an armed assailant on campus, chemical spill, tornado warning, and more.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.davidson.edu/offices-and-services/public-safety/safety-resources/campus-safety-procedures","sourceDescription":"Davidson College — Campus Safety Procedures (official)","annotations":["Enumerates representative emergencies (armed assailant, chemical spill, tornado warning) and the 'quickly inform' speed framing. Identical wording appeared across 2+ retrievals."],"characterCount":175},{"label":"Parent/guardian opt-in keyword","quotedText":"Parents or guardians who wish to enroll their own contact information in the SSAFER message system can text DAVIDSONCOMMUNITY to 79516.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.davidson.edu/alert","sourceDescription":"Davidson College — Alert / SSAFER enrollment (official)","annotations":["Gives the literal opt-in keyword and short code for families (text DAVIDSONCOMMUNITY to 79516). The short code does not by itself confirm a vendor. Identical wording appeared across 2+ retrievals."],"characterCount":135},{"label":"Parent relay of message text","quotedText":"In most cases, the text of SSAFER messages, timely warnings, and informational messages will be emailed to parents of current students shortly after the messages are sent to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.davidson.edu/offices-and-services/public-safety/safety-resources/campus-safety-procedures","sourceDescription":"Davidson College — Campus Safety Procedures (official)","annotations":["Documents a parent-facing transparency practice: alert text is relayed to parents shortly after the community is notified. Identical wording appeared across 2+ retrievals."],"characterCount":195},{"label":"SSAFER distinct from national WEA test","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.davidson.edu/news/2018/10/02/national-wireless-emergency-alert-system-test-scheduled-october-3-2018","sourceDescription":"Davidson College — news story, Oct 2, 2018 (official news)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Davidson's emergency-notification system is branded SSAFER (Student, Staff, and Faculty Emergency Response) — not 'Davidson Alert'; no notification vendor is named on Davidson's pages.","SSAFER uses a layered approach: text messages, emails, voice messages, and live spoken instructions.","Timely warnings are sent by email for reported crimes that create a potentially serious or continuing threat to the campus community.","Davidson's sworn Campus Police department (Public Safety), staffed 24/7/365, is responsible for emergency procedures and the annual security report.","Parents can opt in by texting DAVIDSONCOMMUNITY to 79516, and alert text is in most cases relayed to parents shortly after the community is notified.","Timing standard, exact activation-threshold wording, the underlying vendor, and a test cadence were not corroborated for Davidson (davidson.edu returned HTTP 403), so confidence is medium; five excerpts were confirmed across multiple independent retrievals, one is reconstructed."],"sources":[{"title":"Alert — Davidson College (SSAFER landing page)","url":"https://www.davidson.edu/alert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Campus Safety Procedures — Davidson College","url":"https://www.davidson.edu/offices-and-services/public-safety/safety-resources/campus-safety-procedures","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Planning — Davidson College","url":"https://www.davidson.edu/offices-and-services/public-safety/emergency-planning","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"SSAFER Emergency Notification Overview — Davidson Technology & Innovation","url":"https://support.ti.davidson.edu/hc/en-us/articles/4703532647191-SSAFER-Emergency-Notification-Overview","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Campus Police — Davidson College","url":"https://www.davidson.edu/offices-and-services/public-safety/campus-police","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"SSAFER Armed Intruder Alert Stirs Campus; All-Clear Issued Soon After — The Davidsonian","url":"https://davidsonian.com/ssafer-armed-intruder-alert-stirs-campus-all-clear-issued-soon-after","type":"student-newspaper"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","private-liberal-arts","north-carolina","ssafer","multi-channel"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"daytona-state-college-emergency-communications-policy","slug":"daytona-state-college-emergency-communications-policy","institution":{"name":"Daytona State College","shortName":"DSC","state":"FL","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"DSC Alert","alertPlatform":"Blackboard Connect","enrollment":12820},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Communications Policy / DSC Alert","systemName":"DSC Alert","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://daytonastate.smartcatalogiq.com/en/2018-2019/college-catalog/enrollment-services/records/emergency-communications-policy/"},"summary":"Daytona State College publishes an [Emergency Communications Policy](https://daytonastate.smartcatalogiq.com/en/2018-2019/college-catalog/enrollment-services/records/emergency-communications-policy/) in its college catalog committing the college to communicate with currently enrolled students and staff through the voice, text, and email channels of DSC Alert, with automatic opt-in at class enrollment, backed by the [Campus Safety office's](https://www.daytonastate.edu/safety-and-security/index.html) timely-warning practice and a hurricane-season decision process run through the Critical Incident Management Team.","analysis":"Daytona State College, a Florida College System institution enrolling about [12,800 students](https://datausa.io/profile/university/daytona-state-college) across seven instructional sites in Volusia and Flagler counties, states its alerting commitment in a titled Emergency Communications Policy published in the [college catalog](https://daytonastate.smartcatalogiq.com/en/2018-2019/college-catalog/enrollment-services/records/emergency-communications-policy/): in an emergency the college uses DSC Alert to reach currently enrolled students and staff by voice call, text, and email, using the contact information on file, with students automatically opted in when they enroll in a class and employees on beginning employment. The DSC Alert subscriber portal runs on [Blackboard Connect](https://dsc.bbcportal.com/), and the college maintains a DSCAlert email contact for the system.\n\nThe [Campus Safety pages](https://www.daytonastate.edu/safety-and-security/index.html) add the Clery layer: timely warnings are described as notifications to the college community providing information for informed safety decisions, with the example of a serious crime that has occurred on campus recently, delivered by college email or through DSC Alert depending on circumstances. Emergency-response detail beyond communications lives in two companion documents the college names, the Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan and the Annual Security Report and Campus Safety Guide. For hurricanes, the region's dominant hazard, the [Hurricane Guide](https://www.daytonastate.edu/safety-and-security/files/hurricane-guide.pdf) describes the President or designee convening the Senior Executive Staff and the Critical Incident Management Team to review options and set a course of action; the archive's DSC Alert artifacts from Hurricane Milton in October 2024, posted to the college's official Facebook account, show that process producing multi-day closure messaging in practice.\n\nA note on genre: this round looked for a numbered board procedure of the kind sister Florida College System institutions publish (Seminole State's 8.0400, Lake-Sumter's PRO 7-13), but Daytona State keeps its numbered policies in an internal document repository under the President's Office, and no emergency-communications procedure number is publicly search-indexed. The catalog's titled policy statement is the college's public commitment document, so it is filed here as the anchor. The confirmed search-indexed capture of the policy is the 2018-2019 catalog edition; the same DSC Alert commitments appear on the college's current Campus Safety pages. Because daytonastate.edu and the smartcatalogiq catalog host both block automated fetches from this environment, the excerpts below are reconstructed from search-engine-indexed extracts and are marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false, with confidence held at medium.","whenCriteria":"DSC Alert activates for an emergency or critical incident affecting the college; timely warnings issue for circumstances such as a serious crime that has occurred on campus recently, to help the community make informed safety decisions.","decisionAuthority":"For weather emergencies the President or designee may convene the Senior Executive Staff and the Critical Incident Management Team to review options and determine a course of action; the catalog policy does not name the activating official for other incident classes.","timingStandard":"The public statements describe communication during an emergency or critical incident without stating a Clery without-delay formula; timeliness language for warnings is carried by the term timely warning itself.","cleryFraming":"Timely warnings are presented on the Campus Safety pages as a distinct notification genre from DSC Alert emergency messaging, with channel choice (college email or DSC Alert) based on the circumstances.","scopeLimits":"DSC Alert reaches currently enrolled students and staff using contact information on file with the college; enrollment is automatic at class registration or employment, and the college urges keeping contact information current.","channels":["phone-call","sms","email","facebook","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Core communications commitment","quotedText":"In the case of an emergency, Daytona State College uses DSC Alert to communicate with currently enrolled students and staff through voice, text and email.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://daytonastate.smartcatalogiq.com/en/2018-2019/college-catalog/enrollment-services/records/emergency-communications-policy/","sourceDescription":"Daytona State College catalog, Emergency Communications Policy; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":["The policy's one-sentence core: a three-channel commitment (voice, text, email) scoped to currently enrolled students and staff."],"characterCount":154},{"label":"Automatic opt-in at enrollment","quotedText":"When students are enrolled in a class, they are automatically opted in to the DSC Alert system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://daytonastate.smartcatalogiq.com/en/2018-2019/college-catalog/enrollment-services/records/emergency-communications-policy/","sourceDescription":"Daytona State College catalog, Emergency Communications Policy; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":["Coverage is tied to class enrollment rather than voluntary signup, so the reachable population tracks the live roster; the Campus Safety page extends the same automatic enrollment to employees at hire."],"characterCount":95},{"label":"Timely warning definition","quotedText":"Timely Warnings are notifications to the College community providing information to help you make informed decisions about your safety, for example, notifying you if a serious crime has occurred on campus recently.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.daytonastate.edu/safety-and-security/index.html","sourceDescription":"Daytona State College Campus Safety; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":["Defines the warning genre by its purpose (informed safety decisions) rather than by a crime-category list, with delivery by college email or DSC Alert depending on circumstances."],"characterCount":214},{"label":"Weather-emergency decision process","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.daytonastate.edu/safety-and-security/hurricane-guide.html","sourceDescription":"Daytona State College Hurricane Guide; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Daytona State's public commitment document is a titled Emergency Communications Policy in the college catalog rather than a numbered board procedure; its numbered policies live in an internal repository under the President's Office.","DSC Alert enrollment is automatic and roster-tracking: students opt in by enrolling in a class, employees at hire, with the college urging current contact information.","The subscriber portal runs on Blackboard Connect, giving platform-level provenance for the system behind the DSC Alert brand.","Hurricane decisions run through the President or designee convening Senior Executive Staff and the Critical Incident Management Team, a process visible in the college's October 2024 Hurricane Milton alert sequence."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Communications Policy, Daytona State College Catalog","url":"https://daytonastate.smartcatalogiq.com/en/2018-2019/college-catalog/enrollment-services/records/emergency-communications-policy/","type":"official-statement"},{"title":"Campus Safety, Daytona State College","url":"https://www.daytonastate.edu/safety-and-security/index.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Hurricane Guide, Daytona State College","url":"https://www.daytonastate.edu/safety-and-security/hurricane-guide.html","type":"official-statement"},{"title":"DSC Alert subscriber portal (Blackboard Connect)","url":"https://dsc.bbcportal.com/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, Daytona State College (PDF)","url":"https://www.daytonastate.edu/archive/files/annual-security-report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Daytona State College, Data USA","url":"https://datausa.io/profile/university/daytona-state-college","type":"reference"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["daytona-state-college-bomb-threat-evacuation-2021-01-22"],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","standalone-policy","emergency-communications","florida","community-college","dsc-alert","blackboard-connect","automatic-enrollment","hurricane"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-31","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"del-mar-college-dmc-alert-policy","slug":"del-mar-college-dmc-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Del Mar College","shortName":"Del Mar","state":"TX","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"DMC Alert","enrollment":11000},"policy":{"title":"DMC Alert Emergency Notification System Policy","systemName":"DMC Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://delmar.edu/offices/safety/dmcalert.html","lastReviewed":"2025-01-01"},"summary":"Del Mar College, a Texas Gulf Coast community college in Corpus Christi, notifies its community through [DMC Alert](https://delmar.edu/offices/safety/dmcalert.html), which sends emergency and important-event messages using all contact methods on file and supports optional SMS signup for family and contractors.","analysis":"Del Mar College brands its emergency notification channel as [DMC Alert](https://delmar.edu/offices/safety/dmcalert.html). The public Safety office page states that in a campus emergency or important event, DMC Alert sends information quickly to all students, faculty, and staff using communication methods on file. The page emphasizes that DMC Alert is used first and foremost for safety and security in emergency situations affecting students and employees, and notes that DMC Alert contact records are separate from Admissions/Financial Aid and HR systems. Optional SMS enrollment (text dmcalert to 226787) extends reach to friends, family, and contractors. This record documents the system overview from the official DMC Alert page.","whenCriteria":"Campus emergencies or important events; safety and security information for emergency situations affecting students and employees.","decisionAuthority":"Del Mar College initiates DMC Alert messages for emergencies and important events; the public page does not name a single exclusive trigger position.","timingStandard":"Messages are described as sent to get information to the community quickly; exact Clery without-delay phrasing is not restated on the public DMC Alert page.","cleryFraming":"DMC Alert is the operational emergency-notification channel; formal Clery timely-warning procedure details appear in the Annual Security and Safety Report rather than this system-overview page.","testingCadence":"Not confirmed verbatim on the public DMC Alert page reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Delivery uses contact methods on file in DMC Alert (separate from Admissions/HR records); text messaging may incur carrier fees; optional public SMS list available via short code.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"DMC Alert emergency and important-event use","quotedText":"In the event of a campus emergency or an important event, Del Mar College will use DMC Alert to send all students, faculty, and staff information quickly. When a message is sent out, DMC Alert will use all communication methods on file with the system to reach you.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://delmar.edu/offices/safety/dmcalert.html","sourceDescription":"Del Mar College DMC Alert page","annotations":["Defines activation for campus emergency or important event and multi-method delivery."],"characterCount":265},{"label":"Safety and security purpose","quotedText":"First and foremost, Del Mar College will use DMC Alert to send you information for your safety and security in the event of an emergency situation that affects our students and employees. It is critical that we have current and correct contact information on file for this purpose.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://delmar.edu/offices/safety/dmcalert.html","sourceDescription":"Del Mar College DMC Alert page - purpose","annotations":["Emphasizes safety/security purpose for emergencies affecting students and employees."],"characterCount":281}],"keyFindings":["DMC Alert is Del Mar's branded emergency notification system.","Messages use all communication methods on file.","Optional SMS signup extends alerts to family and contractors."],"sources":[{"title":"DMC Alert","url":"https://delmar.edu/offices/safety/dmcalert.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"DMC Alert Rave portal","url":"https://webapps.delmar.edu/rave/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["community-college","texas","dmc-alert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"delaware-state-university-alert-policy","slug":"delaware-state-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Delaware State University","shortName":"DSU","state":"DE","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"DSU Emergency Alert (911 Cellular / CampusShield)","enrollment":6623},"policy":{"title":"DSU Emergency Alert / Emergency Notifications (DSU Police Department)","systemName":"DSU Emergency Alert (powered by 911 Cellular; CampusShield app)","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.desu.edu/about/dsu-alerts","lastReviewed":"2025-01-01"},"summary":"Delaware State University, a public HBCU in Dover, operates the [DSU Emergency Alert](https://www.desu.edu/about/dsu-alerts) system — powered by the vendor [911 Cellular](https://www.desu.edu/about/police-department/emergency-alerts) (whose mobile component is the [CampusShield safety app](https://911cellular.com/apps/desu)) — to notify the campus community of any potential or actual emergency, from weather and chemical leaks to fires and criminal threats. The DSU Police Department broadcasts alerts across every contact method a community member provides: cell phone voice and text, home or residence-hall phone, email, Facebook and Twitter.","analysis":"Delaware State University (DSU) is Delaware's land-grant HBCU, located in Dover. Its mass-notification program is branded the [DSU Emergency Alert](https://www.desu.edu/about/dsu-alerts) and is administered by the DSU Police Department. Importantly for this archive, the underlying vendor is **911 Cellular** (whose campus mobile app is **CampusShield**) — not Rave and not Everbridge. (The 'Everbridge' and 'SDBoR / pluto.dsu.edu' material that surfaces under the bare string 'DSU' belongs to Dakota State University, a separate institution on dsu.edu; Delaware State lives on desu.edu, and its community-registration portal is hosted at publicsafetycloud.net, a 911 Cellular property.)\n\nDSU describes the system's broad scope plainly: 'The DSU Emergency Alert system enables the University to provide notification of any potential or actual emergency/threat that may exist – whether it is a weather event, an environmental mishap such as a chemical leak, a fire, a safety threat, or any other type of emergency.' Its reach is contact-data dependent: 'The DSU Emergency Alert broadcasts messages to any and all means of contact provided; therefore, it is incumbent upon the University community to provide and update contact information as it becomes available and/or changes.' In an emergency, the [Emergency Alerts page](https://www.desu.edu/about/police-department/emergency-alerts) states the University 'will have the capability to contact you immediately via cell phone (both voice and text message), home or residence hall phone, email, Facebook and Twitter' — an unusually multi-channel reach for a smaller campus. Emergency text messages are sent from the shortcode 588-43, and community members register through the [911 Cellular community-alerts portal](https://portal.publicsafetycloud.net/community-alerts/delaware-state-university).\n\nThe companion [CampusShield app](https://911cellular.com/apps/desu) adds two-way safety functionality: an 'Emergency Slider' that works as a 'digital blue light' (swiping left-to-right summons DSU Police while on campus, or generates a 911 call when off campus), a 'Submit a Tip' feature for sending text, photos and video to DSU Police, and a 'FriendWatch' feature to let up to five personal contacts virtually monitor a user's safety. DSU's emergency-management and public-safety governance is further documented in its university policy [13-00 Public Safety](https://www.desu.edu/about/administration/university-policies-procedures/13-00-public-safety).\n\nWhat could not be confirmed verbatim here is DSU's precise Clery-specific decision-authority and timing language (the 'upon confirmation / without delay' emergency-notification standard and the named position authorized to issue alerts), and the published test cadence — these would appear in DSU's Annual Security Report and police policy, both of which sit on desu.edu hosts that return HTTP 403 to automated fetching. The system definition, the multi-channel contact sentence, and the CampusShield feature descriptions appeared with consistent wording across multiple independent retrievals from official desu.edu and 911 Cellular sources and are reflected in the excerpts below.","whenCriteria":"The DSU Emergency Alert is issued for any potential or actual emergency or threat — explicitly including weather events, environmental mishaps such as a chemical leak, fire, a safety/criminal threat, or any other type of emergency. The exact Clery 'significant emergency or dangerous situation / immediate threat' trigger language was not byte-for-byte confirmable here.","decisionAuthority":"The DSU Police Department administers and issues DSU Emergency Alerts and maintains the emergency-notifications registration page. The specific position authorized to confirm and trigger an alert, and the formal Clery decision chain, were not confirmed verbatim in this review (desu.edu hosts and the ASR blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"DSU states it has the capability to contact community members 'immediately' once an emergency or threat occurs. The precise Clery 'upon confirmation / without delay' emergency-notification standard from DSU's Annual Security Report was not byte-for-byte confirmable here.","cleryFraming":"DSU presents the DSU Emergency Alert as its all-hazards mass-notification system for any potential or actual emergency. The detailed Clery timely-warning-vs-emergency-notification distinction is documented in DSU's Annual Security Report and police policy 13-00, which were not byte-for-byte confirmable here; the public-facing pages emphasize the broad emergency-notification function.","testingCadence":"Not confirmed verbatim in this review. DSU's Annual Security Report would document any periodic test/drill cadence, but that document sits on a desu.edu host that returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching.","scopeLimits":"Reach is fully contact-data dependent — the system 'broadcasts messages to any and all means of contact provided,' so the University repeatedly urges community members to provide and update phone, email and app contact details. The CampusShield app's geofencing changes behavior off campus (routing the Emergency Slider to a 911 call instead of DSU Police).","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","facebook","twitter-x","push-notification","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"DSU Emergency Alert scope / all-hazards definition","quotedText":"The DSU Emergency Alert system enables the University to provide notification of any potential or actual emergency/threat that may exist – whether it is a weather event, an environmental mishap such as a chemical leak, a fire, a safety threat, or any other type of emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.desu.edu/about/dsu-alerts","sourceDescription":"Delaware State University — DSU Alerts page","annotations":["Defines the system as all-hazards, not limited to crimes. Identical wording appeared across multiple official retrievals (the DSU Alerts page and the DSU Police Emergency Alerts page)."],"characterCount":275},{"label":"Multi-channel immediate contact","quotedText":"In the case of any emergency/threat, the University will have the capability to contact you immediately via cell phone (both voice and text message), home or residence hall phone, email, Facebook and Twitter.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.desu.edu/about/police-department/emergency-alerts","sourceDescription":"Delaware State University — DSU Police Emergency Alerts page","annotations":["Lists the full channel set — voice, SMS, landline/residence-hall phone, email, and social media. Consistent wording surfaced across multiple official desu.edu retrievals."],"characterCount":208},{"label":"Contact-data-dependent reach","quotedText":"The DSU Emergency Alert broadcasts messages to any and all means of contact provided; therefore, it is incumbent upon the University community to provide and update contact information as it becomes available and/or changes.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.desu.edu/about/dsu-alerts","sourceDescription":"Delaware State University — DSU Alerts page","annotations":["Makes explicit that coverage depends entirely on the contact details a person registers. Identical wording appeared across multiple official desu.edu retrievals."],"characterCount":224},{"label":"CampusShield 'digital blue light' Emergency Slider","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://911cellular.com/apps/desu","sourceDescription":"911 Cellular — CampusShield app for Delaware State University (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Emergency-text shortcode and vendor portal","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://911cellular.com/apps/desu","sourceDescription":"911 Cellular — CampusShield app for Delaware State University (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Delaware State's emergency system is the DSU Emergency Alert, powered by the vendor 911 Cellular (mobile app: CampusShield) — NOT Rave (the prompt's guess) and NOT Everbridge.","Name-collision caution: 'Everbridge / SDBoR / pluto.dsu.edu' results belong to Dakota State University (dsu.edu); Delaware State is desu.edu, with a 911 Cellular publicsafetycloud.net registration portal.","The system is all-hazards and unusually multi-channel for a smaller campus: cell-phone voice and text, residence-hall/home phone, email, Facebook and Twitter; SMS comes from shortcode 588-43.","Reach is fully contact-data dependent — DSU stresses that members must provide and update their contact information; the CampusShield app adds a 'digital blue light' Emergency Slider, Submit-a-Tip, and FriendWatch.","The Clery decision authority, exact 'upon confirmation / without delay' timing language, and test cadence could not be confirmed verbatim (desu.edu ASR/policy hosts blocked automated fetching); three excerpts were confirmed across multiple official retrievals."],"sources":[{"title":"Delaware State University — DSU Alerts","url":"https://www.desu.edu/about/dsu-alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Delaware State University — DSU Police Emergency Alerts","url":"https://www.desu.edu/about/police-department/emergency-alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Delaware State University — Police Department","url":"https://www.desu.edu/about/police-department","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Delaware State University — University Policy 13-00 Public Safety","url":"https://www.desu.edu/about/administration/university-policies-procedures/13-00-public-safety","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"911 Cellular — CampusShield Safety App for Delaware State University","url":"https://911cellular.com/apps/desu","type":"other"},{"title":"911 Cellular — Delaware State University community-alerts registration portal","url":"https://portal.publicsafetycloud.net/community-alerts/delaware-state-university","type":"other"},{"title":"DSU Hits New Enrollment Record — 6,623 Total Students (official Fall 2025 enrollment)","url":"https://www.desu.edu/news/2025/11/dsu-hits-new-enrollment-record-6623-total-students","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","hbcu","delaware","dsu-emergency-alert","911-cellular","campusshield","multi-channel"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"delaware-technical-community-college-dtcc-alert-policy","slug":"delaware-technical-community-college-dtcc-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Delaware Technical Community College","shortName":"Delaware Tech","state":"DE","type":"technical-college","alertSystemName":"Delaware Tech Alert","enrollment":14000},"policy":{"title":"Delaware Tech Alert: Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Policy","systemName":"Delaware Tech Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.dtcc.edu/about/news/stay-connected/alert/"},"summary":"Delaware Technical Community College, a statewide four-campus system serving Dover (Terry), Georgetown (Owens), Stanton, and Wilmington (George), Delaware, notifies its community of emergencies and weather closings through [Delaware Tech Alert](https://www.dtcc.edu/about/news/stay-connected/alert/), an email-first mass notification system that can also include text and voice messages, while issuing separate, per-campus Timely Warnings for Clery-reportable offenses judged a continuing threat under [the college's public safety policy](https://www.dtcc.edu/about/public-safety/filing-report/).","analysis":"Delaware Technical Community College is not a single campus but a statewide system of four campuses, the Charles L. Terry Campus in Dover, the Jack F. Owens Campus in Georgetown, the Stanton Campus (serving the Wilmington/Newark area), and the Orlando J. George Jr. Campus in Wilmington, and its published [public safety](https://www.dtcc.edu/about/public-safety/filing-report/) and [Safe Campus Program](https://www.dtcc.edu/about/public-safety/safe-campus-program/) pages describe a deliberately decentralized alert structure rather than one systemwide office making every call. Each campus maintains its own Public Safety office and Chief of Public Safety, and Timely Warning decisions are made by that campus's Vice President and Campus Director only after consulting the local Chief of Public Safety, a three-role sign-off rather than a single named emergency-notification authority.\n\nThe college draws a functional line between two tools. [Delaware Tech Alert](https://www.dtcc.edu/about/news/stay-connected/alert/) is the systemwide mass-notification platform, used for emergencies and weather-related closings, and is described as email-first with text and voice as supplemental channels, an inversion of the SMS-first design common at many other institutions in this archive. Timely Warnings, by contrast, are tied to a specific Reportable Offense reported to local law enforcement or a Campus Security Authority and are disseminated through campus web pages, the MyDTCC portal, campus television monitors, bulletin boards, and email under the Safe Campus Program, with the campus Chief of Public Safety also deciding how long a given Crime Alert Bulletin stays posted.\n\nThe pages reviewed do not state a numeric timing standard (no 'within X minutes' language was found) or a testing cadence for Delaware Tech Alert; the language located instead describes the substantive criteria for a warning (severity of the crime, continuing threat to the College Community, the population most likely at risk) and its required content (incident description, location and time, perpetrator description, connection to prior incidents, and the date and time the warning itself was issued), which closely tracks the Clery Act's own timely-warning content guidance.\n\nThis environment's web sandbox returned HTTP 403 for every dtcc.edu URL attempted directly (filing-report, the Delaware Tech Alert page, Safe Campus Program, and the SmartCatalogIQ student-policy mirror all failed the same way), consistent with the archive-wide note that official .edu archive hosts are blocked here. The material below was recovered through search-engine summaries that quote or closely paraphrase the underlying dtcc.edu pages; none of it was confirmed by a direct page load, so every excerpt is marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false and confidence is set to medium rather than high, even though the underlying sources are the college's own official pages.","whenCriteria":"Delaware Tech issues a Timely Warning for any Reportable Offense reported to a local law enforcement agency or a Campus Security Authority when the relevant Vice President and Campus Director, after consulting that campus's Chief of Public Safety, judge the offense to constitute a threat to students or employees. Delaware Tech Alert, the broader mass-notification system, is deployed separately for emergencies and weather-related closings.","decisionAuthority":"For Timely Warnings, the relevant Vice President and Campus Director decide after consulting the Chief of Public Safety for that campus. For day-to-day Crime Alert Bulletins under the Safe Campus Program, each campus's Chief of Public Safety independently determines when a bulletin is issued and how long it remains posted. No single systemwide authority for activating Delaware Tech Alert itself was identified in the pages reviewed.","timingStandard":"No specific minutes-based or explicit 'without delay' timing standard was found stated in the pages reviewed. The language located describes the criteria for issuing a warning (severity, continuing threat, at-risk population) rather than a numeric service-level time standard.","cleryFraming":"Delaware Tech's materials functionally separate Timely Warnings, tied to a specific Reportable Offense and a per-campus continuing-threat judgment, from Delaware Tech Alert, the systemwide tool used for emergencies and weather closings. The pages reviewed did not reproduce the statutory phrase 'emergency notification' verbatim for the latter, so this Clery framing is inferred from function rather than confirmed institutional terminology.","testingCadence":"No testing cadence for Delaware Tech Alert was found stated in the pages reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Current Delaware Tech credit students and employees are automatically enrolled in Delaware Tech Alert; one search result described a general Community/Public Alert sign-up option as currently unavailable. Timely Warnings are scoped per campus (Terry/Dover, Owens/Georgetown, Stanton, and George/Wilmington), each with its own Public Safety office making campus-level determinations rather than a single statewide call.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","website","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely Warning criteria (Reportable Offense)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.dtcc.edu/about/public-safety/filing-report/","sourceDescription":"Delaware Tech Public Safety, Filing Report page (recovered via search-engine summary; a direct page load returned HTTP 403 in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Warning content requirements","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.dtcc.edu/about/public-safety/filing-report/","sourceDescription":"Delaware Tech Public Safety, Filing Report page (recovered via search-engine summary; a direct page load returned HTTP 403 in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Delaware Tech Alert mass-notification system","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.dtcc.edu/about/news/stay-connected/alert/","sourceDescription":"Delaware Tech Alert page (recovered via search-engine summary; a direct page load returned HTTP 403 in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Crime Alert Bulletin authority (Safe Campus Program)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.dtcc.edu/about/public-safety/safe-campus-program/","sourceDescription":"Delaware Tech Safe Campus Program page (recovered via search-engine summary; a direct page load returned HTTP 403 in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Delaware Tech operates a genuinely decentralized alert-and-warning structure across its four campuses (Terry/Dover, Owens/Georgetown, Stanton, and George/Wilmington), each with its own Public Safety office and Chief of Public Safety who determines Crime Alert Bulletins.","The college separates Delaware Tech Alert (systemwide mass notification for emergencies and weather closings, email-first with text/voice) from Timely Warnings (per-campus, tied to a specific Reportable Offense judged a threat).","Timely Warning decisions require joint sign-off from the relevant Vice President and Campus Director after consulting that campus's Chief of Public Safety, rather than a single named emergency-notification authority.","No specific timing SLA (e.g., 'within X minutes') or testing cadence for Delaware Tech Alert was found stated in the public safety pages reviewed.","This environment's web sandbox returned HTTP 403 for every dtcc.edu URL attempted directly, so all excerpts here are reconstructed from search-engine summaries rather than confirmed verbatim, consistent with the confidence: medium rating."],"sources":[{"title":"Filing Report - Delaware Technical Community College Public Safety","url":"https://www.dtcc.edu/about/public-safety/filing-report/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Delaware Tech Alert - Delaware Technical Community College","url":"https://www.dtcc.edu/about/news/stay-connected/alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Safe Campus Program - Delaware Technical Community College","url":"https://www.dtcc.edu/about/public-safety/safe-campus-program/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Campus Crime Statistics (Clery Annual Report) - Delaware Technical Community College","url":"https://www.dtcc.edu/about/public-safety/campus-crime-statistics/","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","delaware-tech-alert","technical-college","delaware","multi-campus"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"delgado-community-college-delgado-alert-policy","slug":"delgado-community-college-delgado-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Delgado Community College","shortName":"Delgado","state":"LA","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Delgado Alert","enrollment":16000},"policy":{"title":"Delgado Alert emergency notification system overview","systemName":"Delgado Alert (Omnilert)","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.dcc.edu/student-services/alert.aspx","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Delgado Community College documents [Delgado Alert](https://www.dcc.edu/student-services/alert.aspx) as its Omnilert-based emergency alert system reserved for college closures and interruptions due to weather, facilities issues, or other unforeseen circumstances, with messages originating from Communications/Marketing/Public Relations or Campus Police.","analysis":"Delgado Community College, Louisiana's largest community college serving New Orleans and a multi-parish region, publishes a public system-overview page for Delgado Alert rather than a dense standalone Clery SOP. The page states that subscribers receive timely notifications on mobile devices and email during emergencies, that emergency messages and updates also post to dcc.edu, and that registration is free though carrier text charges may apply. See the source document: [Delgado Alert emergency notification system overview](https://www.dcc.edu/student-services/alert.aspx).\n\nInstitution-specific operational detail appears in the reserved-use statement: Delgado Alert is reserved exclusively for critical details about College closures or interruptions in operations or services due to weather conditions, issues with facilities, or other unforeseen circumstances. Message origin is limited to the Delgado Communications, Marketing, and Public Relations Office or Campus Police. The system is explicitly separate from Delgado email and LoLA authentication, and re-registration is required periodically.","whenCriteria":"Critical details when there are College closures or other interruptions in operations or services due to weather conditions, issues with facilities, or other unforeseen circumstances.","decisionAuthority":"Messages will be sent from either the Delgado Communications, Marketing, and Public Relations Office or Campus Police.","timingStandard":"Not quantified beyond timely notifications in the event of an emergency.","cleryFraming":"Public system overview for the Omnilert-based Delgado Alert channel used for operational emergency messaging; not a full Clery timely-warning criteria SOP.","scopeLimits":"Students, faculty, and staff who register; reserved exclusively for operational closures and interruptions rather than general marketing.","testingCadence":"Page links to Omnilert Test Your Phone subscriber help; periodic campus-wide test cadence not stated on the overview page.","channels":["sms","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Reserved use","quotedText":"Delgado Alert is reserved exclusively to communicate critical details that you need to know when there are College closures or other interruptions in operations or services due to weather conditions, issues with facilities, or other unforeseen circumstances.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.dcc.edu/student-services/alert.aspx","sourceDescription":"Delgado Alert public overview page","annotations":["Defines exclusive operational-closure use case for the alert system."],"characterCount":258},{"label":"Message originators","quotedText":"Messages will be sent from either the Delgado Communications, Marketing, and Public Relations Office or Campus Police.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.dcc.edu/student-services/alert.aspx","sourceDescription":"Delgado Alert public overview page","annotations":["Names two authorized message-origin offices."],"characterCount":118},{"label":"Mobile and email delivery","quotedText":"Subscribers to Delgado Alert will receive timely notifications on mobile devices and email accounts in the event of an emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.dcc.edu/student-services/alert.aspx","sourceDescription":"Delgado Alert public overview page","annotations":["States mobile and email subscriber delivery channels."],"characterCount":129}],"keyFindings":["Delgado Alert is Omnilert-based and reserved for operational closures and service interruptions.","Only Communications/Marketing/Public Relations or Campus Police may send messages.","System is independent of Delgado email and LoLA authentication."],"sources":[{"title":"Delgado Alert overview","url":"https://www.dcc.edu/student-services/alert.aspx","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Delgado Alert Omnilert registration","url":"https://dcc.omnilert.net/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["louisiana","community-college","system-overview","delgado-alert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"delta-college-nixle-emergency-notification-policy","slug":"delta-college-nixle-emergency-notification-policy","institution":{"name":"Delta College","shortName":"Delta","state":"MI","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Nixle / DELTAEMG","enrollment":8000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning, Emergency Response, and Evacuation Procedures (ASR)","systemName":"Nixle","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.delta.edu/safety/_documents/2025-annual-security-report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Delta College's [2025 Annual Security Report](https://www.delta.edu/safety/_documents/2025-annual-security-report.pdf) assigns Emergency Notification authorization to the Vice President of Business and Finance with Director of Public Safety distribution, allows the Director to send immediately without prior approval when needed, and brands Nixle / DELTAEMG as the emergency messaging path.","analysis":"Delta College (University Center, Michigan) documents EN and timely-warning practice in its [2025 ASR](https://www.delta.edu/safety/_documents/2025-annual-security-report.pdf). Institution-specific content includes a named VP Business and Finance authorization step, a written exception allowing the Director of Public Safety to fire an Emergency Message without waiting for approval (with later cancel/retract authority), Nixle as the emergency messaging system, SMS keyword DELTAEMG to 888777, and TW drafting by the Director and VP (with Title IX when applicable).\n\nThat local decision chain and branded Nixle/DELTAEMG path are what this record captures.","whenCriteria":"Emergency Notification for immediate or imminent threats (examples include extreme weather/tornado, chemical release, fire, serious illness outbreak, armed intruder, bomb/terrorist threat, civil unrest). Timely Warnings for Clery crimes on Clery geography that pose potential ongoing or serious threat after DCDPS identifies the report.","decisionAuthority":"VP of Business and Finance authorizes Emergency Notifications and communicates authorization to the Director of Public Safety; Director may immediately distribute without prior approval when judgment requires no delay, with later cancel/retract by VP. Timely warnings evaluated, drafted, and distributed by Director of Public Safety and VP Business and Finance or designees (with Title IX when applicable).","timingStandard":"Without unnecessary delay for EN unless professional judgment finds compromise of victim assistance or mitigation; Director may bypass approval delay when immediate distribution is required.","cleryFraming":"ASR separates Timely Warning (crimes already occurred, ongoing threat) from Emergency Notification (immediate/imminent threat) with DCDPS geography and Clery crime framing.","scopeLimits":"May target segments of the campus community; message may include nature, location/date/time, suspect description, recommended actions, and DCDPS contact number.","testingCadence":"Not fully extracted in the Timely Warning / EN sections reviewed; see full ASR for drill/testing details.","channels":["sms","email","website","twitter-x","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"VP Business and Finance authorizes EN","quotedText":"The Vice President of Business and Finance is responsible for authorizing the Emergency Notification and communicating the authorization to the Director of Public Safety.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.delta.edu/safety/_documents/2025-annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Delta College 2025 ASR EN authorization","annotations":["Named VP role for EN authorization."],"characterCount":170},{"label":"Director may send immediately without approval delay","quotedText":"In instances where in the best judgement of the Director of Public Safety an Emergency Notification should be issued immediately and without delay for the approval process, the Director of Public Safety or his/her designee may immediately distribute an Emergency Message. If the Vice President of Business and Finance (or their designee) later determine that an Emergency Message was not needed, the message may be cancelled and retracted.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.delta.edu/safety/_documents/2025-annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Delta College 2025 ASR","annotations":["Local bypass and cancel/retract rule."],"characterCount":439},{"label":"TW evaluated by Director and VP","quotedText":"Timely warnings are evaluated, drafted, and distributed by the Director of Public Safety, the Vice President of Business and Finance or their designees. Timely warnings may be evaluated in conjunction with the Title IX Coordinator when complaints of an applicable incident are made solely to the Title IX Coordinator.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.delta.edu/safety/_documents/2025-annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Delta College 2025 ASR Timely Warning Procedure","annotations":["Named TW drafting/distribution roles plus Title IX path."],"characterCount":317},{"label":"Nixle and email dissemination channels","quotedText":"Posting on one or more of the following: a. The College emergency messaging system; Nixle. b. The Department of Public Safety website c. Delta College main website alert box d. An email message sent with detailed information to everyone with a current Delta College email account.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.delta.edu/safety/_documents/2025-annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Delta College 2025 ASR TW channels","annotations":["Branded Nixle emergency messaging system."],"characterCount":280},{"label":"DELTAEMG SMS keyword to 888777","quotedText":"Using your mobile phone, text DELTAEMG to 888777","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.delta.edu/safety/_documents/2025-annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Delta College 2025 ASR signup","annotations":["Local SMS keyword and short code."],"characterCount":48}],"keyFindings":["VP of Business and Finance authorizes Emergency Notifications to the Director of Public Safety.","Director may distribute immediately without approval delay, subject to later cancel/retract.","Nixle is the branded emergency messaging system; SMS signup is DELTAEMG to 888777.","Timely warnings are drafted by Director and VP (with Title IX when needed)."],"sources":[{"title":"2025 Annual Security Report - Delta College","url":"https://www.delta.edu/safety/_documents/2025-annual-security-report.pdf","type":"clery-asr","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","nixle","community-college","michigan"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"devry-university-alert-policy","slug":"devry-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"DeVry University","shortName":"DeVry","state":"IL","type":"for-profit","alertSystemName":"SIREN","enrollment":31296},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification (SIREN) and Timely Warning Policy (Annual Disclosure / Annual Security Report)","systemName":"SIREN","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.devry.edu/compliance/student-consumer-info.html","lastReviewed":"2024-10-01"},"summary":"DeVry University, a national for-profit institution, issues campus emergency notifications through its [SIREN](https://www.devry.edu/compliance/student-consumer-info.html) mass-notification system, publishing a separate [Annual Disclosure (Clery ASR)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeVry_University) for each physical campus. An Incident Commander determines when a notification goes out, 'without delay,' and timely warnings cover Clery crimes posing a serious or continuing threat.","analysis":"DeVry University is a [private for-profit institution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeVry_University) (owned since 2018 by Cogswell Education / Palm Ventures, formerly part of Adtalem Global Education) that operates a network of mostly small physical campuses plus a large online program. Because it is a Title-IV school, each physical location publishes its own Clery [Annual Disclosure](https://www.devry.edu/compliance/student-consumer-info.html), and those reports document a common emergency-notification program branded **SIREN**.\n\nDeVry's activation language mirrors the federal Clery/HEOA standard: upon the determination of a significant emergency or dangerous situation, 'DeVry University will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the SIREN notification system,' subject to the standard carve-out for situations where notifying would compromise efforts to assist a victim or contain the emergency. Decision authority is vested in an **Incident Commander**, who 'will determine if there is a significant emergency or dangerous situation and what segment of the campus community will need to receive a notification' — an explicitly segmented model suited to a multi-campus operator. The communications team, working with local law enforcement and DeVry security, develops the message content.\n\nFor the Clery timely-warning duty, DeVry's disclosures state that 'students, faculty, and staff will receive timely notification via the SIREN system, on campus flyers, and/or email announcements,' for reported Clery crimes 'considered to represent a serious or continuing threat.' DeVry says it tests emergency-response and evacuation procedures annually and documents each test's date, time, and whether it was announced or unannounced. Students keep their SIREN contact information current through the student portal and employees through the staff portal. The underlying commercial vendor behind SIREN is not named in DeVry's public materials, and SMS/voice are not separately enumerated as channels (only SIREN, flyers, and email are listed), so neither is asserted here. Every devry.edu ASR PDF returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so the excerpts below were captured from search-index reproductions of the per-campus disclosures and corroborated across 2+ independent retrievals.","whenCriteria":"Upon determination of a significant emergency or dangerous situation, a notification is initiated 'without delay,' taking into account the safety of the community, unless doing so would compromise efforts to assist a victim or contain/respond to the emergency. Timely warnings cover reported Clery crimes representing a serious or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"The Incident Commander determines whether a significant emergency or dangerous situation exists and which segment of the campus community receives a notification; DeVry's communications team, with local law enforcement and DeVry security, develops the content and initiates SIREN.","timingStandard":"DeVry commits to issuing a notification 'without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community' — the federal Clery standard — with the standard exception for compromising victim assistance or emergency response.","cleryFraming":"DeVry distinguishes emergency notifications (significant emergency / dangerous situation, via SIREN) from timely warnings (Clery crimes posing a serious or continuing threat, via SIREN, on-campus flyers, and/or email). It publishes a separate Annual Disclosure per physical campus.","testingCadence":"DeVry tests emergency response and evacuation procedures on an annual basis and documents each test, including the date, time, and whether it was announced or unannounced.","scopeLimits":"Notifications are segmented — the Incident Commander decides which part of the campus community is notified — and disclosures are campus-specific. Students update SIREN contact information via the student portal; faculty/staff via the staff portal.","channels":["email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Activation / timing (“without delay”) + SIREN","quotedText":"DeVry University will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the SIREN notification system, unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to emergencies.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.devry.edu/d/annual-disclosure-Cincinnati.pdf","sourceDescription":"DeVry University Annual Disclosure (Clery ASR), Cincinnati campus","annotations":["Names the SIREN system and adopts the federal 'without delay' standard with the Clery mitigation carve-out. Appeared across 2+ independent retrievals of DeVry per-campus disclosures (devry.edu host blocked automated fetch; minor snippet truncation seen on the closing clause)."],"characterCount":346},{"label":"Decision authority (Incident Commander)","quotedText":"The Incident Commander will determine if there is a significant emergency or dangerous situation and what segment of the campus community will need to receive a notification.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.devry.edu/d/annual-disclosure-Cincinnati.pdf","sourceDescription":"DeVry University Annual Disclosure (Clery ASR)","annotations":["Establishes the Incident Commander as the authorizing role and a segmented-notification model. Appeared consistently across 3+ retrievals spanning multiple campus disclosures."],"characterCount":174},{"label":"Timely-warning channels / Clery framing","quotedText":"students, faculty, and staff will receive timely notification via the SIREN system, on campus flyers, and/or email announcements, including any Clery Act crimes that are reported to the campus or local police and are considered to represent a serious or continuing threat to students, faculty, and staff.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.devry.edu/d/annual-disclosure-Addison.pdf","sourceDescription":"DeVry University Annual Disclosure (Clery ASR), Addison campus","annotations":["Lists the channels (SIREN, on-campus flyers, email) and the timely-warning threshold. Appeared across 2+ retrievals (slight 'campus or center' variant)."],"characterCount":304},{"label":"Testing cadence","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.devry.edu/d/annual-disclosure-Addison.pdf","sourceDescription":"DeVry University Annual Disclosure (Clery ASR) (host blocked automated fetch; lightly normalized in search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["DeVry's emergency-notification system is branded SIREN, documented in a separate Clery Annual Disclosure for each physical campus.","Notifications are initiated 'without delay' under the federal Clery standard, with the standard mitigation carve-out.","An Incident Commander decides whether to notify and which segment of the campus community receives the message (segmented model).","Timely warnings reach the community via SIREN, on-campus flyers, and/or email for Clery crimes posing a serious or continuing threat.","Emergency-response and evacuation procedures are tested annually and documented. The SIREN vendor is not publicly named; confidence is high on substance, with quotes corroborated from indexed disclosures (hosts blocked automated fetch)."],"sources":[{"title":"DeVry University — Student Consumer Information (Annual Disclosure hub)","url":"https://www.devry.edu/compliance/student-consumer-info.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"DeVry University — Annual Disclosure (Clery ASR), Cincinnati campus (PDF)","url":"https://www.devry.edu/d/annual-disclosure-Cincinnati.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"DeVry University — Annual Disclosure (Clery ASR), Addison campus (PDF)","url":"https://www.devry.edu/d/annual-disclosure-Addison.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"DeVry University — Wikipedia (for-profit status, ownership)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeVry_University","type":"reference"},{"title":"DeVry University-Illinois — Student Population and Demographics (IPEDS 2024 enrollment: 31,296, home unit incl. online)","url":"https://www.collegetuitioncompare.com/edu/482477/devry-university-illinois/enrollment/","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","for-profit","illinois","siren","incident-commander","multi-campus"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"dickinson-state-university-alert-policy","slug":"dickinson-state-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Dickinson State University","shortName":"DSU","state":"ND","type":"public-bachelors","alertSystemName":"DSU Campus Safety Notification"},"policy":{"title":"2025 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://dickinsonstate.edu/Assets/uploads/files/security/clery/2025-clery-report-final.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Dickinson State University, a public four-year university in Dickinson, North Dakota, publishes an [Annual Security & Fire Safety Report](https://dickinsonstate.edu/Assets/uploads/files/security/clery/2025-clery-report-final.pdf) documenting its Clery Act compliance; the university does not operate its own police department and instead relies on the Dickinson Police Department for primary law-enforcement response.","analysis":"Dickinson State University (DSU) is a public four-year university in Dickinson, North Dakota, part of the North Dakota University System. DSU's [Campus Safety and Parking page](https://dickinsonstate.edu/student-life/campus-security/) describes emergency reporting procedures notable for a structural detail uncommon among larger research universities in this archive: DSU does not maintain its own sworn law-enforcement department. Per the university's description, emergencies are immediately reported by calling the Dickinson Police Department (DPD) at 911, after which the DSU Campus Safety Office must separately be notified -- DPD, the city's municipal police agency, is the primary law-enforcement response agency for criminal activity on campus, with DSU Campus Safety functioning as a non-sworn liaison and Clery-compliance office rather than an independent police force.\n\nDSU designates Campus Security Authorities (CSAs) -- individuals with significant responsibility for student and campus activities -- who report criminal incidents to the DSU Campus Safety Office for inclusion in the university's [Annual Security & Fire Safety Report](https://dickinsonstate.edu/Assets/uploads/files/security/clery/2025-clery-report-final.pdf) and for issuing timely warnings or emergency notifications when a serious or continuing threat is identified. The Campus Safety Office is described as facilitating proper reporting and resource utilization to record occurrences for 'timely warning' or 'emergency notification' purposes and inclusion in the Clery Annual Security Report; the university's Emergency Management Coordinator is listed as reachable at 701-483-2407 or dsu.publicsafety@dickinsonstate.edu for emergency-management-specific questions.\n\nThis sandbox's network egress could not directly fetch dickinsonstate.edu to confirm the exact wording of the Annual Security & Fire Safety Report's notification-specific sections; the summary above is built from search-engine reproduction of the report and the Campus Safety page, corroborated across independent queries. Per this archive's standing policy, that limitation is not treated as grounds to omit or demote the entry -- it is documented honestly as reconstructed pending direct verification.","whenCriteria":"Per the university's description, Campus Security Authorities report criminal incidents for inclusion in the Annual Security & Fire Safety Report and to trigger 'timely warning' or 'emergency notification' when a serious or continued threat is identified; the exact activation-criteria language was not retrievable verbatim from this sandbox.","decisionAuthority":"The DSU Campus Safety Office facilitates reporting and resource utilization for timely-warning and emergency-notification decisions, informed by designated Campus Security Authorities; because DSU has no sworn police department, the Dickinson Police Department is the primary law-enforcement response agency for on-campus criminal activity.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"DSU's Campus Safety Office records occurrences for 'timely warning' or 'emergency notification' purposes and includes them in the Clery Annual Security Report; the report's specific verbatim distinction between the two alert types was not retrievable from this sandbox.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"DSU does not operate its own sworn police department; primary law-enforcement response for on-campus criminal activity is provided by the municipal Dickinson Police Department, with DSU Campus Safety functioning as a non-sworn liaison and Clery-compliance office.","channels":["email","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"No independent police department (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of the Dickinson State University Campus Safety and Parking page; dickinsonstate.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Campus Safety Office reporting function (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of Dickinson State University's Clery Act compliance description; dickinsonstate.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Dickinson State University relies on the municipal Dickinson Police Department for primary law-enforcement response, rather than maintaining its own sworn campus police department.","Designated Campus Security Authorities report to the DSU Campus Safety Office, which records occurrences for timely-warning or emergency-notification purposes and Clery ASR inclusion.","dickinsonstate.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox, so the excerpts are marked reconstructed; per archive policy this is not treated as demotion evidence."],"sources":[{"title":"Dickinson State University 2025 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report","url":"https://dickinsonstate.edu/Assets/uploads/files/security/clery/2025-clery-report-final.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Campus Safety and Parking - Dickinson State University","url":"https://dickinsonstate.edu/student-life/campus-security/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Dickinson State University - Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickinson_State_University","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","public-bachelors","north-dakota"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-20","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"dine-college-emergency-response-policy","slug":"dine-college-emergency-response-policy","institution":{"name":"Dine College","shortName":"Dine","state":"AZ","type":"tribal-college","alertSystemName":"Dine College Emergency Notification"},"policy":{"title":"Dine College Administrative Guide, Emergency Response Procedures","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://www.dinecollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Dine-College-Admin-Guide.pdf"},"summary":"Dine College, the tribally controlled college of the Navajo Nation headquartered on the Tsaile campus in Arizona with additional sites including Shiprock, New Mexico, documents its emergency communication chain in the [Dine College Administrative Guide](https://www.dinecollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Dine-College-Admin-Guide.pdf), where a Campus or Center Director or Security relays factual information to college administration, and the [Campus Safety page](https://www.dinecollege.edu/current-students/campus-safety/) states the college complies with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act.","analysis":"Dine College, chartered by the Navajo Nation and headquartered on the Tsaile, Arizona campus with additional campus and center sites including Shiprock, New Mexico, folds its notification duties into the [Administrative Guide's Emergency Response Procedures section](https://www.dinecollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Dine-College-Admin-Guide.pdf) rather than a single standalone Clery policy webpage, which is why this record is classified as an emergency-operations-plan entry. The guide describes a chain in which the Campus or Center Director or Security relays all factual information to Dine College Administration during an emergency, and the college President or Security notifies other schools in the vicinity and may ask the college's Public Information Officer to assist, with Security required to report the incident to police.\n\nThe guide separately documents Reverse Evacuation and Shelter-in-Place procedures, describing them as providing refuge for students, staff, and the public within college buildings during an emergency, an operational detail relevant to a rural, multi-site tribal college where outdoor sheltering options and response times differ meaningfully from an urban campus. Dine College's [Campus Safety page](https://www.dinecollege.edu/current-students/campus-safety/) states the college complies with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act of 1998, with the Office of Institutional Planning and Research compiling and submitting the report, and with multi-site directors and managers collaborating with their local police departments to compile crime statistics within their own communities for reporting and transparency, a structure that reflects the college's dispersed campus and center model across the Navajo Nation.\n\nBecause dinecollege.edu returned blocked connections to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below are reconstructed from search engine indexed extracts of the official documents rather than a firsthand character by character read, and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation; this record is scored at low confidence on that basis, reflecting how little of the notification chain's specific triggering language and channel list could be independently confirmed.","whenCriteria":"The Administrative Guide describes an emergency response chain triggered during an emergency generally; a specific Clery emergency notification or timely warning triggering threshold distinct from the general emergency response chain was not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed.","decisionAuthority":"During an emergency, the Campus or Center Director or Security relays factual information to Dine College Administration; the Dine College President or Security notifies other schools in the vicinity and may ask the college's Public Information Officer to assist, and Security is required to report the incident to police.","timingStandard":"Not specified with a numeric standard in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"Dine College's Campus Safety page states the college complies with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act of 1998; a specific emergency notification versus timely warning distinction was not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Multi-site directors and managers collaborate with their local police departments to compile crime statistics within their own communities, reflecting Dine College's dispersed campus and center structure across the Navajo Nation rather than a single unified campus footprint.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","channels":["phone-call","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency relay chain","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.dinecollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Dine-College-Admin-Guide.pdf","sourceDescription":"Dine College Administrative Guide, Emergency Response Procedures (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"President and Public Information Officer role","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.dinecollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Dine-College-Admin-Guide.pdf","sourceDescription":"Dine College Administrative Guide, Emergency Response Procedures (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Clery Act compliance statement","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.dinecollege.edu/current-students/campus-safety/","sourceDescription":"Dine College, Campus Safety (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Dine College's Administrative Guide documents an emergency relay chain from the site level Campus or Center Director or Security up to college administration and the president, with a mandatory police report step.","The Reverse Evacuation and Shelter-in-Place procedure provides refuge within college buildings, relevant to a rural, multi-site tribal college footprint.","Multi-site directors and managers collaborate with local police departments across the Navajo Nation to compile crime statistics for Clery reporting.","Dinecollege.edu could not be directly loaded in this environment, so this record is scored at low confidence and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation."],"sources":[{"title":"Dine College Administrative Guide (PDF)","url":"https://www.dinecollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Dine-College-Admin-Guide.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Campus Safety, Dine College","url":"https://www.dinecollege.edu/current-students/campus-safety/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Evacuation/Reverse Evacuation, Dine College","url":"https://www.dinecollege.edu/evacuation-reverse-evacuation/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"low","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","tribal-college","navajo-nation","arizona"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-27","lastUpdated":"2026-09-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"dine-college-alert-policy","slug":"dine-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Diné College","shortName":"DC","state":"AZ","type":"tribal-college","alertSystemName":"RAVE Alert (DC Alerts)","enrollment":1434},"policy":{"title":"Campus Safety, RAVE Alert Notification System, and Emergency Response Plan","systemName":"RAVE Alert","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://www.dinecollege.edu/admissions/rave-alert-notification-system/","lastReviewed":"2024-12-01"},"summary":"Diné College — the first tribally controlled and accredited college in the United States, chartered by the Navajo Nation — delivers campus emergency notifications through the [RAVE Alert system (DC Alerts)](https://www.dinecollege.edu/admissions/rave-alert-notification-system/), an opt-in SMS service, layered over an incident-command-based [Emergency Response Plan](https://www.dinecollege.edu/emergency-response-plan/) and the Clery procedures published on its [Campus Safety Statistics](https://www.dinecollege.edu/current-students/campus-safety-statistics/) page.","analysis":"Diné College is a tribal college chartered by the Navajo Nation, with campuses and centers spread across the reservation in Arizona and New Mexico (Tsaile, Chinle, Crownpoint, Shiprock, Tuba City, and Window Rock). Its emergency-notification backbone is [RAVE Alert](https://www.dinecollege.edu/admissions/rave-alert-notification-system/), the same FedRAMP-authorized mass-notification platform used by hundreds of U.S. campuses. The college brands its instance 'DC Alerts' and runs it on an opt-in basis: students and staff subscribe to SMS emergency notifications by texting the keyword DCALERTS to the short code 67283.\n\nLayered beneath the alert tool is an incident-command structure set out in the college's [Emergency Response Plan](https://www.dinecollege.edu/emergency-response-plan/). The plan designates an Incident Commander who is solely responsible for emergency/disaster operations and who shall remain at the Command Post to observe and direct all operations — meaning operational decision authority during an incident is centralized in that role rather than distributed. The plan and its companion administrative and emergency guides provide scenario-specific procedures (active shooter, bomb threat, fire) tailored to each of the college's geographically dispersed centers, an important design choice for a multi-site institution covering a large rural service area.\n\nThe college's Clery framing lives on its [Campus Safety](https://www.dinecollege.edu/current_students/campus-safety/) and [Campus Safety Statistics](https://www.dinecollege.edu/current-students/campus-safety-statistics/) pages, which host the Annual Security & Fire Report. As a Clery-covered institution, Diné College is required to issue timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes that represent a continuing threat and emergency notifications upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety. The specific verbatim policy text (decision criteria, timeliness language, and testing cadence) was not retrievable in this review because the dinecollege.edu host blocked automated fetching of the ASR PDF; those elements below are paraphrased from the structure of the Clery framework and the publicly indexed pages, and are honestly flagged as reconstructed.\n\nCampus security operates from Room 160 on the first floor of the Ned Hatathlie Center on the Tsaile campus, reachable on-campus at extension 6911 and by office line at (928) 724-6802. Given the rural, multi-site Navajo Nation geography — where commercial cellular coverage is uneven — an opt-in SMS-only model has an inherent coverage limitation worth noting: community members who never text the opt-in keyword receive no SMS alerts.","whenCriteria":"As a Clery-covered institution, Diné College issues timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes representing a continuing threat and emergency notifications upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community. The Emergency Response Plan provides scenario-specific procedures for active shooter, bomb threat, and fire. (Exact criteria language not retrievable in this review; framing reconstructed from the Clery standard and indexed pages.)","decisionAuthority":"During an incident, the Emergency Response Plan designates an Incident Commander who is solely responsible for emergency/disaster operations and directs operations from the Command Post. The specific authority for authorizing a RAVE Alert message was not separately confirmed in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed; as a Clery-covered school the college is bound by the federal 'immediately, upon confirmation' standard for emergency notifications and the 'timely' standard for warnings.","cleryFraming":"Annual Security & Fire Report and Clery procedures are published on the Campus Safety / Campus Safety Statistics pages; standard timely-warning vs emergency-notification distinction applies.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed. The Emergency Response Plan references drills (e.g., fire drills) at each center, but a published test cadence for the RAVE Alert system was not confirmed.","scopeLimits":"RAVE Alert (DC Alerts) is opt-in: SMS notifications reach only community members who text DCALERTS to 67283 to subscribe, a coverage limitation across the college's dispersed rural multi-campus footprint on the Navajo Nation.","channels":["sms","email","website","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"RAVE Alert opt-in instruction","quotedText":"Text DCALERTS to 67283","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.dinecollege.edu/admissions/rave-alert-notification-system/","sourceDescription":"Diné College — RAVE Alert Notification System page","annotations":["67283 spells 'OPTIN' on a phone keypad; the keyword DCALERTS is Diné College's branded subscription keyword. Opt-in SMS means only subscribers receive text alerts."],"characterCount":22},{"label":"Incident Commander authority (Emergency Response Plan)","quotedText":"The Incident Commander is solely responsible for emergency/disaster operations and shall remain at the Command Post to observe and direct all operations.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.dinecollege.edu/emergency-response-plan/","sourceDescription":"Diné College — Emergency Response Plan","annotations":["Centralizes operational command in a single role during an emergency, consistent with the National Incident Management System (NIMS) ICS model."],"characterCount":153}],"keyFindings":["Diné College, the nation's first tribally chartered and accredited college, runs emergency notifications on the RAVE Alert platform branded 'DC Alerts'.","The SMS alert system is opt-in — subscribers text DCALERTS to short code 67283 — which inherently excludes anyone who has not subscribed.","The Emergency Response Plan uses an incident-command structure with an Incident Commander solely responsible for operations from the Command Post.","Scenario procedures (active shooter, bomb threat, fire) are provided per center across the college's dispersed Arizona/New Mexico Navajo Nation sites.","Verbatim Clery timely-warning / emergency-notification criteria and test cadence could not be retrieved (dinecollege.edu blocked automated fetching), so those fields are reconstructed and flagged."],"sources":[{"title":"Diné College — RAVE Alert Notification System","url":"https://www.dinecollege.edu/admissions/rave-alert-notification-system/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Diné College — Emergency Response Plan","url":"https://www.dinecollege.edu/emergency-response-plan/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Diné College — Campus Safety","url":"https://www.dinecollege.edu/current_students/campus-safety/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Diné College — Campus Safety Statistics (Annual Security & Fire Report host)","url":"https://www.dinecollege.edu/current-students/campus-safety-statistics/","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Diné College — Administrative / Emergency Response Procedures Guide (PDF)","url":"https://www.dinecollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Dine-College-Admin-Guide.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","tribal-college","navajo-nation","rave-alert","arizona"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"drake-bulldog-alert-policy","slug":"drake-bulldog-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Drake University","shortName":"Drake","state":"IA","type":"private-masters","alertSystemName":"Bulldog Alert","enrollment":4345},"policy":{"title":"Bulldog Alert Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Policy","systemName":"Bulldog Alert","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://www.drake.edu/publicsafety/emergencyproceduresmanual/","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Drake University notifies its community of campus emergencies through [Bulldog Alert](https://www.drake.edu/publicsafety/emergencyproceduresmanual/) (managed by Rave Guardian), which it uses for immediate-threat situations, while a campus-wide [Timely Warning](https://www.drake.edu/media/departmentsoffices/publicsafety/documents/26_0054_clery_report.pdf) is issued by email for ongoing or continuing threats under the Clery Act.","analysis":"Drake University, a private master's-level institution in Des Moines, Iowa, operates an emergency-notification service branded [Bulldog Alert](https://www.drake.edu/publicsafety/emergencyproceduresmanual/) (frequently 'Bulldog Alerts'), which Drake describes as 'an emergency notification service enabling Drake University to notify the campus quickly about major emergencies on campus and to provide information and instructions.' The system is operated on the Rave platform: 'Bulldog Alerts are managed by a system called Rave Guardian,' and the companion [Drake Guardian mobile app](https://www.drake.edu/publicsafety/drakeguardianmobileapp/) is a free download for students, faculty, and staff that adds interactive safety features tied to the Department of Public Safety. Community members receive Bulldog Alerts via text, voice call, and email and are responsible for keeping their contact information current in the system.\n\nDrake draws a clear line between its two Clery tools based on the timing and immediacy of the threat. Per Drake's Clery report, 'when there is an ongoing or continuing threat, a campus wide \"Timely Warning\" will be issued through the University's e-mail system to students, faculty, and staff,' whereas 'in situations that could pose an immediate threat to the community and individuals, Drake Public Safety may also send a notice through Bulldog Alert, providing the University community with more immediate notification.' Drake summarizes the distinction operationally: a timely warning is issued when a significant period of time has passed from the event to notification, while a Bulldog Alert is used for an ongoing event happening right then that requires students to take immediate steps. Drake notes that Timely Warning Notice and Bulldog Alert messages are generally written by the Executive Director (of Public Safety).\n\nDrake's authoritative policy documents are the [Emergency Procedures Manual](https://www.drake.edu/publicsafety/emergencyproceduresmanual/) and the annual [Drake University Annual Security & Annual Fire Safety Report](https://www.drake.edu/media/departmentsoffices/publicsafety/documents/26_0054_clery_report.pdf). The exact named decision authority's full title, the precise 'immediately, upon confirmation' policy language, and the published periodic test cadence were not byte-for-byte confirmable here because drake.edu hosts and the ASR PDF returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching; those fields draw on indexed snippets of the official pages and ASR and are flagged where reconstructed. The Timely-Warning-vs-Bulldog-Alert distinction and the Rave Guardian management fact appeared with consistent wording across multiple official Drake retrievals, but because the surrounding policy text could not be confirmed byte-for-byte from two independent official-attributed live fetches, the excerpts are marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false and the record is rated medium confidence.","whenCriteria":"Bulldog Alert is used for major emergencies and situations posing an immediate threat to the community that require people to take immediate steps. A campus-wide Timely Warning (email) is issued when there is an ongoing or continuing threat — typically when a significant period of time has passed between the event and notification.","decisionAuthority":"Drake Public Safety sends Bulldog Alert notices and Timely Warnings; Timely Warning Notice and Bulldog Alert messages are generally written by the Executive Director (of Public Safety). The exact title and the specific position authorized to trigger a Bulldog Alert were not confirmed verbatim in this review (drake.edu hosts and the ASR PDF blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"Bulldog Alert is the 'more immediate notification' channel for ongoing events requiring immediate action; Timely Warnings are issued for ongoing/continuing threats when significant time has passed since the event. The exact 'immediately, upon confirmation' policy timing language was not confirmed verbatim here (host blocked automated fetching).","cleryFraming":"Drake separates Clery emergency notification (Bulldog Alert for immediate threats) from Clery timely warning (campus-wide email for ongoing/continuing threats), with messages generally written by the Executive Director of Public Safety. Drake publishes an Annual Security & Annual Fire Safety Report under the Clery Act.","testingCadence":"Drake makes community members responsible for keeping contact information current in the Bulldog Alerts system so alerts reach them; the exact published periodic test cadence (e.g., per-semester) was not confirmed verbatim in this review (official hosts blocked automated fetching).","scopeLimits":"Bulldog Alerts reach registered community members via text, voice call, and email, and users are responsible for keeping their contact information up to date in the system. Timely Warnings go campus-wide through the University email system to students, faculty, and staff. The Drake Guardian mobile app (Rave) adds interactive safety features linked to Public Safety.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Bulldog Alert purpose","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.drake.edu/publicsafety/emergencyproceduresmanual/","sourceDescription":"Drake University — Emergency Procedures Manual / Public Safety (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Timely Warning for ongoing/continuing threats","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.drake.edu/media/departmentsoffices/publicsafety/documents/26_0054_clery_report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Drake University — 2025 Annual Security & Annual Fire Safety Report (PDF; host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Bulldog Alert for immediate threats","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.drake.edu/media/departmentsoffices/publicsafety/documents/26_0054_clery_report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Drake University — 2025 Annual Security & Annual Fire Safety Report (PDF; host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Rave Guardian management","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.drake.edu/publicsafety/drakeguardianmobileapp/","sourceDescription":"Drake University — Drake Guardian Mobile App / Public Safety (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Drake's emergency-notification system is branded Bulldog Alert(s), operated on the Rave Guardian platform with a companion Drake Guardian mobile app.","Drake splits its Clery tools by immediacy: a campus-wide email Timely Warning for ongoing/continuing threats, and a Bulldog Alert for immediate threats requiring instant action.","Bulldog Alerts reach community members via text, voice call, and email; users are responsible for keeping their contact information current.","Timely Warning and Bulldog Alert messages are generally written by the Executive Director of Public Safety.","Policy specifics (full decision-authority title, immediate-issuance language, test cadence) live in the Emergency Procedures Manual and the Annual Security & Fire Safety Report and could not be confirmed verbatim (drake.edu and the ASR PDF blocked automated fetching); record rated medium confidence."],"sources":[{"title":"Drake University — Emergency Procedures Manual (Public Safety)","url":"https://www.drake.edu/publicsafety/emergencyproceduresmanual/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Drake University — 2025 Annual Security & Annual Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.drake.edu/media/departmentsoffices/publicsafety/documents/26_0054_clery_report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Drake University — Drake Guardian Mobile App","url":"https://www.drake.edu/publicsafety/drakeguardianmobileapp/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Drake University — Message from the Director (Public Safety)","url":"https://www.drake.edu/publicsafety/foryoursafety/messagefromthedirector/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Drake University — Setting Up or Changing Bulldog Alert Text Message Notifications (How-to)","url":"https://drake.teamdynamix.com/TDClient/2025/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=21403","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","private-masters","iowa","bulldog-alert","rave-guardian","clery"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"duke-university-alert-policy","slug":"duke-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Duke University","shortName":"Duke","state":"NC","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"DukeALERT","enrollment":17499},"policy":{"title":"How You Can Be Notified (DukeALERT)","systemName":"DukeALERT","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://prepare.duke.edu/during/how-you-can-be-notified/"},"summary":"[DukeALERT](https://prepare.duke.edu/during/how-you-can-be-notified/) is Duke University's emergency notification system, managed through Duke Emergency Management, that reaches students, faculty, and staff via Duke email, SMS text message, the outdoor warning siren, the DukeALERT website, phone, digital signboards, and the LiveSafe app; Duke's stated goal is to send alert messages within 30 minutes of officials being notified of an emergency situation ([Duke Emergency Management](https://prepare.duke.edu/during/how-you-will-be-notified/dukealert-text-messages/)).","analysis":"[DukeALERT](https://prepare.duke.edu/during/how-you-can-be-notified/) is the umbrella emergency-notification program at Duke University, coordinated by Duke Emergency Management with system delivery supported by the [Office of Information Technology (OIT)](https://oit.duke.edu/service/emergency-notifications/). Depending on the nature and location of an emergency situation, Duke may send a DukeALERT message to all students, faculty, and staff at their Duke email accounts, and the [DukeALERT text-message component](https://prepare.duke.edu/during/how-you-will-be-notified/dukealert-text-messages/) sends short message service (SMS) text messages to faculty, staff, and students in the event of an emergency. Duke's publicly stated objective is to send alert messages within 30 minutes of officials being notified of an emergency situation.\n\nDukeALERT is intentionally multi-channel. For some DukeALERTs an alert tone may be broadcast on campus using the outdoor siren system; Duke instructs that anyone who hears the siren should immediately seek shelter and check for a DukeALERT with further instructions. Additional notification methods include the web (the always-current DukeALERT/emergency status website), phone, campus digital signboards, and the LiveSafe mobile app. The [emergency.duke.edu](https://emergency.duke.edu/) status site is the canonical place the community is directed to for the most up-to-date information during an incident.\n\nOn testing, Duke regularly exercises the system: the DukeALERT system is tested each semester and once during the summer (typically in March and October, and again in July), with the test including activation of the outdoor sirens and distribution of an email to all students, faculty, and staff. Duke's October 2025 test focused specifically on the threat of armed intruders, reflecting the growing concern about campus shootings. The public pages reviewed do not name a single specific officeholder who authorizes each message, nor do they name the underlying alert platform/vendor. (Policy language here is reproduced from search-engine snippets of the official Duke Emergency Management, OIT, and Duke Today pages, which returned HTTP 403 when fetched directly in this environment; phrases that recurred identically across multiple independent results are marked verbatim-confirmed below.)","whenCriteria":"Depending on the nature and location of an emergency situation, Duke may send a DukeALERT message to all students, faculty, and staff. DukeALERT is used for emergencies affecting the Duke community; for some DukeALERTs an outdoor-siren alert tone is also broadcast, signaling recipients to immediately seek shelter and check for a DukeALERT with further instructions.","decisionAuthority":"DukeALERT is coordinated by Duke Emergency Management, with delivery supported by the Office of Information Technology; messages are sent when officials are notified of an emergency situation. The public pages reviewed do not name a single specific officeholder who authorizes each message.","timingStandard":"Duke's goal is to send alert messages within 30 minutes of officials being notified of an emergency situation.","cleryFraming":"DukeALERT is Duke's emergency-notification system for significant emergencies and dangerous situations affecting the campus community. The public pages reviewed emphasize emergency notification and operational alerting; they do not reproduce a separate verbatim definition of Clery timely warnings on the notification pages cited.","testingCadence":"The DukeALERT system is tested each semester and once during the summer (typically March and October, plus July). Tests include activation of the outdoor sirens and distribution of an email to all students, faculty, and staff; the October 2025 test focused on the threat of armed intruders.","scopeLimits":"DukeALERT email messages go to all students, faculty, and staff at their Duke email accounts; SMS text alerts reach faculty, staff, and students who have registered phone numbers. The outdoor siren is an outdoor-warning layer (signaling people to seek shelter and check a DukeALERT), and additional channels include web, phone, campus digital signboards, and the LiveSafe app.","channels":["email","sms","siren","website","phone-call","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"30-minute timing goal","quotedText":"Duke's goal is to send alert messages within 30 minutes of officials being notified of an emergency situation.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://prepare.duke.edu/during/how-you-will-be-notified/dukealert-text-messages/","sourceDescription":"Duke Emergency Management - DukeALERT Text Messages page (reproduced identically across multiple independent search results; official page HTTP 403 on direct fetch)","annotations":["States Duke's explicit 30-minute timeliness goal measured from when officials are notified; this exact wording recurred identically across multiple independent search results."],"characterCount":110},{"label":"Email channel and discretion","quotedText":"DukeALERT messages are sent to students, faculty and staff at their Duke e-mail accounts depending on the nature and location of an emergency situation.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://prepare.duke.edu/during/how-you-can-be-notified/","sourceDescription":"Duke Emergency Management - How You Can Be Notified page (reproduced identically across multiple independent search results; official page HTTP 403 on direct fetch)","annotations":["Describes Duke email as a primary DukeALERT channel and the nature/location discretion in deciding what to send; identical wording recurred across multiple search results."],"characterCount":152},{"label":"Outdoor siren instruction","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://prepare.duke.edu/during/how-you-can-be-notified/","sourceDescription":"Duke Emergency Management (reproduced via search snippet; official page HTTP 403 on direct fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Testing cadence","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://prepare.duke.edu/during/how-you-can-be-notified/","sourceDescription":"Duke Emergency Management / Duke Today test announcements (reproduced via search snippet; official page HTTP 403 on direct fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["DukeALERT is Duke University's multi-channel emergency notification system, coordinated by Duke Emergency Management with delivery supported by the Office of Information Technology.","Duke's stated goal is to send alert messages within 30 minutes of officials being notified of an emergency situation.","Channels include Duke email, SMS text, the outdoor warning siren, the emergency.duke.edu website, phone, campus digital signboards, and the LiveSafe mobile app; the siren signals recipients to seek shelter and check for a DukeALERT.","The system is tested each semester and once during the summer (typically March, October, and July), with siren activation and an all-community email; the October 2025 test focused on the threat of armed intruders.","The public pages reviewed do not name a single authorizing officeholder for each message or identify the underlying alert platform/vendor."],"sources":[{"title":"How You Can Be Notified | Duke Emergency Management","url":"https://prepare.duke.edu/during/how-you-can-be-notified/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"DukeALERT Text Messages | Duke Emergency Management","url":"https://prepare.duke.edu/during/how-you-will-be-notified/dukealert-text-messages/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Notifications | Duke Office of Information Technology","url":"https://oit.duke.edu/service/emergency-notifications/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Duke University Emergency Status","url":"https://emergency.duke.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"DukeALERT Emergency System Test Scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 8 | Duke Today","url":"https://today.duke.edu/2025/10/dukealert-emergency-system-test-scheduled-wednesday-oct-8","type":"official-social"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","duke-university","dukealert","clery"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"duquesne-university-du-alert-policy","slug":"duquesne-university-du-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Duquesne University","shortName":"Duquesne","state":"PA","type":"private-r2","alertSystemName":"DU Alert","enrollment":8234},"policy":{"title":"DU Alert System FAQs and Emergency Notifications","systemName":"DU Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.duq.edu/life-at-duquesne/our-campus/campus-safety/du-alert.php","lastReviewed":"2026-07-20"},"summary":"Duquesne University, a Pittsburgh Catholic university that the [Carnegie Foundation classifies as one of only seven Catholic R2 research universities](https://carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/institution/duquesne-university/), publishes its emergency-messaging practices on the [DU Alert System FAQs and Emergency Notifications](https://www.duq.edu/life-at-duquesne/our-campus/campus-safety/du-alert.php) page, a voice-and-text system with a 120-character limit on its SMS messages.","analysis":"Duquesne's DU Alert page describes the system in functional terms: [DU Alert is an automated message notification system used to contact students and employees (who have subscribed to the service) about emergencies or major disruptions to campus services](https://www.duq.edu/life-at-duquesne/our-campus/campus-safety/du-alert.php). That framing folds Clery-driven emergency notifications together with non-Clery operational messaging (weather closures, utility disruptions) under one branded system rather than running two separately named tools.\n\nThe university publishes a concrete technical constraint rarely stated so precisely elsewhere in this archive: DU Alert text messages are capped at 120 characters, with the university committing that the text will state the nature of the emergency or disruption so recipients can take appropriate action, and that messages carry no advertising or spam. That character ceiling is considerably tighter than a standard SMS segment (160 characters) and forces DU Alert drafters into headline-length messaging by design.\n\nOn the Clery emergency-notification standard itself, Duquesne's language tracks the federal template closely: in an emergency, the university commits to determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system without delay, taking into account the safety of the community, unless the notification would compromise efforts to assist victims or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency. The university also documents a building-level use of the same channel: the DU Alert system is used to notify the community of a building closing during an emergency, distinct from the audible/visual fire-alarm system that is treated as a universally understood evacuation order in its own right.\n\nBecause duq.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were captured from Duquesne's own DU Alert FAQ and Emergency Situations pages as reproduced in search-engine results and corroborated across multiple independent queries. No named single approving official (beyond \"the university\"), fixed testing cadence, or specific text-alert opt-out mechanism beyond general subscription was reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","whenCriteria":"DU Alert is used to contact students and employees about emergencies or major disruptions to campus services; the Clery emergency-notification standard applies when a significant emergency or dangerous situation involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of the community.","decisionAuthority":"Duquesne University determines the content of the notification and initiates the notification system, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, unless doing so would compromise efforts to assist victims or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency. A single named approving official's title was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"The university commits to act \"without delay\" once an emergency notification determination is made; DU Alert text messages are capped at 120 characters so the nature of the emergency can be stated quickly. No separate minutes-based SLA was reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"DU Alert is used both for Clery-driven emergency notifications and for non-Clery operational messages (weather closures, service disruptions), with the 'without delay' commitment specifically tied to the Clery emergency-notification standard.","testingCadence":"A specific testing cadence for DU Alert was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"DU Alert reaches students and employees who have subscribed to the service via voice and text messaging on cell phones and landline telephones; the university also uses the same channel to announce building closings during an emergency, distinct from its separate audible/visual fire-alarm system.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"What DU Alert is","quotedText":"DU Alert is an automated message notification system used to contact students and employees (who have subscribed to the service) about emergencies or major disruptions to campus services.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.duq.edu/life-at-duquesne/our-campus/campus-safety/du-alert.php","sourceDescription":"Duquesne University - DU Alert System FAQs and Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Frames DU Alert around both Clery emergency notifications and non-Clery operational disruptions under one branded system."],"characterCount":187},{"label":"Text-message character limit","quotedText":"DU Alert text messages are no more than 120 characters.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.duq.edu/life-at-duquesne/our-campus/campus-safety/emergency-situations.php","sourceDescription":"Duquesne University - Emergency Situations","annotations":["A specific, tighter-than-standard-SMS (160-character) technical constraint on DU Alert's text channel."],"characterCount":55},{"label":"Emergency-notification 'without delay' commitment","quotedText":"In the event of an emergency, Duquesne University will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system, unless the notification will compromise efforts to assist victims or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.duq.edu/life-at-duquesne/our-campus/campus-safety/du-alert.php","sourceDescription":"Duquesne University - DU Alert System FAQs and Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Tracks the Clery Act's 34 CFR 668.46(g)(3) emergency-notification standard closely, including the law-enforcement-compromise exception."],"characterCount":333},{"label":"Building-closing notification","quotedText":"The Duquesne University community will be notified by the DU Alert System of any closing of a building during an emergency (other than for a fire/fire alarm where audible and visual alarms are universally recognized as an order to leave and stay out of a building).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.duq.edu/life-at-duquesne/our-campus/campus-safety/du-alert.php","sourceDescription":"Duquesne University - DU Alert System FAQs and Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Distinguishes DU Alert-driven building closures from the separate, self-executing fire-alarm evacuation signal."],"characterCount":265}],"keyFindings":["DU Alert caps text messages at 120 characters, tighter than a standard 160-character SMS segment.","Duquesne's emergency-notification commitment tracks the Clery Act's 'without delay' / safety-of-the-community / law-enforcement-compromise-exception language closely.","DU Alert doubles as the channel for announcing building closures during an emergency, kept conceptually distinct from the university's audible/visual fire-alarm system.","Subscription to DU Alert is described as required for students and employees to be contacted; a single named approving official was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed."],"sources":[{"title":"DU Alert System FAQs and Emergency Notifications - Duquesne University","url":"https://www.duq.edu/life-at-duquesne/our-campus/campus-safety/du-alert.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Situations - Duquesne University","url":"https://www.duq.edu/life-at-duquesne/our-campus/campus-safety/emergency-situations.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Campus Safety and Security - Duquesne University","url":"https://www.duq.edu/life-at-duquesne/our-campus/campus-safety/index.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"DU Alerts: Staying Safe During Campus Emergencies - The Times","url":"https://www.duq.edu/news-and-stories/the-times/2024/2024dualerttimesreminder.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Duquesne University - Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education","url":"https://carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/institution/duquesne-university/","type":"other"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","private-r2","pennsylvania","du-alert","catholic-university"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-20","lastUpdated":"2026-07-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"dutchess-community-college-emergency-closure-procedures","slug":"dutchess-community-college-emergency-closure-procedures","institution":{"name":"Dutchess Community College","shortName":"Dutchess CC","state":"NY","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"campus email / website / social media","enrollment":8000},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Closure Procedures","systemName":"Campus Closure / Delayed Opening / Early Closure","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.sunydutchess.edu/administrative/policies/emergency-closure-procedures","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Dutchess Community College's [Emergency Closure Procedures](https://www.sunydutchess.edu/administrative/policies/emergency-closure-procedures) cancel on-campus classes and activities during full closures while remote classes continue uninterrupted, set a 30-minute remaining-instruction rule for delayed opens, and announce delays/closures by 5:30 a.m. via email, website, and social media.","analysis":"Dutchess Community College (SUNY Dutchess) publishes institution-specific [Emergency Closure Procedures](https://www.sunydutchess.edu/administrative/policies/emergency-closure-procedures). Full campus closure cancels all on-campus classes and activities and keeps non-required employees from reporting, while remote classes proceed without interruption and approved remote employees are not expected to work or use benefit time during emergency closures. Delayed openings and early closes apply only to on-campus activities; remote classes continue. On-campus classes still meet if at least 30 minutes of instructional time remain after a delayed open. Shuttle bus service has explicit delayed-open and early-close rules. Students may decide not to travel when the campus is open without attendance penalty if roads are unsafe. Nursing and EMT/PAR clinicals follow faculty instructions. Announcements go by campus email, website, and social media by 5:30 a.m. This is a weather/emergency operations communication policy, not a full Clery ASR rewrite.","whenCriteria":"Inclement weather or other emergency condition requiring campus closure, delayed opening, or early closure; may be location-specific.","decisionAuthority":"Not named as a specific officer on the procedures page reviewed.","timingStandard":"Delay and closure announcements by 5:30 a.m. via campus email, website, and social media.","cleryFraming":"Emergency operations and weather closure procedures; not a Clery timely-warning criteria document.","testingCadence":"Not specified on the procedures page reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Remote classes continue during closures/delays/early closes; location-specific closures may apply; clinical students follow faculty instructions.","channels":["email","website","twitter-x","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Full closure cancels on-campus; remote continues","quotedText":"When inclement weather or some other emergency condition requires closure of the campus, all on-campus classes and activities are canceled, and employees will not report to work. This excludes those required to report for work during inclement weather or the emergency condition. Remote classes will proceed without interruption.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sunydutchess.edu/administrative/policies/emergency-closure-procedures","characterCount":329},{"label":"30-minute remaining instruction rule for delayed opens","quotedText":"As always, on-campus classes should meet in person if there is a minimum of 30 minutes of instructional time available after the opening of classes.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sunydutchess.edu/administrative/policies/emergency-closure-procedures","characterCount":148},{"label":"5:30 a.m. announcement channels","quotedText":"Delay and Closure announcements will be announced via campus email and posted on the College website and social media by 5:30 a.m.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sunydutchess.edu/administrative/policies/emergency-closure-procedures","characterCount":130},{"label":"Student travel safety discretion without penalty","quotedText":"On days when the campus remains open during inclement weather or emergency condition, students enrolled in on-campus classes should make their own determination whether to attempt to travel to class based on the safety of road conditions in their own locale. Students will not be penalized for missing class under this circumstance, although students are responsible for the work missed and are expected to make it up in a reasonable time, as determined by the instructor.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sunydutchess.edu/administrative/policies/emergency-closure-procedures","characterCount":472}],"keyFindings":["Full closures cancel on-campus activity while remote classes continue uninterrupted.","Delayed opens keep on-campus classes if at least 30 minutes of instructional time remain.","Delay/closure announcements by 5:30 a.m. via email, website, and social media.","Students may skip travel for unsafe roads without attendance penalty when campus remains open."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Closure Procedures","url":"https://www.sunydutchess.edu/administrative/policies/emergency-closure-procedures","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["community-college","new-york","weather-closing","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"east-carolina-university-alert-policy","slug":"east-carolina-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"East Carolina University","shortName":"ECU","state":"NC","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"ECU Alert","enrollment":26941},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning Procedures","systemName":"ECU Alert","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://policy.ecu.edu/52013/","policyNumber":"52013"},"summary":"East Carolina University's [Timely Warning Procedures](https://policy.ecu.edu/52013/) regulation, part of the University Policy Manual, implements the Clery Act requirement to warn the campus community about Clery crimes that pose a serious or continuing threat, with timely warnings disseminated through the multi-channel [ECU Alert](https://alertinfo.ecu.edu/) system.","analysis":"ECU's [Timely Warning Procedures](https://policy.ecu.edu/52013/) regulation states that, as required by the Jeanne Clery Disclosure Campus Safety Act, the regulation outlines the policy and procedures the University follows to provide a warning alerting the University community to certain crimes in a manner that is timely and will aid in the prevention of similar crimes. Decisions to issue a Timely Warning are made on a case-by-case basis, taking into account the nature of the crime, the potential danger to the campus community, and the possible impact on law enforcement efforts.\n\nAuthority and the assessment process are clearly assigned. After being informed of a reported crime by the on-duty police supervisor or other Campus Security Authority (CSA), the Chief of Police, or their designee, makes an assessment of whether the reported crime poses a serious or continuing threat to the personal safety of students, employees, and/or guests, and the Chief of Police or designee has the authority to approve the issuance of a Timely Warning. The regulation builds in an escalation path: in situations where the Chief of Police or designee is not available, or where any delay to brief these officials would significantly increase the risk to the ECU community, the on-duty police supervisor is authorized to determine the necessity of a timely warning, develop the message, activate the text message system, update the ECU Alert website, and activate the mass email notification system, as necessary.\n\nDissemination relies on the [ECU Alert](https://alertinfo.ecu.edu/) suite of communication tools, which the university describes as the ECU homepage, email, indoor and outdoor loudspeakers, VOIP phone text and voice, SMS text messages, desktop pop-up notifications, and messages on digital signs. For less time-critical situations such as severe-weather class cancellations, ECU notes it will use email, social media, digital screen messages, and SMS; for very serious incidents, continuing threats, or life-threatening situations, notification is distributed using many or all methods as quickly as possible. The university is candid about the limits of SMS, cautioning that text messaging is not a dependable source for emergency information because ECU does not control when carriers deliver messages, and that the [ECU Alert webpage](https://www.ecu.edu/alert/) is the primary location for emergency news and the best source of factual information.\n\nECU distinguishes Clery timely warnings (covered by this regulation, addressing serious or continuing threats from Clery-geography crimes) from broader emergency notifications issued through ECU Alert for any significant emergency or dangerous situation. The university [periodically tests](https://police.ecu.edu/preparedness/) the ECU Alert system, conducting comprehensive announced tests of its emergency notification systems (for example, a campus-wide test on October 14, 2025). Scope is limited to crimes reported in good faith to ECU Police or a CSA that fall within the university's Clery geography and meet the serious-or-continuing-threat standard; routine incidents without a continuing threat do not trigger a timely warning.","whenCriteria":"Issued on a case-by-case basis when the Chief of Police (or designee) assesses that a reported Clery-geography crime poses a serious or continuing threat to the personal safety of students, employees, and/or guests, weighing the nature of the crime, potential danger to the campus community, and possible impact on law enforcement efforts.","decisionAuthority":"Chief of Police or their designee approves issuance; if they are unavailable or any briefing delay would significantly increase risk, the on-duty police supervisor is authorized to determine necessity, develop the message, and activate the alert channels.","timingStandard":"Issued in a manner that is timely and will aid in the prevention of similar crimes; for very serious incidents, continuing threats, or life-threatening situations, notification is distributed using many or all methods as quickly as possible.","cleryFraming":"Explicitly grounded in the Jeanne Clery Disclosure Campus Safety Act; the regulation governs Clery timely warnings for serious or continuing threats, distinct from general ECU Alert emergency notifications.","testingCadence":"ECU Alert is used only for emergencies and occasional required testing; comprehensive announced tests of the emergency notification system are conducted (e.g., campus-wide test on October 14, 2025).","scopeLimits":"Limited to crimes reported in good faith to ECU Police or a CSA within the university's Clery geography that present a serious or continuing threat; routine crimes without a continuing threat do not trigger a timely warning.","channels":["sms","email","website","pa-system","phone-call","desktop-popup","digital-signage","facebook","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Purpose (Clery basis)","quotedText":"As required by the Jeanne Clery Disclosure Campus Safety Act (\"Clery Act\"), this regulation outlines the policy and procedures the University follows to provide a warning alerting the University community to certain crimes in a manner that is timely and will aid in the prevention of similar crimes.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://policy.ecu.edu/52013/","sourceDescription":"ECU University Policy Manual, Timely Warning Procedures (52013)","annotations":["Text reproduced consistently across multiple search retrievals of the official policy page."],"characterCount":299},{"label":"Case-by-case decision factors","quotedText":"Decisions to issue a Timely Warning are made on a case-by-case basis, taking into account the nature of the crime, the potential danger to the campus community, and the possible impact on law enforcement efforts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://policy.ecu.edu/52013/","sourceDescription":"ECU University Policy Manual, Timely Warning Procedures (52013)","annotations":["Names the three balancing factors ECU weighs before issuing a timely warning."],"characterCount":212},{"label":"Authority assessment","quotedText":"After being informed of a reported crime by the on-duty police supervisor or other Campus Security Authority (\"CSA\"), the Chief of Police, or their designee, will make an assessment of whether the reported crime poses a serious or continuing threat to the personal safety of students, employees, and/or guests.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://policy.ecu.edu/52013/","sourceDescription":"ECU University Policy Manual, Timely Warning Procedures (52013)","annotations":["Assigns the serious-or-continuing-threat assessment to the Chief of Police or designee."],"characterCount":310},{"label":"Emergency escalation authority","quotedText":"In situations in which the Chief of Police or their designee is not available or where any delay to brief these officials would significantly increase the risk to the ECU community, the on-duty police supervisor is authorized to determine the necessity of a timely warning, develop a timely warning message, activate the text message system, update the ECU Alert website and activate the mass email notification system, as necessary.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://policy.ecu.edu/52013/","sourceDescription":"ECU University Policy Manual, Timely Warning Procedures (52013)","annotations":["Provides a no-delay fallback so a warning is not held up when the Chief is unreachable."],"characterCount":433}],"keyFindings":["ECU's Timely Warning Procedures (policy 52013) is a standalone University Policy Manual regulation grounded directly in the Clery Act.","Timely warnings are decided case-by-case by weighing the nature of the crime, danger to the community, and impact on law enforcement.","The Chief of Police or designee authorizes warnings; an on-duty police supervisor may act without delay if the Chief is unavailable.","Dissemination uses the multi-channel ECU Alert system (homepage, email, loudspeakers, VOIP, SMS, desktop pop-ups, digital signs).","ECU explicitly warns that SMS delivery is not dependable and directs the community to the ECU Alert webpage as the primary, authoritative source."],"sources":[{"title":"Timely Warning Procedures | University Policy Manual | ECU","url":"https://policy.ecu.edu/52013/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"About ECU Alert | Alert Information | ECU","url":"https://alertinfo.ecu.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"ECU Alert","url":"https://www.ecu.edu/alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"ECU Preparedness | Police | ECU","url":"https://police.ecu.edu/preparedness/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"2025 Annual Fire Safety and Security Report - ECU Police","url":"https://police.ecu.edu/wp-content/pv-uploads/sites/34/Annual-Security-Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"ECU to conduct comprehensive test of emergency alert system on Tuesday, Oct. 14","url":"https://wcti12.com/news/local/ecu-to-conduct-comprehensive-test-of-emergency-alert-system-on-tuesday-oct-14","type":"local-media"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","north-carolina","public-r1"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"east-tennessee-state-university-goldalert-policy","slug":"east-tennessee-state-university-goldalert-policy","institution":{"name":"East Tennessee State University","shortName":"ETSU","state":"TN","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"GoldAlert","enrollment":13728},"policy":{"title":"ETSU Emergency Notification and Timely Warning (GoldAlert) Procedures","systemName":"GoldAlert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.etsu.edu/safety/campus_emergency/notification.php","lastReviewed":"2025-01-01"},"summary":"East Tennessee State University distinguishes between an emergency notification — sent when an event 'is currently occurring or imminently threatening campus' — and a timely warning, and delivers both through [GoldAlert](https://www.etsu.edu/safety/campus_emergency/notification.php), its Rave-based text-and-email service, backed by outdoor sirens, a public-address system, and homepage alerts run by [ETSU Public Safety](https://www.etsu.edu/safety/emergency/).","analysis":"East Tennessee State University (ETSU), a public R2 university in Johnson City, names its emergency text-and-email service [GoldAlert](https://www.etsu.edu/safety/campus_emergency/notification.php). (GoldAlert is the notification system; 'Goldlink' is ETSU's separate student/portal system and is not the alert brand — a distinction worth flagging because the two are easy to conflate.) GoldAlert runs on the Rave Mobile Safety platform: ETSU community members register for it at getrave.com/login/etsu by clicking the GoldAlert button, or by downloading the ETSU Safe App and texting 'ETSU' to 237233.\n\nETSU draws a clear two-tier distinction. It states it 'sends either an \"emergency notification\" or a \"timely warning,\"' that 'emergency notifications will be sent when there is an event that is currently occurring or imminently threatening campus,' and that these 'apply solely to situations occurring on campus.' Timely warnings, by contrast, 'alert you to potentially dangerous situations and remind you to be diligent and aware'; ETSU frames them as informational rather than directive — you can continue your everyday life but stay extra alert — because they are 'intended to provide notifications, not instructions.' That explicit notifications-not-instructions framing is a useful articulation of the Clery timely-warning purpose.\n\nGoldAlert is one channel within a broader mass-notification architecture ETSU installed in 2008. Per ETSU, the systems include an outdoor warning siren system with large speakers placed on the main campus and the adjacent Veterans Affairs Medical Center campus, an [ETSU Alert link on the homepage](https://www.etsu.edu/safety/emergency/), desktop messaging on computers connected to the ETSU network, a public-address (PA) system in selected buildings, and the GoldAlert text/email service. The siting of sirens on the VA medical campus reflects ETSU's integration with the Quillen College of Medicine / VA campus.\n\nETSU runs periodic live tests of these systems (for example, an April systems test). Because etsu.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, excerpts were captured from indexed snippets of the official ETSU notification page; the emergency-notification trigger sentence and the timely-warning purpose statement appeared with consistent wording across multiple official-page retrievals and are marked verbatim-confirmed where corroborated twice, with the registration mechanics summarized rather than quoted verbatim.","whenCriteria":"An ETSU emergency notification is sent when an event is currently occurring or imminently threatening campus, applying solely to situations occurring on campus. A timely warning is issued for potentially dangerous situations to remind the community to be diligent and aware; timely warnings are intended to provide notifications, not instructions.","decisionAuthority":"ETSU Public Safety / Emergency Management coordinates GoldAlert and the broader mass-notification systems. The specific position authorized to confirm and trigger an emergency notification was not confirmed verbatim (etsu.edu blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"ETSU ties emergency notifications to events 'currently occurring or imminently threatening campus,' consistent with the Clery standard of issuing without delay upon confirmation; the exact internal time target was not confirmable verbatim in this environment.","cleryFraming":"ETSU explicitly separates emergency notifications (events currently occurring or imminently threatening campus, on-campus only) from timely warnings (potentially dangerous situations, framed as notifications not instructions), tracking the two distinct Clery functions.","testingCadence":"ETSU conducts periodic live tests of its emergency notification systems (for example, an April systems test announced campus-wide). The exact published periodic cadence was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","scopeLimits":"Emergency notifications apply solely to situations occurring on campus. GoldAlert text/email reach depends on registering via getrave.com/login/etsu or the ETSU Safe App (text 'ETSU' to 237233); ETSU layers outdoor sirens (main and VA medical campuses), desktop messaging, a building PA system, and homepage alerts to reduce single-channel dependency.","channels":["sms","email","siren","pa-system","website","desktop-popup","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency-notification trigger","quotedText":"Emergency notifications will be sent when there is an event that is currently occurring or imminently threatening campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.etsu.edu/safety/campus_emergency/notification.php","sourceDescription":"ETSU — ETSU Safe App & Emergency Alerts page","annotations":["Sets the emergency-notification threshold at an event currently occurring or imminently threatening campus, scoped to on-campus situations. Consistent wording appeared across multiple retrievals of the official ETSU notification page."],"characterCount":121},{"label":"Timely-warning purpose (notifications, not instructions)","quotedText":"Timely warnings alert you to potentially dangerous situations and remind you to be diligent and aware.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.etsu.edu/safety/campus_emergency/notification.php","sourceDescription":"ETSU — ETSU Safe App & Emergency Alerts page","annotations":["Frames timely warnings as informational reminders to stay alert rather than directive instructions. Consistent wording appeared across multiple retrievals of the official ETSU notification page."],"characterCount":102},{"label":"Mass-notification channel inventory","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.etsu.edu/safety/campus_emergency/notification.php","sourceDescription":"ETSU — ETSU Safe App & Emergency Alerts (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["ETSU's emergency-notification system is GoldAlert (Rave-based text/email); 'Goldlink' is ETSU's student portal, not the alert system — the two should not be conflated.","ETSU separates emergency notifications (event currently occurring or imminently threatening campus, on-campus only) from timely warnings (be diligent and aware — notifications, not instructions).","Registration is via getrave.com/login/etsu (GoldAlert button) or the ETSU Safe App (text 'ETSU' to 237233).","GoldAlert sits within a 2008-era mass-notification architecture: outdoor sirens on the main and VA medical campuses, homepage alerts, desktop messaging, and a building PA system.","ETSU runs periodic systems tests; etsu.edu blocked automated fetching, so two definitional excerpts are confirmed across multiple snippet retrievals and the channel-inventory passage (with a four-vs-five speaker discrepancy) is flagged reconstructed."],"sources":[{"title":"ETSU — ETSU Safe App & Emergency Alerts","url":"https://www.etsu.edu/safety/campus_emergency/notification.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"ETSU — Emergency Management at ETSU","url":"https://www.etsu.edu/safety/emergency/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"ETSU — Student Emergencies / Emergency Notifications","url":"https://www.etsu.edu/students/notifications.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"ETSU to test emergency notification systems April 6","url":"https://www.etsu.edu/etsu-news/2021/04-april/emergency-notification-systems-test.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"ETSU — Safety at ETSU","url":"https://www.etsu.edu/safety/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","public-r2","tennessee","goldalert","rave","outdoor-siren"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"eastern-florida-state-college-emergency-management-response-plan-notifications","slug":"eastern-florida-state-college-emergency-management-response-plan-notifications","institution":{"name":"Eastern Florida State College","shortName":"EFSC","state":"FL","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"EFSC multi-media emergency notification","enrollment":16000},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Management Response Plan - Emergency Response Messages (November 2024)","systemName":"EFSC multi-media emergency notification","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://www.easternflorida.edu/documents/emergency-management-response-plan.pdf","lastReviewed":"2024-11-01"},"summary":"Eastern Florida State College's November 2024 [Emergency Management Response Plan](https://www.easternflorida.edu/documents/emergency-management-response-plan.pdf) includes scripted multi-channel alert templates for active shooter, bomb threat, fire, tornado, hazardous materials, and hurricane closures, with Executive Leadership Group authorization of message content.","analysis":"EFSC embeds operational notification language inside its Emergency Management Response Plan rather than only in Clery ASR text. For LEVEL 2 or LEVEL 3 emergencies, the plan states messages go via cell, text, website, classroom phones, faculty desktop computers, Facebook, and Twitter, with optional Reverse 911 when authorized by the Emergency Management Director or AVP/Communication. See the source document: [Emergency Management Response Plan - Emergency Response Messages (November 2024)](https://www.easternflorida.edu/documents/emergency-management-response-plan.pdf).\n\nThe plan is institution-specific in publishing fill-in-the-blank alert scripts, including hurricane campus-close and re-open templates that match the college's documented 2024 storm practice. Interim updates are advised for lockdowns and evacuations exceeding 30 minutes because a lack of information can create unnecessary fear and stress.","whenCriteria":"LEVEL 2 or LEVEL 3 emergencies such as criminal behavior, bomb threat, fire, hazardous materials exposure, severe weather, or power outage; LEVEL 1 may use some or all channels to reduce unnecessary panic when authorized.","decisionAuthority":"Executive Leadership Group members may approve altered wording; Emergency Management Director or AVP/Communication may authorize Reverse 911; Communications and Web/Social post social media based on approved initial wording.","timingStandard":"Not quantified in minutes; interim updates advised for lockdowns and evacuations exceeding 30 minutes.","cleryFraming":"EOP operational message-template annex supporting multi-channel emergency notifications during confirmed emergency levels, complementary to Clery ASR timely-warning and emergency-notification policy sections.","scopeLimits":"Multi-campus fill-in templates; channels include cell, text, website, classroom phones, faculty desktops, Facebook, Twitter, and optional Reverse 911.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the notification-message section reviewed.","channels":["sms","phone-call","website","desktop-popup","facebook","twitter-x","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Multi-channel LEVEL 2/3 distribution","quotedText":"If an event is deemed to be a “LEVEL 2 or LEVEL 3 Emergency” such as criminal behavior, bomb threat, fire, hazardous materials exposure, severe weather event, or power outage, the following messages will be sent via cell, text, website, classroom pfhones, aculty desktop computers, Facebook and Twitter (Social Media messages posted by Web/Social team from Communications based on the approved wording in the initial message).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.easternflorida.edu/documents/emergency-management-response-plan.pdf","sourceDescription":"EFSC Emergency Management Response Plan November 2024, Emergency Response Messages","annotations":["Names multi-channel distribution for Level 2/3 emergencies; OCR typos (pfhones, aculty) retained as printed."],"characterCount":426},{"label":"Hurricane close template","quotedText":"Alert! All EFSC campuses will close today at ______ due to Hurricane ______. Check college website for further bulletins.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.easternflorida.edu/documents/emergency-management-response-plan.pdf","sourceDescription":"EFSC EMRP hurricane alert template","annotations":["Institution-specific hurricane closure script template."],"characterCount":121},{"label":"Thirty-minute interim update guidance","quotedText":"During longer duration events (i.e., lockdowns and evacuations exceeding 30 minutes), it is advisable to send interim updates to those affected. A lack of information can create unnecessary fear and stress on those involved.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.easternflorida.edu/documents/emergency-management-response-plan.pdf","sourceDescription":"EFSC EMRP interim update guidance","annotations":["Advises interim updates after 30 minutes of lockdown or evacuation."],"characterCount":224}],"keyFindings":["November 2024 EOP includes scripted alert templates for shooter, bomb, fire, tornado, hazmat, and hurricane events.","Level 2/3 messages use multi-channel distribution including classroom phones and faculty desktops.","Hurricane close and reopen templates match observed EFSC storm practice."],"sources":[{"title":"EFSC Emergency Management Response Plan November 2024 PDF","url":"https://www.easternflorida.edu/documents/emergency-management-response-plan.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["florida","community-college","emergency-operations-plan","message-templates","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"eastern-florida-state-college-timely-warning-emergency-notification-asr","slug":"eastern-florida-state-college-timely-warning-emergency-notification-asr","institution":{"name":"Eastern Florida State College","shortName":"EFSC","state":"FL","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Titan Alerts","enrollment":16000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning and Emergency Notification Procedures (ASR 800.5/800.6) and Titan Alerts","systemName":"Titan Alerts","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.easternflorida.edu/documents/asr.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-01-01"},"summary":"Eastern Florida State College documents [Timely Warning and Emergency Notification procedures](https://www.easternflorida.edu/documents/asr.pdf) in its ASR, with President decision authority for Timely Warnings, Chief of Security confirmation for Emergency Notifications, Titan Alerts text/email enrollment, and multi-channel dissemination including website and PA.","analysis":"Eastern Florida State College publishes Clery-facing notification procedures in its Annual Security Report (procedures 800.5 and 800.6), complementary to its Emergency Management Response Plan message templates. Source: [EFSC ASR](https://www.easternflorida.edu/documents/asr.pdf). Timely Warnings issue when a Clery crime is reported and the President or designee, in consultation with the Chief of Security, judges a serious or continuing threat. The President decides issuance; once decided, Chief of Security, AVP Communications, and AVP Information Technology implement without delay via Titan Alerts text/email, website messages, media, PA, postings, and other methods.\n\nEmergency Notifications for significant emergencies with immediate threat are confirmed by the Chief of Security or AVP Communications (or designees). Under normal timing the President decides after consulting management; in extreme emergency the Chief of Security may act alone. Emergency Notifications may be segmented to a building or group and, if issued, remove the need for a Timely Warning on the same circumstance. Titan Alerts is the named text and email emergency alert notification system with enrollment via myEFSC or Campus Security Offices.","whenCriteria":"Timely Warning for Clery Act crimes (and optionally non-Clery incidents) constituting serious or continuing threat. Emergency Notification for significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat to health or safety (examples include active shooter, fire, gas leak, tornado, hurricane, power outage, civil unrest).","decisionAuthority":"President or designee in consultation with Chief of Security decides Timely Warnings. Chief of Security or AVP Communications confirms emergencies; President normally decides EN content/method/segment with management team; Chief of Security may act alone in extreme emergency when timing is critical.","timingStandard":"Timely Warning as soon as pertinent information is available. Emergency Notification as soon as reasonably necessary and without delay unless professional judgment finds compromise of victim assistance or mitigation.","cleryFraming":"ASR procedures 800.5/800.6 implement Clery two-track messaging with named Titan Alerts enrollment channel and multi-role dissemination chain; EMRP holds scripted message templates separately.","scopeLimits":"EN may be segmented; TW is campus-wide; victim identity excluded from TW; Titan Alerts reach depends on enrollment.","testingCadence":"EMRP tested at least annually through scheduled drills/exercises coordinated by Chief of Security, Emergency Management Director, AVP Communications, and AVP IT; may be announced or unannounced.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","pa-system","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"President Timely Warning decision","quotedText":"The decision to issue a timely warning will be made by the President of the College or his or her designee in consultation with the Chief of Security, or his or her designee.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.easternflorida.edu/documents/asr.pdf","sourceDescription":"EFSC ASR 800.5 Timely Warning Procedure","annotations":["President decides TW with Chief of Security consultation."],"characterCount":174},{"label":"As soon as pertinent information available","quotedText":"A timely warning should be issued as soon as the pertinent information is available because the intent of a timely warning is to alert the campus community of continuing threats, especially concerning safety, thereby enabling community members to protect themselves.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.easternflorida.edu/documents/asr.pdf","sourceDescription":"EFSC ASR 800.5 Timing, Content, and Decision Criteria","annotations":["As-soon-as-pertinent-information TW timing standard."],"characterCount":266},{"label":"Chief of Security may act alone in extreme emergency","quotedText":"However, in an extreme emergency when timing is critical, the Chief of Security may choose to act alone to determine the content of notification to be sent, the method of communication, and the segment of the campus community to be notified.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.easternflorida.edu/documents/asr.pdf","sourceDescription":"EFSC ASR 800.6 Emergency Notification Procedure","annotations":["Solo Chief of Security authority when timing is critical."],"characterCount":241}],"keyFindings":["President decides Timely Warnings with Chief of Security consultation.","Chief of Security may issue Emergency Notifications alone in extreme emergencies when timing is critical.","Titan Alerts provides text and email emergency messages; enrollment via myEFSC or Campus Security."],"sources":[{"title":"EFSC Annual Security Report PDF","url":"https://www.easternflorida.edu/documents/asr.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"EFSC Emergency Management Response Plan PDF","url":"https://www.easternflorida.edu/documents/emergency-management-response-plan.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["florida","community-college","clery-asr","titan-alerts","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"eastern-kentucky-university-eku-alerts-policy","slug":"eastern-kentucky-university-eku-alerts-policy","institution":{"name":"Eastern Kentucky University","shortName":"EKU","state":"KY","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"EKU Alerts","enrollment":14000},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications (EKU Alerts)","systemName":"EKU Alerts","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.eku.edu/in/guides/emergency-notifications/","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Eastern Kentucky University's [Emergency Notifications guide](https://www.eku.edu/in/guides/emergency-notifications/) describes EKU Alerts via Rave Mobile Safety for campus disasters and emergencies across text, email, voice, indoor systems, web, and social channels.","analysis":"Eastern Kentucky University is a public master's university in Kentucky. Its [Emergency Notifications](https://www.eku.edu/in/guides/emergency-notifications/) page is institution-specific: EKU Alerts notify students, faculty, and staff of campus disasters or emergencies via text, EKU email, voice, indoor pop-ups/beacons, and designated web/social channels; current employees and registered students are automatically enrolled in Rave; EKU email cannot be opted out; mobile numbers load from university records with optional STOP/START short-code controls; community members may text EKUAlerts to short codes. This record documents the system overview rather than a full Clery ASR rewrite.","whenCriteria":"Disaster or other emergency that takes place on campus; emergency situations requiring public information and warnings.","decisionAuthority":"Public Safety / EKU Alerts operations as presented on the Emergency Notifications guide; exclusive send authority is not named.","timingStandard":"Not stated as a numeric without-delay standard on the Emergency Notifications overview page.","cleryFraming":"EKU Alerts is the operational multi-channel emergency notification system supporting campus safety communications and timely warnings via Public Safety.","testingCadence":"Not confirmed verbatim on the Emergency Notifications guide reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Email is mandatory for current EKU addresses; text opt-out via STOP blocks emergency notifications and timely warnings to mobile devices.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","desktop-popup","website","facebook","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"EKU Alerts system definition","quotedText":"EKU Alerts is the University’s system for notifying EKU students, faculty, and staff in the event of a disaster, or other emergency, that takes place on campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.eku.edu/in/guides/emergency-notifications/","characterCount":160},{"label":"Automatic Rave enrollment","quotedText":"Current EKU employees and registered EKU students are automatically enrolled in Rave Mobile Safety – Emergency Notifications.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.eku.edu/in/guides/emergency-notifications/","characterCount":125},{"label":"Mandatory email alerts","quotedText":"Email messages are automatically sent to all current EKU email addresses and you cannot opt-out of receiving these messages.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.eku.edu/in/guides/emergency-notifications/","characterCount":124}],"sources":[{"title":"EKU Emergency Notifications","url":"https://www.eku.edu/in/guides/emergency-notifications/","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["public-masters","kentucky","emergency-notification","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"eastern-wyoming-college-emergency-notification-policy","slug":"eastern-wyoming-college-emergency-notification-policy","institution":{"name":"Eastern Wyoming College","shortName":"EWC","state":"WY","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"EWC Emergency Notification System","alertPlatform":"CodeRed","enrollment":1418},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification","systemName":"EWC Emergency Notification System","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://ewc.wy.edu/emergency-notification/","lastReviewed":"2026-07-03"},"summary":"Eastern Wyoming College's [Emergency Notification policy](https://ewc.wy.edu/emergency-notification/) restricts its CodeRed-based notification system to use \"at all times, for emergency purposes or purposes deemed necessary by the President or designee only,\" delivering messages via text, voice, and desktop/office-phone applications to opted-in students and employees.","analysis":"Eastern Wyoming College (Torrington, WY) publishes an unusually explicit, tightly scoped [Emergency Notification](https://ewc.wy.edu/emergency-notification/) policy. Rather than a general marketing-style overview of the system, the page reads as institutional policy language: it names a single decision authority (the President or a designee), enumerates the technical delivery paths, and explicitly forbids routine use of the channel, reasoning that overuse would compromise the perceived importance of a genuine emergency message and risk habituating recipients to ignore it.\n\nThe underlying platform is [CodeRed](https://ewc.wy.edu/emergency-notification/), and enrollment is opt-in through the college website rather than automatic: students and employees who have opted in are notified, and the underlying data feed refreshes daily so that the recipient list stays current with enrollment changes. Delivery paths are unusually granular for a small community college: text messages to email addresses and mobile phones, voice calls to office phones, personal phones, and mobile devices, and application-based alerts pushed to desktops and office phones, a fourth channel type (desktop/application push) that most peer Wyoming institutions in this archive do not document. EWC also participates in a shared county-level layer, with the same underlying alert infrastructure used by Goshen County and the City of Torrington to issue community-wide alerts alongside campus-specific ones.\n\nThis environment's outbound network returns HTTP 403 for direct fetches of ewc.wy.edu, so the excerpts below were captured from official page text as reproduced in search-engine indexing. Three of the four excerpts below returned byte-identical (or near-identical, differing by a single article) across two independently run search queries in this session, the strongest cross-query corroboration found among the Wyoming institutions researched, and are marked verbatim-confirmed on that basis. No specific Clery timely-warning-versus-emergency-notification framing or fixed testing cadence for the system could be confirmed.","whenCriteria":"The EWC Emergency Notification System is to be used, at all times, for emergency purposes or purposes deemed necessary by the President or designee only; the policy explicitly prohibits use for normal messaging or standard contact.","decisionAuthority":"The President or a designee is the sole named authority for determining when the system may be used, per the policy's own language.","timingStandard":"No specific minutes-based timeliness standard was reproduced verbatim; the daily data refresh is described as keeping the recipient list current rather than as a response-time commitment.","cleryFraming":"Not confirmed verbatim for EWC specifically in the sources reviewed; no ASR-level emergency-notification-versus-timely-warning language was located.","testingCadence":"No confirmed recurring testing cadence was found in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Coverage is opt-in (via the EWC website) rather than automatic, and the underlying data feed is refreshed daily; the policy's own prohibition on non-emergency use is itself a scope limit intended to preserve the channel's credibility.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","desktop-popup"],"excerpts":[{"label":"System description and daily refresh","quotedText":"EWC maintains an emergency notification system that is used to notify students and employees who have opted in to the service via CodeRed on the EWC website. This system is updated daily to reflect the current student data available so that any notification message will be delivered to the required student and employee list.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://ewc.wy.edu/emergency-notification/","sourceDescription":"Emergency Notification - Eastern Wyoming College","annotations":["Returned near-identically (differing only by an inserted article, 'the CodeRed') across two independently run search queries of the same page."],"characterCount":326},{"label":"Sole activation authority","quotedText":"The EWC Emergency Notification System is to be used, at all times, for emergency purposes or purposes deemed necessary by the President or designee only.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://ewc.wy.edu/emergency-notification/","sourceDescription":"Emergency Notification - Eastern Wyoming College","annotations":["Returned byte-identically across two independently run search queries, naming the President or designee as the sole activation authority."],"characterCount":153},{"label":"Delivery channels","quotedText":"The notification system is to be used to send messages via text to email addresses and mobile phones, via voice to office phones, personal phones, and mobile devices, and via applications to desktops and office phones.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://ewc.wy.edu/emergency-notification/","sourceDescription":"Emergency Notification - Eastern Wyoming College","annotations":["Returned byte-identically across two independently run search queries; documents an unusually granular four-path delivery model including desktop/application push."],"characterCount":218},{"label":"Prohibition on routine use","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://ewc.wy.edu/emergency-notification/","sourceDescription":"Emergency Notification - Eastern Wyoming College","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["EWC's Emergency Notification System policy names a single activation authority, the President or a designee, more explicitly than any other Wyoming community college researched in this session.","The system, built on CodeRed, is opt-in via the college website rather than automatic, with a daily data refresh to keep the recipient list current.","Delivery spans four channel types: text to email/mobile, voice to office/personal/mobile phones, and application-based push to desktops and office phones.","The policy explicitly prohibits routine or non-emergency use of the channel, reasoning that overuse would erode recipients' attention to genuine alerts.","EWC's alert infrastructure is also used at the county level, with Goshen County and the City of Torrington issuing alerts through the same shared system."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notification - Eastern Wyoming College","url":"https://ewc.wy.edu/emergency-notification/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Goshen County, WY Alerts - Public Signup","url":"https://public.alertsense.com/SignUp/?RegionId=2237","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","codered","clery-act","community-college","wyoming"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"el-camino-college-rave-timely-warning-policy","slug":"el-camino-college-rave-timely-warning-policy","institution":{"name":"El Camino College","shortName":"El Camino","state":"CA","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Rave Emergency Alerts / ECCPD Timely Warning","enrollment":20000},"policy":{"title":"Rave Emergency Alerts and Clery Timely Warning Notices","systemName":"Rave Emergency Alerts / ECCPD Timely Warning","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.elcamino.edu/support/health-safety/police/","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"El Camino College Campus Police brands community emergency messaging as [Rave Emergency Alerts](https://www.elcamino.edu/support/health-safety/police/) (subscribe by texting ECCPD to 226787) and publishes Clery [Timely Warning](https://www.elcamino.edu/support/health-safety/police/specnotice/docs/Timely%20Warning_Motor_Vehicle_Theft_E-Bike_FINAL.pdf) PDFs that state warnings are sent to inform the campus community about incidents that may pose a serious or continuing threat so members can take personal-safety precautions.","analysis":"El Camino College is a California community college. Its [Campus Police page](https://www.elcamino.edu/support/health-safety/police/) presents Rave Emergency Alerts as the enrollment pathway (Text ECCPD to 226787) alongside 24/7 Campus Police service at 310-660-3100. Institution-specific [Timely Warning PDFs](https://www.elcamino.edu/support/health-safety/police/specnotice/docs/Timely%20Warning_Motor_Vehicle_Theft_E-Bike_FINAL.pdf) open with a Clery-framed definition of the Timely Warning product: informing the community about incidents that may pose a serious or continuing threat so community members can take precautions. Electric bicycles are expressly treated as motor vehicles under Clery for these warnings.","whenCriteria":"Timely Warnings for incidents that may pose a serious or continuing threat allowing personal-safety precautions; Rave used for emergency alerts (detailed activation criteria beyond the signup page not enumerated on the overview page).","decisionAuthority":"El Camino College Police Department (specific officer titles not enumerated on the overview pages reviewed).","timingStandard":"Timely Warning language frames prompt community notice for serious/continuing threats (no numeric SLA on the overview page).","cleryFraming":"Timely Warning PDFs cite the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act and define electric bicycles as motor vehicles for Clery motor-vehicle-theft reporting.","scopeLimits":"Campus community; Rave signup via SMS short code; 24/7 Campus Police response.","testingCadence":"Emergency drill information is linked from the police site; numeric cadence not stated on the overview page.","channels":["sms","email","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely Warning purpose (Clery framing)","quotedText":"What is this notice? In compliance with the federal Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act, this “Timely Warning” is being sent to inform the campus community about an incident that may pose a serious or continuing threat which allows community members to take precautions for personal safety.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.elcamino.edu/support/health-safety/police/specnotice/docs/Timely%20Warning_Motor_Vehicle_Theft_E-Bike_FINAL.pdf","sourceDescription":"El Camino College official page/PDF","annotations":["Institution-issued Timely Warning definition from ECCPD PDF."],"characterCount":285},{"label":"Rave SMS enrollment short code","quotedText":"Text ECCPD to 226787 (CAMPUS)","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.elcamino.edu/support/health-safety/police/","sourceDescription":"El Camino College official page/PDF","annotations":["Named Rave enrollment instruction on Campus Police page."],"characterCount":29},{"label":"Campus Police mission/safety framing","quotedText":"The El Camino College Campus Police work to create an environment where people can feel safe to learn, work, live and visit and is committed to providing quality service and protection.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.elcamino.edu/support/health-safety/police/","sourceDescription":"El Camino College official page/PDF","annotations":["Local Campus Police mission language."],"characterCount":185},{"label":"24/7 Campus Police availability","quotedText":"The Police Department is open 24 hours per day, 7 days per week: 310-660-3100","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.elcamino.edu/support/health-safety/police/","sourceDescription":"El Camino College official page/PDF","annotations":["Named phone line and continuous coverage."],"characterCount":77}],"keyFindings":["Rave Emergency Alerts enrollment is advertised as Text ECCPD to 226787.","Timely Warning PDFs use explicit Clery serious/continuing-threat framing.","Campus Police is presented as 24/7 at 310-660-3100."],"sources":[{"title":"El Camino College Campus Police","url":"https://www.elcamino.edu/support/health-safety/police/","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"},{"title":"Timely Warning - Motor Vehicle Theft (E-Bike)","url":"https://www.elcamino.edu/support/health-safety/police/specnotice/docs/Timely%20Warning_Motor_Vehicle_Theft_E-Bike_FINAL.pdf","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["community-college","california","rave","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"elizabeth-city-state-university-ecsualert-policy","slug":"elizabeth-city-state-university-ecsualert-policy","institution":{"name":"Elizabeth City State University","shortName":"ECSU","state":"NC","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"ECSUALERT"},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Management, Emergency Notification System","systemName":"ECSUALERT","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.ecsu.edu/emergency-management/index.php"},"summary":"Elizabeth City State University, a historically Black university in North Carolina, layers three channels in its [Emergency Notification System](https://www.ecsu.edu/emergency-management/index.php): Blackboard Connect for email and text messaging, ECSUALERT campus-wide email, and Audible Alert Tones, physical sirens followed by spoken instructions, coordinated by the university's Office of Emergency Management.","analysis":"Elizabeth City State University's [Office of Emergency Management](https://www.ecsu.edu/emergency-management/index.php) states it has developed an Emergency Notification System to ensure that all necessary emergency notifications are received in a timely manner, and names three specific tools inside that system: Blackboard Connect, described as email and text messaging; ECSUALERT, described as campus-wide email; and Audible Alert Tones, physical sirens on campus followed by spoken instructions. That three-tool structure gives ECSU both a fast, individually addressed digital channel through Blackboard Connect and ECSUALERT, and a physical, location-based channel through the sirens for anyone on campus grounds who may not have a phone in hand.\n\nThe Office of Emergency Management describes its mission as providing an integrated, comprehensive emergency management program and states it is responsible for preparedness training and coordination of emergency response and recovery efforts for natural, manmade, or technological hazards that could adversely affect campus community members and operations, a broad all-hazards framing that places the notification system inside a larger planning and training function rather than treating alerting as a standalone tool. ECSU is one of the historically Black institutions in North Carolina's public university system, and the archive prioritizes HBCU coverage precisely because these institutions, including ECSU, have been frequent targets of coordinated bomb threat waves in recent years, making a documented, multi-channel notification structure especially consequential.\n\nBecause ecsu.edu returned blocked connections to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below are reconstructed from search engine indexed extracts of the official page rather than a firsthand character by character read, and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation; this record is scored at medium confidence on that basis.","whenCriteria":"ECSU's Emergency Notification System is described as developed to ensure that all necessary emergency notifications are received in a timely manner; a specific crime or hazard-type activation threshold was not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed.","decisionAuthority":"ECSU's Office of Emergency Management is presented as responsible for preparedness training and coordination of emergency response and recovery efforts; a single named official with sign off authority to trigger a specific alert was not confirmed in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"The Emergency Notification System is described as built to ensure notifications are received in a timely manner; a specific minutes based standard was not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"The reviewed page frames ECSU's notification tools around an all hazards Emergency Notification System rather than drawing an explicit Clery emergency notification versus timely warning distinction in the specific text captured.","scopeLimits":"The Emergency Notification System spans Blackboard Connect (email and text), ECSUALERT (campus-wide email), and Audible Alert Tones (sirens with spoken instructions), covering both individually addressed digital channels and a campus-wide physical channel.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","channels":["sms","email","siren","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency Notification System purpose","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ecsu.edu/emergency-management/index.php","sourceDescription":"Elizabeth City State University, Emergency Management (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Three notification tools","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ecsu.edu/emergency-management/index.php","sourceDescription":"Elizabeth City State University, Emergency Management (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Office of Emergency Management mission","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ecsu.edu/emergency-management/index.php","sourceDescription":"Elizabeth City State University, Emergency Management (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["ECSU layers three notification tools: Blackboard Connect (email and text), ECSUALERT (campus-wide email), and physical Audible Alert Tones (sirens with spoken instructions).","The university's Office of Emergency Management frames the notification system inside a broader all-hazards preparedness, training, response, and recovery mission.","Ecsu.edu could not be directly loaded in this environment, so this record is scored at medium confidence and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Management, Elizabeth City State University","url":"https://www.ecsu.edu/emergency-management/index.php","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","ecsualert","hbcu","north-carolina"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-27","lastUpdated":"2026-09-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"elizabethtown-college-emergency-communication-protocol","slug":"elizabethtown-college-emergency-communication-protocol","institution":{"name":"Elizabethtown College","shortName":"Etown","state":"PA","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"ECAlert","enrollment":2283},"policy":{"title":"Emergency/Clery Act Communication Protocol","systemName":"ECAlert","documentType":"sop","url":"https://www.etown.edu/offices/security/emg/emergency-communication-protocol.aspx"},"summary":"Elizabethtown College's [Emergency/Clery Act Communication Protocol](https://www.etown.edu/offices/security/emg/emergency-communication-protocol.aspx) assigns content development and ECAlert deployment decisions to the college's Emergency Management Group, splits actual sending between Campus Safety and the Office of Marketing and Communications, and commits to never naming victims in a timely warning.","analysis":"Elizabethtown College, a private liberal arts college of about [2,300 students](https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/elizabethtown-college-3262) in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, publishes its alerting practice as a standalone [Emergency/Clery Act Communication Protocol](https://www.etown.edu/offices/security/emg/emergency-communication-protocol.aspx) under its Campus Security emergency-management pages, rather than folding it into the Annual Security Report alone.\n\nThe protocol's governance structure is a committee-plus-operators model: the Emergency Management Group develops the content of emergency notifications and decides when the ECAlert system deploys, while the actual sending is performed by either the Office of Marketing and Communications or Campus Safety. That split puts message drafting and channel authority in an emergency-management body while keeping two separate offices able to physically transmit, a redundancy arrangement smaller colleges often leave undocumented.\n\nOn the Clery side, the protocol explains its timely-warning trigger with an unusually concrete worked example: a Clery Act crime has occurred and conditions remain that present a serious and ongoing threat, such as a reported and confirmed rape where the suspect has not been apprehended. It also states a firm privacy rule for warning content: because a timely warning is meant to increase awareness of criminal activity, the names of victims are not disclosed in a timely warning message. Scope defaults to breadth: generally the entire campus community is alerted to an emergency on campus, whether it disrupts the whole college or a single building.\n\nBecause etown.edu is not reachable from this research environment (automated fetches are blocked), the passages quoted below are reconstructed from search-engine-indexed extracts of the protocol page rather than a firsthand line-by-line read, so every excerpt is marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false and confidence is held at medium even though the extracts present as close quotations.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notifications deploy for campus emergencies as determined by the Emergency Management Group; a timely warning is triggered when a Clery Act crime has occurred and conditions remain that present a serious and ongoing threat, such as a confirmed rape with the suspect not apprehended.","decisionAuthority":"The Emergency Management Group develops notification content and determines deployment of the ECAlert system; EC Alerts are sent by either the Office of Marketing and Communications or by Campus Safety.","timingStandard":"No minutes-based standard was reproduced in the sources reviewed; deployment follows the Emergency Management Group's determination.","cleryFraming":"One protocol covers both emergency notifications and Clery timely warnings, distinguishing them by trigger: ongoing campus emergencies versus already-committed Clery crimes with a remaining serious and ongoing threat.","scopeLimits":"Generally the entire campus community is alerted to an emergency on campus, whether it disrupts the entire college operation or a single building; victims are never named in timely warning messages.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Content authority and system deployment","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.etown.edu/offices/security/emg/emergency-communication-protocol.aspx","sourceDescription":"Elizabethtown College, Emergency/Clery Act Communication Protocol; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Victim anonymity rule","quotedText":"As a timely warning is meant to increase awareness of criminal activity, the names of victims will not be disclosed in a \"Timely Warning\" message.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.etown.edu/offices/security/emg/emergency-communication-protocol.aspx","sourceDescription":"Elizabethtown College, Emergency/Clery Act Communication Protocol; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":["States the victim-privacy rule as a content commitment inside the protocol itself, with the rationale attached."],"characterCount":146}],"keyFindings":["Content development and deployment decisions belong to the Emergency Management Group, while two separate offices, Marketing and Communications and Campus Safety, can each physically send an EC Alert.","The timely-warning trigger is explained with a worked example: a reported and confirmed rape where the suspect has not been apprehended.","Victims are never named in timely warning messages, a privacy rule written into the protocol with its rationale.","Alert scope defaults to the entire campus community even when an emergency disrupts only a single building."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency/Clery Act Communication Protocol, Elizabethtown College","url":"https://www.etown.edu/offices/security/emg/emergency-communication-protocol.aspx","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Reports and Compliance, Elizabethtown College Campus Security","url":"https://www.etown.edu/offices/security/reports.aspx","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Elizabethtown College, U.S. News college profile","url":"https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/elizabethtown-college-3262","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","sop","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","pennsylvania","private-liberal-arts","victim-privacy"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-23","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"emory-university-emergency-notification-and-response-asr","slug":"emory-university-emergency-notification-and-response-asr","institution":{"name":"Emory University","shortName":"Emory","state":"GA","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"Emory Emergency Notification","alertPlatform":"Rave","enrollment":16511},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification and Response (Annual Security Report policy statement)","systemName":"Emory Emergency Notification","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://clery.emory.edu/annual-report/policies/emergency.html"},"summary":"Emory University's [Emergency Notification and Response policy statement](https://clery.emory.edu/annual-report/policies/emergency.html) commits the university to without-delay notification upon confirmation of an immediate threat, while its separately published Timely Warning Protocol routes Clery-crime warnings, branded Public Safety Notices, through a compliance-and-counsel review chain rather than the police desk.","analysis":"Emory publishes its Clery alerting rules as standing web pages of its dedicated Clery compliance site rather than only inside the annual PDF, and the two tracks are governed by conspicuously different machinery. The emergency-notification track, described on the [Emergency Notification and Response page](https://clery.emory.edu/annual-report/policies/emergency.html), follows the federal template: upon confirmation of an emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety, Emory will without delay determine the appropriate message and initiate the notification process. Operationally the system belongs to CEPAR, Emory's Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response, with the Rave alert service as the primary text channel serving both the university and Emory Healthcare, layered with outdoor warning sirens, mass email, the Emory Safe app, X, and web and cable banners.\n\nThe timely-warning track runs through lawyers and compliance officers instead. Emory brands its timely warnings as Public Safety Notices, and the [Timely Warnings protocol page](https://clery.emory.edu/timely-warnings/index.html) assigns the issuance decision to the Director of Clery Act Compliance, deciding case by case in consultation with the Associate Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer and the Office of General Counsel, weighing the nature of the crime, its Clery geography, the time elapsed since the report, any relationship between the parties, and whether a serious or continuing threat remains. That is one of the more centralized, review-heavy timely-warning chains in this archive, in sharp contrast to the immediate-threat emergency side, and both tracks appear in Emory's alert history as this archive documents it: the August 2025 CDC shooting response ran on the emergency side, while robbery notices have come through the Public Safety Notice route.\n\nTesting discipline is public and specific: CEPAR tests the notification systems monthly, with the sirens sounded the first Wednesday of each month at noon, and the tested stack enumerated down to cable banners. Emory also discloses that it retains the full stack for both campuses (Atlanta and Oxford College). Because emory.edu hosts are not reachable from this research environment (automated fetches return errors), the passages quoted below come from search-engine-indexed extracts of the cited pages rather than a firsthand line-by-line read, so every excerpt is marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false and confidence is held at medium.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notifications issue upon confirmation of an emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees on campus; Public Safety Notices issue for reported Clery crimes judged to represent a serious or continuing threat after a case-by-case review.","decisionAuthority":"Emergency notifications run through CEPAR, the Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response, with Emory Police and Public Safety using the Rave system; Public Safety Notices are decided by the Director of Clery Act Compliance in consultation with the Associate Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer and the Office of General Counsel.","timingStandard":"Upon confirmation of an immediate threat Emory will, without delay, determine the appropriate message for distribution and initiate the emergency notification process; timely warnings follow the Clery timeliness standard while withholding victim names.","cleryFraming":"Two sharply separated tracks: a CEPAR-run emergency notification system for confirmed immediate threats, and compliance-office-issued Public Safety Notices (Emory's brand for timely warnings) for Clery crimes with a serious or continuing threat.","testingCadence":"CEPAR tests the emergency notification systems monthly; the outdoor sirens are tested on the first Wednesday of each month at noon, alongside text, mass email, the Emory Safe app, X, and web and cable banners.","scopeLimits":"Covers the Atlanta campus and Oxford College within Emory's Clery geography; the Rave text system serves both Emory University and Emory Healthcare, and issuance factors include whether the incident occurred within Clery reportable geography.","channels":["sms","email","siren","push-notification","twitter-x","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency notification standard","quotedText":"Upon confirmation of an emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on the campus, Emory will, without delay, determine the appropriate message for distribution and initiate the emergency notification process.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://clery.emory.edu/annual-report/policies/emergency.html","sourceDescription":"Emory University Clery Act Compliance, Emergency Notification and Response policy page; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":["The without-delay commitment sits in the same sentence as message determination, so content decisions cannot lawfully queue the alert."],"characterCount":287},{"label":"Public Safety Notices defined","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://clery.emory.edu/timely-warnings/index.html","sourceDescription":"Emory University Clery Act Compliance, Timely Warnings protocol page; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Compliance-and-counsel decision chain","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://clery.emory.edu/timely-warnings/index.html","sourceDescription":"Emory University Clery Act Compliance, Timely Warnings protocol page; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Emory splits authority by track: CEPAR runs the emergency notification system while the Director of Clery Act Compliance, the chief compliance officer, and the general counsel's office decide Public Safety Notices case by case.","The emergency-notification statement adopts the federal without-delay standard verbatim in structure, tying message determination and initiation together.","Timely warnings carry a house brand, Public Safety Notices, with victim confidentiality built into the definition.","The Rave text system serves Emory University and Emory Healthcare together, layered with sirens, mass email, the Emory Safe app, X, and web and cable banners.","Sirens are tested the first Wednesday of each month at noon as part of a monthly all-systems test run by CEPAR."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notification and Response, Emory University Clery Act Compliance","url":"https://clery.emory.edu/annual-report/policies/emergency.html","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Timely Warnings, Emory University Clery Act Compliance","url":"https://clery.emory.edu/timely-warnings/index.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Notification Program, Emory University Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response","url":"https://emergency.emory.edu/preparedness/just-in-time/emergency-notification.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Notification, Emory University Information Technology Service Catalog","url":"https://it.emory.edu/catalog/communication/emergency-notification.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual Security and Fire Safety Report 2025 (printable), Emory University","url":"https://clery.emory.edu/_includes/documents/emory-clery-report-printable.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["emory-university-cdc-shooting-2025-08-08","emory-university-emory-point-workplace-shooting-2024-09-19"],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","public-safety-notices","compliance-review","general-counsel","cepar","rave","georgia","private-r1","siren-testing"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-31","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"emporia-state-university-esu-alert-policy","slug":"emporia-state-university-esu-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Emporia State University","shortName":"ESU","state":"KS","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"ESU Alert / Rave Alert","enrollment":5500},"policy":{"title":"Campus Alerts (Rave Alert / ESU Alert)","systemName":"ESU Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.emporia.edu/student-life/hornet-ready/campus-alerts/","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Emporia State University's [Campus Alerts page](https://www.emporia.edu/student-life/hornet-ready/campus-alerts/) describes the Rave Alert multi-channel emergency notification system (text, voice, email, web, social) branded operationally as ESU Alert.","analysis":"Emporia State University is a public master's university in Kansas. Its [Campus Alerts](https://www.emporia.edu/student-life/hornet-ready/campus-alerts/) page is institution-specific: ESU partners with Rave Mobile Safety for Rave Alert emergency notifications capable of text, voice, and email messages plus simultaneous posts to Facebook, Twitter/X, and Emporia State RSS feeds; Rave is used for campus closures, extreme weather, and other emergencies across text, email, homepage, and social channels; university-owned computers have alerts pre-installed. This record documents the system overview rather than a full Clery ASR rewrite.","whenCriteria":"Campus closed, extreme weather, or other emergencies requiring community notification.","decisionAuthority":"University emergency operations as presented on the Campus Alerts page; exclusive send authority is not named.","timingStandard":"Not stated as a numeric without-delay standard on the Campus Alerts overview page.","cleryFraming":"Rave Alert / ESU Alert is the operational multi-channel emergency notification system supporting campus safety communications.","testingCadence":"Quarterly test alerts via RAVE are described in ASR materials; the public Campus Alerts overview does not restate full cadence.","scopeLimits":"Mobile delivery depends on current Rave contact details and carrier updates after provider changes.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","facebook","twitter-x","desktop-popup"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Rave Alert system definition","quotedText":"Emporia State University has partnered with Rave Mobile Safety, the leader in mobile safety, to offer an emergency notification system, Rave Alert, capable of sending users text, voice and email messages, as well as simultaneously post announcements to places such as Facebook, Twitter, and Emporia State RSS feeds.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.emporia.edu/student-life/hornet-ready/campus-alerts/","characterCount":315},{"label":"Multi-channel use cases","quotedText":"When campus is closed, we have extreme weather or in other emergencies, ESU uses Rave to send alerts through multiple channels: Text message to your mobile device; Email to your campus email or another address you provide; On the homepage of emporia.edu; and ESU's social media channels.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.emporia.edu/student-life/hornet-ready/campus-alerts/","characterCount":287},{"label":"University computer pre-install","quotedText":"To ensure your safety on campus, we have these alerts pre-installed on all university owned computers.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.emporia.edu/student-life/hornet-ready/campus-alerts/","characterCount":102}],"sources":[{"title":"ESU Campus Alerts","url":"https://www.emporia.edu/student-life/hornet-ready/campus-alerts/","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["public-masters","kansas","emergency-notification","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"fayetteville-state-university-alert-policy","slug":"fayetteville-state-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Fayetteville State University","shortName":"FSU","state":"NC","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"FSU Alert","enrollment":7628},"policy":{"title":"Fayetteville State University Emergency Operations Plan","systemName":"FSU Alert","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://www.uncfsu.edu/assets/Documents/EmergencyOperationsPlan.pdf"},"summary":"Fayetteville State University, a public HBCU in the [University of North Carolina System](https://www.uncfsu.edu/about-fsu), publishes a comprehensive [Emergency Operations Plan](https://www.uncfsu.edu/assets/Documents/EmergencyOperationsPlan.pdf) built on an all-hazards mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery framework, with mass notification carried by the RAVE-based [FSU Alert](https://www.uncfsu.edu/campus-life/our-campus/police-and-public-safety/rave) system.","analysis":"Fayetteville State University (FSU) in Fayetteville, North Carolina, is one of the oldest of the UNC System's [historically Black institutions](https://www.uncfsu.edu/about-fsu), enrolling a record 7,628 students as of fall 2025 with a large military-connected population tied to nearby Fort Bragg. Its emergency framework centers on a published [Emergency Operations Plan (EOP)](https://www.uncfsu.edu/assets/Documents/EmergencyOperationsPlan.pdf), which the university frames as an all-hazards document covering mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery rather than a single-scenario checklist. FSU also maintains a separate, shorter [Emergency Action Plan](https://www.uncfsu.edu/assets/Documents/Facilities%20Management/Environmental%20Health%20and%20Safety/2025%20Programs/FSU%20EMERGENCY%20ACTION%20PLAN.pdf) for building-level occupant guidance, distinct from the campus-wide EOP.\n\nActivation authority sits with the Chancellor. FSU's [Adverse Weather and Emergency Events](https://www.uncfsu.edu/a/10382) procedures describe the Chancellor, in consultation with the Environmental Health and Safety Director and/or the Chief of Police, as responsible for determining the emergency activation level and for authorizing changes to the university's operational status; the most severe tier (Condition 3) requires concurrence from the UNC System President or a designee before certain leave provisions apply retroactively. Day-to-day emergency communications run through the FSU Police and Public Safety Department.\n\nNotification is deliberately layered. The university describes overlapping delivery methods, meaning a single emergency is pushed through text messages, [RAVE-based FSU Alert](https://www.uncfsu.edu/campus-life/our-campus/police-and-public-safety/rave) text/voice/email, social media (X and Facebook), network pop-ups, building intercoms, and the outdoor public address system, so that no single channel failure leaves the community uninformed. As a Title IV, Clery-covered institution, FSU is bound by the standard federal two-track obligation: timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes representing a continuing threat, distinct from emergency notifications upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation, tracked separately on FSU's [Security Alerts and Daily Crime Logs](https://www.uncfsu.edu/campus-life/our-campus/police-and-public-safety/security-alerts-and-daily-crime-logs) page.\n\nA sourcing caveat: the uncfsu.edu host, including the EOP PDF itself, returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this review's environment, so the passages above are reconstructed from search-engine-indexed excerpts of the plan and adjoining policy pages rather than a directly retrieved copy of the document. No sentence below is confirmed word-for-word against the source PDF, so this record carries medium rather than high confidence despite resting on official FSU sources throughout.","whenCriteria":"The EOP takes an all-hazards approach, addressing mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery rather than enumerating narrow trigger events. Separately, FSU's Adverse Weather and Emergency Events procedures define graduated Condition 1/2/3 activation levels tied to changes in campus operational status.","decisionAuthority":"The Chancellor, in consultation with the Environmental Health and Safety Director and/or the Chief of Police, determines the emergency activation level and is vested with authority over changes in campus operational status; the most severe tier (Condition 3) requires UNC System President concurrence for certain retroactive leave provisions.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed. As a Clery-covered institution, FSU is bound by the federal standard of emergency notifications issued without delay upon confirmation and timely warnings as soon as pertinent information is available.","cleryFraming":"Standard federal two-track distinction applies (timely warning vs. emergency notification); FSU tracks these separately on its Security Alerts and Daily Crime Logs page. Specific Clery Annual Security Report notification-criteria language was not independently retrievable and is reconstructed from the federal standard.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed for the EOP itself.","scopeLimits":"FSU Alert and the broader notification apparatus are described as using overlapping delivery methods: text messages, RAVE email/voice, X (Twitter), Facebook, campus network pop-ups, building intercoms, and the outdoor public address system. Exact opt-in/opt-out mechanics and the precise activation criteria for outdoor PA versus text-only alerts were not independently confirmed.","channels":["sms","email","twitter-x","facebook","desktop-popup","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"EOP purpose and all-hazards framing","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uncfsu.edu/assets/Documents/EmergencyOperationsPlan.pdf","sourceDescription":"FSU Emergency Operations Plan (captured via search-engine-indexed excerpt; uncfsu.edu PDF host 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Chancellor's authority over emergency activation level","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uncfsu.edu/a/10382","sourceDescription":"FSU Adverse Weather and Emergency Events procedures (captured via search-engine-indexed excerpt)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Layered notification channels","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uncfsu.edu/life-fsu/our-campus/campus-safety/emergency-management","sourceDescription":"FSU Emergency Notification page (captured via search-engine-indexed excerpt)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["FSU's Emergency Operations Plan takes an explicit all-hazards approach (mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery) rather than addressing only a single incident type.","Activation authority sits with the Chancellor, advised by the EHS Director and/or Chief of Police, with the UNC System President's office holding a check on the most severe operational-status tier.","FSU Alert (RAVE-based) is deliberately multi-channel: text, X/Twitter, Facebook, email, campus network pop-ups, building intercoms, and outdoor PA, built for redundancy if any single channel fails.","As a Clery-covered HBCU with a large military-connected student population, FSU separately tracks timely warnings via a dedicated Security Alerts and Daily Crime Logs page distinct from EOP-level emergency response planning.","The uncfsu.edu host, including the EOP PDF, 403-blocks automated fetching in this review's environment, so all quoted language is reconstructed from search-indexed excerpts rather than a directly retrieved document; confidence is medium, not high."],"sources":[{"title":"Fayetteville State University Emergency Operations Plan (PDF)","url":"https://www.uncfsu.edu/assets/Documents/EmergencyOperationsPlan.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"FSU Adverse Weather and Emergency Events","url":"https://www.uncfsu.edu/a/10382","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"FSU Emergency Notification","url":"https://www.uncfsu.edu/life-fsu/our-campus/campus-safety/emergency-management","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"FSU RAVE (Emergency Notifications)","url":"https://www.uncfsu.edu/campus-life/our-campus/police-and-public-safety/rave","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"FSU Security Alerts and Daily Crime Logs","url":"https://www.uncfsu.edu/campus-life/our-campus/police-and-public-safety/security-alerts-and-daily-crime-logs","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-operations-plan","hbcu","north-carolina","unc-system","all-hazards","rave","emergency-notification","timely-warning"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"fayetteville-state-university-emergency-alert-timely-warning-policy","slug":"fayetteville-state-university-emergency-alert-timely-warning-policy","institution":{"name":"Fayetteville State University","shortName":"Fayetteville State","state":"NC","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"Bronco Alert","enrollment":6500},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Alerts and Timely Warning Notifications","systemName":"Bronco Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.uncfsu.edu/campus-life/our-campus/police-and-public-safety/security-alerts-and-daily-crime-logs","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Fayetteville State University's [security-alerts page](https://www.uncfsu.edu/campus-life/our-campus/police-and-public-safety/security-alerts-and-daily-crime-logs) describes how FSU Police confirm emergencies, prepare messages, and activate Bronco Alert and other channels, with an explicit delay rule when notification would compromise response.","analysis":"Fayetteville State University (FSU) is a public HBCU in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Its Police and Public Safety [security-alerts page](https://www.uncfsu.edu/campus-life/our-campus/police-and-public-safety/security-alerts-and-daily-crime-logs) is both a living archive of community advisories and a criteria page for emergency alerts versus timely warnings. The page names FSU Police as the usual office that prepares emergency messages after first responders confirm an immediate threat, and it lists Bronco Alert alongside the homepage, social media, email, and SMS as activation channels.\n\nInstitution-specific operational detail includes the professional-judgment delay when notification would compromise victim assistance or mitigation, the role of university authorized representatives in initiating the system, and the content goal that people know the situation and the steps to protect themselves. Those local process points are what this record captures.","whenCriteria":"Emergency alert upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety on campus (examples listed include extreme weather, gas leak, armed intruder, bomb threat, disease outbreak). Timely warnings for Clery crimes on Clery geography that pose a serious or ongoing threat.","decisionAuthority":"FSU Police prepare the emergency message after first-responder confirmation; university authorized representatives initiate all or some portions of the emergency notification system. The office responsible for issuing the notification (usually FSU Police) determines content with university and local first responders.","timingStandard":"Immediately initiate the emergency notification system upon confirmation of an immediate threat, unless professional judgment finds that notification would compromise victim assistance or emergency response; issue as soon as that condition ends.","cleryFraming":"Page explicitly distinguishes emergency alerts (immediate threat / Clery emergency notification duty) from timely warnings (Clery crimes posing serious or ongoing threat) and links both to campus community protection.","scopeLimits":"Immediate threats to some or all campus community members; content aims to make people aware of the situation and protective steps without compromising response.","testingCadence":"Not specified on the criteria section reviewed; Bronco Alert / RAVE is the branded delivery system referenced for operational alerts.","channels":["sms","email","website","facebook","twitter-x","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Confirmation then FSU Police message","quotedText":"Once first responders confirm that there is, in fact, an emergency or dangerous situation that poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of some or all members of the campus community, FSU Police will prepare an emergency message. The university's authorized representatives will immediately initiate all or some portions of the emergency notification system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uncfsu.edu/campus-life/our-campus/police-and-public-safety/security-alerts-and-daily-crime-logs","sourceDescription":"FSU Police security-alerts and emergency-alert criteria page","annotations":["Names FSU Police message preparation and university authorized representatives for system activation."],"characterCount":367},{"label":"Delay if notification compromises response","quotedText":"If, in the professional judgment of first responders, issuing a notification potentially compromises efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency, the university may elect to delay issuing an emergency notification. As soon as the condition that may compromise efforts is no longer present, the university will issue the emergency notification to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uncfsu.edu/campus-life/our-campus/police-and-public-safety/security-alerts-and-daily-crime-logs","sourceDescription":"FSU Police security-alerts and emergency-alert criteria page","annotations":["Local professional-judgment delay rule tied to victim assistance and mitigation."],"characterCount":413},{"label":"Content determined with first responders","quotedText":"The office responsible for issuing the emergency notification (usually FSU Police) will, in concert with university and local first responders, determine the contents of the notification. The goal is to ensure individuals are aware of the situation and that they know the steps to take to safeguard their personal and community safety.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uncfsu.edu/campus-life/our-campus/police-and-public-safety/security-alerts-and-daily-crime-logs","sourceDescription":"FSU Police security-alerts and emergency-alert criteria page","annotations":["Usually FSU Police sets content with university and local first responders."],"characterCount":335},{"label":"Bronco Alert among notification channels","quotedText":"Procedures Used to Notify the University Community In the event of a situation that poses an immediate threat to members of the campus community, the university has various systems in place for communicating information quickly. Some or all of these methods of communication may be activated in the event of an emergency. These methods of communication include: the university's homepage, Bronco Alert, social media sites, emails and text messages to cellular devices.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uncfsu.edu/campus-life/our-campus/police-and-public-safety/security-alerts-and-daily-crime-logs","sourceDescription":"FSU Police security-alerts and emergency-alert criteria page","annotations":["Branded Bronco Alert listed with homepage, social, email, and SMS."],"characterCount":468}],"keyFindings":["FSU Police prepare emergency messages after first-responder confirmation; authorized representatives activate the system.","Bronco Alert is named among homepage, social media, email, and text channels.","Notification may be delayed when it would compromise victim assistance or mitigation, then issued when that condition ends."],"sources":[{"title":"Security Alerts and Daily Crime Logs - Fayetteville State University","url":"https://www.uncfsu.edu/campus-life/our-campus/police-and-public-safety/security-alerts-and-daily-crime-logs","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","criteria-page","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","bronco-alert","hbcu","north-carolina"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"fayetteville-technical-community-college-emergency-operations-response-plan","slug":"fayetteville-technical-community-college-emergency-operations-response-plan","institution":{"name":"Fayetteville Technical Community College","shortName":"FTCC","state":"NC","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"FTCC Alert","enrollment":11755},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Operations Response Plan (EORP)","systemName":"FTCC Alert","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://www2.faytechcc.edu/HandbooksManuals/FTCC-EORP.pdf"},"summary":"Fayetteville Technical Community College, distinct from neighboring Fayetteville State University, publishes its [Emergency Operations Response Plan](https://www2.faytechcc.edu/HandbooksManuals/FTCC-EORP.pdf) as a full PDF establishing a preparedness-response-recovery-mitigation framework aligned to the Cumberland County and North Carolina state emergency plans, with tiered activation levels decided through the Vice President for Administrative Services and the College President, alongside a public [text alert service](https://faytechcc.edu/public-safety-security/) for closings, delays, and safety information.","analysis":"Fayetteville Technical Community College, an 11,700-curriculum-student North Carolina community college in [Cumberland County](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayetteville_Technical_Community_College) whose service area includes Fort Bragg, is one of the comparatively few community colleges in this archive that publishes its complete emergency operations plan as a public document. The [Emergency Operations Response Plan](https://www2.faytechcc.edu/HandbooksManuals/FTCC-EORP.pdf) (EORP), posted in the college's handbooks-and-manuals repository, establishes a comprehensive framework of policy and guidance across disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation, explicitly extending to armed-intruder and hostage situations on campus, and states an operational approach consistent with the Cumberland County and State of North Carolina Emergency Operations Plans and the Integrated Emergency Management System and Incident Command System.\n\nThe plan's decision chain is concrete: in an emergency that impacts college operations, the Vice President for Administrative Services is notified, briefs the President with recommendations, and the President decides the actions to implement. Activation is tiered, with an Event Specific Activation implemented by the College President or designee for hazard-specific events requiring fire, law-enforcement, or EMS response, partial staffing of the college's Emergency Operations Center to monitor conditions at intermediate levels, and a Limited EOC Activation level available for a major event; during large-scale response operations the plan contemplates the FTCC EOC operating alongside the county and municipal EOCs.\n\nOn the public-alerting side, the college runs a text alert service advertised from the [Public Safety and Security pages](https://faytechcc.edu/public-safety-security/) and the faytechcc.edu homepage footer, carrying opening delays, closings, and other safety-related information, and pairs it with email, the college website, and its official social accounts; the archive's FTCC cases from the January and February 2026 winter storms and an October 2025 false-report-of-shooter incident show that stack in operation, including remote-instruction pivots announced through FTCC Alert. The EORP itself is the governance layer above those channels rather than a Clery criteria statement, and no standalone public timely-warning policy page was found for FTCC in this research pass. Because both faytechcc.edu and the www2 document host block automated fetches from this environment, the excerpts below are reconstructed from search-engine-indexed extracts of the EORP PDF and are marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false, with confidence held at medium.","whenCriteria":"The EORP activates on emergencies impacting college operations, with tiered levels including an Event Specific Activation for hazard-specific events requiring Fire/Rescue, Law Enforcement, or Emergency Medical Services response, and higher EOC activation levels for major events.","decisionAuthority":"The Vice President for Administrative Services is notified of an emergency impacting operations and briefs the President with recommendations; the President decides the actions to implement, and the College President or designee implements event-specific activations.","timingStandard":"The plan is a preparedness and command framework; the search-indexed portions state notification flow rather than a Clery without-delay standard for community alerting.","cleryFraming":"The EORP is an all-hazards operations plan, not a Clery policy statement; no separate public timely-warning or emergency-notification criteria page was found for FTCC in this research pass.","scopeLimits":"Covers all FTCC campuses and aligns operations with the Cumberland County and State of North Carolina emergency plans; the public text alert service carries college opening delays, closings, and other safety-related information and requires signup via the college website.","channels":["sms","email","website","facebook","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Plan purpose and all-hazards scope","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www2.faytechcc.edu/HandbooksManuals/FTCC-EORP.pdf","sourceDescription":"FTCC Emergency Operations Response Plan (PDF); captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Notification and decision chain","quotedText":"The Vice President for Administrative Service will be notified in the event of an emergency that impacts college operations. He will notify the President of the situation and make appropriate recommendations. The President will decide actions to be implemented.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www2.faytechcc.edu/HandbooksManuals/FTCC-EORP.pdf","sourceDescription":"FTCC Emergency Operations Response Plan (PDF); captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":["A three-step decision chain running through a single vice president to the President concentrates activation authority at the top of the college rather than in a public-safety office."],"characterCount":261},{"label":"Alignment with county and state plans","quotedText":"The plan begins with an operational approach consistent with the Cumberland County and State of North Carolina Emergency Operations Plans and the commonly accepted Integrated Emergency Management System (IEMS) and Incident Command System (ICS).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www2.faytechcc.edu/HandbooksManuals/FTCC-EORP.pdf","sourceDescription":"FTCC Emergency Operations Response Plan (PDF); captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":["Formal vertical alignment to county and state emergency plans, with the plan contemplating the FTCC EOC staffed alongside county and municipal EOCs during response operations."],"characterCount":244}],"keyFindings":["FTCC publishes its complete Emergency Operations Response Plan as a public PDF, a transparency practice few community colleges in this archive match.","Activation authority runs through a three-step chain (Vice President for Administrative Services notifies and recommends, President decides), with the President or designee implementing event-specific activations.","The plan aligns FTCC operations vertically with Cumberland County and State of North Carolina emergency plans under IEMS and ICS, including joint EOC staffing during major events.","Community-facing alerting (text alerts for delays, closings, and safety information) is documented separately on the Public Safety and Security pages; no public Clery timely-warning criteria page was found."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Operations Response Plan, Fayetteville Technical Community College (PDF)","url":"https://www2.faytechcc.edu/HandbooksManuals/FTCC-EORP.pdf","type":"official-statement"},{"title":"Public Safety & Security, Fayetteville Technical Community College","url":"https://faytechcc.edu/public-safety-security/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Fayetteville Technical Community College, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayetteville_Technical_Community_College","type":"reference"},{"title":"Fayetteville Technical Community College Student Population, Univstats","url":"https://www.univstats.com/colleges/fayetteville-technical-community-college/student-population/","type":"reference"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["fayetteville-technical-community-college-spring-lake-false-shooter-2025-10-13","fayetteville-technical-community-college-multi-day-weather-closure-2026-02-02","fayetteville-technical-community-college-level-4-remote-2026-03-16"],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-operations-plan","north-carolina","community-college","eoc-activation","incident-command-system","county-alignment","text-alerts"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-31","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"fisk-university-emergency-alert-policy","slug":"fisk-university-emergency-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Fisk University","shortName":"Fisk","state":"TN","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"Fisk University Emergency Alert Program","enrollment":1059},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Policy (Combined Annual Security and Fire Safety Report)","systemName":"Emergency Alert Program","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.fisk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Fisk-University-ASR-2024-Final.pdf","lastReviewed":"2024-09-01"},"summary":"Fisk University, a private HBCU in Nashville, publishes its emergency-notification and timely-warning policy in its [Combined Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.fisk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Fisk-University-ASR-2024-Final.pdf) and offers an opt-in [Emergency Alert Program](https://www.fisk.edu/campus-safety/) administered by the Office of Campus Safety. Upon confirmation of a significant emergency, the Chief of Campus Safety determines the content of the notification and initiates the system without delay.","analysis":"Fisk University is a private historically Black university in Nashville, Tennessee whose emergency-notification and timely-warning provisions are set out in its [Combined Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.fisk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Fisk-University-ASR-2024-Final.pdf), produced under the Jeanne Clery Act. Fisk does not market a vendor-style brand name (such as 'RAVE' or 'Omnilert') for its alerts; the campus refers to it as an opt-in [Emergency Alert Program](https://www.fisk.edu/campus-safety/) that community members can sign up for, administered by the Office of Campus Safety on the first floor of Carnegie Hall (1741 Meharry Blvd).\n\nThe ASR places decision authority squarely with the Chief of Campus Safety. The report states that the Chief of Campus Safety, in collaboration with other appropriate personnel, will determine who should be notified and will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system. This 'without delay' framing tracks the federal Clery standard that an emergency notification be issued immediately upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety. The same provision adds that, once an emergency is confirmed and based on its nature, the Chief consults with other appropriate University officials to determine which segment or segments of the University community should be notified. During this review the Department was identified as operating under Chief Treviair Ramey.\n\nFisk's distribution practice is multi-channel but modest in scale, consistent with an enrollment near 1,000. Each year an email notification goes to all enrolled students and employees with the link to the ASR, and email blasts are periodically sent with crime-prevention and safety tips; the opt-in Emergency Alert Program adds direct push of urgent notices to those who register. For building-level events Fisk also relies on fire alarms and in-person/verbal notice. The named [Office of Campus Safety](https://www.fisk.edu/campus-safety/) (615-329-8777, Safety@fisk.edu) is the single point of contact for incident reporting and for obtaining hard copies of the report.\n\nBecause the fisk.edu host (and its ASR PDFs) returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the exact wording was captured from indexed search snippets and corroborated across multiple independent retrievals rather than from a byte-for-byte live fetch. The Chief-of-Campus-Safety 'without delay' decision-authority sentence appeared consistently across retrievals and is marked verbatim-confirmed; the precise emergency-notification trigger sentence, the registration mechanics, and any specific test cadence could not be confirmed word-for-word and are flagged. Confidence is set to medium accordingly. Fisk maintains a separate Clarksville-campus ASR; this record covers the main Nashville campus.","whenCriteria":"Per the Clery framework reflected in Fisk's ASR, an emergency notification is issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees; the Chief of Campus Safety determines content and initiates the system without delay. Timely warnings are issued for Clery-reportable crimes that may pose an ongoing threat to the community.","decisionAuthority":"The Chief of Campus Safety, in collaboration with other appropriate personnel, determines who should be notified, determines the content of the notification, and initiates the notification system; the Chief then consults with other appropriate University officials to determine the segment(s) of the community to be notified. During this review the Department was led by Chief Treviair Ramey.","timingStandard":"The ASR states the Chief of Campus Safety will act 'without delay,' taking into account the safety of the community, to determine content and initiate the notification — consistent with the federal Clery 'immediately, upon confirmation' standard. Timely warnings are issued as soon as pertinent information is available.","cleryFraming":"Fisk produces a Combined Annual Security and Fire Safety Report under the Jeanne Clery Act covering emergency response/evacuation procedures, timely warnings, and emergency notifications. It separates the Clery emergency-notification function (immediate threats) from timely-warning crime alerts (ongoing threats).","testingCadence":"Fisk's ASR documents emergency-response and evacuation procedures and annual notice/testing obligations under the Clery Act; the exact published periodic test cadence for the Emergency Alert Program was not confirmable verbatim in this review (fisk.edu host blocked automated fetching).","scopeLimits":"Full text/voice reach depends on community members opting in to the Emergency Alert Program and keeping contact information current; at minimum, an annual email notice reaches all enrolled students and employees. The system serves a small (~1,000-student) residential campus, and Fisk maintains a separate ASR for its Clarksville campus.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Decision authority and 'without delay' standard","quotedText":"The Chief of Campus Safety, in collaboration with other appropriate personnel, will determine who should be notified, and will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.fisk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Fisk-University-ASR-2024-Final.pdf","sourceDescription":"Fisk University Combined Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (host blocked automated fetch; identical wording across multiple official-ASR retrievals)","annotations":["Names the Chief of Campus Safety as the official who confirms, drafts, and initiates an emergency notification. The same sentence appeared identically across the 2019 and 2024 ASR retrievals via the search index; fisk.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so it is sourced from those corroborating snippets."],"characterCount":275},{"label":"Segmented notification on confirmation","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.fisk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Fisk-University-ASR-2024-Final.pdf","sourceDescription":"Fisk University Combined Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Opt-in Emergency Alert Program","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.fisk.edu/campus-safety/","sourceDescription":"Fisk University — Campus Safety page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Fisk's emergency-notification and timely-warning policy lives in its Clery Combined Annual Security and Fire Safety Report; the campus runs an opt-in 'Emergency Alert Program' rather than a vendor-branded system.","Decision authority rests with the Chief of Campus Safety, who confirms, drafts, and initiates notifications 'without delay,' taking into account community safety — matching the federal Clery standard.","Fisk uses Clery segmentation: the Chief consults other officials to decide which segment(s) of the community to notify.","Distribution is multi-channel but small-scale: opt-in text/email alerts, annual ASR email to all students/employees, periodic safety email blasts, plus fire alarms and verbal notice for building events.","No vendor platform brand, exact emergency-notification trigger sentence, or test cadence could be confirmed verbatim (fisk.edu blocked automated fetching); confidence is medium with one verbatim-confirmed excerpt."],"sources":[{"title":"Fisk University — 2024 Combined Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (Main Campus, PDF)","url":"https://www.fisk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Fisk-University-ASR-2024-Final.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Fisk University — 2019 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.fisk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2019-Fisk-University-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Fisk University — Campus Safety","url":"https://www.fisk.edu/campus-safety/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Fisk University — Fall 2024 Enrollment Statistics Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.fisk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Fall-2024-Enrollment-Statistics_Jason-Curry.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Fisk University — Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisk_University","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","hbcu","tennessee","clery-asr","opt-in","small-college"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"fitchburg-state-university-fsu-crime-alert-policy","slug":"fitchburg-state-university-fsu-crime-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Fitchburg State University","shortName":"Fitchburg State","state":"MA","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"Fitchburg State Alert / FSU Crime Alert","enrollment":6500},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning (FSU Crime Alert) Criteria and Fitchburg State Alert Registration","systemName":"Fitchburg State Alert / FSU Crime Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.fitchburgstate.edu/about/university-police/timely-warnings","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Fitchburg State University's [Timely Warnings page](https://www.fitchburgstate.edu/about/university-police/timely-warnings) brands FSU Crime Alerts and Fitchburg State Alert (email default; mobile/landline/additional email user-entered), documents case-by-case Timely Warning factors (nature of crime, continuing danger, risk of compromising law enforcement), and publishes archived Crime Alerts with University Police 978.665.3111 and Rave Guardian app guidance.","analysis":"Fitchburg State University is a public master's university in Massachusetts. Its [timely warnings page](https://www.fitchburgstate.edu/about/university-police/timely-warnings) is institution-specific: Timely Warnings are also known as FSU Crime Alerts, issued as soon as pertinent information is available with crime type content, decided case-by-case on nature of the crime, continuing danger to campus community, and possible risk of compromising law enforcement efforts. Fitchburg State Alert defaults to university email; users add mobile, landline, and additional emails after login with University Credentials. Alert IDs use FS (Fall), SS (Spring), and US (Summer) semester prefixes. Safety tips point to University Police 978.665.3111 and the Rave Guardian app.","whenCriteria":"Clery Act certain crimes in a manner timely and aiding prevention of similar crimes; case-by-case considering nature of the crime, continuing danger to the campus community, and possible risk of compromising law enforcement efforts.","decisionAuthority":"Not named beyond University Police authorship of FSU Crime Alerts on this criteria page.","timingStandard":"Warnings issued as soon as pertinent information is available.","cleryFraming":"Page equates Timely Warning with FSU Crime Alert and cites Clery Act purpose of enabling people to protect themselves and prevent similar crimes.","scopeLimits":"Fitchburg State Alert email default for university accounts; additional channels user-managed. Published Crime Alerts archive with semester-coded IDs.","testingCadence":"Not stated on the Timely Warnings criteria page.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"FSU Crime Alert brand and case-by-case factors","quotedText":"What is a Timely Warning (Also Known as an FSU Crime Alert)? The Clery Act requires institutions to alert the campus community to certain crimes in a manner that is timely and will aid in the prevention of similar crimes. Although the Clery Act doesn't define \"timely,\" the intent of a warning regarding a criminal incident(s) is to enable people to protect themselves. Warnings will be issued as soon as pertinent information is available. The warning will contain information about the type of criminal incident that has occurred. A timely warning will be decided on a case-by-case basis in light of all the facts surrounding a crime, including factors such as the following: The nature of the crime The continuing danger to the campus community The possible risk of compromising law enforcement efforts","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.fitchburgstate.edu/about/university-police/timely-warnings","sourceDescription":"Fitchburg State Timely Warnings page","annotations":["Local FSU Crime Alert brand and three named decision factors."],"characterCount":805},{"label":"Fitchburg State Alert registration defaults","quotedText":"Fitchburg State Alert is set up to send notifications to your Fitchburg State University email by default. Mobile phones, land lines, and additional email addresses must be entered by the user. Login with your University Credentials (formerly Falcon Key) to begin.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.fitchburgstate.edu/about/university-police/timely-warnings","sourceDescription":"Fitchburg State Timely Warnings page registration","annotations":["Local Fitchburg State Alert brand and Falcon Key credential note."],"characterCount":264},{"label":"Semester-coded Crime Alert ID scheme","quotedText":"Issued Crime Alerts FS= Fall Semester; SS= Spring Semester; US= Summer Semester","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.fitchburgstate.edu/about/university-police/timely-warnings","sourceDescription":"Fitchburg State Timely Warnings page alert IDs","annotations":["Institution-specific FS/SS/US alert numbering scheme."],"characterCount":79},{"label":"University Police number and Rave Guardian","quotedText":"Dial 911 for off-campus emergencies. On campus, report suspicious people to the Fitchburg State University Police Department at 978.665.3111. University Police also offers a safety escort service. Call 978.665.3111 to arrange an escort. Download the Rave Guardian app for additional support.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.fitchburgstate.edu/about/university-police/timely-warnings","sourceDescription":"Fitchburg State Timely Warnings safety tips","annotations":["Local UPD phone number and Rave Guardian app reference."],"characterCount":291}],"keyFindings":["FSU Crime Alert is the local name for Clery Timely Warnings.","Fitchburg State Alert defaults to university email; users add phones.","Alert IDs use FS/SS/US semester prefixes.","University Police 978.665.3111 and Rave Guardian are named in safety tips."],"sources":[{"title":"Timely Warnings - Fitchburg State University","url":"https://www.fitchburgstate.edu/about/university-police/timely-warnings","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","public-masters","timely-warning","massachusetts","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"florence-darlington-technical-college-fdtc-alerts-asr","slug":"florence-darlington-technical-college-fdtc-alerts-asr","institution":{"name":"Florence-Darlington Technical College","shortName":"FDTC","state":"SC","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"FDTC Alerts","enrollment":5000},"policy":{"title":"FDTC Alerts Emergency Alert System (Regroup) - Campus Security Report","systemName":"FDTC Alerts","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.fdtc.edu/media/fdtc/content-assets/pdf-library/2025-Campus-Security-Report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Florence-Darlington Technical College documents its [FDTC Alerts Regroup-based Emergency Alert System](https://www.fdtc.edu/media/fdtc/content-assets/pdf-library/2025-Campus-Security-Report.pdf) in the 2025 Campus Security Report, with opt-in mobile alerts, prepopulated email, web/Facebook postings, and scrolling signs/sirens.","analysis":"FDTC (Florence, SC) publishes Overview of Alerts and Notifications in its [2025 Campus Security Report](https://www.fdtc.edu/media/fdtc/content-assets/pdf-library/2025-Campus-Security-Report.pdf). FDTC Alerts is the college Emergency Alert System (EAS) adopted to communicate vital information about potential campus events to academic credit students, faculty/staff, and the public. Methods include mobile text and/or voice (opt-in), email to prepopulated FDTC accounts, web alerts on fdtc.edu and Facebook, and scrolling signs and sirens in key campus areas.\n\nThe report names Regroup as the FDTC Alert Notification System backend and points registration to fdtc.app.regroup.com/signup. Users must register to receive timely emergency/event notifications; text is described as the quickest method and strongly encouraged. Visitors and clients may sign up; students are encouraged to add parent contact numbers. Hazardous weather closings are also pushed via local radio/TV, website, and the main information line (843.661.TECH). Complements South Carolina technical-college policy coverage with York Tech Alerts and Spartanburg procedures.","whenCriteria":"FDTC Alerts used for campus emergencies or events requiring timely community notification; hazardous weather closings use overlapping media and info-line channels.","decisionAuthority":"Director of Marketing and Strategic Communications is spokesperson for hazardous weather media notification; Facilities and Security Director notifies other sites. EAS activation framed as college-adopted system for vital campus event information.","timingStandard":"Text described as quickest notification form; no fixed minutes standard stated for emergency activation.","cleryFraming":"Campus Security Report Overview of Alerts and Notifications / Emergency Alert System section implementing Clery timely-warning and emergency-notification capacity.","scopeLimits":"Mobile alerts require opt-in registration; email prepopulated for students/faculty/staff. Available to academic credit students, faculty, staff, and visitors.","testingCadence":"Not specified as a fixed cadence in the Alerts overview section reviewed.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","website","facebook","siren","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"FDTC Alerts EAS adoption","quotedText":"Florence-Darlington Technical College's Emergency Alert System (FDTC Alerts) is an EAS system the college has adopted to communicate vital information to academic credit students, faculty/staff, and the public as efficiently as possible of potential events on campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.fdtc.edu/media/fdtc/content-assets/pdf-library/2025-Campus-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"FDTC 2025 Campus Security Report - Emergency Alert System","annotations":["Named FDTC Alerts as adopted campus EAS."],"characterCount":267},{"label":"Registration required; text preferred","quotedText":"You must register with FDTC Alerts to receive timely notifications of campus emergencies or events. The quickest form of notification is a text message, so you are strongly encouraged to opt in and provide a number to receive text (SMS) on capable devices.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.fdtc.edu/media/fdtc/content-assets/pdf-library/2025-Campus-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"FDTC 2025 Campus Security Report - FDTC Alert registration","annotations":["Opt-in registration with SMS as preferred channel."],"characterCount":256}],"keyFindings":["FDTC Alerts / Regroup EAS with opt-in SMS and prepopulated email.","Multi-channel stack includes web, Facebook, scrolling signs, and sirens.","Weather closings also use local broadcast media and 843.661.TECH info line."],"sources":[{"title":"Florence-Darlington Technical College 2025 Campus Security Report PDF","url":"https://www.fdtc.edu/media/fdtc/content-assets/pdf-library/2025-Campus-Security-Report.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["south-carolina","community-college","clery-asr","fdtc-alerts","regroup","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"florida-am-university-alert-policy","slug":"florida-am-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University","shortName":"FAMU","state":"FL","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"FAMU ALERT","enrollment":9313},"policy":{"title":"University Policy: FAMU Alert","systemName":"FAMU ALERT","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.famu.edu/about-famu/policies-and-regulations/pdfs-university-policies/FAMU%20ALERT%20%2011.18.22%20final.pdf","effectiveDate":"2022-11-18"},"summary":"[FAMU ALERT](https://www.famu.edu/administration/campus-services/emergency-management/famu-alert/index.php) is the emergency notification system of Florida A&M University — a public land-grant HBCU in Tallahassee — run on the Everbridge platform and governed by the standalone [University Policy: FAMU Alert](https://www.famu.edu/about-famu/policies-and-regulations/pdfs-university-policies/FAMU%20ALERT%20%2011.18.22%20final.pdf), which restricts the system to life-safety situations and is coordinated by the Department of Public Safety and the Emergency Management Office.","analysis":"Florida A&M University operates its alerting program under a dedicated [University Policy: FAMU Alert](https://www.famu.edu/about-famu/policies-and-regulations/pdfs-university-policies/FAMU%20ALERT%20%2011.18.22%20final.pdf) (effective November 18, 2022) rather than burying the rules inside the Annual Security Report alone. The student-facing platform, [FAMU ALERT](https://www.famu.edu/administration/campus-services/emergency-management/famu-alert/index.php), is a communications system built on Everbridge that delivers time-sensitive information about emergencies that could impact the university; it is free to students, faculty, and staff, who keep their contact details current in the iRattler system so that alert text messages reach them.\n\nThe **trigger** follows the Clery standard: as soon as there is confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation posing an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees, the notification system is activated without delay, and one or more notification components are used depending on the severity and type of incident. The policy defines an \"Immediate Threat\" as an imminent or impending threat to the health or safety of the campus community. FAMU separately maintains a **timely-warning** obligation: it issues a timely warning for reported criminal incidents that continue to pose a threat to the University community, with the Police Chief or designee reviewing reports to determine whether an ongoing threat exists and a warning is warranted — the classic Clery split between emergency notifications (immediate threat) and timely warnings (continuing threat from reported crimes).\n\n**Decision authority** is named explicitly. Designated University personnel — including the Assistant Vice President of Safety and Security and the Chief of Police — may authorize activation of the FAMU ALERT System for emergency notifications or timely warnings, and FAMU Alerts may be initiated by trained representatives within FAMU-DPS or the FAMU Emergency Management Office, selecting from pre-scripted message templates. A defining feature of the policy is its **scope limit**: those with activation authority must ensure the system is activated for life-safety situations only and is not used for routine notifications.\n\n**Channels and testing.** FAMU ALERT delivers via text message, phone call, email, and app push notifications through the FAMU App, with weather alerts available as an opt-in; Everbridge Nixle channels serve as a redundancy so parents, visitors, vendors, and fans without university credentials can still receive emergency information, and [Alertus desktop notifications](https://www.famu.edu/administration/campus-services/emergency-management/famu-alertus.php) push messages to networked computers. The university states the system has many redundant components that are regularly tested to ensure proper functionality, and it publishes an [Annual Security Report](https://www.famu.edu/administration/campus-services/campus-police/pdf/ASR%20UPDATED.pdf) documenting these procedures.","whenCriteria":"As soon as there is confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation posing an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees, the FAMU ALERT system is activated without delay. The policy defines an 'Immediate Threat' as an imminent or impending threat to health or safety. Timely warnings are issued separately for reported criminal incidents that continue to pose a threat to the University community.","decisionAuthority":"Designated University personnel — including the Assistant Vice President of Safety and Security and the Chief of Police — may authorize activation of the FAMU ALERT System for emergency notifications or timely warnings. Alerts may be initiated by trained representatives within FAMU-DPS or the FAMU Emergency Management Office. For timely warnings, the Police Chief or designee reviews reports to determine whether an ongoing threat warrants a warning.","timingStandard":"Upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation, the notification system must be activated right away (without delay), unless doing so would compromise efforts to contain the emergency. One or more notification components are used depending on the severity and type of incident.","cleryFraming":"FAMU distinguishes emergency notifications (issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency / dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety) from timely warnings (issued for reported Clery-reportable crimes that continue to pose a threat to the community). Both are documented in the FAMU Annual Security Report.","testingCadence":"The system has many redundant components that are regularly tested to ensure proper functionality. A specific recurring numeric cadence was not byte-confirmed from the public pages.","scopeLimits":"Individuals with authority to activate the FAMU ALERT System must ensure it is activated for life-safety situations only and not used for routine notifications. Emails and text messages are used only for events that present imminent danger or significantly impact university operations.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","push-notification","desktop-popup","twitter-x","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Life-safety-only scope limit","quotedText":"Individuals who have the authority to activate the FAMU ALERT System must ensure that it is activated for life safety situations only and that it is not used for routine notifications.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.famu.edu/about-famu/policies-and-regulations/pdfs-university-policies/FAMU%20ALERT%20%2011.18.22%20final.pdf","sourceDescription":"University Policy: FAMU Alert (Nov. 18, 2022)","annotations":["Defines the policy's hard scope limit. 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Its [alerts landing page](https://www.famu.edu/alerts/index.php) is a system-overview for the branded FAMU ALERT / Everbridge mass-notification application. Institution-specific content includes the free opt-in for the campus community and a caution that mobile AI transcription may inaccurately render emergency voice/text content.\n\nDecision authority and full Clery TW criteria are not expanded on this page; this record captures the branded system and the AI-transcription warning as published.","whenCriteria":"Emergency situations that can impact the university (details beyond system description not expanded on this page).","decisionAuthority":"Not named on the FAMU ALERT system-overview page reviewed; system described as providing timely and accurate emergency information.","timingStandard":"System described as providing timely information; detailed without-delay language not on this page.","cleryFraming":"System-overview for emergency notification delivery; separate Clery policy documents may exist elsewhere.","scopeLimits":"Students, faculty, and staff; free service.","testingCadence":"Not specified on the alerts landing page reviewed.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"FAMU ALERT Everbridge brand","quotedText":"FAMU ALERT is a communications system/application (Everbridge) that provides timely and accurate information about emergency situations that can impact the university. 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The page defines emergency alerting and notification as notice of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or staff occurring on campus, sent to the affected audience with suggested protective actions. A 2025 ASR PDF was not opened as a downloadable official file this pass (Flipbook only); excerpts are from the live HTML. Every excerpt was character-checked against that page.","whenCriteria":"FAU Alert informs the University community of potential or actual emergency events or threats. Emergency alerting covers a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to students or staff on campus.","decisionAuthority":"Not named on the quoted consumer sentences.","timingStandard":"Not stated as a minutes-based SLA on the quoted sentences. 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A separate timely-warning definition was not on the fetched HTML.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","siren","facebook","twitter-x","desktop-popup","website","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"FAU Alert definition","quotedText":"FAU Alert is the University's alert and notification system that informs the University community of potential or actual emergency events or threats.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.fau.edu/emergency/fau-alert/","sourceDescription":"FAU Alert page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Consumer product covers potential or actual emergency events or threats."],"characterCount":149},{"label":"No single method of communication","quotedText":"The University recognizes that no single method of communication will reach everyone, everywhere, every time.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.fau.edu/emergency/fau-alert/","sourceDescription":"FAU Alert page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Explicit multi-channel rationale."],"characterCount":109},{"label":"Emergency alerting definition","quotedText":"Notification of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or staff occurring on campus, sent to the affected audience with suggested protective actions.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.fau.edu/emergency/fau-alert/","sourceDescription":"FAU Alert page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["On campus. 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University Alerts distributed through the branded Eagle Alerts channel reach the community through text messages, email, social media, and other platforms, giving FGCU a multi channel spread for its emergency notification traffic.\n\nFGCU's page draws an explicit Clery distinction between that emergency notification channel and its timely warning obligation: a Timely Warning is described as required by the Clery Act to alert the community to certain crimes in a timely manner that will aid in the prevention of similar crimes, with the University Police Department, in conjunction with other university departments or local law enforcement agencies, issuing campus timely warnings promptly when an incident is considered a serious or continuing threat to students or employees. A timely warning is stated to use methods that reach the entire community, including the FGCU Alert system for text and social media plus email, and to be posted on the department's website and at other locations around campus, layering digital alerting with physical, walk by visibility.\n\nBecause fgcu.edu returned blocked connections to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below are reconstructed from search engine indexed extracts of the official page rather than a firsthand character by character read, and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation; this record is scored at medium confidence on that basis.","whenCriteria":"An FGCU Alert-Emergency Notification is issued in the event of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on campus that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty, and staff. A Timely Warning is issued when an incident is considered a serious or continuing threat to students or employees.","decisionAuthority":"The FGCU University Police Department, in conjunction with other university departments or local law enforcement agencies, issues campus timely warnings; a single named official with sign off authority for emergency notifications specifically was not confirmed in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"Timely Warnings are issued promptly when an incident is considered a serious or continuing threat; a specific minutes based standard for emergency notifications was not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"FGCU explicitly separates its two Clery duties on the same page: FGCU Alert-Emergency Notification for a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat, and Timely Warning for certain crimes representing a serious or continuing threat, issued promptly by the University Police Department.","scopeLimits":"All current faculty, staff, and students are automatically enrolled in the FGCU Alert System; Timely Warnings are additionally posted on the University Police Department website and at other physical locations around campus, extending reach beyond the enrolled alert list.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","channels":["sms","email","twitter-x","facebook","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency notification trigger","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.fgcu.edu/upd/emergencynotificationsandtimelywarnings","sourceDescription":"FGCU University Police Department, Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Automatic enrollment","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.fgcu.edu/upd/emergencynotificationsandtimelywarnings","sourceDescription":"FGCU University Police Department, Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Timely warning standard and channels","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.fgcu.edu/upd/emergencynotificationsandtimelywarnings","sourceDescription":"FGCU University Police Department, Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["FGCU issues an FGCU Alert-Emergency Notification for a confirmed immediate threat, with all current faculty, staff, and students automatically enrolled.","Timely Warnings are issued separately and promptly by the University Police Department for a serious or continuing threat, using the FGCU Alert system, email, the department website, and physical campus postings.","Fgcu.edu could not be directly loaded in this environment, so this record is scored at medium confidence and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings, FGCU University Police Department","url":"https://www.fgcu.edu/upd/emergencynotificationsandtimelywarnings","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Notices and Alerts, FGCU University Police Department","url":"https://www.fgcu.edu/upd/noticesandalerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"FGCU Emergency Management","url":"https://www.fgcu.edu/emergencymanagement/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","fgcu-alert","public-masters","florida"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-27","lastUpdated":"2026-09-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"florida-international-university-fiu-alert-policy","slug":"florida-international-university-fiu-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Florida International University","shortName":"FIU","state":"FL","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"FIU Alert"},"policy":{"title":"FIU Alert Emergency Notification System","systemName":"FIU Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://dem.fiu.edu/fiu-alert/"},"summary":"Florida International University's [FIU Alert page](https://dem.fiu.edu/fiu-alert/) describes an emergency notification system designed to reach as many people as possible in a timely manner with redundant methods. Text messages and phone calls are sent to cell phones, outdoor speakers play an audible alert throughout all campuses, and university phones play an audible alert and display a short text message.","analysis":"FIU (Florida public-r1, six filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [FIU Alert](https://dem.fiu.edu/fiu-alert/) page (HTTP 200). The system is designed to reach as many people as possible in a timely manner while maintaining redundancy should one or several methods fail. It uses multiple methods of communication. Text messages and phone calls will be sent to cell phones. An audible alert will be played on outdoor speakers throughout all campuses. All university phones will play an audible alert and display a short text message. The opening definition sentence contains an HTML NBSP after the bold FIU Alert name and is not quoted. Email, social media, digital signage, and callbox sentences also contain NBSPs and are not quoted. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live HTML.","whenCriteria":"The unquoted opening sentence names an imminent or immediate threat to life safety. Quoted sentences describe reach and channels.","decisionAuthority":"Not named on the quoted paragraphs.","timingStandard":"Reach as many people as possible in a timely manner, with redundancy if methods fail.","cleryFraming":"This file is the consumer FIU Alert overview. A flipping-book 2025 ASR exists; it was not opened as a stable PDF URL in this pass.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system","digital-signage","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely redundant reach","quotedText":"It is designed to reach as many people as possible in a timely manner while also maintaining redundancy should one or several of the methods fail.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://dem.fiu.edu/fiu-alert/","sourceDescription":"FIU Alert page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Redundant multi-channel design."],"characterCount":146},{"label":"Multiple methods","quotedText":"To achieve this, the system uses multiple methods of communication.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://dem.fiu.edu/fiu-alert/","sourceDescription":"FIU Alert page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Follows the reach sentence."],"characterCount":67},{"label":"Text and phone to cell phones","quotedText":"Text messages and phone calls will be sent to cell phones.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://dem.fiu.edu/fiu-alert/","sourceDescription":"FIU Alert page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["SMS and voice."],"characterCount":58},{"label":"Outdoor speakers all campuses","quotedText":"An audible alert will be played on outdoor speakers throughout all campuses.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://dem.fiu.edu/fiu-alert/","sourceDescription":"FIU Alert page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["All campuses."],"characterCount":76},{"label":"VOIP phones","quotedText":"All university phones will play an audible alert and display a short text message.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://dem.fiu.edu/fiu-alert/","sourceDescription":"FIU Alert page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["university is lowercase in the live sentence."],"characterCount":82}],"keyFindings":["FIU Alert is designed for timely, redundant reach.","Channels include cell-phone text and calls, outdoor speakers on all campuses, and university phones with audible alert plus short text."],"sources":[{"title":"FIU Alert, Department of Emergency Management","url":"https://dem.fiu.edu/fiu-alert/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","system-overview","emergency-notification","florida","public-r1"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"florida-southern-college-omnilert-policy","slug":"florida-southern-college-omnilert-policy","institution":{"name":"Florida Southern College","shortName":"FSC","state":"FL","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"Omnilert","enrollment":3000},"policy":{"title":"Omnilert Emergency Notification and Campus Emergency Operations (ASR)","systemName":"Omnilert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.flsouthern.edu/getmedia/eba93634-8fde-4c17-ba11-5e4c5e723f12/fsc-annual-safety-report-crime-statistics.pdf","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Florida Southern College's [Annual Safety Report](https://www.flsouthern.edu/getmedia/eba93634-8fde-4c17-ba11-5e4c5e723f12/fsc-annual-safety-report-crime-statistics.pdf) brands Omnilert for automatic cell-phone text emergency enrollment of students and employees who provide numbers, pairs campus-wide email with text alerts from DCSS, tests Omnilert every 8 hours inside Campus Safety, and places emergency operations under the President with coordination by the Director of Campus Safety & Security under the Emergency Director.","analysis":"Florida Southern College (Lakeland, Florida) is a private liberal-arts college. Its [ASR](https://www.flsouthern.edu/getmedia/eba93634-8fde-4c17-ba11-5e4c5e723f12/fsc-annual-safety-report-crime-statistics.pdf) is institution-specific: DCSS issues campus-wide email and Omnilert text for time-sensitive emergencies; students and employees who provide cell numbers are auto-enrolled with opt-out available in each Omnilert text (not recommended). Immediate notification issues upon confirmation of significant emergency or dangerous situation with a professional-judgment exception. The Omnilert system is tested every 8 hours inside the Office of Campus Safety and Security. All emergency operations are directed by the President or designee and coordinated by the Director of Campus Safety & Security under the Emergency Director. Building/Facility Coordinators under each Administrator/Dean/Department Head have named on-scene duties. An Emergency Hot Line (863.680.4101) and flsouthern.edu home page are additional surfaces. Weather updates are also published on the Safety and Security weather-updates page used operationally during Hurricane Milton.","whenCriteria":"Immediate notification upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees (examples in ASR include civil unrest/riot, explosion, infection outbreak, nearby chemical/hazardous waste spill).","decisionAuthority":"All emergency operations directed by the President of the College or designee; coordinated by the Director of Campus Safety & Security under the direction of the Emergency Director. Officer on duty notifies DCSS and initiates notification by calling appropriate College administrators. Building/Facility Coordinators appointed under each Administrator, Dean, and Department Head.","timingStandard":"College will immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation of immediate threat, unless notification would compromise efforts to assist a victim, contain, respond to, or mitigate the emergency. Omnilert tested every 8 hours daily inside Campus Safety; announced tests emailed by Director of Campus Safety & Security; unannounced tests archived by Safety Operations Specialist.","cleryFraming":"ASR pairs immediate emergency notification procedures with multi-channel Omnilert delivery and separate Timely Warning TOC section; operational weather-update series used for Hurricane Milton campus closures.","scopeLimits":"Auto-enrollment for students and employees who provide cell numbers; campus-wide email requires College email account from Rinker Technology Center. Public may use Emergency Hot Line 863.680.4101 and flsouthern.edu homepage.","testingCadence":"Omnilert Emergency Notification System tested every 8 hours on a daily basis inside Office of Campus Safety and Security. Quarterly fire drills for all residence halls. DCSS maintains test log with date and time; announced tests pre-notified by email.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Omnilert auto-enroll text and campus-wide email","quotedText":"In the event of an emergency on campus, DCSS will send a campus-wide e-mail and issue a text message alert to all members of the campus community. The College uses text messaging for conveying time- sensitive or emergency information directly to cell phones. All students and employees who provide the College with their cell phone number will be automatically enrolled in this service. Any person wishing to opt out of this service may do so by following the opt-out instructions received in any text received through Omnilert; however, this is not recommended by the College.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.flsouthern.edu/getmedia/eba93634-8fde-4c17-ba11-5e4c5e723f12/fsc-annual-safety-report-crime-statistics.pdf","sourceDescription":"FSC ASR emergency notification delivery","annotations":["Branded Omnilert auto-enroll with DCSS email+text pairing."],"characterCount":577},{"label":"Immediate notification upon confirmation with exception","quotedText":"Upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees, the College will immediately notify the campus community. The only reason the College would not immediately issue a notification for a confirmed emergency or dangerous situation would be if doing so would compromise efforts to assist a victim, contain the emergency, respond to the emergency, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.flsouthern.edu/getmedia/eba93634-8fde-4c17-ba11-5e4c5e723f12/fsc-annual-safety-report-crime-statistics.pdf","sourceDescription":"FSC ASR immediate notification standard","annotations":["Local immediate-notification standard with professional-judgment exception."],"characterCount":477},{"label":"President and Director of Campus Safety emergency authority","quotedText":"All emergency operations shall be directed by the President of the College or his designee. All emergency operations shall be coordinated by the Director of Campus Safety & Security under the direction of the Emergency Director.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.flsouthern.edu/getmedia/eba93634-8fde-4c17-ba11-5e4c5e723f12/fsc-annual-safety-report-crime-statistics.pdf","sourceDescription":"FSC ASR emergency operations authority","annotations":["Named President, Director of Campus Safety & Security, and Emergency Director."],"characterCount":228},{"label":"Omnilert tested every 8 hours inside Campus Safety","quotedText":"The Omnilert Emergency Notification System is tested every 8 hours on a daily basis inside the Office of Campus Safety and Security.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.flsouthern.edu/getmedia/eba93634-8fde-4c17-ba11-5e4c5e723f12/fsc-annual-safety-report-crime-statistics.pdf","sourceDescription":"FSC ASR Omnilert testing","annotations":["Highly local 8-hour daily Omnilert testing cadence."],"characterCount":132},{"label":"Announced test email and archived logs","quotedText":"DCSS maintains a log of all completed tests. Documentation of the test is archived in the Florida Southern College, in the Office of Campus Safety. The log lists the date and time, however, prior to an announced test, the Director of Campus Safety & Security sends out an email to all faculty, staff and students informing of the pending test. Unannounced tests are also archived with the Florida Southern Safety Operations Specialist.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.flsouthern.edu/getmedia/eba93634-8fde-4c17-ba11-5e4c5e723f12/fsc-annual-safety-report-crime-statistics.pdf","sourceDescription":"FSC ASR test documentation","annotations":["Named Safety Operations Specialist and Director email pre-notice for announced tests."],"characterCount":435}],"keyFindings":["Omnilert is the branded emergency text system with auto-enrollment for provided cell numbers.","President directs emergency operations; Director of Campus Safety coordinates under Emergency Director.","Omnilert is tested every 8 hours inside Campus Safety.","Emergency Hot Line 863.680.4101 and flsouthern.edu supplement mass notification."],"sources":[{"title":"Annual Safety Report and Crime Statistics - Florida Southern College","url":"https://www.flsouthern.edu/getmedia/eba93634-8fde-4c17-ba11-5e4c5e723f12/fsc-annual-safety-report-crime-statistics.pdf","type":"clery-asr","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","private-liberal-arts","emergency-notification","omnilert","florida","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"florida-state-university-alert-policy","slug":"florida-state-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Florida State University","shortName":"FSU","state":"FL","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"FSU ALERT","enrollment":46184},"policy":{"title":"About the FSU ALERT Emergency Notification & Warning System","systemName":"FSU ALERT","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://emergency.fsu.edu/services/about-fsu-alert-emergency-notification-warning-system","lastReviewed":null,"effectiveDate":null,"policyNumber":"4-OP-E-5"},"summary":"[FSU ALERT](https://emergency.fsu.edu/services/about-fsu-alert-emergency-notification-warning-system) is the official emergency notification and warning system of Florida State University, activated by FSU Police and authorized representatives when a condition threatens the health and safety of persons on campus, using a multi-channel array spanning SMS, email, indoor and outdoor sirens, the SeminoleSAFE mobile app, the FSU ALERTS website, alert beacons, and social media. The system is governed by the university's [4-OP-E-5 Emergency Management](https://policies.vpfa.fsu.edu/policies-and-procedures/general-university/emergency-management) policy, which requires emergency notification immediately upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation, subject to a narrow first-responder delay exception.","analysis":"FSU describes [FSU ALERT](https://emergency.fsu.edu/services/about-fsu-alert-emergency-notification-warning-system) as 'the official emergency notification and warning system of Florida State University.' Its activation threshold is plainly stated: 'If there is a condition which threatens the health and safety of persons on campus, university officials will warn the campus community using one or more of the following delivery methods.' The formal governing instrument is the university's [4-OP-E-5 Emergency Management](https://policies.vpfa.fsu.edu/policies-and-procedures/general-university/emergency-management) policy, which obligates FSU to 'initiate emergency notification procedures for any significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on the campus immediately upon confirmation that a dangerous situation or emergency exists or threatens' — tracking the federal Clery Act emergency-notification standard.\n\n**Decision authority and process:** once first responders confirm an emergency or dangerous situation posing an immediate threat, FSU Police prepare the emergency message and the university's authorized representatives immediately initiate all or some portions of the notification system. The office responsible for issuing the notification (usually FSU Police), in concert with university and local first responders, determines the contents. In practice a dispatcher can activate a preprogrammed 'dangerous situation' message at the touch of a button. The policy carves out one **delay exception**: 'if, in the professional judgment of first responders, issuing a notification potentially compromises efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency, the university may elect to delay issuing an emergency notification,' and will issue the notification as soon as that condition is no longer present.\n\n**Channels** are unusually broad. FSU ALERT can reach the community through SMS text messages (from short code 89361 to registered current students, faculty, and staff), email to official @fsu.edu addresses, indoor sirens and specialty alert beacons deployed across 70+ buildings and technology-enhanced classrooms, outdoor warning sirens on the main campus, Innovation Park / Southwest Campus, FSU Lakefront Park, and the Recreational SportsPlex, the SeminoleSAFE mobile app with push notifications, the dedicated 24/7/365 FSU ALERTS website, and social media — the [FSU Alert Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/FSUAlert/) and the FSU Alert account on X both feature 'only emergency notifications, warnings and advisories.'\n\n**Clery framing and scope:** FSU ALERT is the emergency-notification engine for immediate threats; the broader emergency-management program documents Clery timely warnings and security/crime alerts separately. **Testing:** FSU conducts comprehensive tests of the FSU ALERT system, and instructs users who detect an error during a test or activation (for example, not receiving a text message) to contact FSU Emergency Management at FSUPD-EOC@fsu.edu. Under 4-OP-E-5, the policy itself is reviewed as needed and at least every five years.","whenCriteria":"FSU initiates emergency notification for any significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus, immediately upon confirmation that such a situation exists or threatens. More generally, if there is a condition which threatens the health and safety of persons on campus, university officials will warn the campus community using one or more FSU ALERT delivery methods.","decisionAuthority":"Once first responders confirm an emergency or dangerous situation posing an immediate threat, FSU Police prepare the emergency message and the university's authorized representatives immediately initiate all or some portions of the emergency notification system; the issuing office (usually FSU Police), in concert with university and local first responders, determines the notification's contents.","timingStandard":"Notification is required 'immediately upon confirmation' of a significant emergency or dangerous situation, with one exception: if, in the professional judgment of first responders, issuing a notification could compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain/respond to/mitigate the emergency, the university may delay and will issue the notification as soon as that condition is no longer present.","cleryFraming":"FSU ALERT is the Clery emergency-notification system for immediate threats; its activation language ('immediately upon confirmation' of a significant emergency/dangerous situation, with a first-responder delay exception) mirrors the federal Clery Act emergency-notification standard. Clery timely warnings / crime alerts are documented separately in FSU's emergency-management and Clery materials.","testingCadence":"Florida State University conducts comprehensive tests of the FSU ALERT Emergency Notification and Warning System; users who detect an error during a test or activation are directed to contact FSU Emergency Management at FSUPD-EOC@fsu.edu. The governing 4-OP-E-5 policy is reviewed as needed and at least every five years.","scopeLimits":"FSU ALERT addresses conditions that threaten the health and safety of persons on campus; activations may target all or a segment of the community. The system may be delayed only under the narrow first-responder professional-judgment exception described in policy.","channels":["sms","email","siren","pa-system","push-notification","website","facebook","twitter-x","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Activation threshold","quotedText":"If there is a condition which threatens the health and safety of persons on campus, university officials will warn the campus community using one or more of the following delivery methods.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.fsu.edu/services/about-fsu-alert-emergency-notification-warning-system","sourceDescription":"FSU Emergency Management — About FSU ALERT","annotations":["States the trigger condition (a threat to health and safety on campus) and that one or more channels may be used."],"characterCount":188},{"label":"Immediate-notification mandate","quotedText":"FSU must initiate emergency notification procedures for any significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on the campus immediately upon confirmation that a dangerous situation or emergency exists or threatens.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://policies.vpfa.fsu.edu/policies-and-procedures/general-university/emergency-management","sourceDescription":"FSU Policy 4-OP-E-5 Emergency Management","annotations":["The Clery-aligned 'immediately upon confirmation' standard, drawn from the formal 4-OP-E-5 policy."],"characterCount":298},{"label":"First-responder delay exception","quotedText":"If, in the professional judgment of first responders, issuing a notification potentially compromises efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency, the university may elect to delay issuing an emergency notification.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://policies.vpfa.fsu.edu/policies-and-procedures/general-university/emergency-management","sourceDescription":"FSU Policy 4-OP-E-5 Emergency Management","annotations":["The single permitted exception to immediate notification — and only while the compromising condition persists."],"characterCount":260},{"label":"Dedicated emergency web page","quotedText":"The University has established a dedicated emergency information web page, FSU ALERTS, which is available 24/7/365.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.fsu.edu/services/about-fsu-alert-emergency-notification-warning-system","sourceDescription":"FSU Emergency Management — About FSU ALERT","annotations":["Documents the always-on FSU ALERTS website as a standing emergency-information channel."],"characterCount":115}],"keyFindings":["FSU ALERT is FSU's official multi-channel emergency notification and warning system, governed by university policy 4-OP-E-5 (Emergency Management).","Notification is required immediately upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation posing an immediate threat — the Clery emergency-notification standard.","FSU Police prepare the message and authorized representatives initiate the system; a single delay exception applies when first responders judge that notifying could compromise the emergency response.","Channels are unusually broad: SMS (short code 89361), @fsu.edu email, indoor sirens/alert beacons across 70+ buildings, outdoor sirens at multiple sites, the SeminoleSAFE app, the 24/7/365 FSU ALERTS website, and dedicated emergency-only Facebook and X accounts.","FSU conducts comprehensive system tests and directs users to report errors to FSU Emergency Management (FSUPD-EOC@fsu.edu); the 4-OP-E-5 policy is reviewed at least every five years."],"sources":[{"title":"About the FSU ALERT Emergency Notification & Warning System | Emergency Management","url":"https://emergency.fsu.edu/services/about-fsu-alert-emergency-notification-warning-system","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"4-OP-E-5 Emergency Management | Policies and Procedures","url":"https://policies.vpfa.fsu.edu/policies-and-procedures/general-university/emergency-management","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"FSU ALERT - SMS Text Messages | Emergency Management","url":"https://emergency.fsu.edu/services/fsu-alert-emergency-notification-warning-system/fsu-alert-sms-text-messages","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"FSU ALERT - Outdoor Warning Sirens | Emergency Management","url":"https://emergency.fsu.edu/services/fsu-alert-emergency-notification-warning-system/fsu-alert-outdoor-warning-sirens","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"FSU Alerts (emergency information web page)","url":"https://alerts.fsu.edu/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","fsu-alert","clery","siren","florida"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"fond-du-lac-tribal-and-community-college-weather-emergency-closings-policy","slug":"fond-du-lac-tribal-and-community-college-weather-emergency-closings-policy","institution":{"name":"Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College","shortName":"FDLTCC","state":"MN","type":"tribal-college","alertSystemName":"Star Alert","enrollment":1789},"policy":{"title":"Weather and Short-Term Emergency Closings Policy","systemName":"Star Alert","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://fdltcc.edu/about-us/policies-reports/academic-campus-policies/weather-and-short-term-emergency-closings-policy/"},"summary":"Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College's [Weather and Short-Term Emergency Closings Policy](https://fdltcc.edu/about-us/policies-reports/academic-campus-policies/weather-and-short-term-emergency-closings-policy/) authorizes the president or designee to close the Cloquet campus for emergencies of six calendar days or less, sets published decision deadlines of 5:40 a.m. for closures and 3:00 p.m. for evening cancellations when possible, and routes notification through the opt-in Star Alert text, voice, and email system plus named Duluth-market radio and television outlets.","analysis":"Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College in Cloquet, Minnesota, the state's only college that is jointly a tribal college of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe and a Minnesota State community college, enrolled [1,789 students across 2024-25](https://datausa.io/profile/university/fond-du-lac-tribal-and-community-college). Its alerting doctrine is dominated by the hazard its cases in this archive document most: winter weather. The [Weather and Short-Term Emergency Closings Policy](https://fdltcc.edu/about-us/policies-reports/academic-campus-policies/weather-and-short-term-emergency-closings-policy/) is a genuine standalone policy with three commitments this collection can check against practice. First, authority: the president or designee may close the campus for weather or another short-term emergency of six calendar days or less, and a declared closing excuses employees from work with pay. Second, clock discipline: the closure decision comes by 5:40 a.m. when possible, and the decision to cancel evening classes and events comes by 3:00 p.m. when possible, one of the few policies in this collection that publishes its own decision deadlines rather than only a notification promise. Third, channels: notification goes out in person on campus and by electronic means, with announcements also sent to named broadcast outlets in the Duluth market (KDAL and WKLK radio, KDLH, KBJR, and WDIO television). The electronic backbone is [Star Alert](https://fdltcc.edu/student-support/e-services/student-e-services/), the Minnesota State system's campus alert service, described on the college's e-services page as an emergency notification messaging system using text, voice, and email that is also used for weather closures; it is opt-in, so students and employees must register to receive alerts, and Minnesota State collects the contact data and administers the system centrally. That opt-in caveat matters for a commuter campus where a 5:40 a.m. text is the difference between a safe morning and a drive through a storm, and the policy's redundant broadcast-media layer reads as the hedge against it. The college's Clery-genre commitments live separately in its [Clery Compliance and Security Report](https://fdltcc.edu/wp-lib/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Clery-Report-2019-FINAL.pdf). This archive holds six FDLTCC cases, five of them weather delays and closures from 2024 through 2026 plus a 2019 lockdown after a shooting at a funeral in the adjacent Fond du Lac Band community center, so the policy's weather machinery is the best-documented part of its practice. The fdltcc.edu host is egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language below is carried from search-index retrievals of the official pages and marked unconfirmed pending a character-for-character read.","whenCriteria":"Weather or another short-term emergency of six calendar days or less that warrants closing the campus, canceling classes, or canceling events; the Star Alert system also covers campus-related emergencies generally.","decisionAuthority":"The president or designee may close the campus under the policy.","timingStandard":"The decision to close campus will be made by 5:40 a.m. when possible, and the decision to cancel evening classes and events will be made by 3:00 p.m. when possible.","cleryFraming":"This is an operational closure policy rather than a Clery document; the college's Clery statements live in its separate Clery Compliance and Security Report, and Star Alert doubles as the emergency-notification channel for campus emergencies.","scopeLimits":"Star Alert is opt-in, so text, voice, and email alerts reach only registered students and employees; Minnesota State administers the system and collects the contact data, and broadcast radio and television announcements provide the redundant public layer.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Closure authority","quotedText":"The president or designee may close the Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College campus due to weather or other short-term emergency of six calendar days or less in accordance with this policy.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://fdltcc.edu/about-us/policies-reports/academic-campus-policies/weather-and-short-term-emergency-closings-policy/","sourceDescription":"FDLTCC, Weather and Short-Term Emergency Closings Policy (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":["The authority clause, bounding the policy to short-term emergencies of six calendar days or less. Marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false because fdltcc.edu is egress-blocked from this research environment and the sentence could not be read character-for-character at the source."],"characterCount":193},{"label":"Decision deadlines","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://fdltcc.edu/about-us/policies-reports/academic-campus-policies/weather-and-short-term-emergency-closings-policy/","sourceDescription":"FDLTCC, Weather and Short-Term Emergency Closings Policy (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Campus Alert System description","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://fdltcc.edu/student-support/e-services/student-e-services/","sourceDescription":"FDLTCC, Student E-Services, Star Alert registration (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Opt-in registration requirement","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://fdltcc.edu/student-support/e-services/student-e-services/","sourceDescription":"FDLTCC, Student E-Services, Star Alert registration (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Broadcast media layer","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://fdltcc.edu/about-us/policies-reports/academic-campus-policies/weather-and-short-term-emergency-closings-policy/","sourceDescription":"FDLTCC, Weather and Short-Term Emergency Closings Policy (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval; the source formats the outlets as a list)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["FDLTCC publishes its own decision deadlines, closure by 5:40 a.m. and evening cancellation by 3:00 p.m. when possible, rather than only a notification promise.","Closure authority rests with the president or designee and is bounded to short-term emergencies of six calendar days or less, with employees excused with pay during a declared closing.","The electronic backbone is Star Alert, the Minnesota State system's centrally administered text, voice, and email service, which doubles as the weather-closure channel.","Star Alert is opt-in, so the policy layers named Duluth-market radio and television outlets on top as the redundant public channel.","Five of this archive's six FDLTCC cases are weather delays and closures from 2024 through 2026, making the policy's weather machinery its best-documented practice.","No excerpt is verbatim-confirmed: fdltcc.edu is egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language is carried from search-index retrievals and flagged for direct verification."],"sources":[{"title":"FDLTCC, Weather and Short-Term Emergency Closings Policy","url":"https://fdltcc.edu/about-us/policies-reports/academic-campus-policies/weather-and-short-term-emergency-closings-policy/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"FDLTCC, Weather and Short-Term Emergency Closings Policy (admissions-path mirror)","url":"https://fdltcc.edu/admissions/about-us/policies-reports/academic-campus-policies/weather-and-short-term-emergency-closings-policy/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"FDLTCC, Student E-Services (Star Alert registration)","url":"https://fdltcc.edu/student-support/e-services/student-e-services/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"FDLTCC, Clery Compliance and Security Report, September 30, 2019 (PDF)","url":"https://fdltcc.edu/wp-lib/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Clery-Report-2019-FINAL.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Data USA, Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College","url":"https://datausa.io/profile/university/fond-du-lac-tribal-and-community-college","type":"reference"},{"title":"Wikipedia, Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fond_du_Lac_Tribal_and_Community_College","type":"reference"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["fond-du-lac-tribal-community-college-funeral-shooting-lockdown-2019-10-18","fond-du-lac-tribal-and-community-college-hazardous-weather-closure-2024-03-26","fond-du-lac-tribal-and-community-college-two-hour-weather-delay-2025-01-21","fond-du-lac-tribal-and-community-college-multi-day-weather-closure-2026-01-22","fond-du-lac-tribal-and-community-college-hazardous-weather-closure-2026-02-18","fond-du-lac-tribal-and-community-college-hazardous-weather-closure-2026-03-13"],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","weather-closure","minnesota","tribal-college","star-alert","minnesota-state","opt-in","decision-deadlines","broadcast-media"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-31","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"forsyth-technical-community-college-techalert-asr","slug":"forsyth-technical-community-college-techalert-asr","institution":{"name":"Forsyth Technical Community College","shortName":"Forsyth Tech","state":"NC","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"TechAlert","enrollment":11000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications (TechAlert) - Annual Security Report","systemName":"TechAlert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.forsythtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Forsyth-Tech-ASR-ADA.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-09-01"},"summary":"Forsyth Technical Community College publishes institution-specific [Timely Warning and Emergency Notification procedures](https://www.forsythtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Forsyth-Tech-ASR-ADA.pdf) in its 2025 ASR, branding both channels as TechAlert with distinct message headings for Clery timely warnings versus immediate threats.","analysis":"Forsyth Tech, a multi-campus North Carolina Community College System institution in the Winston-Salem area, documents Clery timely-warning and HEOA emergency-notification procedures under the TechAlert brand in its 2025 [Annual Security Report PDF](https://www.forsythtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Forsyth-Tech-ASR-ADA.pdf). Timely warnings cover Clery Act crimes within Forsyth Tech geography that pose a serious or ongoing threat; messages are headed \"Timely Warning: (nature of crime)\" and must reach the entire campus community because criminal threats are often not location-limited. Decision authority sits with the Chief of Police or designee in conjunction with the Chief Operations Officer or designee, on a five-factor case-by-case basis (nature, continuing danger, elapsed time, offender custody, law-enforcement compromise).\n\nEmergency notifications cover confirmed immediate threats to health or safety on campus property (weather, fire, contagious illness, active shooter, bomb threat, hazmat, and similar). The Lieutenant/Emergency Manager confirms the event with first responders; authorized senders include that Lieutenant, Chief and Assistant Chief of Police, Marketing and Communications, or designated substitutes. EN messages are headed \"Forsyth Tech Alert\" and typically go by email and text via TechAlert, with optional phone, fire alarm, paper postings, TechLink, and social media. Segmented notifications are allowed when only a small portion of campus is affected. A full-scale TechAlert test runs at least annually. Complements the Campus Safety Clery compliance web page.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning: Clery Act crime (or other serious crime at chief discretion) reported within Clery geography presenting serious or ongoing threat. Emergency notification: confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus involving immediate threat to health or safety of students or employees.","decisionAuthority":"Timely warning: Chief of Police or designee with Chief Operations Officer or designee. Emergency notification content, segment, and distribution: Lieutenant/Emergency Manager, Chief of Police, Assistant Chief of Police, Office of Marketing and Communications, or designated Campus Police substitute.","timingStandard":"Timely warnings issued as soon as pertinent information is available. Emergency notifications issued immediately upon confirmation without delay, taking community safety into account, unless notification would compromise victim assistance or emergency mitigation.","cleryFraming":"ASR policy statements for Clery timely warnings and HEOA emergency notifications, with TechAlert as the primary mass-notification system and explicit dual-heading protocol.","scopeLimits":"No TechAlert required for crimes reported only to professional or pastoral counselors. If an emergency notification is issued, a separate timely warning is not required for the same circumstances, but follow-up information must be issued as needed. Off-campus crimes posing ongoing threat may still receive a timely warning at chief discretion.","testingCadence":"Full-scale test of the TechAlert Emergency Notification system at least once a year; tests evaluated for timeliness of message delivery.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","website","facebook","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"TechAlert timely warning heading","quotedText":"Timely warnings are disseminated through the TechAlert system. The heading of these messages will say \"Timely Warning: (insert nature of crime).\"","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.forsythtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Forsyth-Tech-ASR-ADA.pdf","sourceDescription":"Forsyth Tech 2025 ASR - Timely Warnings","annotations":["Distinct TW message heading under TechAlert brand."],"characterCount":145},{"label":"Timely warning decision authority","quotedText":"The Chief of Police or their designee, in conjunction with the Chief Operations Officer or designee, is responsible for making the decision to issue a timely warning.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.forsythtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Forsyth-Tech-ASR-ADA.pdf","sourceDescription":"Forsyth Tech 2025 ASR - Timely Warnings authority","annotations":["Joint police and COO decision path for timely warnings."],"characterCount":166},{"label":"Emergency notification heading and channels","quotedText":"Emergency notifications will typically be disseminated by email and text message, using the TechAlert system. The heading of these messages will say \"Forsyth Tech Alert.\"","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.forsythtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Forsyth-Tech-ASR-ADA.pdf","sourceDescription":"Forsyth Tech 2025 ASR - Emergency Notifications","annotations":["EN uses distinct \"Forsyth Tech Alert\" heading via email and SMS."],"characterCount":170}],"keyFindings":["TechAlert dual-heading protocol: \"Timely Warning: (crime)\" vs \"Forsyth Tech Alert\" for EN.","Chief of Police + Chief Operations Officer joint authority for timely warnings.","Lieutenant/Emergency Manager confirms threats; five named roles may send EN without delay."],"sources":[{"title":"Forsyth Technical Community College 2025 Annual Security Report PDF","url":"https://www.forsythtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Forsyth-Tech-ASR-ADA.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Forsyth Tech Clery Act Compliance - Campus Safety","url":"https://www.forsythtech.edu/about-forsyth/student-success/campus-safety/clery-compliance/","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["north-carolina","community-college","clery-asr","techalert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"fort-lewis-college-skyhawk-alert-policy","slug":"fort-lewis-college-skyhawk-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Fort Lewis College","shortName":"FLC","state":"CO","type":"public-bachelors","alertSystemName":"Skyhawk Alert","enrollment":3500},"policy":{"title":"Skyhawk Alert","systemName":"Skyhawk Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.fortlewis.edu/life-at-flc/health-safety/emergency-preparedness/skyhawk-alert"},"summary":"Fort Lewis College, a public bachelor's-focused liberal arts college in Durango, [automatically enrolls every current student and employee](https://www.fortlewis.edu/life-at-flc/health-safety/emergency-preparedness/skyhawk-alert) in Skyhawk Alert using their official FLC email address and the cell number on file in WebOpus, and reserves the system for on-campus safety emergencies, unexpected campus closings, and off-campus incidents whose threat is moving toward FLC; per the [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.fortlewis.edu/Portals/5/assets/student-affairs/docs/2024-25-Annual-Security-Report.pdf), the Fort Lewis College Police Department decides whether to issue a timely warning in consultation with the Vice President for Finance and Administration.","analysis":"Fort Lewis College describes [Skyhawk Alert](https://www.fortlewis.edu/life-at-flc/health-safety/emergency-preparedness/skyhawk-alert) as an emergency notification system that allows the College to quickly communicate health and safety-related emergency information via text message or email. Unlike systems that require individual opt-in registration, FLC enrolls all current students and employees automatically, using each person's official FLC email address and the cell phone number already on file in WebOpus, the College's student information system; community members can add up to two cell phone numbers and six email addresses and are instructed to keep the WebOpus number current so alerts actually reach them.\n\nFLC's own description of when Skyhawk Alert fires is broader than a typical Clery emergency-notification standard: alerts are used during a safety emergency on the physical grounds of campus, for an unexpected closing of the campus, and may also be sent when there is an off-campus incident and the threat is moving toward FLC, an explicit acknowledgment that Skyhawk Alert can be triggered by an approaching threat that has not yet reached campus property, not only a confirmed on-campus emergency.\n\nOn Clery decision authority, Fort Lewis College's [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.fortlewis.edu/Portals/5/assets/student-affairs/docs/2024-25-Annual-Security-Report.pdf) states that the Fort Lewis College Police Department will issue timely warnings via campus email when the proper conditions are met, following a case-by-case analysis; as soon as pertinent information is available, FLC Police, in consultation with the Vice President for Finance and Administration, evaluates the need to issue a timely warning, weighing the crime's nature, the continuing danger to the campus community, and the possible risk of compromising law-enforcement efforts, tracking the general Clery interpretive standard used across the archive. Naming the Vice President for Finance and Administration, rather than a communications or student-affairs office, as the timely-warning consultation partner is a specific administrative detail not common at every institution profiled here.\n\nBecause fortlewis.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were reconstructed from official Fort Lewis College Skyhawk Alert, Skyhawk Alert FAQ, and Annual Security and Fire Safety Report text as reproduced in search-engine indexing and corroborated across multiple independent queries, and are marked accordingly.","whenCriteria":"Skyhawk Alerts are used during a safety emergency on the physical grounds of campus or when there is an unexpected closing of the campus, and may also be sent when there is an off-campus incident and the threat is moving toward FLC.","decisionAuthority":"The Fort Lewis College Police Department, in consultation with the Vice President for Finance and Administration, evaluates the need to issue a timely warning on a case-by-case basis, considering the crime's nature, the continuing danger to the campus community, and the possible risk of compromising law-enforcement efforts.","timingStandard":"Timely warnings are issued as soon as pertinent information is available, following FLC Police's case-by-case analysis; a specific minutes-based service-level standard was not found in the public sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"FLC Police issues timely warnings via campus email once a reported crime is judged, case-by-case in consultation with the Vice President for Finance and Administration, to represent a serious or continuing threat, tracking the standard Clery timely-warning/emergency-notification framework.","testingCadence":"A published Skyhawk Alert-specific testing schedule was not found in the public sources reviewed, though the College has publicized individual system-wide tests.","scopeLimits":"All current students and employees are automatically enrolled using their FLC email and the cell number on file in WebOpus (up to two cell numbers and six email addresses can be added); alert relevance can extend to off-campus incidents whose threat is moving toward the campus, not only confirmed on-campus emergencies.","channels":["sms","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Skyhawk Alert system description","quotedText":"Skyhawk Alert is an emergency notification system that allows Fort Lewis College to quickly communicate health and safety-related emergency information via text message or email.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.fortlewis.edu/life-at-flc/health-safety/emergency-preparedness/skyhawk-alert","sourceDescription":"Fort Lewis College, Skyhawk Alert page (host blocked automated fetch; text corroborated across independent search-index queries)","annotations":["This exact sentence recurred identically across independent search queries of Fort Lewis College's own Skyhawk Alert page."],"characterCount":178},{"label":"Trigger scope, including off-campus approaching threats","quotedText":"Skyhawk Alerts are used during a safety emergency on the physical grounds of campus or when there is an unexpected closing of the campus, and may also be sent when there is an off-campus incident and the threat is moving toward FLC.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.fortlewis.edu/life-at-flc/health-safety/emergency-preparedness/skyhawk-alert","sourceDescription":"Fort Lewis College, Skyhawk Alert page (host blocked automated fetch; text corroborated across independent search-index queries)","annotations":["Also recurred identically across independent search queries; explicitly extends Skyhawk Alert's trigger scope to an off-campus threat that is moving toward FLC, not just confirmed on-campus incidents."],"characterCount":232},{"label":"Automatic enrollment","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.fortlewis.edu/life-at-flc/health-safety/emergency-preparedness/skyhawk-alert-faq","sourceDescription":"Fort Lewis College, Skyhawk Alert FAQ page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Timely warning consultation partner","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.fortlewis.edu/Portals/5/assets/student-affairs/docs/2024-25-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Fort Lewis College Annual Security & Fire Safety Report, 2024-2025 (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Skyhawk Alert automatically enrolls all current students and employees using their official FLC email and WebOpus-listed cell number, rather than requiring individual opt-in sign-up.","FLC explicitly extends Skyhawk Alert's trigger scope to off-campus incidents whose threat is moving toward the campus, not only confirmed on-campus emergencies.","Timely-warning decisions are made by the Fort Lewis College Police Department in consultation with the Vice President for Finance and Administration, a specific named partner not common at every institution in this archive.","Fort Lewis College, a public bachelor's-focused liberal arts college, publishes a standard Annual Security and Fire Safety Report under the Clery Act."],"sources":[{"title":"Skyhawk Alert, Emergency Preparedness, Fort Lewis College","url":"https://www.fortlewis.edu/life-at-flc/health-safety/emergency-preparedness/skyhawk-alert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Skyhawk Alert FAQ, Emergency Preparedness, Fort Lewis College","url":"https://www.fortlewis.edu/life-at-flc/health-safety/emergency-preparedness/skyhawk-alert-faq","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual Security & Fire Safety Report 2024-2025, Fort Lewis College","url":"https://www.fortlewis.edu/Portals/5/assets/student-affairs/docs/2024-25-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["2024-03-10-fort-lewis-college-dual-arson","2021-12-15-fort-lewis-college-snapchat-gun-threat"],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","public-bachelors","skyhawk-alert","colorado"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"fort-valley-state-wildcat-alert-policy","slug":"fort-valley-state-wildcat-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Fort Valley State University","shortName":"FVSU","state":"GA","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"Wildcat Alert (Rave Guardian)","enrollment":2905},"policy":{"title":"Wildcat Alert / Annual Fire Safety and Security Report — Emergency Notification & Timely Warning Policy","systemName":"Wildcat Alert by Rave Guardian","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.fvsu.edu/content/userfiles/files/2022/09/2022-Safety-Report_-Final_2022.pdf","lastReviewed":"2022-09-01"},"summary":"Fort Valley State University, a land-grant HBCU in middle Georgia, runs its campus emergency notifications through [Wildcat Alert by Rave Guardian](https://www.fvsu.edu/students/rave-guardian), the Rave app that lets users connect to 9-1-1 or FVSU Police and receive RAVE emergency alerts; per FVSU's [Annual Fire Safety and Security Report](https://www.fvsu.edu/content/userfiles/files/2022/09/2022-Safety-Report_-Final_2022.pdf), the FVSU Department of Campus Police and Safety issues a campus-wide Clery 'timely warning' whenever the Chief of Police or administration judges a serious crime to be an ongoing or continuing threat.","analysis":"Fort Valley State University (FVSU) is a public, land-grant HBCU in Fort Valley, Georgia. Its emergency-notification platform is branded [Wildcat Alert by Rave Guardian](https://www.fvsu.edu/students/rave-guardian), built on Rave Mobile Safety's Guardian app. FVSU describes it as a tool that, 'with a push of a button,' lets a user 'directly connect to 9-1-1 or FVSU Police in an emergency' and that also delivers emergency alerts for FVSU — wording that appeared identically across repeated retrievals of FVSU's official Rave Guardian page and is marked verbatim here. The university maintains parallel landing pages for the system under both its [students](https://www.fvsu.edu/students/rave-guardian) and [campus-safety](https://www.fvsu.edu/about-fort-valley-state-university/campus-safety/rave-guardian/) sections.\n\nThe Clery procedural backbone comes from FVSU's [2022 Annual Fire Safety and Security Report](https://www.fvsu.edu/content/userfiles/files/2022/09/2022-Safety-Report_-Final_2022.pdf). The report provides that, in the event a serious crime arises 'which, in the judgment of the Chief of Police or the university administration, constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat, a campus-wide \"timely warning\" will be issued,' and that 'the warnings are sent out as soon as the pertinent information is available.' This names the decision authority (Chief of Police or administration) and sets a 'serious crime / ongoing or continuing threat' standard for timely warnings, with an 'as soon as pertinent information is available' timing rule.\n\nFVSU keeps the Rave platform doing double duty: Rave Guardian is the personal-safety/9-1-1 connection layer, while the same RAVE infrastructure carries broadcast emergency alerts to the campus. The real-world stakes are documented in [local coverage](https://wgxa.tv/news/local/fort-valley-state-issues-alert-after-reported-shooting) of an on-campus shooting for which FVSU PD issued an alert and searched for suspects, and FVSU's own [news room](https://www.fvsu.edu/about-fvsu/news-room/post/campus-advisory-campus-closure-inclement-weather) shows the same channels used for weather closures.\n\nFVSU's published pages confirm the Wildcat Alert brand, the Rave Guardian foundation, the 9-1-1/FVSU-Police connection, and the broadcast-alert function, and the ASR confirms the timely-warning authority, threshold, and timing. The granular emergency-notification fields a fuller policy would specify — the exact 'without delay / upon confirmation' emergency-notification sentence (as distinct from timely warning), the precise channel enumeration (SMS/email/voice/app push), and any periodic-test cadence — were not byte-for-byte confirmable here because fvsu.edu and the ASR PDF returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so those fields draw on indexed snippets and are flagged where reconstructed.","whenCriteria":"Per the ASR, a campus-wide 'timely warning' is issued whenever a serious crime, in the judgment of the Chief of Police or university administration, constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat. Rave Guardian also lets users connect to 9-1-1 or FVSU Police directly. The distinct emergency-notification confirmation threshold for immediate threats was not byte-for-byte confirmable (fvsu.edu blocked automated fetch).","decisionAuthority":"FVSU's ASR names the Chief of Police or the university administration as the judgment authority for issuing a campus-wide timely warning, with the FVSU Department of Campus Police and Safety operating the alerting. The specific position authorized to trigger a broadcast emergency notification was not confirmed verbatim in this review (fvsu.edu and the ASR returned HTTP 403).","timingStandard":"The ASR states timely warnings 'are sent out as soon as the pertinent information is available,' consistent with the Clery timely-warning standard. A precise 'without delay / immediately upon confirmation' emergency-notification timing sentence was not byte-for-byte confirmable here (fvsu.edu/ASR blocked automated fetching).","cleryFraming":"FVSU's ASR frames timely warnings around serious crimes constituting an 'ongoing or continuing threat,' issued by the Chief of Police or administration through the Department of Campus Police and Safety; Wildcat Alert / Rave Guardian is the delivery and personal-safety platform. FVSU publishes an Annual Fire Safety and Security Report.","testingCadence":"A precise published periodic test cadence for Wildcat Alert / Rave Guardian was not confirmed verbatim in this review (fvsu.edu and the ASR PDF blocked automated fetching).","scopeLimits":"Wildcat Alert is built on the Rave Guardian app, so its one-touch 9-1-1/FVSU-Police feature and some alert reach depend on members installing and registering the app; the same RAVE infrastructure broadcasts emergency alerts and weather closures to the campus. The precise full channel set (SMS/email/voice/app push) could not be confirmed verbatim here.","channels":["push-notification","sms","email","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Wildcat Alert / Rave Guardian system definition","quotedText":"With a push of a button, you can directly connect to 9-1-1 or FVSU Police in an emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.fvsu.edu/students/rave-guardian","sourceDescription":"Fort Valley State University — Wildcat Alert by Rave Guardian page","annotations":["Defines the Rave Guardian personal-safety/one-touch dispatch feature that underlies Wildcat Alert. Identical wording surfaced across repeated retrievals of FVSU's official Rave Guardian page (both the /students and /campus-safety landing pages), so it is marked isVerbatimConfirmed:true despite fvsu.edu returning HTTP 403 to direct automated fetching."],"characterCount":90},{"label":"Timely-warning authority and threshold (ASR)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.fvsu.edu/content/userfiles/files/2022/09/2022-Safety-Report_-Final_2022.pdf","sourceDescription":"FVSU — 2022 Annual Fire Safety and Security Report (PDF; host blocked automated fetch, text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Broadcast alert function (local-media corroboration)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://wgxa.tv/news/local/fort-valley-state-issues-alert-after-reported-shooting","sourceDescription":"WGXA (Macon) — local-media coverage of an FVSU campus shooting alert","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["FVSU's emergency-notification platform is Wildcat Alert by Rave Guardian, built on Rave Mobile Safety's app with one-touch 9-1-1/FVSU-Police connection plus broadcast RAVE alerts.","FVSU's 2022 ASR names the Chief of Police or university administration as the timely-warning authority and sets a 'serious crime / ongoing or continuing threat' standard.","Timely warnings are issued 'as soon as the pertinent information is available,' the Clery timely-warning timing standard.","The same RAVE infrastructure carries both emergency alerts (e.g., a campus shooting per local coverage) and weather closures (per FVSU's news room).","The distinct emergency-notification timing sentence, full channel enumeration, and test cadence could not be confirmed verbatim (fvsu.edu and the ASR PDF blocked automated fetching); the Rave Guardian system definition is confirmed verbatim across FVSU's official pages."],"sources":[{"title":"Fort Valley State University — Wildcat Alert by Rave Guardian (Students)","url":"https://www.fvsu.edu/students/rave-guardian","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Fort Valley State University — Wildcat Alert by Rave Guardian (Campus Safety)","url":"https://www.fvsu.edu/about-fort-valley-state-university/campus-safety/rave-guardian/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"FVSU — 2022 Annual Fire Safety and Security Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.fvsu.edu/content/userfiles/files/2022/09/2022-Safety-Report_-Final_2022.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"FVSU — Campus Advisory: Campus Closure / Inclement Weather (News Room)","url":"https://www.fvsu.edu/about-fvsu/news-room/post/campus-advisory-campus-closure-inclement-weather","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"WGXA — Fort Valley State issues alert after reported shooting","url":"https://wgxa.tv/news/local/fort-valley-state-issues-alert-after-reported-shooting","type":"local-media"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","hbcu","georgia","wildcat-alert","rave-guardian"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"fox-valley-technical-college-emergency-weather-closings","slug":"fox-valley-technical-college-emergency-weather-closings","institution":{"name":"Fox Valley Technical College","shortName":"FVTC","state":"WI","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"FVTC Emergency Mass Notification / Weather Alert","enrollment":10000},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Weather Closings","systemName":"FVTC Emergency Mass Notification","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://fvtc.edu/about-us/emergency-procedures/emergency-weather-closings","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Fox Valley Technical College's [Emergency Weather Closings](https://fvtc.edu/about-us/emergency-procedures/emergency-weather-closings) page states a strive-to-remain-open philosophy with student travel judgment, 5 a.m. day and 3 p.m. evening decision targets, President and VP Finance and Facilities decision authority, locked buildings when closed, virtual classes proceeding, and regional center manager consultation for site-specific closes.","analysis":"Fox Valley Technical College is a multi-campus Wisconsin technical college. Its [Emergency Weather Closings](https://fvtc.edu/about-us/emergency-procedures/emergency-weather-closings) system-overview is institution-specific: the college strives to remain open; when buildings stay open students ultimately choose whether to report for in-person class across a wide geographical region; day-close announcements target 5:00 a.m. and evening cancellations 3:00 p.m.; closing decisions are made by the College President and the Vice President for Finance and Facilities or designees; closed buildings are locked and staff should not report on campus while virtual classes proceed and instructors may convert in-person sections to virtual activities; regional center managers may close individual sites after consulting the VP Finance and Facilities; notification channels include TV, radio, emergency mass notification, social media, and email/text for enrolled students and employees. This record documents the weather closing overview rather than a full ASR rewrite.","whenCriteria":"Severe weather or other conditions that may warrant Appleton/Oshkosh campus close, evening class cancel, or selective regional center close.","decisionAuthority":"College President and Vice President for Finance and Facilities or their designee(s). Regional center managers, after consultation with the Vice President for Finance and Facilities or designee, decide regional site closings.","timingStandard":"Appleton/Oshkosh day closing announcements by 5:00 a.m.; evening class/activity cancellation decisions by 3:00 p.m. when possible.","cleryFraming":"Weather and operations closing procedures; Clery emergency-notification procedure details may appear separately in emergency procedures materials.","testingCadence":"Not confirmed verbatim on the emergency weather closings page reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Applies to FVTC campuses and regional centers; closures may be district-wide or site-specific as stated in the notification. Virtual classes proceed when buildings are closed.","channels":["sms","email","website","twitter-x","facebook","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Student travel judgment when open","quotedText":"Fox Valley Technical College will strive to remain open to serve students. If the weather is threatening and buildings stay open, the choice to report for an in-person class is ultimately up to the student.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://fvtc.edu/about-us/emergency-procedures/emergency-weather-closings","characterCount":206},{"label":"Decision timing day and evening","quotedText":"When severe weather conditions exist in the morning, the college will announce a campus closing by 5:00 a.m.\n\nIf the college is open and severe weather or other conditions develop during the day, the conditions will be evaluated and if possible, a decision regarding the cancellation of evening classes will be made by 3:00 p.m. for evening classes/activities.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://fvtc.edu/about-us/emergency-procedures/emergency-weather-closings","characterCount":360},{"label":"Closed buildings locked virtual continue","quotedText":"When the campuses are closed, the buildings will be locked. Staff should not report to work on campus and students should not report to in person classes.\n\nVirtual classes will proceed as scheduled when the buildings are closed. In-person classes will be canceled but instructors may elect to conduct virtual learning activities instead.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://fvtc.edu/about-us/emergency-procedures/emergency-weather-closings","characterCount":337}],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Weather Closings","url":"https://fvtc.edu/about-us/emergency-procedures/emergency-weather-closings","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["wisconsin","community-college","inclement-weather","emergency-notification","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"franklin-marshall-college-timely-warning-emergency-notification-policy","slug":"franklin-marshall-college-timely-warning-emergency-notification-policy","institution":{"name":"Franklin & Marshall College","shortName":"F&M","state":"PA","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"Rave Alert","enrollment":2200},"policy":{"title":"Campus Timely Warning Notice and Emergency Notification Policy","systemName":"Rave Alert","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.fandm.edu/college-policies/legal-affairs/campus-timely-warning-notice-and-emergency-notification-policy.html","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Franklin & Marshall College's published [Campus Timely Warning Notice and Emergency Notification Policy](https://www.fandm.edu/college-policies/legal-affairs/campus-timely-warning-notice-and-emergency-notification-policy.html) names a five-person Decision Team, gives the Vice President of Finance and Administration sole discretion in extreme emergencies, and brands Rave Alert plus Alertus digital signage among delivery channels.","analysis":"Franklin & Marshall College is a private liberal-arts college in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Its Legal Affairs [timely-warning and emergency-notification policy](https://www.fandm.edu/college-policies/legal-affairs/campus-timely-warning-notice-and-emergency-notification-policy.html) is institution-specific where it counts: it lists a Decision Team of five named offices, requires at least two of them for ordinary decisions, and authorizes the Vice President of Finance and Administration alone in extreme emergencies. Delivery is branded around the Rave Alert System with email, SMS, Public Safety web, PA, and Alertus digital signage.\n\nThe page separates Campus Timely Warning Notices (Clery ongoing/repeat threat) from Emergency Notifications (immediate threat on campus via Rave). Content guidance for timely warnings includes crime type, time, location, and protective advice, with a local note that race/ethnicity suspect descriptions are generally avoided unless they make a material, immediate public-safety difference.","whenCriteria":"Campus Timely Warning Notice for Clery crimes or other serious/continuing threats on Clery geography; Emergency Notification for a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety of students or employees on campus.","decisionAuthority":"At least two personnel from the Decision Team (VP Finance and Administration; Associate VP of Public Safety; VP for Communications; VP and Dean of Student Affairs; General Counsel). In an extreme emergency, sole discretion of the Vice President of Finance and Administration. Decision includes designating the office or person responsible for dissemination.","timingStandard":"Timely warning as soon as pertinent information is available; Emergency Notification as soon as reasonably necessary and without delay unless notification would compromise victim assistance or mitigation; follow-up after initial EN.","cleryFraming":"Explicit Campus Timely Warning Notice vs Emergency Notification split with Clery crime list and Handbook for Campus Safety and Security Reporting citation.","scopeLimits":"Timely warnings generally avoid race/ethnicity suspect descriptions unless material and immediate for public safety; EN may contain only information reasonably necessary to promote safety.","testingCadence":"Not specified on the criteria/policy page reviewed.","channels":["sms","email","website","pa-system","digital-signage","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Decision Team two-person rule and extreme-emergency sole discretion","quotedText":"The decision to issue a Campus Timely Warning Notice is made in coordination and consultation by at least two of the following personnel from the Decision Team. In an extreme emergency, the notification process will be implemented at the sole discretion of the College's Vice President of Finance and Administration.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.fandm.edu/college-policies/legal-affairs/campus-timely-warning-notice-and-emergency-notification-policy.html","sourceDescription":"F&M Campus Timely Warning Notice and Emergency Notification Policy","annotations":["Named Decision Team process plus VP Finance sole discretion - not generic Clery text."],"characterCount":316},{"label":"Named Decision Team offices","quotedText":"The decision to issue a Campus Timely Warning Notice is made in coordination and consultation by at least two of the following personnel from the Decision Team. In an extreme emergency, the notification process will be implemented at the sole discretion of the College's Vice President of Finance and Administration.\n\nDecision Team:\n\nVice President of Finance and Administration\nAssociate Vice President of Public Safety\nVice President for Communications\nVice President and Dean of Student Affairs\nGeneral Counsel","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.fandm.edu/college-policies/legal-affairs/campus-timely-warning-notice-and-emergency-notification-policy.html","sourceDescription":"F&M policy Decision Team list","annotations":["Five named F&M offices constitute the Decision Team."],"characterCount":513},{"label":"Rave Alert as primary emergency notification system","quotedText":"Franklin & Marshall College uses the Rave Alert System as its primary Emergency Notification System to notify students and employees in a timely manner when it is determined that there is a \"significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus.\"","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.fandm.edu/college-policies/legal-affairs/campus-timely-warning-notice-and-emergency-notification-policy.html","sourceDescription":"F&M Emergency Notifications section","annotations":["Branded Rave Alert System for immediate-threat notifications."],"characterCount":336},{"label":"Multi-channel stack including Alertus","quotedText":"This information may be disseminated to campus community members via a variety of mechanisms or mediums. Franklin & Marshall College will use one or more of the following means depending on the nature of the incident:\n\nRave Alert System\n\nelectronic mail messages\n\ntext messaging to cell phones of those enrolled in the service\n\nDepartment of Public Safety web site*\n\npublic announcements\n\npublic address system\n\npostings and digital signage through Alertus\n\nOther methods deemed necessary that may be used in the information dissemination process.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.fandm.edu/college-policies/legal-affairs/campus-timely-warning-notice-and-emergency-notification-policy.html","sourceDescription":"F&M how timely warnings are issued","annotations":["Rave, email, SMS, DPS site, PA, Alertus digital signage named locally."],"characterCount":547},{"label":"Emergency notification uses same Decision Team rule","quotedText":"The decision to issue a Campus Emergency Notification is made in coordination and consultation by at least two of the following personnel from the Decision Team. In an extreme emergency, the notification process will be implemented at the sole discretion of the College's Vice President of Finance and Administration.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.fandm.edu/college-policies/legal-affairs/campus-timely-warning-notice-and-emergency-notification-policy.html","sourceDescription":"F&M Decision to Issue Emergency Notifications","annotations":["EN decision authority mirrors TW Decision Team structure."],"characterCount":317}],"keyFindings":["Five-office Decision Team; ordinary decisions require at least two members.","VP of Finance and Administration has sole discretion in extreme emergencies.","Rave Alert is the primary emergency-notification system; Alertus used for digital signage.","Policy separates Campus Timely Warning Notices from Emergency Notifications."],"sources":[{"title":"Campus Timely Warning Notice and Emergency Notification Policy - Franklin & Marshall","url":"https://www.fandm.edu/college-policies/legal-affairs/campus-timely-warning-notice-and-emergency-notification-policy.html","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","standalone-policy","timely-warning","emergency-notification","clery-act","rave","private-liberal-arts","pennsylvania"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"olin-college-of-engineering-alert-policy","slug":"olin-college-of-engineering-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering","shortName":"Olin","state":"MA","type":"private-bachelors","alertSystemName":"Olin Emergency Alert System (Olin EAS)","enrollment":405},"policy":{"title":"Olin Emergency Alert System","systemName":"Olin EAS","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.olin.edu/about-offices-and-services-facilities-services/public-safety"},"summary":"Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, a small private undergraduate engineering college in Needham, Massachusetts, runs [Olin EAS](https://www.olin.edu/about-offices-and-services-facilities-services/public-safety), an Emergency Alert System managed by the Public Safety Department that delivers rapid alerts and instructions to the entire student, faculty, and staff population simultaneously by voicemail, text message, and email within minutes of activation, with participation dependent on community members keeping their cell phone and emergency contact information current.","analysis":"Olin describes its [Emergency Alert System (Olin EAS)](https://olin.smartcatalogiq.com/en/2017-18/student-handbook/campus-safety/olin-emergency-alert-system) as a mechanism that sends rapid alerts and instructions to all members of the Olin College community in the event of an emergency, with the College able to deliver emergency notices simultaneously via voicemail, text messaging, and email to the entire student, faculty, and staff population within minutes. At an institution of roughly 400 undergraduates, this single unified alert reaches essentially the entire campus community rather than a subset, a scale advantage smaller colleges in this archive frequently note.\n\nOlin EAS is managed through the [Public Safety Department](https://www.olin.edu/about-offices-and-services-facilities-services/public-safety), which asks individuals to register their cell phone number and other emergency contact information so College officials can reach them wherever they happen to be during a campus-wide emergency; the College's own framing is that the effectiveness of the system depends upon individuals providing up-to-date personal contact information, an explicit acknowledgment that Olin EAS's reach is contingent on registrant data quality rather than a network-level guarantee.\n\nOlin's [Consumer Information page](https://www.olin.edu/about/consumer-information) situates the Emergency Alert System within the College's broader disclosures required under the [Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clery_Act), alongside its published emergency notification and evacuation policies; as a small, specialized, bachelor's-only engineering college rather than a comprehensive research university, Olin's public safety operation is compact, with the Department of Public Safety providing 24/7 emergency services for the entire campus.\n\nBecause olin.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were reconstructed from official Olin College Public Safety and student handbook page text as reproduced in search-engine indexing and corroborated across multiple independent queries, and are marked accordingly.","whenCriteria":"Olin EAS sends rapid alerts and instructions to the Olin College community in the event of an emergency; specific enumerated trigger categories comparable to a detailed criteria list were not found in the public sources reviewed.","decisionAuthority":"Alerts for Olin EAS are managed through the Public Safety Department; a single named activation authority (e.g., a specific Director of Public Safety title) was not reproduced verbatim in the public sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"Olin EAS is described as delivering emergency notices simultaneously via voicemail, text messaging, and email to the entire student, faculty, and staff population within minutes.","cleryFraming":"Olin's Consumer Information disclosures situate the Emergency Alert System within the College's Clery Act compliance program, alongside its published emergency notification and evacuation policies; a detailed Olin-specific timely-warning-versus-emergency-notification distinction was not found in the public sources reviewed.","testingCadence":"A published Olin EAS-specific testing schedule was not found in the public sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Olin EAS reach depends on individuals registering and keeping current their cell phone number and other emergency contact information with the College; the College states the system's effectiveness depends upon that registration data being up to date.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Olin EAS description","quotedText":"Olin EAS is Olin's Emergency Alert System, which sends rapid alerts and instructions to all members of the Olin College community in the event of an emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://olin.smartcatalogiq.com/en/2017-18/student-handbook/campus-safety/olin-emergency-alert-system","sourceDescription":"Olin College of Engineering student handbook, Olin Emergency Alert System page (host blocked automated fetch; text corroborated across independent search-index queries)","annotations":["This exact sentence recurred identically across independent search queries of Olin's student handbook and Public Safety pages."],"characterCount":159},{"label":"Simultaneous multi-channel delivery within minutes","quotedText":"Through this system, the College is able to deliver emergency notices simultaneously via voicemail, text-messaging and email to the entire student, faculty and staff population within minutes.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.olin.edu/about-offices-and-services-facilities-services/public-safety","sourceDescription":"Olin College of Engineering, Public Safety page (host blocked automated fetch; text corroborated across independent search-index queries)","annotations":["Also recurred identically across independent search queries; documents a minutes-scale delivery claim across three simultaneous channels to the entire campus population."],"characterCount":192},{"label":"Registration dependency","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.olin.edu/about-offices-and-services-facilities-services/public-safety","sourceDescription":"Olin College of Engineering, Public Safety page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Olin EAS delivers a single alert simultaneously by voicemail, text message, and email to the entire student, faculty, and staff population within minutes, reflecting Olin's small (roughly 400-student) undergraduate-only scale.","The system is managed through Olin's Public Safety Department, which explicitly frames the system's effectiveness as dependent on individuals keeping their registered cell phone and contact information current.","Olin situates its Emergency Alert System within its Clery Act Consumer Information disclosures alongside its published emergency notification and evacuation policies.","As a small, specialized, bachelor's-only engineering college, Olin's alerting infrastructure is compact relative to large research universities in this archive."],"sources":[{"title":"Public Safety, Olin College of Engineering","url":"https://www.olin.edu/about-offices-and-services-facilities-services/public-safety","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Olin Emergency Alert System, Olin College of Engineering Student Handbook","url":"https://olin.smartcatalogiq.com/en/2017-18/student-handbook/campus-safety/olin-emergency-alert-system","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Consumer Information, Olin College of Engineering","url":"https://www.olin.edu/about/consumer-information","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","private-bachelors","engineering-college","olin-eas","massachusetts"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"frederick-community-college-inclement-weather-closing-policy","slug":"frederick-community-college-inclement-weather-closing-policy","institution":{"name":"Frederick Community College","shortName":"FCC","state":"MD","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"FCC Alert","enrollment":6000},"policy":{"title":"Inclement Weather College Closing Policy","systemName":"FCC Alert","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.frederick.edu/college-policies/inclement-weather-college-closing-policy.html","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Frederick Community College's [Inclement Weather College Closing Policy](https://www.frederick.edu/college-policies/inclement-weather-college-closing-policy.html) assigns delay/close authority to the President (or designee), sets 5:30 a.m. decision targets, defines essential vs non-essential employee rules, and lists [FCC Alert](https://www.frederick.edu/fccalert) among official announcement channels.","analysis":"Frederick Community College is a Maryland community college. Its [Inclement Weather College Closing Policy](https://www.frederick.edu/college-policies/inclement-weather-college-closing-policy.html) (approval/revision 3/18/2026) is institution-specific: the President or designee decides cancellations and closures after consulting CFO/VPA, Provost, and AVP of Operations; only delay/close decisions are announced (no notice means open on time); whole-day main campus and Monroe Center closes aim for 5:30 a.m. communication, with delayed opens commonly 11:00 a.m. or 5:00 p.m.; mid-day/evening closes are announced as soon as possible; online asynchronous courses continue when possible; essential personnel report during closures; official channels include FCC Alert, the website, social media, the information line, and listed local radio/TV stations. Companion [FCC Alert](https://www.frederick.edu/fccalert) materials describe multi-channel emergency and weather notifications. This record documents the weather-closing decision and communication policy rather than a full ASR rewrite.","whenCriteria":"Inclement weather or other emergency conditions requiring class cancellation, delayed opening, or College closure.","decisionAuthority":"President of Frederick Community College or designee, consulting CFO/VP of Administration, Provost, and AVP of Operations.","timingStandard":"Whole-day close or delayed open decisions targeted by 5:30 a.m. or as conditions warrant; mid-day/evening closes as soon as possible.","cleryFraming":"Weather/emergency operations communication policy; Clery emergency-notification procedure details appear separately in ASR/public safety materials.","testingCadence":"Not confirmed verbatim on the weather closing policy page reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Applies to main campus and Monroe Center operations decisions; off-campus partner sites and clinical placements follow additional location-specific rules described in the policy.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","website","twitter-x","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"President decision authority and silence means open","quotedText":"The President of Frederick Community College, or their designee, is responsible for determining when classes are cancelled or when the College will close due to inclement weather or other emergency conditions. Only decisions to delay or close the College will be officially communicated. If no notification is issued, it should be assumed that the College is open on time.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.frederick.edu/college-policies/inclement-weather-college-closing-policy.html","characterCount":372},{"label":"5:30 a.m. whole-day close target","quotedText":"A decision to close the main campus and Monroe Center for the entire day will be communicated by 5:30 a.m., or as weather conditions warrant.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.frederick.edu/college-policies/inclement-weather-college-closing-policy.html","characterCount":141},{"label":"Online asynchronous courses continue when possible","quotedText":"Fully online (asynchronous) courses shall proceed whenever possible during inclement weather closings or delays.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.frederick.edu/college-policies/inclement-weather-college-closing-policy.html","characterCount":112}],"sources":[{"title":"Inclement Weather College Closing Policy","url":"https://www.frederick.edu/college-policies/inclement-weather-college-closing-policy.html","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"},{"title":"FCC Alert","url":"https://www.frederick.edu/fccalert","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["community-college","maryland","weather-closing","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"front-range-community-college-2025-asr-alert-policy","slug":"front-range-community-college-2025-asr-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Front Range Community College","shortName":"FRCC","state":"CO","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Emergency Alert Notification systems (EAN)"},"policy":{"title":"2025 Annual Security Report - Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications","systemName":"Emergency Alert Notification systems (EAN)","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.frontrange.edu/_resources/docs/student-experience/safety-security/campus-security-report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Front Range Community College's [2025 Annual Security Report](https://www.frontrange.edu/_resources/docs/student-experience/safety-security/campus-security-report.pdf) issues Timely Warnings for Clery Geography crimes that may pose a serious or continuing threat, and uses several Emergency Alert Notification systems to inform upon notification or confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat.","analysis":"FRCC (Colorado community college, five filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [2025 ASR PDF](https://www.frontrange.edu/_resources/docs/student-experience/safety-security/campus-security-report.pdf) (HTTP 200, text layer). Timely Warnings inform the campus of Clery Geography crimes reported to CSAs or local law enforcement that may pose a serious or continuing threat. Emergency Alert Notification systems (EAN) inform upon notification or confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to students or employees in the entire college community, a specific campus, or a select segment. A without-delay sentence is split by a page number and is not quoted. AppArmor sentences in the PDF have live wording defects (an a opt-in; faculty. that sends) and are not quoted. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF.","whenCriteria":"Timely Warnings for Clery Geography crimes that may pose a serious or continuing threat. EAN upon notification or confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety on campus or a campus segment.","decisionAuthority":"The Department of Campus Safety consults with the Vice President of Operations and the President's office, if time allows, before issuing a timely warning; that sentence is summarized here.","timingStandard":"A without-delay sentence exists in the ASR but is split by a page number and is not quoted.","cleryFraming":"The ASR keeps Timely Warnings (Clery Geography crime, serious or continuing threat) distinct from Emergency Notifications (immediate threat via EAN).","scopeLimits":"EAN can target the entire college community, a specific campus community, or a select segment or geographical area on a campus.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","desktop-popup"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely Warning announcements","quotedText":"Front Range Community College issues announcements (\"Timely Warnings\") to inform the campus community of crimes occurring on Clery Geography that are reported to Campus Security Authorities or local law enforcement when the reported crime may pose a serious or continuing threat to students and employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.frontrange.edu/_resources/docs/student-experience/safety-security/campus-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Front Range Community College 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Straight quotes around Timely Warnings are live."],"characterCount":305},{"label":"EAN confirmation trigger","quotedText":"Front Range Community College uses several Emergency Alert Notification systems (EAN) to inform, upon the notification or confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring within the entire college community, a specific campus community or a select segment or geographical area on a campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.frontrange.edu/_resources/docs/student-experience/safety-security/campus-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Front Range Community College 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["EAN is the live system name."],"characterCount":392},{"label":"Timely warning Clery crimes","quotedText":"FRCC will issue a timely warning notification to the college community for specific Clery Act Crimes that occur on our Clery Act geography and are reported to campus security authorities or local police agencies, and are considered by the institution to represent a serious or continuing threat to students and employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.frontrange.edu/_resources/docs/student-experience/safety-security/campus-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Front Range Community College 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Clery Act Crimes is capitalized in the live PDF."],"characterCount":321}],"keyFindings":["Timely Warnings cover Clery Geography crimes that may pose a serious or continuing threat.","EAN informs upon notification or confirmation of an immediate threat, and can target a campus segment.","AppArmor enrollment sentences in the PDF are defective and are not quoted."],"sources":[{"title":"Front Range Community College 2025 Annual Security Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.frontrange.edu/_resources/docs/student-experience/safety-security/campus-security-report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","colorado","community-college"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"frostburg-state-university-burg-alerts-asr","slug":"frostburg-state-university-burg-alerts-asr","institution":{"name":"Frostburg State University","shortName":"Frostburg","state":"MD","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"Burg Alerts","enrollment":4500},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning Policy (Burg Alerts) - Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","systemName":"Burg Alerts","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.frostburg.edu/about-frostburg/Administrative-Offices/university-police/_files/images/2024-ANNUAL-SECURITY-AND-FIRE-SAFETY-REPORT.pdf","lastReviewed":"2024-10-01"},"summary":"Frostburg State University documents [University Police Timely Warnings via Burg Alerts text and email](https://www.frostburg.edu/about-frostburg/Administrative-Offices/university-police/_files/images/2024-ANNUAL-SECURITY-AND-FIRE-SAFETY-REPORT.pdf) for on- and off-campus crimes posing a potential threat, with annual emergency notification system testing and twice-yearly evacuation drills.","analysis":"Frostburg State University (Frostburg, MD public-masters) publishes its Timely Warning Policy in the [2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.frostburg.edu/about-frostburg/Administrative-Offices/university-police/_files/images/2024-ANNUAL-SECURITY-AND-FIRE-SAFETY-REPORT.pdf). University Police issues Timely Warnings when a reported crime poses a potential threat to the safety of the university community, for incidents both on and off campus. Warnings heighten safety awareness and may seek information leading to arrest and conviction. Delivery is via Burg Alerts in both text and email format; community members are strongly encouraged to sign up at the Burg Alerts service page.\n\nThe university conducts emergency response exercises each year including tabletop exercises, field exercises, and tests of emergency notification systems. Evacuation (fire) drills are coordinated by the Health and Safety Officer with FSUPD at least once per semester (at least twice yearly). Immediate-threat community notifications section restates the Timely Warning/Burg Alerts pathway. Complements public-masters coverage with Worcester State and existing Frostburg case volume.","whenCriteria":"Timely Warning when there is a reported crime that poses a potential threat to the safety of the university community, for incidents occurring both on and off campus.","decisionAuthority":"University Police issues Timely Warnings.","timingStandard":"Timely Warnings for potential threats to community safety. Emergency response exercises annually including notification system tests. Evacuation drills minimum once per semester.","cleryFraming":"ASR Timely Warning Policy and Notifications about an Immediate Threat sections with named Burg Alerts text/email system.","scopeLimits":"On- and off-campus incidents may trigger warnings. Strong signup encouragement rather than documented auto-enrollment in the ASR excerpt. USMH supplement uses Omni Alert for that site.","testingCadence":"Annual emergency response exercises (tabletop, field, emergency notification system tests). Evacuation drills at least once per semester (minimum twice yearly).","channels":["sms","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"University Police Timely Warning standard","quotedText":"University Police will issue a Timely Warning when there is a reported crime that poses a potential threat to the safety of the university community. Timely Warnings will be issued for incidents occurring both on and off campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.frostburg.edu/about-frostburg/Administrative-Offices/university-police/_files/images/2024-ANNUAL-SECURITY-AND-FIRE-SAFETY-REPORT.pdf","sourceDescription":"Frostburg 2024 ASR - Timely Warning Policy","annotations":["University Police TW for on- and off-campus potential threats."],"characterCount":228},{"label":"Burg Alerts text and email delivery","quotedText":"Timely Warnings are issued via Burg Alerts in both text and e-mail format.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.frostburg.edu/about-frostburg/Administrative-Offices/university-police/_files/images/2024-ANNUAL-SECURITY-AND-FIRE-SAFETY-REPORT.pdf","sourceDescription":"Frostburg 2024 ASR - Burg Alerts channels","annotations":["Named Burg Alerts for text and email TW delivery."],"characterCount":74}],"keyFindings":["Burg Alerts text and email for Timely Warnings.","University Police issues TW for on- and off-campus potential threats.","Annual emergency notification system tests; evacuation drills each semester."],"sources":[{"title":"Frostburg State University 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report PDF","url":"https://www.frostburg.edu/about-frostburg/Administrative-Offices/university-police/_files/images/2024-ANNUAL-SECURITY-AND-FIRE-SAFETY-REPORT.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Frostburg Burg Alerts signup page","url":"https://www.frostburg.edu/computing/services/burg-alerts","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["maryland","public-masters","clery-asr","burg-alerts","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"full-sail-university-alert-policy","slug":"full-sail-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Full Sail University","shortName":"Full Sail","state":"FL","type":"for-profit","alertSystemName":"Emergency Notification System (ENS)","enrollment":27169},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification System and Campus Safety Policy (Campus Safety & Security Handbook / ASR)","systemName":"Emergency Notification System (ENS)","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.fullsail.edu/policies-and-guidelines/campus-safety","lastReviewed":"2024-10-01"},"summary":"Full Sail University, a for-profit university in Winter Park, Florida, alerts its campus through an [Emergency Notification System (ENS)](https://hub.fullsail.edu/articles/prioritizing-safety-on-full-sails-campus) that sends text and email alerts, backed by a 24-hour emergency hotline and the [Full Sail One](https://one.fullsail.edu/) portal, with a Clery Annual Security Report in its [Campus Safety & Security Handbook](https://www.fullsail.edu/policies-and-guidelines/campus-safety).","analysis":"Full Sail University is a [private for-profit university](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Sail_University) in Winter Park, Florida, focused on media, entertainment, and technology programs (accredited by ACCSC). Its campus emergency program centers on an **Emergency Notification System (ENS)** — referred to generically rather than by a marketed brand name — which Full Sail describes as a system that lets management 'alert students and staff to emergencies happening on or near campus' and 'sends alerts via text and email to ensure that everyone on campus is aware of any potential threats or necessary actions' ([Full Sail Hub safety article](https://hub.fullsail.edu/articles/prioritizing-safety-on-full-sails-campus)).\n\nThe program is layered with several supporting channels. Full Sail operates a 24-hour dedicated emergency hotline that 'is updated in the event of any emergency alert,' and the [Full Sail One](https://one.fullsail.edu/) website 'works in conjunction with the Orange County emergency hotline to keep the Full Sail community aware of timely postings regarding all actual or potential crisis/emergency situations.' Students enroll in the ENS during orientation (at laptop distribution), and the system appears alongside grades and schedules in the student 'My Stuff' portal; weather events such as hurricanes are also communicated via email and social media.\n\nFull Sail publishes an Annual Security Report in its [Campus Safety & Security Handbook](https://www.fullsail.edu/policies-and-guidelines/campus-safety) 'as required by the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act.' Beyond that, the public materials are thin: the ENS vendor is not named, no formal Clery emergency-notification-vs-timely-warning distinction or 'without delay' timing language surfaced, and no named decision authority or test cadence could be found. Every fullsail.edu page and PDF returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so all wording below is from search-index reproductions and could not be byte-for-byte confirmed; accordingly every excerpt is marked reconstructed and the entry carries medium confidence.","whenCriteria":"The ENS is used to alert students and staff to 'emergencies happening on or near campus' and 'all actual or potential crisis/emergency situations.' A formal Clery activation threshold (e.g., 'significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat') was not found in public materials.","decisionAuthority":"Full Sail materials attribute activation to 'Full Sail Management' generically; no named role (security director, Clery officer) was found in public sources.","timingStandard":"No timing-standard language ('without delay' / 'immediately' / 'upon confirmation') was found in Full Sail's public materials and none is asserted here.","cleryFraming":"Full Sail publishes an Annual Security Report in its Campus Safety & Security Handbook under the Clery Act; the public materials use the marketing phrase 'timely postings' but do not formally distinguish emergency notifications from Clery timely warnings.","testingCadence":"No ENS testing cadence was found in public materials.","scopeLimits":"Coverage is described as 'on or near campus,' tied into the Orange County emergency hotline. Students enroll in the ENS during orientation; text + email are the named push channels, with Full Sail One and the 24-hour hotline as supporting surfaces.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"ENS purpose","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://hub.fullsail.edu/articles/prioritizing-safety-on-full-sails-campus","sourceDescription":"Full Sail Hub — Prioritizing Safety on Full Sail's Campus (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Channels (text + email)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://hub.fullsail.edu/articles/prioritizing-safety-on-full-sails-campus","sourceDescription":"Full Sail Hub — Prioritizing Safety on Full Sail's Campus (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"24-hour hotline + Full Sail One","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://hub.fullsail.edu/articles/prioritizing-safety-on-full-sails-campus","sourceDescription":"Full Sail Hub — Prioritizing Safety on Full Sail's Campus (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Full Sail (a Winter Park, FL for-profit) runs an Emergency Notification System (ENS) that sends text and email alerts.","Supporting surfaces include a 24-hour emergency hotline and the Full Sail One portal, tied into the Orange County hotline.","Students enroll in the ENS during orientation; the ENS appears in the student 'My Stuff' portal.","Full Sail publishes a Clery Annual Security Report in its Campus Safety & Security Handbook.","Public materials are thin: no named vendor, decision authority, timing standard, or test cadence, and all sources blocked automated fetching — so every excerpt is reconstructed and confidence is medium."],"sources":[{"title":"Full Sail — Prioritizing Safety on Full Sail's Campus (The Hub)","url":"https://hub.fullsail.edu/articles/prioritizing-safety-on-full-sails-campus","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Full Sail — Campus Safety (Annual Security Report landing)","url":"https://www.fullsail.edu/policies-and-guidelines/campus-safety","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Full Sail One portal","url":"https://one.fullsail.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Full Sail University — Wikipedia (for-profit status, location)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Sail_University","type":"reference"},{"title":"Full Sail University — Student Population and Demographics (IPEDS 2024-25 enrollment: 27,169)","url":"https://www.collegetuitioncompare.com/edu/134237/full-sail-university/enrollment/","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","for-profit","florida","ens","full-sail-one","media-arts"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"garrett-college-inclement-weather-closing-policy","slug":"garrett-college-inclement-weather-closing-policy","institution":{"name":"Garrett College","shortName":"Garrett","state":"MD","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Regroup / GCCAlerts","enrollment":700},"policy":{"title":"Inclement Weather FAQs - Delays and Closings","systemName":"Regroup / GCCAlerts","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.garrettcollege.edu/inclement-weather-policy.php","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Garrett College's [Inclement Weather FAQs](https://www.garrettcollege.edu/inclement-weather-policy.php) describe President-led delay/close decisions, 6:00 a.m. decision targets, multi-channel communication including [Regroup GCCAlerts](https://www.garrettcollege.edu/alerts-signup), weather line, website, social media, and radio, and essential-personnel-only campus access during delays/closings.","analysis":"Garrett College is a small Maryland community college. Its [Inclement Weather FAQs](https://www.garrettcollege.edu/inclement-weather-policy.php) page is institution-specific: delay/close decisions follow input on campus accessibility, road conditions, public school decisions, and forecasts; the President consults designated officials; all-day closings and delayed openings attempt 6:00 a.m. announcements with early closes targeted by 3:00 p.m.; communication channels include Weather Line 301-387-3198, Regroup emergency alerts (GCCAlerts signup), website homepage, social media, and listed radio outlets; announcements cover all locations unless specified; no announcement means normal operations; only essential Facilities and Security personnel are permitted on campus during delays/closings, with students/employees allowed 30 minutes before scheduled opening. This record documents the weather closing decision and communication policy rather than a full ASR rewrite.","whenCriteria":"Weather conditions affecting campus accessibility, road conditions, or operations requiring delay, early close, or full closing.","decisionAuthority":"President, consulting designated college officials who gather road/weather/school information.","timingStandard":"Attempt all-day closings and delayed openings by 6:00 a.m.; attempt early close decisions by 3:00 p.m.; no fixed clock guaranteed.","cleryFraming":"Weather operations communication policy; formal Clery emergency-notification procedure details appear separately in ASR/emergency materials.","testingCadence":"Not confirmed verbatim on the weather FAQ page reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Closings include all named locations unless a location-specific announcement says otherwise; CARC makes a separate determination; no announcement means normal operations.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","twitter-x","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Decision inputs","quotedText":"The decision to delay or close due to weather conditions is made after seeking input from numerous college, local government and other sources about the ability to maintain campus accessibility, road conditions in the county and surrounding areas, area public school decisions, local weather conditions and weather forecasts for the coming hours.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.garrettcollege.edu/inclement-weather-policy.php","characterCount":346},{"label":"President decision authority","quotedText":"The President will consult with the designated college officals who will gather and communicate the information necessary to make an informed decision related to college operations.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.garrettcollege.edu/inclement-weather-policy.php","characterCount":181},{"label":"6:00 a.m. decision target","quotedText":"While we attempt to make decisions for all-day closings and delayed openings by 6:00 AM, you should always consider the possibility that the decision may come after that time.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.garrettcollege.edu/inclement-weather-policy.php","characterCount":175}],"sources":[{"title":"Inclement Weather FAQs","url":"https://www.garrettcollege.edu/inclement-weather-policy.php","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["community-college","maryland","weather-closing","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"gaston-college-gc-alert-asr","slug":"gaston-college-gc-alert-asr","institution":{"name":"Gaston College","shortName":"Gaston","state":"NC","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"GC Alert","enrollment":5500},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning, Emergency Notification, and GC Alert System - Annual Security Report","systemName":"GC Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"http://www.gaston.edu/about-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/09/Gaston-College-Annual-Security-Report-10-1-25.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Gaston College publishes [Timely Warning and Emergency Notification procedures under the GC Alert brand](http://www.gaston.edu/about-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/09/Gaston-College-Annual-Security-Report-10-1-25.pdf) in its October 1, 2025 ASR, with Campus Police primary for confirmation and content and multi-channel dissemination including segmented campus notifications.","analysis":"Gaston College (Dallas/Lincolnton, NC) documents Clery timely-warning and emergency-notification policy in its [2025 Annual Security Report](http://www.gaston.edu/about-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/09/Gaston-College-Annual-Security-Report-10-1-25.pdf). Upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat to health or safety, a timely warning and/or emergency notification is issued to the College Community. Campus Police and Security typically confirm the event and are primarily responsible for evaluating the situation, determining content, and issuing to the appropriate segment(s); notifications may target specific campuses, buildings, and classrooms rather than the full community. Follow-up continues while the threat remains.\n\nAdditional authorized roles include the President, President's Cabinet members, and the Executive Director of Marketing and Communications. GC Alert is the brand name of the emergency mass notification system using email and SMS text; other methods include webpage, telephone, PA, switchboard message, voicemail, social media, radio, TV-cable screen, news release, direct mail, and group meetings. Internal and external constituent lists are explicit (trustees, foundation board, early college partners, district schools, NCCCS office, media). GC Alert and emergency PA systems are tested regularly with documentation held by Campus Police. Complements archive cases for remote learning and delayed starts during icy conditions.","whenCriteria":"Confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat to health or safety of students or employees; also Clery-driven timely warnings for serious or ongoing threats as framed in the ASR timely-warning section.","decisionAuthority":"Campus Police and Security Department (Chief or designee) primarily evaluate, draft, and issue. President, Cabinet, and Executive Director of Marketing and Communications may issue or assist. Marketing Executive Director is designated external media spokesperson in collaboration with President and Campus Police.","timingStandard":"Notification upon confirmation of immediate threat; follow-up while threat continues. No fixed minutes standard stated.","cleryFraming":"ASR sections on Timely Warning, Emergency Determination/Response/Notification, Emergency Notifications, and Emergency Notification System Testing with GC Alert brand.","scopeLimits":"Segmented notifications allowed (campus/building/classroom). Victim name not to be unintentionally disclosed; avoid compromising victim assistance or emergency response. External public notified when deemed necessary.","testingCadence":"GC Alert and emergency PA systems tested regularly; documentation maintained by Campus Police and Security. Other systems tested as deemed appropriate.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system","website","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Confirmed emergency triggers TW and/or EN","quotedText":"In the event of a confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees, a timely warning and/or emergency notification will be given to the College Community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"http://www.gaston.edu/about-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/09/Gaston-College-Annual-Security-Report-10-1-25.pdf","sourceDescription":"Gaston College 2025 ASR - Timely Warning and Emergency Notification","annotations":["Combined TW/EN trigger on confirmed immediate threat."],"characterCount":239},{"label":"Multi-channel GC Alert methods","quotedText":"Emergency Notification and timely warnings may be issued using a variety of methods including GC Alert (text), webpage, telephone, PA announcement (audible alert), recorded switchboard message, voice mail, social media, radio announcement, College email, TV-cable screen, news release, direct mail, and/or group meetings.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"http://www.gaston.edu/about-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/09/Gaston-College-Annual-Security-Report-10-1-25.pdf","sourceDescription":"Gaston College 2025 ASR - Emergency Notifications channels","annotations":["Extensive channel list including GC Alert SMS brand."],"characterCount":321},{"label":"GC Alert brand definition","quotedText":"GC Alert is the brand name of the College's emergency mass notification system and uses email and SMS text messaging to warn people of the risk of danger.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"http://www.gaston.edu/about-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/09/Gaston-College-Annual-Security-Report-10-1-25.pdf","sourceDescription":"Gaston College 2025 ASR - GC Alert definition","annotations":["Named brand for email and SMS mass notification."],"characterCount":154}],"keyFindings":["GC Alert brand for email/SMS; segmented campus/building/classroom notifications allowed.","Campus Police primary with President/Cabinet/Marketing secondary authority.","Regular GC Alert and PA testing with Campus Police documentation."],"sources":[{"title":"Gaston College Annual Security Report October 1 2025 PDF","url":"http://www.gaston.edu/about-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/09/Gaston-College-Annual-Security-Report-10-1-25.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Gaston College Annual Security Report landing page","url":"https://www.gaston.edu/about-us/campus-police-safety-home/annual-security-report-asr/","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["north-carolina","community-college","clery-asr","gc-alert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"gateway-technical-college-alertme-policy","slug":"gateway-technical-college-alertme-policy","institution":{"name":"Gateway Technical College","shortName":"GTC","state":"WI","type":"technical-college","alertSystemName":"AlertME"},"policy":{"title":"2025 Annual Security Report - Timely Warning Notifications and Emergency Notifications","systemName":"AlertME","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.gtc.edu/annual-security-report","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Gateway Technical College's [2025 Annual Security Report](https://www.gtc.edu/annual-security-report) issues a campus-wide timely warning when a crime in Clery geography constitutes a serious or continuing threat, and initiates without-delay emergency notifications through the RAVE system referred to as AlertME, with students, staff, and faculty automatically enrolled from My Gateway.","analysis":"Gateway Technical College (Wisconsin technical-college, four filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [2025 ASR](https://www.gtc.edu/annual-security-report) (HTTP 200; the page serves a Google Document). The Director of Safety and Security, in consultation with responsible authorities when time permits, issues a campus-wide timely warning for a serious or continuing threat in On Campus, Public Property, and Noncampus geography. Emergency notifications go out without delay upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to students, employees and visitors. RAVE (AlertME) is the named mass-notification channel; visitors opt in by texting GTCAlerts to 77295. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live document export.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning when a crime or situation in GTC Clery geography constitutes a serious or continuing threat. Emergency notification upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to students, employees and visitors.","decisionAuthority":"Director of Safety and Security, in consultation with responsible authorities when time permits. An attempt is made to consult the CEO/President, CFO/VP of Finance and Administration, and the Manager of Communications and Media Relations.","timingStandard":"Timely warning as soon as the pertinent information is available. Emergency notification without delay upon confirmation.","cleryFraming":"The ASR keeps Timely Warning Notifications distinct from Emergency Notifications. AlertME (RAVE) is the consumer product for both email and text.","channels":["sms","email","desktop-popup","website","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency notification without delay","quotedText":"In the event of an emergency, Gateway Technical College will initiate and provide, without delay, immediate notifications to the appropriate segment(s) of the College’s community upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, employees and visitors.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gtc.edu/annual-security-report","sourceDescription":"Gateway Technical College 2025 Annual Security Report (live Google Document export)","annotations":["Visitors are named in the immediate-threat class alongside students and employees."],"characterCount":341},{"label":"AlertME automatic enrollment","quotedText":"Gateway Technical College students, staff, and faculty are automatically enrolled into receiving emails and text messages to the cell phone number on file at “My Gateway.” Visitors can opt-in for emergency text messaging by texting GTCAlerts to 77295.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gtc.edu/annual-security-report","sourceDescription":"Gateway Technical College 2025 Annual Security Report (live Google Document export)","annotations":["Students and employees are auto-enrolled; visitors opt in by short code."],"characterCount":251},{"label":"Timely warning serious or continuing threat","quotedText":"In the event a crime is reported, or a situation arises, within the Gateway Technical College Clery geography (On Campus, Public Property and Noncampus property), that, in the judgment of the Director of Safety and Security and in consultation with responsible authorities when time permits, constitutes a serious or continuing threat, a campus wide “timely warning” notice will be issued.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gtc.edu/annual-security-report","sourceDescription":"Gateway Technical College 2025 Annual Security Report (live Google Document export)","annotations":["Live text is campus wide, not hyphenated, and Noncampus is one word."],"characterCount":389}],"keyFindings":["AlertME is the RAVE consumer product; students, staff, and faculty are auto-enrolled from My Gateway.","Emergency notifications go out without delay to the appropriate segment upon confirmation of an immediate threat, including visitors.","Timely warnings are campus-wide notices for a serious or continuing threat in Clery geography, issued by the Director of Safety and Security."],"sources":[{"title":"Gateway Technical College 2025 Annual Security Report","url":"https://www.gtc.edu/annual-security-report","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","wisconsin","technical-college","rave"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"wallace-community-college-wallace-alert-policy","slug":"wallace-community-college-wallace-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"George C. Wallace Community College","shortName":"Wallace","state":"AL","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Wallace Alert","enrollment":4500},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification, Evacuation Procedures, and Timely Warnings (ASR)","systemName":"Wallace Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.wallace.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-ASR-WCC.pdf","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Wallace Community College's [2025 Annual Security Report](https://www.wallace.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-ASR-WCC.pdf) brands Wallace Alert for email and SMS, names President-appointed Responsible Authorizers for emergency notifications, and assigns Crime Alert (timely warning) decisions to the Chief of Police, with campus-specific PA (Dothan) and intercom (Sparks) backups.","analysis":"George C. Wallace Community College (Dothan and Sparks campuses, Alabama) documents alert-and-warning practice in its [2025 ASR](https://www.wallace.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-ASR-WCC.pdf). Institution-specific content includes the Wallace Alert brand, Responsible Authorizers appointed by the College President, Chief-of-Police Crime Alert authority (sometimes after consulting the President), dual-campus delivery differences (Dothan public address; Sparks intercom), and Fall/Spring testing with after-action reports.\n\nEmergency notifications run without delay unless a Responsible Authorizer judges that notice would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Timely warnings (Crime Alerts) use official Wallace email, posters, and social media when crimes pose continuing threat.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notification for confirmed active emergency posing immediate or reasonably likely threat to life, safety, security, and/or property. Crime Alert / timely warning when criminal incidents do not pose immediate danger but possibility of reoccurring or similar incidents exists, or Clery crimes with continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"Responsible Authorizers appointed by the College President confirm threats, approve message content, and direct Wallace Alert / PA / intercom activation. Crime Alerts decided by the Chief of Police or designee, at times after consulting the President.","timingStandard":"Without delay for emergency notifications unless professional judgment finds compromise of victim assistance or mitigation; Crime Alerts as soon as pertinent information is available.","cleryFraming":"ASR separates Emergency Notification process from Clery Timely Warning Notices / Crime Alerts with case-by-case continuing-threat analysis.","scopeLimits":"Impacted population and protective actions considered in message content; Crime Alert content weighs risk of compromising law-enforcement efforts.","testingCadence":"Wallace Alert, public address, and intercom systems tested during Fall and Spring semesters; tests may be announced or unannounced; after-action reports document each test.","channels":["sms","email","pa-system","facebook","twitter-x","desktop-popup","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Wallace Alert brand and delivery","quotedText":"The campus employs an emergency notification system commonly known as \"Wallace Alert\" to provide emergency warnings and follow up information to the campus community and the general public. Wallace Alert will ensure that this information is automatically delivered to any email address and by text message that is registered through the Wallace Alert system within moments of any such alerts being sent by the college.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wallace.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-ASR-WCC.pdf","sourceDescription":"Wallace 2025 ASR emergency notification section","annotations":["Branded Wallace Alert for email and SMS."],"characterCount":418},{"label":"President-appointed Responsible Authorizers","quotedText":"There are certain college officials that have been granted authority by the College President to authorize emergency notifications. These officials are also referred to as Responsible Authorizers.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wallace.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-ASR-WCC.pdf","sourceDescription":"Wallace 2025 ASR","annotations":["Local title Responsible Authorizer granted by College President."],"characterCount":196},{"label":"Authorizer confirm-approve-activate without delay","quotedText":"The Responsible Authorizer is to confirm that such a threat does exist and approve the wording and content of the message, taking into account pre-approved message templates, the nature of the impacted population on campus, and the actions the impacted population should take. Finally, the Responsible Authorizer is to direct that notification be provided through activation of Wallace Alert and/or the public address system, and the intercom system. These actions are to be taken without delay unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of the Responsible Authorizer, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wallace.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-ASR-WCC.pdf","sourceDescription":"Wallace 2025 ASR activation process","annotations":["Local activation sequence including PA and intercom."],"characterCount":692},{"label":"Chief of Police Crime Alert authority","quotedText":"The decision to issue a Crime Alert is made by the Chief of Police or his designee, at times after consulting with The President.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wallace.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-ASR-WCC.pdf","sourceDescription":"Wallace 2025 ASR Crime Alert decision","annotations":["Named Chief of Police decision with optional President consult."],"characterCount":129},{"label":"Dothan PA and Sparks intercom","quotedText":"Also, the Dothan campus utilizes an emergency notification system by means of a public address system. The public address system uses alert tones and approved messages that can be deployed throughout the campus in addition to activation of the Wallace Alert. On the Sparks campus, an intercom system is utilized to communicate emergency messages throughout the campus in addition to Wallace Alert.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wallace.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-ASR-WCC.pdf","sourceDescription":"Wallace 2025 ASR campus-specific channels","annotations":["Campus-specific backup channels - not generic Clery text."],"characterCount":397},{"label":"Fall and Spring testing cadence","quotedText":"The Wallace Alert, public address and intercom systems will be tested during the Fall and Spring semesters. Tests of these systems may be announced to the campus community beforehand or may be unannounced.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wallace.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-ASR-WCC.pdf","sourceDescription":"Wallace 2025 ASR testing","annotations":["Local semester testing schedule for Wallace Alert and PA/intercom."],"characterCount":205}],"keyFindings":["Wallace Alert is the branded email/SMS emergency notification system.","Responsible Authorizers appointed by the President control EN activation.","Crime Alerts are decided by the Chief of Police, sometimes after consulting the President.","Dothan uses PA; Sparks uses intercom; systems tested each Fall and Spring."],"sources":[{"title":"2025 Annual Security Report - George C. Wallace Community College","url":"https://www.wallace.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-ASR-WCC.pdf","type":"clery-asr","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","wallace-alert","community-college","alabama"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"george-mason-university-mason-alert-policy","slug":"george-mason-university-mason-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"George Mason University","shortName":"GMU","state":"VA","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"Mason Alert","enrollment":39766},"policy":{"title":"Mason Alert Emergency Notification System","systemName":"Mason Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://ready.gmu.edu/masonalert/"},"summary":"[Mason Alert](https://ready.gmu.edu/masonalert/) is George Mason University's emergency notification system, used to send emergency notifications and timely warnings to the university community via text, email, telephone call, and digital signage; all students and employees with a Mason email address are automatically enrolled, and the system runs on the [Rave](https://getrave.com/login/gmucommunity) (Rave Mobile Safety) platform.","analysis":"George Mason University operates [Mason Alert](https://ready.gmu.edu/masonalert/) as its single branded emergency notification system covering Mason's Fairfax, Mason Square (Arlington), and SciTech (Prince William) campuses. Mason describes the system as the channel \"used to send emergency notifications and timely warnings\" to the community via text, email, telephone call, and digital signage, framing it explicitly around the two Clery Act communication categories: emergency notifications for confirmed significant emergencies or dangerous situations posing an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees on campus, and timely warnings for Clery Act crimes that occur on or near the university and are judged to represent a serious or continuing threat to campus safety.\n\nEnrollment is automatic and email-anchored. All university students and employees who are issued an @gmu.edu or @masonlive.gmu.edu email are automatically enrolled in Mason Alert and provided with a Mason Alert account at alert.gmu.edu, but the university strongly encourages members to add cell phone numbers and additional email addresses so that urgent messages arrive in time. Non-affiliates are accommodated through two paths described on the [Mason Ready](https://ready.gmu.edu/families-and-visitors/) pages: a Guest Account, which lets those without a @gmu.edu address register a phone number or email to receive the same emergency notifications and timely warnings sent to students and employees, and a visitor opt-in by texting \"masonalert\" to 226787 for the duration of an event, camp, or program (texting STOP to 226787 ends it).\n\nThe platform is Rave Mobile Safety (now part of Motorola Solutions); Mason's community sign-in lives at getrave.com/login/gmucommunity, and the companion Rave Guardian safety app is part of the same infrastructure. A notable recent policy refinement narrowed the system's scope: Mason Alert announced it would [no longer send non-emergency messages](https://ready.gmu.edu/masonalert/) such as weather updates, traffic notices, or campus events, reserving the channel for genuine emergencies in order to reduce message fatigue and preserve the urgency of true emergency notifications. Mason maintains separate (non-Mason-Alert) channels for lightning advisories and routine operational/weather updates.\n\nDecision authority sits with George Mason University Police, which keeps the community informed of crimes, threats, and emergencies in compliance with the Clery Act, and publishes an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report documenting campus safety policies and Clery crime statistics. Because the .edu hosts return HTTP 403 to automated fetches in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from text that recurred identically across multiple independent searches of the official Mason Ready and EHS pages rather than from a direct page fetch.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notifications are issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus. Timely warnings are issued for Clery Act crimes that occur on or near the university and that the institution considers to represent a serious or continuing threat to campus safety. As of a recent policy change, Mason Alert no longer carries non-emergency messages (weather updates, traffic, campus events).","decisionAuthority":"George Mason University Police (Mason Police) keep the community informed of crimes, threats, and emergencies and administer Clery compliance, including the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report; emergency-management and public-safety officials authorize and issue Mason Alert messages.","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications are required upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation; Mason frames messaging around the Clery Act standard of notifying the community without unreasonable delay once an immediate threat is confirmed (with exceptions where notification would compromise efforts to contain the emergency).","cleryFraming":"Two-track Clery model: emergency notifications for confirmed significant emergencies/dangerous situations posing an immediate threat to health or safety on campus, and timely warnings for Clery Act crimes on or near campus representing a serious or continuing threat. Both categories are delivered through Mason Alert.","testingCadence":"Mason periodically tests the Mason Alert system and conducts emergency preparedness exercises; specific public test dates are announced through Mason Ready/EHS channels. Exact recurring cadence not reproduced verbatim from the official page in this environment.","scopeLimits":"All students and employees with an @gmu.edu or @masonlive.gmu.edu email are automatically enrolled for email; the university encourages adding cell-phone numbers and alternate emails for timely delivery. Guest Accounts let non-affiliates receive the same alerts; visitors can opt in by texting masonalert to 226787 (text STOP to opt out). Mason Alert is reserved for emergencies and no longer sends non-emergency weather/traffic/event messages.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","digital-signage","push-notification","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"System definition and channels","quotedText":"Mason Alert is George Mason University's emergency notification system that is used to send emergency notifications and timely warnings to the university community via text, email, telephone call, and digital signage.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://ready.gmu.edu/masonalert/","sourceDescription":"Mason Alert Emergency Notification System — Mason Ready, George Mason University","annotations":["Returned word-for-word and identically across multiple independent searches of the Mason Ready (ready.gmu.edu) pages; defines the system and enumerates its core channels. Direct fetch of the .edu page returned HTTP 403."],"characterCount":217},{"label":"Visitor text opt-in","quotedText":"Text masonalert to 226787 to receive text messages about emergencies on campus and changes to campus operations. You will receive emergency text message notifications until you text STOP to 226787.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://ready.gmu.edu/families-and-visitors/","sourceDescription":"Families and Visitors — Mason Ready, George Mason University","annotations":["Reproduced consistently across independent searches of the Mason Ready families/visitors pages; documents the visitor short-code opt-in (226787) and the STOP opt-out."],"characterCount":197},{"label":"Guest Account scope","quotedText":"A Guest Account allows those without a @gmu.edu email address to register your cell phone or email address to receive emergency notifications and timely warnings issued by George Mason University. You will receive the same alerts sent to Mason students and employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://ready.gmu.edu/families-and-visitors/","sourceDescription":"Families and Visitors — Mason Ready, George Mason University","annotations":["Recurred identically across independent searches; establishes that guest registrants receive the same emergency notifications and timely warnings as affiliates."],"characterCount":267},{"label":"Emergency-only scope change","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://ready.gmu.edu/masonalert/","sourceDescription":"Mason Alert Emergency Notification System — Mason Ready, George Mason University","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Mason Alert is George Mason University's single branded emergency notification system, carrying both emergency notifications and timely warnings via text, email, telephone call, and digital signage.","All students and employees with an @gmu.edu or @masonlive.gmu.edu email are automatically enrolled (with a Mason Alert account at alert.gmu.edu); the university urges adding cell numbers and alternate emails for timely delivery.","Non-affiliates can receive identical alerts via a Guest Account, and visitors can opt in for the duration of an event by texting masonalert to 226787 (STOP to opt out).","The system runs on the Rave (Rave Mobile Safety / Motorola Solutions) platform, with community sign-in at getrave.com/login/gmucommunity and the Rave Guardian app as part of the same infrastructure.","A recent policy change narrowed Mason Alert to emergencies only — non-emergency weather, traffic, and event messages were removed to reduce message fatigue and preserve urgency."],"sources":[{"title":"Mason Alert Emergency Notification System — Mason Ready | Emergency Management & Fire Safety, George Mason University","url":"https://ready.gmu.edu/masonalert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Families and Visitors — Mason Ready | Emergency Management & Fire Safety, George Mason University","url":"https://ready.gmu.edu/families-and-visitors/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Act Reporting — Police and Public Safety, George Mason University","url":"https://police.gmu.edu/clery-act-reporting/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Rave Login — George Mason Community","url":"https://getrave.com/login/gmucommunity","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Mason's Police Department Releases Annual Security Report — Fourth Estate","url":"http://gmufourthestate.com/2025/11/14/masons-police-department-releases-annual-security-report-2/","type":"student-newspaper"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","virginia","public-r1","rave"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"georgetown-hoyalert-policy","slug":"georgetown-hoyalert-policy","institution":{"name":"Georgetown University","shortName":"Georgetown","state":"DC","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"HOYAlert","enrollment":21000},"policy":{"title":"HOYAlert Emergency Notification System","systemName":"HOYAlert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://emergencymanagement.georgetown.edu/hoyalert/"},"summary":"[HOYAlert](https://emergencymanagement.georgetown.edu/hoyalert/) is Georgetown University's mass-notification system, administered by the [Office of Emergency Management](https://emergencymanagement.georgetown.edu/), which sends guidance during emergencies affecting the safety or security of any of Georgetown's DC-metro campuses via email, SMS text, and @HOYAlert on X; the [Georgetown University Police Department](https://police.georgetown.edu/alerts) separately issues Clery Timely Warnings for reported crimes posing a threat.","analysis":"HOYAlert is Georgetown's primary emergency notification channel. The [Office of Emergency Management](https://emergencymanagement.georgetown.edu/hoyalert/) states that \"HOYAlert messages provide guidance in the event of an emergency impacting the safety or security of any of Georgetown University's campuses in the DC metro area,\" and that the system \"allows users to receive messages via email, SMS text messaging and by following @HOYAlert on X (formerly Twitter).\" Georgetown frames HOYAlert as the mass notification system used for emergencies such as extreme weather and other life-safety or urgent situations, spanning the University's multiple campuses across the District.\n\nEnrollment is broad and largely automatic. All students, faculty and staff receive HOYAlerts at their Georgetown email address and at any cell phone numbers the University has on file. In a March 20, 2023 [update announced by the Office of Emergency Management](https://www.georgetown.edu/news/update-to-hoyalert-emergency-notifications/), Georgetown moved text alerts to an opt-out model: community members were already automatically enrolled to receive email alerts, and those with a mobile number on file are now automatically signed up for HOYAlert SMS/text messages for the campus(es) with which they are affiliated. The University describes having automatically added all community members' mobile numbers in University databases into the HOYAlert system to increase its ability to communicate crucial information during emergencies.\n\nThe Clery timely-warning function is carried out by the [Georgetown University Police Department](https://police.georgetown.edu/alerts). GUPD notifies the community through Timely Warnings when crimes reported to GUPD or the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) are believed to represent a threat to students or employees, consistent with the Campus Security Act. Timely Warnings are issued via email when incidents reported to GUPD constitute a felony or serious misdemeanor, involve a hate/bias element or involve a serious physical injury and may pose an ongoing threat to members of the university community. The determination of whether an incident poses an ongoing threat is made by experienced law enforcement professionals based on available information — including whether a perpetrator has been identified, arrested, or remains at large — in consultation with university officials such as representatives from the Office of Student Affairs and the Office for Equal Opportunity Compliance.\n\nGeorgetown emphasizes that HOYAlerts and the annual crime reports published by GUPD are required by the Clery Act. The Office of Emergency Management tests the HOYAlert system by sending a test message to all enrollees via SMS/text and email during daytime hours, clearly marked as a test, to confirm the system is working and that contact information is current. Scope is bounded by the safety/security trigger for HOYAlert and, on the Clery side, by the felony/serious-misdemeanor, hate-bias, or serious-physical-injury thresholds plus the ongoing-threat judgment for Timely Warnings.","whenCriteria":"HOYAlert is used when an emergency impacts the safety or security of any of Georgetown's DC-metro campuses — for situations such as extreme weather and other life-safety or urgent events. Clery Timely Warnings are issued when crimes reported to GUPD or MPD constitute a felony or serious misdemeanor, involve a hate/bias element, or involve serious physical injury and may pose an ongoing threat.","decisionAuthority":"The Office of Emergency Management administers HOYAlert; the Georgetown University Police Department decides to issue Clery Timely Warnings, with the ongoing-threat determination made by experienced law enforcement professionals in consultation with university officials (including the Office of Student Affairs and the Office for Equal Opportunity Compliance).","timingStandard":"HOYAlert is the mass notification system used in urgent and life-safety situations; Timely Warnings are issued in a manner consistent with the Campus Security Act once law enforcement determines a reported crime may pose an ongoing threat to the community.","cleryFraming":"Two-track framework: HOYAlert delivers emergency notifications for safety/security emergencies, while GUPD issues Clery Timely Warnings for qualifying reported crimes (felony/serious misdemeanor, hate/bias, or serious physical injury) that may pose an ongoing threat. Georgetown states HOYAlerts and GUPD's annual crime reports are required by the Clery Act.","testingCadence":"The Office of Emergency Management tests HOYAlert by sending a test message to all enrollees via SMS/text and email during daytime hours, clearly marked as a test, to verify the system works and that enrollee information is current.","scopeLimits":"HOYAlert is reserved for emergencies impacting the safety or security of Georgetown's campuses; messages can be targeted to the campus(es) a recipient is affiliated with. Timely Warnings are limited to qualifying reported crimes that may pose an ongoing threat, as determined case-by-case by law enforcement in consultation with university officials.","channels":["email","sms","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"HOYAlert purpose and scope","quotedText":"HOYAlert messages provide guidance in the event of an emergency impacting the safety or security of any of Georgetown University's campuses in the DC metro area.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergencymanagement.georgetown.edu/hoyalert/","sourceDescription":"HOYAlert | Office of Emergency Management, Georgetown University","annotations":["Scope is explicitly multi-campus across the DC metro area, not a single site."],"characterCount":161},{"label":"Delivery channels","quotedText":"HOYAlert allows users to receive messages via email, SMS text messaging and by following @HOYAlert on X (formerly Twitter).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergencymanagement.georgetown.edu/hoyalert/","sourceDescription":"HOYAlert | Office of Emergency Management, Georgetown University","annotations":["Names a dedicated public X handle (@HOYAlert) alongside the private email and SMS channels."],"characterCount":123},{"label":"Timely Warning criteria","quotedText":"Timely Warnings are issued via email when incidents reported to GUPD constitute a felony or serious misdemeanor, involve a hate/bias element or involve a serious physical injury and may pose an ongoing threat to members of the university community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.georgetown.edu/alerts","sourceDescription":"Timely Warnings | Georgetown University Police Department","annotations":["Spells out concrete crime thresholds (felony/serious misdemeanor, hate/bias, serious physical injury) gated by an ongoing-threat judgment."],"characterCount":248}],"keyFindings":["HOYAlert provides guidance during emergencies affecting the safety or security of any of Georgetown's DC-metro campuses, delivered by the Office of Emergency Management.","Channels are email, SMS text, and a dedicated public X handle, @HOYAlert.","As of a March 20, 2023 update, text alerts are opt-out: community members with a mobile number on file are automatically enrolled for SMS for their affiliated campus(es).","GUPD issues Clery Timely Warnings via email for felonies/serious misdemeanors, hate/bias incidents, or serious physical injury that may pose an ongoing threat, decided case-by-case by law enforcement with university officials.","OEM tests HOYAlert with a clearly marked daytime test message via SMS and email to verify the system and update enrollee contact information."],"sources":[{"title":"HOYAlert | Office of Emergency Management, Georgetown University","url":"https://emergencymanagement.georgetown.edu/hoyalert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Update to HOYAlert Emergency Notifications | Georgetown University","url":"https://www.georgetown.edu/news/update-to-hoyalert-emergency-notifications/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Timely Warnings | Georgetown University Police Department","url":"https://police.georgetown.edu/alerts","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"GUPD Communications | Georgetown University Police Department","url":"https://police.georgetown.edu/georgetown-university-police-department-communications/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","hoyalert","district-of-columbia","private-r1"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"georgia-college-ens-activation-protocols","slug":"georgia-college-ens-activation-protocols","institution":{"name":"Georgia College & State University","shortName":"GCSU","state":"GA","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"GC ALERT","enrollment":7097},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification System Activation Protocols","systemName":"GC ALERT","documentType":"sop","url":"https://www.gcsu.edu/sites/files/page-assets/node-773/attachments/emergency_notification_system.pdf"},"summary":"Georgia College & State University publishes a standalone [Emergency Notification System Activation Protocols PDF](https://www.gcsu.edu/sites/files/page-assets/node-773/attachments/emergency_notification_system.pdf) covering who activates its three outdoor warning sirens and the GC ALERT mass-notification system, down to the dispatch-level all-clear sequence of sounding the message, waiting five minutes, and sounding it again.","analysis":"Georgia College & State University, Georgia's designated public liberal arts university in [Milledgeville](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_College_%26_State_University) with about 7,100 students, is one of the few institutions in this archive to publish a true activation-level SOP: the [Emergency Notification System Activation Protocols](https://www.gcsu.edu/sites/files/page-assets/node-773/attachments/emergency_notification_system.pdf) posted under its [Public Safety Emergency Management pages](https://www.gcsu.edu/publicsafety/emergency-management). The document works at the level of operator actions rather than policy commitments: dispatch officers are responsible for activating the outdoor warning sirens during emergencies, and the Associate Director of Emergency Preparedness ensures testing, maintenance, operations, training, and public outreach are conducted as prescribed.\n\nThe siren layer is described concretely. Georgia College operates three sirens in Baldwin County, one on West Campus and two on Main Campus, preprogrammed to broadcast emergency tones and voice messages; during a tornado warning the system sounds the ALERT tone, the TORNADO WARNING voice message, and the ALERT tone again. The protocols also script the recovery side of an activation, which many published procedures omit: in an emergency the sirens cycle until the emergency is over, then dispatch activates the all-clear message, waits five minutes, and activates the all-clear message again.\n\nTesting is calendared and weather-gated: the outdoor system is tested on the first Wednesday morning of each month between 10 a.m. and noon, lasting about a minute, and only under clear-sky conditions, with the test cancelled for the month if severe weather threatens, a guard against a test siren being mistaken for a real warning. The siren layer is paired with [GC ALERT](https://www.gcsu.edu/publicsafety/emergency-management), the mass-notification system that reaches users by text message, email, and text-to-speech call, with faculty, staff, and students automatically enrolled through their college email.\n\nBecause gcsu.edu is not reachable from this research environment (automated fetches are blocked), the passages quoted below are reconstructed from search-engine-indexed extracts of the protocols PDF and the emergency-management pages rather than a firsthand line-by-line read, so every excerpt is marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false and confidence is held at medium even though the extracts present as close quotations.","whenCriteria":"The outdoor warning sirens and GC ALERT are activated for emergencies affecting the campus and surrounding area, with preprogrammed tone-and-voice sequences for specific hazards such as tornado warnings.","decisionAuthority":"Dispatch officers activate the outdoor warning sirens during emergencies; the Associate Director of Emergency Preparedness is responsible for ensuring testing, maintenance, operations, training, and public outreach are conducted as prescribed.","timingStandard":"No minutes-based standard was reproduced in the sources reviewed; the protocols instead script the activation and all-clear sequences themselves, including the five-minute repeat of the all-clear message.","cleryFraming":"The document is an operational activation SOP for the notification systems rather than a Clery decision policy; the systems it governs serve the university's emergency-notification obligations.","testingCadence":"The outdoor emergency notification system is tested on the first Wednesday morning of each month between 10 a.m. and noon, for no longer than about a minute, and only under clear-sky conditions; tests are cancelled for the month when severe weather threatens.","scopeLimits":"Three sirens cover the Milledgeville campuses and the surrounding Baldwin County area (one on West Campus, two on Main Campus); GC ALERT reaches enrolled users directly, with automatic enrollment through Georgia College email.","channels":["siren","sms","email","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"All-clear activation sequence","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gcsu.edu/sites/files/page-assets/node-773/attachments/emergency_notification_system.pdf","sourceDescription":"Georgia College, Emergency Notification System Activation Protocols; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Siren cycling during an emergency","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gcsu.edu/sites/files/page-assets/node-773/attachments/emergency_notification_system.pdf","sourceDescription":"Georgia College, Emergency Notification System Activation Protocols; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Monthly test window","quotedText":"A system test will only take place in the morning on the first Wednesday of the month and will not last longer than a minute, unless prior notice has been given.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gcsu.edu/publicsafety/emergency-management","sourceDescription":"Georgia College Public Safety, Emergency Management outdoor notification system test guidance; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":["Bounds the test to a known monthly window so an out-of-window siren can be read as real."],"characterCount":161}],"keyFindings":["Georgia College publishes a genuine activation-level SOP for its notification systems, working at the level of dispatch actions rather than policy commitments.","The all-clear is scripted as a repeated sequence: activate the message, wait five minutes, activate it again.","Siren tests run only on the first Wednesday morning of the month, under clear-sky conditions, and are cancelled when severe weather threatens, so a test cannot be mistaken for a warning.","Three sirens cover the campuses and surrounding Baldwin County, preprogrammed with hazard-specific tone-and-voice sequences such as the tornado warning cycle."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notification System Activation Protocols, Georgia College & State University","url":"https://www.gcsu.edu/sites/files/page-assets/node-773/attachments/emergency_notification_system.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Management, Georgia College Public Safety","url":"https://www.gcsu.edu/publicsafety/emergency-management","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Outdoor Emergency Notification System test announcements, Georgia College Front Page","url":"https://frontpage.gcsu.edu/node/21641","type":"official-statement"},{"title":"Georgia College & State University, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_College_%26_State_University","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","sop","siren","activation-protocol","emergency-notification","georgia","public-masters","all-clear","testing-cadence"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-23","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"georgia-tech-gtens-policy","slug":"georgia-tech-gtens-policy","institution":{"name":"Georgia Institute of Technology","shortName":"Georgia Tech","state":"GA","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"GTENS","enrollment":53363},"policy":{"title":"Georgia Tech Emergency Notification System (GTENS)","systemName":"GTENS","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://prepare.gatech.edu/gtens","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"Georgia Tech operates the [Georgia Tech Emergency Notification System (GTENS)](https://prepare.gatech.edu/gtens) to immediately disseminate information to the campus by text, voice message, and email, split into two tiers — GTENS Emergency for imminent threats and the newer [GTENS Inform](https://news.gatech.edu/news/2023/07/25/gtens-system-evolves-include-new-inform-notifications) for monitored nearby situations — while Clery Timely Warnings are issued separately as [Clery Act Safety Alerts](https://police.gatech.edu/timely-warnings-clery-act-safety-alerts) by the Georgia Tech Police Department.","analysis":"Georgia Tech's primary emergency channel is the [Georgia Tech Emergency Notification System (GTENS)](https://prepare.gatech.edu/gtens), described as a system to immediately disseminate information to the Georgia Tech community using text, voice messages, and email. All students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled in email alerts but are encouraged to opt into text and phone-call alerts by logging into passport.gatech.edu and adding their contact information. GTENS is activated during emergencies to provide the campus and community with prompt notification of a confirmed situation and to provide instructions for taking action if needed.\n\nGTENS now operates as a two-tier system. A [GTENS Emergency](https://prepare.gatech.edu/emergency-notification) alert indicates an imminent threat to campus — such as natural disasters or an active shooter — requiring immediate action; here Georgia Tech follows the Clery trigger, immediately notifying the campus community after confirming that a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty, staff, or visitors is occurring on the campus. A second tier, [GTENS Inform](https://news.gatech.edu/news/2023/07/25/gtens-system-evolves-include-new-inform-notifications), introduced in 2023, is used to tell the community that campus officials and authorities are monitoring a nearby situation; it explicitly does not mean an emergency currently exists or that immediate action is necessary, and it travels through traditional channels including phone calls, text messages, email, and social media. This Emergency-vs-Inform split is notable: it gives Georgia Tech a calibrated, lower-urgency tier for situational awareness without diluting the imminent-threat alert.\n\nGeorgia Tech keeps its Clery obligations distinct. The Institute determines the content of an emergency notification and activates the system without delay; if responsible authorities determine that issuing an emergency notification would compromise efforts to assist a victim or mitigate the emergency, the notification may be delayed until the compromising situation has been addressed. Separately, the Institute issues [Clery Act Safety Alerts](https://police.gatech.edu/timely-warnings-clery-act-safety-alerts) (Timely Warnings) when there is a serious or continuing threat to the campus community and issuing the warning will not compromise law enforcement efforts; the Georgia Tech Police Department makes that professional-judgment call, and GTPD works with Institute Communications to distribute campus-wide emails and post alerts online.\n\nReporting note on sourcing: in this environment the official gatech.edu pages return HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so the verbatim excerpts below were captured from official Georgia Tech page text (prepare.gatech.edu, police.gatech.edu) as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries. A specific named alert platform/vendor for GTENS is not stated in the sources reviewed and is therefore omitted rather than guessed.","whenCriteria":"GTENS Emergency: the Institute immediately notifies the campus community after confirming a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty, staff or visitors occurring on campus (e.g., natural disasters, active shooter). GTENS Inform: used when officials are monitoring a nearby situation that is not an emergency requiring immediate action. Clery Act Safety Alerts (Timely Warnings): issued when there is a serious or continuing threat to the campus community and doing so will not compromise law enforcement efforts.","decisionAuthority":"The Institute determines the content and activates GTENS without delay; responsible authorities may delay an emergency notification if it would compromise victim-assistance or mitigation efforts. The Georgia Tech Police Department decides whether to issue a Clery Act Safety Alert (Timely Warning) in its professional judgment, working with Institute Communications on distribution.","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications are issued 'without delay' upon confirmation; delay is permitted only where notification would compromise efforts to assist a victim or mitigate the emergency. Timely Warnings are issued when a serious/continuing threat exists, and immediately once any compromising situation is resolved if the threat persists.","cleryFraming":"Clean separation of Clery obligations: GTENS Emergency = Emergency Notification (immediate threat); Clery Act Safety Alerts = Timely Warnings (serious/continuing-threat Clery crimes). GTENS Inform is a non-Clery situational-awareness tier added in 2023.","testingCadence":"Not specified verbatim in the sources reviewed; GTENS is the standing system tested/activated for confirmed emergencies (cadence omitted rather than fabricated).","scopeLimits":"GTENS Inform expressly does not signify that an emergency exists or that immediate action is necessary. Emergency notifications may be delayed only to avoid compromising victim assistance or emergency mitigation; Timely Warnings may be limited/delayed only to avoid compromising law enforcement efforts.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","twitter-x","facebook","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"GTENS definition and channels","quotedText":"The Georgia Tech Emergency Notification System (GTENS) is a system to immediately disseminate information to the Georgia Tech Community using text, voice messages, and email.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://prepare.gatech.edu/gtens","sourceDescription":"Georgia Tech Emergency Management and Communications — GTENS","annotations":["Defines GTENS as the immediate-dissemination system and names its core channels: text, voice, and email."],"characterCount":174},{"label":"GTENS Inform tier","quotedText":"An expanded GTENS system will be used to inform the campus community that campus officials and authorities are monitoring a nearby situation, but it does not mean that an emergency currently exists or that immediate action is necessary.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://news.gatech.edu/news/2023/07/25/gtens-system-evolves-include-new-inform-notifications","sourceDescription":"Georgia Tech News Center — GTENS System Evolves to Include New 'Inform' Notifications (2023)","annotations":["Introduces the lower-urgency 'Inform' tier and explicitly disclaims that it signals an emergency or requires immediate action — a deliberate calibration of urgency."],"characterCount":236},{"label":"Emergency Notification activation criteria","quotedText":"The Institute will immediately notify the campus community after confirming that a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty, staff or visitors is occurring on the campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.gatech.edu/jeanne-clery-act","sourceDescription":"Georgia Tech Police Department — Jeanne Clery Act","annotations":["Mirrors the federal Clery 'immediate threat to the health or safety' trigger almost verbatim, extending it explicitly to visitors as well as students, faculty, and staff."],"characterCount":249}],"keyFindings":["GTENS is Georgia Tech's emergency notification system, immediately disseminating information by text, voice message, and email.","All community members are auto-enrolled in email; text and phone-call alerts are opt-in via passport.gatech.edu.","GTENS operates two tiers: GTENS Emergency (imminent threat, immediate action) and GTENS Inform (2023; monitored nearby situation, no emergency/no immediate action required).","Emergency Notifications track the Clery immediate-threat trigger and are activated 'without delay,' with delay permitted only to avoid compromising victim assistance or mitigation.","Clery Timely Warnings are issued as 'Clery Act Safety Alerts' by GTPD when a serious or continuing threat exists and issuance won't compromise law enforcement, distributed with Institute Communications."],"sources":[{"title":"GTENS — Georgia Tech Emergency Management and Communications","url":"https://prepare.gatech.edu/gtens","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Notification — Georgia Tech Emergency Management and Communications","url":"https://prepare.gatech.edu/emergency-notification","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Jeanne Clery Act — Georgia Tech Police Department","url":"https://police.gatech.edu/jeanne-clery-act","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Timely Warnings / Clery Act Safety Alerts — Georgia Tech Police Department","url":"https://police.gatech.edu/timely-warnings-clery-act-safety-alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"GTENS System Evolves to Include New 'Inform' Notifications — Georgia Tech News Center (2023)","url":"https://news.gatech.edu/news/2023/07/25/gtens-system-evolves-include-new-inform-notifications","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","gtens","public-r1","georgia"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-23","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"georgia-military-college-alert-policy","slug":"georgia-military-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Georgia Military College","shortName":"GMC","state":"GA","type":"military","alertPlatform":"Regroup"},"policy":{"title":"Consumer Information Disclosure","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.gmc.edu/consumer-information-disclosure/","lastReviewed":"2026-07-20"},"summary":"Georgia Military College, a two-year [military junior college](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Military_College) headquartered in Milledgeville with satellite campuses across Georgia and one of four schools in the [U.S. Army's Early Commissioning Program](https://www.gmc.edu/do-i-have-to-be-in-the-military/), publishes its emergency-notification commitments on its [Consumer Information Disclosure](https://www.gmc.edu/consumer-information-disclosure/) page, using a Regroup-based system that reaches student cellular phones and campus loudspeakers.","analysis":"GMC's published emergency-notification commitment tracks the Clery Act's 34 CFR 668.46(g)(3) standard almost word for word: [Georgia Military College will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the emergency notification system, unless the notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist victims or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency](https://www.gmc.edu/consumer-information-disclosure/). That close tracking of the federal template is common among Clery-covered institutions; what is specific to GMC is who is named as the initiator: [Campus Police, in consultation with the Dean of Students, will initiate the emergency notification system](https://www.gmc.edu/consumer-information-disclosure/), pairing a law-enforcement authority with a student-affairs authority rather than routing the decision through a single office.\n\nGMC's primary system is Regroup, which the college describes as reaching student cellular phones directly; the college has also documented a physical-plant layer of loudspeakers installed in buildings on the Milledgeville campus that can broadcast a voice or tone notification, remotely activated by Campus Police and certain college administrators, a redundant channel for the roughly 250 full-time resident Corps of Cadets on that campus even if a phone is unreachable.\n\nGMC's structure as an institution is unusual among Clery-covered colleges: fewer than 300 of its many thousands of enrolled students nationwide are in the college's traditional cadet program, with the large majority pursuing associate degrees at satellite campuses (Augusta, Atlanta, and others) or fully online, meaning the emergency-notification policy documented here is written to cover a mostly-commuter, multi-site student population rather than a residential cadet corps alone. Because gmc.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were captured from GMC's own Consumer Information Disclosure page as reproduced in search-engine results and corroborated across multiple independent queries. No fixed testing cadence or minutes-based response standard was reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed, and the loudspeaker detail above is reported as a paraphrase rather than a verbatim excerpt because the underlying search-result phrasing was not internally consistent enough to quote with confidence.","whenCriteria":"GMC's emergency notification system is initiated for a natural or man-made crisis or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on the campus.","decisionAuthority":"Campus Police, in consultation with the Dean of Students, initiate the emergency notification system; the college determines notification content without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, unless doing so would compromise efforts to assist victims or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","timingStandard":"GMC commits to act 'without delay' once an emergency-notification determination is made. No separate minutes-based or hours-based SLA was reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"GMC's emergency-notification language closely tracks the Clery Act's 668.46(g)(3) 'without delay,' safety-of-the-community, and law-enforcement-compromise-exception standard.","testingCadence":"A specific testing cadence for GMC's emergency notification system was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"The primary channel reaches registered student cellular phones via Regroup; a supplemental building-loudspeaker layer on the Milledgeville campus, remotely activated by Campus Police and certain administrators, extends reach to the resident Corps of Cadets population without a working phone in range.","channels":["sms","phone-call","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency-notification 'without delay' commitment","quotedText":"Georgia Military College will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the emergency notification system, unless the notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist victims or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gmc.edu/consumer-information-disclosure/","sourceDescription":"Georgia Military College - Consumer Information Disclosure","annotations":["Tracks the Clery Act's 34 CFR 668.46(g)(3) emergency-notification standard closely, including the law-enforcement-compromise exception."],"characterCount":376},{"label":"Notification initiator","quotedText":"Campus Police, in consultation with the Dean of Students, will initiate the emergency notification system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gmc.edu/consumer-information-disclosure/","sourceDescription":"Georgia Military College - Consumer Information Disclosure","annotations":["Pairs a law-enforcement authority (Campus Police) with a student-affairs authority (Dean of Students) as joint initiators."],"characterCount":106},{"label":"Triggering situation","quotedText":"In the event of a natural or man-made crisis or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on the campus, GMC has procedures to notify the campus community immediately.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gmc.edu/consumer-information-disclosure/","sourceDescription":"Georgia Military College - Consumer Information Disclosure","annotations":["States the substantive trigger for notification in terms covering both natural and man-made crises."],"characterCount":234}],"keyFindings":["GMC's emergency-notification standard closely tracks the Clery Act's federal 'without delay' / safety-of-the-community / law-enforcement-compromise-exception template.","Campus Police and the Dean of Students are jointly named as the initiators of the emergency notification system.","GMC's primary channel is a Regroup-based system reaching student cellular phones, supplemented by remotely-activated building loudspeakers on the Milledgeville campus.","GMC is one of four military junior colleges in the U.S. Army's Early Commissioning Program, but fewer than 300 of its many thousands of enrolled students are in the traditional cadet program, most pursue associate degrees at satellite campuses or online.","No fixed testing cadence or minutes-based response standard was reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed."],"sources":[{"title":"Consumer Information Disclosure - Georgia Military College","url":"https://www.gmc.edu/consumer-information-disclosure/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Academic Programs / Consumer Information - Georgia Military College","url":"https://www.gmc.edu/about-gmc/cidinfo.cms","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Do I Have to Be in the Military? - Georgia Military College","url":"https://www.gmc.edu/do-i-have-to-be-in-the-military/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Georgia Military College - Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Military_College","type":"other"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","military","military-junior-college","georgia","regroup"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-20","lastUpdated":"2026-07-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"georgia-southern-university-eagle-alert-policy","slug":"georgia-southern-university-eagle-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Georgia Southern University","shortName":"Georgia Southern","state":"GA","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"EAGLE ALERT"},"policy":{"title":"Crime Information and Alerts - Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings","systemName":"EAGLE ALERT","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.georgiasouthern.edu/offices/public-safety/crime-information-alerts"},"summary":"Georgia Southern University's [Crime Information and Alerts page](https://www.georgiasouthern.edu/offices/public-safety/crime-information-alerts) uses EAGLE ALERT to contact members if there is an imminent threat to students, faculty and/or staff on any campus. Timely Warnings issue when a hazardous condition or pattern of crimes poses a continued risk, through University email and website postings.","analysis":"Georgia Southern (public-r2, seven filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [Crime Information and Alerts](https://www.georgiasouthern.edu/offices/public-safety/crime-information-alerts) page (HTTP 200). EAGLE ALERT is the emergency message alert notification system for an imminent threat on any campus. EAGLE ALERTs are designed to provide instructions, not to pass along information. The service is required and used only for potential, developing or existing emergencies. Timely Warnings cover a hazardous condition or pattern of crimes believed to pose a continued risk, sent by University email and website postings. Sentences on that page that contain NBSPs are not quoted. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live HTML.","whenCriteria":"EAGLE ALERT for an imminent threat to students, faculty and/or staff on any campus. Timely Warnings when a hazardous condition or pattern of crimes is believed to pose a continued risk to the campus community.","decisionAuthority":"The alerts page does not name a single issuing official in the quoted sentences.","timingStandard":"Not stated as a minutes-based SLA in the quoted sentences.","cleryFraming":"The page keeps Emergency Notifications (EAGLE ALERT, imminent threat) distinct from Timely Warnings (hazardous condition or pattern of crimes, continued risk).","scopeLimits":"The service is required and used only for potential, developing or existing emergencies. It covers any of the university's campuses.","channels":["sms","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"EAGLE ALERT trigger","quotedText":"Georgia Southern University uses an emergency message alert notification system, called EAGLE ALERT, to contact members if there is an imminent threat to students, faculty and/or staff on any of our campuses.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.georgiasouthern.edu/offices/public-safety/crime-information-alerts","sourceDescription":"Georgia Southern Crime Information and Alerts page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Live wording is imminent threat."],"characterCount":208},{"label":"Instructions not information","quotedText":"EAGLE ALERTs are designed to provide instructions, not to pass along information.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.georgiasouthern.edu/offices/public-safety/crime-information-alerts","sourceDescription":"Georgia Southern Crime Information and Alerts page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["ALERTs is plural with a capital s in the live heading style."],"characterCount":81},{"label":"Required emergency-only service","quotedText":"This service is required and will be used only for potential, developing or existing emergencies.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.georgiasouthern.edu/offices/public-safety/crime-information-alerts","sourceDescription":"Georgia Southern Crime Information and Alerts page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["No serial comma after developing."],"characterCount":97},{"label":"Timely warning continued-risk trigger","quotedText":"Timely Warnings are issued when information regarding a hazardous condition or pattern of crimes is made available to the University, and it is believed that the hazard poses a continued risk to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.georgiasouthern.edu/offices/public-safety/crime-information-alerts","sourceDescription":"Georgia Southern Crime Information and Alerts page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["A following preventative-measures sentence contains an NBSP and is not quoted."],"characterCount":216},{"label":"Timely warning channels","quotedText":"Timely warnings are issued through University email and website postings.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.georgiasouthern.edu/offices/public-safety/crime-information-alerts","sourceDescription":"Georgia Southern Crime Information and Alerts page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Immediate next sentence after the continued-risk trigger."],"characterCount":73}],"keyFindings":["EAGLE ALERT contacts members on an imminent threat on any campus and is designed to give instructions.","The service is required and limited to potential, developing or existing emergencies.","Timely Warnings issue for a hazardous condition or pattern of crimes believed to pose a continued risk."],"sources":[{"title":"Georgia Southern University Crime Information and Alerts","url":"https://www.georgiasouthern.edu/offices/public-safety/crime-information-alerts","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","system-overview","emergency-notification","timely-warning","georgia","public-r2"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"georgia-state-university-alert-policy","slug":"georgia-state-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Georgia State University","shortName":"GSU","state":"GA","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"Panther Alert","enrollment":52400},"policy":{"title":"Georgia State Emergency Notification System (Panther Alert) and Timely Warning Policy","systemName":"Panther Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://safety.gsu.edu/oem/about-us/","lastReviewed":"2025-09-01"},"summary":"Georgia State University, a large urban public R1, issues emergency notifications through the [Georgia State Emergency Notification System (Panther Alert)](https://safety.gsu.edu/oem/about-us/), a Rave Mobile Safety-powered, multi-channel system activated upon confirmation of an immediate threat to health or safety, and issues separate Clery [timely warning](https://safety.gsu.edu/safety-and-you/) crime alerts through the GSU Police Department for crimes that pose a serious or continuing threat.","analysis":"Georgia State University (GSU) is one of Georgia's largest universities, a public R1 spread across a dense downtown Atlanta footprint plus regional Perimeter College campuses. Its emergency-notification system is branded [Panther Alert](https://safety.gsu.edu/oem/about-us/) (formally the 'Georgia State Emergency Notification System (Panther Alert)') and is powered by Rave Mobile Safety — GSU's student-orientation FAQ is literally titled 'Panther Alerts (RAVE)' and the university directs the community to opt into text alerts through the Rave/GetRave platform. Note: the system is *not* branded 'GSU Alert'; the public name is Panther Alert and the vendor/internal name is Rave Alert.\n\nGSU frames activation around the federal Clery standard: per its [Safety and You](https://safety.gsu.edu/safety-and-you/) page and Annual Security Report, 'The University will immediately notify the campus community after confirming that a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty, staff or visitors is occurring on the campus.' Panther Alert proper is described as triggering 'when a life-threatening event or weather situation occurs,' pushing alerts 'through various communications channels, including email, text, phone calls and social media posts.'\n\nWhat distinguishes GSU is the breadth of its delivery layer beyond the core Rave channels. The [Office of Emergency Management](https://safety.gsu.edu/oem/about-us/) states that 'notifications may go out through mass notification via Panther Alert, the outdoor public announcement (PA) system, university website postings, phone trees, campus email and/or the university police vehicles' PA system.' GSU also runs a desktop pop-up alert that broadcasts to enrolled workstations and a web-alert banner on the university homepage — appropriate for a vertical, building-dense downtown campus where outdoor sirens are less useful than PA, desktop, and vehicle-mounted broadcast. The OEM page also documents the test cadence: the system 'is tested once every semester.'\n\nGSU keeps the two Clery functions distinct. Emergency notifications (Panther Alert) cover imminent threats and weather; Clery [timely warnings](https://safety.gsu.edu/safety-and-you/) are issued by the GSU Police Department for reportable crimes that pose a serious or continuing threat, primarily by email plus opt-in text crime alerts, with the standard professional-judgment delay clause naming the Chief of Police or highest-ranking officer in charge. The exact named emergency-notification decision authority and the full ASR timing-boilerplate sentence ('without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community') were each seen in only a single indexed retrieval — GSU's safety.gsu.edu host and ASR PDFs return HTTP 403 to automated fetching — so those are flagged as reconstructed; four excerpts (the activation threshold, the system definition, the OEM channel list, and the Panther Alert channel list) appeared with identical wording across multiple official-page retrievals and are marked verbatim-confirmed.","whenCriteria":"Panther Alert is activated upon confirmation that a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty, staff or visitors is occurring on campus; it covers life-threatening events and weather situations. Clery timely warnings are issued separately by the GSU Police Department for reportable crimes that pose a serious or continuing threat to the campus community.","decisionAuthority":"Emergency notifications are activated by the Georgia State University Office of Emergency Management, which operates the Panther Alert system, after the GSU Police Department confirms the situation; the policy references 'responsible authorities.' Clery timely warnings are decided by the GSU Police Department, and in delay/compromise situations the University's Chief of Police, or the highest-ranking officer in charge, is notified. The specific position authorized to trigger a Panther Alert was not confirmed verbatim (safety.gsu.edu and ASR PDFs blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"GSU states it 'will immediately notify the campus community after confirming' a qualifying emergency — consistent with the Clery 'immediately, upon confirmation' standard. The fuller ASR phrasing ('without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community') was seen in only a single indexed retrieval and is treated as reconstructed. Timely warnings are issued as soon as pertinent information is available, and immediately if a serious or continuing threat still exists once any compromising situation is resolved.","cleryFraming":"GSU separates the two Clery functions: Panther Alert emergency notifications for immediate threats to health/safety (life-threatening events and weather) and Clery timely warnings (primarily email plus opt-in text crime alerts) issued by the GSU Police Department for reportable crimes posing a serious or continuing threat. GSU notes it may not issue a timely warning for every Clery-reportable incident if it does not pose a continuing threat, publishes an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report by October 1, and maintains a public Daily Crime Log.","testingCadence":"Per the GSU Office of Emergency Management, the Panther Alert / emergency-notification system is tested once every semester.","scopeLimits":"Panther Alert text/voice reach depends on opt-in enrollment through the Rave/GetRave platform and current contact information; campus email reach is broader. The multi-channel design (Panther Alert mass notification, outdoor PA, website postings/web-alert banner, phone trees, campus email, police-vehicle PA, and desktop pop-ups to enrolled workstations) is intended to reduce single-channel dependency on a dense downtown campus. No evidence was found for fixed outdoor sirens or digital signage as Panther Alert channels, so those are not listed.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","twitter-x","facebook","website","pa-system","desktop-popup"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Activation threshold / immediate-notification standard","quotedText":"The University will immediately notify the campus community after confirming that a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty, staff or visitors is occurring on the campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.gsu.edu/safety-and-you/","sourceDescription":"GSU Safety & Security — Safety and You / Annual Security Report","annotations":["Standard Clery 34 CFR 668.46(g) activation-and-timing language; sets the threshold at an 'immediate threat to the health or safety' confirmed as occurring on campus. Identical wording appeared across multiple independent official-page retrievals, justifying verbatim confirmation."],"characterCount":250},{"label":"Panther Alert system definition","quotedText":"Georgia State University has a Georgia State Emergency Notification System (Panther Alert), which is activated during emergencies to provide the campus and the community with a prompt notification of a confirmed situation and to provide instructions for taking action if needed.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.gsu.edu/oem/about-us/","sourceDescription":"GSU Office of Emergency Management — About Us","annotations":["Confirms the official system name is the 'Georgia State Emergency Notification System (Panther Alert)' — not 'GSU Alert.' Identical wording appeared across multiple official-page retrievals."],"characterCount":278},{"label":"Multi-channel delivery list (OEM)","quotedText":"notifications may go out through mass notification via Panther Alert, the outdoor public announcement (PA) system, university website postings, phone trees, campus email and/or the university police vehicles' PA system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.gsu.edu/oem/about-us/","sourceDescription":"GSU Office of Emergency Management — About Us","annotations":["Documents the layered delivery design for a dense downtown campus — mass notification plus outdoor PA, website, phone trees, email, and police-vehicle PA. Identical wording appeared across multiple official-page retrievals."],"characterCount":219},{"label":"Panther Alert channels and trigger conditions","quotedText":"When a life-threatening event or weather situation occurs, the Panther Alert system will trigger alerts through various communications channels, including email, text, phone calls and social media posts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.gsu.edu/safety-and-you/","sourceDescription":"GSU Safety & Security — Safety and You","annotations":["Defines Panther Alert's trigger conditions (life-threatening event or weather) and its core channels (email, text, phone, social media). Identical wording appeared across multiple official-page retrievals."],"characterCount":203},{"label":"Timely-warning professional-judgment delay clause","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.gsu.edu/safety-and-you/","sourceDescription":"GSU Safety & Security — Safety and You (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index, single retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["GSU's emergency-notification system is the Georgia State Emergency Notification System (Panther Alert), powered by Rave Mobile Safety — it is not branded 'GSU Alert.'","Panther Alert is activated upon confirmation of an immediate threat to health or safety on campus, and covers life-threatening events and weather situations.","Delivery is broad: Panther Alert mass notification (email, text, phone, social media) plus outdoor PA, website postings/web-alert banner, phone trees, campus email, police-vehicle PA, and desktop pop-ups to enrolled workstations.","Clery functions are kept distinct: GSU Police issue timely warnings (primarily email plus opt-in text crime alerts) for crimes posing a serious or continuing threat, with a professional-judgment delay clause naming the Chief of Police.","The system is tested once every semester per the Office of Emergency Management; the named emergency-notification decision authority and the full ASR timing boilerplate could not be confirmed verbatim (safety.gsu.edu and ASR PDFs blocked automated fetching)."],"sources":[{"title":"GSU Office of Emergency Management — About Us","url":"https://safety.gsu.edu/oem/about-us/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"GSU Safety & Security — Safety and You","url":"https://safety.gsu.edu/safety-and-you/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"GSU Student Orientation — Panther Alerts (RAVE) FAQ","url":"https://orientation.gsu.edu/faq/panther-alerts-rave/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"GSU 2022 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://safety.gsu.edu/files/2022/09/2022-Annual-Security-Fire-Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Georgia State University — Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_State_University","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","public-r1","georgia","panther-alert","rave","multi-channel"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"glenville-state-university-emergency-notification-policy","slug":"glenville-state-university-emergency-notification-policy","institution":{"name":"Glenville State University","shortName":"Glenville State","state":"WV","type":"public-masters","enrollment":1765},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.glenville.edu/emergency/emergency-notifications","lastReviewed":"2026-08-23"},"summary":"Glenville State University, a small public university in rural Gilmer County, West Virginia, documents a self-service [emergency notification system](https://www.glenville.edu/emergency/emergency-notifications) covering school closings, utility failures, road closures, and similar emergencies, paired with a red emergency banner on the [university website](https://www.glenville.edu/about-us/emergency-information) and posts to the university's social media accounts.","analysis":"Glenville State University's published alerting material centers on a credential-gated, self-service registration model rather than the automatic enrollment now common at larger institutions. According to the university's [Emergency Notifications page](https://www.glenville.edu/emergency/emergency-notifications), a user logs in with a GSC domain username and password (students use their student-number format), and on first login is prompted for a mobile phone number, mobile carrier, and email address; the system then sends an SMS or email containing a validation code or link that must be completed before emergency notifications are activated for that person. The carrier-selection step is a signature of an older SMS-gateway delivery design, in which texts are sent as email through each carrier's gateway rather than through a short-code aggregator, and it makes delivery dependent on the user choosing the right carrier and updating it after switching providers.\n\nThe stated scope of the system is operational as much as criminal: it carries information about school closings, broken water mains, road closures, and similar emergency situations, a list that reflects the practical hazards of a residential campus in rural central West Virginia. When there is an emergency on campus, the university also updates its website with a red emergency banner containing information about the alert, and notifications are posted via the university's Twitter and Facebook accounts, giving people without registered devices at least two unauthenticated public surfaces to check. The university's [Public Safety department](https://www.glenville.edu/student-life/public-safety) and its [Campus Safety pages](https://www.glenville.edu/campus-safety) document the sworn campus police force that handles the underlying incidents, and Glenville State's Annual Security Report is the formal home of its Clery timely-warning and emergency-notification policy statements.\n\nGlenville State is one of West Virginia's smallest public universities, with a total enrollment of [1,765 students in fall 2024](https://www.collegetuitioncompare.com/edu/237385/glenville-state-university/) including roughly 80 graduate students in the education-focused graduate programs the institution added after achieving university status in 2022.\n\nProvenance caveat: glenville.edu refused automated fetching from this research environment, so the excerpts below are reconstructed from search-index reproductions of the official pages and are marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false. No branded marketing name for the notification system (on the pattern of Marshall's MU Alert or WVU Alert elsewhere in this archive) surfaced in the material reviewed, and none is asserted; a named activation authority and a minutes-based timing standard were likewise not reproduced and are recorded as unconfirmed.","whenCriteria":"The published scope covers school closings, broken water mains, road closures, and similar emergency situations, alongside campus emergencies that trigger the website's red emergency banner; a formal imminent-threat activation threshold was not reproduced in the sources reviewed in this session.","decisionAuthority":"A specific named officer or office with authority to activate the emergency notification system was not reproduced in the sources reviewed in this session; Glenville State's Public Safety department polices the campus and its Annual Security Report is the formal home of the Clery policy statements.","timingStandard":"A minutes-based service-level standard was not confirmed in the sources reviewed in this session.","cleryFraming":"The Emergency Notifications page reviewed does not itself draw the Clery emergency-notification versus timely-warning distinction; that framing belongs to the university's Annual Security Report.","testingCadence":"A published testing schedule was not confirmed in the sources reviewed in this session.","scopeLimits":"Registration is self-service and credential-gated: a user logs in with GSC domain credentials, supplies a mobile number, mobile carrier, and email address, and must complete an SMS or email validation step before notifications are active. The carrier-selection design makes delivery dependent on the user keeping the carrier field current. The red website banner and the university's Twitter and Facebook posts are the unauthenticated public fallback surfaces.","channels":["sms","email","website","twitter-x","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Scope of the notification system","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.glenville.edu/emergency/emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"Glenville State University, Emergency Notifications (host blocked automated fetch; text reconstructed from search-index reproduction)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Website banner during a campus emergency","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.glenville.edu/about-us/emergency-information","sourceDescription":"Glenville State University, Emergency Information (host blocked automated fetch; text reconstructed from search-index reproduction)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Registration and validation flow","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.glenville.edu/emergency/emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"Glenville State University, Emergency Notifications (host blocked automated fetch; text reconstructed from search-index reproduction)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Glenville State's system is self-service and credential-gated with an SMS or email validation step, not automatic enrollment from institutional records.","The registration flow asks for the user's mobile carrier, a signature of SMS-gateway delivery that depends on users keeping the carrier field current.","The published scope leads with operational hazards, school closings, broken water mains, and road closures, rather than crime alerts.","During campus emergencies the university website carries a red emergency banner, and notifications are posted to the university's Twitter and Facebook accounts, giving unregistered people public surfaces to check.","No branded system name, named activation authority, or minutes-based timing standard surfaced in the reviewed material; all are recorded as unconfirmed rather than guessed."],"sources":[{"title":"Glenville State University, Emergency Notifications","url":"https://www.glenville.edu/emergency/emergency-notifications","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Glenville State University, Emergency Information","url":"https://www.glenville.edu/about-us/emergency-information","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Glenville State University, Public Safety","url":"https://www.glenville.edu/student-life/public-safety","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"College Tuition Compare, Glenville State University enrollment (2024)","url":"https://www.collegetuitioncompare.com/edu/237385/glenville-state-university/","type":"reference"},{"title":"Wikipedia, Glenville State University","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenville_State_University","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","public-masters","west-virginia","rural-campus","sms-gateway"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-23","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"gonzaga-university-zagalert-policy","slug":"gonzaga-university-zagalert-policy","institution":{"name":"Gonzaga University","shortName":"Gonzaga","state":"WA","type":"private-r2","alertSystemName":"ZagAlert","enrollment":7500},"policy":{"title":"ZagAlert Frequently Asked Questions","systemName":"ZagAlert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.gonzaga.edu/about/offices-services/emergency-management/zagalert/faqs"},"summary":"Gonzaga University's [ZagAlert](https://www.gonzaga.edu/about/offices-services/emergency-management/zagalert) is the school's emergency notification system, described on its [FAQ page](https://www.gonzaga.edu/about/offices-services/emergency-management/zagalert/faqs) and the [Keeping the Community Informed](https://www.gonzaga.edu/about/our-campus-location/campus-safety/services/keeping-the-community-informed) page, which also draws an explicit line between ZagAlert emergency notifications and separate Clery Act timely warnings.","analysis":"ZagAlert is built for rapid, life-safety messaging rather than general campus news: Gonzaga's [ZagAlert page](https://www.gonzaga.edu/about/offices-services/emergency-management/zagalert) describes the system as providing rapid notification of life-saving information during emergencies. Enrollment is automatic and opt-out for the core community, all Gonzaga students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled in ZagAlert and will receive emergency notifications at their Gonzaga email address, and students can extend coverage by adding personal and family members' cell phone numbers in their ZagWeb profile to receive alerts via text, email, and phone call. Reach beyond current affiliates is available on request, non-current students, faculty, or staff can opt in by texting the word ZagAlert to 77295.\n\nDelivery is deliberately redundant across channels rather than sequential: in a deployment, recipients will simultaneously receive voice messages to all numbers provided, text messages to all mobile numbers provided, and email messages, so a single activation reaches every registered contact point for a person at once rather than escalating channel by channel. Gonzaga states the first ZagAlert message goes out as soon as verified information is available, with the initial message focused on any immediate life-safety measures necessary, prioritizing speed and actionability (evacuate versus shelter, areas to avoid) over completeness in that first message.\n\nGonzaga treats ZagAlert and Clery timely warnings as two distinct instruments rather than one. Timely Warnings are designed to inform community members of criminal activity that does not require an immediate response, issued to inform the community about crimes or campus activity that present an immediate, serious, or ongoing threat. That framing puts ZagAlert on the emergency-notification side of the Clery Act's two-track structure (immediate danger requiring action now) and timely warnings on the informational side (a serious threat pattern the community should know about, without necessarily requiring an in-the-moment response). Campus Security and Public Safety is reachable directly at 509-313-2222 for non-911 safety needs, and the university separately offers the [Guardian](https://www.gonzaga.edu/about/offices-services/emergency-preparedness/guardian) personal-safety app with safety timers, a call directory, and emergency-call functionality as a complement to the mass-notification system.","whenCriteria":"ZagAlert is used for emergencies, incidents, or disasters that impact the campus environment or the Gonzaga community, including university closures due to inclement weather or other safety concerns. Timely Warnings are issued separately for crimes or campus activity presenting an immediate, serious, or ongoing threat that does not require an immediate response.","decisionAuthority":"A named single approving official was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed; ZagAlert is administered through Gonzaga's Office of Emergency Preparedness and Risk Management in coordination with Campus Security and Public Safety.","timingStandard":"Gonzaga states it will send the first ZagAlert message as soon as verified information is available, with the initial message focused on any immediate life-saving measures necessary; a specific minutes-based numeric standard was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"Gonzaga explicitly separates ZagAlert (emergency notifications for immediate campus threats) from Timely Warnings (informing the community of criminal activity presenting a serious or ongoing threat that does not require an immediate response).","testingCadence":"A specific testing cadence for ZagAlert was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Automatic enrollment covers current students, faculty, and staff via their Gonzaga email; personal cell numbers must be added in ZagWeb for text/voice coverage, and non-affiliated community members must opt in by texting ZagAlert to 77295.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Purpose of ZagAlert","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gonzaga.edu/about/offices-services/emergency-management/zagalert","sourceDescription":"ZagAlert, Gonzaga University","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Automatic enrollment for current affiliates","quotedText":"All Gonzaga students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled in ZagAlert and will receive emergency notifications at their Gonzaga email address.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gonzaga.edu/about/offices-services/emergency-management/zagalert/faqs","sourceDescription":"ZagAlert FAQs, Gonzaga University","annotations":["Confirms opt-out (auto-enrolled) design for the core community, with Gonzaga email as the guaranteed baseline channel."],"characterCount":152},{"label":"Opt-in for non-affiliated recipients","quotedText":"Non-current students, faculty or staff can opt-in to the system by texting the word \"ZagAlert\" to 77295.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gonzaga.edu/about/offices-services/emergency-management/zagalert/faqs","sourceDescription":"ZagAlert FAQs, Gonzaga University","annotations":["Extends the system beyond current affiliates through a simple text-to-join short code."],"characterCount":104},{"label":"Simultaneous multi-channel delivery","quotedText":"In the deployment of the ZagAlert notification system, recipients will simultaneously receive voice messages to all numbers provided, text messages to all mobile numbers provided and email messages.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gonzaga.edu/about/offices-services/emergency-management/zagalert/faqs","sourceDescription":"ZagAlert FAQs, Gonzaga University","annotations":["Documents that all channels fire at once rather than escalating sequentially through voice, text, and email."],"characterCount":198},{"label":"Timely Warning distinct from ZagAlert","quotedText":"Timely Warnings are issued to inform the community about crimes or campus activity that present an immediate, serious, or ongoing threat to the community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gonzaga.edu/about/our-campus-location/campus-safety/services/keeping-the-community-informed","sourceDescription":"Keeping the Community Informed, Gonzaga University","annotations":["Draws Gonzaga's Clery two-track line between ZagAlert emergency notifications and separate timely warnings."],"characterCount":154}],"keyFindings":["ZagAlert automatically enrolls current students, faculty, and staff at their Gonzaga email address; personal/family cell numbers must be added separately in ZagWeb for text and voice coverage.","Non-affiliated community members can opt in with a simple text-to-join short code (text ZagAlert to 77295).","A ZagAlert activation delivers voice, text, and email simultaneously to every number and address on file, rather than escalating channel by channel.","Gonzaga explicitly separates ZagAlert (emergency notifications requiring immediate action) from Timely Warnings (informing the community of a serious or ongoing threat that does not require an immediate response).","The first ZagAlert message is sent as soon as verified information is available and is focused on immediate life-safety instructions rather than full incident detail."],"sources":[{"title":"ZagAlert, Gonzaga University","url":"https://www.gonzaga.edu/about/offices-services/emergency-management/zagalert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"ZagAlert FAQs, Gonzaga University","url":"https://www.gonzaga.edu/about/offices-services/emergency-management/zagalert/faqs","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Keeping the Community Informed, Gonzaga University","url":"https://www.gonzaga.edu/about/our-campus-location/campus-safety/services/keeping-the-community-informed","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Timely warning alert system keeps the GU community safe and informed, The Gonzaga Bulletin","url":"https://www.gonzagabulletin.com/news/timely-warning-alert-system-keeps-the-gu-community-safe-and-informed/article_61b2169b-ca7a-4aa3-9aa6-861469abce3d.html","type":"student-newspaper"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","zagalert","private-r2","washington","spokane"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"goucher-college-timely-warning-protocols","slug":"goucher-college-timely-warning-protocols","institution":{"name":"Goucher College","shortName":"Goucher","state":"MD","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"e2Campus","enrollment":1500},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning and Emergency Notification Protocols","systemName":"e2Campus","documentType":"sop","url":"https://www.goucher.edu/campus-safety/documents/Timely-Warning-and-Emergency-Notification-Protocols.pdf"},"summary":"Goucher College's Office of Campus Safety publishes a standalone [Timely Warning and Emergency Notification Protocols](https://www.goucher.edu/campus-safety/documents/Timely-Warning-and-Emergency-Notification-Protocols.pdf) document, kept separate from its [Annual Security Report](https://www.goucher.edu/campus-safety/documents/Annual-Security-Report.pdf), that names a specific list of campus offices to consult before a warning is drafted and gives the Director of Campus Safety final authority over all-clear notifications.","analysis":"Goucher College, a small private liberal arts college that relocated from Baltimore to Towson, Maryland in 1953, maintains a dedicated [Timely Warning and Emergency Notification Protocols](https://www.goucher.edu/campus-safety/documents/Timely-Warning-and-Emergency-Notification-Protocols.pdf) document distinct from its annual Clery disclosure. Where a criteria page typically just restates the Clery Act's definitions, Goucher's Protocols document walks through who is consulted, who drafts, and who has final sign-off authority at each stage of a notification.\n\nThe document specifies that in order to determine whether a timely warning is required, and to determine its content, the Office of Campus Safety may consult with relevant outside authorities, including local emergency responders, and with a defined list of internal offices: the Office of the Vice President and Dean of Students, legal counsel, the Title IX coordinator, facilities personnel, the office of communications, and the department of human resources. Spanning Title IX and HR alongside campus safety and communications, that named consultation list is more granular than the single-office criteria pages many institutions publish for the same requirement.\n\nFor status update and all-clear messages specifically, the Protocols document assigns final authority to a single named role: the Director of Campus Safety or a designee shall have final authority over whether to issue a status update or all clear. Distribution runs through Goucher's [e2Campus](https://www.goucher.edu/campus-safety/e2campus-emergency-notification-system/) notification system by text and email, with the Office of Campus Safety staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week out of Ground Floor, Heubeck Hall.\n\nBecause goucher.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the passages above are reconstructed from search-engine-indexed extracts of the PDF rather than a firsthand line-by-line read, so every excerpt below is marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false out of caution even though the underlying search results present them as close quotations. Confidence is set to medium on that basis.","whenCriteria":"A timely warning or emergency notification is considered whenever a report reaches the Office of Campus Safety that may meet the Clery Act's serious-or-continuing-threat or significant-emergency thresholds; Campus Safety consults the listed internal and external offices to determine both whether a notice is required and what it should say.","decisionAuthority":"The Office of Campus Safety leads the consultation and drafting process across a named list of offices (Vice President and Dean of Students, legal counsel, Title IX coordinator, facilities, communications, human resources) and outside emergency responders. For status update and all-clear messages specifically, the Director of Campus Safety or a designee holds final sign-off authority.","timingStandard":"A specific minutes-based timeliness standard was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed; the Protocols document instead specifies who must be consulted before a message goes out, functioning as a process-based rather than clock-based timeliness discipline.","cleryFraming":"The document treats timely warnings (serious or continuing-threat Clery crimes) and emergency notifications (significant emergencies) as sharing one protocol and one consultation list, while carving out all-clear and status-update messages as a distinct step with its own named final authority, the Director of Campus Safety.","scopeLimits":"Consultation spans Title IX, legal counsel, facilities, communications, and human resources in addition to campus safety and outside emergency responders. The all-clear step is explicitly gated behind Director-level sign-off rather than being automatic once conditions improve.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Final authority over all-clear notifications","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.goucher.edu/campus-safety/documents/Timely-Warning-and-Emergency-Notification-Protocols.pdf","sourceDescription":"Goucher College, Timely Warning and Emergency Notification Protocols (captured via search-engine reproduction; host 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Who is consulted before a warning is issued","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.goucher.edu/campus-safety/documents/Timely-Warning-and-Emergency-Notification-Protocols.pdf","sourceDescription":"Goucher College, Timely Warning and Emergency Notification Protocols (captured via search-engine reproduction; host 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Office of Campus Safety availability","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.goucher.edu/campus-safety/documents/Timely-Warning-and-Emergency-Notification-Protocols.pdf","sourceDescription":"Goucher College, Timely Warning and Emergency Notification Protocols (captured via search-engine reproduction; host 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Goucher publishes a Protocols document dedicated solely to timely warnings and emergency notifications, kept separate from its Annual Security Report and Emergency Action Plan.","The document names a specific consultation list spanning Title IX, legal counsel, facilities, communications, and human resources, not just campus safety and outside responders.","All-clear and status-update messages are singled out as their own decision point, with final authority resting explicitly with the Director of Campus Safety or a designee.","Distribution runs through the e2Campus notification system, and the Office of Campus Safety that operates the protocol is staffed around the clock from Heubeck Hall."],"sources":[{"title":"Timely Warning and Emergency Notification Protocols, Goucher College Office of Campus Safety","url":"https://www.goucher.edu/campus-safety/documents/Timely-Warning-and-Emergency-Notification-Protocols.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"e2Campus Emergency Notification System, Goucher College","url":"https://www.goucher.edu/campus-safety/e2campus-emergency-notification-system/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","sop","timely-warning","emergency-notification","clery-act","e2campus","private-liberal-arts","maryland"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"grambling-state-university-alert-policy","slug":"grambling-state-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Grambling State University","shortName":"GSU","state":"LA","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"Grambling Alerts","enrollment":5150},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification and Timely Warning (Campus Safety Alert) Policy","systemName":"Grambling Alerts","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.gram.edu/police/docs/2025%20GSU%20Annual%20Fire%20and%20Safety%20Report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Grambling State University — a [public HBCU in Grambling, Louisiana](https://www.gram.edu/police/) — issues emergency notifications and Clery timely warnings (\"Campus Safety Alerts\") through \"Grambling Alerts,\" an opt-in mass-notification system on the [AlertSense platform](https://public.alertsense.com/SignUp/?RegionId=2132) that the [GSU Police Department](https://www.gram.edu/police/reports/crimeandfire.php) sends primarily by blast email and also via the University's text/voice messaging system.","analysis":"Grambling State's alerting policy is codified in the [GSU Police Department's Annual Security & Fire Safety Report](https://www.gram.edu/police/docs/2025%20GSU%20Annual%20Fire%20and%20Safety%20Report.pdf), the University's authoritative Clery document. The branded mass-notification channel is **Grambling Alerts**, an opt-in system on the **AlertSense** platform; community members sign up at the [Grambling Alerts public portal](https://public.alertsense.com/SignUp/?RegionId=2132) or by [texting \"Grambling\" to 38276](https://www.gram.edu/tools/notifications.php), providing an address so alerts can be tailored to the registrant's geographic area. The system is free of charge (standard messaging rates may apply), and the University runs annual sign-up drives — local coverage in July 2025 noted Grambling [setting alert-system sign-up dates](https://lincolnparishjournal.com/2025/07/18/grambling-sets-alert-system-sign-up-dates/).\n\n**Clery framing.** GSU separates the two Clery obligations cleanly. **Campus Safety Alerts** are the timely-warning instrument: they are \"sent to the university community to notify members about specific Clery Act crimes\" and \"intend to warn the campus regarding a criminal incident, providing individuals an opportunity to take reasonable precautions.\" These are sent \"primarily by blast email to all students and employees on campus as soon as pertinent information is available, and can also be sent via GSU's text/voice messaging system.\" Emergency notifications, by contrast, address confirmed significant emergencies or dangerous situations posing an immediate threat to health or safety.\n\n**Decision authority.** GSU vests issuing authority in the police chain of command with explicit fallbacks: [the Chief of Police or his designee has the authority to issue a Campus Safety Alert without consultation when consultation time is not available](https://www.gram.edu/police/docs/2025%20GSU%20Annual%20Fire%20and%20Safety%20Report.pdf), and should the Chief of Police or designee be directly impacted, involved in incident response, or otherwise unavailable, any trained member from the Office of Communications could write and send a Campus Safety Alert. This redundancy is designed to prevent a single point of failure in time-sensitive situations.\n\n**Operations and platform.** GSUPD procedures require an immediate response to emergency calls, and GSUPD personnel can notify City of Grambling Communications emergency dispatchers of on-campus emergencies via portable, mobile, and fixed two-way radio systems to summon outside responders. The GSU Police Department — specifically the Chief of Police or designee — is responsible for preparing the Annual Security & Fire Safety Report under the Jeanne Clery Act (20 U.S.C. § 1092(f)). The notification platform is AlertSense.","whenCriteria":"Campus Safety Alerts (timely warnings) are sent to notify the community about specific Clery Act crimes and to warn the campus regarding a criminal incident so individuals can take reasonable precautions. Emergency notifications address a confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety.","decisionAuthority":"The Chief of Police or his designee has authority to issue a Campus Safety Alert without consultation when consultation time is not available. If the Chief or designee is directly impacted, involved in incident response, or otherwise unavailable, any trained member of the Office of Communications may write and send a Campus Safety Alert.","timingStandard":"GSUPD procedures require an immediate response to emergency calls; Campus Safety Alerts are sent 'as soon as pertinent information is available.' A separate verbatim 'without delay' clause for emergency notifications was not byte-confirmed from the public snippets.","cleryFraming":"GSU distinguishes emergency notifications (confirmed significant emergency / dangerous situation posing an immediate threat) from Campus Safety Alerts (Clery timely warnings for specific Clery Act crimes that pose an ongoing threat). Both are documented in the GSUPD Annual Security & Fire Safety Report prepared under the Clery Act (20 U.S.C. § 1092(f)).","testingCadence":"Not stated verbatim in the captured snippets; the Annual Security & Fire Safety Report is prepared and distributed annually, and the University runs annual Grambling Alerts sign-up drives.","scopeLimits":"Grambling Alerts is an opt-in system; registrants provide an address so alerts can be tailored to their geographic area (avoiding alerts that don't pertain to them). The system is free of charge, though standard text-messaging rates may apply. Campus Safety Alerts go primarily by blast email to students and employees on campus, with text/voice as a secondary channel.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Campus Safety Alert purpose (timely warning)","quotedText":"A Campus Safety Alert intends to warn the campus regarding a criminal incident, providing individuals an opportunity to take reasonable precautions.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gram.edu/police/docs/2025%20GSU%20Annual%20Fire%20and%20Safety%20Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"GSU 2025 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report","annotations":["States the timely-warning rationale verbatim, mirroring the Clery 'opportunity to take reasonable precautions' language. Returned consistently as quoted text from the ASR across multiple search captures."],"characterCount":148},{"label":"Decision authority and fallback","quotedText":"The Chief of Police or his designee has the authority to issue a Campus Safety Alert without such consultation if consultation time is not available.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gram.edu/police/docs/2025%20GSU%20Annual%20Fire%20and%20Safety%20Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"GSU 2025 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report","annotations":["Authorizes the Chief of Police (or designee) to bypass consultation in time-sensitive situations; the ASR adds an Office of Communications fallback if the Chief is unavailable."],"characterCount":149},{"label":"Delivery channels for Campus Safety Alerts","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gram.edu/police/docs/2025%20GSU%20Annual%20Fire%20and%20Safety%20Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"GSU 2025 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Grambling Alerts sign-up by text","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gram.edu/tools/notifications.php","sourceDescription":"GSU Mandated Notifications","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["GSU's alert program is 'Grambling Alerts,' an opt-in mass-notification system on the AlertSense platform; sign-up is via a public AlertSense portal or by texting 'Grambling' to 38276.","The policy is codified in the GSU Police Department's Annual Security & Fire Safety Report, prepared under the Clery Act (20 U.S.C. § 1092(f)) by the Chief of Police or designee.","Clery roles are split: 'Campus Safety Alerts' are the timely-warning instrument for specific Clery Act crimes; emergency notifications address confirmed significant emergencies posing an immediate threat.","Issuing authority rests with the Chief of Police or designee, who may bypass consultation when time is short; a trained Office of Communications member is the designated fallback if the Chief is unavailable.","Campus Safety Alerts go primarily by blast email, with GSU's text/voice messaging system as a secondary channel; registrants add an address so alerts are geographically tailored."],"sources":[{"title":"GSU 2025 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report — Grambling State University Police Department","url":"https://www.gram.edu/police/docs/2025%20GSU%20Annual%20Fire%20and%20Safety%20Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Grambling Alerts — Public Signup (AlertSense)","url":"https://public.alertsense.com/SignUp/?RegionId=2132","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Mandated Notifications — Grambling State University","url":"https://www.gram.edu/tools/notifications.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Crime Alerts & Fire Safety Reports — Grambling State University Police","url":"https://www.gram.edu/police/reports/crimeandfire.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Grambling sets alert system sign-up dates — Lincoln Parish Journal (July 18, 2025)","url":"https://lincolnparishjournal.com/2025/07/18/grambling-sets-alert-system-sign-up-dates/","type":"local-media"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","hbcu","louisiana"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"grand-canyon-university-alertgcu-policy","slug":"grand-canyon-university-alertgcu-policy","institution":{"name":"Grand Canyon University","shortName":"GCU","state":"AZ","type":"private-r2","alertSystemName":"AlertGCU","enrollment":25000},"policy":{"title":"AlertGCU Emergency Notification Strategy and Clery Act Timely Warnings (Emergency Site / Annual Security Report)","systemName":"AlertGCU","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://emergency.gcu.edu/resources/","lastReviewed":"2025-01-01"},"summary":"Grand Canyon University, a large private Christian university in Phoenix, communicates time-sensitive emergencies through [AlertGCU](https://emergency.gcu.edu/resources/), a Rave-Mobile-Safety-powered notification strategy spanning SMS, desktop alerts, an outdoor siren system, and campus displays, and it issues separate [Clery Act timely warnings](https://www.gcu.edu/about/offices-services/public-safety) through its Department of Public Safety for crimes that pose an immediate or ongoing threat.","analysis":"Grand Canyon University (GCU) is among the largest private universities in the United States, with roughly 25,000 students on its physical Phoenix campus and well over 100,000 additional online learners. Its control/profit history is unusual and directly relevant to how this archive categorizes it: GCU operated as a [for-profit institution from 2004 until its return to nonprofit status was litigated and ultimately recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in December 2025](https://www.highereddive.com/news/education-department-recognizes-grand-canyon-university-nonprofit/807947/), aligning ED with the IRS, the Higher Learning Commission, and the State of Arizona, all of which already treated GCU as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. The [Carnegie Classification lists GCU as a research-doctoral institution offering a single doctoral program (in education)](https://carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/institution/grand-canyon-university/) — it grants doctorates but falls below the research-output thresholds for R1, so 'private-r2' is the closest schema value for its current status. (Its AlertGCU system, however, was built and matured during GCU's long for-profit era, so this record also documents a school that spent most of its alerting history as the country's largest for-profit university.)\n\nAlertGCU is described as 'Grand Canyon University's emergency notification strategy used to communicate time-sensitive information during an emergency event affecting campus.' GCU partnered with [Rave Mobile Safety](https://www.getrave.com/login/GCU) to deliver the text layer; campus-based ('ground') students are automatically subscribed upon enrollment and faculty/staff upon employment, while online students are not auto-enrolled. The activation standard mirrors the federal Clery rule almost word-for-word: 'Authorized individuals will, without delay, utilize the AlertGCU system to issue an immediate notification to the campus community upon first responder confirmation of any emergency or dangerous situation that poses an ongoing or continuing threat to the health or safety of the campus community.'\n\nGCU names a specific set of decision-makers — the Director of Public Safety, the Director of the Health and Wellness Center, the Director of Campus Development, and the Title IX Coordinator (or their authorized designees) — who are authorized to initiate an AlertGCU message. The system is notably multi-channel for a private campus: an SMS Text Notification System, desktop-computer notifications for faculty/staff in some situations, posts to campus message boards and TVs, and an [Outdoor Warning System of sirens](https://emergency.gcu.edu/) positioned throughout the main campus that 'emit alert tones and verbal instruction intended to reach those who are outdoors,' reserved for 'potentially catastrophic situations, such as an active shooter, bomb threat, or fire.'\n\nFor periodic testing, GCU states it 'conducts a campus wide test of the AlertGCU system at least once per quarter,' and it separately publicizes Outdoor Warning Sirens system tests and campus-wide emergency-notification drills. On the Clery timely-warning side, GCU's [Department of Public Safety](https://www.gcu.edu/about/offices-services/public-safety) issues timely warnings whenever Clery-specified crimes occur and 'the Director of Public Safety or their designee or other senior level University official has determined that the situation poses an immediate or ongoing threat to the community.' The gcu.edu and emergency.gcu.edu hosts return HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so excerpts here were corroborated across multiple independent retrievals; the AlertGCU activation sentence, the outdoor-siren description, and the once-per-quarter test cadence each appeared identically across two or more searches and are marked verbatim-confirmed.","whenCriteria":"An AlertGCU emergency notification is issued upon first responder confirmation of any emergency or dangerous situation that poses an ongoing or continuing threat to the health or safety of the campus community. Incidents that may elicit a notification include, but are not limited to, a bomb threat or active shooter, an outbreak of a highly contagious disease, impending natural disasters, and cases of sexual assault. The Outdoor Warning System (sirens) is reserved for potentially catastrophic situations such as an active shooter, bomb threat, or fire.","decisionAuthority":"Individuals authorized to initiate an AlertGCU message include the Director of Public Safety, the Director of the Health and Wellness Center, the Director of Campus Development, and the Title IX Coordinator (or their authorized designees). For Clery timely warnings, the Director of Public Safety or their designee, or another senior-level University official, determines whether a situation poses an immediate or ongoing threat.","timingStandard":"Authorized individuals will, 'without delay,' issue an immediate notification 'upon first responder confirmation' of an emergency or dangerous situation — closely tracking the federal Clery 'immediately, upon confirmation' standard.","cleryFraming":"GCU separates the Clery functions: AlertGCU emergency notifications for immediate/ongoing threats to health or safety, and Clery timely warnings issued by the Department of Public Safety for Clery-specified crimes that pose an immediate or ongoing threat. GCU publishes an Annual Security Report.","testingCadence":"GCU conducts a campus-wide test of the AlertGCU system at least once per quarter and separately publicizes Outdoor Warning Sirens system tests and campus-wide emergency-notification drills.","scopeLimits":"Auto-enrollment covers ground (campus-based) students upon enrollment and faculty/staff upon employment; GCU's large online student population is not automatically subscribed to AlertGCU, and the Outdoor Warning System is, by design, an outdoor-reach layer for those who are outside on the main Phoenix campus.","channels":["sms","siren","desktop-popup","digital-signage","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"AlertGCU activation standard","quotedText":"Authorized individuals will, without delay, utilize the AlertGCU system to issue an immediate notification to the campus community upon first responder confirmation of any emergency or dangerous situation that poses an ongoing or continuing threat to the health or safety of the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.gcu.edu/resources/","sourceDescription":"GCU — Emergency Site (Resources)","annotations":["Tracks the federal Clery standard almost verbatim, with the GCU-specific trigger of 'first responder confirmation.' Identical wording appeared across multiple independent retrievals of the GCU Emergency Site; the gcu.edu hosts returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so this is corroborated cross-search."],"characterCount":296},{"label":"Authorized decision-makers","quotedText":"Individuals authorized to initiate an AlertGCU message include the Director of Public Safety, Director of the Health and Wellness Center, Director of Campus Development, and the Title IX Coordinator (or their authorized designees).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.gcu.edu/resources/","sourceDescription":"GCU — Emergency Site (Resources)","annotations":["Names a four-role decision panel rather than a single police authority — notable for including the Title IX Coordinator, reflecting GCU's listing of sexual assault among triggering incidents. Surfaced identically across multiple cross-searches; host 403-blocked direct fetch."],"characterCount":231},{"label":"Outdoor Warning System (sirens)","quotedText":"Outdoor Warning System composed of sirens positioned throughout main campus that emit alert tones and verbal instruction intended to reach those who are outdoors.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.gcu.edu/resources/","sourceDescription":"GCU — Emergency Site (Resources)","annotations":["Documents a voice-capable outdoor siren array — relatively uncommon on private urban campuses — reserved per GCU for 'potentially catastrophic situations, such as an active shooter, bomb threat, or fire.' Identical wording appeared across multiple independent retrievals."],"characterCount":162},{"label":"Quarterly test cadence","quotedText":"GCU also conducts a campus wide test of the AlertGCU system at least once per quarter.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.gcu.edu/resources/","sourceDescription":"GCU — Emergency Site (Resources)","annotations":["Establishes a per-quarter (at least four-times-yearly) test cadence, more frequent than the per-semester norm seen at many institutions. Corroborated across multiple retrievals; the dedicated 'Outdoor Warning Sirens System TEST' page independently confirms siren testing."],"characterCount":86},{"label":"Automatic subscription scope","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://support.gcu.edu/hc/en-us/articles/9403122875419-GCU-Emergency-Alerts","sourceDescription":"GCU Technical Support — GCU Emergency Alerts (text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["GCU's emergency-notification strategy is AlertGCU, powered by Rave Mobile Safety, with its own Rave portal at getrave.com/login/GCU.","The activation standard tracks Clery almost verbatim: authorized individuals act 'without delay' upon 'first responder confirmation' of an ongoing/continuing threat to health or safety.","Decision authority is a four-role panel — Director of Public Safety, Director of the Health and Wellness Center, Director of Campus Development, and Title IX Coordinator (or designees).","AlertGCU is multi-channel for a private campus: SMS, desktop alerts, message boards/TVs, and a voice-capable Outdoor Warning System (sirens) reserved for catastrophic incidents.","GCU tests AlertGCU campus-wide at least once per quarter — more frequent than the per-semester norm.","Institution-type note: GCU operated as a for-profit from 2004 until ED recognized its nonprofit status in December 2025; Carnegie lists it as research-doctoral (single program), so 'private-r2' is the closest current schema value, though its alert system matured during its for-profit era.","gcu.edu hosts 403-block automated fetching; four excerpts were verbatim-confirmed across multiple independent retrievals and one (auto-enrollment) is marked reconstructed."],"sources":[{"title":"GCU — Emergency Site (Resources / AlertGCU)","url":"https://emergency.gcu.edu/resources/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"GCU — Emergency Site (Home / Outdoor Warning System)","url":"https://emergency.gcu.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"GCU Technical Support — GCU Emergency Alerts","url":"https://support.gcu.edu/hc/en-us/articles/9403122875419-GCU-Emergency-Alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"GCU — Public Safety (Campus Safety / Timely Warnings)","url":"https://www.gcu.edu/about/offices-services/public-safety","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"GCU — Rave Mobile Safety login portal","url":"https://www.getrave.com/login/GCU","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"GCU — 2017 Annual Security Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.gcu.edu/sites/default/files/media/Documents/Consumer-Information/Annual-Security-Report-111417.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Carnegie Classification — Grand Canyon University","url":"https://carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/institution/grand-canyon-university/","type":"other"},{"title":"Higher Ed Dive — Education Department recognizes GCU as a nonprofit (Dec 2025)","url":"https://www.highereddive.com/news/education-department-recognizes-grand-canyon-university-nonprofit/807947/","type":"local-media"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","private-r2","for-profit-history","arizona","alertgcu","rave","outdoor-sirens","christian-university"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-02","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"greenville-technical-college-alert-policy","slug":"greenville-technical-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Greenville Technical College","shortName":"GTC","state":"SC","type":"technical-college","alertSystemName":"GTC2me Messaging"},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Messaging","systemName":"GTC2me Messaging","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.gvltec.edu/about_greenvilletech/police/emergency-messaging.html"},"summary":"Greenville Technical College, a public two-year technical college in Greenville, South Carolina, publishes its emergency alert procedures on the [Emergency Messaging](https://www.gvltec.edu/about_greenvilletech/police/emergency-messaging.html) page maintained by its police department, describing the Rave Mobile Safety powered GTC2me Messaging system used to reach students, faculty, and staff across the college's multiple campuses.","analysis":"GTC2me Messaging is built on the Rave Mobile Safety platform: the [Emergency Messaging page](https://www.gvltec.edu/about_greenvilletech/police/emergency-messaging.html) states that Greenville Technical College offers Emergency Messaging Alerts through the GTC2me Messaging System using Rave Mobile Safety, delivering important campus information via SMS text messaging, email, and other methods. Enrollment is automatic and database-driven rather than requiring an individual sign-up step for the core community, every student, faculty, and staff member of Greenville Technical College is signed up for GTC2me Messaging automatically using the information in the college database. Notably, that automatic coverage extends past GTC's own enrollment rolls to dual-enrollment populations, including high school students who are registered for college classes as well as high school faculty working with the college as adjunct professors or in other staff positions, reflecting GTC's role as a hub for early-college and dual-credit programming across the Greenville County school system.\n\nCoverage for people outside the college's own database is opt-in through a short code: persons not affiliated with Greenville Technical College, such as parents of students, individuals affiliated with the Middle Colleges (Charter High Schools) on their campuses, the University Center, Greenville Early College, and any interested persons are encouraged to sign up for GTC2me Messaging alerts by texting GTCAlert to 78015. GTC layers its electronic alerting with a physical-plant response structure: a warning system is in place, and communication tools include emails, announcements on GTC4me, alerts to cell phones and information on video monitors, and each facility has a building marshal and floor captains who have been trained to carry out emergency notifications and procedures when required, a building-level human-relay layer supplementing the mass-notification technology.\n\nGTC is explicit that the system is reserved for genuine emergencies rather than routine communication, users will not receive any spam, only emergency messages and occasional test messages, and that contact information gathered for the service is protected as an education record: contact information is protected under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), and it is a violation to disclose this information to anyone outside of the college. GTC's [Campus Safety page](https://www.gvltec.edu/about_greenvilletech/police/campus-safety.html) situates this messaging service within its broader Clery Act compliance program.","whenCriteria":"GTC2me Messaging is used to deliver emergency messages and occasional test messages; the page states users will not receive spam, only genuine emergency communications and periodic tests.","decisionAuthority":"A specific named approving official or office was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed; the Greenville Technical College Police Department maintains the Emergency Messaging page and, together with trained building marshals and floor captains, carries out facility-level emergency notification and procedures.","timingStandard":"A specific minutes-based timeliness standard was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"The Emergency Messaging page is maintained by the college police department alongside its broader Campus Safety materials, situating GTC2me Messaging within GTC's Clery Act compliance framework rather than describing it as a general-purpose announcement tool.","testingCadence":"GTC states that occasional test messages are sent through the system in addition to genuine emergency messages; a fixed calendar cadence was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Automatic enrollment covers GTC students, faculty, and staff plus dual-enrolled high school students and their adjunct high school faculty; non-affiliated persons, including parents, Middle College/Charter High School affiliates, University Center, and Greenville Early College members, must opt in by texting GTCAlert to 78015.","channels":["sms","email","digital-signage","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"System description","quotedText":"Greenville Technical College offers Emergency Messaging Alerts through the GTC2me Messaging System using Rave Mobile Safety.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gvltec.edu/about_greenvilletech/police/emergency-messaging.html","sourceDescription":"Emergency Messaging, Greenville Technical College","annotations":["Names the underlying platform, Rave Mobile Safety, powering the GTC2me Messaging service."],"characterCount":124},{"label":"Automatic enrollment, including dual-enrollment","quotedText":"Every student, faculty, and staff member of Greenville Technical College is signed up for GTC2me Messaging automatically using the information in the college database, including high school students who are registered for college classes as well as high school faculty working with the college as adjunct professors or in other staff positions.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gvltec.edu/about_greenvilletech/police/emergency-messaging.html","sourceDescription":"Emergency Messaging, Greenville Technical College","annotations":["Documents automatic database-driven enrollment extending to dual-enrolled high school students and adjunct high school faculty, unusually broad automatic coverage for a technical college."],"characterCount":344},{"label":"Opt-in short code for non-affiliated persons","quotedText":"Persons not affiliated with Greenville Technical College, such as parents of students, individuals affiliated with the Middle Colleges (Charter High Schools) on their campuses, the University Center, Greenville Early College, and any interested persons are encouraged to sign up for GTC2me Messaging alerts by texting \"GTCAlert\" to 78015.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gvltec.edu/about_greenvilletech/police/emergency-messaging.html","sourceDescription":"Emergency Messaging, Greenville Technical College","annotations":["Extends coverage beyond the automatically enrolled college database to parents, Middle College/Charter High School affiliates, and other interested persons via a text short code."],"characterCount":338},{"label":"Building marshal and floor captain layer","quotedText":"Each facility has a building marshal and floor captains who have been trained to carry out emergency notifications and procedures when required.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gvltec.edu/about_greenvilletech/police/emergency-messaging.html","sourceDescription":"Emergency Messaging, Greenville Technical College","annotations":["Describes a facility-level human-relay layer supplementing the electronic GTC2me system across GTC's multiple campuses."],"characterCount":144},{"label":"FERPA protection for contact data","quotedText":"Contact information is protected under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), and it is a violation to disclose this information to anyone outside of the college.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gvltec.edu/about_greenvilletech/police/emergency-messaging.html","sourceDescription":"Emergency Messaging, Greenville Technical College","annotations":["States the FERPA basis for protecting contact information gathered for the alert system."],"characterCount":186}],"keyFindings":["GTC2me Messaging runs on the Rave Mobile Safety platform and automatically enrolls every GTC student, faculty, and staff member from the college database.","Automatic enrollment unusually extends to dual-enrolled high school students taking college classes and to adjunct high school faculty working with the college.","Non-affiliated persons, including parents, Middle College/Charter High School affiliates, University Center, and Greenville Early College members, must separately opt in by texting GTCAlert to 78015.","GTC layers electronic GTC2me alerts with a facility-level human-relay system of trained building marshals and floor captains at each campus.","Contact information collected for the alert system is treated as a FERPA-protected education record, with disclosure outside the college a stated violation."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Messaging, Greenville Technical College","url":"https://www.gvltec.edu/about_greenvilletech/police/emergency-messaging.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Campus Safety, Greenville Technical College","url":"https://www.gvltec.edu/about_greenvilletech/police/campus-safety.html","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","technical-college","south-carolina","rave-mobile-safety","dual-enrollment"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"grinnell-college-informacast-alert-policy","slug":"grinnell-college-informacast-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Grinnell College","shortName":"Grinnell","state":"IA","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"InformaCast","enrollment":1750},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications (InformaCast) and Clery Emergency-Notification / Timely-Warning Policy","systemName":"InformaCast","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.grinnell.edu/about/leadership/offices-services/student-affairs/safety/emergency-notifications","lastReviewed":"2026-06-22"},"summary":"Grinnell College delivers campus emergency notifications through [InformaCast](https://www.grinnell.edu/about/leadership/offices-services/student-affairs/safety/emergency-notifications), a Singlewire mass-notification system that sends text messages, voice messages, and emails; all students and employees are automatically enrolled with the contact information the College has on record, and the [system is activated upon confirmation of an imminent threat to the health or safety of the campus community](https://www.grinnell.edu/news/important-information-know-campus-emergency) consistent with the Clery Act.","analysis":"Grinnell College, a private liberal-arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, runs its campus emergency-notification function on [InformaCast](https://www.grinnell.edu/about/leadership/offices-services/student-affairs/safety/emergency-notifications), the higher-education mass-notification product from Singlewire Software. Grinnell describes InformaCast as the system that 'sends text messages, voice messages, and emails with up-to-date information' so that the community 'can stay connected and aware during any possible crisis.' This three-channel design (SMS, voice, email) is typical of small residential colleges that lean on contact-record data rather than outdoor sirens.\n\nA defining feature of Grinnell's approach is automatic enrollment. The College states that '[students and employees are automatically enrolled in the InformaCast with the information the College has on record](https://www.grinnell.edu/about/leadership/offices-services/student-affairs/safety/emergency-notifications),' closing the opt-in coverage gap that limits keyword-subscription systems. Community members manage or remove personal phone numbers and email addresses through Colleague Self-Service (login required), and the College repeatedly urges faculty, staff, and students to verify that their contact information is current and flagged to receive alert texts. Because enrollment is automatic and tied to institutional records, college-issued email is the guaranteed-reach floor while text and voice depend on accurate personal numbers.\n\nGrinnell frames activation around the federal Clery standard. Per the College's emergency guidance, the [emergency-notification system is activated upon confirmation of an imminent threat to the health and safety of the campus community](https://www.grinnell.edu/news/important-information-know-campus-emergency), and Grinnell states it will immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus. Grinnell supplements the campus-wide InformaCast system with an optional mobile safety app featuring a 'Grinnell Campus Alert Button' usable anywhere on College property — the app complements, but does not replace, the automatic InformaCast enrollment.\n\nGrinnell distinguishes the two Clery functions in the standard way — emergency notifications for imminent/ongoing threats and timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes that may pose a continuing threat — and publishes an [Annual Security Report through its Campus Safety office](https://www.grinnell.edu/campus-life/campus-living/safety). The verbatim-confirmed excerpts below (the InformaCast channel description and the automatic-enrollment sentence) appeared with identical wording across multiple official Grinnell-page retrievals. The named position authorized to trigger an alert and the published periodic test cadence were not surfaced byte-for-byte in this review (grinnell.edu and ASR PDFs 403-block automated fetching here), so those fields are reconstructed from indexed snippets and flagged where uncertain.","whenCriteria":"Per Grinnell's emergency guidance, the InformaCast emergency-notification system is activated upon confirmation of an imminent threat to the health and safety of the campus community; the College states it will immediately notify the campus upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus. Timely warnings are issued separately for Clery-reportable crimes that may pose a continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"Grinnell's Campus Safety / Student Affairs safety function administers InformaCast and issues Clery notices. The specific position authorized to confirm a threat and trigger an InformaCast alert was not confirmed verbatim in this review (grinnell.edu blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"Grinnell states it will 'immediately' notify the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation — consistent with the Clery 'immediately, upon confirmation' standard. The exact internally published timing target was not confirmed verbatim.","cleryFraming":"Grinnell separates the two Clery functions: InformaCast emergency notifications for imminent/ongoing threats to health or safety, and timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes that may pose a continuing threat. Grinnell publishes an Annual Security Report.","testingCadence":"Grinnell periodically reminds the community to verify contact information so they can receive InformaCast alerts and runs alert tests; the exact published periodic test cadence (e.g., per-semester) was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","scopeLimits":"All students and employees are automatically enrolled with the contact information on record, so college email is the guaranteed-reach floor; full text/voice reach depends on accurate personal phone numbers maintained in Colleague Self-Service. The optional 'Grinnell Campus Alert Button' mobile app complements but does not replace InformaCast enrollment.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"InformaCast channel description","quotedText":"InformaCast sends text messages, voice messages, and emails with up-to-date information, so that people can stay connected and aware during any possible crisis.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.grinnell.edu/about/leadership/offices-services/student-affairs/safety/emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"Grinnell College — Emergency Notifications page","annotations":["Defines InformaCast's three delivery channels (SMS, voice, email). Identical wording appeared across multiple official Grinnell-page retrievals (the Emergency Notifications page and the 'Important Information to Know in a Campus Emergency' page)."],"characterCount":160},{"label":"Automatic enrollment","quotedText":"Grinnell College students and employees are automatically enrolled in the InformaCast with the information the College has on record.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.grinnell.edu/about/leadership/offices-services/student-affairs/safety/emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"Grinnell College — Emergency Notifications page","annotations":["Establishes automatic enrollment from institutional records, closing the opt-in coverage gap. Identical wording appeared across multiple official Grinnell-page retrievals; community members modify or remove personal contacts via Colleague Self-Service."],"characterCount":133},{"label":"Activation threshold","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.grinnell.edu/news/important-information-know-campus-emergency","sourceDescription":"Grinnell College — Important Information to Know in a Campus Emergency (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Grinnell's emergency-notification system is InformaCast (Singlewire), delivering text, voice, and email; the brand was corroborated across multiple official Grinnell pages.","All students and employees are automatically enrolled with the contact information the College has on record; community members manage personal contacts via Colleague Self-Service.","The system is activated upon confirmation of an imminent threat to the health and safety of the campus community, consistent with the Clery standard.","An optional mobile safety app with a 'Grinnell Campus Alert Button' complements — but does not replace — the automatic InformaCast enrollment.","The named decision authority and exact published test cadence could not be confirmed verbatim (grinnell.edu and ASR PDFs blocked automated fetching); two excerpts were confirmed verbatim across multiple official-page retrievals."],"sources":[{"title":"Grinnell College — Emergency Notifications","url":"https://www.grinnell.edu/about/leadership/offices-services/student-affairs/safety/emergency-notifications","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Grinnell College — Important Information to Know in a Campus Emergency","url":"https://www.grinnell.edu/news/important-information-know-campus-emergency","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Grinnell College — Safety (Campus Living)","url":"https://www.grinnell.edu/campus-life/campus-living/safety","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Grinnell College — Safety Resources / Emergency Resources","url":"https://grinnell.edu/campus-life/safety/emergency-resources","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","private-liberal-arts","iowa","informacast","singlewire","automatic-enrollment"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"guam-community-college-alert-policy","slug":"guam-community-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Guam Community College","shortName":"GCC","state":"GU","type":"territory","alertSystemName":"GCC Text Alerts","enrollment":1430},"policy":{"title":"Guam Community College Emergency Notification (Emergency Operations Plan and Procedures) and GCC Text Alerts","systemName":"GCC Text Alerts","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://guamcc.edu/sites/default/files/eopp_march_2024_935_kb_6.pdf","lastReviewed":"2024-03-01"},"summary":"Guam Community College, the US territory's main two-year/technical college (distinct from the University of Guam), notifies its community through a branded [GCC Text Alerts](https://guamcc.edu/subscribe-gcc-text-alerts) SMS opt-in plus a broader multi-channel framework set out in its [Emergency Operations Plan and Procedures](https://guamcc.edu/sites/default/files/eopp_march_2024_935_kb_6.pdf) (March 2024), and complies with the Clery Act through annual security reports published under Board Policy 170.","analysis":"Guam Community College (GCC) is the US territory of Guam's principal two-year and technical college, in Mangilao. It is distinct from the University of Guam (UOG), a separate institution that uses the Alertus system; nothing in this record is attributed to UOG. GCC is a genuinely thin institution for verbatim alert text — every official guamcc.edu and ifs.guamcc.edu host returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so all wording below was captured from indexed search snippets that quote or summarize those documents, corroborated across multiple independent retrievals. No publicly retrievable, guaranteed word-for-word verbatim alert text exists, so every excerpt here carries isVerbatimConfirmed:false and the overall confidence is medium.\n\nGCC's outbound text service is branded [GCC Text Alerts](https://guamcc.edu/subscribe-gcc-text-alerts), with two subscription categories — 'Guam Community College Emergency Alerts' and 'Guam Community College Emergency Updates.' Subscription mechanics are well corroborated: enter a cell number as 671xxxxxx, select a local carrier (Docomo, GTA, or IT&E), check the two GCC categories, receive an authorization code, and accept terms. There is no evidence of a dedicated campus mass-notification vendor (no Rave, Everbridge, Alertus, or Omnilert); the SMS service appears to be delivered through the local Pacific Daily News 'PDN Mobile' SMS platform rather than a standalone campus system — a reasonable but only moderately corroborated inference, so the vendor is not asserted as fact.\n\nThe substantive policy lives in GCC's [Emergency Operations Plan and Procedures](https://guamcc.edu/sites/default/files/eopp_march_2024_935_kb_6.pdf) (EOPP, March 2024). The EOPP establishes a clear decision chain: the Emergency Management Coordinator (EMC), or an authorized representative, decides when to activate or deactivate the plan and notifies the Emergency Operations Control Officers (EOCOs); when an emergency arises the EMC activates the EOPP. The Public Information Officer (PIO), in consultation with the EMC, then determines which segments of the community to contact and issues warnings 'periodically through text alerts, website announcements, social media, mass email, phone or local media outlets.' Day-to-day campus safety runs through Student Support Services (located in Building 'B') and an Environmental Health & Safety Officer, with 24-hour Campus Security provided by a contracted private security company.\n\nOn the Clery side, GCC complies under [Board Policy 170 ('Campus Crime and Security')](https://guamcc.edu/sites/default/files/combined_policies_approved.pdf) and publishes [annual security reports](https://www.guamcc.edu/sites/default/files/2022_annual_security_report_0.pdf) and separate campus crime-statistics reports (editions located for 2021-2025). GCC's documents use Clery vocabulary — 'timely warnings' appears in the EOPP — but the EOPP appears to use 'timely warnings' as an umbrella term for its multi-channel community messaging rather than drawing an explicit GCC-authored line between 'emergency notification' and 'timely warning.' Several details could not be confirmed and are flagged: the precise federal-style activation threshold ('significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat...'), any numeric timing standard, and a stated alert-system test cadence were all absent from the retrievable record (the EOPP does reference a post-drill critique session at least one day after an event, implying drills occur). Guam faces frequent typhoons, but island-wide weather readiness uses the TCCOR / Conditions of Readiness system run by Guam Homeland Security/OCD and Joint Region Marianas, not GCC; GCC's role is to relay closures and instructions to its own community through the EOPP channels.","whenCriteria":"Per the EOPP (March 2024), when an emergency arises the Emergency Management Coordinator (EMC) activates the plan, and the Public Information Officer (PIO), in consultation with the EMC, determines which community segments to contact and issues warnings. GCC's own explicit Clery activation-threshold language (e.g., 'significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat...') was not found in the retrievable public record and is flagged as a gap.","decisionAuthority":"The Emergency Management Coordinator (EMC), or an authorized representative, decides when to activate or deactivate the EOPP and notifies the Emergency Operations Control Officers (EOCOs). The Public Information Officer (PIO), in consultation with the EMC, determines which segments of the community to contact and issues the warnings. Day-to-day campus safety is handled by Student Support Services (Building 'B') and an Environmental Health & Safety Officer, with 24-hour Campus Security provided by a contracted private security company.","timingStandard":"The EOPP states warnings are issued 'periodically.' No specific numeric timing standard or 'without delay' language attributable to GCC was found in the retrievable public record.","cleryFraming":"GCC complies with the Clery Act under Board Policy 170 ('Campus Crime and Security') and publishes annual security reports plus separate campus crime-statistics reports (editions located for 2021-2025). Its documents use Clery vocabulary ('timely warnings' appears in the EOPP), but an explicit GCC-authored side-by-side distinction between 'emergency notification' and 'timely warning' was not captured; the EOPP appears to use 'timely warnings' as the umbrella term for its multi-channel community messaging.","testingCadence":"No confirmed alert-system test or drill cadence (annual, per-semester, etc.) was found for GCC. The EOPP references a post-drill critique session held at least one day after an event, implying drills occur, but the frequency could not be confirmed.","scopeLimits":"GCC Text Alerts is an opt-in SMS service requiring subscription with a local-carrier (Docomo, GTA, IT&E) cell number, so text reach depends on enrollment; the EOPP's broader channel set (website announcements, social media, mass email, phone, local media) is intended to reach the wider community. The SMS service appears to ride on the local PDN Mobile platform rather than a dedicated campus vendor. No evidence was found of a GCC-operated siren or campus PA system — island-wide siren/EAS and typhoon (TCCOR) warnings are run by Guam Homeland Security/OCD and Joint Region Marianas, not GCC. Physical signage (emergency signage and evacuation maps in classrooms, offices, and at entrance/exit doors) supplements electronic channels.","channels":["sms","email","website","facebook","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency-notification process and channels (EOPP)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://guamcc.edu/sites/default/files/eopp_march_2024_935_kb_6.pdf","sourceDescription":"GCC Emergency Operations Plan and Procedures (EOPP), March 2024 (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Plan activation / decision authority (EOPP)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://guamcc.edu/sites/default/files/eopp_march_2024_935_kb_6.pdf","sourceDescription":"GCC Emergency Operations Plan and Procedures (EOPP), March 2024 (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Branded text-alert subscription categories","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://guamcc.edu/subscribe-gcc-text-alerts","sourceDescription":"GCC — Subscribe to GCC Text Alerts (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Campus security contacts and contracted security","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://guamcc.edu/campus-security","sourceDescription":"GCC — Campus Safety & Security (host blocked automated fetch; text reconstructed from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["GCC's branded outbound text service is 'GCC Text Alerts' (Emergency Alerts + Emergency Updates), an opt-in SMS service using local carriers (Docomo, GTA, IT&E) and most likely riding on the local PDN Mobile platform rather than a dedicated campus vendor (vendor unconfirmed).","The substantive policy is GCC's Emergency Operations Plan and Procedures (EOPP, March 2024): the EMC activates/deactivates the plan and notifies the EOCOs, and the PIO (in consultation with the EMC) decides who to contact and issues warnings.","GCC's documented channels are text, website announcements, social media, mass email, phone, and local media, supplemented by physical emergency signage and evacuation maps; no GCC-operated siren or PA system was found (island-wide TCCOR/EAS is run by Guam Homeland Security/OCD).","GCC complies with Clery under Board Policy 170 and publishes annual security reports and crime-statistics reports (2021-2025); 'timely warnings' is used as an umbrella term and no explicit emergency-notification-vs-timely-warning distinction was captured.","GCC is a thin institution: every official PDF/page returned HTTP 403, so no word-for-word verbatim alert text could be confirmed (all excerpts isVerbatimConfirmed:false), and the precise activation threshold, timing standard, and test cadence are gaps — overall confidence is medium."],"sources":[{"title":"GCC Emergency Operations Plan and Procedures (EOPP), March 2024 (PDF)","url":"https://guamcc.edu/sites/default/files/eopp_march_2024_935_kb_6.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"GCC — Subscribe to GCC Text Alerts","url":"https://guamcc.edu/subscribe-gcc-text-alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"GCC — Campus Safety & Security","url":"https://guamcc.edu/campus-security","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"GCC 2022 Annual Security Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.guamcc.edu/sites/default/files/2022_annual_security_report_0.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"GCC 2024 Campus Crime Statistics Report (PDF)","url":"https://guamcc.edu/sites/default/files/2024%20GCC%20Crime%20Statistics%20Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"GCC Board Policies (combined, incl. Policy 170) (PDF)","url":"https://guamcc.edu/sites/default/files/combined_policies_approved.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Guam Homeland Security / Office of Civil Defense — Alerts & TCCOR","url":"https://www.ghs.guam.gov/alerts","type":"government"},{"title":"univstats — Guam Community College enrollment","url":"https://www.univstats.com/colleges/guam-community-college/student-population/","type":"other"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","territory","guam","community-college","gcc-text-alerts","typhoon","thin-institution"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"guilford-technical-community-college-campus-crime-alerts-asr","slug":"guilford-technical-community-college-campus-crime-alerts-asr","institution":{"name":"Guilford Technical Community College","shortName":"GTCC","state":"NC","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Campus Crime Alerts / e2Campus","enrollment":12000},"policy":{"title":"Campus Crime Alerts (Timely Warnings) and Immediate Emergency Notifications - Annual Security Report","systemName":"Campus Crime Alerts / e2Campus","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.gtcc.edu/_files/campus%20police/2017-ASR-Final.pdf","lastReviewed":"2017-10-01"},"summary":"Guilford Technical Community College brands Clery timely warnings as [Campus Crime Alerts](https://www.gtcc.edu/_files/campus%20police/2017-ASR-Final.pdf) and documents e2Campus multi-channel emergency notifications in its ASR, with Campus Police Chief decision authority and an All Hazards Emergency Response Plan cross-reference.","analysis":"GTCC (Jamestown/Greensboro/High Point, NC) publishes timely-warning and emergency-notification procedures in its [Annual Security and Safety Report](https://www.gtcc.edu/_files/campus%20police/2017-ASR-Final.pdf). Timely warnings are institution-branded \"Campus Crime Alerts,\" usually for arson, criminal homicide, sexual assault, and robbery; aggravated assault is case-by-case (e.g., a two-student disagreement with no ongoing community threat would not receive an alert). The Campus Police Chief or designee reviews all crime reports for serious or ongoing threat. Community members should report immediately to Campus Police so an alert can be assessed.\n\nDissemination methods for both Campus Crime Alerts and emergency notifications include campus email, e2Campus text messages, campus telephones, outdoor sirens, personal view monitors, and digital signage, with website follow-up. Emergency notifications fire upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat to student or staff health or safety; content, segment selection, and initiation sit with the Chief of Campus Police or designee, assisted by key administrators and outside resources (local police, fire, NWS) for confirmation. A standing Threat Assessment Team and All Hazards Emergency Response Plan support the operational frame. Note the ASR PDF reviewed is an older published edition still hosted on the official GTCC site; Campus Safety pages continue to point to ASR and emergency notification contacts. Complements archive cases including weather closures and a BB-gun lockdown.","whenCriteria":"Campus Crime Alert: crime reported on campus that in judgment of Chief of Police or designee constitutes serious or continuing threat. Emergency notification: confirmation of significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat to health or safety of students or staff on campus.","decisionAuthority":"GTCC Campus Police Chief or designee reviews crime reports, determines content, selects community segments, and initiates notifications. Confirmation may involve VP Student Support Services, Associate VP Facility Operations and Safety, local police, fire, or National Weather Service.","timingStandard":"Immediate notification upon confirmation for emergencies, taking community safety into account, unless notification would compromise victim assistance or emergency mitigation.","cleryFraming":"ASR Timely Warning Notice and Campus Emergency Response / Immediate Warning Procedures with institution-specific \"Campus Crime Alerts\" brand and e2Campus channels.","scopeLimits":"Aggravated assault case-by-case; no alert if no ongoing community threat. Notification may be withheld if it would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Larger community directed to GTCC website for emergency info.","testingCadence":"Not specified as a fixed cadence in the Timely Warning / Immediate Warning ASR sections reviewed; All Hazards ERP referenced for broader emergency planning.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","siren","digital-signage","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Campus Crime Alerts brand and primary crime types","quotedText":"GTCC calls the timely warning notices \"Campus Crime Alerts\". Campus Crime Alerts are usually distributed for the following Uniformed Crime Reporting Program (UCR)/National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) classifications: arson, criminal homicide, sexual assault, and robbery.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gtcc.edu/_files/campus%20police/2017-ASR-Final.pdf","sourceDescription":"GTCC ASR - Timely Warning Notice / Campus Crime Alerts","annotations":["Institution brands TW as Campus Crime Alerts with primary UCR/NIBRS list."],"characterCount":283},{"label":"Multi-channel Campus Crime Alert dissemination","quotedText":"Campus Crime Alerts may be disseminated to the college community via any one or more of the following methods including, but not limited to: campus e-mail, e2Campus text messages, campus telephones, outdoor sirens, personal view monitors and digital signage.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gtcc.edu/_files/campus%20police/2017-ASR-Final.pdf","sourceDescription":"GTCC ASR - Campus Crime Alert channels","annotations":["e2Campus plus sirens, phones, and digital signage."],"characterCount":258},{"label":"Immediate emergency notification commitment","quotedText":"GTCC will immediately notify the campus community upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or staff occurring on the campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gtcc.edu/_files/campus%20police/2017-ASR-Final.pdf","sourceDescription":"GTCC ASR - Campus Emergency Response procedures","annotations":["Immediate EN upon confirmation of on-campus immediate threat."],"characterCount":221}],"keyFindings":["Timely warnings branded \"Campus Crime Alerts\" with primary arson/homicide/sexual assault/robbery list.","e2Campus text plus outdoor sirens and digital signage as multi-channel stack.","Chief of Campus Police owns content, segment, and initiation for emergency notifications."],"sources":[{"title":"Guilford Technical Community College Annual Security and Safety Report PDF","url":"https://www.gtcc.edu/_files/campus%20police/2017-ASR-Final.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"GTCC Campus Safety and Police page","url":"https://www.gtcc.edu/student-life/campus-safety-and-police/index.php","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["north-carolina","community-college","clery-asr","campus-crime-alerts","e2campus","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"gulf-coast-state-college-timely-warning-emergency-notification-asr","slug":"gulf-coast-state-college-timely-warning-emergency-notification-asr","institution":{"name":"Gulf Coast State College","shortName":"GCSC","state":"FL","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"e2Campus ALERT (Omnilert)","enrollment":5000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning Notices and Emergency Notification Systems (2024 Annual Security Report)","systemName":"e2Campus ALERT (Omnilert)","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.gulfcoast.edu/campus-life/campus-safety/documents/2024-annual-security-report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2024-01-01"},"summary":"Gulf Coast State College documents [Timely Warning Notices and multi-channel emergency notifications](https://www.gulfcoast.edu/campus-life/campus-safety/documents/2024-annual-security-report.pdf) in its 2024 ASR, with Executive Director of Operations authority, e2Campus ALERT text/email, classroom PA, outdoor loudspeakers, and campus TV monitors.","analysis":"Gulf Coast State College, a Florida College System institution in the Panama City area near the 2024 Helene landfall corridor, publishes Clery notification procedures in its [2024 Annual Security Report](https://www.gulfcoast.edu/campus-life/campus-safety/documents/2024-annual-security-report.pdf). Timely Warning Notices issue for Clery Act crimes on Clery geography that represent a serious or continuing threat, as soon as pertinent information is available, withholding victim names. Primary distribution is email blast to all GCSC-assigned email accounts, with optional e2Campus ALERT text/email, campus television monitors, and public address systems.\n\nEmergency notifications for multi-campus emergencies are sent as soon as possible with emergency type and suggested safety steps, delayed only if delivery would increase risk of harm. Named channels include text alert subscription, campus TV monitors, email, classroom/building PA via desk phones, and outdoor loudspeakers. Timely Warning Notices are typically written and distributed by the Executive Director of Operations or designee, with optional assistance from the Executive Director of Community Engagement.","whenCriteria":"Timely warnings for Clery Act crimes reported to CSAs or local police on Clery geography that represent a serious or continuing threat. Emergency notifications for emergencies affecting any GCSC campus.","decisionAuthority":"Executive Director of Operations or designee judges serious or continuing threat and typically writes and distributes Timely Warning Notices; Community Engagement may assist dissemination. Emergency notifications use the multi-channel stack described in the ASR.","timingStandard":"Timely Warning Notices distributed as soon as pertinent information is available. Emergency alerts sent as soon as possible; delayed only if delivery would increase risk of harm.","cleryFraming":"ASR Timely Warning and emergency-notification sections implement Clery two-track messaging with named e2Campus Omnilert subscription and layered campus PA/monitor systems.","scopeLimits":"Victim names withheld; sexual assault assessed case-by-case including delayed-report limits on true timeliness; text subscription optional with carrier fees possible.","testingCadence":"Not specified as a fixed cadence in the notification section reviewed.","channels":["email","sms","pa-system","website","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"As soon as pertinent information available","quotedText":"Timely Warning Notices will be distributed as soon as pertinent information is available, in a manner that withholds the names of victims as confidential, and with the goal of aiding in the prevention of similar occurrences.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gulfcoast.edu/campus-life/campus-safety/documents/2024-annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"GCSC 2024 ASR Timely Warning Notices","annotations":["Timing standard and victim-name confidentiality."],"characterCount":224},{"label":"Executive Director of Operations authority","quotedText":"Timely Warning Notices are typically written and distributed by the Executive Director of Operations, or designee. When needed, the Executive Director of Community Engagement and/or a representative may assist the Executive Director of Operations or designee in the dissemination of Timely Warning Notices.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gulfcoast.edu/campus-life/campus-safety/documents/2024-annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"GCSC 2024 ASR Timely Warning distribution authority","annotations":["Names Operations and Community Engagement roles."],"characterCount":306},{"label":"Classroom phone PA emergency delivery","quotedText":"This system allows all the phones in the classrooms and offices to become PA systems that emergency notifications can be delivered through. In an emergency, this system will broadcast through the phone’s external speaker system and in the event that the phone is in use, it will place the current call on hold and deliver the emergency notification.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gulfcoast.edu/campus-life/campus-safety/documents/2024-annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"GCSC 2024 ASR Classroom/Building PA System","annotations":["Institution-specific desk-phone PA interrupt behavior."],"characterCount":349}],"keyFindings":["Executive Director of Operations issues Timely Warning Notices as soon as pertinent information is available.","e2Campus Omnilert subscription for text emergencies and timely warnings.","Classroom phones interrupt active calls to deliver emergency PA audio."],"sources":[{"title":"GCSC 2024 Annual Security Report PDF","url":"https://www.gulfcoast.edu/campus-life/campus-safety/documents/2024-annual-security-report.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"GCSC e2Campus subscriber page","url":"https://gulfcoast.omnilert.net/subscriber.php","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["florida","community-college","clery-asr","e2campus","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"hamilton-college-everbridge-alert-policy","slug":"hamilton-college-everbridge-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Hamilton College","shortName":"Hamilton","state":"NY","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"Everbridge Mass Notification","enrollment":2031},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Alerts (Everbridge Mass Notification) / Emergency Planning and Procedures","systemName":"Everbridge Mass Notification","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.hamilton.edu/emergency-planning-and-procedures/emergency-alerts","lastReviewed":"2026-06-22"},"summary":"Hamilton College's primary emergency alerting system is [Everbridge Mass Notification](https://www.hamilton.edu/emergency-planning-and-procedures/emergency-alerts), which the Hamilton Emergency Response Team and Campus Safety use to push app, SMS, and email alerts, backed by an outdoor warning siren's PA function and an [Alertus desktop](https://www.hamilton.edu/emergency-planning-and-procedures/emergency-alerts) layer; the college documents its Clery emergency-notification and timely-warning duties in its [Annual Safety, Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.hamilton.edu/offices/safety/clery-index).","analysis":"Hamilton College is a private liberal-arts college in Clinton, New York. Unlike many peers, Hamilton names its actual platform: [Everbridge Mass Notification](https://www.hamilton.edu/emergency-planning-and-procedures/emergency-alerts) is the primary emergency alerting system. The college states that 'Members of the Hamilton Emergency Response Team and Campus Safety will send push notifications over the Everbridge Mobile app, SMS text messages, and email messages to the Hamilton College community from Everbridge.' Naming both the response team and Campus Safety as senders, and naming the vendor, is unusually transparent for a small college.\n\nEnrollment is hybrid. Faculty, staff, and students are covered through their Hamilton accounts and can download the Everbridge Mobile App, search 'Hamilton College' under Organizations, and log in with their Hamilton username and password to receive push alerts. For people without Hamilton credentials, Hamilton publishes a keyword opt-in: 'Vendors, contractors, and temporary personnel on campus can opt-in to receive Hamilton College emergency alerts by texting HAMALERTS to 888777,' with a confirmation reply on enrollment. That short code (888777) is the standard Everbridge keyword-subscription channel, and reserving it for non-credentialed visitors while auto-covering the credentialed community is a sensible coverage strategy.\n\nHamilton layers physical and desktop channels on top of Everbridge. The college states that [Everbridge and/or the outdoor warning siren's PA function](https://www.hamilton.edu/emergency-planning-and-procedures/emergency-alerts) are used to alert the campus, and that Alertus Technologies' Alertus Desktop is installed on all Hamilton-managed computers to push emergency alerts to computer screens. The combination — app push, SMS, email, outdoor siren/PA, and desktop popups — reduces single-channel dependency for a residential campus.\n\nOn the Clery side, Hamilton's [Campus Safety / Clery program](https://www.hamilton.edu/offices/safety/clery-index) publishes an Annual Safety, Security and Fire Safety Report, and the college frames its duty as: 'The college will immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate or ongoing threat.' Because hamilton.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were captured from multiple independent WebSearch retrievals of the official pages; the Everbridge sender sentence and the HAMALERTS opt-in instruction each appeared with identical wording across separate retrievals and are marked verbatim-confirmed, while the immediate-notification duty sentence (surfaced once) is marked reconstructed.","whenCriteria":"Hamilton states it 'will immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate or ongoing threat.' Everbridge and/or the outdoor warning siren's PA function are used depending on the nature of the event. Timely warnings are issued for Clery-reportable crimes posing a continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"Members of the Hamilton Emergency Response Team and the Department of Campus Safety send Everbridge alerts. The specific named position with final authority to confirm an emergency and trigger an alert was not confirmable verbatim (hamilton.edu and the Clery PDF blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"Hamilton states it will 'immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation' of a significant emergency or dangerous situation — tracking the Clery 'immediately, upon confirmation' standard. The precise timely-warning timing language was not confirmed byte-for-byte in this review.","cleryFraming":"Hamilton maintains both Clery functions — immediate emergency notification for significant emergencies/dangerous situations involving an immediate or ongoing threat, and timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes posing a continuing threat — and publishes an Annual Safety, Security and Fire Safety Report.","testingCadence":"Hamilton documents its emergency-notification testing in its Annual Safety, Security and Fire Safety Report and conducts drills and exercises; the exact published periodic test cadence for Everbridge was not confirmed verbatim in this review (hamilton.edu and the Clery PDF blocked automated fetching).","scopeLimits":"Credentialed faculty, staff, and students are covered through their Hamilton accounts and can add the Everbridge app; non-credentialed vendors, contractors, and temporary personnel must opt in by texting HAMALERTS to 888777. The siren/PA and Alertus desktop layers extend reach to people who do not check phones or email in the moment.","channels":["push-notification","sms","email","siren","pa-system","desktop-popup"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Everbridge as primary system and senders","quotedText":"Members of the Hamilton Emergency Response Team and Campus Safety will send push notifications over the Everbridge Mobile app, SMS text messages, and email messages to the Hamilton College community from Everbridge.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hamilton.edu/emergency-planning-and-procedures/emergency-alerts","sourceDescription":"Hamilton College — Emergency Planning and Procedures: Emergency Alerts","annotations":["Names the vendor (Everbridge) and both sets of senders. Identical wording appeared across multiple independent WebSearch retrievals of the official Emergency Alerts page."],"characterCount":215},{"label":"HAMALERTS keyword opt-in for non-credentialed visitors","quotedText":"Vendors, contractors, and temporary personnel on campus can opt-in to receive Hamilton College emergency alerts by texting 'HAMALERTS' to 888777.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hamilton.edu/emergency-planning-and-procedures/emergency-alerts","sourceDescription":"Hamilton College — Emergency Planning and Procedures: Emergency Alerts","annotations":["888777 is the standard Everbridge keyword short code; reserving it for non-credentialed visitors while auto-covering the credentialed community. Identical wording appeared across two separate WebSearch retrievals of the official page."],"characterCount":145},{"label":"Outdoor siren PA and Alertus desktop layers","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hamilton.edu/emergency-planning-and-procedures/emergency-alerts","sourceDescription":"Hamilton College — Emergency Planning and Procedures: Emergency Alerts (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Immediate-notification duty","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hamilton.edu/documents/clery/2024Clerybook.pdf","sourceDescription":"Hamilton College — 2024 Annual Safety, Security and Fire Safety Report (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Hamilton's primary emergency alerting system is Everbridge Mass Notification, delivering Everbridge Mobile app push, SMS, and email.","Credentialed faculty, staff, and students are covered via their Hamilton accounts; non-credentialed vendors/contractors/temporary personnel opt in by texting HAMALERTS to 888777.","Hamilton layers an outdoor warning siren with a PA function and Alertus Desktop popups on all managed computers on top of Everbridge.","The Clery duty is framed as immediate notification upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate or ongoing threat.","Hamilton publishes an Annual Safety, Security and Fire Safety Report documenting emergency-notification and timely-warning policy.","Two excerpts were confirmed verbatim across independent retrievals; the siren/PA sentence and the ASR duty sentence are marked reconstructed because hamilton.edu and the Clery PDF blocked automated fetching."],"sources":[{"title":"Hamilton College — Emergency Planning and Procedures: Emergency Alerts","url":"https://www.hamilton.edu/emergency-planning-and-procedures/emergency-alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Hamilton College — Emergency Planning and Procedures","url":"https://www.hamilton.edu/emergency-planning-and-procedures","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Hamilton College — Campus Safety: Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (Clery index)","url":"https://www.hamilton.edu/offices/safety/clery-index","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Hamilton College — 2024 Annual Safety, Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.hamilton.edu/documents/clery/2024Clerybook.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","private-liberal-arts","new-york","everbridge","alertus","emergency-siren","multi-channel"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"hampton-university-alert-policy","slug":"hampton-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Hampton University","shortName":"Hampton","state":"VA","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"Pirate Notification System (PNS)","enrollment":4244},"policy":{"title":"Pirate Notification System (PNS) / Hampton University Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","systemName":"Pirate Notification System (PNS)","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://home.hamptonu.edu/police/annual-security-report-asr/","lastReviewed":"2024"},"summary":"Hampton University — a private [HBCU](https://home.hamptonu.edu/police/) in Hampton, Virginia — runs emergency notifications through the **Pirate Notification System (PNS)**, an Everbridge-powered service that contacts students, faculty, and staff by text (SMS), phone call, and email, administered by the [Hampton University Police Department](https://police.hamptonu.edu/pns). The Chief of Police administers PNS and issues Clery timely warnings, and the University distributes notice of its [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://home.hamptonu.edu/police/annual-security-report-asr/) no later than October 1 each year.","analysis":"Hampton University's emergency-alert program centers on the **Pirate Notification System (PNS)**, described on the [HUPD PNS page](https://police.hamptonu.edu/pns) as \"Hampton University's urgent notification system, comprised of a variety of methods by which the University can contact students, faculty, and staff.\" The enumerated channels are \"Text messages (SMS) to mobile devices, Calls to home, office, and mobile phones, and E-mails to non-Hampton University addresses.\" The system is powered by Everbridge, is free to subscribers (standard carrier text/phone rates apply), and is used \"in the event of threats to safety or security, weather delays or closures, and other urgent matters.\" Enrollment is largely automatic: \"Students, faculty and staff are automatically imported into PNS,\" after which users are invited via email to create an account on the Member Portal and add additional contact methods.\n\n**Decision authority.** Activation responsibility is vested in the [Chief of Police](https://police.hamptonu.edu/annual-security-report), who administers the Pirate Notification System (Everbridge/PNS), \"sending timely alerts to the campus community in the event of threats to safety or security, weather delays or closures, and other urgent matters,\" and who also \"issues Timely Warning notices as required by the Clery Act to alert the campus community to active and ongoing threats.\" The Chief of Police additionally maintains the statistics required by the Clery Act and prepares and distributes the Annual Security Report. Some alerts may be sent by HUPD or the Business Office depending on the nature of the situation.\n\n**Clery two-track framing.** Hampton maintains the standard Clery separation. Emergency notifications are issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees; timely warnings are issued for certain crimes that pose an active and ongoing threat. The [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://home.hamptonu.edu/police/annual-security-report-asr/) documents both obligations.\n\n**Disclosure, scope, and testing.** Per the report, \"Hampton University distributes a notice of the availability of this Annual Security and Fire Safety Report no later than October 1 of each year to every member of the campus community via e-mail,\" satisfying the Clery Act's annual-disclosure deadline. PNS covers safety/security threats, severe weather and traffic, and weather delays or closures. A specific verbatim PNS annual-test cadence was not reproduced on the public pages reachable in this environment (the official hosts 403-block direct fetch), so that element is paraphrased against the Clery at-least-annual testing requirement rather than quoted.","whenCriteria":"The Pirate Notification System is used in the event of threats to safety or security, weather delays or closures, and other urgent matters; emergency notifications follow confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees.","decisionAuthority":"The Chief of Police administers the Pirate Notification System (Everbridge/PNS) and issues Clery Timely Warning notices; some alerts are sent by HUPD or the Business Office depending on the nature of the situation.","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications follow confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety (federal Clery immediate-threat standard); timely warnings are issued to alert the community to active and ongoing threats.","cleryFraming":"Two distinct Clery tracks: (1) emergency notifications via the Pirate Notification System on confirmation of an immediate threat; (2) timely warnings issued by the Chief of Police as required by the Clery Act for active and ongoing threats. Both are documented in the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.","testingCadence":"Not reproduced verbatim on the reachable public pages; the Clery Act requires at-least-annual testing of emergency-notification procedures, and the University publishes its Annual Security and Fire Safety Report on the HUPD website.","scopeLimits":"PNS reaches students, faculty, and staff via text (SMS), calls to home/office/mobile phones, and emails to non-Hampton addresses; it covers threats to safety or security, severe weather and traffic, weather delays or closures, and other urgent matters. The service is free (carrier rates apply); community members are automatically imported and then invited to add contact methods via the Everbridge Member Portal.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Pirate Notification System definition","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://police.hamptonu.edu/pns","sourceDescription":"Hampton University Police Department — Pirate Notification System (PNS) page","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"PNS contact channels","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://police.hamptonu.edu/pns","sourceDescription":"Hampton University Police Department — Pirate Notification System (PNS) page","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Automatic import of community members","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://police.hamptonu.edu/pns","sourceDescription":"Hampton University Police Department — Pirate Notification System (PNS) page","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Annual Security Report distribution deadline","quotedText":"Hampton University distributes a notice of the availability of this Annual Security and Fire Safety Report no later than October 1 of each year to every member of the campus community via e-mail.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://home.hamptonu.edu/police/annual-security-report-asr/","sourceDescription":"Hampton University Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","annotations":["States the Clery annual-disclosure deadline (October 1) and the email-notice method; surfaced via search snippet from the ASR (host 403-blocks direct fetch), so flagged as not byte-confirmed."],"characterCount":195}],"keyFindings":["The Pirate Notification System (PNS), powered by Everbridge, is Hampton University's urgent notification system, reaching students, faculty, and staff by text (SMS), phone call, and email.","PNS notably routes email alerts to non-Hampton (personal) addresses, and community members are automatically imported and then invited to add contact methods via the Member Portal.","The Chief of Police administers PNS and issues Clery Timely Warning notices; some alerts are sent by HUPD or the Business Office depending on the situation.","PNS is used for threats to safety or security, severe weather and traffic, weather delays or closures, and other urgent matters, satisfying the Clery emergency-notification function.","Hampton distributes notice of its Annual Security and Fire Safety Report no later than October 1 of each year to every campus-community member via email."],"sources":[{"title":"Pirate Notification System (PNS) — Hampton University Police Department","url":"https://police.hamptonu.edu/pns","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Pirate Notification System (PNS) — HUPD","url":"https://home.hamptonu.edu/police/pirate-notification-system-pns/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual Security Report (ASR) — Hampton University Police Department","url":"https://home.hamptonu.edu/police/annual-security-report-asr/","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Emergency Notification System — Hampton University","url":"https://alert.hamptonu.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"HUPD : Annual Security Report — Hampton University Police","url":"https://police.hamptonu.edu/annual-security-report","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Hampton University — Student Population and Demographics (fall 2024 enrollment: 4,244)","url":"https://www.collegetuitioncompare.com/edu/232265/hampton-university/enrollment/","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","hbcu","virginia"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"hampton-university-pirate-notification-system-policy","slug":"hampton-university-pirate-notification-system-policy","institution":{"name":"Hampton University","shortName":"Hampton","state":"VA","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"Pirate Notification System (PNS) / LiveSafe","enrollment":3500},"policy":{"title":"Pirate Notification System (PNS) and LiveSafe Alerts","systemName":"Pirate Notification System (PNS)","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://home.hamptonu.edu/police/pirate-notification-system-pns/","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Hampton University Police Department's [Pirate Notification System (PNS) page](https://home.hamptonu.edu/police/pirate-notification-system-pns/) brands PNS as the university urgent notification system (SMS, email, and related channels), with alerts sent by HUPD or the Business Office, automatic import of students/faculty/staff, and complementary LiveSafe app and ShotSpotter capabilities described in campus security communications.","analysis":"Hampton University is an HBCU in Virginia. Its [PNS page](https://home.hamptonu.edu/police/pirate-notification-system-pns/) is institution-specific: the Pirate Notification System is Hampton University's urgent notification system using text messages (SMS) to mobile devices and other contact methods; alerts are sent by the Hampton University Police Department or the Business Office depending on the situation; PNS is free of a subscriber fee (carrier rates may apply); students, faculty, and staff are automatically imported and invited by email to create Member Portal accounts. A [2023 presidential security statement](https://home.hamptonu.edu/blog/2023/10/20/hampton-university-president-darrell-k-williams-has-released-the-following-statement-about-enhanced-security-measures-on-campus/) further brands LiveSafe for emergency and non-emergency notifications and states PNS keeps the community informed of nearby emergency situations including severe weather and traffic via text, email, or phone call, alongside ShotSpotter gunshot detection.","whenCriteria":"Urgent notifications for nearby emergency situations including severe weather and traffic, and other situations as determined by HUPD or the Business Office.","decisionAuthority":"Hampton University Police Department or the Business Office, depending on the nature of the situation.","timingStandard":"Not a fixed minute SLA on the PNS overview page; system is positioned as urgent notification.","cleryFraming":"PNS is the local urgent notification brand; Clery Timely Warning details are not restated as generic boilerplate on the PNS page.","scopeLimits":"Students, faculty, and staff auto-imported; users add contact methods via Member Portal; free service with carrier SMS rates applying.","testingCadence":"Not stated on the PNS overview page.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"PNS brand and contact methods","quotedText":"The Pirate Notification System (PNS) is Hampton University's urgent notification system, comprised of a variety of methods by which the University can contact students, faculty, and staff. Ways to contact include: Text messages (SMS) to mobile devices","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://home.hamptonu.edu/police/pirate-notification-system-pns/","sourceDescription":"HUPD Pirate Notification System page","annotations":["Local PNS brand and SMS contact method."],"characterCount":251},{"label":"HUPD or Business Office senders","quotedText":"Alerts will be sent by the Hampton University Police Department or the Business Office, depending on the nature of the situation.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://home.hamptonu.edu/police/pirate-notification-system-pns/","sourceDescription":"HUPD Pirate Notification System page","annotations":["Named dual sender authorities."],"characterCount":129},{"label":"Auto-import and Member Portal registration","quotedText":"Students, faculty and staff are automatically imported into PNS. Users are then invited via email to create an account on the Member Portal and input additional methods of contact.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://home.hamptonu.edu/police/pirate-notification-system-pns/","sourceDescription":"HUPD Pirate Notification System page","annotations":["Local auto-import and portal registration flow."],"characterCount":180},{"label":"PNS weather/traffic scope and LiveSafe brand","quotedText":"Pirate Notification System - HUPD has established the Pirate Notification System (PNS) to keep our community informed of any nearby emergency situations, including severe weather and traffic. It communicates via text, email, or phone call. LiveSafe App - The LiveSafe app ensures that you remain connected to emergency alerts and non-emergency notifications from the University.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://home.hamptonu.edu/blog/2023/10/20/hampton-university-president-darrell-k-williams-has-released-the-following-statement-about-enhanced-security-measures-on-campus/","sourceDescription":"Hampton University presidential enhanced security measures statement","annotations":["PNS use cases and LiveSafe complementary channel."],"characterCount":378}],"keyFindings":["Pirate Notification System is Hampton's local urgent notification brand.","HBCU policy with dual HUPD/Business Office senders and LiveSafe app."],"sources":[{"title":"Pirate Notification System (PNS) - Hampton University Police","url":"https://home.hamptonu.edu/police/pirate-notification-system-pns/","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"},{"title":"Enhanced security measures statement - Hampton University","url":"https://home.hamptonu.edu/blog/2023/10/20/hampton-university-president-darrell-k-williams-has-released-the-following-statement-about-enhanced-security-measures-on-campus/","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"},{"title":"Alert Central - Hampton University","url":"https://home.hamptonu.edu/alert/","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["hbcu","virginia","pirate-notification-system","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"harford-community-college-alert-me-asr","slug":"harford-community-college-alert-me-asr","institution":{"name":"Harford Community College","shortName":"Harford","state":"MD","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Alert Me","enrollment":5500},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings (Alert Me / Alertus) - Annual Security Report","systemName":"Alert Me","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://pa-hrsuite-production.s3.amazonaws.com/3125/docs/34701.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Harford Community College documents [Alert Me auto-enrollment emergency notifications and Clery timely warnings](https://pa-hrsuite-production.s3.amazonaws.com/3125/docs/34701.pdf) with text/email primary channels plus Alertus wall beacons for the most serious emergencies.","analysis":"Harford Community College (Bel Air, MD) publishes Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings procedures in its [2025 Annual Security Report](https://pa-hrsuite-production.s3.amazonaws.com/3125/docs/34701.pdf). The Department of Public Safety issues emergency notifications without delay for serious threats to student or employee health or safety. Timely warnings are distinguished as Clery-Handbook-triggered notices for crimes that have already occurred but represent an ongoing threat; Harford issues them for Clery crimes on campus reported to DPS or learned via local law enforcement that represent a serious and/or continuing threat.\n\nEN and TW typically go by text and email. Additional channels based on threat nature include college computer screens, digital signage, Alertus beacons, and social media. Alertus beacons (new this year) are small yellow wall-mounted devices that emit a loud tone, flashing lights, and a displayed message for the most serious emergency notifications. All students and employees are automatically enrolled in Alert Me and must keep contact information current; contractors/others may opt in by texting \"Join harfordalerts\" to 66893. The emergency notification system is tested at least annually, with routine internal DPS proficiency tests. Complements Maryland community-college coverage and archive Harford case volume.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notification: serious threat to health or safety of students or employees. Timely warning: Clery crimes on campus reported to DPS or via local law enforcement representing serious and/or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"Department of Public Safety issues emergency notifications and timely warnings.","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications without delay. Timely warnings for ongoing-threat crimes that have already occurred. System tested at minimum annually.","cleryFraming":"ASR Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings section with Clery Handbook distinction and named Alert Me / Alertus systems.","scopeLimits":"Alertus reserved for most serious emergency notifications. External parties opt in separately via short-code text. Auto-enrollment for students and employees only.","testingCadence":"Emergency notification system tested at a minimum annually; DPS officers routinely send internal test messages for proficiency.","channels":["sms","email","desktop-popup","digital-signage","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"DPS emergency notification without delay","quotedText":"The Department of Public Safety will issue an emergency notification without delay when there is a serious threat to the health or safety of students or employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://pa-hrsuite-production.s3.amazonaws.com/3125/docs/34701.pdf","sourceDescription":"Harford 2025 ASR - Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings","annotations":["DPS owns without-delay EN for serious health/safety threats."],"characterCount":163},{"label":"Alert Me automatic enrollment","quotedText":"All students and employees are automatically enrolled in the College's emergency notification system also known as Alert Me.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://pa-hrsuite-production.s3.amazonaws.com/3125/docs/34701.pdf","sourceDescription":"Harford 2025 ASR - Alert Me enrollment","annotations":["Named Alert Me system with auto-enrollment."],"characterCount":124},{"label":"Alertus beacon serious EN channel","quotedText":"Alertus beacons are for the most serious emergency notifications and will emit a loud audible tone, flashing lights, and display a message when activated.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://pa-hrsuite-production.s3.amazonaws.com/3125/docs/34701.pdf","sourceDescription":"Harford 2025 ASR - Alertus beacons","annotations":["Wall-mounted Alertus for highest-severity EN."],"characterCount":154}],"keyFindings":["Alert Me auto-enrollment for students/employees; short-code opt-in for others.","Alertus wall beacons for most serious emergency notifications.","DPS distinguishes EN (immediate threat) from TW (prior crime, ongoing threat)."],"sources":[{"title":"Harford Community College 2025 Annual Security Report PDF","url":"https://pa-hrsuite-production.s3.amazonaws.com/3125/docs/34701.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Harford Campus Safety page","url":"https://www.harford.edu/experience/safety.php","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["maryland","community-college","clery-asr","alert-me","alertus","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"harper-college-harper-alert-system-overview","slug":"harper-college-harper-alert-system-overview","institution":{"name":"Harper College","shortName":"Harper","state":"IL","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Harper Alert","enrollment":13000},"policy":{"title":"Harper Alert Emergency Messaging System - System Overview","systemName":"Harper Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.harpercollege.edu/about/police/emergency/alerts.php","lastReviewed":"2026-05-13"},"summary":"Harper College publishes a public [Harper Alert emergency messaging system overview](https://www.harpercollege.edu/about/police/emergency/alerts.php) with simultaneous email/phone/text delivery, automatic student/employee enrollment, and multi-channel emergency communications matrix.","analysis":"Harper College (Palatine, IL) documents its Harper Alert emergency messaging system on official [Emergency Alerts](https://www.harpercollege.edu/about/police/emergency/alerts.php) and [How We Communicate in Emergencies](https://www.harpercollege.edu/about/police/emergency/communication.php) pages. Harper Alert sends timely notifications by email, phone, and text simultaneously to students, employees, and registered contractors or community members. In an emergency it provides the nature of the emergency, what to do, and where to get more details; notifications are also posted to Harper's website, mobile app, and social media. Examples include campus weather closure, shelter-in-place or evacuation, and localized avoid-area notices.\n\nAll current students and employees are automatically enrolled; messages go to Harper-issued email and provided telephone numbers. Username is Harper College email; parents and community members may register separately. Personal emails and additional phones can be added in the Harper Alert portal. The communication matrix maps channels by emergency type (weather, power/gas, bomb/hazmat, active shooter) combining Harper Alert with PA speakers, desk phone audio, alarms, website, and Facebook/X. Complements Illinois community-college coverage.","whenCriteria":"Emergency situations including campus weather/other closures, shelter-in-place or evacuation orders, localized campus emergencies, power/gas events, bomb/hazmat threats, and active shooter/hostile intruder scenarios.","decisionAuthority":"Harper Alert system operated as college emergency messaging; channel mix depends on emergency type per public communication matrix. Campus Police contact for assistance: 847.925.6330.","timingStandard":"Simultaneous multi-channel Harper Alert delivery for timely notifications. Specific fixed minutes standard not stated on the system overview pages.","cleryFraming":"Public system-overview of emergency mass notification supporting Clery emergency notification and timely warning dissemination capacity; Annual Campus Security Report cross-referenced from police emergency pages.","scopeLimits":"Extension sites (Harper Professional Center, Learning and Career Center) may differ in communication mix. Not all tools used for every emergency. Community opt-in separate from auto student/employee enrollment.","testingCadence":"Not specified as a fixed cadence on the Harper Alert system overview pages reviewed.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","facebook","twitter-x","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Harper Alert simultaneous multi-channel","quotedText":"The Harper Alert system enables the college to send timely notifications - by email, phone and text message simultaneously - to Harper students, employees and registered contractors or community members.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.harpercollege.edu/about/police/emergency/alerts.php","sourceDescription":"Harper College Emergency Alerts page - Harper Alert system","annotations":["Named Harper Alert with simultaneous email/phone/text."],"characterCount":203},{"label":"Automatic student and employee enrollment","quotedText":"All current students and employees are automatically enrolled in the Harper Alert system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.harpercollege.edu/about/police/emergency/alerts.php","sourceDescription":"Harper College Emergency Alerts page - enrollment","annotations":["Auto-enrollment for current students and employees."],"characterCount":89}],"keyFindings":["Harper Alert simultaneous email/phone/text for students, employees, and registered community.","Auto-enrollment for current students and employees via Harper email and provided phones.","Emergency-type communication matrix layers PA, desk phone audio, and social/web with Harper Alert."],"sources":[{"title":"Harper College Emergency Alerts / Harper Alert system page","url":"https://www.harpercollege.edu/about/police/emergency/alerts.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Harper College How We Communicate in Emergencies","url":"https://www.harpercollege.edu/about/police/emergency/communication.php","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["illinois","community-college","system-overview","harper-alert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"harris-stowe-state-university-rave-campus-alert-asr","slug":"harris-stowe-state-university-rave-campus-alert-asr","institution":{"name":"Harris-Stowe State University","shortName":"HSSU","state":"MO","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"Rave Campus Alert System","alertPlatform":"Rave","enrollment":1002},"policy":{"title":"2024 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (Clery Year 2023)","systemName":"Rave Campus Alert System","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.hssu.edu/ae/aefiles/58/2023_Final_Clery_Report.pdf"},"summary":"Harris-Stowe State University's [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.hssu.edu/ae/aefiles/58/2023_Final_Clery_Report.pdf) commits the St. Louis HBCU to Rave-based emergency notifications with a test message the first Monday of every month, brands its Clery timely warnings as Campus Alerts distributed through Rave, official social media, the university website, and paper flyers, and reserves lockdown activation to the President, Vice-President, Chief of Public Safety, and approved Public Safety commanders.","analysis":"Harris-Stowe State University, a historically Black public university in midtown St. Louis with [1,002 students in fall 2024](https://datausa.io/profile/university/harris-stowe-state-university), publishes its alerting doctrine in its [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.hssu.edu/ae/aefiles/58/2023_Final_Clery_Report.pdf) and on the Department of Public Safety's [Rave Campus Alert System page](https://www.hssu.edu/rsp_content.html?wid=58&pid=2021). The emergency-notification layer runs on the Rave platform: once the university initiates an emergency message, it is distributed to every registered member's phone by text and to email accounts, with a standing test message the first Monday of every month, one of the more concrete published test cadences among the HBCUs in this collection. The Clery timely-warning layer carries its own house brand: the report describes the university's timely warnings as Campus Alerts, issued by the Department of Public Safety or a designee in a timely manner that withholds victim names as confidential and that may aid in the prevention of similar crimes, distributed through the Rave system, the university's official social media pages, the university website, or paper flyers posted in strategic campus locations, a channel list that still includes paper for a compact urban campus. The report is also unusually specific about protective-action authority: the determination to activate a lockdown of the university rests with the President, Vice-President, Chief of Public Safety, and Public Safety commanders approved by the chief, and the annual emergency-response exercise doubles as the community's reminder of the Rave system, satisfying the Clery requirement that the plan be tested, evaluated, and publicized each year. The doctrine has been exercised across this archive's six Harris-Stowe cases, from the [February 2022 HBCU bomb-threat wave](http://www.hssu.edu/rsp_content.cfm?wID=58&pID=2459), during which the university suspended campus operations and posted a public statement, to a 2024 armed-threat lockdown, a 2025 tornado, and three 2026 weather closures. The hssu.edu host is egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language below is carried from search-index retrievals of the report and the Rave page and marked unconfirmed pending a character-for-character read.","whenCriteria":"Emergency messages go out for current or pending dangerous situations; Campus Alerts (timely warnings) issue for Clery Act crimes reported to campus security authorities or local police that the institution considers a serious or continuing threat to students, faculty, or staff.","decisionAuthority":"The Department of Public Safety or designee issues Campus Alerts; the President, Vice-President, Chief of Public Safety, and Public Safety commanders approved by the chief make the determination to activate a lockdown.","timingStandard":"Campus Alerts are committed to issue in a timely manner that may aid in the prevention of similar crimes; the report's emergency-notification section tracks the Clery significant-emergency framing for immediate threats to health or safety.","cleryFraming":"The report separates Rave emergency notifications for dangerous situations from timely warnings, which Harris-Stowe brands as Campus Alerts, and discloses the emergency response and evacuation procedures the Clery Act requires for significant emergencies on campus property and student housing.","testingCadence":"A Rave test message is distributed the first Monday of every month, and the emergency plan is tested, evaluated, and publicized through an annual campus exercise that also reminds the community of the notification system.","scopeLimits":"Rave messages reach registered members' phones and email accounts, so delivery depends on registration; Campus Alerts extend reach through official social media, the university website, and paper flyers posted on campus.","channels":["sms","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency notification system","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hssu.edu/ae/aefiles/58/2023_Final_Clery_Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Harris-Stowe State University, 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Monthly test cadence","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hssu.edu/ae/aefiles/58/2023_Final_Clery_Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Harris-Stowe State University, 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Campus Alerts distribution channels","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hssu.edu/ae/aefiles/58/2023_Final_Clery_Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Harris-Stowe State University, 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Lockdown activation authority","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hssu.edu/ae/aefiles/58/2023_Final_Clery_Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Harris-Stowe State University, 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Harris-Stowe runs its emergency notifications on the Rave platform, reaching registered members by text and email, with a published test message the first Monday of every month.","The university brands its Clery timely warnings as Campus Alerts, a channel list that runs from Rave and official social media down to paper flyers posted in strategic campus locations.","Lockdown activation authority is enumerated explicitly: the President, Vice-President, Chief of Public Safety, and Public Safety commanders approved by the chief.","The annual emergency-response exercise doubles as the community's reminder of the Rave system, meeting the Clery test-evaluate-publicize requirement.","The doctrine has been exercised across this archive's six Harris-Stowe cases, including the February 2022 HBCU bomb-threat wave, a 2024 armed-threat lockdown, and a 2025 tornado.","No excerpt is verbatim-confirmed: hssu.edu is egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language is carried from search-index retrievals and flagged for direct verification."],"sources":[{"title":"Harris-Stowe State University, 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, Clery Year 2023 (PDF)","url":"https://www.hssu.edu/ae/aefiles/58/2023_Final_Clery_Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Harris-Stowe State University, Public Safety: Rave Campus Alert System","url":"https://www.hssu.edu/rsp_content.html?wid=58&pid=2021","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Harris-Stowe State University, Public Safety: Evacuation Procedures","url":"http://go.hssu.edu/rsp_content.cfm?wid=58&pid=770","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Harris-Stowe State University, Campus Security and Fire Safety Annual Report 2019-2021 (PDF)","url":"https://go.hssu.edu/ae/aefiles/58/Oct13_CleryReport19-21.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Harris-Stowe State University, Statement: University Receives Bomb Threat, Campus Operations Suspended","url":"http://www.hssu.edu/rsp_content.cfm?wID=58&pID=2459","type":"official-statement"},{"title":"Data USA, Harris-Stowe State University","url":"https://datausa.io/profile/university/harris-stowe-state-university","type":"reference"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["harris-stowe-state-university-bomb-threat-2022-02-01","harris-stowe-state-university-armed-threat-2024-03-01","harris-stowe-state-university-tornado-2025-05-16","harris-stowe-state-university-inclement-weather-monday-close-2026-01-26","harris-stowe-state-university-winter-weather-closure-2026-01-27","harris-stowe-state-university-severe-weather-early-close-2026-04-27"],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","missouri","hbcu","rave","campus-alerts","monthly-testing","timely-warning","lockdown-authority"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-31","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"hacc-weather-announcements-system-overview","slug":"hacc-weather-announcements-system-overview","institution":{"name":"Harrisburg Area Community College","shortName":"HACC","state":"PA","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"e2Campus / Weather Announcements","enrollment":15000},"policy":{"title":"Weather Announcements","systemName":"e2Campus / Weather Announcements","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.hacc.edu/Weather","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Harrisburg Area Community College's [Weather Announcements](https://www.hacc.edu/Weather) page defines standardized delay and close message templates, day-versus-evening class cutoffs at 4 p.m., essential-employee rules, and multi-channel notification via [e2Campus](https://www.hacc.edu/CampusLife/ParkingPublicSafety/e2campus-alerts.cfm), the website, email, Facebook, and X.","analysis":"HACC is a multi-campus Pennsylvania community college. Its [Weather Announcements](https://www.hacc.edu/Weather) system-overview page is institution-specific: the president and selected Cabinet members make weather decisions; students and employees retain travel judgment even when campuses remain open; day classes begin before 4 p.m. EST and evening classes at 4 p.m. or later; message templates cover full close, closed-until 10:30 a.m. or noon, early close, day-class cancel only, and finals-week close, including remote and online class cancellations when campuses close; the College states it does not use a delayed-opening schedule that would shorten hands-on class blocks; channels include e2Campus text/email, website, myHACC, employee and student email, Facebook, and X. Companion [e2Campus Alerts](https://www.hacc.edu/CampusLife/ParkingPublicSafety/e2campus-alerts.cfm) materials describe opt-in text and email weather and emergency notices. This record documents the weather decision templates and communication overview rather than a full ASR rewrite.","whenCriteria":"Inclement weather or other emergencies requiring campus delay, early close, or full closure decisions.","decisionAuthority":"College president and members of the Cabinet as selected by the president.","timingStandard":"Not a fixed clock-time decision target on the weather page; operating schedule updated as conditions warrant with multi-channel notice.","cleryFraming":"Weather and emergency operations communication templates; Clery emergency-notification procedure details may appear separately in public safety materials.","testingCadence":"Not confirmed verbatim on the weather announcements page reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Applies to HACC multi-campus operations including on-campus, remote, online, labs, clinicals, and internships as specified in each message template; essential employees report for critical services during closures.","channels":["sms","email","website","twitter-x","facebook","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Student and employee travel judgment","quotedText":"The College’s operating schedule will be updated as needed based on weather conditions and other emergencies. In the case of inclement weather, regardless of the decision, all students and employees should use their own judgment to determine whether or not it is safe to travel. Please keep your instructor(s) or supervisor(s) informed.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hacc.edu/Weather","characterCount":336},{"label":"President and Cabinet decision team","quotedText":"The team that makes the inclement weather-related decisions is composed of the College president and members of the Cabinet (as selected by the College president).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hacc.edu/Weather","characterCount":163},{"label":"Full close cancels remote and online classes","quotedText":"All day and evening classes are cancelled. These cancellations include on-campus classes, remote instruction classes, online learning classes, labs, services, off-campus clinicals and off-campus internships.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hacc.edu/Weather","characterCount":207}],"sources":[{"title":"Weather Announcements","url":"https://www.hacc.edu/Weather","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"},{"title":"e2Campus Alerts","url":"https://www.hacc.edu/CampusLife/ParkingPublicSafety/e2campus-alerts.cfm","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["community-college","pennsylvania","weather-closing","system-overview","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"harvard-university-alert-policy","slug":"harvard-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Harvard University","shortName":"Harvard","state":"MA","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"MessageMe","enrollment":25266},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Communication — MessageMe Emergency Notification System","systemName":"MessageMe","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.hupd.harvard.edu/emergency-communication"},"summary":"Harvard University's primary emergency notification tool is [MessageMe](https://www.hupd.harvard.edu/emergency-communication), an Everbridge-based system that pushes alerts to the campus community by email, text, and voice call. Per the [Harvard University Police Department](https://www.hupd.harvard.edu/emergency-communication), select HUPD and Harvard Public Affairs & Communications staff — directed by the University's Crisis Management Team — initiate MessageMe \"without delay\" upon confirmation of an immediate threat occurring on campus.","analysis":"Harvard describes [MessageMe](https://www.hupd.harvard.edu/emergency-communication) as \"the University's primary tool for sending emergency notifications to members of the campus community,\" delivering alerts \"through three main contact paths; email, text and voice call.\" The system is built on Everbridge — Harvard administers MessageMe through Everbridge's manager.everbridge.net console — and members of the community manage their contact paths at [messageme.harvard.edu](https://messageme.harvard.edu/). Enrollment is automatic: \"All active faculty, staff, students, and other community members who are likely to be on campus are automatically enrolled in the system with their primary email address as the default contact path,\" and users can add text and voice numbers by updating their MessageMe profile.\n\n**Decision authority and timing.** Harvard's published policy assigns activation to a defined set of officials under centralized direction: \"Select members of HUPD and/or Harvard Public Affairs & Communications (HPAC), under the direction of the University's Crisis Management Team, will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of any emergency notification as well as the appropriate segment of the community to receive it and will initiate the MessageMe system, unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to or otherwise mitigate the emergency.\" This language mirrors the Clery Act's emergency-notification standard, including the standard mitigation exception that allows withholding a notice when issuing it would compromise the emergency response.\n\n**Clery framing.** Harvard operates the conventional two-track model. Emergency notifications via MessageMe are reserved for an \"immediate threat to the health or safety of students or staff occurring on campus,\" while [timely warnings](https://www.hupd.harvard.edu/timely-warnings) are issued by HUPD for Clery Act crimes occurring within Harvard's Clery geography that are reported to authorities and \"represent a serious or continuing threat to students and employees.\" Harvard also notes the overlap rule: \"If the University issues an emergency notification, then it is not required to issue a timely warning based on the same circumstances; however, the University will provide follow-up information to the community as needed.\"\n\n**Testing.** Consistent with Clery, Harvard conducts a yearly test of the MessageMe system to evaluate its emergency response plans and capabilities; per the University's published materials these tests \"may be announced or unannounced.\" The platform/vendor is Everbridge.","whenCriteria":"MessageMe emergency notifications are issued upon confirmation that there is an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or staff occurring on campus; timely warnings are issued separately by HUPD for Clery Act crimes within Harvard's Clery geography that represent a serious or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"Select members of HUPD and/or Harvard Public Affairs & Communications (HPAC), under the direction of the University's Crisis Management Team, determine the content and recipients of any emergency notification and initiate MessageMe.","timingStandard":"Officials will act \"without delay and taking into account the safety of the community,\" subject to the Clery mitigation exception (no notice if issuing it would, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or mitigate the emergency).","cleryFraming":"Two-track Clery model: emergency notifications via MessageMe for confirmed immediate threats occurring on campus; timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes posing a serious or continuing threat. Issuing an emergency notification removes the obligation to issue a timely warning on the same circumstances, with follow-up information provided as needed.","testingCadence":"Harvard conducts a yearly test of the MessageMe system to assess its emergency response plans and capabilities; tests may be announced or unannounced.","scopeLimits":"All active faculty, staff, students, and other community members likely to be on campus are automatically enrolled, with primary email as the default contact path; text and voice paths are added by the user. Alerts are limited to email, text, and voice call via MessageMe.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Decision authority and without-delay standard","quotedText":"Select members of HUPD and/or Harvard Public Affairs & Communications (HPAC), under the direction of the University's Crisis Management Team, will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of any emergency notification as well as the appropriate segment of the community to receive it and will initiate the MessageMe system, unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hupd.harvard.edu/emergency-communication","sourceDescription":"Harvard University Police Department — Emergency Communication","annotations":["Reproduced identically across HUPD Emergency Communication search snippets; establishes who authorizes a MessageMe notification, the without-delay timing standard, and the Clery mitigation exception."],"characterCount":566},{"label":"MessageMe as primary tool and contact paths","quotedText":"MessageMe is the University's primary tool for sending emergency notifications to members of the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hupd.harvard.edu/emergency-communication","sourceDescription":"Harvard University Police Department — Emergency Communication","annotations":["Identifies MessageMe as the primary emergency-notification tool; the same page states alerts go out \"through three main contact paths; email, text and voice call.\""],"characterCount":114},{"label":"Automatic enrollment","quotedText":"All active faculty, staff, students, and other community members who are likely to be on campus are automatically enrolled in the system with their primary email address as the default contact path.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://messageme.harvard.edu/","sourceDescription":"MessageMe (Harvard University) — system home page","annotations":["Establishes the automatic, default-email enrollment model; reproduced consistently across MessageMe and HUPD official snippets."],"characterCount":198},{"label":"Emergency-notification trigger and timely-warning overlap","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hupd.harvard.edu/timely-warnings","sourceDescription":"Harvard University Police Department — Timely Warnings & Campus Advisories","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["MessageMe is Harvard's primary emergency notification system, delivering alerts by email, text, and voice call.","MessageMe runs on the Everbridge platform (administered via manager.everbridge.net); the community manages contact paths at messageme.harvard.edu.","Authority to initiate a notification rests with select HUPD and HPAC staff under the direction of the University's Crisis Management Team, acting 'without delay' subject to the Clery mitigation exception.","Enrollment is automatic for active faculty, staff, students, and others likely to be on campus, with primary email as the default contact path.","Harvard runs a yearly test of MessageMe (announced or unannounced) and follows the standard Clery two-track model of emergency notifications vs. timely warnings."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Communication | Harvard University Police Department","url":"https://www.hupd.harvard.edu/emergency-communication","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Home Page | MessageMe (Harvard University)","url":"https://messageme.harvard.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Timely Warnings & Campus Advisories | Harvard University Police Department","url":"https://www.hupd.harvard.edu/timely-warnings","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Harvard Emergency Notification System (MessageMe) | Harvard Law School ITS","url":"https://hls.harvard.edu/dept/its/its-services/harvard-emergency-notification-system-messageme/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","massachusetts","everbridge","ivy-league"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"haskell-indian-nations-university-alert-policy","slug":"haskell-indian-nations-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Haskell Indian Nations University","shortName":"HINU","state":"KS","type":"tribal-college","alertSystemName":"Haskell E2 Alert (e2Campus)","enrollment":946},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Procedures (Annual Security & Fire Safety Report)","systemName":"e2Campus (Haskell E2 Alert)","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://haskell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-Annual-Security-Fire-Safety-Report-Final-.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Haskell Indian Nations University — a federally operated, BIE-chartered tribal university in Lawrence, Kansas — sends campus emergency notifications through [Haskell E2 Alert (e2Campus)](https://haskell.edu/university-operations/federal-campus-security/), an opt-in text/email mass-notification system, with the decision to launch an alert resting with the [Safety Office](https://haskell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-Annual-Security-Fire-Safety-Report-Final-.pdf) and the Clery distinction between timely warnings and emergency notifications documented in its Annual Security & Fire Safety Report.","analysis":"Haskell Indian Nations University is unusual among Clery-covered institutions: it is a federal institution operated by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Education, serving members of federally recognized tribes from across the country on its campus in Lawrence, Kansas. Its mass-notification backbone is [e2Campus](https://haskell.edu/university-operations/federal-campus-security/), branded internally as 'Haskell E2 Alert' — a text/email subscription service that students and staff are 'highly encouraged' to sign up for from the university home page. Because the system is opt-in, anyone who never subscribes does not receive Haskell E2 Alert text or email messages, a structural coverage gap the university mitigates with layered campus-wide channels.\n\nFor the most common local hazard — severe weather — Haskell layers e2Campus over an [Outdoor Tornado Siren and an Emergency P.A. system](https://haskell.edu/university-operations/federal-campus-security/), supplemented by notifications from the Safety and/or Facilities Offices and Administration. This siren-plus-PA-plus-app stack matters at a residential tribal university where many students live on campus and where tornado risk is significant in the Kansas climate. The university's [Emergency Action Plan](https://haskell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Haskell-Emergency-Action-Plan-Nov-FY25-002.pdf) is reviewed and approved by the Office of the President and the Safety Compliance Manager and updated as necessary by the Safety Compliance Manager.\n\nDecision authority for an emergency notification is centralized in the Safety Office. According to the Annual Security & Fire Safety Report, sending an emergency notification is the responsibility of the Safety Office, and the Safety Officer bases the decision on information received from the Public Relations Specialist and Haskell Security officer(s) on scene; upon verification that a legitimate ongoing dangerous situation or emergency exists, the Safety Office or authorized personnel approve the launch of a Haskell E2 Alert to all users. Incident reports are shared with the [Clery Act Compliance Committee](https://haskell.edu/university-operations/federal-campus-security/) for statistical classification and to assess the necessity for a timely warning or emergency notification — the standard Clery two-track framing (timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes that represent a continuing threat; emergency notifications upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety).\n\nOn testing, the university reports that emergency evacuation procedures are tested at least twice each year and that it runs an annual emergency-management exercise (an Emergency Exercise was completed in 2023) whose scenario changes each year and involves multiple campus departments. All Haskell E2 Alert messages follow a fixed template: an indication the message is a Haskell E2 Alert, the time/date, a brief description of the emergency, and where and when to receive further information. Note on sourcing: the haskell.edu host (including its ASR and Emergency Action Plan PDFs) returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, so the language below is captured from search-engine reproductions of those official documents rather than a directly fetched page; excerpts are therefore flagged isVerbatimConfirmed:false despite appearing to be near-verbatim from the ASR.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notifications are issued upon verification that a legitimate ongoing dangerous situation or emergency exists involving an immediate threat to health or safety; timely warnings are issued for Clery-reportable crimes that represent a continuing threat to the community. The Clery Act Compliance Committee assesses, per incident report, whether a timely warning or emergency notification is warranted. For tornado warnings specifically, notice is communicated through the Safety and/or Facilities Offices, Administration, e2Campus, the Emergency P.A., and the Outdoor Tornado Siren.","decisionAuthority":"Sending an emergency notification is the responsibility of the Safety Office. The Safety Officer bases the decision on information received from the Public Relations Specialist and Haskell Security officer(s) on scene; upon verification that a legitimate ongoing dangerous situation or emergency exists, the Safety Office or authorized personnel approve the launch of a Haskell E2 Alert to all users. The Emergency Action Plan is reviewed and approved by the Office of the President and the Safety Compliance Manager.","timingStandard":"As a Clery-covered (federal) institution, Haskell follows the federal standard of issuing emergency notifications immediately upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation, and timely warnings as soon as pertinent information is available. A specific numeric minutes target was not stated in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"Two-track Clery model documented in the Annual Security & Fire Safety Report: timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes representing a continuing threat, and emergency notifications upon confirmation of an immediate threat. Incident reports are routed to the Clery Act Compliance Committee, which classifies them for statistics and assesses whether a warning or notification is required.","testingCadence":"Emergency evacuation procedures are tested at least twice each year. The university conducts an annual emergency-management exercise (an Emergency Exercise was completed in 2023) with a scenario that changes each year and involves several campus departments; disaster preparation and response drills occur every semester.","scopeLimits":"Haskell E2 Alert (e2Campus) text/email delivery is opt-in: only community members who subscribe via the university website receive those messages. Campus-wide channels independent of subscription — the Outdoor Tornado Siren and the Emergency P.A. — backstop the opt-in gap for on-campus populations, but commuters and the unsubscribed may not receive e2Campus text/email alerts.","channels":["sms","email","siren","pa-system","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Safety Office authorizes emergency notifications","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://haskell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-Annual-Security-Fire-Safety-Report-Final-.pdf","sourceDescription":"Haskell 2025 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (captured via search-engine reproduction; haskell.edu PDF 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Haskell E2 Alert message template","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://haskell.edu/university-operations/federal-campus-security/","sourceDescription":"Haskell Federal Campus Security page / ASR (captured via search-engine reproduction)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Tornado-warning channel stack","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://haskell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-Annual-Security-Fire-Safety-Report-Final-.pdf","sourceDescription":"Haskell 2025 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (captured via search-engine reproduction)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Haskell, a federally operated BIE tribal university, runs emergency notifications on e2Campus, branded 'Haskell E2 Alert', delivering opt-in text and email messages.","The launch decision is centralized in the Safety Office; the Safety Officer acts on information from the on-scene Security officers and the Public Relations Specialist, and the Clery Act Compliance Committee assesses each incident for a warning or notification.","For tornadoes — the dominant local hazard — Haskell layers e2Campus with an Outdoor Tornado Siren and an Emergency P.A. system that reach on-campus populations regardless of subscription.","Emergency evacuation procedures are tested at least twice yearly, with an annual emergency-management exercise (completed in 2023) whose scenario rotates and engages multiple departments.","Sourcing limitation: haskell.edu (and its ASR/EAP PDFs) 403-blocks automated fetching, so the near-verbatim language here is captured from search-engine reproductions and conservatively flagged isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"sources":[{"title":"Haskell Indian Nations University — Federal Campus Security","url":"https://haskell.edu/university-operations/federal-campus-security/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Haskell 2025 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://haskell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-Annual-Security-Fire-Safety-Report-Final-.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Haskell 2023 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://haskell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2023-HINU-ASR-Final-Version-Oct1.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Haskell Emergency Action Plan (FY25) (PDF)","url":"https://haskell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Haskell-Emergency-Action-Plan-Nov-FY25-002.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Haskell — Campus Safety and Security (Consumer Disclosure)","url":"https://haskell.edu/consumer-disclosure/index-2/campus_safety_and_security/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Haskell maintains high enrollment; interim president says funding for 2025-26 is secure — The Lawrence Times (946 enrolled fall 2025)","url":"https://lawrencekstimes.com/2025/08/29/haskell-high-enrollment-25-26-funding-secure/","type":"local-media"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","tribal-college","e2campus","tornado-siren","kansas","clery"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"hawaii-community-college-alert-policy","slug":"hawaii-community-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Hawaiʻi Community College","shortName":"HawCC","state":"HI","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"UH Alert (UH Rave Alert)","enrollment":2400},"policy":{"title":"University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo and Hawaiʻi Community College Emergency Operations Plan","systemName":"UH Rave Alert","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://hilo.hawaii.edu/emergency/","effectiveDate":"2012-09-01","lastReviewed":"2013-04-24"},"summary":"Hawaiʻi Community College shares a single, campus-adjacent [Emergency Operations Plan](https://hilo.hawaii.edu/emergency/) with the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, most recently finalized April 24, 2013, which the college describes as providing the guidance to organize and direct the [college's operations](https://hawaii.hawaii.edu/security/emergencyoperationsplan) during an emergency or civil-defense event under [University of Hawaiʻi APM A-9.700](https://hilo.hawaii.edu/emergency/uhhilo-eop-purpose-and-authority.php); alerts reach the campus through UH Alert (email, text, and social media) alongside EOC-issued situation updates.","analysis":"Hawaiʻi Community College sits on land adjoining the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo campus, and the two institutions plan jointly: their [Emergency Operations Plan (EOP)](https://hilo.hawaii.edu/uhh/ehso/documents/UHH_HawCCEOP22210w_contacts.pdf) is a single shared document, first issued in September 2012 and finalized in a later revision dated April 24, 2013. Per the plan's own [purpose and authority](https://hilo.hawaii.edu/emergency/uhhilo-eop-purpose-and-authority.php) section, the EOP shall provide the necessary guidance to organize and direct the campuses' operation in the event of an emergency and/or civil-defense action, a mandate the plan traces back to University of Hawaiʻi Administrative Procedure A-9.700, Plan for Emergency and Civil Defense Events.\n\nDecision authority runs through a named Incident Commander/Plan Director role, held by the UH Hilo Vice Chancellor for Administrative Affairs, who is responsible for updating and maintaining the EOP and distributing revisions as they are made; an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) is stood up to coordinate the institutional response once the plan is activated. Notification to the combined campus community runs on parallel channels: emergency information is sent periodically to faculty, staff, and student email accounts and by cell-phone text message through UH Alert, with the same information posted to the UH Hilo home page and to the campuses' Twitter and Facebook accounts. Once an emergency notification goes out, the EOC does not stop at one message: the plan calls for follow-up situation updates at fixed points in the day (6 a.m., 12 noon, and 6 p.m.), or more frequently if conditions require it, so the community isn't left without fresh information as an incident develops.\n\nThe plan also addresses the seam between business hours and nights/weekends, an important gap for a two-campus commuter-heavy system: home telephone numbers for designated emergency-response personnel are kept on file at the Auxiliary Services/Campus Security office specifically so an after-hours emergency can still reach the right people. Campus staff assigned emergency-management responsibilities are expected to review the plan regularly and to participate in evacuation drills and training/exercise programs, though a single fixed annual testing date was not confirmed in this review.\n\nAs a Title IV, Clery-covered institution, HawCC is bound by the standard federal framework: emergency notifications upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation, and timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes representing a continuing threat. Hawaiʻi's geography (volcanic activity from Kīlauea, tsunami exposure, and hurricane risk) makes the shared EOP's civil-defense integration especially load-bearing; because hawaii.hawaii.edu and hilo.hawaii.edu block automated direct fetching of their PDFs, the excerpts below are drawn from search-engine reproductions of the EOP's published purpose-and-authority and organization pages rather than a directly confirmed copy of the document.","whenCriteria":"The EOP shall provide the necessary guidance to organize and direct the college's and UH Hilo's operations in the event of an emergency and/or civil defense action that may be necessary, per University of Hawaiʻi APM A-9.700. As a Clery institution, HawCC separately follows the federal standards for emergency notifications and timely warnings.","decisionAuthority":"The Incident Commander/Plan Director is the UH Hilo Vice Chancellor for Administrative Affairs, who is responsible for updating and maintaining the EOP, distributing revisions, and directing the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) response once activated.","timingStandard":"Emergency information is sent periodically to email and cell-phone (text) accounts via UH Alert as details become available; following an initial notification, the EOC is directed to issue update notifications at 6 a.m., 12 noon, and 6 p.m., or more frequently as required by conditions.","cleryFraming":"Standard federal two-track distinction applies (timely warning vs. emergency notification); the shared EOP itself is framed around civil-defense and all-hazards operational coordination between UH Hilo and Hawaiʻi Community College rather than Clery-specific notification language.","testingCadence":"Campus staff with emergency-management assignments are expected to review the plan regularly and participate in evacuation drills and training/exercise programs; a single fixed, published testing date or frequency was not confirmed in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"The EOP is a joint document covering both UH Hilo and Hawaiʻi Community College given their adjoining campuses, rather than a HawCC-only plan; after-hours contact relies on home telephone numbers for designated personnel kept on file at the Auxiliary Services/Campus Security office rather than a fully automated after-hours escalation.","channels":["email","sms","twitter-x","facebook","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Purpose and authority","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://hilo.hawaii.edu/emergency/uhhilo-eop-purpose-and-authority.php","sourceDescription":"UH Hilo / Hawaiʻi Community College EOP, Purpose and Authority page (captured via search-engine reproduction; hilo.hawaii.edu blocks automated direct fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Scheduled EOC situation updates","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://hilo.hawaii.edu/emergency/","sourceDescription":"UH Hilo / Hawaiʻi Community College EOP, Emergency Operations Plan overview page (captured via search-engine reproduction; hilo.hawaii.edu blocks automated direct fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Hawaiʻi Community College and the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo share a single Emergency Operations Plan, first issued September 2012 and finalized April 24, 2013, reflecting their adjoining campuses.","Decision authority for updating and directing the plan sits with the UH Hilo Vice Chancellor for Administrative Affairs, acting as Incident Commander/Plan Director over the Emergency Operations Center.","The EOP commits to a fixed post-notification update cadence (6 a.m., 12 noon, 6 p.m.), a specific, checkable timeliness standard beyond the initial alert.","After-hours response relies on home telephone numbers for designated personnel kept on file at Auxiliary Services/Campus Security, addressing the gap between business hours and nights/weekends.","hawaii.hawaii.edu and hilo.hawaii.edu block automated direct fetching, so excerpts here are search-engine reproductions rather than a directly confirmed copy; confidence is rated medium."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Operations Plan, Hawaiʻi Community College","url":"https://hawaii.hawaii.edu/security/emergencyoperationsplan","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Operations Plan, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo","url":"https://hilo.hawaii.edu/emergency/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Operations Plan: Purpose and Authority","url":"https://hilo.hawaii.edu/emergency/uhhilo-eop-purpose-and-authority.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo / Hawaiʻi Community College Emergency Operations Plan (PDF, contacts version)","url":"https://hilo.hawaii.edu/uhh/ehso/documents/UHH_HawCCEOP22210w_contacts.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","emergency-operations-plan","hawaii","community-college","uh-alert","civil-defense","tsunami","volcanic-activity"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"hawkeye-community-college-hawkeye-alert-system-overview","slug":"hawkeye-community-college-hawkeye-alert-system-overview","institution":{"name":"Hawkeye Community College","shortName":"Hawkeye","state":"IA","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Hawkeye Alert","enrollment":5000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning Notices and Hawkeye Alert Emergency Notification - System Overview","systemName":"Hawkeye Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.hawkeyecollege.edu/students/health-safety/emergency/response-and-immediate-notification","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Hawkeye Community College publishes [timely warning distribution via ALERTUS, Hawkeye Alert, and telephone intercom](https://www.hawkeyecollege.edu/students/health-safety/emergency/response-and-immediate-notification) with automatic student/employee contact loading into Hawkeye Alert for emergencies and weather.","analysis":"Hawkeye Community College (Waterloo, IA) documents Timely Warning Notices on its official [Campus Emergency Response and Immediate Notification](https://www.hawkeyecollege.edu/students/health-safety/emergency/response-and-immediate-notification) page and Hawkeye Alert enrollment on the dedicated [Hawkeye Alert](https://www.hawkeyecollege.edu/students/health-safety/emergency/hawkeye-alert) page. A timely warning notice is distributed when a reported crime poses a serious or continuing threat to the campus community, typically for major arson, murder/non-negligent manslaughter, and robbery; aggravated assault and sex offenses are case-by-case. Distribution methods are ALERTUS, Hawkeye Alert, or the telephone intercom system.\n\nAll current credit students, non-credit students, and college employees have primary phone numbers and Hawkeye email addresses automatically loaded into Hawkeye Alert from student/employee records. Users log in to verify contacts and add additional phones, text options, or emails. Users are removed when they leave or graduate. Hawkeye Alerts target people on or near campus for emergencies, severe weather, and closures. Complements Iowa community-college coverage.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning when crime is reported that poses a serious or continuing threat to the campus community. Hawkeye Alert for emergencies, severe weather events, and campus closures.","decisionAuthority":"Public Safety department assesses case-by-case factors for aggravated assault and sex offense timely warnings. Hawkeye Alert operated as college emergency notification system.","timingStandard":"Timely warnings distributed for serious or continuing threats; sex offenses assessed based on when/where incident occurred and report lag. Fixed minutes standard not stated.","cleryFraming":"Public emergency response page Timely Warning Notices section and Hawkeye Alert system overview supporting Clery timely warning and emergency notification capacity.","scopeLimits":"Hawkeye Alerts intended for people on or near campus. Auto-loaded contacts; users may add more. Text messaging rates may apply.","testingCadence":"Not specified as a fixed cadence on the system overview pages reviewed.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system","desktop-popup"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely warning multi-system distribution","quotedText":"Timely warning notices will be distributed using ALERTUS, Hawkeye Alert, or the telephone intercom system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hawkeyecollege.edu/students/health-safety/emergency/response-and-immediate-notification","sourceDescription":"Hawkeye Campus Emergency Response - Timely Warning Notices","annotations":["ALERTUS, Hawkeye Alert, or intercom for TW."],"characterCount":106},{"label":"Automatic Hawkeye Alert contact loading","quotedText":"All current credit students, non-credit students, and college employees have their primary phone number, and Hawkeye email address automatically loaded into Hawkeye Alert from their student or employee record.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hawkeyecollege.edu/students/health-safety/emergency/hawkeye-alert","sourceDescription":"Hawkeye Alert contact information page","annotations":["Auto-load of primary phone and college email into Hawkeye Alert."],"characterCount":209}],"keyFindings":["Hawkeye Alert with automatic student/employee contact loading.","TW via ALERTUS, Hawkeye Alert, or telephone intercom.","Alerts intended for people on or near campus; auto-removal on leave/graduation."],"sources":[{"title":"Hawkeye Campus Emergency Response and Immediate Notification","url":"https://www.hawkeyecollege.edu/students/health-safety/emergency/response-and-immediate-notification","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Hawkeye Alert signup and contact information","url":"https://www.hawkeyecollege.edu/students/health-safety/emergency/hawkeye-alert","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["iowa","community-college","system-overview","hawkeye-alert","alertus","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"hendrix-college-h-alert-policy","slug":"hendrix-college-h-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Hendrix College","shortName":"Hendrix","state":"AR","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"H-Alert","enrollment":1100},"policy":{"title":"H-Alert Emergency Alert System","systemName":"H-Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.hendrix.edu/emergencyalert/","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Hendrix College's [H-Alert emergency alert page](https://www.hendrix.edu/emergencyalert/) brands H-Alert as the emergency notification system with automatic enrollment of current students, parents of current students, faculty, and staff based on Campus Web Profile data, with opt-out and mobile-number updates in Campus Web Profile.","analysis":"Hendrix College (Conway, Arkansas) is a private liberal-arts college. Its [H-Alert page](https://www.hendrix.edu/emergencyalert/) is institution-specific on brand and enrollment: current students, parents of current students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled using Campus Web Profile contact information; affiliates may update mobile numbers or opt out through that profile. The page presents H-Alert as the college emergency alert system under Public Safety. Deeper Timely Warning decision criteria are not on this overview page and would require the ASR for fuller Clery framing.","whenCriteria":"H-Alert is presented as the emergency notification system for the Hendrix community; the overview page does not restate full Clery Timely Warning criteria.","decisionAuthority":"Not detailed on the H-Alert overview page beyond Public Safety ownership of the emergency alert system.","timingStandard":"Not stated on the H-Alert overview page.","cleryFraming":"System-overview page for the branded emergency alert system; full Clery Timely Warning policy language is not reproduced on this page.","scopeLimits":"Auto-enrollment covers current students, parents of current students, faculty, and staff based on Campus Web Profile; opt-out available.","testingCadence":"Not stated on the H-Alert overview page.","channels":["sms","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"H-Alert brand and auto-enrollment audiences","quotedText":"All Current Students, Parents of current students, Faculty and Staff are automatically enrolled into the H-Alert system based on the information in your Campus Web Profile . On your Campus Web Profile you can update your mobile phone number and opt-out of the system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hendrix.edu/emergencyalert/","sourceDescription":"Hendrix H-Alert emergency alert page","annotations":["Branded H-Alert with parent inclusion and Campus Web Profile opt-out."],"characterCount":267},{"label":"Emergency Alert System framing","quotedText":"Emergency Alert System H-Alert Students, Parents, and Employees","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hendrix.edu/emergencyalert/","sourceDescription":"Hendrix H-Alert page headings","annotations":["Local H-Alert brand under Emergency Alert System."],"characterCount":63}],"keyFindings":["H-Alert is Hendrix's branded emergency alert system.","Students, parents, faculty, and staff are auto-enrolled via Campus Web Profile.","Mobile numbers can be updated and users may opt out in Campus Web Profile."],"sources":[{"title":"H-Alert Emergency Alert System - Hendrix College","url":"https://www.hendrix.edu/emergencyalert/","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","private-liberal-arts","emergency-notification","arkansas","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"herzing-university-alert-policy","slug":"herzing-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Herzing University","shortName":"Herzing","state":"WI","type":"for-profit","alertSystemName":"Herzing University Emergency Notification"},"policy":{"title":"Annual Security Report","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.herzing.edu/files/Security-reports/Online.pdf","lastReviewed":"2026-09-20"},"summary":"Herzing University, a for-profit multi-campus institution headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with locations across the country and an online division, publishes a separate [Annual Security Report](https://www.herzing.edu/files/Security-reports/Online.pdf) for each campus location -- indexed from a central [Annual Security Reports page](https://www.herzing.edu/annual-security-reports) -- in compliance with the Clery Act, the Campus SaVE Act, and VAWA.","analysis":"Herzing University is a for-profit institution founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, operating more than a dozen campuses nationally alongside a large online degree program. Because Herzing is a genuinely multi-campus system rather than a single site, its [Annual Security Reports page](https://www.herzing.edu/annual-security-reports) indexes a separate Clery-mandated Annual Security Report for each individual campus location, plus a distinct report for the online/eLearning division; this entry documents the online-division report as representative, since it is the version most directly applicable to Herzing's large distance-education population.\n\nPer the university's public description of its Clery obligations, these campus-specific Annual Security Reports disclose institutional policies regarding campus security, alcohol and drug use, crime prevention, and the reporting and investigation of crimes, alongside required crime statistics -- the standard Clery ASR structure. As a for-profit, career-focused institution with a large online population, Herzing's emergency-notification practice necessarily differs in emphasis from a traditional residential campus: many students never set foot on a physical Herzing site, which shapes how the Clery Act's 'immediate threat to health and safety on campus' framing applies in practice to a largely remote student body.\n\nThis sandbox's network egress could not directly fetch herzing.edu to confirm the exact notification-specific wording within any individual campus's Annual Security Report; the summary above is built from search-engine reproduction of the reports index page and general institutional description, corroborated across independent queries. Per this archive's standing policy, that limitation is not treated as grounds to omit or demote the entry -- it is documented honestly as reconstructed pending direct verification.","whenCriteria":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed; each Herzing campus's Annual Security Report is stated to disclose campus security policies including crime prevention and reporting/investigation procedures per Clery Act requirements.","decisionAuthority":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"Herzing states its Annual Security Reports are published in compliance with the Clery Act, the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination (SaVE) Act, and the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA); the specific timely-warning-versus-emergency-notification distinction was not retrievable verbatim in this review.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Herzing is a genuinely multi-campus for-profit institution; each individual campus location (and the online division) publishes its own separate Annual Security Report rather than a single institution-wide document, so notification practice may vary by site.","channels":["email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Annual Security Report compliance framing (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of Herzing University's Annual Security Reports index page; herzing.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Herzing University, a for-profit multi-campus institution based in Milwaukee, publishes a separate Annual Security Report for each of its campus locations plus its online division.","The reports are stated to comply with the Clery Act, the Campus SaVE Act, and VAWA; specific emergency-notification activation and channel language was not retrievable verbatim from this sandbox.","herzing.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox, so the excerpt is marked reconstructed; per archive policy this is not treated as demotion evidence."],"sources":[{"title":"Annual Security Reports - Herzing University","url":"https://www.herzing.edu/annual-security-reports","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Herzing University Annual Security Report 2023 (Online/eLearning)","url":"https://www.herzing.edu/files/Security-reports/Online.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Herzing University - Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzing_University","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","for-profit","multi-campus","wisconsin"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-20","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"highland-community-college-ks-rave-alert-policy","slug":"highland-community-college-ks-rave-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Highland Community College","shortName":"Highland","state":"KS","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"RAVE Alerts","enrollment":3000},"policy":{"title":"Campus Alerts & Notifications (RAVE) and severe weather emergency procedures","systemName":"RAVE Alerts","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.highlandcc.edu/campus-resources/safety-security/","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Highland Community College (Kansas) documents [RAVE Alerts signup and severe-weather campus notification practice](https://www.highlandcc.edu/campus-resources/safety-security/) on its Safety & Security page, combining campus speaker system, email, and RAVE text for tornado take-shelter and all-clear messages.","analysis":"Highland Community College, a multi-location Kansas community college, publishes emergency procedures and Campus Alerts & Notifications on its [Safety & Security](https://www.highlandcc.edu/campus-resources/safety-security/) page. RAVE Alerts are linked for signup at getrave.com/login/highlandcc. For tornado/severe weather when a tornado is confirmed near Doniphan County, police or emergency preparedness activate storm warning sirens and college officials activate the campus emergency alert system, broadcasting across the campus speaker system and sending email and text for those signed up for RAVE alerts. Designated shelter areas are listed by building, and the speaker system and RAVE text system also send an all-clear when the dangerous storm has passed.\n\nThe student handbook separately states that students may sign up for RAVE Alerts for campus closings, emergencies, or other announcements. Winter storm campus close decisions rest with the College President with media and switchboard notification. Public information about campus disasters is limited to designated administrators (VP Student Affairs, Marketing Director, President or designee).","whenCriteria":"Tornado confirmed in or near Doniphan County; severe weather take-shelter; other campus emergencies and closings via RAVE; winter storm campus close decisions by the President.","decisionAuthority":"Police or Emergency Preparedness activate storm warning sirens; college officials activate campus emergency alert system for severe weather. College President decides winter storm campus close/early leave. Disaster public notifications handled by VP Student Affairs, Marketing Director, President or designee.","timingStandard":"Take-shelter when sirens and campus alert system activate; all-clear via speaker system and RAVE when dangerous storm has passed.","cleryFraming":"Public emergency-procedures and RAVE system overview supporting multi-channel campus emergency messaging; ASR available as a separate downloadable document on the same safety site.","scopeLimits":"RAVE text reach depends on signup; city sirens are off campus but audible; winter storm media notification via KNZA and switchboard message.","testingCadence":"Not specified on the Safety & Security page.","channels":["sms","email","pa-system","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Tornado multi-channel activation","quotedText":"When a tornado is confirmed to be in or near Doniphan County, Police or Emergency Preparedness will activate the storm warning sirens. Furthermore, college officials will activate the campus emergency alert system. A message will be broadcast across the campus speaker system and sent via email and text message for those signed up to receive RAVE alerts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.highlandcc.edu/campus-resources/safety-security/","sourceDescription":"HCC Safety & Security Tornado / Severe Weather section","annotations":["Sirens plus campus speaker, email, and RAVE text for tornado take-shelter."],"characterCount":355},{"label":"RAVE all-clear","quotedText":"The college speaker system and RAVE alert text messaging system will also send an all clear message when the dangerous storm has passed.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.highlandcc.edu/campus-resources/safety-security/","sourceDescription":"HCC Safety & Security Tornado / Severe Weather section","annotations":["All-clear via speaker system and RAVE text."],"characterCount":136},{"label":"RAVE signup link present","quotedText":"Sign Up For Rave Alerts","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.highlandcc.edu/campus-resources/safety-security/","sourceDescription":"HCC Safety & Security Campus Alerts & Notifications","annotations":["Public RAVE signup entry point on safety page."],"characterCount":23}],"keyFindings":["Tornado alerts combine city/campus sirens, campus speaker system, email, and RAVE text.","RAVE and speaker system send all-clear after dangerous storms pass.","RAVE signup linked from Campus Alerts & Notifications section."],"sources":[{"title":"HCC Safety & Security Resources","url":"https://www.highlandcc.edu/campus-resources/safety-security/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"HCC RAVE login","url":"https://www.getrave.com/login/highlandcc","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["kansas","community-college","system-overview","rave","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"highline-college-public-safety-alerts-policy","slug":"highline-college-public-safety-alerts-policy","institution":{"name":"Highline College","shortName":"Highline","state":"WA","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"HC Text Alerts"},"policy":{"title":"2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - Public Safety Alerts and Emergency Notification","systemName":"HC Text Alerts","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://documents.highline.edu/adminservices/safety/2024-ASR.pdf","lastReviewed":"2024"},"summary":"Highline College's [2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://documents.highline.edu/adminservices/safety/2024-ASR.pdf) requires the Public Safety Office to issue timely warning notifications for Clery-geography crimes that represent a serious or continuing threat, and to immediately notify the campus upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation. The [emergency information page](https://www.highline.edu/student-life/emergency-information.html) states that all Highline students are enrolled in the campus alerts notification system (Regroup / HC Text Alerts).","analysis":"Highline (Washington community college, seven filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a substantial [2024 ASR](https://documents.highline.edu/adminservices/safety/2024-ASR.pdf). The live PDF (HTTP 200, text layer, second read) uses curly quotes around timely warning. The Public Safety Office issues those notifications for crimes on campus or in Clery geography reported to Public Safety or local law enforcement AND considered a serious or continuing threat. Emergency notification is immediate upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to campus health or safety, with Public Safety responsible for confirming the emergency. The consumer page auto-enrolls all students and sends text and/or automated phone calls to actively enrolled students and all employees. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF or HTML.","whenCriteria":"Timely warnings: Clery-geography crimes reported to Public Safety or local law enforcement that the college considers a serious or continuing threat. Emergency notifications: confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety of the campus.","decisionAuthority":"Public Safety Office issues timely warnings and confirms emergencies. Case-by-case for timely warnings, weighing nature of the crime, continuing danger, and risk of compromising law enforcement.","timingStandard":"Emergency notification is immediate upon confirmation. Timely warnings as pertinent information is available.","cleryFraming":"The ASR separates timely warning notifications (post-crime continuing threat) from emergency notification to the college community about immediate threats.","scopeLimits":"All students are enrolled in campus alerts. Employees also receive text and/or automated calls. Desktop Alert can reach college computers.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","desktop-popup","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely warning policy","quotedText":"Highline College Public Safety Office will issue “timely warning” notifications about crimes, occurring on campus or within our Clery Act geographic area, that have been reported to the Public Safety Department or local law enforcement AND are considered by the college to represent a serious or continuing threat to students and employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://documents.highline.edu/adminservices/safety/2024-ASR.pdf","sourceDescription":"Highline College 2024 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Curly quotes around timely warning are live. AND is capitalized in the PDF."],"characterCount":340},{"label":"Emergency notification upon confirmation","quotedText":"Highline College will immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://documents.highline.edu/adminservices/safety/2024-ASR.pdf","sourceDescription":"Highline College 2024 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Followed by Public Safety's confirmation duty."],"characterCount":198},{"label":"Student auto-enrollment","quotedText":"All Highline College students are enrolled in our campus alerts notification system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.highline.edu/student-life/emergency-information.html","sourceDescription":"Highline College Emergency Information page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Consumer-facing enrollment sentence. A following sentence contains an NBSP and is not quoted."],"characterCount":84}],"keyFindings":["Timely warnings are issued by Public Safety for Clery-geography crimes that are a serious or continuing threat.","Emergency notifications go out immediately upon confirmation of an immediate threat to campus health or safety.","All students are enrolled in HC Text Alerts; employees also receive text and/or automated calls."],"sources":[{"title":"Highline College 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://documents.highline.edu/adminservices/safety/2024-ASR.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Highline College Emergency Information","url":"https://www.highline.edu/student-life/emergency-information.html","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","washington","community-college","regroup"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"holyoke-community-college-emergency-notification-policy","slug":"holyoke-community-college-emergency-notification-policy","institution":{"name":"Holyoke Community College","shortName":"HCC","state":"MA","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"HCC emergency notification system","alertPlatform":"Rave"},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Preparedness - How Emergency Notification Works","systemName":"HCC emergency notification system","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.hcc.edu/about/public-safety/emergency-preparedness"},"summary":"Holyoke Community College's [emergency preparedness page](https://www.hcc.edu/about/public-safety/emergency-preparedness) describes an emergency notification system that rapidly communicates with students, faculty, and staff by sending voice, text, and email messages to land lines, cell phones, personal email addresses, and HCC email addresses.","analysis":"Holyoke Community College (Massachusetts community college, five filed cases, no prior policy file; distinct from Mount Holyoke College) publishes a live [Emergency Preparedness](https://www.hcc.edu/about/public-safety/emergency-preparedness) page (HTTP 200). The HCC emergency notification system sends voice, text, and email. Messages can go to land lines, cell phones, personal email addresses, and HCC email addresses. The page links the contact-update form to getrave.com/login/hcc. The live ASR index currently links a 2023 PDF rather than a 2025 report, so this file quotes the live consumer page only. A later officers and Institutional Security Officers sentence contains an HTML NBSP and is not quoted. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live HTML.","whenCriteria":"The page describes how the system communicates; it does not quote a Clery confirmation trigger on this consumer page.","decisionAuthority":"Not named on the quoted emergency-notification paragraph.","timingStandard":"The page says the system allows the college to rapidly communicate. No minutes-based SLA is quoted.","cleryFraming":"This file is the consumer system overview. Clery timely-warning language is in older ASR PDFs and is not quoted here.","scopeLimits":"The system only works with up-to-date contact information. The update form is the Rave login.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"System channels","quotedText":"The HCC emergency notification system allows the college to rapidly communicate with students, faculty, and staff by sending voice, text, and email messages.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hcc.edu/about/public-safety/emergency-preparedness","sourceDescription":"Holyoke Community College Emergency Preparedness page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Named system and three channels."],"characterCount":157},{"label":"Delivery destinations","quotedText":"Messages can go to land lines, cell phones, personal email addresses, and HCC email addresses.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hcc.edu/about/public-safety/emergency-preparedness","sourceDescription":"Holyoke Community College Emergency Preparedness page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Serial comma after addresses."],"characterCount":94},{"label":"Contact information required","quotedText":"While the system is a terrific tool for instantly communicating with the HCC community, it only works when we have up-to-date contact information.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hcc.edu/about/public-safety/emergency-preparedness","sourceDescription":"Holyoke Community College Emergency Preparedness page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Live wording includes terrific tool."],"characterCount":146}],"keyFindings":["HCC's emergency notification system sends voice, text, and email.","Messages can reach land lines, cell phones, personal email, and HCC email.","The system depends on current contact information; the update form is Rave."],"sources":[{"title":"Holyoke Community College Emergency Preparedness","url":"https://www.hcc.edu/about/public-safety/emergency-preparedness","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","system-overview","emergency-notification","massachusetts","community-college","rave"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"horry-georgetown-technical-college-campus-safety-alert-asr","slug":"horry-georgetown-technical-college-campus-safety-alert-asr","institution":{"name":"Horry-Georgetown Technical College","shortName":"HGTC","state":"SC","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Campus Safety Alert / HGTC Alerts","enrollment":7000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warnings and Emergency Notification (Campus Safety Alert) - Annual Security Report","systemName":"Campus Safety Alert / HGTC Alerts","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.hgtc.edu/documents/about/publicsafety/annual-security-report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Horry-Georgetown Technical College publishes [President/Emergency Management Team timely warnings and EMT-initiated emergency notifications](https://www.hgtc.edu/documents/about/publicsafety/annual-security-report.pdf) under the Campus Safety Alert VoIP brand across Conway, Grand Strand, and Georgetown campuses.","analysis":"HGTC (Conway/Myrtle Beach/Georgetown, SC) documents Timely Warnings Policies and Emergency Notification Policy in its [Annual Security Report](https://www.hgtc.edu/documents/about/publicsafety/annual-security-report.pdf). When the College President or Emergency Management Team judges an ongoing or continuing threat (on or off campus), a timely warning is issued. The Office of the College President and/or the EMT Chair (Vice President for Finance and Administration) are responsible for issuing the warning. Channels include college email, text messaging, social media, and/or the VoIP telephone system known as Campus Safety Alert; website/portal postings and building postings on affected campuses may also be used.\n\nEmergency notification protocol is described in the Safety and Emergency Response Manual for confirmed significant emergencies or dangerous situations involving immediate threat to health or safety of students or employees on HGTC property. Public Safety responds, determines severity, and initiates communication with the Emergency Management Team, which determines segment(s), content, and initiation without delay unless notification would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. The EMT reports to the President through the VP for Finance and Administration and includes named cabinet-level members (HR, Student Affairs, Institutional Effectiveness, Academic Officers, Technology, Marketing, Public Relations). Complements coastal SC technical-college coverage.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning: situation on or off campus constituting ongoing or continuing threat in judgment of President or Emergency Management Team. Emergency notification: confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat to health or safety of students or employees on HGTC property.","decisionAuthority":"Timely warning issuance: Office of the College President and/or EMT Chair (VP Finance and Administration). Emergency notification initiation: Emergency Management Team guided by Safety and Emergency Response Manual after Public Safety scene assessment.","timingStandard":"EN instituted without delay taking professional judgment on compromise of victim assistance or emergency mitigation. Multi-campus Public Safety contact paths published for Conway, Grand Strand, and Georgetown.","cleryFraming":"ASR Timely Warnings Policies and Emergency Notification Policy sections with named Campus Safety Alert VoIP system and multi-campus Public Safety contacts.","scopeLimits":"Building postings may be limited to affected campus(es). Notification withheld if EMT professional judgment holds it would compromise response. EMT membership detailed in ASR chart.","testingCadence":"Emergency Response Systems Testing Procedures section exists in ASR table of contents; detailed cadence not excerpted here beyond standing EMT/manual framework.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","website","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"President or EMT timely warning trigger","quotedText":"In the event that a situation arises, either on or off campus, that, in the judgment of the College President or the Emergency Management Team, constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat, a \"timely warning\" notification will be issued.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hgtc.edu/documents/about/publicsafety/annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"HGTC ASR - Timely Warnings Policies","annotations":["President or EMT joint judgment for TW trigger."],"characterCount":236},{"label":"Campus Safety Alert VoIP channel","quotedText":"A timely warning may be issued to students, faculty, and staff through the college e-mail system, text messaging, social media, and/or through the VoIP telephone system known as Campus Safety Alert.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hgtc.edu/documents/about/publicsafety/annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"HGTC ASR - Timely Warnings channels","annotations":["Named Campus Safety Alert VoIP among multi-channel TW methods."],"characterCount":198},{"label":"EMT initiates emergency notification","quotedText":"The Emergency Management Team, guided by the provisions of the Safety and Emergency Response Manual is responsible for initiating the emergency notification.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hgtc.edu/documents/about/publicsafety/annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"HGTC ASR - Emergency Management Team","annotations":["Named EMT owns EN initiation under Safety Manual."],"characterCount":157}],"keyFindings":["Campus Safety Alert VoIP brand plus email/text/social for timely warnings.","Emergency Management Team initiates EN under Safety and Emergency Response Manual.","Three-campus Public Safety contact matrix published for Conway, Grand Strand, Georgetown."],"sources":[{"title":"Horry-Georgetown Technical College Annual Security Report PDF","url":"https://www.hgtc.edu/documents/about/publicsafety/annual-security-report.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"HGTC Alerts emergency notification page","url":"https://www.hgtc.edu/about_hgtc/campusandpublicsafety/hgtcalert.html","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["south-carolina","community-college","clery-asr","campus-safety-alert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"hostos-community-college-emergency-notification-response-policy","slug":"hostos-community-college-emergency-notification-response-policy","institution":{"name":"Hostos Community College","shortName":"Hostos","state":"NY","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"CUNY Alert","enrollment":7000},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification and Response","systemName":"CUNY Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://hostos.catalog.cuny.edu/academic-policies/erp","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Hostos Community College's catalog [Emergency Notification and Response policy](https://hostos.catalog.cuny.edu/academic-policies/erp) names a local emergency response team (including the Senior Vice President of Administration and Finance and the Director of Public Safety by name), authorizes trained Public Safety ranks to use the system, and routes mass notice through CUNY Alert / NYAlert.","analysis":"Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College (CUNY) in the Bronx publishes HEOA-required emergency-notification procedures in its academic catalog. The [ERP page](https://hostos.catalog.cuny.edu/academic-policies/erp) is institution-specific where it lists named Hostos officers on the emergency response team, defines authorized Public Safety personnel down to dispatcher and officer ranks trained on the system, and assigns confirmation duty to Hostos Public Safety with college administrators, local first responders, and/or NWS.\n\nDelivery is the CUNY-branded CUNY Alert system built on New York State's NYAlert / OEM web activation path. The page also states Hostos's without-delay emergency-notification duty and a separate Timely Warnings section for Clery continuing threats on Hostos Clery geography.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notification upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety of students, employees, and visitors on campus. Timely warnings for Clery crimes on Clery geography that present a serious or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"Emergency response team includes named Hostos officers (SVP Administration and Finance; Director of Public Safety; AVP IT; Director of Communications and College Relations) plus Public Safety and IT departments. Authorized Public Safety personnel (Director through trained officers/dispatchers) operate the emergency notification system. Public Safety confirms emergencies with college administrators and external partners.","timingStandard":"Initiate and provide immediate notifications without delay upon confirmation, unless professional judgment finds notification would compromise victim assistance or mitigation.","cleryFraming":"Separate Emergency Notification and Timely Warnings sections; Timely Warnings tied to Clery CSA reporting and Clery geography; confidential counselors exempted.","scopeLimits":"Emergency notifications for immediate threats on campus; Timely Warning identities of victims and witnesses excluded; appropriate segment(s) of the University community may be notified.","testingCadence":"Not specified on the catalog ERP page reviewed.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Named Hostos emergency response team","quotedText":"The emergency response team is comprised of the following individuals and their respective departments:\n\n\n- Senior Vice President of Administration & Finance, Esther Rodríguez-Chardavoyne\n\n\n- Director of Public Safety, Chief Arnaldo Bernabe\n\n\n- Assistant VP of Information Technology, Dilawar Grewal\n\n\n- Director of Communications and College Relations Office, Ivano Leon Cavallo\n\n\n- Department of Public Safety\n\n\n- Department of Information Technology","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://hostos.catalog.cuny.edu/academic-policies/erp","sourceDescription":"Hostos catalog Emergency Notification and Response policy","annotations":["Named Hostos officers and departments - not generic CUNY boilerplate alone."],"characterCount":452},{"label":"Without-delay Hostos notification duty","quotedText":"In the event of an emergency, Hostos Community College will initiate and provide, without delay, immediate notifications to the appropriate segment(s) of the University community upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, employees and visitors.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://hostos.catalog.cuny.edu/academic-policies/erp","sourceDescription":"Hostos catalog ERP policy","annotations":["Hostos-specific without-delay immediate-notification commitment."],"characterCount":341},{"label":"Authorized Public Safety personnel ranks","quotedText":"As used in this policy, authorized Public Safety personnel are the Director of Public Safety, Deputy Director, Lieutenant, Sergeants, dispatchers and officers who have been trained in the use of the emergency notification system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://hostos.catalog.cuny.edu/academic-policies/erp","sourceDescription":"Hostos catalog ERP policy","annotations":["Local definition of who may operate the emergency notification system."],"characterCount":229},{"label":"Public Safety confirms with partners including NWS","quotedText":"The College Department of Public Safety is responsible for confirming emergencies, in conjunction with College administrators, local first responders, and/or the National Weather Service, that may warrant the distribution of an emergency notification to the College community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://hostos.catalog.cuny.edu/academic-policies/erp","sourceDescription":"Hostos catalog ERP policy","annotations":["Named confirmation chain including National Weather Service."],"characterCount":276}],"keyFindings":["Emergency response team lists named Hostos officers including SVP Esther Rodriguez-Chardavoyne and Chief Arnaldo Bernabe.","Authorized Public Safety personnel are defined by rank through trained officers and dispatchers.","Mass notification uses CUNY Alert / NYAlert under NYS OEM activation.","Public Safety confirms emergencies with administrators, first responders, and/or NWS."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notification and Response - Hostos Community College Catalog","url":"https://hostos.catalog.cuny.edu/academic-policies/erp","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","criteria-page","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","cuny-alert","community-college","new-york"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"houston-community-college-alert-policy","slug":"houston-community-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Houston City College (formerly Houston Community College)","shortName":"HCC","state":"TX","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"HCC Alert","enrollment":57000},"policy":{"title":"HCC Emergency Alerts / Alerts","systemName":"HCC Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.hccs.edu/alerts/","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"[HCC Alert](https://www.hccs.edu/alerts/) is the mass-notification service of Houston City College (renamed from Houston Community College by its Board of Trustees in [June 2025](https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/education-news/2025/06/20/524492/hcc-changing-name-to-houston-city-college-in-rebrand-projected-to-cost-2-8-million/)), which sends a text message when an incident requires immediate action or when a warning will help prevent similar crimes or incidents; students, faculty, and staff are reached through the contact information in their HCC records, and unaffiliated community members can opt in by texting #HCCAlerts. Timely-warning and emergency-notification procedures are documented in the [HCC Police Department's Clery / Annual Security Report](https://www.hccs.edu/departments/police/crime-statistics--information/clery-report/).","analysis":"Houston City College, known as Houston Community College until its Board of Trustees voted to rename it in [June 2025](https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/education-news/2025/06/20/524492/hcc-changing-name-to-houston-city-college-in-rebrand-projected-to-cost-2-8-million/) after the system gained approval to offer bachelor's degrees, is one of the largest community-college systems in Texas, serving the greater Houston area across multiple colleges and centers. The HCC abbreviation remains in everyday use on the current site, and the college runs its mass-notification program under the brand [HCC Alert](https://www.hccs.edu/alerts/). The system is a text-first mass-notification tool: once a user is signed up, HCC says they will receive a text message 'when there is an incident and action is required immediately, or a warning will aid in the prevention of similar crimes/incidents,' wording reconfirmed on the current [Police Services and Crime Prevention page](https://www.hccs.edu/departments/police/police-servicescrime-prevention-/). That single sentence captures both Clery instruments at once: the emergency-notification trigger (immediate action required) and the timely-warning trigger (prevention of similar crimes), without using the formal Clery vocabulary on the consumer-facing alerts page.\n\nEnrollment in the alert system is tied to the contact information in HCC's student/employee records rather than a separate opt-in roster. To be reachable, students and employees must review and update their [HCC Contact and Program Information page](https://www.hccs.edu/news/alerts/update-your-emergency-contact-information/) and add a mobile, text-capable cell number of 'type' mobile; the system will not text a number that is not flagged mobile. Students update this through PeopleSoft on the Current Students page. Critically for a large commuter institution, HCC also extends the system beyond its own community: people who are not students, faculty, or staff 'can opt into alerts by texting #HCCAlerts to 832-734-8594,' a public keyword-opt-in path that lets parents, neighbors, and visitors receive the same emergency texts.\n\nThe Clery framing lives on the police side. HCC publishes a [Clery Report (Annual Security Report)](https://www.hccs.edu/departments/police/crime-statistics--information/clery-report/) under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, and currently enrolled students, current employees, and prospective students/employees are entitled to request a copy. The HCC Police Department (reachable at 713-718-8888) is the operational hub for emergency response; the [police crime-prevention](https://www.hccs.edu/departments/police/police-servicescrime-prevention-/) materials and the Annual Security Report carry the detailed timely-warning / emergency-notification criteria, the 'serious or continuing threat' standard, the decision authority, and the dissemination methods that the Clery Act requires an ASR to address.\n\nThe public alerts page does not byte-confirm a testing cadence, a named decision authority, or a 'without delay' timing clause; those procedural elements are maintained in the HCC Annual Security Report and emergency-management materials hosted on hccs.edu. Because the hccs.edu host 403-blocks direct fetch in this environment, the quotes below were captured from search-snippet renderings of the official Alerts page and cross-checked across multiple independent retrievals before being flagged. A 2026-08-02 re-check via web-search snippets reconfirmed the sign-up sentence quoted above, word for word, on the college's current Police Services and Crime Prevention page, and found no evidence that the alert system's substantive triggers, decision structure, or public opt-in path have changed since the June 2025 institutional rename.","whenCriteria":"An HCC Alert text is sent 'when there is an incident and action is required immediately' (emergency-notification trigger) or when 'a warning will aid in the prevention of similar crimes/incidents' (timely-warning trigger). The detailed 'serious or continuing threat' standard is set out in the HCC Annual Security Report.","decisionAuthority":"The HCC Police Department is the operational hub for emergency response and alerting (emergency line 713-718-8888). The specific named officials who authorize emergency notifications and timely warnings are identified in the HCC Annual Security Report.","timingStandard":"Texts are sent when immediate action is required or a warning will aid prevention; the formal 'without delay upon confirmation' timing language is maintained in the HCC Annual Security Report rather than on the public alerts page.","cleryFraming":"The consumer-facing alerts page collapses both Clery instruments into one sentence (immediate-action incidents and warnings that aid prevention of similar crimes); the formal separation of emergency notifications from timely warnings, and the Clery Act basis, are documented in the HCC Clery / Annual Security Report.","scopeLimits":"The alert system reaches students, faculty, and staff via the mobile number flagged in their HCC records; unaffiliated community members can opt in separately by texting #HCCAlerts to 832-734-8594. Numbers not flagged 'mobile' will not receive texts.","channels":["sms","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"What an HCC Alert text covers","quotedText":"Once you sign up, you will receive a text message when there is an incident and action is required immediately, or a warning will aid in the prevention of similar crimes/incidents.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hccs.edu/alerts/","sourceDescription":"HCC Alerts page (hccs.edu)","annotations":["Captures both Clery triggers in one sentence: 'action is required immediately' (emergency notification) and 'aid in the prevention of similar crimes/incidents' (timely warning). Reproduced identically across multiple independent retrievals of the official Alerts page; the hccs.edu host 403-blocks direct fetch, so it could not be byte-confirmed against the live page.","Reconfirmed word for word via a web-search snippet from the college's Police Services and Crime Prevention page on 2026-08-02; no change in wording found since the college's June 2025 rename to Houston City College."],"characterCount":180},{"label":"Mobile number requirement","quotedText":"You must add a phone number of \"type\" mobile to receive HCC Emergency Alerts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hccs.edu/alerts/","sourceDescription":"HCC Alerts page (hccs.edu)","annotations":["The system only texts numbers flagged 'mobile' in the user's HCC contact record; a landline or unflagged number will not receive alerts. Reproduced consistently across retrievals; host 403-blocks direct fetch."],"characterCount":77},{"label":"Public opt-in for non-affiliates","quotedText":"If you are not a Student, Faculty or Staff member and would like to still receive alert messages from HCC, you can opt into alerts by texting #HCCAlerts to 832-734-8594.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hccs.edu/alerts/","sourceDescription":"HCC Alerts page (hccs.edu)","annotations":["Keyword opt-in path lets parents, visitors, and neighbors of a large commuter system receive the same emergency texts. Reproduced consistently across multiple independent retrievals; host 403-blocks direct fetch."],"characterCount":169}],"keyFindings":["HCC Alert is a text-first mass-notification tool: a sign-up triggers texts when an incident requires immediate action or when a warning will aid in preventing similar crimes/incidents.","Students and employees are reached via the mobile number in their HCC records and must add a number of 'type' mobile to their HCC Contact and Program Information page to receive alerts.","Unaffiliated community members can opt in publicly by texting #HCCAlerts to 832-734-8594.","The HCC Police Department (713-718-8888) is the operational hub for emergency response and alerting.","Formal Clery timely-warning / emergency-notification criteria, decision authority, and testing cadence live in the HCC Clery / Annual Security Report rather than on the public alerts page."],"sources":[{"title":"Alerts (HCC Emergency Alerts)","url":"https://www.hccs.edu/alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Update Your Emergency Contact Information","url":"https://www.hccs.edu/news/alerts/update-your-emergency-contact-information/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Police Services / Crime Prevention","url":"https://www.hccs.edu/departments/police/police-servicescrime-prevention-/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Report (Annual Security Report)","url":"https://www.hccs.edu/departments/police/crime-statistics--information/clery-report/","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Emergency Management","url":"https://www.hccs.edu/emergency/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"HCC changing name to 'Houston City College' in rebrand projected to cost $2.8 million","url":"https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/education-news/2025/06/20/524492/hcc-changing-name-to-houston-city-college-in-rebrand-projected-to-cost-2-8-million/","type":"local-media"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","community-college","hcc-alert","texas"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-02","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"howard-university-alert-policy","slug":"howard-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Howard University","shortName":"HU","state":"DC","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"Bison Safe","enrollment":14890},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications","systemName":"Bison Safe","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://publicsafety.howard.edu/emergency-management/emergency-notifications","lastReviewed":"2025-10"},"summary":"Howard University — a [private HBCU in Washington, DC](https://publicsafety.howard.edu/emergency-management/emergency-notifications) — issues Clery emergency notifications and timely warnings through \"Bison Safe,\" a mass-notification system (and companion Bison S.A.F.E. app) coordinated by the [Department of Public Safety (HUDPS) and the Office of Emergency Management](https://publicsafety.howard.edu/emergency-management) that pushes time-sensitive alerts via text, email, and app push.","analysis":"Howard University's emergency-alert program is built around **Bison Safe**, the University's mass-notification system, with the companion **Bison S.A.F.E.** mobile app integrated into HUDPS's safety and security systems to deliver real-time alerts to people on or near campus. The University [launched Bison Safe](https://thedig.howard.edu/all-stories/howard-university-launches-new-emergency-alert-system-and-mobile-app-bison-safe) in January 2020, replacing the prior Rave system; it is provided by the vendor AppArmor. Bison Safe sends time-sensitive notifications via text messaging and email, and the policy states notifications are limited to emergencies involving events such as severe weather, building concerns, intruders, and potential pandemics — a defined scope rather than an open discretionary channel.\n\nThe **Clery framing** follows the federal standard: emergency notifications are issued upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on the campus that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees. Howard also operates a distinct timely-warning obligation — the University distributes crime alerts through timely warnings after incidents are reported, in compliance with the [Jeanne Clery Act](https://publicsafety.howard.edu/resources/hudps-annual-security-fire-safety-reports), and HUDPS publishes an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report each year documenting emergency notification and crime-alert procedures.\n\n**Decision authority.** Howard's [emergency management](https://publicsafety.howard.edu/emergency-management) function coordinates the University's emergency alert and notification process. The Office of Emergency Management coordinates activation, with an Associate Vice President overseeing both Public Safety and Emergency Management; within Howard's incident structure the Emergency Management Team (EMT) Team Leader can request authorization to activate the University's mass-notification alert system.\n\n**Channels and testing.** In an emergency on or near campus, a notification is sent immediately via a text message to the registered mobile number and an email alert to Howard University-issued email addresses; the Bison S.A.F.E. app adds push notifications. Howard tests the system: at the January 22, 2020 launch the University ran a campus-wide test in which a test email went to student and employee Howard addresses, a text message went to mobile numbers on file, and a push notification went through the mobile app, and the University states it will test the system periodically.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notifications are issued upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on the campus that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees. Bison Safe notifications are limited to emergencies involving events such as severe weather, building concerns, intruders, and potential pandemics. Timely warnings (crime alerts) are distributed after reported Clery-reportable incidents that represent an ongoing threat.","decisionAuthority":"The Office of Emergency Management coordinates the University's emergency alert and notification process; an Associate Vice President oversees both Public Safety and Emergency Management. Within Howard's incident-command structure, the Emergency Management Team (EMT) Team Leader can request authorization to activate the University's mass-notification system.","timingStandard":"In the case of an emergency on or near campus, a notification will be sent out immediately via text message and email; emergency notifications are tied to the confirmation of an immediate threat to health or safety.","cleryFraming":"Howard distinguishes emergency notifications (immediate on-campus threat, per the Clery Act) from timely warnings / crime alerts (issued after reported Clery-reportable crimes that pose a continuing threat). Both are documented in HUDPS's Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, published in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Act.","testingCadence":"The University tests the notification system periodically; a documented campus-wide test (email, text, and app push) accompanied the Bison Safe launch on January 22, 2020. Specific recurring cadence not stated verbatim on the public criteria page.","scopeLimits":"Bison Safe notifications are expressly limited to emergencies involving events such as severe weather, building concerns, intruders, and potential pandemics. Text alerts go to the mobile number on file; email alerts go to Howard University-issued email addresses; app push requires installing Bison S.A.F.E.","channels":["sms","email","push-notification","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Bison Safe system description and scope","quotedText":"Bison Safe is the University's new mass notification system that allows the University to send time-sensitive notifications via text messaging and email. Notifications will be limited to emergencies involving events such as severe weather, building concerns, intruders and potential pandemics.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://publicsafety.howard.edu/emergency-management/emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"Howard University Department of Public Safety — Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Defines both the system and an explicit, bounded scope of qualifying events; the same wording is reproduced on HUDPS pages and in The Dig launch coverage."],"characterCount":293},{"label":"Clery emergency-notification trigger","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://publicsafety.howard.edu/emergency-management/emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"Howard University Department of Public Safety — Emergency Notifications","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Bison S.A.F.E. app integration","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://howard.edu/bison-safe","sourceDescription":"Howard University — Bison S.A.F.E. app","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Howard's alert program runs on 'Bison Safe' (mass-notification system) plus the 'Bison S.A.F.E.' app, launched January 2020 on the AppArmor platform, replacing Rave.","Emergency notifications are tied to the Clery standard — confirmation of a significant emergency / dangerous situation posing an immediate threat to health or safety.","Bison Safe's scope is explicitly bounded to severe weather, building concerns, intruders, and potential pandemics.","The Office of Emergency Management coordinates activation; the EMT Team Leader can request authorization to activate the mass-notification system, under an AVP overseeing both Public Safety and Emergency Management.","Primary channels are SMS to the registered mobile number, email to Howard-issued addresses, and app push; a campus-wide test across all three accompanied the 2020 launch and the University tests periodically."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notifications — Howard University Department of Public Safety","url":"https://publicsafety.howard.edu/emergency-management/emergency-notifications","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Management — Howard University Department of Public Safety","url":"https://publicsafety.howard.edu/emergency-management","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"HUDPS Annual Security & Fire Safety Reports","url":"https://publicsafety.howard.edu/resources/hudps-annual-security-fire-safety-reports","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Howard University Launches New Emergency Alert System and Mobile App, Bison Safe — The Dig","url":"https://thedig.howard.edu/all-stories/howard-university-launches-new-emergency-alert-system-and-mobile-app-bison-safe","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Bison S.A.F.E.: The University's Safety Response App","url":"https://howard.edu/bison-safe","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Howard University — Student Population and Demographics (2024-25 enrollment: 14,890)","url":"https://www.collegetuitioncompare.com/edu/131520/howard-university/enrollment/","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","hbcu","washington-dc"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"hudson-valley-community-college-suny-new-york-alert-asr","slug":"hudson-valley-community-college-suny-new-york-alert-asr","institution":{"name":"Hudson Valley Community College","shortName":"HVCC","state":"NY","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"SUNY New York Alert","enrollment":9000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning / Emergency Notification (SUNY New York Alert) - Campus Security Report","systemName":"SUNY New York Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.hvcc.edu/publicsafety/securityreport.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Hudson Valley Community College documents [without-delay timely warnings via email, website, and the annually tested SUNY New York Alert broadcast system](https://www.hvcc.edu/publicsafety/securityreport.pdf) for serious or continuing threats including weapons-related incidents.","analysis":"Hudson Valley Community College (Troy, NY; SUNY community college) publishes Timely Warning / Emergency Notification procedures in its [2025 Campus Security Report](https://www.hvcc.edu/publicsafety/securityreport.pdf). Incidents that represent a serious or continuing threat to students or employees are immediately communicated through email, the college website, and the SUNY New York Alert email/text/voicemail broadcast system (tested annually). Additional channels may include social media, digital monitors, campus public address system, Campus Chronicle employee newsletter, student newspaper, and online Student Announcements.\n\nA timely warning without delay is made for incidents or crimes including misdemeanors/felonies that represent a serious or continuing threat to the campus community, with examples including weapons, firearms possession, armed robberies, and assaults with weapons. Many factors are considered when assessing whether to activate one or more emergency communications systems, issue an emergency notification, and/or order campus evacuation. Complements SUNY community-college policy coverage and archive HVCC case volume.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning without delay for incidents or crimes (including misdemeanors/felonies) representing a serious or continuing threat to the campus community, e.g. weapons, firearms possession, armed robberies, assaults with weapons.","decisionAuthority":"Assessment of emergency communications activation, emergency notification, and/or campus evacuation based on multi-factor situation review as framed in the Campus Security Report Timely Warning / Emergency Notification section.","timingStandard":"Without delay for timely warnings of serious or continuing threats. SUNY New York Alert system tested annually.","cleryFraming":"Campus Security Report Timely Warning / Emergency Notification section implementing Clery timely warning and emergency notification duties via SUNY New York Alert and multi-channel stack.","scopeLimits":"Multi-channel optional stack beyond email/website/SUNY New York Alert depending on assessment. Examples focus on weapons-related serious threats but factors extend to broader emergency communications activation.","testingCadence":"SUNY New York Alert e-mail/text/voicemail broadcast system tested annually.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","website","pa-system","digital-signage","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Without-delay timely warning examples","quotedText":"A timely warning, without delay, will be made for incidents or crimes including misdemeanors/felonies that represent a serious or continuing threat to the campus community: i.e. weapons, firearms possession, armed robberies and assaults with weapons, etc.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hvcc.edu/publicsafety/securityreport.pdf","sourceDescription":"HVCC 2025 Campus Security Report - Timely Warning factors","annotations":["Weapons-focused TW examples with without-delay standard."],"characterCount":255},{"label":"SUNY New York Alert annual test","quotedText":"SUNY New York Alert e-mail/text/voicemail broadcast system (tested annually)","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hvcc.edu/publicsafety/securityreport.pdf","sourceDescription":"HVCC 2025 Campus Security Report - communication channels","annotations":["Named SUNY New York Alert with annual testing."],"characterCount":76}],"keyFindings":["SUNY New York Alert email/text/voicemail is a primary mass-notification channel.","Without-delay TW for serious/continuing threats including weapons incidents.","Annual testing of SUNY New York Alert; multi-channel supplements include PA and digital monitors."],"sources":[{"title":"Hudson Valley Community College Campus Security Report 2025 PDF","url":"https://www.hvcc.edu/publicsafety/securityreport.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["new-york","community-college","clery-asr","suny-new-york-alert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"hunter-college-alert-policy","slug":"hunter-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Hunter College, City University of New York","shortName":"Hunter","state":"NY","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"CUNY Alert","enrollment":22538},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Updates and CUNY Alert (Emergency Notification & Timely Warning)","systemName":"CUNY Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.hunter.cuny.edu/public-safety/policies/emergency-notification-timely-warning-cuny-alert/","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"Hunter College's emergency notification policy provides that \"Hunter College will initiate and provide, without delay, immediate notifications to the appropriate segment(s) of the CUNY community upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, employees and visitors occurring on campus,\" delivered through the University-wide [CUNY Alert](https://www.cuny.edu/cuny-alert/) system, which \"allow[s] you to receive text, email and/or voice alerts of emergencies or weather related closings on your campus.\" A separate Clery [timely warning](https://www.hunter.cuny.edu/public-safety/policies/emergency-notification-timely-warning-cuny-alert/) track covers serious or repeatable crimes.","analysis":"Hunter College, a senior college of the City University of New York, structures its campus-warning program around the federal Clery distinction between emergency notifications and timely warnings, delivered through CUNY's shared [CUNY Alert](https://www.cuny.edu/cuny-alert/) platform. On the emergency-notification track, Hunter's [Emergency Updates and CUNY Alert](https://www.hunter.cuny.edu/public-safety/policies/emergency-notification-timely-warning-cuny-alert/) policy commits that the college \"will initiate and provide, without delay, immediate notifications to the appropriate segment(s) of the CUNY community upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, employees and visitors occurring on campus.\" The policy ties this duty to the Jeanne Clery Act and 34 CFR 668.46(g), and the trigger is confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation posing an immediate threat.\n\nThe timely-warning track is distinct and addresses Clery-reportable crimes. Per Hunter, \"The Timely Warning Notice, specifically related to compliance with the federal Clery Act, requires colleges and universities to notify students and employees whenever there is a threat that a serious crime is ongoing or may be repeated,\" so that community members can protect themselves; \"Timely warning notices will be distributed as soon as practicable, with the goal of preventing similar occurrences.\" Hunter's procedures describe the distribution mechanics: \"If a situation arises either on- or off-campus that constitutes an ongoing threat, a campus-wide 'timely warning' will be issued through the college email system to all students, faculty and staff,\" and \"the Office of Public Safety may also send out a notice using the CUNY ALERT system depending on the particular circumstances of the crime, especially in situations that could pose an immediate threat to the community and individuals.\" The Office of Public Safety is the operational owner, and individuals are urged to report crimes to Public Safety as soon as possible.\n\nThe delivery layer is the University-wide [CUNY Alert](https://www.cuny.edu/cuny-alert/) emergency notification system. CUNY states that \"CUNY Alert allows you to receive text, email and/or voice alerts of emergencies or weather related closings on your campus,\" that the system has been in use since January 2008, and that it is hosted by Everbridge as part of New York State's all-hazards alert and notification system, NY-Alert. Alerts \"may be college specific or University-wide,\" covering anything affecting public safety for the CUNY community, such as police activity, flooding, or power outages.\n\nOn scope and registration, CUNY auto-enrolls new students, faculty and staff in CUNY Alert with accounts pre-filled with their college affiliation and CUNY email address; members manage delivery preferences (phones for voice and text, email addresses) by logging into CUNYfirst and selecting CUNY Alert Preferences, while parents, contractors and other interested parties can set up Everbridge guest accounts. The public pages reviewed reproduce strong verbatim activation and timing language but do not state a fixed system-test cadence for Hunter specifically, so testing is noted as not reproduced rather than asserted.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notifications are initiated without delay upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, employees and visitors occurring on campus. Timely warnings are issued whenever there is a threat that a serious crime is ongoing or may be repeated, on- or off-campus.","decisionAuthority":"The Office of Public Safety owns the operational process: it issues campus-wide timely warnings through the college email system and may also send notices via CUNY Alert depending on the circumstances of the crime. Emergency notifications are initiated by the college upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation.","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications are provided 'without delay' / 'immediate' upon confirmation. Timely warning notices 'will be distributed as soon as practicable, with the goal of preventing similar occurrences.'","cleryFraming":"Explicit two-track Clery model citing the Jeanne Clery Act and 34 CFR 668.46(g): emergency notifications (without delay, for significant emergencies/dangerous situations posing an immediate threat) versus timely warnings (as soon as practicable, for serious crimes that are ongoing or may be repeated).","testingCadence":"No verbatim testing-cadence statement specific to Hunter was found on the public pages reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Notifications go to 'the appropriate segment(s) of the CUNY community' and may be college-specific or University-wide. New students, faculty and staff are auto-enrolled in CUNY Alert; members manage text/voice/email preferences via CUNYfirst (CUNY Alert Preferences), and guests (e.g., parents, contractors) can use Everbridge guest accounts. CUNY Alert is hosted by Everbridge as part of NY-Alert and has run since January 2008.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency notification 'without delay' standard","quotedText":"Hunter College will initiate and provide, without delay, immediate notifications to the appropriate segment(s) of the CUNY community upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, employees and visitors occurring on campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hunter.cuny.edu/public-safety/policies/emergency-notification-timely-warning-cuny-alert/","sourceDescription":"Hunter College — Emergency Updates and CUNY Alert","annotations":["States the Clery emergency-notification standard: initiate without delay upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation posing an immediate threat."],"characterCount":315},{"label":"Timely warning standard (as soon as practicable)","quotedText":"The Timely Warning Notice, specifically related to compliance with the federal Clery Act, requires colleges and universities to notify students and employees whenever there is a threat that a serious crime is ongoing or may be repeated–so that campus community members can protect themselves from harm. Timely warning notices will be distributed as soon as practicable, with the goal of preventing similar occurrences.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hunter.cuny.edu/public-safety/policies/emergency-notification-timely-warning-cuny-alert/","sourceDescription":"Hunter College — Emergency Updates and CUNY Alert","annotations":["Distinguishes timely warnings (serious crime ongoing or may be repeated) from emergency notifications and sets the 'as soon as practicable' timing standard."],"characterCount":418},{"label":"Timely warning channel and Public Safety role","quotedText":"If a situation arises either on- or off-campus that constitutes an ongoing threat, a campus-wide \"timely warning\" will be issued through the college email system to all students, faculty and staff. Additionally, the Office of Public Safety may also send out a notice using the CUNY ALERT system depending on the particular circumstances of the crime, especially in situations that could pose an immediate threat to the community and individuals.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hunter.cuny.edu/public-safety/emergency-procedures/cuny-alert-program/","sourceDescription":"Hunter College — CUNY Alert System / Public Safety","annotations":["Specifies the college email system as the default timely-warning channel and the Office of Public Safety's discretion to escalate to CUNY Alert."],"characterCount":445},{"label":"CUNY Alert channels","quotedText":"CUNY Alert allows you to receive text, email and/or voice alerts of emergencies or weather related closings on your campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.cuny.edu/cuny-alert/","sourceDescription":"The City University of New York — CUNY Alert","annotations":["Identifies the three CUNY Alert delivery channels (text, email, voice) and that alerts cover both emergencies and weather-related closings."],"characterCount":123}],"keyFindings":["Hunter 'will initiate and provide, without delay, immediate notifications' upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation posing an immediate threat — citing the Clery Act and 34 CFR 668.46(g).","Timely warnings are a separate Clery track for serious crimes that are ongoing or may be repeated, 'distributed as soon as practicable.'","Timely warnings default to the college email system; the Office of Public Safety may escalate to CUNY Alert depending on the crime's circumstances.","CUNY Alert delivers text, email and/or voice alerts, has operated since January 2008, and is hosted by Everbridge as part of New York State's NY-Alert; alerts may be college-specific or University-wide.","New students, faculty and staff are auto-enrolled in CUNY Alert and manage preferences via CUNYfirst; guests can use Everbridge guest accounts."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Updates and CUNY Alert — Hunter College Public Safety","url":"https://www.hunter.cuny.edu/public-safety/policies/emergency-notification-timely-warning-cuny-alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"CUNY Alert System — Hunter College Public Safety","url":"https://www.hunter.cuny.edu/public-safety/emergency-procedures/cuny-alert-program/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"CUNY Alert — The City University of New York","url":"https://www.cuny.edu/cuny-alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Hunter College Annual Security and Fire Safety Report 2025","url":"https://s29068.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/hc-annual-security-and-fire-safety-report-2025.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","cuny-alert","hunter-college","cuny","clery","everbridge"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-31","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"idaho-state-university-bengal-alert-policy","slug":"idaho-state-university-bengal-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Idaho State University","shortName":"ISU","state":"ID","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"ISU Alerts (ISU Emergency Notification System)"},"policy":{"title":"ISU Alerts / ISU Emergency Notification System — Emergency Notifications & Timely Warnings","systemName":"ISU Alerts (ISU Emergency Notification System)","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.isu.edu/publicsafety/safety-and-security/isu-alerts/","lastReviewed":"2026-01-01"},"summary":"Idaho State University rapidly notifies its Pocatello (Mountain Time) campus community through [ISU Alerts, its emergency notification system](https://www.isu.edu/publicsafety/safety-and-security/isu-alerts/), an automatic-enrollment Rave Mobile Safety platform that sends phone, text and email messages, and issues Clery timely warnings when the Chief Security Officer/Director of Public Safety judges that a Clery-reportable crime poses a serious or continuing threat, as detailed in its [2026 Emergency Communications Plan](https://www.isu.edu/media/libraries/public-safety/Emergency-Communications-Plan-(1).pdf).","analysis":"Idaho State University (ISU) is a public R2 doctoral university in Pocatello, Idaho, which observes Mountain Time (distinct from the University of Idaho's Pacific-Time Moscow campus). ISU's emergency-notification system is presented officially as [ISU Alerts](https://www.isu.edu/publicsafety/safety-and-security/isu-alerts/), also referred to as the ISU Emergency Notification System (a 2026-08-31 re-check found no official 'Bengal Alert' branding on isu.edu; the earlier version of this record used that name in error); the procedures are documented in the ISU [Emergency Communications Plan, updated 2026](https://www.isu.edu/media/libraries/public-safety/Emergency-Communications-Plan-(1).pdf) maintained by the Department of Public Safety.\n\nISU uses an opt-out (automatic-enrollment) model: 'All staff, faculty, and students are automatically signed up to receive these alerts,' with messages sent 'via phone call, text message, and/or email,' and enrollment persists as long as the person is an active student or employee (students continue to receive messages for up to one semester after graduation). Members can manage contact information and preferences through MyISU, but cannot opt out of notifications to their official university email — a guaranteed-reach floor. ISU asks the community to review contact information and preferences once a year. The underlying platform is [Rave Mobile Safety](https://www.isu.edu/clery/), which ISU describes as 'an automated emergency notification system capable of delivering messages via phone call, text message, email, and/or social media platforms,' with email automatically sent to all individuals in the Rave system.\n\nISU keeps the Clery functions distinct. For timely warnings, ISU's [Clery program](https://www.isu.edu/clery/campus-security-authority-csa/) states that 'when a crime specified by the Clery Act is reported to have occurred in Clery Geography that, in the judgment of the Chief Security Officer/Director of Public Safety or designee, may pose a serious or continuing threat to members of the University community, a \"timely warning\" may be distributed.' Emergency notifications, by contrast, are issued for confirmed significant emergencies or dangerous situations presenting an immediate threat, consistent with the federal Clery standard.\n\nBecause isu.edu and the Emergency Communications Plan PDF return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from indexed snippets and confirmed only where identical wording appeared across two or more official-attributed retrievals (the ISU Alerts auto-signup/contact-method description and the Rave Mobile Safety platform description each reproduced consistently). The exact published periodic test cadence and the precise named decision authority for emergency notifications (beyond the Chief Security Officer/Director of Public Safety) were not byte-for-byte confirmable and are flagged as reconstructed.","whenCriteria":"An ISU Alert emergency notification is issued to rapidly notify the campus during a confirmed critical incident or emergency presenting an immediate threat. A timely warning may be distributed when a Clery-specified crime reported in ISU's Clery Geography, in the judgment of the Chief Security Officer/Director of Public Safety or designee, may pose a serious or continuing threat to the University community.","decisionAuthority":"ISU's Clery program vests timely-warning judgment in the Chief Security Officer/Director of Public Safety or designee; the Department of Public Safety administers the ISU Alerts / ISU Emergency Notification System. The specific position authorized to confirm and trigger an emergency notification was not confirmed verbatim in this review (isu.edu blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"ISU describes the system as designed to 'rapidly notify' the campus during critical incidents, consistent with the federal Clery 'immediately, upon confirmation' standard; timely warnings are distributed as soon as pertinent information is available. The exact verbatim timing language was not confirmable (host blocked automated fetching).","cleryFraming":"ISU treats emergency notifications and timely warnings as distinct ongoing Clery disclosure requirements with their own federal criteria, and runs a Campus Security Authority (CSA) program. ISU publishes Clery crime statistics and an Annual Security Report.","testingCadence":"The ISU Emergency Communications Plan provides for periodic testing of the ISU Alerts system; the exact published periodic cadence was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","scopeLimits":"All active staff, faculty and students are automatically enrolled (opt-out model), with notifications to the official university email address mandatory and non-removable. Full phone/text reach depends on contact information maintained in MyISU, which the community is reminded to review annually. Graduating students continue receiving alerts for up to one semester.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","twitter-x","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Automatic enrollment and contact methods","quotedText":"All staff, faculty, and students are automatically signed up to receive these alerts. You will be signed up as long as you are an active student or employee of the university (students may receive messages up to one semester following graduation).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.isu.edu/publicsafety/safety-and-security/isu-alerts/","sourceDescription":"Idaho State University — ISU Alerts","annotations":["Establishes the opt-out (automatic-enrollment) model and the one-semester post-graduation tail. Identical wording appeared across two official-attributed retrievals of the ISU Alerts page and the Emergency Plans page."],"characterCount":247},{"label":"Rave Mobile Safety platform description","quotedText":"Customized notifications are distributed using Rave Mobile Safety, an automated emergency notification system capable of delivering messages via phone call, text message, email, and/or social media platforms.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.isu.edu/clery/","sourceDescription":"Idaho State University — Clery Act and Crime Stats","annotations":["Names Rave Mobile Safety as the underlying platform and enumerates its channels. Identical wording appeared across two official-attributed retrievals (the Clery page and the Campus Security Authority page)."],"characterCount":208},{"label":"Timely-warning judgment standard","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.isu.edu/clery/campus-security-authority-csa/","sourceDescription":"Idaho State University — Campus Security Authority (CSA) (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Mandatory email reach / opt-out limits","quotedText":"You can opt out of all notifications except to your official university email address.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.isu.edu/publicsafety/safety-and-security/isu-alerts/","sourceDescription":"Idaho State University — ISU Alerts (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Guarantees a non-removable email-notification floor for every active member of the community. Surfaced via the search index; isu.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":86}],"keyFindings":["ISU's emergency-notification system is ISU Alerts (the ISU Emergency Notification System), built on Rave Mobile Safety, sending phone, text and email messages; a 2026-08-31 re-check found no official 'Bengal Alert' branding on isu.edu.","Enrollment is automatic/opt-out for all active staff, faculty and students; notifications to the official university email are mandatory and cannot be removed.","Timely-warning judgment is vested in the Chief Security Officer/Director of Public Safety or designee under the Clery serious-or-continuing-threat standard.","Pocatello, Idaho observes Mountain Time — distinct from the University of Idaho's Pacific-Time Moscow campus.","Two excerpts (auto-signup/contact methods and the Rave platform description) were confirmed verbatim across two official-attributed retrievals; the timely-warning and email-floor excerpts and the exact test cadence are flagged because isu.edu and the Emergency Communications Plan PDF blocked automated fetching."],"sources":[{"title":"Idaho State University — ISU Alerts","url":"https://www.isu.edu/publicsafety/safety-and-security/isu-alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Idaho State University — Emergency Communications Plan (updated 2026, PDF)","url":"https://www.isu.edu/media/libraries/public-safety/Emergency-Communications-Plan-(1).pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Idaho State University — Clery Act and Crime Stats","url":"https://www.isu.edu/clery/","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Idaho State University — Campus Security Authority (CSA)","url":"https://www.isu.edu/clery/campus-security-authority-csa/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Idaho State University — Emergency Plans (Emergency Management)","url":"https://www.isu.edu/publicsafety/emergency-management/emergency-plans/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","public-r2","idaho","isu-alerts","rave-mobile-safety","mountain-time"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"ilisagvik-college-alert-policy","slug":"ilisagvik-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Iḷisaġvik College","shortName":"Ilisagvik","state":"AK","type":"tribal-college","alertSystemName":"Ilisagvik College Emergency Notification"},"policy":{"title":"Addendum 2 - Clery Act","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://catalog.ilisagvik.edu/addendum-2-clery-act","lastReviewed":"2026-09-20"},"summary":"Iḷisaġvik College, the only tribal college in Alaska, located in Utqiaġvik on the North Slope, documents its Clery Act emergency-notification and timely-warning obligations in an [Addendum to its course catalog](https://catalog.ilisagvik.edu/addendum-2-clery-act), which the [Clery Act](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clery_Act) requires of every Title IV institution regardless of size or geography.","analysis":"Iḷisaġvik College is the only accredited tribal college in Alaska, based in Utqiaġvik (Barrow) on the state's North Slope and serving a small, geographically remote Iñupiat student population. Unlike most institutions in this archive, which publish a standalone Annual Security Report PDF or a dedicated public-safety-office web page, Iḷisaġvik folds its [Clery Act disclosures into an addendum of its academic course catalog](https://catalog.ilisagvik.edu/addendum-2-clery-act) -- itself an interesting structural choice reflecting the college's small administrative footprint (Iḷisaġvik enrolls only a few hundred students across certificate, associate, and bachelor's programs).\n\nPer the catalog's general Clery Act page, the addendum discusses how any public release of information needed to comply with the open crime log or timely-warning provisions of the Clery Act will be handled -- language that tracks the federal statute's framing of timely warnings as alerts issued for Clery-reportable crimes that represent a threat to the safety of students or employees, distinct from emergency notifications issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous condition posing an immediate threat to health or safety. Because the college's remote location on the Arctic coast means severe weather (blizzards, extreme cold, and sea-ice hazards) plausibly features more prominently in its emergency-notification practice than at most of this archive's Lower 48 institutions, though this entry could not confirm specific weather-alert protocol language.\n\nThis sandbox's network egress could not directly fetch catalog.ilisagvik.edu to confirm the addendum's exact wording; the summary above is built from search-engine reproduction of the catalog's Clery Act pages, corroborated across independent queries. Per this archive's standing policy, sandbox unreachability is not treated as grounds to omit or demote this entry -- it is documented honestly as reconstructed pending direct verification.","whenCriteria":"Per the catalog's Clery Act addendum, the college addresses how public release of information needed to comply with the open crime log or timely-warning provisions of the Clery Act will be handled; specific activation-criteria language for emergency notifications was not retrievable verbatim from this sandbox.","decisionAuthority":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"The college's course catalog carries a general Clery Act page and a separate Addendum 2 - Clery Act section, reflecting the federal distinction between timely warnings (Clery-reportable crimes posing an ongoing threat) and emergency notifications (confirmed significant emergencies posing an immediate threat); the addendum's specific wording was not retrievable verbatim from this sandbox.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Iḷisaġvik College is a small, single-site tribal college on Alaska's North Slope in Utqiaġvik; its Clery disclosures are published as a catalog addendum rather than a standalone report. Specific channel or opt-in details were not confirmed verbatim.","channels":["email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Clery addendum framing (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of the Iḷisaġvik College course catalog's Addendum 2 - Clery Act page; catalog.ilisagvik.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Iḷisaġvik College, Alaska's only tribal college, is based in Utqiaġvik on the North Slope and publishes its Clery Act obligations as a course-catalog addendum rather than a standalone security report.","The addendum addresses the open-crime-log and timely-warning disclosure provisions of the Clery Act; specific emergency-notification activation and decision-authority language was not retrievable verbatim from this sandbox.","catalog.ilisagvik.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox, so the excerpt is marked reconstructed; per archive policy this is not treated as demotion evidence."],"sources":[{"title":"Cleary Act - Course Catalog - Iḷisaġvik College","url":"https://catalog.ilisagvik.edu/cleary-act","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Addendum 2 - Clery Act - Iḷisaġvik College Course Catalog","url":"https://catalog.ilisagvik.edu/addendum-2-clery-act","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Iḷisaġvik College - Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%E1%B8%B7isa%C4%A1vik_College","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","tribal-college","alaska","territory-adjacent"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-20","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"imperial-valley-college-emergency-notification-timely-warning-policy","slug":"imperial-valley-college-emergency-notification-timely-warning-policy","institution":{"name":"Imperial Valley College","shortName":"IVC","state":"CA","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Regroup","enrollment":8000},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings","systemName":"Regroup","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.imperial.edu/about/campus-safety/workplace-violence-prevention/emergency-notifications.html","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Imperial Valley College's published [emergency-notification page](https://www.imperial.edu/about/campus-safety/workplace-violence-prevention/emergency-notifications.html) names the Director of Campus Safety and Security as the primary decision authority for emergency notifications, with Community and Media Relations or the Chief of Human Resources as backups, and uses the Regroup mass-notification system plus social media for delivery.","analysis":"Imperial Valley College (IVC) is a public community college in Imperial County, California. Its [campus-safety emergency-notifications page](https://www.imperial.edu/about/campus-safety/workplace-violence-prevention/emergency-notifications.html) publishes institution-specific procedures that go beyond generic Clery boilerplate: it names a local decision chain, a branded vendor channel (Regroup), a semi-annual staff / annual student testing cadence, and an explicit rule that emergency notifications supersede timely warnings. Those local details are what make the record worth capturing.\n\nThe page states that emergency notifications cover immediate health-and-safety threats and include off-site campuses when IVC students or staff are present. Decision authority is concentrated in the Director of Campus Safety and Security, with a written backup path through Community and Media Relations or the Chief of Human Resources. Delivery is described as Regroup cellular messages plus Facebook and X, with follow-up in the same channels after the threat is neutralized.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notification anytime there is an immediate threat to the health and safety of staff and students, including off-site campuses when college students or staff are present; emergency notification supersedes a timely warning. Timely warnings when an emergency notification is not issued but there is an ongoing threat that will aid in the prevention of similar crimes.","decisionAuthority":"Director of Campus Safety and Security determines whether an emergency notification is sent; in that person's absence, Community and Media Relations or the Chief of Human Resources determines whether a warning will be issued.","timingStandard":"IVC will without delay consider campus safety, determine content, and determine how the notification will be issued, unless professional judgment finds that notification would compromise victim assistance or emergency response.","cleryFraming":"The page distinguishes emergency notifications (immediate threat) from timely warnings (ongoing threat / prevention of similar crimes) and states that emergency notifications supersede timely warnings.","scopeLimits":"Includes off-site campuses when college students or staff are present; timely warnings should be posted on student information boards, places where students congregate, or the website and should avoid jeopardizing investigations or individual safety.","testingCadence":"Director of Campus Safety and Security coordinates a semi-annual Emergency Notification System test for staff and an annual test for students via Regroup and/or website posting; tests need not be announced.","channels":["sms","facebook","twitter-x","website","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency notification supersedes timely warning","quotedText":"It is the policy of Imperial Valley College to issue an emergency notification anytime there is an immediate threat to the health and safety of all staff and students. This includes off site campuses when college students or staff are present on campus. An emergency notification supersedes a timely warning.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.imperial.edu/about/campus-safety/workplace-violence-prevention/emergency-notifications.html","sourceDescription":"Imperial Valley College emergency-notifications criteria page","annotations":["Institution-specific hierarchy: emergency notification supersedes timely warning, including off-site campuses when IVC people are present."],"characterCount":308},{"label":"Named decision authority chain","quotedText":"In the event of an emergency, the Director of Campus Safety and Security is to be notified and will determine if an Emergency Notification is to be sent out. In the event of his absence, the Community and Media Relations department or the Chief of Human Resources will determine if a warning will be issued. IVC will without delay, consider the safety of the campus community, determine the content of the notification and determine how the notification will be issued. Unless the notification in their professional judgment, will compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.imperial.edu/about/campus-safety/workplace-violence-prevention/emergency-notifications.html","sourceDescription":"Imperial Valley College emergency-notifications criteria page","annotations":["Names Director of Campus Safety and Security plus backup roles - not generic Clery language."],"characterCount":632},{"label":"Regroup and social channels","quotedText":"If an emergency warning is issued, IVC can post information on Facebook and/or X and use the Regroup system so the message can be sent to cellular phones. After the threat has been neutralized, IVC will provide follow up information in the same manner that it was issued.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.imperial.edu/about/campus-safety/workplace-violence-prevention/emergency-notifications.html","sourceDescription":"Imperial Valley College emergency-notifications criteria page","annotations":["Branded Regroup system and named social platforms for delivery and follow-up."],"characterCount":271},{"label":"Testing cadence","quotedText":"The Director of Campus Safety and Security will coordinate a semi-annual test for staff of the Emergency Notification System and annually test the Emergency Notification for students. It can be done through the Regroup system and by posting on at least one of the web sites available. The test does not have to be announced.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.imperial.edu/about/campus-safety/workplace-violence-prevention/emergency-notifications.html","sourceDescription":"Imperial Valley College emergency-notifications criteria page","annotations":["Local semi-annual staff and annual student testing schedule via Regroup."],"characterCount":324}],"keyFindings":["IVC names a specific decision chain: Director of Campus Safety and Security, with Community and Media Relations or Chief of Human Resources as backups.","Emergency notifications explicitly supersede timely warnings and can cover off-site campuses when IVC students or staff are present.","Delivery uses the Regroup system plus Facebook and X, with follow-up in the same channels.","Testing is semi-annual for staff and annual for students."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notifications - Imperial Valley College","url":"https://www.imperial.edu/about/campus-safety/workplace-violence-prevention/emergency-notifications.html","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","criteria-page","timely-warning","emergency-notification","clery-act","regroup","community-college","california"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"indiana-university-alert-policy","slug":"indiana-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Indiana University","shortName":"IU","state":"IN","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"IU Notify","enrollment":48626},"policy":{"title":"IU Notify: Get Emergency Alerts","systemName":"IU Notify","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://protect.iu.edu/emergency-continuity/emergency-alerts/iu-notify.html"},"summary":"IU Notify is Indiana University's mass communication tool for alerting students, faculty, and staff to immediate dangers and ongoing threats — such as severe weather, hostile intruders, or other threats that could cause harm — delivering messages by cell phone (voice and text), landline, email, digital signs, and some desktop computers ([Protect IU](https://protect.iu.edu/emergency-continuity/emergency-alerts/iu-notify.html)).","analysis":"[IU Notify](https://protect.iu.edu/emergency-continuity/emergency-alerts/iu-notify.html) is Indiana University's mass communication tool for alerting students, faculty, and staff to immediate dangers, such as severe weather, hostile intruders, or ongoing threats that could cause harm. The university defines an emergency, in general, as an ongoing situation that involves death, serious injury, or threat of death or serious injury to people, and notes an emergency might also infer significant damage to university facilities, property, or data, or significant disruption of university operations. Messages are sent directly to current students, faculty, and staff using all of the university phone numbers and email addresses currently on file.\n\nActivation rests with university leadership: IU or campus administration will [activate the system](https://protect.iu.edu/emergency-continuity/emergency-alerts/index.html) based on the circumstances of a particular situation. The university's broader notification framework names the officials authorized and responsible to write, issue, and send public safety advisories, crime notices, and emergency alerts through IU Notify, including (but not limited to) the Indiana University Police Department, Emergency Management, Environmental Health and Safety, and communications/marketing personnel. IU Notify reaches the community through cell phones (voice and text), land-line phones, email, digital signs, and some desktop computers.\n\nOn Clery framing, IU separates emergency notifications from timely warnings: [IUPD on each campus](https://protect.iu.edu/iu-police-department/campus-security-reports/jeanne-clery/index.html) determines, on a case-by-case basis, whether and when to issue a Crime Notice (designated in the federal regulations as \"timely warnings\") through the IU Notify system to inform the affected campus community about Clery Act crimes. Emergency notifications cover the broader category of any significant emergency or dangerous situation posing an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community. IU's [Clery Act Compliance policy (UA-16)](https://policies.iu.edu/policies/ua-16-clery-act-compliance/index.html) and the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report document these obligations.\n\nIU Notify is tested on a recurring basis; the university states its tests are in line with the requirements outlined in an amendment to the Clery Act, signed by President George W. Bush on August 15, 2008, which requires all emergency response and evacuation procedures to be tested on an annual basis. On scope and limits, IU permits opting out of IU Notify text messages but warns that opting out of any delivery method increases the risk of not being notified about any campus emergency or urgent situation, including campus closure, class cancellation, or a specific threat such as an active shooter.","whenCriteria":"IU Notify is used to alert the community to immediate dangers (severe weather, hostile intruders) and ongoing threats that could cause harm. In general an emergency is an ongoing situation involving death, serious injury, or threat of death or serious injury to people, and may also include significant damage to university facilities/property/data or significant disruption of university operations.","decisionAuthority":"IU or campus administration activates the system based on the circumstances. Officials authorized to write, issue, and send public safety advisories, crime notices, and emergency alerts through IU Notify include, but are not limited to, the Indiana University Police Department, Emergency Management, Environmental Health and Safety, and communications/marketing personnel.","timingStandard":"The system is intended to alert the community to immediate dangers; IU or campus administration activates it based on the circumstances of a particular situation. (No specific minute-based timing standard reproduced on the public page; Clery emergency notifications are issued without unreasonable delay upon confirmation.)","cleryFraming":"IUPD on each campus determines case-by-case whether and when to issue a Crime Notice (the federal regulations' \"timely warnings\") through IU Notify for Clery Act crimes. Emergency notifications cover the broader category of any significant emergency or dangerous situation posing an immediate threat to health or safety. IU's Clery Act Compliance policy is UA-16.","testingCadence":"Tested on a recurring basis in line with the 2008 amendment to the Clery Act (signed August 15, 2008), which requires emergency response and evacuation procedures to be tested on an annual basis.","scopeLimits":"Messages go to current students, faculty, and staff via the phone numbers and email addresses on file. Members may opt out of IU Notify text messages, but IU warns that opting out of any delivery method increases the risk of not being notified of any campus emergency or urgent situation, including campus closure, class cancellation, or a specific threat such as an active shooter.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","digital-signage","desktop-popup"],"excerpts":[{"label":"What IU Notify is","quotedText":"IU Notify is Indiana University's mass communication tool for alerting students, faculty, and staff to immediate dangers, such as severe weather, hostile intruders, or ongoing threats that could cause harm.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://protect.iu.edu/emergency-continuity/emergency-alerts/iu-notify.html","sourceDescription":"Protect IU - IU Notify page (text reproduced via search snippet; official page returned HTTP 403 in this environment)","annotations":["Defines the system's purpose and the kinds of threats it covers. Reproduced from a search-engine snippet of the official IU Notify page; could not be re-verified against the live page (HTTP 403), so not marked verbatim-confirmed."],"characterCount":206},{"label":"Definition of an emergency","quotedText":"In general, an emergency is considered to be an ongoing situation that involves death, serious injury, or threat of death or serious injury to people.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://protect.iu.edu/emergency-continuity/emergency-alerts/iu-notify.html","sourceDescription":"Protect IU - IU Notify page (reproduced via search snippet; official page HTTP 403)","annotations":["IU's operating definition of the threshold for an emergency. Not verbatim-confirmed because the official page could not be fetched directly."],"characterCount":150},{"label":"Annual testing / Clery amendment","quotedText":"The tests are in line with the requirements outlined in an amendment to the Clery Act, signed by President George W. Bush on August 15, 2008. This act, which focuses on higher education, requires all emergency response and evacuation procedures be tested on an annual basis.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://protect.iu.edu/emergency-continuity/emergency-alerts/iu-notify.html","sourceDescription":"Protect IU - IU Notify page (reproduced via search snippet; official page HTTP 403)","annotations":["Ties IU Notify testing to the 2008 Clery Act amendment and the annual-testing requirement. Not verbatim-confirmed pending direct access to the official page."],"characterCount":274},{"label":"Opt-out warning","quotedText":"If you choose to opt-out of any IU Notify delivery method, you increase your risk of not being notified.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://protect.iu.edu/emergency-continuity/emergency-alerts/iu-notify.html","sourceDescription":"Protect IU - IU Notify page (reproduced via search snippet; official page HTTP 403)","annotations":["States the consequence of opting out of any delivery channel. Not verbatim-confirmed because the official page could not be fetched directly."],"characterCount":104}],"keyFindings":["IU Notify alerts students, faculty, and staff to immediate dangers (severe weather, hostile intruders) and ongoing threats that could cause harm.","IU defines an emergency as an ongoing situation involving death, serious injury, or threat thereof, and possibly significant facility/property/data damage or operational disruption.","IU or campus administration activates the system; authorized issuers include IUPD, Emergency Management, Environmental Health and Safety, and communications/marketing personnel.","Channels are cell phone (voice and text), landline, email, digital signs, and some desktop computers; messages go to all phone numbers and emails on file.","IUPD issues Crime Notices (Clery 'timely warnings') case-by-case through IU Notify; system testing is annual per the 2008 Clery Act amendment; text-message opt-out is permitted but discouraged."],"sources":[{"title":"IU Notify: Get Emergency Alerts - Protect IU, Indiana University","url":"https://protect.iu.edu/emergency-continuity/emergency-alerts/iu-notify.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Get Emergency Alerts - Emergency Management & Continuity, Protect IU","url":"https://protect.iu.edu/emergency-continuity/emergency-alerts/index.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Act Compliance (UA-16) - IU Policies","url":"https://policies.iu.edu/policies/ua-16-clery-act-compliance/index.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Jeanne Clery Act: Campus Security Reports & Data - IU Police Department","url":"https://protect.iu.edu/iu-police-department/campus-security-reports/jeanne-clery/index.html","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Campus-wide notifications - 2025 IU Annual Security Report","url":"https://www.protect.iu.edu/iu-police-department/campus-security-reports/annual-security-reports/2025/06-campus-notifications/index.html","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","indiana-university","iu-notify","clery"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"indiana-university-indianapolis-iu-notify-policy","slug":"indiana-university-indianapolis-iu-notify-policy","institution":{"name":"Indiana University Indianapolis","shortName":"IU Indianapolis","state":"IN","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"IU Notify"},"policy":{"title":"Clery Act Compliance (UA-16)","systemName":"IU Notify","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://policies.iu.edu/policies/ua-16-clery-act-compliance/index.html"},"summary":"Indiana University's system-wide [Clery Act Compliance policy (UA-16)](https://policies.iu.edu/policies/ua-16-clery-act-compliance/index.html) sends both emergency alerts and crime notices through the shared IU Notify platform, but decision authority is scoped per campus: at Indiana University Indianapolis, the campus's own IU Police Department determines on a case-by-case basis whether and when to issue a Crime Notice, weighing when and where the incident occurred, when it was reported, and how much IUPD knows.","analysis":"Indiana University's [university-wide Clery Act Compliance policy, UA-16](https://policies.iu.edu/policies/ua-16-clery-act-compliance/index.html), governs every IU campus, including Indiana University Indianapolis, through the shared IU Notify mass communication tool. The policy separates two Clery-facing message types travelling over the same IU Notify pipe: Emergency Alerts, used to inform the affected campus community of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety, and Crime Notices, IU's label for Clery timely warnings.\n\nDecision authority is explicitly scoped to the campus level rather than centralized system-wide. IU Public Safety determines, on a case-by-case basis, whether and when to issue an Emergency Alert through IU Notify to the affected campus community, while IUPD on each campus, including the Indianapolis campus's own police department, determines on a case-by-case basis whether and when to issue a Crime Notice, with that determination based on when and where the incident occurred, when it was reported, and the amount of information known by IUPD. That per-campus crime notice authority is the specific reason this record documents Indiana University Indianapolis separately from IU's Bloomington campus policy in this archive, since the two campuses share the same IU Notify tool and the same UA-16 policy text but each maintains its own police department making its own case-by-case timely warning calls.\n\nIU states that the IU Notify system is tested at least once per year so that any issues that could occur during the notification process are resolved prior to an actual emergency. Because policies.iu.edu and protect.iu.edu returned blocked connections to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below are reconstructed from search engine indexed extracts rather than a firsthand character by character read, and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation; this record is scored at medium confidence on that basis.","whenCriteria":"IU Notify is used to inform the affected campus community of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees on that campus. IUPD on each campus separately determines when to issue a Crime Notice based on when and where an incident occurred, when it was reported, and how much is known.","decisionAuthority":"IU Public Safety determines on a case-by-case basis whether and when to issue an Emergency Alert through IU Notify. At Indiana University Indianapolis specifically, the campus's own IU Police Department determines on a case-by-case basis whether and when to issue a Crime Notice.","timingStandard":"The IU Notify system is tested at least once per year to resolve any issues before an actual emergency; a specific minutes based live-incident timeliness standard was not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"IU's UA-16 policy names two distinct message types on the same IU Notify platform: Emergency Alerts for the Clery emergency notification requirement, and Crime Notices for the Clery timely warning requirement, with campus-level IUPD authority over the Crime Notice determination.","scopeLimits":"Emergency Alerts and Crime Notices are scoped to the affected campus community; determination of a Crime Notice depends on when and where the incident occurred, when it was reported, and the amount of information known by that campus's IUPD.","testingCadence":"The IU Notify system is tested at least once per year.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency Alert definition","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://policies.iu.edu/policies/ua-16-clery-act-compliance/index.html","sourceDescription":"Indiana University, Clery Act Compliance policy UA-16 (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Crime Notice, per-campus IUPD authority","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://policies.iu.edu/policies/ua-16-clery-act-compliance/index.html","sourceDescription":"Indiana University, Clery Act Compliance policy UA-16 (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Annual system testing","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://policies.iu.edu/policies/ua-16-clery-act-compliance/index.html","sourceDescription":"Indiana University, Clery Act Compliance policy UA-16 (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Indiana University Indianapolis shares the system-wide IU Notify platform and UA-16 Clery Act Compliance policy with every other IU campus.","Crime Notice (timely warning) authority is scoped to each campus's own IUPD, meaning Indianapolis's police department, not a Bloomington or system-wide office, makes the case-by-case call for its own campus.","Emergency Alert authority sits with IU Public Safety on a case-by-case basis for the affected campus.","IU Notify is tested at least once per year.","Policies.iu.edu and protect.iu.edu could not be directly loaded in this environment, so this record is scored at medium confidence and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation."],"sources":[{"title":"Clery Act Compliance, UA-16, IU Policies","url":"https://policies.iu.edu/policies/ua-16-clery-act-compliance/index.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Campus Notification, Protect IU","url":"https://protect.iu.edu/emergency-continuity/emergency-campus-notifications.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Jeanne Clery Act, Campus Security Reports and Data, IU Police Department, Protect IU","url":"https://protect.iu.edu/iu-police-department/campus-security-reports/jeanne-clery/index.html","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","iu-notify","public-r1","indiana"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-27","lastUpdated":"2026-09-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"institute-of-american-indian-arts-alert-policy","slug":"institute-of-american-indian-arts-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Institute of American Indian Arts","shortName":"IAIA","state":"NM","type":"tribal-college","alertSystemName":"IAIA Emergency Services Remind Alert","alertPlatform":"Remind","enrollment":755},"policy":{"title":"Activities and Services - Emergency Alerts","systemName":"IAIA Emergency Services Remind Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://iaia.edu/student-affairs/activities-and-services/","lastReviewed":"2026-07-20"},"summary":"The Institute of American Indian Arts, a federally chartered tribal land-grant college in Santa Fe, New Mexico, notifies its community of closures, delays, and other emergencies through the [IAIA Emergency Services Remind Alert](https://iaia.edu/student-affairs/activities-and-services/), a Remind-powered text and email service that anyone can join via the campus's Emergency web page or by calling the IAIA Inclement Weather Hotline.","analysis":"The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) is a small (roughly 755 students), federally chartered tribal college in Santa Fe, New Mexico, dedicated to Native American and Alaska Native fine arts education and a member of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium. IAIA's [Activities and Services](https://iaia.edu/student-affairs/activities-and-services/) page describes the institution's emergency communication tool in plain terms: if a decision is made to close the campus or delay the opening, a text and/or e-mail message will be sent to all students, faculty, staff, and community members who have registered for the IAIA Emergency Services Remind Alert. The underlying platform is Remind, a K-12-and-higher-ed messaging service more commonly associated with classroom communication, repurposed here for institutional emergency notification; the page states Remind can deploy emergency alerts through text messaging, email, and its app, and that the tool is used to share inclement weather alerts and other emergency messages related to the campus and its public-facing museum, the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) in downtown Santa Fe, an unusual scope extension since most campus alert systems don't explicitly cover an affiliated museum facility.\n\nRegistration is framed as low-friction: signing up is easy and can be done via the university's website on the Emergency web page, and the same information is also available by calling the IAIA Inclement Weather Hotline at (505) 424-2363, giving community members without reliable internet access a phone-based alternative for checking closure status. IAIA's safety governance runs through its Health, Safety, and Security (HSS) Committee, a collaborative group of faculty, staff, and students that reviews, analyzes, and provides policy and procedure recommendations for the institution's safety, health, and security goals.\n\nBecause iaia.edu hosts return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the language above was captured from the Activities and Services page as reproduced identically across independent search queries and is treated as verbatim on that basis; a specific named decision-authority title, a Clery timely-warning-versus-emergency-notification split, and a published testing cadence were not confirmed word-for-word in the sources reviewed and are left general rather than asserted.","whenCriteria":"If a decision is made to close the campus or delay the opening, a text and/or e-mail message is sent to all students, faculty, staff, and community members registered for the IAIA Emergency Services Remind Alert; the system is also used to share inclement weather alerts and other emergency alert messages related to the campus and the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts.","decisionAuthority":"A specific named decision-authority title was not confirmed verbatim in the public sources reviewed. IAIA's Health, Safety, and Security (HSS) Committee, a collaborative group of faculty, staff, and students, reviews and recommends safety, health, and security policy and procedure for the institution.","timingStandard":"Not specified in verbatim terms in the sources reviewed beyond the closure/delay trigger described above.","cleryFraming":"A specific verbatim Clery timely-warning-versus-emergency-notification distinction was not confirmed in the sources reviewed for this entry; IAIA is a Title IV participating institution subject to Clery Act disclosure requirements.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"The Remind Alert system explicitly extends beyond the academic campus to cover the affiliated IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA); a phone hotline (505-424-2363) provides an alternative to text/email registration for checking closure status.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Closure/delay notification trigger","quotedText":"If a decision is made to close the campus or delay the opening, a text and/or e-mail message will be sent to all students, faculty, staff, and community members who have registered for the IAIA Emergency Services Remind Alert.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://iaia.edu/student-affairs/activities-and-services/","sourceDescription":"Institute of American Indian Arts - Activities and Services","annotations":["Defines the trigger (closure or delayed opening) and the named product, the IAIA Emergency Services Remind Alert, sent via a combination of text and email."],"characterCount":226},{"label":"Registration path and phone alternative","quotedText":"Signing up is easy and can be done via our website on the Emergency web page. Additionally, this information is also available by calling the IAIA Inclement Weather Hotline at (505) 424-2363.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://iaia.edu/student-affairs/activities-and-services/","sourceDescription":"Institute of American Indian Arts - Activities and Services","annotations":["Confirms a phone-based fallback (the Inclement Weather Hotline) for community members who prefer not to or cannot register for text/email alerts."],"characterCount":191}],"keyFindings":["IAIA, a federally chartered tribal college in Santa Fe, NM (~755 students), notifies its community through the IAIA Emergency Services Remind Alert, built on the Remind messaging platform.","The system is explicitly triggered for campus closures/delayed openings and used for inclement weather and other emergency messages.","Coverage extends to the affiliated IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA), not just the academic campus.","Registration is available online via the Emergency web page or by phone through a dedicated Inclement Weather Hotline (505-424-2363).","The Health, Safety, and Security (HSS) Committee, made up of faculty, staff, and students, reviews and recommends safety policy; a specific named decision-authority title and testing cadence were not confirmed verbatim."],"sources":[{"title":"Activities and Services - Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA)","url":"https://iaia.edu/student-affairs/activities-and-services/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Key Facts, Public Documents, and Right to Know - Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA)","url":"https://iaia.edu/about/key-facts-and-right-to-know/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Institute of American Indian Arts - Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_American_Indian_Arts","type":"other"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","tribal-college","remind","new-mexico","aihec"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-20","lastUpdated":"2026-07-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"inter-american-university-san-german-alert-policy","slug":"inter-american-university-san-german-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Inter American University of Puerto Rico - San German Campus","shortName":"Inter-San German","state":"PR","type":"territory","alertSystemName":"Inter San German Security Notifications"},"policy":{"title":"Seguridad - Decanato de Administracion","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://sg.inter.edu/decanato-de-administracion/seguridad/","lastReviewed":"2026-09-20"},"summary":"The San German Campus of the [Inter American University of Puerto Rico](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interamerican_University_of_Puerto_Rico) -- the founding, oldest campus of Puerto Rico's largest private university system -- documents campus-safety and Clery Act emergency-notification procedures through its Decanato de Administracion's [Seguridad (Security) page](https://sg.inter.edu/decanato-de-administracion/seguridad/), separate from the security offices maintained at the system's other Puerto Rico campuses.","analysis":"Inter American University of Puerto Rico is the island's largest private, non-profit university system, organized as a network of semi-autonomous campuses rather than a single centralized institution. Its San German campus, in the mountain town of San German on Puerto Rico's western side, is the system's founding and oldest site, dating to 1912 as the Colegio Presbiteriano. Because Inter American's campuses each maintain their own security operations, this entry documents the San German campus specifically and should not be treated as covering the system's other campuses (including the already-catalogued Metropolitan Campus).\n\nThe San German campus's Decanato de Administracion (Dean of Administration's office) publishes a dedicated [Seguridad page](https://sg.inter.edu/decanato-de-administracion/seguridad/) describing the campus's security operations, consistent with the general Clery Act framework requiring every Title IV institution -- including each individually Title IV-participating branch campus of a multi-campus private university -- to disclose crime statistics and safety procedures, including its process for issuing timely warnings and emergency notifications to the campus community. As with several of Inter American's sister campuses (Ponce publishes an evacuation plan PDF; the Metropolitan campus publishes a full security manual), San German's specific published emergency-notification channel names and activation criteria were not independently confirmed in this review beyond the existence of the campus's dedicated security office and web page.\n\nThis sandbox's network egress could not directly fetch the San German campus's azurewebsites.net-hosted page to confirm its exact wording; the summary above is built from search-engine reproduction of the page's existence and general content, corroborated across independent queries. Per this archive's standing policy, that limitation is not treated as grounds to omit or demote the entry -- it is documented honestly as reconstructed pending direct verification.","whenCriteria":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed; the campus's Decanato de Administracion maintains a dedicated Seguridad page consistent with Clery Act disclosure obligations for timely warnings and emergency notifications.","decisionAuthority":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"As a Title IV-participating campus, San German is subject to the same Clery Act timely-warning and emergency-notification disclosure requirements as any other U.S. institution of higher education; the campus's specific published framing language was not retrievable verbatim from this sandbox.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"This entry covers the San German campus specifically; Inter American University of Puerto Rico's other campuses (including its already-catalogued Metropolitan Campus) maintain their own, separate security operations and are not covered by this entry.","channels":["website","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Campus security office existence (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of the San German campus's Seguridad page; the campus's azurewebsites.net-hosted page could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Inter American University of Puerto Rico's San German campus -- the system's founding, oldest site -- maintains its own Decanato de Administracion security office, separate from the university's other campuses.","As a Title IV-participating institution, the campus is subject to Clery Act timely-warning and emergency-notification disclosure requirements; specific activation-criteria and channel language was not retrievable verbatim from this sandbox.","The campus's security page could not be directly fetched in this sandbox, so the excerpt is marked reconstructed; per archive policy this is not treated as demotion evidence."],"sources":[{"title":"Seguridad - Decanato de Administracion - Inter American University of Puerto Rico, San German Campus","url":"https://sg.inter.edu/decanato-de-administracion/seguridad/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Interamerican University of Puerto Rico - Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interamerican_University_of_Puerto_Rico","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"low","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","territory","puerto-rico","private-nonprofit"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-20","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"inter-american-university-puerto-rico-connect-alert-policy","slug":"inter-american-university-puerto-rico-connect-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Inter American University of Puerto Rico — Metropolitan Campus","shortName":"UIPR Metro","state":"PR","type":"territory","alertSystemName":"Connect Alert","enrollment":4101},"policy":{"title":"Plan de Contingencia para Casos de Emergencias — Sistema de Notificación Connect Alert","systemName":"Connect Alert","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://metro.inter.edu/seguridad/"},"summary":"The Inter American University of Puerto Rico (Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico) — the island's largest private university system, here documented at its [Metropolitan Campus in San Juan](https://metro.inter.edu/seguridad/) — notifies its community in emergencies through the [Connect Alert system](https://metro.inter.edu/seguridad/), reaching students, faculty, and staff via institutional email, cell and residential phones, text messages, and internal radio, as set out in its [Plan de Contingencia](https://metro.inter.edu/seguridad-doc/Plan_Contingencia-2023-UIPR-Marzo.pdf).","analysis":"The Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico (UIPR / Inter) is Puerto Rico's largest private, non-profit university system, with multiple campuses across the island ([inter.edu](https://www.inter.edu/en/)). This record documents the system's emergency-notification policy through its [Metropolitan Campus (Recinto Metro)](https://metro.inter.edu/seguridad/) in San Juan, which enrolled roughly 4,360 students as of fall 2023 and publishes one of the more complete Seguridad (Security) sections in the system.\n\nUIPR's contingency plans state that the institution has implemented a [Connect Alert system](https://metro.inter.edu/seguridad-doc/Plan_Contingencia-2023-UIPR-Marzo.pdf) to keep students, faculty, and staff informed during emergencies. The documented delivery channels are notably multi-modal for a private institution: institutional email, cell phones, residential ('residenciales') phones, and SMS text messages where the recipient's phone supports it, supplemented by internal radio communication. Recipients are reminded to keep their contact information current in Inter Web (the student/employee portal) so the system can reach them, which makes accurate self-maintained contact data the practical scope limit on reach.\n\nThe [Metro Seguridad page](https://metro.inter.edu/seguridad/) frames notification inside a broader contingency apparatus: the campus's Plan de Contingencia is posted online and kept in printed form in the Rectory, the Deans of Administration / Academic Affairs / Students, Human Resources, the Security Office, and General Services, and 'los Planes de Contingencia se activan ante cualquier situación de emergencia de acuerdo con la naturaleza y severidad del evento.' A standing Comité de Seguridad (Security Committee), designated by the campus's executive head, advises on occupational and physical safety and recommends preventive and corrective measures. Hurricanes and natural disasters are a dominant design driver, consistent with Puerto Rico's hazard environment — the published plans repeatedly address 'desastres naturales' alongside other emergencies.\n\nHonesty notes: the inter.edu / metro.inter.edu hosts blocked automated fetching, so all excerpts were captured from indexed search snippets and could not be confirmed identically across two independent official retrievals; every excerpt is therefore marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false. In particular, the Spanish wording naming 'Connect Alert' and listing its channels was paraphrased consistently across retrievals but not reproduced byte-for-byte, so it is not claimed as verbatim. The named position authorized to activate Connect Alert, a written timing standard, and a published test cadence were not corroborable. Overall confidence is medium: the existence and branding of Connect Alert, its multi-channel design, the portal-update requirement, and the contingency-plan governance are all corroborated across the system's published security documents, but exact wording and governance specifics are not byte-for-byte confirmed.","whenCriteria":"UIPR's contingency plans are activated for any emergency situation according to the nature and severity of the event, following pre-established protocols; Connect Alert is the mechanism for informing the community when an emergency occurs. No separate written threshold distinguishing emergency notifications from Clery timely warnings could be corroborated from an official-attributed source.","decisionAuthority":"Each campus has a Comité de Seguridad (Security Committee) designated by the campus's executive head that advises on safety matters; the Security Office and campus administration manage contingency response. The specific position authorized to activate Connect Alert was not published on an official-attributed source and is not stated here.","cleryFraming":"As a Title IV institution, UIPR is subject to the Clery Act; its published materials emphasize contingency planning and emergency notification (Connect Alert) more than a distinctly labeled timely-warning brand. A specific Clery timely-warning policy text could not be corroborated from the Metro security pages.","scopeLimits":"Connect Alert's reach depends on accurate contact information that students and employees must keep current in the Inter Web portal; recipients without updated cell/residential numbers or SMS-capable phones may receive only email. The system spans email, cell/residential phone, SMS, and internal radio.","channels":["email","phone-call","sms"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Connect Alert system and channels (Spanish)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://metro.inter.edu/seguridad-doc/Plan_Contingencia-2023-UIPR-Marzo.pdf","sourceDescription":"UIPR — Plan de Contingencia (Recinto Metro); host blocked automated fetch, text from search index","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Contingency-plan activation (Spanish)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://metro.inter.edu/seguridad/","sourceDescription":"UIPR — Recinto Metro, Seguridad page; host blocked automated fetch, text from search index","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Portal contact-update requirement (Spanish)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://metro.inter.edu/seguridad/","sourceDescription":"UIPR — Recinto Metro, Seguridad page; host blocked automated fetch, text from search index","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["UIPR (Puerto Rico's largest private university system, documented at its San Juan Metropolitan Campus) operates the branded Connect Alert emergency-notification system.","Connect Alert is multi-channel — institutional email, cell phones, residential phones, SMS, and internal radio communication.","Reach depends on students/employees keeping their contact information current in the Inter Web portal; otherwise they may receive only email.","Notification sits inside a broader Plan de Contingencia (activated by event nature/severity) overseen by a campus Comité de Seguridad, with hurricanes/natural disasters a dominant design driver.","Spanish excerpts could not be confirmed byte-for-byte across two official retrievals (inter.edu hosts blocked automated fetching), so all are isVerbatimConfirmed:false with English translations supplied; confidence is medium."],"sources":[{"title":"UIPR Recinto Metro — Seguridad","url":"https://metro.inter.edu/seguridad/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UIPR — Plan de Contingencia 2023 (Recinto Metro, PDF)","url":"https://metro.inter.edu/seguridad-doc/Plan_Contingencia-2023-UIPR-Marzo.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UIPR Recinto San Germán — Seguridad","url":"https://sg.inter.edu/decanato-de-administracion/seguridad/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Inter American University of Puerto Rico — Official site","url":"https://www.inter.edu/en/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Inter American University of Puerto Rico–Metro — enrollment profile (U.S. News)","url":"https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/inter-american-university-of-puerto-rico-metropolitan-campus-3940/student-life","type":"other"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","territory","puerto-rico","connect-alert","spanish-language","multi-channel","hurricane"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"iowa-state-university-isu-alert-policy","slug":"iowa-state-university-isu-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Iowa State University","shortName":"ISU","state":"IA","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"ISU Alert","enrollment":31105},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification, Response and Evacuation","systemName":"ISU Alert","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.policy.iastate.edu/policy/emergencynotification","lastReviewed":null,"effectiveDate":null,"policyNumber":null},"summary":"Iowa State University delivers emergency notifications through [ISU Alert](https://www.isualert.iastate.edu/about-isu-alert), an electronic mass-notification system that reaches students, faculty, and staff via landline phones, cell phones, text messages, and email, and is reserved for emergencies that pose an immediate danger to the university community. The university's [Emergency Notification, Response and Evacuation policy](https://www.policy.iastate.edu/policy/emergencynotification) commits ISU to notify the campus community 'without unreasonable delay' upon confirmation of an immediate threat, and separately issues Clery timely warnings for serious crimes that may represent a continuing threat.","analysis":"Iowa State frames its alerting in the two tiers required by the Clery Act, set out in the [Emergency Notification, Response and Evacuation policy](https://www.policy.iastate.edu/policy/emergencynotification). **Emergency notifications** address immediate, ongoing dangers: when 'an emergency or dangerous situation pose[s] an immediate threat to the health and safety of campus community members, they shall be notified without unreasonable delay, unless ISU Police determine that an immediate notification would place the ISU community or a victim at greater risk or would compromise efforts to contain, respond to or mitigate the emergency.' Separately, as part of the federal Clery Act, the university 'is required to issue a crime warning for serious crimes that represent a potential threat to the campus community' — its **timely warning** — defined as a communication triggered to alert the community about Clery crimes within a Clery-reportable location that have already been committed and are determined to represent a serious or ongoing threat.\n\nThe operational tool is **ISU Alert**, described by the university as 'an electronic system for quickly delivering emergency messages to Iowa State University students, faculty and staff,' with notifications 'sent via landline phones, cell phones, text messages and e-mail.' The system 'will be used only for emergencies that pose an immediate danger to the university community,' and Iowa State's [Department of Public Safety / ISU Police](https://police.iastate.edu/about/frequently-asked-questions) initiates emergency notifications and the institutional response — immediately investigating reports of significant emergencies and dangerous situations to confirm whether a threat exists.\n\nOn **platform**, Iowa State migrated ISU Alert from Blackboard Connect to Massachusetts-based [Rave Mobile Safety](https://iowastatedaily.com/176223/news/isu-alert-system-to-warn-campus/) in spring 2018; the first campuswide test under the new vendor ran in April of that year. Eligibility is limited to students, faculty, and staff with 'active' status, and as of April 1, 2024 contact information for ISU Alerts is verified and updated in [Workday](https://www.inside.iastate.edu/article/2024/04/04/isualert) rather than the legacy AccessPlus/'My ISU Alerts' portal. Users who opt in for text messages or calls to a cell phone may incur carrier fees.\n\nOn **decision authority and timing**, the standard is speed bounded by an explicit law-enforcement override: notification follows confirmation of an immediate threat 'without unreasonable delay,' but ISU Police may hold or tailor a notification where doing so protects the community or a victim or preserves the integrity of the emergency response — the standard Clery carve-out. The system is exercised through periodic campuswide tests so that the community recognizes a real alert when it arrives.","whenCriteria":"An emergency notification is issued upon confirmation that an emergency or dangerous situation poses an immediate threat to the health and safety of campus community members. ISU Alert is used only for emergencies that pose an immediate danger to the university community. A separate Clery timely warning ('crime warning') is issued for serious Clery crimes within a Clery-reportable location that have already been committed and represent a serious or ongoing threat.","decisionAuthority":"Iowa State University's Department of Public Safety / ISU Police initiates emergency notifications and the institutional response, immediately investigating reports of significant emergencies and dangerous situations within the university community.","timingStandard":"Campus community members 'shall be notified without unreasonable delay' upon confirmation of an immediate threat, unless ISU Police determine that an immediate notification would place the ISU community or a victim at greater risk or would compromise efforts to contain, respond to or mitigate the emergency.","cleryFraming":"Two-tier Clery model: emergency notification for an emergency or dangerous situation posing an immediate threat to health and safety (delivered without unreasonable delay), and a Clery timely warning ('crime warning') for serious crimes within Clery geography that have already occurred but may represent a continuing or potential threat.","testingCadence":"ISU Alert is exercised through periodic campuswide tests; Iowa State has run such tests in the spring (for example, an April 2018 test was the first under the new Rave Mobile Safety vendor). Exact recurring cadence is not specified verbatim in the public policy text reviewed.","scopeLimits":"ISU Alert is reserved for emergencies that pose an immediate danger to the university community; only students, faculty, and staff with 'active' status are eligible to receive messages. ISU Police may delay or tailor an immediate notification when doing so would place the community or a victim at greater risk or compromise the emergency response. Already-occurred Clery crimes with continuing-threat potential are handled through a timely warning rather than ISU Alert's immediate-emergency channel.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Notification timing standard","quotedText":"Should an emergency or dangerous situation pose an immediate threat to the health and safety of campus community members, they shall be notified without unreasonable delay, unless ISU Police determine that an immediate notification would place the ISU community or a victim at greater risk or would compromise efforts to contain, respond to or mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.policy.iastate.edu/policy/emergencynotification","sourceDescription":"ISU Policy Library — Emergency Notification, Response and Evacuation","annotations":["States the 'without unreasonable delay' timing standard and the Clery law-enforcement carve-out vesting judgment in ISU Police."],"characterCount":367},{"label":"ISU Alert purpose and channels","quotedText":"ISU Alert is an electronic system for quickly delivering emergency messages to Iowa State University students, faculty and staff. Notifications will be sent via landline phones, cell phones, text messages and e-mail.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.isualert.iastate.edu/about-isu-alert","sourceDescription":"About ISU Alert","annotations":["Names ISU Alert as the mass-notification tool and enumerates its delivery channels: landline, cell, SMS, and email."],"characterCount":216},{"label":"Scope of ISU Alert","quotedText":"The ISU Alert system will be used only for emergencies that pose an immediate danger to the university community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.isualert.iastate.edu/about-isu-alert","sourceDescription":"About ISU Alert","annotations":["Bounds the system to immediate-danger emergencies, distinguishing it from routine or after-the-fact communications."],"characterCount":113}],"keyFindings":["Iowa State runs a two-tier Clery model: emergency notification (immediate threats, via ISU Alert) and a Clery timely warning / 'crime warning' for serious crimes already committed that may represent a continuing threat.","The policy commits ISU to notify the campus community 'without unreasonable delay' upon confirmation of an immediate threat, subject to the Clery law-enforcement carve-out.","Iowa State's Department of Public Safety / ISU Police initiates emergency notifications and immediately investigates reports of significant emergencies.","ISU Alert delivers via landline, cell phone, text message, and email and is reserved for emergencies posing an immediate danger; only 'active'-status students, faculty, and staff are eligible.","ISU Alert runs on Rave Mobile Safety (migrated from Blackboard Connect in spring 2018); contact information is managed in Workday as of April 1, 2024."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notification, Response and Evacuation | Policy Library — Iowa State University","url":"https://www.policy.iastate.edu/policy/emergencynotification","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"About ISU Alert — ISU Alert","url":"https://www.isualert.iastate.edu/about-isu-alert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Frequently Asked Questions — Iowa State University Police Department","url":"https://police.iastate.edu/about/frequently-asked-questions","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Act — Iowa State University Police Department","url":"https://www.police.iastate.edu/about-us/clery/","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"ISU Alert system to warn campus — Iowa State Daily (Rave Mobile Safety vendor)","url":"https://iowastatedaily.com/176223/news/isu-alert-system-to-warn-campus/","type":"student-newspaper"},{"title":"'My ISU Alerts' has moved to Workday — Inside Iowa State","url":"https://www.inside.iastate.edu/article/2024/04/04/isualert","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","rave-mobile-safety","iowa"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"isothermal-community-college-icc-alert-asr","slug":"isothermal-community-college-icc-alert-asr","institution":{"name":"Isothermal Community College","shortName":"Isothermal","state":"NC","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"ICC Alert","enrollment":2000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warnings and Emergency Notification (2024 ASR published 2025)","systemName":"ICC Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://isothermal.edu/campus-safety/assets/annual-security-report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-01-01"},"summary":"Isothermal Community College documents [Timely Warnings and Emergency Notification](https://isothermal.edu/campus-safety/assets/annual-security-report.pdf) in its 2024 ASR, with President judgment for campus-wide timely warnings issued by Marketing, without-delay emergency activation using ICC Alert and outdoor warning, and monthly announced multi-system tests with Rutherford County Communications Center.","analysis":"Isothermal Community College, a North Carolina Community College System institution, publishes Timely Warning and Emergency Notification procedures in its [Campus Safety and Security Report for 2024 (published 2025)](https://isothermal.edu/campus-safety/assets/annual-security-report.pdf). Timely warnings for ongoing or continuing threats are judged by the college President or designee; as soon as pertinent information is available, the Director of Marketing and Community Relations notifies the campus community via email, text, Moodle, desktop and campus phone notifications, website, flyers, and/or local media.\n\nEmergency notifications activate without delay for immediate threats or significant operational disruption (active shooter, natural disaster, weather, fire, gas leak, etc.), with confirmation involving the President, designated staff, Campus Resource Officers, and/or Rutherford County Communications Center. Activation may use outdoor warning (Rutherford main campus), fire alarms, ICC Alert text and email, phone intercom, desktop notifications, website, Facebook, and local media. The College and Rutherford County Communications Center conduct an announced monthly test of outdoor warning, ICC Alert, and college phone and desktop systems—an unusually frequent fixed test cadence.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning when President or designee judges ongoing or continuing threat on or off campus involving safety, security, and/or health. Emergency notification for immediate threat to campus community or significant disruption of college operations.","decisionAuthority":"President or designee judges timely warning need; Director of Marketing and Community Relations issues TW notifications. Emergency confirmation involves President, designated staff, Campus Resource Officers, and/or Rutherford County Communications; activation by Rutherford County Communications Center, Director of Marketing, CIO, and/or designated staff.","timingStandard":"Timely warning as soon as pertinent information is available. Emergency notification without delay unless professional judgment finds compromise of victim assistance or mitigation.","cleryFraming":"ASR sections VII Timely Warnings and VIII Emergency Notification implement Clery two-track messaging with ICC Alert and multi-channel outdoor/intercom systems and monthly joint tests with county communications.","scopeLimits":"Notification may go to entire or segment of campus community; outdoor warning on Rutherford main campus; follow-up notifications as needed.","testingCadence":"Announced monthly test of outdoor warning, ICC Alert, and college phone and desktop systems with Rutherford County Communications Center. Additional building mock drills at least once announced and twice unannounced per year per building goals.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","desktop-popup","pa-system","website","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"President TW judgment Marketing issuance","quotedText":"In the event that a situation arises, either on or off campus facilities, that, in the judgment of the college President or designee, constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat, a campus-wide “timely warning” will be issued. The situation may involve safety, security, and/or health. As soon as pertinent information is available, the Director of Marketing and Community Relations and/or designee will take all measures to notify the entire campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://isothermal.edu/campus-safety/assets/annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Isothermal 2024 ASR Timely Warning","annotations":["President judges; Marketing issues as soon as pertinent information available."],"characterCount":459},{"label":"Without-delay emergency activation","quotedText":"The College activates its emergency notification system without delay in response to any situation that poses an immediate threat to the campus community or could disrupt college operations in a significant manner.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://isothermal.edu/campus-safety/assets/annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Isothermal 2024 ASR Emergency Notification","annotations":["Without-delay EN for immediate threat or significant operational disruption."],"characterCount":214},{"label":"Monthly joint multi-system test","quotedText":"The College and Rutherford County Communications Center conduct an announced test monthly using the outdoor warning, ICC Alert, and college phone and desktop systems.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://isothermal.edu/campus-safety/assets/annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Isothermal 2024 ASR Emergency Notification testing","annotations":["Monthly announced joint test with county communications—highly specific cadence."],"characterCount":166}],"keyFindings":["President judges timely warnings; Marketing Director issues them multi-channel.","Emergency notification without delay for immediate threat or significant operational disruption.","Monthly announced joint tests of outdoor warning, ICC Alert, phone, and desktop with Rutherford County Communications."],"sources":[{"title":"Isothermal Campus Safety and Security Report for 2024 (published 2025) PDF","url":"https://isothermal.edu/campus-safety/assets/annual-security-report.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["north-carolina","community-college","clery-asr","icc-alert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"ivy-tech-community-college-ivyalert-policy","slug":"ivy-tech-community-college-ivyalert-policy","institution":{"name":"Ivy Tech Community College","shortName":"Ivy Tech","state":"IN","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"IvyAlert (Rave)","enrollment":160000},"policy":{"title":"IvyAlert emergency notification system overview","systemName":"IvyAlert (Rave)","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.ivytech.edu/student-services/public-safety/ivyalert/","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Ivy Tech Community College documents [IvyAlert](https://www.ivytech.edu/student-services/public-safety/ivyalert/) as its Rave-based multi-campus emergency notification system, with default Ivy Tech email subscription, optional text, per-campus opt-in lists, and a formal Emergency vs Urgent message taxonomy with abbreviated campus names for SMS length.","analysis":"Ivy Tech Community College, Indiana's statewide multi-campus community college system, publishes a public IvyAlert system overview rather than only ASR-embedded language. Source: [IvyAlert page](https://www.ivytech.edu/student-services/public-safety/ivyalert/). Subscription defaults to the Ivy Tech email address and alerts for each campus where the recipient is currently taking classes. Users customize preferences at getrave.com/login/ivytech by adding mobile numbers and selecting Opt-In Lists across 19 campuses.\n\nMessage taxonomy is institution-specific: Emergency messages require immediate action to protect life, health, and/or property; Urgent messages require action for safety, including changes in campus operations and instructional delivery. Because of text length constraints, IvyAlert uses a published table of campus abbreviations (for example Sellersburg as Sllrsbrg and Indianapolis Service Area as IndySA). A sample Urgent weather virtual-operations message on the page matches the regional IvyAlert style used in December 2025 multi-campus winter weather cases.","whenCriteria":"Emergency: immediate action required to protect life, health, and/or property. Urgent: action required for safety, including campus operations and instructional delivery changes. Also used for campus emergencies, operations, and instructional delivery updates.","decisionAuthority":"Not named as a specific role on the system-overview page; IvyAlert is the college-wide Rave channel for emergency and urgent operational messaging.","timingStandard":"Timely updates language; Emergency requires immediate action; no fixed minutes standard stated on the overview page.","cleryFraming":"Public system overview for the Rave IvyAlert channel used for emergency and urgent multi-campus messaging, complementary to campus ASR emergency-notification sections.","scopeLimits":"Default campus list is based on current enrollment campuses; additional campuses require Opt-In Lists; SMS subject to carrier rates and text-length abbreviations.","testingCadence":"Not specified on the IvyAlert overview page.","channels":["email","sms","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency category definition","quotedText":"Emergency – Is placed at the beginning of an IvyAlert that requires immediate action on the part of the recipient to protect life, health, and/or property.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ivytech.edu/student-services/public-safety/ivyalert/","sourceDescription":"IvyAlert MESSAGE UPDATES section","annotations":["Defines Emergency message category."],"characterCount":155},{"label":"Urgent category definition","quotedText":"Urgent – Is placed at the beginning of an IvyAlert message that requires an action on the part of the recipient for their safety. This may include changes in campus operations and instructional delivery.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ivytech.edu/student-services/public-safety/ivyalert/","sourceDescription":"IvyAlert MESSAGE UPDATES section","annotations":["Defines Urgent message category including instructional delivery changes."],"characterCount":203},{"label":"Sample Urgent weather message","quotedText":"URGENT IvyAlert [CampusName]: All locations operating virtually [Insert date] due to weather. Students check IvyLearn & staff check ITCC email for info.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ivytech.edu/student-services/public-safety/ivyalert/","sourceDescription":"IvyAlert sample message template","annotations":["Published sample matches multi-campus weather virtual-ops practice."],"characterCount":152}],"keyFindings":["IvyAlert uses a formal Emergency vs Urgent message taxonomy.","Default subscription is Ivy Tech email for campuses where the user is enrolled; Rave Opt-In Lists expand campus coverage.","Published SMS campus abbreviations and sample Urgent weather virtual-operations template."],"sources":[{"title":"IvyAlert official page","url":"https://www.ivytech.edu/student-services/public-safety/ivyalert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"IvyAlert Rave login","url":"http://www.getrave.com/login/ivytech","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["indiana","community-college","system-overview","ivyalert","rave","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"jackson-state-university-alert-policy","slug":"jackson-state-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Jackson State University","shortName":"JSU","state":"MS","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"JSU Alert / JSU Emergency Alert System","enrollment":6326},"policy":{"title":"JSU Alert / Emergency Alerts and Clery Timely Warnings","systemName":"JSU Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.jsums.edu/emergencymanagement/how-the-jsu-alert-system-works/","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Jackson State University — Mississippi's urban [HBCU](https://www.jsums.edu/emergencymanagement/) in Jackson — operates \"JSU Alert,\" an emergency mass-notification system that pushes text, voice, email, and social-media messages to students, faculty, and staff, supplemented by the [JSU Safe mobile app](https://www.jsums.edu/emergencymanagement/what-is-jsusafe/). The University issues timely warnings for Clery crimes posing an ongoing threat and emergency notifications upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation, disclosing both in its [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.jsums.edu/clery-act/) published by October 1 each year.","analysis":"Jackson State University's notification backbone is **JSU Alert** (the JSU Emergency Alert System), described as enabling emergency-response team members to distribute messages to students, faculty, and staff via text, phone, and email during inclement weather, campus closures, campus safety concerns, or other emergencies. Per the University's [emergency-management material](https://www.jsums.edu/emergencymanagement/how-the-jsu-alert-system-works/), recipients receive text and voice messages in minutes whether on or off campus, in class or in transit. JSU Emergency Alert reaches the community via phone, text message, email, and social media, and messages automatically post to JSU's official Facebook page and Twitter (X) account — an unusually explicit social-media auto-syndication clause.\n\n**Scope limits.** JSU draws a tight scope around the system: \"Other than tests or other relevant public safety information, this system will ONLY be used for emergencies requiring immediate action on the part of the JSU community.\" The University illustrates the trigger with weather: \"Upon receipt of a tornado watch or other emergencies, the JSU Alert System will be activated and the nature of the emergency will be given.\"\n\n**Companion app.** JSU layers the [JSU Safe app](https://www.jsums.edu/emergencymanagement/what-is-jsusafe/) — described as the official safety app of Jackson State and the only app that integrates with JSU's safety and security systems — on top of JSU Alert. The app delivers safety notifications and instructions during on-campus emergencies and adds Mobile BlueLight / panic button, Friend Walk, and Virtual Walkhome features with real-time location and 911 integration.\n\n**Clery framing.** Through its [Clery Act program](https://www.jsums.edu/clery-act/), Jackson State issues timely warnings and campus alerts for Clery crimes that represent an ongoing threat to the safety of students or employees, and emergency notifications upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees — the standard Clery two-track distinction. Timely-warning notices are initiated for crimes that pose an ongoing threat occurring on or within close proximity of the University's campuses. The Department of Public Safety publishes these policies, along with three years of crime and fire statistics, in the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report distributed no later than October 1 of each year. Emergency response and evacuation procedures are publicized and tested consistent with the Clery Act's at-least-annual testing requirement.","whenCriteria":"JSU Alert is activated for emergencies requiring immediate action — inclement weather, campus closures, campus safety concerns, or other emergencies (e.g., upon receipt of a tornado watch). Emergency notifications are issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees.","decisionAuthority":"Emergency-response team members (coordinated through the JSU Department of Public Safety / Emergency Management) distribute JSU Alert messages; the public material does not name a single authorizing official verbatim, though Clery responses are signed by the Chief of Police.","timingStandard":"Recipients receive text and voice messages 'in minutes'; emergency notifications follow confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety (Clery immediate-threat framework).","cleryFraming":"Two-track Clery model: timely warnings/campus alerts for Clery crimes posing an ongoing threat (on or near campus), and emergency notifications on confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety.","testingCadence":"Emergency response and evacuation procedures are publicized and tested in line with the Clery Act's at-least-annual testing requirement; the JSU Alert system is also used for periodic tests (tests are explicitly carved out of the 'emergencies only' scope limit).","scopeLimits":"Other than tests or other relevant public safety information, the JSU Alert System will ONLY be used for emergencies requiring immediate action on the part of the JSU community — a strict no-routine-messaging scope.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","twitter-x","facebook","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"JSU Alert system definition and channels","quotedText":"The JSU emergency alert system enables emergency response team members to distribute messages to students, faculty, and staff via text, phone and email during times of inclement weather, campus closures, campus safety concerns or other emergencies.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.jsums.edu/emergencymanagement/how-the-jsu-alert-system-works/","sourceDescription":"Jackson State University — How the JSU Alert System Works","annotations":["Defines who sends, who receives, by what channels, and for what triggers; reproduced consistently across the JSU emergency-management and university-communications pages."],"characterCount":248},{"label":"Emergencies-only scope limit","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.jsums.edu/emergencymanagement/how-the-jsu-alert-system-works/","sourceDescription":"Jackson State University — How the JSU Alert System Works","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Tornado-watch activation example","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.jsums.edu/emergencymanagement/how-the-jsu-alert-system-works/","sourceDescription":"Jackson State University — How the JSU Alert System Works","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Social-media auto-syndication of alerts","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.jsums.edu/universitycommunications/emergency-alerts/","sourceDescription":"Jackson State University — Emergency Alerts (University Communications)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["JSU Alert (the JSU Emergency Alert System) distributes text, voice, and email messages to students, faculty, and staff for inclement weather, campus closures, safety concerns, and other emergencies, delivered 'in minutes.'","Alerts automatically post to JSU's official Facebook and Twitter (X) accounts, broadening reach beyond direct SMS/voice/email.","A strict scope limit: aside from tests and relevant public-safety information, the system is used ONLY for emergencies requiring immediate action.","The JSU Safe app — the official safety app integrated with JSU's security systems — layers safety notifications plus Mobile BlueLight/panic, Friend Walk, and Virtual Walkhome on top of JSU Alert.","Clery two-track framing: timely warnings/campus alerts for ongoing-threat Clery crimes, and emergency notifications on confirmation of an immediate threat; both disclosed in the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report by October 1."],"sources":[{"title":"How the JSU Alert System Works — Emergency Management, Jackson State University","url":"https://www.jsums.edu/emergencymanagement/how-the-jsu-alert-system-works/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Alerts — University Communications, Jackson State University","url":"https://www.jsums.edu/universitycommunications/emergency-alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"What is JSU Safe — Emergency Management, Jackson State University","url":"https://www.jsums.edu/emergencymanagement/what-is-jsusafe/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Jeanne Clery Act — Jackson State University","url":"https://www.jsums.edu/clery-act/","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Your Right to Know — JSU Department of Public Safety","url":"https://www.jsums.edu/campuspolice/your-rights-to-know2/","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","hbcu","mississippi"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"james-madison-university-madison-alert-policy","slug":"james-madison-university-madison-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"James Madison University","shortName":"JMU","state":"VA","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"Madison Alert","enrollment":22000},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications and Madison Alert","systemName":"Madison Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.jmu.edu/publicsafety/emergency_notifications.shtml"},"summary":"James Madison University issues [emergency notifications](https://www.jmu.edu/publicsafety/emergency_notifications.shtml) and [timely warnings](https://www.jmu.edu/police/clerycompliance/safety_announcements.shtml) through the Rave-based emergency notification system (delivered via text, voice, and email through MyMadison) alongside the campus-wide Madison ALERT outdoor siren and PA system; the Chief of Police or designee decides, case by case, whether a serious or ongoing threat warrants activation.","analysis":"James Madison University runs a layered alerting program. The branded outdoor component, the [Madison ALERT](https://www.jmu.edu/police/emergency_sounds.shtml) system, is described by the university as \"a general purpose system that can be used for all emergencies\" that is \"capable of both recorded and live audio signals\"; its siren is intended to immediately get the attention of the JMU community, after which people should seek shelter in a secure location and follow any verbal instructions broadcast over the PA. Electronic notifications — the SMS, voice, and email messages branded as JMU Alert — are sent through the [Rave Emergency Notification System](https://www.jmu.edu/publicsafety/emergency_notifications.shtml), which is connected to students' accounts through MyMadison.\n\nJMU separates the two Clery communication categories cleanly. Emergency notifications are issued upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus. [Timely warnings](https://www.jmu.edu/police/clerycompliance/safety_announcements.shtml), by contrast, are initiated when the JMU Police Department identifies a Clery Act reportable crime occurring on Clery geography that poses an ongoing or serious threat to students, employees, and/or visitors. Timely warnings are primarily triggered by the core Clery crime categories — criminal homicide, sex offenses, robbery involving force or violence, aggravated assault, and major cases of arson — but may also be posted for other classifications when deemed necessary on a case-by-case basis.\n\nDecision authority for timely warnings rests with the Chief of Police or designee, who, after reviewing the facts and circumstances of the incident, judges whether a situation on Clery geography (the campus, noncampus property owned or controlled by the university, and adjacent public property such as roadways and sidewalks) constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat. JMU notes it is not legally required to issue a timely warning for off-campus crimes outside Clery geography, but evaluates such incidents case by case in conjunction with the lead investigating law-enforcement agency and may issue a community alert when warranted.\n\nEnrollment is anchored in MyMadison. An email goes to all students, faculty, staff, and affiliates, while text and voice messages reach the cell phones of those who have enrolled for emergency notification through MyMadison; incoming students complete enrollment as part of the Orientation OneBook, and returning students must update registration before each fall and spring term. JMU tests the emergency notification systems on a recurring basis — a representative announced test took place on a Sunday in September, during which the outdoor siren and PA were tested with a siren and audible message broadcast across the system, alongside email and text/voice to enrolled cell phones. Because the .edu hosts return HTTP 403 to automated fetches in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from text that recurred identically across multiple independent searches of the official JMU public-safety pages rather than from a direct page fetch. A 2026-08-02 recheck found the JMU Police Department's emergency-notifications page has moved from a jmu.edu/police/ address to a jmu.edu/publicsafety/ address (the department itself is still named the JMU Police Department, led by Chief Anthony D. Matos, per its staff and about pages); this file's Rave/emergency-notifications links were updated to the new address, while the Clery safety-announcements and emergency-sounds pages still resolved at their original police/ addresses in search results and were left unchanged.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notifications are issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees on campus. Timely warnings are initiated when JMU Police identify a Clery Act reportable crime on Clery geography that poses an ongoing or serious threat to students, employees, and/or visitors; they are primarily triggered by homicide, sex offenses, robbery involving force or violence, aggravated assault, and major arson, and may extend to other classifications case by case.","decisionAuthority":"Incidents are evaluated by the Chief of Police, or designee, on a case-by-case basis after reviewing the facts and circumstances to determine whether a serious or ongoing/continuing threat to the community exists, which governs both timely warnings and the decision to activate emergency notifications.","timingStandard":"Timely warnings are issued to notify the campus community when a qualifying ongoing or continuing threat exists; emergency notifications are issued upon confirmation of an immediate threat. JMU frames its standard around the Clery Act requirement to warn the community in a timely manner / without unreasonable delay once a qualifying threat is identified.","cleryFraming":"Explicit two-track Clery model: emergency notifications for confirmed significant emergencies/dangerous situations posing an immediate threat to health or safety on campus, and timely warnings for Clery Act reportable crimes on Clery geography (campus, noncampus, and adjacent public property) posing an ongoing or serious threat. Off-campus crimes outside Clery geography are evaluated case by case and may yield a community alert.","testingCadence":"JMU conducts recurring tests of the emergency notification systems; a representative announced test occurred on a Sunday afternoon in September, when the on-campus outdoor siren and PA system were tested with a siren and audible message, alongside an email to all students/faculty/staff/affiliates and text/voice messages to enrolled cell phones. Exact recurring schedule not reproduced verbatim from the official page in this environment.","scopeLimits":"Email reaches all students, faculty, staff, and affiliates automatically; SMS and voice reach only those enrolled through MyMadison, so individuals must complete or update registration (incoming students via the Orientation OneBook; returning students before each fall and spring term). The Madison ALERT outdoor siren/PA is a campus-area channel for people physically on campus. JMU is not legally required to issue timely warnings for off-campus crimes outside Clery geography.","channels":["siren","pa-system","sms","phone-call","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Madison ALERT general-purpose system","quotedText":"The Madison ALERT system is a general purpose system that can be used for all emergencies and is capable of both recorded and live audio signals.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.jmu.edu/police/emergency_sounds.shtml","sourceDescription":"Emergency Alert Tones — JMU Police, James Madison University","annotations":["Returned word-for-word and identically across multiple independent searches of the JMU public-safety pages; describes the outdoor siren/PA component of JMU's alerting program. Direct fetch of the .edu page returned HTTP 403. Re-confirmed word-for-word in a fresh search on 2026-08-02."],"characterCount":145},{"label":"Timely warning trigger","quotedText":"A timely warning is initiated when the James Madison University Police Department identifies a Clery Act reportable crime that occurs on Clery geography that poses an ongoing or serious threat to students, employees and/or visitors.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.jmu.edu/police/clerycompliance/safety_announcements.shtml","sourceDescription":"Safety Announcements — JMU Clery Compliance, James Madison University","annotations":["Recurred identically across independent searches of the JMU Clery-compliance pages; defines what initiates a timely warning and the ongoing/serious-threat standard. Re-confirmed word-for-word in a fresh search on 2026-08-02."],"characterCount":232},{"label":"Decision authority and Clery geography","quotedText":"Timely warning notifications are sent to notify the campus community in the event that a situation arises on Clery geography which encompasses the JMU campus, noncampus property (property owned/controlled by the university), and public property (roadway and sidewalks immediately adjacent to campus) that, in the judgment of the Chief of Police, or his designee, after reviewing the facts and circumstances of the incident, constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.jmu.edu/police/clerycompliance/safety_announcements.shtml","sourceDescription":"Safety Announcements — JMU Clery Compliance, James Madison University","annotations":["Reproduced consistently across independent searches; establishes the Chief of Police (or designee) as the decision authority and defines Clery geography for JMU."],"characterCount":492},{"label":"Rave delivery via MyMadison","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.jmu.edu/publicsafety/emergency_notifications.shtml","sourceDescription":"Emergency Notifications — JMU Police, James Madison University","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["JMU runs a layered program: the Madison ALERT outdoor siren/PA system (a general-purpose, all-emergencies system with recorded and live audio) plus electronic JMU Alert messages sent through the Rave Emergency Notification System via MyMadison.","Emergency notifications are issued upon confirmation of an immediate threat to health or safety on campus; timely warnings are initiated when JMU Police identify a Clery Act reportable crime on Clery geography posing an ongoing or serious threat.","Decision authority rests with the Chief of Police or designee, who evaluates incidents case by case after reviewing the facts and circumstances.","Email reaches all students, faculty, staff, and affiliates automatically; SMS and voice require enrollment through MyMadison (incoming students via Orientation OneBook; returning students re-register each fall and spring).","JMU tests the emergency notification systems periodically (e.g., a Sunday-afternoon September test), exercising the siren/PA together with email and text/voice to enrolled phones."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notifications — JMU Police, James Madison University","url":"https://www.jmu.edu/publicsafety/emergency_notifications.shtml","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Safety Announcements — JMU Clery Compliance, James Madison University","url":"https://www.jmu.edu/police/clerycompliance/safety_announcements.shtml","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Emergency Alert Tones — JMU Police, James Madison University","url":"https://www.jmu.edu/police/emergency_sounds.shtml","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"How to Sign-Up for Alerts — JMU","url":"https://www.jmu.edu/safetyplan/alerts_signup.shtml","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"James Madison University to conduct test of emergency systems — JMU News","url":"https://www.jmu.edu/news//2023/02/28-emergency-test.shtml","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","virginia","public-r2","siren","rave"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-02","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"johns-hopkins-university-alert-policy","slug":"johns-hopkins-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Johns Hopkins University","shortName":"JHU","state":"MD","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"Johns Hopkins Emergency Alert System","enrollment":31275},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications","systemName":"Johns Hopkins Emergency Alert System (Rave)","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://publicsafety.jhu.edu/resources-services/emergency-notifications/"},"summary":"The [Johns Hopkins Emergency Alert System](https://publicsafety.jhu.edu/resources-services/emergency-notifications/), powered by Rave Mobile Safety, sends a short text message to each subscriber's cellphone when there is a significant incident that presents imminent danger; separately, [Security Alerts](https://publicsafety.jhu.edu/clery-crime-data/campus-security-alerts/) are issued by Campus Safety & Security under the Clery Act to notify the community of certain crimes in a manner that is timely and will aid in the prevention of similar crimes.","analysis":"Johns Hopkins University operates a two-track Clery communications model through its [Department of Public Safety / Campus Safety & Security](https://publicsafety.jhu.edu/). The first track is emergency notification: the [Johns Hopkins Emergency Alert System](https://publicsafety.jhu.edu/resources-services/emergency-notifications/) is powered by Rave Mobile Safety, and if there is a significant incident that presents imminent danger, a short text message is sent to the cellphone of each subscriber. The university describes Rave as its primary tool for brief, actionable text alerts — instructions such as avoid this area, shelter in place, all clear, or operational changes due to weather — and the system is also used for timely operational updates including inclement-weather notifications and emergency road closures. As of late 2025 more than 60,000 Hopkins affiliates were enrolled.\n\nThe second track is Clery timely warning: [Security Alerts](https://publicsafety.jhu.edu/clery-crime-data/campus-security-alerts/) are used by Campus Safety & Security to notify the campus community of certain crimes in a manner that is timely and will aid in the prevention of similar crimes, and crime reports and security alerts are published in accordance with the Clery Act. The system is available only to Johns Hopkins students, faculty, and staff. By default, affiliates are subscribed to receive notification to their Hopkins email account for their primary campus; those who have provided a cell-phone number also receive emergency alerts via text-message notification.\n\nOn platform/vendor, Hopkins publicly identifies Rave Mobile Safety as the technology behind the alert system; earlier public references and some peer-school comparisons sometimes describe legacy Everbridge usage, but the current Hopkins-branded system is the Rave-powered Johns Hopkins Emergency Alert System. On testing, the university runs periodic emergency-alert-system tests across its campuses (for example, recurring Homewood campus emergency-alert-systems tests publicized through the university Hub in 2025). The public pages reviewed do not name a single specific officeholder who must authorize each emergency notification, nor do they reproduce a minute-based timeliness standard. (Policy language here is reproduced from search-engine snippets of the official JHU Public Safety pages and the JHU Hub, which returned HTTP 403 when fetched directly in this environment; phrases that recurred identically across multiple independent results are marked verbatim-confirmed below.)","whenCriteria":"An emergency alert (text message) is sent when there is a significant incident that presents imminent danger. The Rave system is also used for brief, actionable instructions (avoid this area, shelter in place, all clear) and for timely operational updates such as inclement-weather notifications and emergency road closures. Separately, Clery Security Alerts are issued to notify the community of certain crimes in a timely manner that will aid in the prevention of similar crimes.","decisionAuthority":"Campus Safety & Security (the Johns Hopkins Department of Public Safety) issues Security Alerts and operates the Emergency Alert System. The public pages reviewed do not name a single specific officeholder who must authorize each emergency notification.","timingStandard":"Security Alerts are issued in a manner that is timely and will aid in the prevention of similar crimes; emergency alerts are sent when a significant incident presents imminent danger. No specific minute-based timeliness standard is reproduced on the public pages reviewed.","cleryFraming":"Johns Hopkins separates the two Clery message types: emergency notifications (a short text message via the Rave-powered Emergency Alert System when a significant incident presents imminent danger) and Security Alerts (Clery timely warnings used to notify the community of certain crimes in a timely manner that will aid in preventing similar crimes). Crime reports and security alerts are published in accordance with the Clery Act.","testingCadence":"The university runs periodic emergency-alert-system tests across its campuses; recurring Homewood campus emergency-alert-systems tests were publicized through the JHU Hub during 2025. A specific fixed cadence is not stated in numeric form on the public pages reviewed.","scopeLimits":"The system is available only to Johns Hopkins students, faculty, and staff. By default, affiliates are subscribed to receive notification to their Hopkins email account for their primary campus; those who provide a cell-phone number also receive text-message emergency alerts. As of late 2025, more than 60,000 affiliates were enrolled.","channels":["sms","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Platform and trigger","quotedText":"Johns Hopkins Emergency Alert System is powered by Rave Mobile Safety. If there is a significant incident that presents imminent danger, a short text message will be sent to the cellphone of each subscriber.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://publicsafety.jhu.edu/resources-services/emergency-notifications/","sourceDescription":"JHU Public Safety - Emergency Notifications page (reproduced identically across multiple independent search results; official page HTTP 403 on direct fetch)","annotations":["Names Rave Mobile Safety as the platform and states the imminent-danger trigger for a short text alert; this exact wording recurred identically across multiple independent search results."],"characterCount":207},{"label":"Clery Security Alerts (timely warning)","quotedText":"Security Alerts are used by Campus Safety & Security to notify the campus community of certain crimes in a manner that is timely and will aid in the prevention of similar crimes.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://publicsafety.jhu.edu/clery-crime-data/campus-security-alerts/","sourceDescription":"JHU Public Safety - Campus Security Alerts page (reproduced identically across multiple independent search results; official page HTTP 403 on direct fetch)","annotations":["Defines the Clery timely-warning track (Security Alerts) and the 'timely / aid in the prevention of similar crimes' standard; identical wording recurred across multiple search results."],"characterCount":178},{"label":"Default subscription / opt-in for text","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://publicsafety.jhu.edu/resources-services/emergency-notifications/","sourceDescription":"JHU Public Safety / JHU enrollment guidance (reproduced via search snippet; official page HTTP 403 on direct fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["The Johns Hopkins Emergency Alert System is powered by Rave Mobile Safety and sends a short text message to each subscriber when a significant incident presents imminent danger.","Hopkins runs a two-track Clery model: Rave emergency notifications for imminent danger and Security Alerts (timely warnings) for certain crimes issued in a manner that is timely and will aid in the prevention of similar crimes.","Campus Safety & Security (JHU Department of Public Safety) operates the alert system and issues Security Alerts; no single authorizing officeholder is named on the public pages reviewed.","Affiliates are subscribed by default to Hopkins email for their primary campus and may opt in to text alerts by providing a cell number; the system is available only to JHU students, faculty, and staff, with 60,000+ enrolled as of late 2025.","The university runs periodic emergency-alert-system tests (e.g., recurring 2025 Homewood campus tests publicized via the JHU Hub); no numeric fixed cadence or minute-based timeliness standard is reproduced on the public pages reviewed."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notifications | JHU Public Safety","url":"https://publicsafety.jhu.edu/resources-services/emergency-notifications/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Campus Security Alerts | JHU Public Safety","url":"https://publicsafety.jhu.edu/clery-crime-data/campus-security-alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Alerts & Notifications | JHU Public Safety","url":"https://publicsafety.jhu.edu/resources-and-services/alerts-notifications/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Opt in now for important Rave alerts | JHU Hub","url":"https://hub.jhu.edu/at-work/2025/12/11/opt-in-now-for-rave-alerts/","type":"official-social"},{"title":"Today, Nov. 25: Homewood campus emergency alert systems test | JHU Hub","url":"https://hub.jhu.edu/announcements/2025/11/24/today-november-25-homewood-campus-emergency-alert-systems-test/","type":"official-social"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","johns-hopkins-university","rave-mobile-safety","clery"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"johnson-county-community-college-emergency-notification-system","slug":"johnson-county-community-college-emergency-notification-system","institution":{"name":"Johnson County Community College","shortName":"JCCC","state":"KS","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"JCCC Alert","alertPlatform":"Rave","enrollment":18768},"policy":{"title":"College Emergency Notification System / JCCC Alert","systemName":"JCCC Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.jccc.edu/student-resources/police-safety/college-emergency-response-plan/college-emergency-notification-system.html"},"summary":"Johnson County Community College publishes its [College Emergency Notification System](https://www.jccc.edu/student-resources/police-safety/college-emergency-response-plan/college-emergency-notification-system.html) page inside its College Emergency Response Plan, layering the Rave-powered [JCCC Alert](https://www.jccc.edu/student-resources/police-safety/jccc-alert.html) text-and-email service, which automatically enrolls all students and employees, over an in-building audible announcement system with building-and-floor targeting, fire alarms with strobes, the college website, social media accounts, and the main phone greeting.","analysis":"Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas, one of the state's largest community colleges at roughly [18,800 students](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_County_Community_College), documents its emergency alerting as a chapter of its College Emergency Response Plan rather than as a standalone Clery policy statement: the [College Emergency Notification System page](https://www.jccc.edu/student-resources/police-safety/college-emergency-response-plan/college-emergency-notification-system.html) sits alongside companion pages on reporting emergencies, emergency personnel, and common-emergency procedures, and is paired with a dedicated [JCCC Alert page](https://www.jccc.edu/student-resources/police-safety/jccc-alert.html) describing the subscriber-facing service.\n\nThe design principle the pages state is redundancy: the college's stated goal is to communicate emergency information in many different ways so that people receive notification as quickly as possible. The layers are unusually concrete for a community college. JCCC Alert, run with the mobile safety vendor [Rave](https://www.jccc.edu/student-resources/police-safety/jccc-alert.html), carries text and email and enrolls every student and active employee automatically. Inside buildings, an audible announcement system in the hallways of all buildings advises of the situation and how to respond, and its messaging can be isolated to a specific building or floor for localized incidents, a targeting capability most institutions in this archive do not document. Each building's fire alarm with flashing strobes signals evacuation. Around those, the college posts notifications and links on its website, uses its Facebook and X accounts, and changes the main phone greeting when campus closes or an incident is underway, a channel visible in practice in the archive's JCCC winter-closure cases.\n\nThe pages also draw a plain usage boundary that functions as activation criteria: JCCC Alert is reserved for campus emergencies and timely warnings, described as situations where a dangerous condition exists on campus, with a threat to personal safety and a tornado warning given as examples, or where the college is closed because of weather. That single sentence folds the Clery timely-warning vocabulary into an otherwise operational page, though the college does not publish separate emergency-notification versus timely-warning criteria in this cluster of pages. Because jccc.edu blocks automated fetches from this research environment, the excerpts below are reconstructed from search-engine-indexed extracts of the cited pages and are marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false, with confidence held at medium.","whenCriteria":"JCCC Alert messages are limited to campus emergencies and timely warnings: a dangerous condition existing on campus, such as a threat to personal safety or an issued tornado warning, or a weather closure of the college.","decisionAuthority":"The notification system is documented under the JCCC Police Department's College Emergency Response Plan; the public pages do not name the specific official who authorizes an activation.","timingStandard":"The stated goal is to communicate emergency information in many different ways to ensure people receive notification as quickly as possible; no Clery without-delay language appears on the public pages.","cleryFraming":"The pages use the timely-warning term inside a single usage promise (emergencies and timely warnings only) but do not publish separate Clery emergency-notification versus timely-warning criteria in this page cluster.","scopeLimits":"All students and employees are automatically enrolled in JCCC Alert, with other pre-designated individuals able to receive messages; in-building audible messaging can be isolated to a specific building or floor; subscriber information is not given to others.","channels":["sms","email","pa-system","website","facebook","twitter-x","phone-call","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Usage boundary and activation criteria","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.jccc.edu/student-resources/police-safety/jccc-alert.html","sourceDescription":"JCCC Alert Emergency Notification System, Johnson County Community College; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"In-building audible system with floor-level targeting","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.jccc.edu/student-resources/police-safety/college-emergency-response-plan/college-emergency-notification-system.html","sourceDescription":"College Emergency Notification System, Johnson County Community College Emergency Response Plan; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Vendor and automatic enrollment","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.jccc.edu/student-resources/police-safety/jccc-alert.html","sourceDescription":"JCCC Alert Emergency Notification System, Johnson County Community College; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Phone greeting as a closure channel","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.jccc.edu/student-resources/police-safety/college-emergency-response-plan/college-emergency-notification-system.html","sourceDescription":"College Emergency Notification System, Johnson County Community College Emergency Response Plan; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["JCCC documents alerting as a chapter of its College Emergency Response Plan, with a stated design goal of redundancy: text, email, in-building audio, fire alarms with strobes, website, social accounts, and the main phone greeting.","The in-building audible system can isolate messaging to a specific building or floor, a targeting capability rarely documented publicly at community colleges.","All students and employees are automatically enrolled in the Rave-powered JCCC Alert, and the college promises the channel is used only for campus emergencies and timely warnings.","The pages fold Clery timely-warning vocabulary into an operational usage promise rather than publishing separate activation criteria for notifications versus warnings."],"sources":[{"title":"College Emergency Notification System, Johnson County Community College","url":"https://www.jccc.edu/student-resources/police-safety/college-emergency-response-plan/college-emergency-notification-system.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"JCCC Alert Emergency Notification System, Johnson County Community College","url":"https://www.jccc.edu/student-resources/police-safety/jccc-alert.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Police & Safety, Johnson County Community College","url":"https://www.jccc.edu/student-resources/police-safety/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Johnson County Community College, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_County_Community_College","type":"reference"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["johnson-county-community-college-winter-weather-closure-2025-02-18","johnson-county-community-college-tornado-watch-2026-06-10","johnson-county-community-college-com-building-power-outage-2026-05-19"],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","system-overview","emergency-notification","kansas","community-college","rave","automatic-enrollment","building-targeting","channel-redundancy"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-31","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"kansas-state-university-k-state-alerts-policy","slug":"kansas-state-university-k-state-alerts-policy","institution":{"name":"Kansas State University","shortName":"K-State","state":"KS","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"K-State Alerts","enrollment":20295},"policy":{"title":"PPM Chapter 3725: K-State Alerts","systemName":"K-State Alerts","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.k-state.edu/policies/ppm/3700/3725.html","lastReviewed":null,"effectiveDate":null,"policyNumber":"PPM 3725"},"summary":"[K-State Alerts](https://www.k-state.edu/risk-safety/alerts/) is Kansas State University's emergency notification system, used when a dangerous condition exists on any of K-State's campuses (Manhattan, Olathe, and Salina) — such as an active shooter, tornado, or weather-driven closure. Per the university's [Policy and Procedures Manual Chapter 3725](https://www.k-state.edu/policies/ppm/3700/3725.html), the decision to activate, and the level of notification, are discretionary case-by-case decisions, and only designated personnel may activate (or request staff to activate) the system.","analysis":"Kansas State University governs its emergency notification system through a formal published policy — [PPM Chapter 3725: K-State Alerts](https://www.k-state.edu/policies/ppm/3700/3725.html) in the university's Policy and Procedures Manual — which makes K-State unusual among campuses for codifying its alert program as a standalone numbered policy rather than only a web overview. K-State Alerts is described on the [Division of Risk and Safety](https://www.k-state.edu/risk-safety/alerts/) site as the university's emergency notification system that 'provides short and direct messaging for campuses through text messages, email, alert beacons, the website, social media and possibly a loudspeaker,' and as the primary messaging system for timely emergency notifications.\n\nOn **trigger**, the system is used when a dangerous condition exists on any of K-State's three campuses — examples cited include an active shooter, a tornado, a snow day or other dangerous weather that may close campus, or to inform the community about reopening following a forced closure. On **authority and discretion**, PPM 3725 states that 'the decision to activate K-State Alerts, and the level of notification, are discretionary decisions made on a case-by-case basis,' and that 'only designated personnel may activate, or request staff to activate, the K-State Alert system' — a clear chain-of-authority limitation that keeps activation with trained, designated staff.\n\nOn **channels**, K-State Alerts is multi-modal: text messaging, automated phone calls, email to all K-State accounts, the university's home page, social media (Twitter/X and Facebook), and wall-mounted alert beacons in buildings across the Manhattan, Olathe, and Salina campuses that emit sirens, flash strobe lights, and display digital scrolling text. The outdoor tornado sirens (with voice communications) and the public-address system in the carillon atop Anderson Hall are also tied into the system. K-Staters can register up to three phone numbers for text and three for voice notifications via the Connect website's eProfile section, allowing friends and family to stay informed.\n\nOn **testing**, K-State states the system is tested twice per year on specified days to ensure the service functions properly, with advance notice sent via K-State Today (the daily e-newsletter) and the university's social media accounts; during a test the alert beacons sound for two full minutes. On **Clery framing**, the [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.k-state.edu/disclosures/safety.html) follows the federal two-tier structure — emergency notifications for an immediate threat and timely warnings for Clery Act crimes that pose a serious or continuing threat. **Scope/limits:** activation is discretionary and reserved for dangerous conditions on a K-State campus; only designated personnel may activate the system.","whenCriteria":"K-State Alerts is used when a dangerous condition exists on any of K-State's three campuses (Manhattan, Olathe, Salina) — for example an active shooter, a tornado, a snow day or other dangerous weather that may close campus, or to inform the community about reopening following a forced closure.","decisionAuthority":"Per PPM 3725, the decision to activate K-State Alerts, and the level of notification, are discretionary decisions made on a case-by-case basis, and only designated personnel may activate, or request staff to activate, the K-State Alert system.","timingStandard":"K-State Alerts is the university's primary messaging system for timely emergency notifications, providing short and direct messaging when a dangerous condition exists; activation level is a discretionary, case-by-case judgment.","cleryFraming":"Federal two-tier Clery model reflected in the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report: emergency notifications for an immediate threat to health or safety, and timely warnings for Clery Act crimes posing a serious or continuing threat.","testingCadence":"The K-State Alerts system is tested twice per year on specified days to ensure it is functioning properly; advance notice is sent via K-State Today and the university's social media accounts, and during a test the wall-mounted alert beacons sound for two full minutes.","scopeLimits":"Activation is discretionary and reserved for dangerous conditions on a K-State campus; only designated personnel may activate or request activation of the system, and the level of notification is decided case-by-case.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","website","twitter-x","facebook","siren","pa-system","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Discretionary activation","quotedText":"The decision to activate K-State Alerts, and the level of notification, are discretionary decisions made on a case-by-case basis.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.k-state.edu/policies/ppm/3700/3725.html","sourceDescription":"K-State PPM Chapter 3725: K-State Alerts","annotations":["Codifies activation as a discretionary, case-by-case judgment in the university's formal Policy and Procedures Manual. Confirmed identically across multiple returns of PPM 3725."],"characterCount":129},{"label":"Authorized personnel only","quotedText":"Only designated personnel may activate, or request staff to activate, the K-State Alert system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.k-state.edu/policies/ppm/3700/3725.html","sourceDescription":"K-State PPM Chapter 3725: K-State Alerts","annotations":["Limits activation authority to designated personnel, establishing a clear chain of authority. Confirmed identically across multiple returns of PPM 3725."],"characterCount":95},{"label":"System description and channels","quotedText":"K-State Alerts is the university's emergency notification system that provides short and direct messaging for campuses through text messages, email, alert beacons, the website, social media and possibly a loudspeaker.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.k-state.edu/risk-safety/alerts/","sourceDescription":"K-State Division of Risk and Safety — K-State Alerts","annotations":["Names the multi-modal channel set (text, email, alert beacons, website, social media, loudspeaker). Confirmed identically across multiple returns of the official Risk and Safety page."],"characterCount":217}],"keyFindings":["K-State Alerts is governed by a formal published policy — PPM Chapter 3725 in the university's Policy and Procedures Manual — making the program codified rather than only described on a web page.","The system is used when a dangerous condition exists on any of K-State's three campuses (Manhattan, Olathe, Salina), such as an active shooter, tornado, or weather-driven closure.","PPM 3725 makes activation discretionary and case-by-case, and restricts activation authority to designated personnel only.","Channels are extensive and multi-modal: text, automated phone calls, email, the home page, Twitter/X and Facebook, wall-mounted alert beacons (siren + strobe + scrolling text), outdoor tornado sirens, and the Anderson Hall carillon PA system.","The K-State Alerts system is tested twice per year on specified days, with advance notice via K-State Today and social media; alert beacons sound for two full minutes during a test."],"sources":[{"title":"PPM Chapter 3725: K-State Alerts | Policy and Procedures Manual | Kansas State University","url":"https://www.k-state.edu/policies/ppm/3700/3725.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"K-State Alerts | Division of Risk and Safety","url":"https://www.k-state.edu/risk-safety/alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Update K-State Alerts | Kansas State University","url":"https://www.k-state.edu/risk-safety/alerts/update.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Health and Safety (Annual Security and Fire Safety Report) | K-State Disclosures","url":"https://www.k-state.edu/disclosures/safety.html","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"K-State Alerts to test university's emergency notification system today | K-State Today","url":"https://www.k-state.edu/today/announcement/?id=40032","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","k-state-alerts","kansas","ppm-3725"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"kapiolani-community-college-alert-policy","slug":"kapiolani-community-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Kapiʻolani Community College","shortName":"Kapiʻolani CC","state":"HI","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"UH Alert (UH Rave Alert)","alertPlatform":"Rave Mobile Safety","enrollment":5914},"policy":{"title":"Campus Safety & Emergency Management","systemName":"UH Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.kapiolani.hawaii.edu/campus-safety/","lastReviewed":"2026-07-03"},"summary":"Kapiʻolani Community College, one of ten campuses in the University of Hawaiʻi system, states on its [Campus Safety & Emergency Management page](https://www.kapiolani.hawaii.edu/campus-safety/) that when appropriate the college will alert faculty, staff, and students by email, text messaging, or [UH Alert](https://www.hawaii.edu/alert/). Like every UH campus, Kapiʻolani relies on the system-wide UH Rave Alert platform, which automatically enrolls every UH community member's @hawaii.edu email address and lets them separately opt in to receive SMS alerts.","analysis":"Kapiʻolani Community College sits within the ten-campus University of Hawaiʻi system, and its emergency communications run on the shared [UH Alert](https://www.hawaii.edu/alert/) infrastructure (UH Rave Alert) rather than a campus-built system of its own. Kapiʻolani's own [Campus Safety & Emergency Management page](https://www.kapiolani.hawaii.edu/campus-safety/) states that when appropriate, the university will alert faculty, staff and students via email, text messaging and/or UH Alert, and directs the campus community to the [UH Emergency Information webpage](https://hawaii.edu/emergency/) during an active incident for updates on the situation, safety guidance, and when normal status has returned.\n\nThe system-wide enrollment mechanism is largely automatic. UH states that all members of the UH community, which includes every Kapiʻolani student and employee, are automatically enrolled to receive emergency alerts from UH Rave Alert at their @hawaii.edu email address, so email coverage does not depend on a separate sign-up step. Text messaging is opt-in on top of that automatic email base: members of the UH community may also choose to receive SMS alerts, but must log in to their UH Rave Alert account and add a mobile number before texts will go out. UH states it tests the Rave Alert system roughly once a semester, sending a test email to the whole community and a test SMS to those who have opted in to text alerts.\n\nKapiʻolani's page frames the system's scope around 'urgent notices' affecting health and safety and campus-wide closures, consistent with UH's broader description of emergency communications as matters that impact the health and safety of the UH community or the closure of whole campuses. Kapiʻolani's own Clery Timely Warning criteria are not published at a distinct campus URL comparable to the [UH Hilo criteria page](https://hilo.hawaii.edu/security/clery-timely-warning-notice-criteria.php) already in this archive; Kapiʻolani's timely-warning obligations are instead disclosed through its Annual Security Report and the shared UH system Clery framework. Because kapiolani.hawaii.edu and hawaii.edu both returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were reconstructed from search-index snippets. The system-wide automatic-enrollment sentence reproduced identically across independent retrievals and is marked verbatim-confirmed; Kapiʻolani-specific passages that varied in wording between retrievals are marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false out of caution.","whenCriteria":"When appropriate, Kapiʻolani will alert faculty, staff, and students by email, text messaging, and/or UH Alert; UH system-wide describes emergency communications as urgent notices affecting the health and safety of the UH community, including closures of whole campuses.","decisionAuthority":"A specific named decision-making office or officer for triggering a Kapiʻolani-specific UH Alert notification was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed in this session; issuance runs through the shared UH system Rave Alert infrastructure.","timingStandard":"A specific minutes-based service-level standard for issuing a UH Alert notification was not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed; UH describes directing the community to its Emergency Information webpage for real-time updates once an incident is underway.","cleryFraming":"Kapiʻolani discloses its Clery timely-warning obligations through its Annual Security Report and the shared UH system Clery framework rather than a distinct campus criteria page; UH Alert itself is framed around urgent health/safety notices and campus closures rather than as a standalone Clery instrument.","testingCadence":"UH states Rave Alert system tests are conducted once a semester, with a test email sent to the full UH community and a test SMS sent to those enrolled for text alerts.","scopeLimits":"Email coverage to @hawaii.edu addresses is automatic for every UH community member, including Kapiʻolani students and employees; SMS coverage is opt-in and requires logging into the UH Rave Alert account to add a mobile number.","channels":["email","sms","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Automatic UH Rave Alert email enrollment","quotedText":"All members of the UH community are automatically enrolled to receive emergency alerts from UH Rave Alert to their @hawaii.edu email address.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hawaii.edu/alert/","sourceDescription":"University of Hawaiʻi System, Information About UH Rave Alert","annotations":["Establishes automatic, no-action-required email enrollment for every UH system member, including Kapiʻolani students and employees; this sentence reproduced identically across independent retrievals of the UH system alert page."],"characterCount":141},{"label":"Kapiʻolani's stated alert channels","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.kapiolani.hawaii.edu/campus-safety/","sourceDescription":"Kapiʻolani Community College, Campus Safety & Emergency Management","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Opt-in SMS enrollment","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hawaii.edu/alert/","sourceDescription":"University of Hawaiʻi System, Information About UH Rave Alert","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Semester test cadence","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hawaii.edu/alert/","sourceDescription":"University of Hawaiʻi System, Information About UH Rave Alert","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Kapiʻolani Community College uses the UH system-wide UH Rave Alert platform rather than a campus-built notification system.","Every UH community member, including all Kapiʻolani students and employees, is automatically enrolled for email alerts at their @hawaii.edu address; SMS requires a separate opt-in.","UH states Rave Alert is tested once a semester, sending a test email campus-wide and a test SMS to text-enrolled recipients.","Kapiʻolani directs its community to the shared UH Emergency Information webpage during an active incident, rather than maintaining a separate campus incident page.","Unlike UH Hilo, Kapiʻolani does not appear to publish a distinct Clery Timely Warning criteria page; its timely-warning disclosures run through its Annual Security Report and the shared UH Clery framework."],"sources":[{"title":"Kapiʻolani Community College, Campus Safety & Emergency Management","url":"https://www.kapiolani.hawaii.edu/campus-safety/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University of Hawaiʻi System, Information About UH Rave Alert","url":"https://www.hawaii.edu/alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University of Hawaiʻi System, Welcome to UH Emergency","url":"https://hawaii.edu/emergency/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Emergency Notification (UH Alert), Department of Public Safety","url":"https://manoa.hawaii.edu/dps/uh-alert/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","uh-alert","rave","community-college","hawaii","territory-pacific"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"kean-university-rave-mobile-safety-alert-policy","slug":"kean-university-rave-mobile-safety-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Kean University","shortName":"Kean","state":"NJ","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"Kean Alert / RAVE Mobile Safety","enrollment":14000},"policy":{"title":"Kean Alert RAVE Mobile Safety and RAVE Guardian Emergency Notification Overview","systemName":"Kean Alert / RAVE Mobile Safety","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.kean.edu/offices/university-police/emergency-management","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Kean University's [Emergency Preparedness page](https://www.kean.edu/offices/university-police/emergency-management) brands campus mass notifications through [RAVE Mobile Safety](https://www.kean.edu/offices/university-police/emergency-management) (Kean Alert) with automatic student registration via KeanWise and faculty/staff registration via Workday, plus the RAVE Guardian App operated by University Police and University Communications.","analysis":"Kean University is a New Jersey public master's university. Its institution-specific [Emergency Preparedness page](https://www.kean.edu/offices/university-police/emergency-management) describes RAVE Mobile Safety as the mass-notification platform used to communicate emergencies and critical alerts (branded operationally as Kean Alert in campus social posts). Students are auto-enrolled from KeanWise contact data; faculty and staff from Workday. The RAVE Guardian App is encouraged for community safety resources and is maintained by IT while operated by University Police and University Communications. Blue Light phones and personal security escorts are presented as related layered safety channels on the same page.","whenCriteria":"RAVE used to communicate emergencies and share critical information and alerts to the campus community (detailed Clery confirmation criteria not enumerated on this overview page).","decisionAuthority":"University Police and University Communications operate the RAVE platform; IT maintains it (specific confirmation titles for Kean Alert triggers not enumerated on this page).","timingStandard":"Not stated as a numeric SLA on this emergency-preparedness overview page.","cleryFraming":"Page frames RAVE as emergency mass notification; separate Timely Warning criteria are not fully spelled out on this overview page.","scopeLimits":"Campus community; students via KeanWise auto-registration; faculty/staff via Workday auto-registration; RAVE Guardian optional download.","testingCadence":"Not stated on this overview page.","channels":["sms","email","push-notification","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"RAVE mass notification purpose","quotedText":"Kean University utilizes RAVE Mobile Safety, a leader in mass notification and incident management, to communicate emergencies and share critical information and alerts to the campus community.","sourceUrl":"https://www.kean.edu/offices/university-police/emergency-management","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceDescription":"Kean University Emergency Preparedness page","annotations":["Institution-specific RAVE/Kean Alert system language from emergency management page."],"characterCount":193},{"label":"Student auto-registration via KeanWise","quotedText":"Students are automatically registered through the contact information included in KeanWise.","sourceUrl":"https://www.kean.edu/offices/university-police/emergency-management","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceDescription":"Kean University Emergency Preparedness page","annotations":["Institution-specific RAVE/Kean Alert system language from emergency management page."],"characterCount":91},{"label":"Faculty/staff auto-registration via Workday","quotedText":"Faculty and Staff are automatically registered through the contact information in Workday.","sourceUrl":"https://www.kean.edu/offices/university-police/emergency-management","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceDescription":"Kean University Emergency Preparedness page","annotations":["Institution-specific RAVE/Kean Alert system language from emergency management page."],"characterCount":90},{"label":"RAVE Guardian App operators","quotedText":"All members of the Kean University community are encouraged to download the RAVE Guardian App to access important information and safety resources. The platform is maintained by the Office of Information Technology (IT), and operated by the University Police and University Communications.","sourceUrl":"https://www.kean.edu/offices/university-police/emergency-management","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceDescription":"Kean University Emergency Preparedness page","annotations":["Institution-specific RAVE/Kean Alert system language from emergency management page."],"characterCount":289}],"keyFindings":["Kean brands mass notification on RAVE Mobile Safety with Kean Alert operational messaging.","Students auto-register via KeanWise; faculty/staff via Workday.","RAVE Guardian App is IT-maintained and Police/Communications-operated."],"sources":[{"title":"Kean University Emergency Preparedness","url":"https://www.kean.edu/offices/university-police/emergency-management","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["public-masters","new-jersey","rave","kean-alert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"keene-state-college-owl-alert-policy","slug":"keene-state-college-owl-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Keene State College","shortName":"KSC","state":"NH","type":"public-bachelors","alertSystemName":"Owl Alert"},"policy":{"title":"Keene State Owl Alert Emergency Notification System","systemName":"Owl Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.keene.edu/campus/safety/emergency-notification/","lastReviewed":"2026"},"summary":"Keene State College's [Owl Alert](https://www.keene.edu/campus/safety/emergency-notification/) page provides students, faculty, staff, guests, and visitors a free emergency alert system by text, email, and/or voice calls, including weather-related events that may lead to a campus closure or curtailed operations. The [Clery report](https://www.keene.edu/administration/policy/detail/clery-report/download/) issues notifications without delay unless a professional-judgment exception applies.","analysis":"Keene State College (public-bachelors, New Hampshire thin-state, one filed case, no prior policy file) publishes a live [Owl Alert](https://www.keene.edu/campus/safety/emergency-notification/) page (HTTP 200) and a live [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report PDF](https://www.keene.edu/administration/policy/detail/clery-report/download/) (HTTP 200). The consumer system receives automatic updates for all employees and students. Guests and visitors can opt in. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live HTML or PDF.","whenCriteria":"Owl Alert for campus emergencies including weather-related events that may lead to a campus closure or curtailed operations. Emergency notification when a significant emergency or dangerous situation involves an immediate threat on campus.","decisionAuthority":"The College determines the content of the notification and initiates the notification system. The Director of Campus Safety and Compliance or designee issues timely warnings or emergency notifications when a responding officer determines significant or imminent danger.","timingStandard":"Without delay, taking into account the safety of the community, unless issuing a notification would compromise victim assistance or mitigation.","cleryFraming":"Owl Alert is the emergency-notification product. Timely warnings are for Clery crimes that represent an ongoing or continuing threat.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Owl Alert definition","quotedText":"Keene State College provides students, faculty, staff, guests, and visitors with a free emergency alert system, called the Keene State Owl Alert.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.keene.edu/campus/safety/emergency-notification/","sourceDescription":"Keene State Emergency Notification page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Guests and visitors are in the consumer class."],"characterCount":145},{"label":"Owl Alert channels","quotedText":"This alert system allows Keene State to contact individuals directly by text, email, and/or voice calls.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.keene.edu/campus/safety/emergency-notification/","sourceDescription":"Keene State Emergency Notification page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Text, email, and voice."],"characterCount":104},{"label":"Weather and campus emergencies","quotedText":"The Keene State Owl Alert system will be used to notify community members of campus emergencies including weather-related events that may lead to a campus closure or curtailed operations.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.keene.edu/campus/safety/emergency-notification/","sourceDescription":"Keene State Emergency Notification page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Weather-related closure or curtailment is in the trigger class."],"characterCount":187},{"label":"Automatic employee and student updates","quotedText":"This emergency notification system receives automatic updates for all Keene State College employees and students.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.keene.edu/campus/safety/emergency-notification/","sourceDescription":"Keene State Emergency Notification page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Employees and students auto-update; visitors opt in."],"characterCount":113},{"label":"Without-delay emergency notification","quotedText":"The College will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system, unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.keene.edu/administration/policy/detail/clery-report/download/","sourceDescription":"Keene State College Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Standard HEOA without-delay sentence."],"characterCount":360}],"keyFindings":["Owl Alert covers campus emergencies and weather-related closures or curtailment.","Employees and students receive automatic contact updates.","Notifications go out without delay unless a professional-judgment exception applies."],"sources":[{"title":"Keene State Owl Alert Emergency Notification","url":"https://www.keene.edu/campus/safety/emergency-notification/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Keene State College Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.keene.edu/administration/policy/detail/clery-report/download/","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","system-overview","emergency-notification","new-hampshire","public-bachelors","rave"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"keiser-university-alertnow-policy","slug":"keiser-university-alertnow-policy","institution":{"name":"Keiser University","shortName":"Keiser","state":"FL","type":"for-profit","alertSystemName":"Alertnow","enrollment":20000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning Policy and Mass Notification / Alertnow (Campus Security Report)","systemName":"Alertnow / OOC Command Center","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.keiseruniversity.edu/pdf/security/KU-Campus-Security-Report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Keiser University's [Campus Security Report](https://www.keiseruniversity.edu/pdf/security/KU-Campus-Security-Report.pdf) brands Alertnow for email, voicemail, and text mass notification, assigns without-delay content and initiation to the Office of the Chancellor (OOC) Command Center after Crisis Response Team confirmation, and routes Timely Warning/emergency notification action through the Office of the Chancellor with a 1-877-353-4737 emergency hotline.","analysis":"Keiser University is a multi-campus for-profit institution. Its [Campus Security Report](https://www.keiseruniversity.edu/pdf/security/KU-Campus-Security-Report.pdf) is institution-specific: Timely Warnings are case-by-case on seriousness, continuing threat, and law-enforcement compromise risk; when TW or emergency notification is appropriate, the Office of the Chancellor ensures mass notification. Emergency mass notification is confirmed with the Crisis Response Team (CRT), then the OOC Command Center determines content and initiates the system without delay unless professional judgment finds compromise of victim assistance or mitigation. Alertnow delivers email, voicemail, and text; OOC also posts to Keiseruniversity.edu and the automated 1-877-353-4737 hotline. Annual CRT/OOC training, exercises, and tests are documented by the OOC Crisis Management Department.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning case-by-case for crimes that represent a threat to the campus community (typically Clery classifications including arson, burglary, aggravated assault, criminal homicide, motor vehicle theft, robbery, and sex offenses, plus other crimes as deemed necessary), considering seriousness, continuing/ongoing threat, and risk of compromising law enforcement. Mass notification for emergency or dangerous situations posing an immediate threat to the campus community upon CRT confirmation.","decisionAuthority":"Office of the Chancellor takes action to ensure timely notification when TW or emergency notification is appropriate. OOC Command Center (senior management crisis response command center), upon confirmation with the CRT of need for mass notification, determines content and initiates the system. CRT uses local means on campus simultaneously.","timingStandard":"OOC Command Center will, without delay, taking into account the safety of the community, determine content and initiate notification, unless issuing would compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency. Training, exercises, and tests conducted annually by CRT (campus level) and OOC command center personnel.","cleryFraming":"Standalone Timely Warning Policy section cites Clery Act and Handbook for Campus Safety and Security Reporting 2016 Edition; mass notification section addresses immediate-threat emergencies separately via OOC/CRT.","scopeLimits":"Alertnow targets the campus community via email, voicemail, and text; public updates available via website and 1-877-353-4737 hotline. Local CRT means notify campus students, staff, and faculty.","testingCadence":"Training, exercises and tests conducted annually by the CRT on the campus level and by individuals relevant to mass notification at the OOC command center level; OOC Crisis Management Department documents each test.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Office of the Chancellor Timely Warning / EN action","quotedText":"When a determination has been made that a timely warning of emergency notification is appropriate, the Office of the Chancellor will take action to ensure timely notification of the campus community utilizing utilize some or all of its mass notification capabilities to notify its campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.keiseruniversity.edu/pdf/security/KU-Campus-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Keiser Campus Security Report Timely Warning procedures","annotations":["Named Office of the Chancellor as TW/EN mass-notification actor."],"characterCount":298},{"label":"OOC Command Center without-delay mass notification","quotedText":"In an emergency or a dangerous situation, upon confirmation with the CRT of the need for mass notification, the OOC Command center will, without delay, taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system, unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of the responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.keiseruniversity.edu/pdf/security/KU-Campus-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Keiser Campus Security Report OOC Command Center","annotations":["Local OOC Command Center + CRT confirmation + without-delay standard."],"characterCount":479},{"label":"Alertnow brand and multi-channel delivery","quotedText":"These capabilities include \"Alertnow\" – a system that generates Email, Voice mail and text messages to alert the campus community. In addition, members of the OOC command center will post relevant updates and advisories on the appropriate school website (Keiseruniversity.edu) and on the automated \"1-877-353-4737\" emergency hot line.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.keiseruniversity.edu/pdf/security/KU-Campus-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Keiser Campus Security Report Alertnow","annotations":["Branded Alertnow plus institution-specific hotline number."],"characterCount":334},{"label":"Timely Warning case-by-case criteria","quotedText":"The decision to issue a timely warning shall be decided on a case-by-case basis based on the nature of the crime, evaluating the seriousness of the crime or threat, if it is a continued or ongoing threat, and by considering the totality of the circumstances. The timing of the notification shall, be based upon whether the crime is considered a serious or continuing or ongoing threat to students or employees, and any potential risks related to compromising law enforcement efforts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.keiseruniversity.edu/pdf/security/KU-Campus-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Keiser Campus Security Report Timely Warning Policy","annotations":["Local TW decision factors including law-enforcement compromise risk."],"characterCount":483},{"label":"Annual CRT and OOC testing documentation","quotedText":"Training, exercises and tests will be conducted annually by the CRT on the campus level and by the individuals relevant to mass notification at the OOC command center level. The OOC Crisis Management Department will document each test conducted by all relevant entities.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.keiseruniversity.edu/pdf/security/KU-Campus-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Keiser Campus Security Report testing","annotations":["Named OOC Crisis Management Department documents annual tests."],"characterCount":270}],"keyFindings":["Alertnow is the branded email/voicemail/text mass-notification system.","Office of the Chancellor / OOC Command Center owns mass-notification initiation after CRT confirmation.","Without-delay standard with professional-judgment exception is documented.","Public emergency hotline 1-877-353-4737 supplements Alertnow and the website."],"sources":[{"title":"Keiser University Campus Security Report","url":"https://www.keiseruniversity.edu/pdf/security/KU-Campus-Security-Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","for-profit","timely-warning","emergency-notification","florida","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"kennesaw-state-university-rave-alert-policy","slug":"kennesaw-state-university-rave-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Kennesaw State University","shortName":"KSU","state":"GA","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"Rave Alert / Alertus","alertPlatform":"Rave","enrollment":51375},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications (Office of Emergency Management)","systemName":"Rave Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://oem.kennesaw.edu/emergency-notification.php"},"summary":"Kennesaw State University's [Office of Emergency Management notification page](https://oem.kennesaw.edu/emergency-notification.php) describes Rave Alert as an opt-out mass notification system, automatically loaded with faculty, staff, and student data, layered with Alertus desktop alerts, outdoor sirens carrying prerecorded messages that are tested at noon on the first Wednesday of every month, the university webpage, and social media.","analysis":"Kennesaw State University, a University System of Georgia institution whose [Fall 2025 enrollment reached a record 51,375](https://experience.kennesaw.edu/fall-2025-enrollment), documents its notification architecture on the [Office of Emergency Management's Emergency Notifications page](https://oem.kennesaw.edu/emergency-notification.php). The core system is Rave Alert, which can send text, email, and voice calls and push information to social media outlets. The page's most distinctive stated commitment is enrollment architecture: unlike many universities, KSU describes its system as opt-out, with faculty, staff, and student data automatically uploaded so no one has to register to be reachable. Around that core, KSU layers what it calls a multi-layered approach: outdoor warning sirens on the Kennesaw campus, described as omnidirectional units carrying prerecorded messages indicating the type of emergency, reserved for situations requiring the community to take shelter indoors immediately from an imminent threat and tested at noon on the first Wednesday of every month; an Alertus desktop override system; the university webpage; and social media pages, all aimed at students, faculty, staff, visitors, and other community stakeholders. The [Department of Public Safety and University Police](https://police.kennesaw.edu/notifications/emergency/index.php) separately publishes safety notifications including Clery timely warnings, and the university's [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://campus.kennesaw.edu/offices-services/institutional-equity/title-ix/docs/2024-asfr.pdf) carries the formal timely warning and emergency notification policy statements. This archive's KSU case files, from the 2024 carjacking lockdown to 2026 weather relays, show the system in operation across both the Kennesaw and Marietta campuses. All kennesaw.edu hosts are egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language below is carried from search-index retrievals of the official pages and marked unconfirmed pending a direct character-for-character read.","whenCriteria":"Rave Alert and the layered channels are used for emergency situations affecting the campus community; the siren system specifically is reserved for situations that require the KSU community to take shelter indoors immediately from an imminent threat.","decisionAuthority":"The system is managed by the KSU Office of Emergency Management; the Department of Public Safety and University Police publishes timely warnings. Specific activation titles were not readable from this sandbox (kennesaw.edu egress-blocked).","timingStandard":"The systems are described as promptly alerting students, faculty, and staff in emergencies; a precise without-delay sentence from the ASR was not confirmable from this sandbox.","cleryFraming":"Timely warnings are handled through the Department of Public Safety and University Police and documented in the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report; the OEM page frames Rave Alert and its layers as the emergency notification apparatus.","testingCadence":"The outdoor siren system is tested at noon on the first Wednesday of every month.","scopeLimits":"Opt-out enrollment: faculty, staff, and student data is automatically uploaded into Rave Alert. Sirens cover the Kennesaw campus outdoors; the multi-layered stack extends reach to visitors via sirens, webpage, and social media.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","siren","desktop-popup","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Opt-out enrollment architecture","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://oem.kennesaw.edu/emergency-notification.php","sourceDescription":"KSU Office of Emergency Management, Emergency Notifications page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Siren scope and prerecorded messages","quotedText":"The warning sirens at the Kennesaw Campus are omnidirectional sirens that have a prerecorded message to indicate the type of emergency situation that is occurring on campus. The siren warning system is only used for situations that require the KSU community to take shelter indoors immediately from an imminent threat.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://oem.kennesaw.edu/emergency-notification.php","sourceDescription":"KSU Office of Emergency Management, Emergency Notifications page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":["Defines the siren tier narrowly: shelter-indoors-immediately situations only, with prerecorded hazard-type messages rather than tone-only sounding. Unconfirmed pending a direct read."],"characterCount":318},{"label":"Monthly siren test cadence","quotedText":"This system is tested at noon on the first Wednesday of every month.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://oem.kennesaw.edu/emergency-notification.php","sourceDescription":"KSU Office of Emergency Management, Emergency Notifications page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":["A concrete, published test cadence for the siren layer. Unconfirmed for the egress-block reason."],"characterCount":68},{"label":"Multi-layered channel stack","quotedText":"Kennesaw State University utilizes outdoor warning sirens, email notifications, text notifications, voice phone call notifications, a desktop override system, the Kennesaw State University webpage, and social media pages to provide emergency messages to our students, faculty, staff, visitors, and other community stakeholders.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://oem.kennesaw.edu/emergency-notification.php","sourceDescription":"KSU Office of Emergency Management, Emergency Notifications page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":["Seven named layers including the Alertus desktop override, with visitors explicitly inside the stated audience. Unconfirmed pending a direct read."],"characterCount":327}],"keyFindings":["KSU describes Rave Alert as an opt-out system with faculty, staff, and student data automatically uploaded, removing the registration reach caveat.","The siren layer is tightly scoped to imminent-threat shelter-indoors situations, uses prerecorded hazard-type messages, and is tested at noon on the first Wednesday of every month.","The published stack spans sirens, email, text, voice, Alertus desktop override, the university webpage, and social media, with visitors named in the audience.","Timely warnings run through the Department of Public Safety and University Police with policy statements in the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.","No excerpt is verbatim-confirmed: kennesaw.edu is egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language is carried from search-index retrievals and flagged for direct verification."],"sources":[{"title":"KSU Office of Emergency Management, Emergency Notifications","url":"https://oem.kennesaw.edu/emergency-notification.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"KSU Department of Public Safety and University Police, Safety Notifications","url":"https://police.kennesaw.edu/notifications/emergency/index.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Kennesaw State University 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","url":"https://campus.kennesaw.edu/offices-services/institutional-equity/title-ix/docs/2024-asfr.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Kennesaw State University, Fall 2025 Enrollment","url":"https://experience.kennesaw.edu/fall-2025-enrollment","type":"official-statement"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["kennesaw-state-university-carjacking-lockdown-2024-01-24","kennesaw-state-university-shooting-2024-05-18","kennesaw-state-university-fondling-alert-2024-09-20","kennesaw-state-university-tornado-warning-2025-03-15","kennesaw-state-university-marietta-gas-leak-2025-12-01"],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","georgia","rave","alertus","sirens","opt-out"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-23","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"kent-state-university-alert-policy","slug":"kent-state-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Kent State University","shortName":"Kent State","state":"OH","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"Flash ALERTS","enrollment":34000},"policy":{"title":"Kent State University Emergency Management Plan (KSU-EMP)","systemName":"Flash ALERTS","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/file/EMP%20KENT%20%2010-2020_2.pdf","effectiveDate":"2020-10-01"},"summary":"Kent State University, which carries [Carnegie R1 research status](https://www.kent.edu/today/news/kent-state-maintains-prestigious-r1-research-activity-designation-2025) and enrolls roughly 34,000 students across eight Ohio campuses, formalizes its response framework in the [Kent State University Emergency Management Plan (KSU-EMP)](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/file/EMP%20KENT%20%2010-2020_2.pdf), reviewed annually by the Department of Public Safety, with mass notification carried by the [Flash ALERTS](https://www.kent.edu/flashalerts) system.","analysis":"Kent State University holds a particular place in the history of American campus emergency response: the May 4, 1970 shootings on its Kent campus, in which Ohio National Guard troops killed four students during a Vietnam War protest, remain one of the defining events that shaped later thinking about campus crisis communication, a legacy discussed in a 2025 academic retrospective on [the evolution of emergency planning at Kent State from 1970 to 2020](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-5973.70032). Today Kent State is a Carnegie R1 (very high research activity) institution enrolling more than 34,000 students across eight campuses statewide, and its emergency framework is documented in the [Kent State University Emergency Management Plan (KSU-EMP)](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/file/EMP%20KENT%20%2010-2020_2.pdf), last issued in an October 2020 edition.\n\nThe university states the KSU-EMP's primary purpose is to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from the impact on life or property from the effects of an emergency event, and that the plan establishes an emergency organization to integrate university resources with external responders. Authority for the plan runs through the university's administrative chain: per Kent State's [University Policy Register](https://www.kent.edu/policyreg/university-policy-regarding-emergency-management-plan), the senior vice president for finance and administration, acting through delegation from the president, directs the director of public safety to develop, maintain, and review the plan across all university campuses and locations. The university's Department of Public Safety, Emergency Management Services, has been tasked with reviewing and updating the plan on an annual basis to keep pace with safety and security changes.\n\nMass notification runs through [Flash ALERTS](https://www.kent.edu/flashalerts), the branded text-enabled alert system into which Kent State students, faculty, and staff are automatically entered to receive urgent notifications by mobile phone or device during campus emergencies. As a Title IV, Clery-covered institution, Kent State is subject to the standard federal two-track distinction between timely warnings for continuing threats and emergency notifications upon confirmation of an imminent danger, although this review could not independently confirm Kent State's exact Annual Security Report notification-criteria wording.\n\nA sourcing caveat: the kent.edu family of hosts, including the EMP PDF itself, returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this review's environment, so the passages above are reconstructed from search-engine-indexed excerpts of the plan and its governing policy pages rather than a directly retrieved copy of the document. No excerpt below is confirmed word-for-word against the source PDF, so this record carries medium confidence.","whenCriteria":"The KSU-EMP is framed as an all-hazards document; its stated purpose is to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from the impact on life or property from the effects of an emergency event, rather than enumerating a narrow list of trigger scenarios.","decisionAuthority":"The senior vice president for finance and administration, through delegation from the president, directs the director of public safety to develop, maintain, and review the Emergency Management Plan across all Kent State campuses and locations. The Department of Public Safety, Emergency Management Services carries day-to-day plan stewardship.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed. As a Clery-covered institution, Kent State is bound by the federal standard of emergency notifications issued without delay upon confirmation and timely warnings as soon as pertinent information is available.","cleryFraming":"Standard federal two-track distinction applies (timely warning vs. emergency notification). Kent State's specific Annual Security Report notification-criteria language was not independently retrievable and is reconstructed from the federal standard.","testingCadence":"The Department of Public Safety, Emergency Management Services is tasked with reviewing and updating the KSU-EMP on an annual basis; a separate, specific testing cadence for the Flash ALERTS notification system itself was not independently confirmed.","scopeLimits":"The plan covers Kent State's Kent campus and its seven regional/system campuses statewide. Flash ALERTS enrollment is automatic for students, faculty, and staff; the specific opt-out mechanics and full channel mix beyond text-enabled mobile alerts were not independently confirmed.","channels":["sms","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"KSU-EMP stated purpose","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/file/EMP%20KENT%20%2010-2020_2.pdf","sourceDescription":"Kent State University Emergency Management Plan, 2020 edition (captured via search-engine-indexed excerpt; kent.edu PDF host 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Delegated authority to develop and maintain the plan","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.kent.edu/policyreg/university-policy-regarding-emergency-management-plan","sourceDescription":"Kent State University Policy Register, University policy regarding emergency management plan (captured via search-engine-indexed excerpt)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Annual review requirement","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.kent.edu/publicsafety/emergency-management-services","sourceDescription":"Kent State Public Safety, Emergency Management Services (captured via search-engine-indexed excerpt)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Kent State's KSU-EMP is an all-hazards plan whose stated purpose spans the full prevent/protect/mitigate/respond/recover cycle, most recently issued in an October 2020 edition.","Plan authority is delegated from the president through the senior vice president for finance and administration to the director of public safety, with the Department of Public Safety's Emergency Management Services required to review and update the plan annually.","Mass notification runs through Flash ALERTS, into which students, faculty, and staff are automatically entered for text-enabled emergency messaging.","The university's emergency-planning history is distinctive: the May 4, 1970 shootings on the Kent campus are widely cited as a formative event in the broader development of American campus crisis communication.","The kent.edu host family, including the EMP PDF, 403-blocks automated fetching in this review's environment, so all quoted language is reconstructed from search-indexed excerpts rather than a directly retrieved document; confidence is medium, not high."],"sources":[{"title":"Kent State University Emergency Management Plan, 2020 (PDF)","url":"https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/file/EMP%20KENT%20%2010-2020_2.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University policy regarding emergency management plan, Kent State Policy Register","url":"https://www.kent.edu/policyreg/university-policy-regarding-emergency-management-plan","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Kent State Public Safety, Emergency Management Services","url":"https://www.kent.edu/publicsafety/emergency-management-services","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Flash ALERTS, Kent State University","url":"https://www.kent.edu/flashalerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Kent State Maintains Prestigious R1 Research Activity Designation With 2025 Carnegie Classifications","url":"https://www.kent.edu/today/news/kent-state-maintains-prestigious-r1-research-activity-designation-2025","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-operations-plan","ohio","public-r1","multi-campus","may-4-1970","flash-alerts","emergency-notification","timely-warning"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"kentucky-state-university-bred-alerts-policy","slug":"kentucky-state-university-bred-alerts-policy","institution":{"name":"Kentucky State University","shortName":"KYSU","state":"KY","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"BRED Alerts","alertPlatform":"Rave","enrollment":2838},"policy":{"title":"BRED Alerts (Emergency Notification System)","systemName":"BRED Alerts","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.kysu.edu/institutional-advancement-and-university-relations/bredalerts.php"},"summary":"Kentucky State University's [BRED Alerts page](https://www.kysu.edu/institutional-advancement-and-university-relations/bredalerts.php) describes the university's emergency notification system, which sends time-sensitive alerts to registered phones and email addresses during emergencies and schedule-affecting campus conditions, with a public SMS opt-in path (texting Thorobreds to 78015) for family members, caregivers, and community members without a university email address.","analysis":"Kentucky State University, Kentucky's public land-grant HBCU in Frankfort with [2,838 students at the Fall 2025 census](https://www.kysu.edu/news/2026/2/enrollment-momentum-meets-expanded-access.php), brands its emergency notification system BRED Alerts, a play on the Thorobreds athletic identity, and documents it on a [BRED Alerts page](https://www.kysu.edu/institutional-advancement-and-university-relations/bredalerts.php) maintained by Institutional Advancement and University Relations alongside a page titled [Kentucky State University's Emergency Alert System](https://www.kysu.edu/institutional-advancement-and-university-relations/ksu-emergency-notification-system-rave.php) whose address identifies the underlying platform as Rave. The system's stated purpose is sending time-sensitive alerts during an emergency or when campus conditions affect class and work schedules, helping students, employees, and the broader Kentucky State community stay informed; messages go to all registered text-capable phones and email addresses to alert registrants of information critical to their safety and well-being. All students, faculty, and staff are told to keep an active profile in the platform, with an [enrollment and sign-in page](https://www.kysu.edu/student-engagement-and-campus-life/police/ksu-alert-enroll-or-sign-in.php) housed under the campus police section, and the university publishes a public opt-in for those without a KYSU email address: family members, caregivers, and community members can subscribe by texting Thorobreds to 78015. The system's live operation is independently documented: during the May 28, 2026 closure of the Frankfort campus over a potential threat, [WDRB](https://www.wdrb.com/news/all-clear-given-at-kentucky-state-university-campus-after-potential-threat-to-safety/article_0f297eca-78d0-4340-9d83-801af18eafca.html) and [Fox 56](https://fox56news.com/news/local/kentucky-state-university-immediately-closed-due-to-potential-threat/) reported BRED ALERT messages carrying both the closure and the afternoon all-clear, and the university mirrored the BRED ALERT text on its official Facebook account. This archive's nine KYSU cases, including the December 2025 Young Hall shooting and two bomb threats, preserve that output. The kysu.edu host is egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language below is carried from search-index retrievals of the official pages and marked unconfirmed pending a direct character-for-character read.","whenCriteria":"During an emergency or when campus conditions affect class and work schedules; messages carry information critical to registrants' safety and well-being.","decisionAuthority":"The BRED Alerts pages sit under Institutional Advancement and University Relations with enrollment managed under the campus police section; the specific titles authorized to trigger a BRED Alert were not readable from this sandbox (kysu.edu egress-blocked).","timingStandard":"Alerts are described as time-sensitive; a precise without-delay sentence was not confirmable from this sandbox. In the May 28, 2026 threat closure, local media placed the first BRED ALERT around 11:09 a.m. with the all-clear around 2:45 p.m.","cleryFraming":"The public pages are system overviews covering both emergency notifications and schedule-affecting conditions; formal Clery policy statements would live in the Annual Security Report, which was not reachable from this sandbox.","testingCadence":"Not confirmable from this sandbox; no published test schedule surfaced in indexed retrievals.","scopeLimits":"Delivery depends on an active registered profile; community members, family, and caregivers without a KYSU email can join text-only via the Thorobreds keyword to 78015.","channels":["sms","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"System purpose","quotedText":"During an emergency or when campus conditions affect class and work schedules, the University sends time-sensitive alerts to help students, employees, and the broader Kentucky State community stay informed.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.kysu.edu/institutional-advancement-and-university-relations/bredalerts.php","sourceDescription":"Kentucky State University, BRED Alerts page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":["Covers both the emergency genre and the schedule-change genre, which matches the weather-delay-heavy mix in this archive's KYSU cases. Marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false because kysu.edu is egress-blocked from this research environment and the sentence could not be read character-for-character at the source."],"characterCount":206},{"label":"Registered delivery targets","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.kysu.edu/institutional-advancement-and-university-relations/bredalerts.php","sourceDescription":"Kentucky State University, BRED Alerts page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Community keyword opt-in","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.kysu.edu/institutional-advancement-and-university-relations/bredalerts.php","sourceDescription":"Kentucky State University, BRED Alerts page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["BRED Alerts is KYSU's branded emergency notification system, run on the Rave platform per the university's own page address, delivering SMS and email to registered profiles.","The stated scope covers both emergencies and schedule-affecting campus conditions, matching the archive's mix of threat closures and weather delays.","Family members, caregivers, and community members can join text-only by texting Thorobreds to 78015, an unusually open community opt-in for an HBCU of this size.","The system's live operation is independently documented by local media coverage of the May 28, 2026 potential-threat closure and all-clear.","No excerpt is verbatim-confirmed: kysu.edu is egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language is carried from search-index retrievals and flagged for direct verification."],"sources":[{"title":"Kentucky State University, BRED Alerts","url":"https://www.kysu.edu/institutional-advancement-and-university-relations/bredalerts.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Kentucky State University, Kentucky State University's Emergency Alert System (Rave)","url":"https://www.kysu.edu/institutional-advancement-and-university-relations/ksu-emergency-notification-system-rave.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Kentucky State University, BRED Alerts enrollment and sign-in (Campus Police)","url":"https://www.kysu.edu/student-engagement-and-campus-life/police/ksu-alert-enroll-or-sign-in.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"WDRB, All clear given at Kentucky State University campus after potential threat to safety","url":"https://www.wdrb.com/news/all-clear-given-at-kentucky-state-university-campus-after-potential-threat-to-safety/article_0f297eca-78d0-4340-9d83-801af18eafca.html","type":"local-media"},{"title":"Fox 56 News, KY State University main Frankfort campus immediately closed due to potential threat","url":"https://fox56news.com/news/local/kentucky-state-university-immediately-closed-due-to-potential-threat/","type":"local-media"},{"title":"Kentucky State University News, Enrollment momentum meets expanded access as Kentucky State University joins Common App","url":"https://www.kysu.edu/news/2026/2/enrollment-momentum-meets-expanded-access.php","type":"official-statement"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["kentucky-state-university-bomb-threat-2022-02-01","kentucky-state-university-bomb-threat-2024-11-21","kentucky-state-university-young-hall-shooting-2025-12-09","kentucky-state-university-main-campus-safety-threat-close-2026-05-28"],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","hbcu","kentucky","bred-alerts","rave","community-opt-in"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-23","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"kenyon-college-rave-alert-policy","slug":"kenyon-college-rave-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Kenyon College","shortName":"Kenyon","state":"OH","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"RAVE Emergency Alerts (\"Kenyon Campus Alert\")","enrollment":2249},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Information — RAVE Emergency Alerts (\"Kenyon Campus Alert\") and Timely Warning Procedures","systemName":"RAVE Emergency Alerts (\"Kenyon Campus Alert\")","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.kenyon.edu/emergency-information/emergency-preparedness/","lastReviewed":"2026-06-22"},"summary":"Kenyon College uses [RAVE Emergency Alerts](https://www.kenyon.edu/emergency-information/emergency-preparedness/) — sent by text, voice, and email — to inform the campus community of a significant emergency or dangerous situation; recipients receive an email and/or text carrying the [subject line \"Kenyon Campus Alert,\"](https://www.kenyon.edu/emergency-information/) and the College issues separate timely warnings for crimes or substantial threats to the community.","analysis":"Kenyon College is a private liberal-arts college in Gambier, Ohio whose campus emergency-notification function runs on the Rave platform, branded to recipients as the 'Kenyon Campus Alert.' Kenyon describes [RAVE Emergency Alerts](https://www.kenyon.edu/emergency-information/emergency-preparedness/) as the avenue used to inform the campus community of any significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees that may be occurring on campus, delivered through text, voice, and email accounts. The branded label matters operationally: Kenyon states that '[students, faculty and staff will receive an email and/or text with the subject line \"Kenyon Campus Alert\"](https://www.kenyon.edu/emergency-information/),' giving the community a consistent, recognizable marker that a message is an official emergency alert.\n\nKenyon also notifies parents when appropriate — '[when appropriate, Kenyon's parents are also notified of campus alerts via email](https://www.kenyon.edu/emergency-information/)' — extending reach beyond the enrolled community, a feature more common at small residential colleges with close family communication. RAVE alerts route automatically to cell phones, landlines, and email accounts, and the College directs community members to manage text-message sign-up and contact information (e.g., via the emergency-information portal and the technology help resources). Kenyon pairs the alert system with the Rave Guardian app, which adds anonymous reporting to Campus Safety, a safety timer, and a safety profile.\n\nFor the Clery timely-warning function, Kenyon states that timely warnings are distributed to members of the community whenever a crime or other substantial threat is believed to be present, disseminated 'in many ways, including but not limited to text messages, e-mails, and/or social media.' This keeps the two Clery functions distinct: RAVE 'Kenyon Campus Alert' emergency notifications for immediate threats, and timely warnings for crimes or substantial threats that may pose a continuing risk. The [Office of Campus Safety](https://www.kenyon.edu/campus-life/health-safety/office-of-campus-safety/) administers these notifications and Kenyon's Clery crime-reporting obligations.\n\nThe 'Kenyon Campus Alert' subject-line sentence appeared with identical wording across multiple official Kenyon retrievals and is marked verbatim-confirmed. The full emergency-notification definition was partly cut off in indexed snippets (one retrieval truncated the 'immediate threat to the health or safety' clause), so that excerpt is marked reconstructed; the named decision authority and published periodic RAVE test cadence were likewise not surfaced byte-for-byte (kenyon.edu and the ASR PDF 403-block automated fetching here) and are flagged.","whenCriteria":"Kenyon uses RAVE Emergency Alerts to inform the campus community of any significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees that may be occurring on campus. Timely warnings are distributed whenever a crime or other substantial threat is believed to be present to members of the community.","decisionAuthority":"Kenyon's Office of Campus Safety administers RAVE Emergency Alerts and Clery notifications. The specific position authorized to confirm a threat and trigger a 'Kenyon Campus Alert' was not confirmed verbatim in this review (kenyon.edu blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"Kenyon issues RAVE Emergency Alerts to inform the community of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety; timely warnings are distributed whenever a crime or substantial threat is believed to be present — consistent with the Clery standard. The exact internal timing target was not confirmed verbatim.","cleryFraming":"Kenyon separates the two Clery functions: RAVE 'Kenyon Campus Alert' emergency notifications for significant emergencies/immediate threats, and timely warnings for crimes or substantial threats that may pose a continuing risk, disseminated via text, e-mail, and/or social media. The Office of Campus Safety handles Clery crime reporting.","testingCadence":"Kenyon maintains emergency-preparedness procedures and tests RAVE; the exact published periodic test cadence (e.g., per-semester) was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","scopeLimits":"RAVE alerts route to cell phones, landlines, and email accounts on record; recipients are directed to manage text-message sign-up and contact information. Parents are also notified of campus alerts via email when appropriate, extending reach beyond the enrolled community.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","twitter-x","facebook","website","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Branded subject line","quotedText":"Students, faculty and staff will receive an email and/or text with the subject line \"Kenyon Campus Alert.\"","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.kenyon.edu/emergency-information/","sourceDescription":"Kenyon College — Emergency Information page","annotations":["Establishes the recognizable 'Kenyon Campus Alert' subject line carried by every emergency message. Identical wording appeared across multiple official Kenyon retrievals (the Emergency Information page and Emergency Preparedness page)."],"characterCount":106},{"label":"Parent notification","quotedText":"When appropriate, Kenyon's parents are also notified of campus alerts via email.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.kenyon.edu/emergency-information/","sourceDescription":"Kenyon College — Emergency Information page","annotations":["Extends alert reach to parents by email when appropriate — a feature more common at small residential colleges. Identical wording appeared across multiple official Kenyon retrievals."],"characterCount":80},{"label":"RAVE Emergency Alerts definition","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.kenyon.edu/emergency-information/emergency-preparedness/","sourceDescription":"Kenyon College — Emergency Preparedness page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index, clause partly truncated in one retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Kenyon's emergency-notification system is RAVE Emergency Alerts (text, voice, email), branded to recipients as the 'Kenyon Campus Alert' subject line; both were corroborated across official Kenyon pages.","Every emergency message carries the recognizable subject line 'Kenyon Campus Alert,' giving the community a consistent official marker.","Kenyon also notifies parents of campus alerts via email when appropriate, extending reach beyond the enrolled community.","RAVE is paired with the Rave Guardian app (anonymous reporting to Campus Safety, safety timer, safety profile); timely warnings are disseminated via text, e-mail, and/or social media.","Two excerpts (the subject-line and parent-notification sentences) were confirmed verbatim across multiple official-page retrievals; the full RAVE definition was partly truncated in indexed snippets and is marked reconstructed, as are the decision authority and test cadence (kenyon.edu blocked automated fetching)."],"sources":[{"title":"Kenyon College — Emergency Information","url":"https://www.kenyon.edu/emergency-information/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Kenyon College — Emergency Preparedness","url":"https://www.kenyon.edu/emergency-information/emergency-preparedness/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Kenyon College — Office of Campus Safety","url":"https://www.kenyon.edu/campus-life/health-safety/office-of-campus-safety/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Kenyon College — Security and Crime Reporting Information","url":"https://www.kenyon.edu/campus-life/health-safety/office-of-campus-safety/crime-statistics/security-and-crime-reporting-information/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Kenyon College — The Rave Guardian App","url":"https://www.kenyon.edu/campus-life/health-safety/office-of-campus-safety/emergencies/the-rave-guardian-app/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","private-liberal-arts","ohio","rave","kenyon-campus-alert","rave-guardian"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"kilgore-college-rave-alert-asr","slug":"kilgore-college-rave-alert-asr","institution":{"name":"Kilgore College","shortName":"Kilgore","state":"TX","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"RAVE Alert","enrollment":5500},"policy":{"title":"Crime Alerts and Immediate Threat Notification (RAVE Alert) - Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","systemName":"RAVE Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.kilgore.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/KCPD-Security-and-Fire-2025-1.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Kilgore College documents [RAVE Alert campus-wide crime and immediate-threat notifications](https://www.kilgore.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/KCPD-Security-and-Fire-2025-1.pdf) authored by the Vice President of Student Services via the PIO, with Police Chief review for Crime Alert warrant and orange poster postings.","analysis":"Kilgore College (Kilgore/Longview, TX) publishes community notification procedures for reported crimes and immediate threats in its [2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.kilgore.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/KCPD-Security-and-Fire-2025-1.pdf). For serious incidents posing an ongoing threat, a campus-wide RAVE Alert (subscription text messaging) is sent. Alerts are generally written by the Vice President of Student Services who authorizes messages via the PIO; the Chief of Police may also send them. Updates may use blast email or website postings. Crime Alert posters on orange paper may be posted in building lobby/entrance areas for seven days when deemed necessary.\n\nCrime Alerts usually cover arson, criminal homicide, and robbery; aggravated assault and sex offenses are case-by-case. The Police Chief or designee reviews all reports for ongoing threat and Crime Alert warrant. Immediate-threat notifications likewise use RAVE Alert for imminent or ongoing threats, with optional Facebook posts for non-campus community members. Residence hall evacuation drills occur each semester. Complements Texas CC coverage with ACC Emergency Alert and Weatherford Coyote Alert.","whenCriteria":"Campus-wide RAVE Alert for serious incidents posing ongoing or imminent threat to the KC community. Crime Alerts typically for arson, criminal homicide, robbery; aggravated assault and sex offenses case-by-case.","decisionAuthority":"RAVE alerts generally written by Vice President of Student Services authorizing via PIO; Chief of Police may also send. Police Chief or designee reviews reports for Crime Alert warrant.","timingStandard":"Timely notice for serious ongoing-threat incidents. Crime Alert posters remain seven days when used. Residence hall evacuation drills each semester.","cleryFraming":"ASR Notification to the KC Community about Reported Crimes and Immediate Threat sections with named RAVE Alert system and Crime Alert poster practice.","scopeLimits":"RAVE Alert is a subscription service for campus community members. Facebook may reach non-campus community. Crime Alerts not issued when no ongoing community threat (e.g., two-student disagreement assault).","testingCadence":"Residence hall evacuation drills each semester monitored by Incident Command Team, KCPD, and Campus Life. Broader RAVE test cadence not specified in the notification sections reviewed.","channels":["sms","email","website","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"RAVE Alert for ongoing threat","quotedText":"a campus-wide alert is sent via a RAVE Alert, a text messaging system that is sent to all members of the campus community who have subscribed to the service.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.kilgore.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/KCPD-Security-and-Fire-2025-1.pdf","sourceDescription":"Kilgore 2025 ASR - Notification about Reported Crimes","annotations":["Named RAVE Alert subscription text system for campus-wide alerts."],"characterCount":157},{"label":"VP Student Services authors via PIO","quotedText":"These alerts are generally written by the Vice President of Student Services who will authorize these messages via the PIO. These messages may also be sent out by the Chief of Police.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.kilgore.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/KCPD-Security-and-Fire-2025-1.pdf","sourceDescription":"Kilgore 2025 ASR - alert authorship","annotations":["VP Student Services/PIO primary path; Chief of Police alternate sender."],"characterCount":183}],"keyFindings":["RAVE Alert subscription text for campus-wide crime and immediate-threat notifications.","VP Student Services writes/authorizes via PIO; Chief of Police may also send.","Orange Crime Alert posters for seven days in affected building lobbies when warranted."],"sources":[{"title":"Kilgore College 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report PDF","url":"https://www.kilgore.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/KCPD-Security-and-Fire-2025-1.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Kilgore College Police Department RAVE signup page","url":"https://www.kilgore.edu/police-department-kcpd/","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["texas","community-college","clery-asr","rave","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"lafayette-college-leopard-alerts-policy","slug":"lafayette-college-leopard-alerts-policy","institution":{"name":"Lafayette College","shortName":"Lafayette","state":"PA","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"Leopard Alerts","alertPlatform":"Omnilert"},"policy":{"title":"2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - Emergency Notification Process and Leopard Alerts","systemName":"Leopard Alerts","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://publicsafety.lafayette.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/86/2025/09/PS_Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report_25-26_web.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Lafayette College's [2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://publicsafety.lafayette.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/86/2025/09/PS_Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report_25-26_web.pdf) determines notification content and initiates the system without delay unless issuing would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Emergency Notifications go via the Leopard Alerts Emergency Alert Service. The [emergency contacts page](https://www.lafayette.edu/emergency-contacts-guidelines/) describes an outdoor warning system that supplements Leopard Alerts.","analysis":"Lafayette (Pennsylvania private liberal-arts college, five filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [2025 ASR PDF](https://publicsafety.lafayette.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/86/2025/09/PS_Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report_25-26_web.pdf) (HTTP 200, two-column text layer). The College determines content and initiates the notification system without delay, taking community safety into account, unless responsible authorities judge that issuing would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Emergency Notifications are made via the Leopard Alerts Emergency Alert Service. The live [emergency contacts page](https://www.lafayette.edu/emergency-contacts-guidelines/) (HTTP 200) states that an outdoor warning system can activate a siren and deliver voice messages and that this system supplements Leopard Alerts. The HTML Leopard Alerts definition sentence contains NBSPs around the service link and is not quoted. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF or HTML.","whenCriteria":"Without-delay emergency notification unless issuing would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Outdoor warning during an emergency on or around campus.","decisionAuthority":"The ASR names the Director of Public Safety or designee for timely-warning content; that two-column sentence is not quoted here. Dispatch notifies the Director or designee to issue an emergency notification after first responders confirm a significant emergency.","timingStandard":"Without delay, taking into account the safety of the community.","cleryFraming":"The ASR separates Timely Warning procedures from the Emergency Notification Process. This file quotes the emergency-notification track plus the outdoor-warning supplement.","scopeLimits":"The ASR later states participation in Leopard Alerts is voluntary; that sentence is not quoted from the two-column layout.","channels":["sms","email","siren","pa-system","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Without-delay initiation","quotedText":"The College will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system, unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://publicsafety.lafayette.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/86/2025/09/PS_Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report_25-26_web.pdf","sourceDescription":"Lafayette College 2025 ASR (PDF text layer, hyphenation joined)","annotations":["Live has no comma after respond to. PDF wraps notification and contain with end-of-line hyphens."],"characterCount":359},{"label":"Leopard Alerts as EN channel","quotedText":"Emergency Notifications will be made via the Leopard Alerts Emergency Alert Service.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://publicsafety.lafayette.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/86/2025/09/PS_Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report_25-26_web.pdf","sourceDescription":"Lafayette College 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Named EN product."],"characterCount":84},{"label":"Outdoor warning system","quotedText":"The college features an outdoor warning system that can activate a siren and deliver voice messages during an emergency on or around the campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lafayette.edu/emergency-contacts-guidelines/","sourceDescription":"Lafayette College Emergency Contacts and Guidelines (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["college is lowercase in the live sentence."],"characterCount":144},{"label":"Outdoor system supplements Leopard Alerts","quotedText":"This outdoor warning system supplements the emergency notification service known as Leopard Alerts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lafayette.edu/emergency-contacts-guidelines/","sourceDescription":"Lafayette College Emergency Contacts and Guidelines (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Pairs the consumer page to the ASR product name."],"characterCount":99}],"keyFindings":["Emergency notifications initiate without delay unless issuing would compromise victim assistance or mitigation.","Emergency Notifications go out through Leopard Alerts.","An outdoor siren and voice system supplements Leopard Alerts."],"sources":[{"title":"Lafayette College 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://publicsafety.lafayette.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/86/2025/09/PS_Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report_25-26_web.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Lafayette College Emergency Contacts and Guidelines","url":"https://www.lafayette.edu/emergency-contacts-guidelines/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","pennsylvania","private-liberal-arts","omnilert"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"lake-washington-institute-of-technology-alert-policy","slug":"lake-washington-institute-of-technology-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Lake Washington Institute of Technology","shortName":"LWTech","state":"WA","type":"technical-college","alertSystemName":"Omnilert"},"policy":{"title":"Safety and Security Policy","systemName":"Omnilert","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.lwtech.edu/about-us/shared-governance/policies-and-procedures/safety-and-security-policy.aspx"},"summary":"Lake Washington Institute of Technology, a public two-year technical college in Kirkland, Washington, publishes its emergency-notification procedures through a Board-adopted [Safety and Security Policy](https://www.lwtech.edu/about-us/shared-governance/policies-and-procedures/safety-and-security-policy.aspx) and a companion [Emergency Communications](https://www.lwtech.edu/campus-services/campus-safety/emergency-communications.aspx) page describing its Omnilert and FlashAlert systems.","analysis":"LWTech's [Safety and Security Policy](https://www.lwtech.edu/about-us/shared-governance/policies-and-procedures/safety-and-security-policy.aspx) places overall emergency authority with the college president rather than with a single public-safety office: the policy provides for the President or designee to maintain the college's educational functions and services and to take necessary measures to prevent injury to people and property by stopping any campus disruption, with legal and prompt use of college employees and local law enforcement agencies where necessary. That framing, that the President or designee holds decision authority, and further emergency conditions are those the President or designee deems appropriate, gives LWTech's top administration broad discretion over what counts as an emergency rather than binding the college to a fixed, enumerated list of triggering events.\n\nOperationally, LWTech runs two parallel alerting systems rather than one. Campus Public Safety and/or Facilities staff will notify the campus via Omnilert and the PA system of the need to lockdown, and more broadly LWTech uses two campus emergency alert systems to notify students, faculty, staff, the community, and the media when campus activities are affected due to unexpected circumstances. The primary system, Omnilert, is described as capable of sending emergency notifications instantly and simultaneously to all registered mobile phones, wireless PDAs, pagers, smartphones, satellite phones, and email addresses, with alert updates also posted on Facebook and X (formerly Twitter). The second system, FlashAlert, exists specifically for media-facing closure announcements: FlashAlert is an emergency alert system used by the media to announce school closures and schedule changes, delivered via email, text, and a dedicated FlashAlert Messenger app, and LWTech staff update FlashAlert at the same time Omnilert is updated, so the two systems fire together rather than sequentially.\n\nLWTech's Campus Public Safety office reports directly to the Vice President of Administrative Services, and the college directs emergencies to be reported first to 911 (9-911 from an on-campus phone) and then to [Campus Public Safety](https://www.lwtech.edu/campus-services/campus-safety/index.aspx) at 425-739-8224. The dual-system, president-authorized structure is typical of a smaller technical college that must reach both an on-campus population and an off-campus media/community audience without a large dedicated emergency-management staff.","whenCriteria":"Emergency conditions are those the President or designee deems as appropriate; documented examples include the need to lockdown a campus, communicated via Omnilert and the PA system, and unexpected circumstances affecting campus activities more broadly.","decisionAuthority":"The President or designee holds overall authority to maintain the college's educational functions and take necessary measures, including legal and prompt use of college employees and local law enforcement agencies, to prevent injury to people and property.","timingStandard":"A specific minutes-based timeliness standard was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed; Omnilert is described as capable of sending notifications instantly and simultaneously across registered channels.","cleryFraming":"The Safety and Security Policy and Emergency Communications pages describe LWTech's notification mechanics without reproducing a separate, distinctly labeled Clery timely-warning clause in the sources reviewed; the policy is framed around presidential emergency authority and the Omnilert/FlashAlert delivery mechanism.","testingCadence":"A specific testing cadence for Omnilert or FlashAlert was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Omnilert reaches registered mobile phones, wireless PDAs, pagers, smartphones, satellite phones, and email addresses, supplemented by Facebook and X posts; FlashAlert is scoped specifically to media-facing closure and schedule-change announcements rather than general emergency alerting.","channels":["sms","email","pa-system","twitter-x","facebook","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Presidential emergency authority","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lwtech.edu/about-us/shared-governance/policies-and-procedures/safety-and-security-policy.aspx","sourceDescription":"Safety and Security Policy, Lake Washington Institute of Technology","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Discretionary emergency definition","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lwtech.edu/about-us/shared-governance/policies-and-procedures/safety-and-security-policy.aspx","sourceDescription":"Safety and Security Policy, Lake Washington Institute of Technology","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Two parallel alert systems","quotedText":"LWTech uses two campus emergency alert systems to notify students, faculty, staff, the community, and the media when campus activities are affected due to unexpected circumstances.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lwtech.edu/campus-services/campus-safety/emergency-communications.aspx","sourceDescription":"Emergency Communications, Lake Washington Institute of Technology","annotations":["Confirms LWTech's two-system model (Omnilert plus FlashAlert) rather than a single unified alert platform."],"characterCount":180},{"label":"Omnilert channel capability","quotedText":"The Omnilert system is capable of sending emergency notifications instantly and simultaneously to all registered mobile phones, wireless PDAs, pagers, smartphones, satellite phones, and email addresses.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lwtech.edu/campus-services/campus-safety/emergency-communications.aspx","sourceDescription":"Emergency Communications, Lake Washington Institute of Technology","annotations":["Enumerates Omnilert's registered-device channels, an unusually broad list including pagers and satellite phones."],"characterCount":202},{"label":"FlashAlert's media-facing purpose","quotedText":"FlashAlert is an emergency alert system used by the media to announce school closures and schedule changes.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lwtech.edu/campus-services/campus-safety/emergency-communications.aspx","sourceDescription":"Emergency Communications, Lake Washington Institute of Technology","annotations":["Defines FlashAlert's distinct, media-facing role alongside the primary Omnilert notification system."],"characterCount":107}],"keyFindings":["LWTech's Safety and Security Policy vests the President or designee with broad, undefined discretion to determine what constitutes an emergency and to direct the college's response.","LWTech operates two parallel alert systems: Omnilert for direct community notification (mobile phones, pagers, satellite phones, email, plus Facebook/X) and FlashAlert specifically for media-facing school-closure and schedule-change announcements.","LWTech staff update FlashAlert at the same time Omnilert is updated, so the two systems are intended to fire together rather than one after the other.","Campus Public Safety reports directly to the Vice President of Administrative Services rather than to a separate emergency-management division.","The Safety and Security Policy's core authority language could not be directly fetched in this environment (403 responses from lwtech.edu); the two presidential-authority excerpts are therefore marked not verbatim-confirmed, while the Emergency Communications excerpts, independently corroborated across multiple search queries, are marked verbatim-confirmed."],"sources":[{"title":"Safety and Security Policy, Lake Washington Institute of Technology","url":"https://www.lwtech.edu/about-us/shared-governance/policies-and-procedures/safety-and-security-policy.aspx","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Communications, Lake Washington Institute of Technology","url":"https://www.lwtech.edu/campus-services/campus-safety/emergency-communications.aspx","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Campus Emergencies and Lockdowns, Lake Washington Institute of Technology","url":"https://www.lwtech.edu/campus-services/campus-safety/campus-emergencies-and-lockdowns.aspx","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","technical-college","washington","omnilert","flashalert","kirkland"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"lake-sumter-state-college-emergency-notifications-pro-7-13","slug":"lake-sumter-state-college-emergency-notifications-pro-7-13","institution":{"name":"Lake-Sumter State College","shortName":"LSSC","state":"FL","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"LSSC Alert","enrollment":5000},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications (Administrative Procedure PRO 7-13)","systemName":"LSSC Alert","documentType":"sop","url":"https://www.lssc.edu/wp-content/uploads/PRO_7-13.pdf","lastReviewed":"2024-01-08"},"summary":"Lake-Sumter State College publishes a two-page [Emergency Notifications administrative procedure (PRO 7-13)](https://www.lssc.edu/wp-content/uploads/PRO_7-13.pdf) that names campus-by-campus designated issuers for immediate LSSC Alert activations and requires an all-clear when the emergency is resolved.","analysis":"Lake-Sumter State College, a multi-campus Florida College System institution serving Lake and Sumter Counties, documents Clery emergency-notification practice as a standalone administrative procedure rather than only inside an Annual Security Report. PRO 7-13, last updated January 8, 2024, separates emergency notifications (immediate danger) from timely warnings (serious or continuing Clery crime threat) and puts default release authority with the Executive Director of Campus Safety after consultation with the Vice President for Facilities Planning and Operations. See the source document: [Emergency Notifications (Administrative Procedure PRO 7-13)](https://www.lssc.edu/wp-content/uploads/PRO_7-13.pdf).\n\nThe procedure is unusually specific about who may issue without waiting for a meeting: designated individuals on each campus and system-wide may activate LSSC Alert immediately based on the urgent nature of the situation. Leesburg, South Lake/Four Corners, Sumter, and system-wide each have named roles authorized to issue. The text also requires continuing updates during the emergency and an explicit LSSC Alert when the emergency is resolved.","whenCriteria":"An emergency notification is triggered by any significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus that is currently on-going or presents an immediate threat to a campus location.","decisionAuthority":"Default release by the Executive Director, Campus Safety after consultation with the Vice President for Facilities Planning and Operations; designated campus and system-wide individuals may issue immediately without a prior Emergency Management Group meeting.","timingStandard":"An emergency notification should be delivered immediately upon becoming aware of the emergency or threatened emergency.","cleryFraming":"PRO 7-13 implements Clery emergency-notification obligations as a dedicated administrative procedure with campus-named issuers and an all-clear requirement, separate from PRO 7-14 timely warnings.","scopeLimits":"Covers students, employees, and visitors; campus-specific and system-wide issuer lists; notification withheld only if issuing would compromise victim assistance or emergency response.","testingCadence":"Not specified in PRO 7-13.","channels":["sms","email","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Immediate delivery standard","quotedText":"An emergency notification should be delivered immediately upon becoming aware of the emergency/threatened emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lssc.edu/wp-content/uploads/PRO_7-13.pdf","sourceDescription":"LSSC PRO 7-13 Emergency Notifications, section IV.b","annotations":["States the immediate delivery timing standard."],"characterCount":116},{"label":"Activate LSSC Alert without delay","quotedText":"Once aware of the emergency, the designated individual will, without delay, and considering the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and activate the LSSC Alert system, unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgement of the designated individual, compromise efforts to assist victims, or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lssc.edu/wp-content/uploads/PRO_7-13.pdf","sourceDescription":"LSSC PRO 7-13 Emergency Notifications, section IV.e","annotations":["Clery-style without-delay activation with professional-judgment withhold carve-out."],"characterCount":396},{"label":"All-clear requirement","quotedText":"Once there is confirmation that the emergency is resolved, an LSSC Alert will be sent to make notification that there is no longer an emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lssc.edu/wp-content/uploads/PRO_7-13.pdf","sourceDescription":"LSSC PRO 7-13 Emergency Notifications, section IV.g","annotations":["Requires an explicit resolution/all-clear LSSC Alert."],"characterCount":144}],"keyFindings":["Campus-by-campus named roles may issue emergency notifications immediately without waiting for an Emergency Management Group meeting.","LSSC Alert is the named activation system for emergency notifications and for the required all-clear.","Procedure last updated January 8, 2024 as a two-page standalone SOP."],"sources":[{"title":"LSSC PRO 7-13 Emergency Notifications PDF","url":"https://www.lssc.edu/wp-content/uploads/PRO_7-13.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["florida","community-college","emergency-notification","sop","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"lake-sumter-state-college-timely-warning-pro-7-14","slug":"lake-sumter-state-college-timely-warning-pro-7-14","institution":{"name":"Lake-Sumter State College","shortName":"LSSC","state":"FL","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"LSSC Alert","enrollment":5000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning (Administrative Procedure PRO 7-14)","systemName":"LSSC Alert","documentType":"sop","url":"https://www.lssc.edu/wp-content/uploads/PRO_7-14.pdf","lastReviewed":"2024-01-08"},"summary":"Lake-Sumter State College publishes a two-page [Timely Warning administrative procedure (PRO 7-14)](https://www.lssc.edu/wp-content/uploads/PRO_7-14.pdf) that triggers warnings for Clery Act crimes representing an ongoing threat and routes issuance through designated Strategic Communications and Campus Safety roles via LSSC Alert.","analysis":"Companion to PRO 7-13, LSSC PRO 7-14 is a standalone timely-warning SOP updated January 8, 2024. It frames timely warnings as post-crime notices for ongoing threats within Clery geography at any LSSC location and names the Executive Director of Strategic Communications, Executive Director of Campus Safety, Campus Safety Manager, or Campus Safety Staff Assistant as designated issuers via LSSC Alert. See the source document: [Timely Warning (Administrative Procedure PRO 7-14)](https://www.lssc.edu/wp-content/uploads/PRO_7-14.pdf).\n\nThe procedure allows the Emergency Management Group to convene in full or in part depending on incident nature, continuing danger, and law-enforcement compromise risk, then requires content that promotes safety and crime prevention, with optional updates if more information becomes available.","whenCriteria":"A timely warning is triggered by a Clery Act crime that has already occurred but represents an on-going threat, reported to campus security or local law enforcement within Clery Act geography of any LSSC location.","decisionAuthority":"Most instances released by the Executive Director, Campus Safety (Clery Compliance Officer) after consultation with the Vice President for Facilities Planning and Operations; designated Strategic Communications and Campus Safety roles issue via LSSC Alert.","timingStandard":"A timely warning should be made as soon as all pertinent information is available.","cleryFraming":"PRO 7-14 implements Clery timely-warning obligations as a dedicated administrative procedure paired with PRO 7-13 emergency notifications, both using LSSC Alert.","scopeLimits":"Applies to Clery Act crimes within LSSC Clery geography; content may be limited if full disclosure would compromise law enforcement efforts.","testingCadence":"Not specified in PRO 7-14.","channels":["sms","email","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Ongoing-threat trigger","quotedText":"A timely warning is triggered by crime that has already occurred but represents an on-going threat. A timely warning should be issued for any Clery Act crime reported to campus security or a local law enforcement agency if it occurred within the Clery Act geography of any Lake-Sumter State College location.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lssc.edu/wp-content/uploads/PRO_7-14.pdf","sourceDescription":"LSSC PRO 7-14 Timely Warning, section IV.a","annotations":["Defines post-crime ongoing-threat trigger and Clery geography scope."],"characterCount":308},{"label":"As soon as pertinent information available","quotedText":"A timely warning should be made as soon as all pertinent information is available.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lssc.edu/wp-content/uploads/PRO_7-14.pdf","sourceDescription":"LSSC PRO 7-14 Timely Warning, section IV.b","annotations":["States the as-soon-as-pertinent-information timing standard."],"characterCount":82},{"label":"Designated LSSC Alert issuers","quotedText":"The Executive Director of Strategic Communications, the Executive Director of Campus Safety, the Campus Safety Manager, or the Campus Safety Staff Assistant are designated to issue a timely warning notice via LSSC Alert.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lssc.edu/wp-content/uploads/PRO_7-14.pdf","sourceDescription":"LSSC PRO 7-14 Timely Warning, section IV.c","annotations":["Names four designated issuer roles for LSSC Alert timely warnings."],"characterCount":220}],"keyFindings":["Standalone timely-warning SOP separate from emergency-notification procedure.","Four named roles may issue timely warnings via LSSC Alert.","Timing standard is as soon as all pertinent information is available."],"sources":[{"title":"LSSC PRO 7-14 Timely Warning PDF","url":"https://www.lssc.edu/wp-content/uploads/PRO_7-14.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["florida","community-college","timely-warning","sop","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"lakeland-community-college-2025-asr-alert-policy","slug":"lakeland-community-college-2025-asr-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Lakeland Community College","shortName":"Lakeland","state":"OH","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"SchoolMessenger / VENS"},"policy":{"title":"2025 Annual Security Report - Emergency Notification and Timely Warning","systemName":"SchoolMessenger / VENS","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.lakelandcc.edu/annualsecurityreport","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Lakeland Community College's [2025 Annual Security Report](https://www.lakelandcc.edu/annualsecurityreport) defines an emergency notification as the immediate announcement to the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an imminent threat to students or employees on campus. Faculty, staff and students are automatically registered with SchoolMessenger.","analysis":"Lakeland (Ohio community college, seven filed cases, no prior policy file) serves the live [2025 ASR](https://www.lakelandcc.edu/annualsecurityreport) as a PDF at that URL (HTTP 200, text layer). LCCPD issues emergency notifications. The live definition uses imminent threat, not immediate. Notifications may be initiated by the College President or designee and LCCPD personnel. Faculty, staff and students are automatically registered with SchoolMessenger; VENS is the Voice Emergency Notification System. A timely-warning case-by-case sentence wraps as case-by- case in the PDF and is not quoted. A without-delay sentence is split by a page number and is not quoted as a single string. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notification upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an imminent threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus. Timely warning considered when a Clery reportable crime occurs on campus and the suspect has not been immediately apprehended.","decisionAuthority":"Lakeland Community College Police Department issues emergency notifications. The College President or designee and LCCPD personnel may initiate them. LCCPD personnel decide whether a timely warning should be issued.","timingStandard":"An emergency notification is the immediate announcement upon confirmation. No minutes-based SLA is quoted.","cleryFraming":"The ASR keeps Emergency Notification (imminent on-campus threat) distinct from Timely Warning (Clery reportable crime, suspect not immediately apprehended).","scopeLimits":"Faculty, staff and students are automatically registered with SchoolMessenger. Others affiliated with the college can elect to register via a link on the LCCPD web page.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency notification definition","quotedText":"An emergency notification is the immediate announcement to the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an imminent threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lakelandcc.edu/annualsecurityreport","sourceDescription":"Lakeland Community College 2025 ASR (PDF text layer at annualsecurityreport URL)","annotations":["Live wording is imminent threat."],"characterCount":246},{"label":"President or LCCPD may initiate","quotedText":"Emergency notifications may be initiated by the College President or designee and LCCPD personnel.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lakelandcc.edu/annualsecurityreport","sourceDescription":"Lakeland Community College 2025 ASR (PDF text layer at annualsecurityreport URL)","annotations":["Named initiators."],"characterCount":98},{"label":"SchoolMessenger auto-registration","quotedText":"Faculty, staff and students are automatically registered with SchoolMessenger.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lakelandcc.edu/annualsecurityreport","sourceDescription":"Lakeland Community College 2025 ASR (PDF text layer at annualsecurityreport URL)","annotations":["No serial comma after staff in the live sentence."],"characterCount":78},{"label":"Timely warning when suspect not apprehended","quotedText":"When a Clery reportable crime occurs on campus and the suspect has not been immediately apprehended, LCCPD personnel will decide whether a timely warning to the campus should be issued.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lakelandcc.edu/annualsecurityreport","sourceDescription":"Lakeland Community College 2025 ASR (PDF text layer at annualsecurityreport URL)","annotations":["Live wording is Clery reportable without a hyphen."],"characterCount":185}],"keyFindings":["Emergency notifications are immediate announcements upon confirmation of an imminent on-campus threat.","The College President or designee and LCCPD personnel may initiate notifications.","Faculty, staff and students are automatically registered with SchoolMessenger."],"sources":[{"title":"Lakeland Community College 2025 Annual Security Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.lakelandcc.edu/annualsecurityreport","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","ohio","community-college","schoolmessenger"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"lamar-university-connected-alert-policy","slug":"lamar-university-connected-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Lamar University","shortName":"Lamar","state":"TX","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"LU Connect / ConnectEd"},"policy":{"title":"Annual Security Report FAQs and Police Services - Emergency Warnings","systemName":"LU Connect / ConnectEd","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.lamar.edu/police/annual-security-report/"},"summary":"Lamar University's [Annual Security Report page](https://www.lamar.edu/police/annual-security-report/) states that Lamar Police Department will issue Emergency Warnings immediately through the ConnectEd system. The [police services page](https://www.lamar.edu/police/services/) broadcasts a message through the LU Connect (Blackboard) system in an on-campus emergency.","analysis":"Lamar (Texas public-r2, five filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [Annual Security, Fire Report and Crime Information](https://www.lamar.edu/police/annual-security-report/) page (HTTP 200). Lamar Police Department will issue Emergency Warnings immediately through the ConnectEd system. A following Crime Alerts sentence is separated by an HTML NBSP and is not quoted. The live [Services](https://www.lamar.edu/police/services/) page (HTTP 200) states that in an on-campus emergency the department will broadcast a message through the LU Connect (Blackboard) system, and that contact information must be up to date. The 2025 ASR PDF is large and timed out in this pass; it is not quoted. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live HTML.","whenCriteria":"Emergency Warnings immediately through ConnectEd. LU Connect broadcast in an on-campus emergency.","decisionAuthority":"Lamar Police Department issues Emergency Warnings.","timingStandard":"Immediately through the ConnectEd system.","cleryFraming":"The ASR FAQ page describes Clery timely-warning requirements in paraphrase and names Emergency Warnings as the Lamar product.","scopeLimits":"Contact information must be current in Self-Service Banner or updates will not be received.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency Warnings via ConnectEd","quotedText":"Lamar Police Department will issue Emergency Warnings immediately through the ConnectEd system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lamar.edu/police/annual-security-report/","sourceDescription":"Lamar University Annual Security Report page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["A following Crime Alerts sentence is after an NBSP and is not quoted."],"characterCount":95},{"label":"LU Connect on-campus emergency","quotedText":"In an on-campus emergency, we will broadcast a message through the LU Connect (Blackboard) system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lamar.edu/police/services/","sourceDescription":"Lamar University Police Services page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Blackboard is parenthetical in the live sentence."],"characterCount":98},{"label":"Contact information required","quotedText":"Make sure your contact information is up to date or you won't receive updates.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lamar.edu/police/services/","sourceDescription":"Lamar University Police Services page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["ASCII apostrophe in won't."],"characterCount":78}],"keyFindings":["Lamar Police issues Emergency Warnings immediately through ConnectEd.","On-campus emergencies are broadcast through LU Connect (Blackboard).","Out-of-date contact information means missed updates."],"sources":[{"title":"Lamar University Annual Security, Fire Report and Crime Information","url":"https://www.lamar.edu/police/annual-security-report/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Lamar University Police Services","url":"https://www.lamar.edu/police/services/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","system-overview","emergency-notification","texas","public-r2"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"langston-rave-alert-policy","slug":"langston-rave-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Langston University","shortName":"LU","state":"OK","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"Rave (LU emergency notification system; managed via LionKey)","enrollment":1937},"policy":{"title":"Langston University Emergency Notification & Timely Warning Policy (Annual Crime & Fire Safety Report)","systemName":"Rave Mobile Safety emergency notification system","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://langston.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2025-Clery-ASR-Langston-Campus.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-01-01"},"summary":"Langston University, Oklahoma's only public HBCU, delivers emergency notifications through a [Rave Mobile Safety](https://langston.edu/services-and-programs-for-students/) system into which all students and employees are automatically registered upon activating their LionKey; per Langston's [2025 Annual Crime & Fire Safety Report](https://langston.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2025-Clery-ASR-Langston-Campus.pdf), the LU Police Department determines the content of notifications and initiates the system 'without delay' for serious or continuing threats, sending alerts by voicemail, campus email, social media, and Rave.","analysis":"Langston University (LU), in Langston, Oklahoma, is the state's only public, state-supported HBCU. It does not market a distinct branded alert name (no 'Lion Alert' product); instead the university has 'contracted with [Rave Mobile Safety](https://langston.edu/services-and-programs-for-students/) to provide an emergency notification system,' and the system is administered through the campus identity portal LU calls LionKey. The key access detail is auto-enrollment: 'all Langston University students and employees are automatically registered for alerts upon activating their LionKey,' and members can manage their phone and text/voicemail preferences through their Lion account. Because the auto-enrollment phrasing and the Rave-contract phrasing each surfaced through indexed snippets rather than a confirmed live fetch, they are recorded here as reconstructed (isVerbatimConfirmed:false) out of caution.\n\nThe Clery procedural backbone is in Langston's [2025 Annual Crime & Fire Safety Report](https://langston.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2025-Clery-ASR-Langston-Campus.pdf). The report provides that the LU Police Department determines the content of a notification and initiates the notification system 'without delay,' taking into account the safety of the community, 'unless issuing a notification would compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to or otherwise mitigate the emergency' — the standard Clery exception language. It further states that the Langston University Police Department 'carefully reviews all reports of criminal activity and warns the LU community of serious crimes or threats occurring on or near campus,' with timely-warning notifications issued for 'incidents involving violent crimes, crimes against persons, and serious threats to property when the threat is ongoing or continuing.'\n\nLangston operates the system on a multi-campus footprint — the Langston main campus plus the [Oklahoma City](https://langston.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2025-Clery-ASR-OKC-Campus.pdf) campus each publish their own Clery report — and notifications may be sent 'via voicemail, or electronically to campus email accounts, through LU's social media platforms and the Rave system.' Langston states its Annual Security Report 'serves as a compliance document as called for under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act as required by the Higher Education Opportunity Act.'\n\nLangston's published ASRs confirm the Rave foundation, the LionKey auto-enrollment, the LU Police decision authority, the 'without delay' timing with the Clery exception, the timely-warning crime categories, and the channel set (voicemail, campus email, social media, Rave). What could not be confirmed: a distinct branded alert name (none appears to exist), an outdoor-siren/loudspeaker layer (not evidenced), and a precise periodic-test cadence — none were byte-for-byte confirmable because langston.edu and the ASR PDFs returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so all excerpts here are drawn from indexed snippets of the official documents and conservatively marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false.","whenCriteria":"Per the ASR, LU Police initiate the notification system 'without delay' for confirmed emergencies, taking into account community safety, unless doing so would compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain/mitigate the emergency. Timely warnings are issued for violent crimes, crimes against persons, and serious threats to property when the threat is ongoing or continuing.","decisionAuthority":"Langston's ASR states the LU Police Department determines the content of notifications and initiates the notification system; the LUPD also reviews all reports of criminal activity and decides when to warn the community. (ASR sentences captured from search-index snippets; langston.edu blocked automated fetch.)","timingStandard":"The ASR states LU Police initiate the system 'without delay' while considering community safety, with the standard Clery exception for not compromising victim assistance or emergency response/containment — consistent with the federal Clery standard. Timely warnings are issued for ongoing or continuing serious-crime threats.","cleryFraming":"Langston frames its notifications as Clery compliance: the LU Police Department issues emergency notifications and timely warnings, and the Annual Security Report serves 'as a compliance document as called for under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act as required by the Higher Education Opportunity Act.' Separate Clery reports are published for the Langston and Oklahoma City campuses.","testingCadence":"A precise published periodic test cadence for Langston's Rave emergency-notification system was not confirmed verbatim in this review (langston.edu and the ASR PDFs blocked automated fetching).","scopeLimits":"All students and employees are automatically registered upon activating LionKey, but text/voice reach depends on the contact information in the Lion account, which members are urged to keep current. No outdoor-siren or loudspeaker layer was evidenced; documented channels are voicemail, campus email, social media, and the Rave system. Langston does not appear to market a distinct branded alert name.","channels":["phone-call","email","facebook","twitter-x","sms"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Rave contract and LionKey auto-enrollment","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://langston.edu/services-and-programs-for-students/","sourceDescription":"Langston University — Services and Programs (emergency notification) page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"LU Police authority and 'without delay' timing (ASR)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://langston.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2025-Clery-ASR-Langston-Campus.pdf","sourceDescription":"Langston University — 2025 Annual Crime & Fire Safety Report, Langston Campus (PDF; host blocked automated fetch, text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Timely-warning crime categories and channels (ASR)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://langston.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2025-Clery-ASR-Langston-Campus.pdf","sourceDescription":"Langston University — 2025 Annual Crime & Fire Safety Report, Langston Campus (PDF; host blocked automated fetch, text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Langston, Oklahoma's only public HBCU, runs emergency notifications on a Rave Mobile Safety system with no distinct branded name; access is via the LionKey portal.","All students and employees are automatically registered for alerts upon activating their LionKey, with preferences managed through the Lion account.","Langston's ASR names the LU Police Department as the decision authority and requires initiation of the system 'without delay,' with the standard Clery exception.","Timely warnings cover violent crimes, crimes against persons, and serious property threats when ongoing/continuing; channels are voicemail, campus email, social media, and Rave.","All excerpts were captured from search-index snippets because langston.edu and the ASR PDFs blocked automated fetching, so this case is conservatively rated and all excerpts are isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"sources":[{"title":"Langston University — Services and Programs (emergency notification / Rave)","url":"https://langston.edu/services-and-programs-for-students/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Langston University — 2025 Annual Crime & Fire Safety Report, Langston Campus (PDF)","url":"https://langston.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2025-Clery-ASR-Langston-Campus.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Langston University — 2025 Annual Crime & Fire Safety Report, Oklahoma City Campus (PDF)","url":"https://langston.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2025-Clery-ASR-OKC-Campus.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Langston University — Oklahoma City Campus Annual Crime Report 2024 (PDF)","url":"https://langston.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2024-Clery-Annual-Safety-Report-Langston-OKC-Campus.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"low","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","hbcu","oklahoma","rave","lionkey","multi-campus"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"lansing-community-college-lcc-alert-policy","slug":"lansing-community-college-lcc-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Lansing Community College","shortName":"LCC","state":"MI","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"LCC-Alert System (LCC-AS) / RAVE Guardian","enrollment":15000},"policy":{"title":"LCC-Alert System Emergency Notification and Timely Warning (ASR)","systemName":"LCC-Alert System (LCC-AS)","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.lcc.edu/campuslife/documents/annual_security_report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Lansing Community College's [Annual Security Report](https://www.lcc.edu/campuslife/documents/annual_security_report.pdf) brands the LCC-Alert System (LCC-AS) for email, text, text-to-voice, and RAVE Guardian app delivery, names an Incident Command Group for emergency message composition, and assigns Timely Warning recommendations to LCC PD in consultation with ICG with Chief/designee notification.","analysis":"Lansing Community College (Michigan) is a community college. Its [Annual Security Report](https://www.lcc.edu/campuslife/documents/annual_security_report.pdf) is institution-specific: Emergency Notifications go out without delay upon confirmation of immediate campus threats via LCC-AS (email, text, text-to-voice, RAVE Guardian) plus PA, website, social media, local media, and face-to-face. The Incident Command Group (Executive Director of Administrative Services, Emergency Management Director and/or Remote Campus Coordinator, Public Information Officer, and/or LCC PD) normally composes and issues non-immediate-life-safety emergency messages; police dispatch may send immediately for life-safety issues after confirmation. Weather life-safety (tornado) alerts issue immediately after NWS confirmation via Baron Weather app. Timely Warnings are recommended by LCCPD after Chief/designee notifies ICG; case-by-case on nature, community danger, and law-enforcement compromise risk; content set by LCCPD and ICG; sent via LCC-AS to the full distribution. Emergency Notification tests go to all enrolled (auto-enrolled students/employees) within the first three weeks of fall and spring semesters.","whenCriteria":"Emergency Notification for threat occurring or imminent posing immediate danger to health, safety, or general welfare while on campus. Timely Warning when Clery crimes reported to CSA or law enforcement pose serious or ongoing threat on LCC Clery geography (listed crime classifications plus hate-crime expansions).","decisionAuthority":"Emergency Notifications: normally composed and issued by Incident Command Group (ICG) members; police dispatch may issue immediately for confirmed life-safety issues; weather via NWS confirmation. Timely Warning: LCC PD Chief of Police and/or designee notifies ICG; recommendation by LCCPD in consultation with ICG; content by LCCPD and ICG; composed and sent by ICG member.","timingStandard":"Emergency Notifications without delay upon confirmation of immediate campus threat. Timely Warnings as soon as pertinent information is available under case-by-case analysis. EN tests within first 3 weeks of fall and spring semesters for all enrolled.","cleryFraming":"ASR separates Emergency Notification (immediate threat) from Timely Warning (Clery crimes with serious/ongoing threat) and notes Public Safety Notices as a third category in the TOC.","scopeLimits":"LCC-AS distribution includes students, employees, and others signed up; emergency notifications target the campus community including visitors for on-campus immediate threats. IPAWS and other systems used if LCC-AS is out.","testingCadence":"Emergency Notification test sent to all enrolled within the first 3 weeks of fall and spring semesters. Monthly preparedness email themes listed year-round.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system","website","facebook","twitter-x","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"LCC-AS multi-channel brand including RAVE Guardian","quotedText":"Alerts will be issued via LCC-Alert System (LCC – AS). These LCC -AS notifications are sent by email, text message, text -to-voice, and to the RAVE Guardian App used by LCC. The College community may also be notified using the Public Address Systems, the College website, social media, local media outlets, and f ace-to face communication.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lcc.edu/campuslife/documents/annual_security_report.pdf","sourceDescription":"LCC ASR alert communications","annotations":["Branded LCC-AS with RAVE Guardian and PA stack."],"characterCount":339},{"label":"Without-delay Emergency Notification purpose","quotedText":"The purpose of an emergency notification is to provide timely urgent notification to all students, employees, and visitors of a threat, occurring or imminent that poses an immediate danger to their health, safety, or general welfare while on campus. LCC will notify the campus community without delay upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lcc.edu/campuslife/documents/annual_security_report.pdf","sourceDescription":"LCC ASR Emergency Notification","annotations":["Local without-delay EN standard for on-campus immediate threats."],"characterCount":468},{"label":"Incident Command Group message composition roles","quotedText":"Emergency Notifications are normally composed and issued by members of the Incident Command Group (ICG) if the emergency is not an immediate life safety issue. The ICG is composed of the following individuals: Incident Command (Executive Director of Administrative Services, Emergency Management Director, and/or Remote Campus Coordinator), Public Information Officer, and/or the LCC PD.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lcc.edu/campuslife/documents/annual_security_report.pdf","sourceDescription":"LCC ASR ICG composition","annotations":["Named multi-role ICG including Remote Campus Coordinator."],"characterCount":387},{"label":"LCC PD Timely Warning recommendation with ICG","quotedText":"The LCCPD Chief of Police and/or designee will notify the ICG of any of the above crimes. The decision to issue a timely warning is considered on a case-by-case basis considering all the known facts surrounding the crime, including nature of the crime, danger to the community, and the possible risk of compromising law enforcement efforts. The recommendation to issue a Timely Warning will be made by LCCPD in consultation with the ICG. LCCPD and ICG also determine the message content.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lcc.edu/campuslife/documents/annual_security_report.pdf","sourceDescription":"LCC ASR Timely Warning decision","annotations":["Named Chief/designee + LCCPD-ICG consult for TW decisions and content."],"characterCount":487},{"label":"Fall and Spring EN test cadence for auto-enrolled affiliates","quotedText":"Emergency Notification test sent to all those enrolled (students and employees are automatically enrolled) in the fall within the first 3 weeks of the fall and spring semesters. This notification helps all to become familiar with LCC Alert communication procedures and emergency response guidelines since the alert points all to these webpages for information.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lcc.edu/campuslife/documents/annual_security_report.pdf","sourceDescription":"LCC ASR testing","annotations":["Local first-three-weeks Fall/Spring EN test for auto-enrolled users."],"characterCount":360}],"keyFindings":["LCC-Alert System (LCC-AS) brands multi-channel emergency messaging including RAVE Guardian.","Incident Command Group normally composes non-immediate emergency messages.","LCC PD recommends Timely Warnings in consultation with ICG after Chief notifies ICG.","EN tests within first three weeks of fall and spring for all auto-enrolled affiliates."],"sources":[{"title":"Annual Security Report - Lansing Community College","url":"https://www.lcc.edu/campuslife/documents/annual_security_report.pdf","type":"clery-asr","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","community-college","timely-warning","emergency-notification","rave","michigan","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"laramie-county-community-college-rave-alert-policy","slug":"laramie-county-community-college-rave-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Laramie County Community College","shortName":"LCCC","state":"WY","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"RAVE Alert","alertPlatform":"Rave","enrollment":4193},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Alerts","systemName":"RAVE Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.lccc.wy.edu/services/technology/alerts.aspx","lastReviewed":"2026-07-03"},"summary":"Laramie County Community College's [Emergency Alerts](https://www.lccc.wy.edu/services/technology/alerts.aspx) page describes an opt-out RAVE Alert system that texts and emails students and employees during emergencies threatening life, safety, or property, or that severely impact normal campus operations, and states LCCC plans a test message each semester to verify subscriptions.","analysis":"Laramie County Community College (Cheyenne, WY) runs its emergency notification system on the [RAVE](https://www.ravemobilesafety.com/products/rave-alert/) platform, described on the college's [Emergency Alerts](https://www.lccc.wy.edu/services/technology/alerts.aspx) page. Unlike institutions that require an affirmative signup, LCCC's system is opt-out: every student and employee is set up to receive alerts by default the moment they are a member of the campus community, and anyone who wants to stop receiving messages must actively unsubscribe (by replying STOP to a text or email, or by contacting the Marketing and Communications department directly to be removed).\n\nThe page sets an honest expectation for message frequency: subscribers will typically see only two to four messages a year, tied to the number of times the campus closes, but during a more serious emergency, numerous messages may go out in a single day as the situation develops. LCCC also states it plans a test message each semester specifically to verify subscription status and confirm the system is functioning, a concrete testing-cadence commitment that is often left vague at other institutions. A separate [Emergency Information](https://www.lccc.wy.edu/contact/emergency.aspx) page gives quick-reference guidance for specific scenarios (911, fire, bomb threat, intruder, hazmat), and the college's general policies section references a numbered [Timely Warning Policy](https://lccc.wy.edu/about/policiesProcedures/9generalPolicies.aspx) (Policy 9.4) that would ordinarily carry the formal Clery emergency-notification-versus-timely-warning distinction.\n\nThis environment's outbound network returns HTTP 403 for direct fetches of lccc.wy.edu, so the excerpts below were captured from official page text as reproduced in search-engine indexing, cross-checked across independent queries run separately by two different search efforts in this session. Several sentences returned identically (or near-identically, differing only by a single verb-agreement letter) across those independent queries and are marked verbatim-confirmed on that basis; the Timely Warning Policy PDF itself, and any named decision-authority language, could not be located or fetched and are reported as gaps rather than invented.","whenCriteria":"RAVE Alert messages are used to notify students and employees during emergencies that threaten life, safety, or property, and/or that severely impact normal campus/college operations.","decisionAuthority":"Not confirmed in the sources reviewed; LCCC's Campus Safety and Marketing & Communications offices jointly administer the system's operation and unsubscribe process, but no single named approving official for activation was reproduced verbatim.","timingStandard":"No specific minutes-based timeliness standard was reproduced verbatim; the page instead commits to a message-frequency expectation and describes rapid, repeated messaging during fast-moving incidents.","cleryFraming":"LCCC's general policies reference a numbered \"9.4 Timely Warning Policy\" and \"9.4P Timely Warning Procedure,\" confirming the college draws a formal Clery distinction, but the specific dividing line between emergency notification and timely warning could not be independently fetched and quoted from that policy document in this session.","testingCadence":"LCCC states it plans to conduct a test message each semester to verify a student's subscription to the service and confirm the system is working properly.","scopeLimits":"The system is opt-out by default for all students and employees; a subscriber must actively unsubscribe (replying STOP, or contacting Marketing and Communications) to be removed, and contact-information changes made in myLCCC self-service may take up to 48 hours to take effect.","channels":["sms","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Activation criteria","quotedText":"RAVE Alert messages are used to notify students and employees during emergencies that threaten life, safety or property and/or severely impact normal campus/college operations.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lccc.wy.edu/services/technology/alerts.aspx","sourceDescription":"Emergency Alerts - LCCC","annotations":["This activation-criteria sentence returned nearly identically across two independently run search queries in this session, differing only by a single verb-agreement letter (impact/impacts), which is strong evidence of genuine page text despite the inability to directly fetch lccc.wy.edu."],"characterCount":176},{"label":"Opt-out default enrollment","quotedText":"This is an opt-out system; once you are a student or employee, you are already set up to receive alert messages.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lccc.wy.edu/services/technology/alerts.aspx","sourceDescription":"Emergency Alerts - LCCC","annotations":["Returned byte-identically across two independently run search queries, confirming LCCC's opt-out (rather than opt-in) default."],"characterCount":112},{"label":"Semester test message","quotedText":"LCCC also plans to conduct a test message each semester to verify a student's subscription to this service and to ensure the system is working properly.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lccc.wy.edu/services/technology/alerts.aspx","sourceDescription":"Emergency Alerts - LCCC","annotations":["Returned byte-identically across two independently run search queries; the most concrete testing-cadence commitment found among the Wyoming community colleges researched in this session."],"characterCount":152},{"label":"Message frequency expectation","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lccc.wy.edu/services/technology/alerts.aspx","sourceDescription":"Emergency Alerts - LCCC","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["LCCC's RAVE Alert is an opt-out system: students and employees are enrolled automatically and must actively unsubscribe (reply STOP, or contact Marketing and Communications).","LCCC commits to a semester test message specifically to verify subscription status and confirm the system works, a concrete and unusually specific testing cadence.","Typical subscribers should expect only two to four messages a year, but a serious emergency can trigger numerous same-day messages.","LCCC's general policies reference a numbered Timely Warning Policy (9.4) confirming a formal Clery distinction exists, though its specific text could not be fetched in this session.","No named decision-authority language or minutes-based timing standard could be confirmed for LCCC from the sources available."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Alerts - LCCC","url":"https://www.lccc.wy.edu/services/technology/alerts.aspx","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Information - LCCC","url":"https://www.lccc.wy.edu/contact/emergency.aspx","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Laramie County transitioning to new emergency notification alert system - Wyoming Tribune Eagle","url":"https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/laramie-county-transitioning-to-new-emergency-notification-alert-system/article_6ff92d2c-a516-11ee-a9df-d70d9481ed7e.html","type":"local-media"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","rave","clery-act","community-college","wyoming"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"laramie-county-community-college-timely-warning-procedure-9-4p","slug":"laramie-county-community-college-timely-warning-procedure-9-4p","institution":{"name":"Laramie County Community College","shortName":"LCCC","state":"WY","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Rave Alert / Campus Cruiser","enrollment":4000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning Procedure 9.4P","systemName":"Rave Alert / Campus Cruiser","documentType":"sop","url":"https://lccc.wy.edu/Documents/About/policies/Procedure%209.4P%20Timely%20Warning.pdf","lastReviewed":"2012-03-20"},"summary":"Laramie County Community College publishes a two-page [Timely Warning Procedure 9.4P](https://lccc.wy.edu/Documents/About/policies/Procedure%209.4P%20Timely%20Warning.pdf) assigning President/Director of Campus Safety/Vice Presidents collaborative decision-making and Safety and Security plus Public Relations collaborative dissemination via Campus Cruiser, email, VOIP phones, website, and press releases.","analysis":"Laramie County Community College, Wyoming's Laramie County public community college, maintains Procedure 9.4P as a standalone Timely Warning SOP adopted March 20, 2012. Source: [Procedure 9.4P PDF](https://lccc.wy.edu/Documents/About/policies/Procedure%209.4P%20Timely%20Warning.pdf). The purpose section places responsibility on LCCC in consultation with the President, Director of Campus Safety, and Vice Presidents of Administration and Finance Services, Academic Affairs, and Student Services (or designees). Warnings issue as soon as pertinent information is available.\n\nAfter an incident is reported to Safety and Security, designated Campus Safety Authorities and LCCC Administrators collaborate on whether and when to issue a warning (in person, teleconference, or email). Case-by-case decisions consider serious or continuing threat and law-enforcement compromise risk. When a warning is approved, Safety and Security and Public Relations collaborate on dissemination via Campus Cruiser, email, VOIP phones, the Campus Safety website, and press releases. Warning content may include crime type, connection to previous incidents, date/time/location, suspect description, release timestamp, and public safety reminders. Complements the existing LCCC Rave Alert system-overview policy.","whenCriteria":"Certain Clery crimes and crimes considered to represent a serious or continuing threat to members of the campus community, including threats to property, decided case by case.","decisionAuthority":"President or designee, Director of Campus Safety and Security, Vice Presidents of Administration and Finance Services, Instruction or Student Services. Safety and Security and Public Relations collaborate on dissemination.","timingStandard":"Warning will be issued as soon as the pertinent information is available. Timing also based on whether the crime is a serious or continuing threat and risk of compromising law enforcement efforts.","cleryFraming":"Standalone numbered procedure implementing Clery timely-warning obligations with multi-VP consultation and Safety/Public Relations co-dissemination.","scopeLimits":"Applies to all students, faculty, administrators, and visitors on campus; content case-by-case; report tip line is Safety and Security 630-0645.","testingCadence":"Not specified in Procedure 9.4P.","channels":["email","phone-call","website","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"As soon as pertinent information available","quotedText":"This means a warning will be issued as soon as the pertinent information is available.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://lccc.wy.edu/Documents/About/policies/Procedure%209.4P%20Timely%20Warning.pdf","sourceDescription":"LCCC Procedure 9.4P purpose section","annotations":["States as-soon-as-pertinent-information timing standard."],"characterCount":86},{"label":"Multi-role consultation","quotedText":"In consultation with the President, Director of Campus Safety, Vice Presidents of Administration and Finance Services, Academic Affairs, and Student Services or his/her designees, Laramie County Community College (LCCC) is responsible for issuing timely warnings in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Act","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://lccc.wy.edu/Documents/About/policies/Procedure%209.4P%20Timely%20Warning.pdf","sourceDescription":"LCCC Procedure 9.4P purpose section","annotations":["Names President, Campus Safety Director, and three VPs in consultation chain."],"characterCount":302},{"label":"Safety and Public Relations co-dissemination","quotedText":"When a determination has been made that a timely warning should be issued, the LCCC Safety and Security Department and Public Relations will work collaboratively to inform the campus community of the incident by taking one or more appropriate steps to ensure timely notification.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://lccc.wy.edu/Documents/About/policies/Procedure%209.4P%20Timely%20Warning.pdf","sourceDescription":"LCCC Procedure 9.4P procedures section","annotations":["Safety and Security and Public Relations co-own dissemination."],"characterCount":279}],"keyFindings":["Standalone Procedure 9.4P with President's Cabinet and President approval signatures.","Multi-VP consultation before issuance; Safety and Security + Public Relations co-disseminate.","Channels include Campus Cruiser, email, VOIP phones, website, and press releases."],"sources":[{"title":"LCCC Procedure 9.4P Timely Warning PDF","url":"https://lccc.wy.edu/Documents/About/policies/Procedure%209.4P%20Timely%20Warning.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["wyoming","community-college","sop","timely-warning","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"lasell-university-alert-policy","slug":"lasell-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Lasell University","shortName":"Lasell","state":"MA","type":"private-bachelors","alertSystemName":"Lasell Emergency Notification"},"policy":{"title":"2025 Annual Security & Fire Report","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.lasell.edu/documents/Campus%20Police/2025%20Annual%20Security.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Lasell University, a private university in Newton, Massachusetts, issues Clery timely warnings under the name 'Community Advisories,' with the decision to issue one made by the Dean of Students after consultation with the Chief of Police, the President, the Title IX Coordinator, the Chief of Staff & General Counsel, and the Senior Management Team, per the university's [2025 Annual Security & Fire Report](https://www.lasell.edu/documents/Campus%20Police/2025%20Annual%20Security.pdf).","analysis":"Lasell University is a private university in Newton, Massachusetts. Its [Emergency Preparedness page](https://www.lasell.edu/campus-life/campus-safety/emergency-preparedness.html) describes an emergency notification system that gives information to the community via email, text message, social media, or other appropriate methods, with students automatically enrolled to receive campus-wide emergency text alerts to their cell phones -- an opt-out rather than opt-in default, similar to peer Massachusetts private colleges in this archive.\n\nLasell's most distinctive documented feature is its named, multi-party decision chain for issuing Timely Warnings, which the university brands 'Community Advisories.' Per the university's description, a Community Advisory is issued when a Clery Act crime is reported to a campus security authority or local police agency, occurs within Lasell University's defined Clery geography, and represents a serious or continuing threat to students and employees; the Advisory itself is issued by the Dean of Students, but only after consultation with the Chief of Police, the President, the Title IX Coordinator, the Chief of Staff & General Counsel, and members of the Senior Management Team. This is among the most granularly documented decision-authority chains in this archive -- naming five distinct consulted roles for a single notification decision -- and stands in useful contrast to institutions whose policies name only a single title or an unspecified 'authorized personnel.'\n\nThe Lasell University Police Department, located in Newton, Massachusetts, publishes an [Annual Security & Fire Report](https://www.lasell.edu/documents/Campus%20Police/2025%20Annual%20Security.pdf) each year in Clery Act compliance; students can also contact an emergency hotline at 617-243-2208 for current campus emergency status information.\n\nThis sandbox's network egress could not directly fetch lasell.edu to confirm the exact wording of the Emergency Preparedness page or the Annual Security & Fire Report's Community Advisory language; the summary above is built from search-engine reproduction of both, corroborated across independent queries. Per this archive's standing policy, that limitation is not treated as grounds to omit or demote the entry -- it is documented honestly as reconstructed pending direct verification.","whenCriteria":"Per the university's description, a Community Advisory (Lasell's term for a Timely Warning) is issued when a Clery Act crime is reported to a campus security authority or local police agency, occurs within Lasell's defined Clery geography, and represents a serious or continuing threat to students and employees.","decisionAuthority":"The Community Advisory is issued by the Dean of Students after consultation with the Chief of Police, the President, the Title IX Coordinator, the Chief of Staff & General Counsel, and members of the Senior Management Team -- one of the most granularly named multi-party decision chains documented in this archive.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"Lasell brands its Clery Timely Warning as a 'Community Advisory,' issued by the Dean of Students after a named multi-party consultation; the university's specific Emergency Notification (as distinct from Community Advisory) language was not retrievable verbatim in this review.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Students are automatically enrolled (opt-out, not opt-in) to receive campus-wide emergency text alerts; Community Advisories are scoped to Lasell University's defined Clery geography.","channels":["email","sms","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Automatic text-alert enrollment (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of the Lasell University Emergency Preparedness page; lasell.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Community Advisory decision chain (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of Lasell University's Community Advisory (Timely Warning) policy description; lasell.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Lasell University brands its Clery Timely Warning a 'Community Advisory,' issued by the Dean of Students after consultation with the Chief of Police, President, Title IX Coordinator, Chief of Staff & General Counsel, and Senior Management Team.","Students are automatically (opt-out) enrolled to receive campus-wide emergency text alerts, alongside email and social-media channels.","lasell.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox, so the excerpts are marked reconstructed; per archive policy this is not treated as demotion evidence."],"sources":[{"title":"Lasell University 2025 Annual Security & Fire Report","url":"https://www.lasell.edu/documents/Campus%20Police/2025%20Annual%20Security.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Emergency Preparedness - Lasell University","url":"https://www.lasell.edu/campus-life/campus-safety/emergency-preparedness.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Lasell University - Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasell_University","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","private-bachelors","massachusetts","community-advisory"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-20","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"lehigh-carbon-community-college-weather-alerts-policy","slug":"lehigh-carbon-community-college-weather-alerts-policy","institution":{"name":"Lehigh Carbon Community College","shortName":"LCCC","state":"PA","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Omnilert / official X","enrollment":7000},"policy":{"title":"Weather Alerts","systemName":"Omnilert automated notification system","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.lccc.edu/weather-alerts/","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Lehigh Carbon Community College's [Weather Alerts](https://www.lccc.edu/weather-alerts/) page sets 6 a.m. / prior-night 9 p.m. / evening 4 p.m. decision targets, primary delivery via Omnilert text/phone plus LCCC email, and lists ranked secondary sources including the website home page and social channels.","analysis":"Lehigh Carbon Community College (LCCC) is a Pennsylvania community college. Its public [Weather Alerts](https://www.lccc.edu/weather-alerts/) page is institution-specific: primary notifications use the college's automated Omnilert system (text or phone to registered contacts) plus LCCC email; snow delay/closure notifications aim for 6 a.m. or ASAP, with prior-night decisions by 9 p.m. when possible and evening-class decisions by 4 p.m.; secondary sources ranked by reliability include the website homepage banner, student/staff portal, Facebook/Instagram/Twitter, LCCC email, and local TV websites; the page explicitly leaves final travel judgment to the individual. This is a weather-closing communication policy, not a full Clery ASR rewrite.","whenCriteria":"Weather delay or closure; emergencies also use the automated notification system.","decisionAuthority":"Not named as a specific officer on the weather-alerts page reviewed; decisions timed for morning, prior-night, or evening windows as stated.","timingStandard":"Every effort to send snow delay/closure notification by 6 a.m. or ASAP; prior-night decision by 9 p.m. if possible; evening classes by 4 p.m.","cleryFraming":"Weather and emergency notification logistics page; not a full Clery timely-warning policy document.","testingCadence":"Not specified on the weather-alerts page reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Multi-site college; secondary communication channels listed; individuals retain final travel decision.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","website","twitter-x","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"6 a.m. / 9 p.m. / 4 p.m. decision timing","quotedText":"When a snow delay or closure occurs, LCCC makes every effort to send the notification by 6 a.m. or as soon as possible, depending on the timing of the weather circumstances. If possible, the decision is made the night before, by 9 p.m. For evening classes, the decision will be made by 4 p.m.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lccc.edu/weather-alerts/","characterCount":292},{"label":"Text phone and email primary delivery","quotedText":"In the event of a weather delay or closure, a message will be sent via text or phone to the contact information you have provided. You will also receive an email to your LCCC email address.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lccc.edu/weather-alerts/","characterCount":189},{"label":"Individual final travel decision","quotedText":"Bottom line: you make the final decision on whether or not to travel in inclement weather. Be cautious on the road and always use your own best judgment.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lccc.edu/weather-alerts/","characterCount":153}],"keyFindings":["LCCC weather delay/closure notices target 6 a.m. delivery with prior-night 9 p.m. and evening 4 p.m. decision windows.","Primary channels are Omnilert text/phone plus LCCC email; website homepage is first secondary source.","Policy leaves final travel judgment to students and employees."],"sources":[{"title":"Weather Alerts","url":"https://www.lccc.edu/weather-alerts/","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["community-college","pennsylvania","weather-closing","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"lehigh-university-hawkwatch-alert-policy","slug":"lehigh-university-hawkwatch-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Lehigh University","shortName":"Lehigh","state":"PA","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"HawkWatch","enrollment":7692},"policy":{"title":"Clery Act Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications (HawkWatch)","systemName":"HawkWatch","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://police.lehigh.edu/content/clery-act-timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications"},"summary":"Lehigh University's Campus Safety Division publishes a [Clery Act Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications page](https://police.lehigh.edu/content/clery-act-timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications) explaining that its HawkWatch notification system carries three communication types, Clery-mandated Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications plus non-mandated Safety Bulletins, across channels ranging from text and push notifications to desktop takeovers and classroom announcement systems, with SMS and voice delivery requiring an explicit opt-in.","analysis":"Lehigh University, a private research university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania with [7,692 students in 2024-25](https://www.collegetuitioncompare.com/edu/213543/lehigh-university/enrollment/), brands its campus notification system HawkWatch and documents it on a dedicated [Clery Act Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications page](https://police.lehigh.edu/content/clery-act-timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications) maintained by the Campus Safety Division. The page describes a three-tier message taxonomy: Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications, both required by the Jeanne Clery Act, and Safety Bulletins, a lower tier for incidents that do not meet the mandated reporting criteria and are typically sent by university email only rather than through push and text alerts. Timely Warnings are issued for reported crimes on Lehigh-associated property within Clery Act geography that are considered a serious or continuing threat to the campus community. Both mandated tiers can reach students, faculty, and staff through an unusually deep channel stack: text messages, push notifications, emails, desktop computer takeovers, digital information boards, voice mails, and classroom announcement systems, and Lehigh separately documents an [outdoor siren system](https://www2.lehigh.edu/emergency/siren). A significant scope caveat is that recipients must opt in to receive SMS text messages and voice messages; an October 2023 [university news notice](https://news.lehigh.edu/101323-important-action-required-by-students-faculty-and-staff-for-emergency-notifications) told students, faculty, and staff that action was required on their part for emergency notifications. HawkWatch is also the name of Lehigh's [personal safety app](https://campussafety.lehigh.edu/police/lu-emergency-safety-information/hawkwatch-personal-safety-application), distributed on Google Play under an AppArmor package identifier, and the Campus Safety Division publishes a public [HawkWatch Alert Log](https://campussafety.lehigh.edu/police/clery-act-information-statistics/hawkwatch-alert-log) of sent messages, the seam this archive's 80-plus Lehigh cases draw on. All lehigh.edu hosts are egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so the quoted language below is carried from search-index retrievals of the official pages and is marked unconfirmed pending a direct character-for-character read.","whenCriteria":"Timely Warnings are issued when certain crimes are reported that occurred on Lehigh-associated property within Clery Act geography and are considered a serious or continuing threat to the campus community; Emergency Notifications cover emergencies, and Safety Bulletins cover incidents that do not meet the mandated Clery reporting criteria.","decisionAuthority":"The page is published by Lehigh's Campus Safety Division / University Police Department, which operates HawkWatch; the specific titles authorized to confirm an emergency and trigger a message were not readable from this sandbox (lehigh.edu egress-blocked).","timingStandard":"The system is described as existing to provide a fast and effective means of communicating with the campus community; a precise without-delay sentence was not confirmable from this sandbox.","cleryFraming":"Explicit two-tier Clery framing: Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications are described as required by the Jeanne Clery Campus Security Act, with Safety Bulletins as a third, non-mandated informational tier sent typically by email only.","testingCadence":"Not confirmable from this sandbox, but the archive's Lehigh case files document recurring campus emergency siren tests announced and completed through HawkWatch messages (for example July 2024, October 2024, and June 2025 test pairs).","scopeLimits":"SMS text and voice delivery require an individual opt-in, so full mobile reach depends on registration; Safety Bulletins reach email only. The HawkWatch app extends alerts to app users.","channels":["sms","push-notification","email","desktop-popup","digital-signage","phone-call","pa-system","siren"],"excerpts":[{"label":"System purpose and three communication types","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://police.lehigh.edu/content/clery-act-timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"Lehigh Campus Safety Division, Clery Act Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Timely Warning criteria","quotedText":"Timely Warnings are issued when certain crimes are reported that occurred on Lehigh-associated property and within Clery Act geography that are considered a serious or continuing threat to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.lehigh.edu/content/clery-act-timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"Lehigh Campus Safety Division, Clery Act Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":["The activation-criteria sentence: reported crime, Clery geography, serious or continuing threat. Unconfirmed for the same egress-block reason; queued for direct verification."],"characterCount":210},{"label":"Delivery channel stack","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://police.lehigh.edu/content/clery-act-timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"Lehigh Campus Safety Division, Clery Act Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Safety Bulletin tier and email-only delivery","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://police.lehigh.edu/content/clery-act-timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"Lehigh Campus Safety Division, Clery Act Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"SMS and voice opt-in requirement","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://police.lehigh.edu/content/clery-act-timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"Lehigh Campus Safety Division, Clery Act Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["HawkWatch carries a three-tier taxonomy: Clery-mandated Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications plus non-mandated, typically email-only Safety Bulletins.","The published channel stack is unusually deep: text, push, email, desktop takeover, digital boards, voice mail, and classroom announcement systems, with a separately documented outdoor siren system.","SMS and voice delivery are opt-in, a reach caveat Lehigh itself flagged in an October 2023 action-required notice to campus.","The Campus Safety Division publishes a public HawkWatch Alert Log of transmitted messages, the source seam behind this archive's Lehigh case files.","No excerpt is verbatim-confirmed: every lehigh.edu host is egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language is carried from search-index retrievals and flagged for direct verification."],"sources":[{"title":"Lehigh Campus Safety Division, Clery Act Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications","url":"https://police.lehigh.edu/content/clery-act-timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Lehigh Campus Safety Division, HawkWatch Alert Log","url":"https://campussafety.lehigh.edu/police/clery-act-information-statistics/hawkwatch-alert-log","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Lehigh University News, 10.13.23: Important Action Required by Students, Faculty and Staff for Emergency Notifications","url":"https://news.lehigh.edu/101323-important-action-required-by-students-faculty-and-staff-for-emergency-notifications","type":"official-statement"},{"title":"Lehigh Campus Safety Division, HawkWatch Personal Safety Application","url":"https://campussafety.lehigh.edu/police/lu-emergency-safety-information/hawkwatch-personal-safety-application","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Lehigh University, Siren System","url":"https://www2.lehigh.edu/emergency/siren","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Lehigh University enrollment 2024-25 (College Tuition Compare)","url":"https://www.collegetuitioncompare.com/edu/213543/lehigh-university/enrollment/","type":"reference"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["lehigh-university-jeanne-clery-murder-1986-04-05","lehigh-university-active-shooter-hoax-2023-05-07","lehigh-university-timely-warning-vehicle-theft-2023-11-13","lehigh-university-racially-targeted-email-hoax-2025-09-11","lehigh-university-swatting-attempt-on-lehigh-campus-2026-01-22","lehigh-university-clery-act-timely-warning-threats-of-violence-2026-04-29"],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","safety-bulletin","pennsylvania","hawkwatch","private-r1"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-23","lastUpdated":"2026-10-12","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"lewis-and-clark-community-college-lc-alert-asr","slug":"lewis-and-clark-community-college-lc-alert-asr","institution":{"name":"Lewis and Clark Community College","shortName":"Lewis and Clark","state":"IL","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"LC Alert","enrollment":7000},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings / Crime Alerts (2025 ASR)","systemName":"LC Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.lc.edu/_assets/pdfs/annual-clery-report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-01-01"},"summary":"Lewis and Clark Community College documents [LC Alert emergency notifications and Timely Warning Crime Alerts](https://www.lc.edu/_assets/pdfs/annual-clery-report.pdf) in its 2025 ASR, with Marketing and Public Relations issuing immediate notifications under President/VP authority and Vice President of Administration writing Timely Warnings after Director of Campus Operations threat judgment.","analysis":"Lewis and Clark Community College, an Illinois multi-campus community college, publishes a clear two-track notification framework in its [2025 Annual Security Report](https://www.lc.edu/_assets/pdfs/annual-clery-report.pdf). Immediate emergency notifications for confirmed immediate threats are issued by Marketing and Public Relations under authority of the President, Vice President of Administration, Vice President of Academic Affairs, or designee, via text/voice/email and the emergency notification website. LC Alert auto-registers students at enrollment and employees at hire; community members and contractors can be managed manually.\n\nIn a life-safety incident, the President, VP Administration, VP Academic Affairs, Director of Campus Operations, or designee may immediately initiate an emergency LC Alert. Timely Warnings (Crime Alerts) for ongoing or serious threats within Clery geography are judged by the Director of Campus Operations and typically written and distributed by the Vice President of Administration or designee as soon as pertinent information is available, usually via LC Alert and the college website. If emergency notification procedures are followed for an immediate threat, a Timely Warning for the same circumstances is not required, but adequate follow-up is.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notification upon confirmation of emergency or dangerous situation posing immediate threat to health or safety. Timely Warning when Director of Campus Operations judges ongoing or serious threat for crime within Clery geography.","decisionAuthority":"President, VP Administration, VP Academic Affairs, Director of Campus Operations, or designees may initiate emergency LC Alert. Director of Campus Operations judges Timely Warning need; VP Administration or designee typically writes and distributes Timely Warnings. Marketing and Public Relations issues immediate notifications under those authorities.","timingStandard":"Timely Warning as soon as the pertinent information is available. Emergency LC Alert may be initiated immediately by listed officers in life-safety incidents.","cleryFraming":"ASR separates Emergency Notifications at all campuses from Timely Warnings (aka Crime Alerts), both using LC Alert with auto-enrollment.","scopeLimits":"Auto-registration for enrolled students and hired employees; community/contractor accounts manual; pastoral/professional counselor reports do not require TW.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the notification sections reviewed.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Marketing issues immediate notification","quotedText":"Upon confirmation of an emergency or dangerous situation that poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of some or all members of the LC community, the Marketing and Public Relations Department will issue an “immediate notification.” These immediate notification alerts are issued under the authority of the President, Vice President of Administration, Vice President of Academic Affairs or his/her designee and distributed campuswide.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lc.edu/_assets/pdfs/annual-clery-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Lewis and Clark 2025 ASR Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Marketing/PR issues EN under multi-officer authority."],"characterCount":443},{"label":"Life-safety immediate LC Alert authority","quotedText":"In the event that a life safety incident develops on any of the College’s campuses, any of these positions have the authority to immediately initiate an emergency LC Alert message.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lc.edu/_assets/pdfs/annual-clery-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Lewis and Clark 2025 ASR LC Alert activation","annotations":["Listed officers may immediately initiate emergency LC Alert."],"characterCount":180},{"label":"Timely Warning as soon as pertinent information","quotedText":"A Timely Warning will be issued as soon as the pertinent information is available in a manner that withholds the names of victims as confidential, and with the goal of aiding in the prevention of similar occurrences.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lc.edu/_assets/pdfs/annual-clery-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Lewis and Clark 2025 ASR Timely Warnings","annotations":["As-soon-as-pertinent-information standard with victim-name withhold."],"characterCount":216}],"keyFindings":["LC Alert auto-registers students at enrollment and employees at hire.","Marketing and Public Relations issues immediate notifications under President/VP authority.","Director of Campus Operations judges Timely Warnings; VP Administration typically writes them."],"sources":[{"title":"Lewis and Clark Community College 2025 Annual Security Report PDF","url":"https://www.lc.edu/_assets/pdfs/annual-clery-report.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"LC Alert account management","url":"https://www.lc.edu/student-services/campus-safety/lc-alert.html","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["illinois","community-college","clery-asr","lc-alert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"lewis-clark-state-college-warrior-alert-policy","slug":"lewis-clark-state-college-warrior-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Lewis-Clark State College","shortName":"LC State","state":"ID","type":"public-bachelors","alertSystemName":"Warrior Alert","enrollment":3801},"policy":{"title":"Warrior Alerts, Public Safety","systemName":"Warrior Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.lcsc.edu/public-safety/safety-on-campus/warrior-alerts","lastReviewed":"2026-07-03"},"summary":"Lewis-Clark State College, a public bachelor's-granting institution in Lewiston, Idaho, runs [Warrior Alert](https://www.lcsc.edu/public-safety/safety-on-campus/warrior-alerts), its emergency-notification system, which automatically enrolls all students and employees using the contact information already on file with the Registrar or Human Resources. Parents and other community members can separately opt in, and the underlying [contact database updates daily](https://www.lcsc.edu/public-safety/safety-on-campus/warrior-alerts/update-your-contact-info) from those same institutional records.","analysis":"Lewis-Clark State College (LC State) is a public four-year college in Lewiston, Idaho, and its emergency-notification system is [Warrior Alert](https://www.lcsc.edu/public-safety/safety-on-campus/warrior-alerts). LC State's own description states that Warrior Alert is LC State's emergency notification system, and that all students and employees are automatically enrolled within the system with the information provided upon enrollment (for students) or employment (for employees), meaning a person does not need to separately register in order to be covered.\n\nBeyond the university community, LC State opens Warrior Alert to non-affiliates as well: parents and other community members can also sign up to be part of the Warrior Alert system and receive emergency alerts issued by LC State, extending reach to people who care about campus safety but do not have a student or employee record.\n\nData freshness is handled centrally rather than by manual periodic review. The Warrior Alert system is automatically updated every day, and the contact information within it is wholly dependent on what a student has provided to the Registrar or what an employee has provided to Human Resources; a student who wants Warrior Alert to reach a different number must file a [Change of Address Form](https://www.lcsc.edu/public-safety/safety-on-campus/warrior-alerts/update-your-contact-info) with the Registrar, while an employee updates Human Resources directly, rather than editing a Warrior Alert-specific contact record. This design keeps a single source of truth (the Registrar/HR system) rather than a separately maintained emergency-contact database, at the cost of requiring people to use the standard institutional channel to fix a wrong number.\n\nA specific named decision authority, minutes-based timing standard, and an explicit Clery emergency-notification-versus-timely-warning framing were not found verbatim on the Warrior Alert overview page reviewed in this session; the Clery Act does require institutions like LC State to maintain both an emergency-notification and a timely-warning function for separate and distinct purposes, and LC State's Annual Security Report is the more likely place those specifics are formally documented. Because lcsc.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were reconstructed from search-index snippets of the official Public Safety pages; the core Warrior Alert definition and automatic-enrollment sentence reproduced identically across three independent retrievals and is marked verbatim-confirmed, while passages that appeared with only single-instance confirmation are marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false out of caution.","whenCriteria":"Warrior Alert is LC State's emergency-notification system; the specific activation trigger (e.g., an 'imminent threat' or 'significant emergency' threshold comparable to peer institutions) was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed in this session.","decisionAuthority":"A specific named decision-making office or officer for triggering a Warrior Alert notification was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed in this session; LC State's Public Safety department maintains the Warrior Alert overview and enrollment pages.","timingStandard":"A specific minutes-based service-level standard for issuing a Warrior Alert notification was not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed in this session.","cleryFraming":"The Warrior Alert overview page reviewed does not itself draw an explicit Clery emergency-notification-versus-timely-warning distinction; the Clery Act requires institutions of higher education to maintain both functions for separate and distinct purposes, and LC State's Annual Security Report is the more likely place that framing is formally documented.","testingCadence":"A specific published testing cadence for Warrior Alert was not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed in this session.","scopeLimits":"All students and employees are automatically enrolled using Registrar or Human Resources contact information, which is refreshed daily; to correct a Warrior Alert number, a student files a Change of Address Form with the Registrar and an employee updates Human Resources, rather than editing a Warrior Alert-specific record. Parents and other community members can separately opt in.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Warrior Alert definition and automatic enrollment","quotedText":"Warrior Alert is LC State's emergency notification system. All students and employees are automatically enrolled within the system with the information provided upon enrollment (students) or employment (employees).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lcsc.edu/public-safety/safety-on-campus/warrior-alerts","sourceDescription":"Lewis-Clark State College, Warrior Alerts, Public Safety","annotations":["Names the system and confirms automatic enrollment sourced from Registrar (students) or employment (staff) records; this two-sentence passage reproduced identically across three independent retrievals of the Warrior Alerts page."],"characterCount":214},{"label":"Opt-in for parents and community members","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lcsc.edu/public-safety/safety-on-campus/warrior-alerts","sourceDescription":"Lewis-Clark State College, Warrior Alerts, Public Safety","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Daily contact-data refresh and correction path","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lcsc.edu/public-safety/safety-on-campus/warrior-alerts/update-your-contact-info","sourceDescription":"Lewis-Clark State College, Update Your Contact Info, Warrior Alerts","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Warrior Alert automatically enrolls every LC State student and employee using existing Registrar or Human Resources contact information, no separate sign-up required.","Parents and other community members can opt in separately to receive LC State's Warrior Alert emergency messages.","The system's contact data refreshes daily and is entirely derived from Registrar/HR records, so corrections are made through a Change of Address Form (students) or Human Resources (employees), not a Warrior Alert-specific settings page.","The Warrior Alert overview page does not itself spell out a Clery emergency-notification-versus-timely-warning distinction; that framing is more likely detailed in LC State's Annual Security Report.","A named decision authority and a published minutes-based timing standard were not found verbatim in the pages reviewed in this session."],"sources":[{"title":"Lewis-Clark State College, Warrior Alerts, Public Safety","url":"https://www.lcsc.edu/public-safety/safety-on-campus/warrior-alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Lewis-Clark State College, Update Your Contact Info, Warrior Alerts","url":"https://www.lcsc.edu/public-safety/safety-on-campus/warrior-alerts/update-your-contact-info","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Lewis-Clark State College, Safety on Campus, Public Safety","url":"https://www.lcsc.edu/public-safety/safety-on-campus","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Lewis-Clark State College, Public Safety","url":"https://www.lcsc.edu/public-safety","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","warrior-alert","public-bachelors","idaho"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"liberty-university-lu-alert-system-overview","slug":"liberty-university-lu-alert-system-overview","institution":{"name":"Liberty University","shortName":"Liberty","state":"VA","type":"private-r2","alertSystemName":"LU Alert","alertPlatform":"Rave","enrollment":140000},"policy":{"title":"LU Alerts and the Campus Alert System","systemName":"LU Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.liberty.edu/security-public-safety/lu-alerts/"},"summary":"Liberty University's Security and Public Safety division documents [LU Alerts](https://www.liberty.edu/security-public-safety/lu-alerts/), the Clery-mandated alerting program whose Campus Alert System pairs a Rave-based notification service run by the Department of Emergency Management and Community Engagement with the outdoor sirens of the Liberty University Emergency Warning System.","analysis":"Liberty University serves one of the largest student bodies in American higher education, roughly 140,000 students of whom only about 16,000 study on the Lynchburg campus, and its alerting documentation is built around that split: the [LU Alerts program](https://www.liberty.edu/security-public-safety/lu-alerts/) addresses the physical campus community, with every timely warning and emergency notification also published as a public post on the Security and Public Safety site, a practice that leaves an unusually complete public record of transmitted alerts (several of which this archive preserves as cases).\n\nThe machinery is described across the division's emergency-management pages. The [During An Emergency page](https://www.liberty.edu/security-public-safety/emergency-management/during-an-emergency/) assigns activation to the Department of Emergency Management and Community Engagement, which warns the campus through the Rave notification system in conjunction with the outdoor sirens and social media when a condition significantly threatens health and safety on campus. The Campus Alert System is described as the comprehensive communications solution for disseminating an urgent message through multiple mediums, and subscribers choose text, voice call, or email for lesser alerts while every registrant receives life-threatening-situation alerts, a tiering that hard-wires the federal floor under user preference. The sirens of the Liberty University Emergency Warning System are documented as the outdoor layer on the [Before An Emergency page](https://www.liberty.edu/security-public-safety/official-page/emergency-management/before-an-emergency/).\n\nThe Clery framing is stated on the LU Alerts page in the university's own compressed wording, mandating an alert when a serious emergency or fatal threat is confirmed that could affect the community, and timely warnings for Clery Act crimes posing a serious and continuing threat. Liberty publishes its [2025 Annual Security Report](https://www.liberty.edu/police/wp-content/uploads/sites/100/Annual-Security-Report-2025_update.pdf) through the Liberty University Police Department and discloses that it retains the outside firm Healy+ as a Clery compliance monitor, an external-oversight arrangement rare in this archive and a legacy of the Department of Education's scrutiny of Liberty's Clery program, which produced a [record $14 million fine in March 2024](https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/safety/2024/03/05/liberty-university-fined-14-million-clery-violations) with post-review monitoring running through April 2026. Because liberty.edu is not reachable from this research environment (automated fetches return errors), the passages quoted below come from search-engine-indexed extracts of the cited pages rather than a firsthand line-by-line read, so every excerpt is marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false and confidence is held at medium.","whenCriteria":"An alert is mandated when a serious emergency or fatal threat is confirmed that could affect the Liberty University community; timely warnings issue for Clery Act crimes posing a serious and continuing threat, and emergency activation follows any condition that significantly threatens the health and safety of persons on campus.","decisionAuthority":"The Department of Emergency Management and Community Engagement, within the Security and Public Safety division, activates the Rave notification system and companion channels; the Liberty University Police Department operates emergency communications and publishes the Annual Security Report.","timingStandard":"Notification follows confirmation of a serious emergency or fatal threat; no numeric service-level commitment is published on the public pages.","cleryFraming":"LU Alerts covers both Clery tracks under one brand, with timely warnings for Clery crimes and emergency notifications for confirmed threats, and each transmitted alert is also published as a public post on the Security and Public Safety site.","scopeLimits":"The alerting program addresses the Lynchburg residential campus community rather than the roughly 124,000 online students; subscribers choose channels for non-life-threatening alerts, but all registrants receive life-threatening-situation alerts.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","siren"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Clery mandate as Liberty states it","quotedText":"Under the Campus Crime Statistics Act and The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Policy, Liberty University is mandated to alert the Liberty University community when a serious emergency or fatal threat is confirmed that could affect the Liberty University Community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.liberty.edu/security-public-safety/lu-alerts/","sourceDescription":"Liberty University Security and Public Safety, LU Alerts page; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":["Liberty's own compression of the statute's name and standard; the phrase fatal threat is the page's wording, not the Clery Act's."],"characterCount":266},{"label":"Campus Alert System defined","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.liberty.edu/security-public-safety/emergency-management/during-an-emergency/","sourceDescription":"Liberty University Security and Public Safety, During An Emergency page; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Activation authority and channels","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.liberty.edu/security-public-safety/emergency-management/during-an-emergency/","sourceDescription":"Liberty University Security and Public Safety, During An Emergency page; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Outdoor siren layer","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.liberty.edu/security-public-safety/official-page/emergency-management/before-an-emergency/","sourceDescription":"Liberty University Security and Public Safety, Before An Emergency page; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Every LU Alert timely warning and emergency notification is also published as a public post on the Security and Public Safety site, leaving an unusually complete public record of transmitted alerts.","Activation authority sits with the Department of Emergency Management and Community Engagement, delivering through Rave, outdoor sirens, and social media.","Subscribers choose channels for non-life-threatening alerts, but life-threatening-situation alerts go to every registrant regardless of preference.","Liberty retains the outside firm Healy+ as a Clery compliance monitor following the Department of Education's record $14 million Clery fine in 2024.","The alerting program serves the roughly 16,000-student residential campus within a university of about 140,000 total students, most of them online."],"sources":[{"title":"LU Alerts, Liberty University Security and Public Safety","url":"https://www.liberty.edu/security-public-safety/lu-alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"During An Emergency, Liberty University Security and Public Safety","url":"https://www.liberty.edu/security-public-safety/emergency-management/during-an-emergency/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Before An Emergency, Liberty University Security and Public Safety","url":"https://www.liberty.edu/security-public-safety/official-page/emergency-management/before-an-emergency/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"2025 Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report, Liberty University Police Department","url":"https://www.liberty.edu/police/wp-content/uploads/sites/100/Annual-Security-Report-2025_update.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Liberty University announces record enrollment: Over 16,000 on campus, 124,000 online, Liberty News (September 2024)","url":"https://www.liberty.edu/news/2024/09/23/liberty-university-announces-record-enrollment-over-16000-on-campus-124000-online/","type":"official-statement"},{"title":"Liberty University fined $14 million for Clery violations, Inside Higher Ed (March 5, 2024)","url":"https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/safety/2024/03/05/liberty-university-fined-14-million-clery-violations","type":"national-media"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["liberty-university-falwell-library-false-shots-2025-08-30","liberty-university-bomb-threat-2025-12-02"],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","system-overview","emergency-notification","timely-warning","lu-alert","rave","sirens","clery-compliance-monitor","virginia","private-r2","large-online-enrollment"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-31","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"lincoln-technical-institute-lincalert-policy","slug":"lincoln-technical-institute-lincalert-policy","institution":{"name":"Lincoln Technical Institute","shortName":"Lincoln Tech","state":"NJ","type":"for-profit","alertSystemName":"LincAlert"},"policy":{"title":"Frequently Asked Questions About Lincoln Tech","systemName":"LincAlert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.lincolntech.edu/about/frequently-asked-questions-about-lincoln-tech","lastReviewed":"2026-07-20"},"summary":"Lincoln Technical Institute, a for-profit career-and-technical school system (publicly traded as Lincoln Educational Services Corporation, headquartered in West Orange, New Jersey) operating roughly a dozen and a half campuses in trades and healthcare fields, describes its **LincAlert** emergency notification system on its [Frequently Asked Questions](https://www.lincolntech.edu/about/frequently-asked-questions-about-lincoln-tech) page in the context of weather-related closing announcements.","analysis":"Lincoln Tech's public-facing description of LincAlert is brief and appears in the college's general FAQ rather than in a dedicated system-overview or Clery policy page: [in case of severe weather or hazardous conditions, the school closing will be announced over local TV stations and via the LincAlert notification system to current students, faculty and staff](https://www.lincolntech.edu/about/frequently-asked-questions-about-lincoln-tech). That framing documents LincAlert primarily as a weather/closing-announcement tool rather than describing its use for Clery emergency notifications or timely warnings in the material located.\n\nAs a multi-campus, for-profit chain (18 active campus locations across roughly a dozen states at last count, after a larger number of campus closures in prior years), Lincoln Tech publishes campus-specific Annual Security Reports and consumer-information disclosures per location rather than a single institution-wide Clery policy document; search results located references to these per-campus Annual Security Reports (for example, at the Denver, Moorestown, Indianapolis, Queens, Allentown, Melrose Park, Philadelphia, Union, Columbia, and New Britain campuses) but did not surface specific Clery emergency-notification or timely-warning policy language from within them.\n\nBecause lincolntech.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the one excerpt below was captured from Lincoln Tech's own FAQ page as reproduced in search-engine results and corroborated across independent queries with consistent wording. No named approving official, minutes-based timing standard, testing cadence, or Clery-specific timely-warning language was reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed, which is why this policy is rated medium rather than high confidence, in line with how other for-profit, multi-campus chains are handled in this archive when their sites cannot be fetched directly.","whenCriteria":"LincAlert is described as the notification system used, alongside local TV station announcements, to alert current students, faculty, and staff of school closings due to severe weather or hazardous conditions.","decisionAuthority":"A single named approving official or office was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"No minutes-based or hours-based timing standard for LincAlert was reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"The sources reviewed describe LincAlert only in the context of weather/closing announcements; no Clery-specific emergency-notification or timely-warning language distinct from general closing announcements was reproduced verbatim.","testingCadence":"A specific testing cadence for LincAlert was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"LincAlert is described as reaching current students, faculty, and staff; Lincoln Tech operates as a multi-campus system with per-campus Annual Security Reports and consumer-information disclosures rather than one institution-wide policy page.","channels":["sms","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"LincAlert weather-closing announcements","quotedText":"In case of severe weather or hazardous conditions, the school closing will be announced over local TV stations and via the LincAlert notification system to current students, faculty and staff.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lincolntech.edu/about/frequently-asked-questions-about-lincoln-tech","sourceDescription":"Lincoln Tech - Frequently Asked Questions","annotations":["The only LincAlert description located that specifies both a channel (LincAlert) and a recipient list (current students, faculty and staff), in the context of weather-related campus closings."],"characterCount":192}],"keyFindings":["Lincoln Tech names its notification system LincAlert, described publicly in the context of severe-weather campus-closing announcements alongside local TV station notices.","As an 18-campus for-profit chain, Lincoln Tech publishes Annual Security Reports and consumer-information disclosures per campus rather than a single institution-wide Clery policy document.","No named approving official, Clery-specific timely-warning language, minutes-based timing standard, or testing cadence for LincAlert was reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed."],"sources":[{"title":"Frequently Asked Questions About Lincoln Tech","url":"https://www.lincolntech.edu/about/frequently-asked-questions-about-lincoln-tech","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Frequently Asked Questions for the Shelton, CT Lincoln Tech Campus","url":"https://www.lincolntech.edu/campus/shelton-ct/frequently-asked-questions","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"See All Locations - Lincoln Tech Campuses","url":"https://www.lincolntech.edu/about/see-all-locations","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","for-profit","technical-institute","new-jersey","lincalert","multi-campus"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-20","lastUpdated":"2026-07-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"little-priest-tribal-college-2025-asr-alert-policy","slug":"little-priest-tribal-college-2025-asr-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Little Priest Tribal College","shortName":"LPTC","state":"NE","type":"tribal-college","alertSystemName":"Alert Sense"},"policy":{"title":"2025 Annual Security Report - Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings","systemName":"Alert Sense","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.littlepriest.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-LPTC-ASR-Final.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Little Priest Tribal College's [2025 Annual Security Report](https://www.littlepriest.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-LPTC-ASR-Final.pdf) requires Emergency Notifications to the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus involving an immediate threat to students and employees. The [2025-2026 Student Handbook](https://www.littlepriest.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Student-Handbook-2025-2026-Final-08082025.pdf) names Alert Sense as the emergency alert notification system.","analysis":"Little Priest (Nebraska tribal college of the Winnebago Tribe, four filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [2025 ASR PDF](https://www.littlepriest.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-LPTC-ASR-Final.pdf) (HTTP 200, text layer). Emergency Notifications issue upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on campus involving an immediate threat to the health and safety of students and employees. If the situation poses a threat, LPTC determines content and initiates the notification system without delay, considering community safety, unless issuing would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. The Campus Security Director has primary responsibility for Timely Warnings. The live [Student Handbook](https://www.littlepriest.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Student-Handbook-2025-2026-Final-08082025.pdf) (HTTP 200) names Alert Sense. An ASR sentence that reads email. and text is not quoted. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF.","whenCriteria":"Emergency Notifications upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus involving an immediate threat to student and employee health and safety. Timely Warnings for Clery Act-reportable crimes considered a serious or continuing threat; that longer sentence is summarized here and not all of it is quoted.","decisionAuthority":"Campus Security Department has primary Emergency Notification issuance responsibility, including the VP of Operations. Campus Security Director has primary Timely Warning responsibility.","timingStandard":"Without delay for Emergency Notifications, considering community safety. Timely Warnings as soon as pertinent information is available.","cleryFraming":"The ASR keeps Emergency Notifications (immediate on-campus threat) distinct from Timely Warnings (Clery-reportable crime that is a serious or continuing threat).","scopeLimits":"Handbook encourages students to register phone numbers and e-mail addresses for Alert Sense. ASR emails go to all LPTC email addresses.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency notification trigger","quotedText":"Emergency Notifications must be issued to the campus community (or segments of the campus community) upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on campus, involving an immediate threat to the health and safety of students and employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.littlepriest.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-LPTC-ASR-Final.pdf","sourceDescription":"Little Priest Tribal College 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["PDF wrap after campus in the parenthetical. Joined as a space."],"characterCount":271},{"label":"Without-delay initiation","quotedText":"If the situation is determined to pose a threat to the community, LPTC will, without delay, and considering the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system, unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgement of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.littlepriest.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-LPTC-ASR-Final.pdf","sourceDescription":"Little Priest Tribal College 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Live spelling is judgement with an e."],"characterCount":412},{"label":"Timely warning authority","quotedText":"The Campus Security Director (CSD) has the primary responsibility for issuing Timely Warnings on behalf of the LPTC campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.littlepriest.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-LPTC-ASR-Final.pdf","sourceDescription":"Little Priest Tribal College 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Named issuing official for Timely Warnings."],"characterCount":123},{"label":"Alert Sense system","quotedText":"LPTC uses an emergency alert notification system called Alert Sense.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.littlepriest.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Student-Handbook-2025-2026-Final-08082025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Little Priest Tribal College 2025-2026 Student Handbook (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Consumer-facing system name. A following sentence contains LPTC's with U+2019 and is not needed here."],"characterCount":68}],"keyFindings":["Emergency Notifications issue upon confirmation of an immediate on-campus threat to students and employees.","Content and initiation are without delay unless issuing would compromise victim assistance or mitigation.","The Campus Security Director issues Timely Warnings. The handbook names Alert Sense."],"sources":[{"title":"Little Priest Tribal College 2025 Annual Security Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.littlepriest.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-LPTC-ASR-Final.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Little Priest Tribal College 2025-2026 Student Handbook (PDF)","url":"https://www.littlepriest.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Student-Handbook-2025-2026-Final-08082025.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","nebraska","tribal-college"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"lone-star-college-clery-crime-alert-policy","slug":"lone-star-college-clery-crime-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Lone Star College","shortName":"LSC","state":"TX","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Clery Crime Alert / LoneStarCollegeAlert","enrollment":90000},"policy":{"title":"Clery Crime Alerts and LoneStarCollegeAlert Emergency Notifications","systemName":"Clery Crime Alert / LoneStarCollegeAlert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.lonestar.edu/CleryCrimeAlert.htm","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Lone Star College publishes [Clery Crime Alerts](https://www.lonestar.edu/CleryCrimeAlert.htm) as PDF timely warnings issued by LSC Police and maintains [LoneStarCollegeAlert](https://www.lonestar.edu/lonestarcollegealert.htm) for emergency notifications with automatic student/employee opt-in and optional personal email/text registration.","analysis":"Lone Star College is a multi-campus community college district in Texas. Its [Clery Crime Alerts archive](https://www.lonestar.edu/CleryCrimeAlert.htm) posts PDF Crime Alerts issued by LSC Police (CALEA-accredited) with release dates and Clery Act compliance footers naming dispatch 281-290-5911. The companion [LoneStarCollegeAlert](https://www.lonestar.edu/lonestarcollegealert.htm) page describes the emergency alert system: current LSC students and employees are automatically opted-in; users may add personal email/text destinations for emergency text messages.","whenCriteria":"Clery Crime Alerts for Clery-reportable crimes warranting timely warning as determined by LSC Police; LoneStarCollegeAlert for emergency situations requiring instant notification to the LSC community.","decisionAuthority":"Lone Star College Police Department (Chief of Police named on Crime Alert letterhead; dispatch 281-290-5911).","timingStandard":"Clery Crime Alerts issued with Release Date on each PDF; emergency alerts described as real-time safety notifications.","cleryFraming":"Each Crime Alert PDF states it is sent in compliance with The Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act.","scopeLimits":"Multi-campus LSC system (CyFair, Houston North, Kingwood, Montgomery, North Harris, Online, Tomball, University Park listed on letterhead); auto opt-in for current students and employees for LoneStarCollegeAlert.","testingCadence":"Not stated on the Clery Crime Alerts index or LoneStarCollegeAlert overview reviewed.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Clery Act compliance footer on Crime Alerts","quotedText":"This notice is sent in compliance with The Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act. For more information on the Clery Act, please visit www.clerycenter.org.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lonestar.edu/departments/policesafety/Clery%20Alert%20-%204-17-26%20NH%20Motor%20Vehicle%20Theft.pdf","sourceDescription":"Standard footer on LSC Clery Crime Alert PDFs","annotations":["Institution-specific PDF timely warning product with Clery citation."],"characterCount":147},{"label":"LoneStarCollegeAlert auto opt-in","quotedText":"All current LSC students and employees are automatically opted-in to our emergency alert system with their","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lonestar.edu/lonestarcollegealert.htm","sourceDescription":"LoneStarCollegeAlert page","annotations":["Local auto opt-in for students and employees."],"characterCount":106},{"label":"LSC Police 24/7 agency language on Crime Alerts","quotedText":"To report crime or suspicious persons / activities, call the Lone Star College Police Department immediately at 281-290-5911. The Lone Star College Police Department is a 24/7 full-service state law enforcement agency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lonestar.edu/departments/policesafety/Clery%20Alert%20-%204-17-26%20NH%20Motor%20Vehicle%20Theft.pdf","sourceDescription":"Standard language on LSC Clery Crime Alert PDFs","annotations":["Local LSC Police contact and 24/7 agency branding."],"characterCount":218}],"keyFindings":["Clery Crime Alert PDF archive is a high-volume community-college timely warning product.","LoneStarCollegeAlert provides separate emergency notification with auto opt-in."],"sources":[{"title":"Clery Crime Alerts - Lone Star College","url":"https://www.lonestar.edu/CleryCrimeAlert.htm","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"},{"title":"LoneStarCollegeAlert - Lone Star College","url":"https://www.lonestar.edu/lonestarcollegealert.htm","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["community-college","texas","clery-crime-alert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"lone-star-college-alert-policy","slug":"lone-star-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Lone Star College System","shortName":"LSC","state":"TX","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"LoneStarCollegeAlert","enrollment":97294},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification and Timely Warning (Annual Security Report)","systemName":"LoneStarCollegeAlert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.lonestar.edu/Departments/Campuspolice/AnnualSecurityReport.pdf","lastReviewed":"2024"},"summary":"[LoneStarCollegeAlert](https://www.lonestar.edu/lonestarcollegealert.htm) is the emergency notification service for the Lone Star College System — one of the largest community-college systems in Texas — sending alerts by LSC email and text and supplemented by the [SafeZone app](https://www.lonestar.edu/SafeZone); its emergency-notification and timely-warning rules are set out in the [LSC Police Department's Annual Security Report](https://www.lonestar.edu/Departments/Campuspolice/AnnualSecurityReport.pdf), with the Chief of Police serving as Clery Compliance Officer.","analysis":"The Lone Star College System — a multi-campus community-college district in the greater Houston area — operates its mass-notification program through [LoneStarCollegeAlert](https://www.lonestar.edu/lonestarcollegealert.htm). LSC provides updates through LSC email and text messages via the LoneStarCollegeAlert system, with updates also provided on LoneStar.edu and on the System's social channels (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and X). The college encourages members of the community to register to receive notifications on a cell phone or personal email by updating their my.LoneStar.edu information or registering at LoneStarCollegeAlert. A companion [SafeZone app](https://www.lonestar.edu/SafeZone) lets a phone act as a panic alarm and connects users to LSC PD Dispatch and virtual safety escorts, and is described as the System's newer LSC Alert tool.\n\n**Decision authority** sits with the police. The [LSC Police Department](https://www.lonestar.edu/campus-police.htm) sends out emergency notifications as soon as a threat has been confirmed; if the Police Department is unable to send the messages, the Office of Emergency Management and the Office of Marketing and Communications can send the alerts — a documented fallback chain so a single point of failure does not delay an alert. For timely warnings, the Chief of Police serves as the System's designated Clery Compliance Officer and reviews each reported incident to determine whether a timely warning is necessary, maintaining records of reported incidents for the Annual Security Report.\n\nThe **Clery framing** is explicit. The Annual Security Report frames emergency notifications as confirmation-triggered alerts (sent 'as soon as a threat has been confirmed') and timely warnings as crime-driven warnings: when LSC Police receive reports of crime that may affect the safety of the community, they will quickly post notices — while protecting the victim's identity — around campus to warn others. The report states the Clery Act requires institutions to give timely warnings of crimes that represent a threat to the safety of students or employees and to make public their campus security policies.\n\n**Channels, scope, and testing.** The channel mix is built for a commuter, multi-college district: SMS and email to registered users, the LSC website, social media, the SafeZone app, and posted physical notices on campus. The [Office of Emergency Management](https://www.lonestar.edu/emergency-management.htm) coordinates the System's emergency-management program across colleges. Full procedural detail — including any 'without delay' language, the confirmation step, and the system's testing cadence — is maintained in the Annual Security Report and the System's emergency-management materials hosted on lonestar.edu.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notifications are sent as soon as a threat has been confirmed (a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety). Timely warnings are issued for reported crimes that represent a threat to the safety of students or employees; the Chief of Police reviews each reported incident to determine whether a timely warning is necessary.","decisionAuthority":"The LSC Police Department sends emergency notifications once a threat is confirmed; if it cannot, the Office of Emergency Management and the Office of Marketing and Communications can send the alerts. The Chief of Police serves as the designated Clery Compliance Officer and decides whether a timely warning is necessary.","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications go out 'as soon as a threat has been confirmed.' Timely notices of crime are posted 'quickly' around campus to warn others while protecting the victim's identity.","cleryFraming":"The Annual Security Report distinguishes emergency notifications (confirmation-triggered, immediate threat) from timely warnings (Clery-reportable crimes posing a threat to the community), citing the Clery Act's requirement to give timely warnings and to publish campus security policies. The Chief of Police is the named Clery Compliance Officer.","testingCadence":"Not byte-confirmed from the public LoneStarCollegeAlert page; the System's Annual Security Report and emergency-management program materials describe testing and the broader notification procedures.","scopeLimits":"Notifications protect victim identity in crime warnings; emergency updates are pushed across email, text, website, and social channels. SafeZone adds a personal panic-alarm and direct line to LSC PD Dispatch.","channels":["sms","email","website","push-notification","twitter-x","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"LoneStarCollegeAlert channels","quotedText":"LSC provides updates through LSC email and text messages via the LoneStarCollegeAlert system. Updates will also be provided on LoneStar.edu, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and X.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lonestar.edu/lonestarcollegealert.htm","sourceDescription":"LoneStarCollegeAlert page (lonestar.edu)","annotations":["Lists the primary alert channels. The same two sentences were reproduced identically across two independent retrievals of the official LoneStarCollegeAlert page, so flagged verbatim; the host 403-blocks direct fetch, so it could not be byte-confirmed against the live page."],"characterCount":178},{"label":"Confirmation trigger and fallback senders","quotedText":"The Lone Star College Police Department sends out emergency notifications as soon as a threat has been confirmed. In the event the Police Department cannot send out these messages, the Office of Emergency Management and the Office of Marketing and Communication can send out the alerts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lonestar.edu/Departments/Campuspolice/AnnualSecurityReport.pdf","sourceDescription":"LSC Annual Security Report","annotations":["Documents the confirmation trigger and the fallback chain of authorized senders. 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The [notification system page](https://alerts.longwood.edu/notification/) leads with the outdoor layer: a siren and voice system designed to broadcast audible safety sirens and live or recorded voice alerts to the campus community as quickly as possible during extreme circumstances such as a tornado or police emergency, running on battery backup and able to address the entire campus or individual areas depending on the scope of the emergency, through an [outside warning network of six speaker arrays](https://alerts.longwood.edu/notification/longwoods-siren-and-voice-alert-system/). The same page describes the text messaging and email alert system as provided through Roam Secure with servers on both coasts, while the university's current [sign-up instructions](https://alerts.longwood.edu/signup/) route subscribers to text LUALERTS to 226787, download the Longwood Ready app, or sign into a Rave account at getrave.com, an apparent platform evolution the pages do not reconcile; the [Lancer Parent Pipeline sign-up notice](https://parentpipeline.longwood.edu/2026/01/27/sign-up-for-longwood-alerts-to-get-the-latest-weather-closings-and-other-important-information/) lists the full delivery set as text, email, desktop alert system, Longwood Ready app, and Alertus beacons throughout campus. On the compliance side, the [Longwood University Police Department's Clery Act page](https://www.longwood.edu/police/crime-reports--prevention/the-jeanne-clery-act/) states that Longwood issues timely warnings about Clery Act crimes posing a serious or ongoing threat and that the university has devised an emergency response, notification and testing policy, with an Office of Emergency Management coordinating preparedness. The longwood.edu hosts are egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language below is carried from search-index retrievals of the official pages and marked unconfirmed pending a direct character-for-character read.","whenCriteria":"Extreme circumstances such as a tornado or police emergency affecting campus for the siren and voice layer; timely warnings for Clery Act crimes posing a serious or ongoing threat to students and employees; weather closings and operational disruptions are announced through the same alert channels and website.","decisionAuthority":"The Longwood University Police Department and the Office of Emergency Management anchor the program (LUPD's Clery page names a Clery Act Compliance Officer); the specific titles authorized to trigger the sirens and Longwood Alert messages were not readable from this sandbox (longwood.edu egress-blocked).","timingStandard":"The siren and voice system is described as broadcasting to the campus community as quickly as possible; the formal without-delay language of the emergency response, notification and testing policy sits in Clery documents not reachable from this sandbox.","cleryFraming":"The public pages separate the emergency-notification apparatus (sirens, texts, app, Alertus) from the timely-warning duty, which the LUPD Clery page states as issuing timely warnings about Clery Act crimes which pose a serious or ongoing threat to students and employees.","testingCadence":"The alerts site maintains a Notification System Test category for scheduled tests of the emergency alert system; a fixed public test calendar was not readable from this sandbox.","scopeLimits":"The siren and voice network can address the entire campus or individual areas by zone; text alerts reach only numbers registered via LUALERTS, the Rave account, or the sign-up page, and the Alertus desktop layer reaches university computers.","channels":["siren","pa-system","sms","email","push-notification","desktop-popup","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Siren and voice alert purpose","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://alerts.longwood.edu/notification/","sourceDescription":"Longwood University Weather and Emergency Alerts, Longwood's Notification System page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Battery backup and zoned addressing","quotedText":"The system utilizes battery back up protection in the event of a power loss and has the capability of alerting the entire campus or individual areas depending on the scope of the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://alerts.longwood.edu/notification/","sourceDescription":"Longwood University Weather and Emergency Alerts, Longwood's Notification System page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":["Zoned addressing is an unusual published capability for a campus siren network of this size; the outside warning network consists of six speaker arrays. Unconfirmed pending a direct read."],"characterCount":189},{"label":"Text and email platform description","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://alerts.longwood.edu/notification/","sourceDescription":"Longwood University Weather and Emergency Alerts, Longwood's Notification System page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Full delivery channel set","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://parentpipeline.longwood.edu/2026/01/27/sign-up-for-longwood-alerts-to-get-the-latest-weather-closings-and-other-important-information/","sourceDescription":"Longwood University, Lancer Parent Pipeline sign-up notice, January 27, 2026 (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Timely warning commitment","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.longwood.edu/police/crime-reports--prevention/the-jeanne-clery-act/","sourceDescription":"Longwood University Police Department, The Jeanne Clery Act page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; 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Per the [LSU Office of Emergency Preparedness](https://www.lsu.edu/oep/lsualerts/index.php), the LSUalert System is the emergency notification system used to notify the campus community in a timely manner about serious emergencies, ongoing threats, or disruptions to normal campus operations. In the event of an emergency that poses significant danger to the health or safety of the campus community, or when immediate action is required to protect members' safety or health, an emergency notification is issued immediately after the university confirms that there is an emergency or dangerous situation. LSU determines emergency situations case by case; because the primary goal is life safety, the university may err on the side of caution. Emergency messaging topics include weather events, shelter-in-place activations, active threats, medical outbreaks, fires, gas leaks, and campus closures, and a notification may target the entire community, a specific area, or a specific at-risk population.\n\nTimely warnings are a separate Clery tier. Per [LSU Police](https://www.lsu.edu/police/alerts/index.php), timely warnings are issued for incidents or crimes that have already occurred — particularly serious crimes against people occurring on campus — that may not present immediate danger or require action but could present an ongoing threat; the Clery Act mandates timely warnings for crimes such as robbery, burglary, sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking. Timely warnings are delivered to the LSU community via the LSU Police website. This split is the key conceptual distinction in LSU's framework: LSUalert is the immediate-threat channel, while timely warnings are the after-the-fact, prevention-oriented Clery communications routed through LSU Police.\n\nDelivery and enrollment are codified. Emergency notifications are delivered via an LSUalert text message, an accompanying LSUalert email sent by the same service provider, and a red emergency banner on the LSU homepage. LSU contracts with a vendor for the text-message platform; the subscription-based service is open to all students, faculty, and staff, and those who enter a mobile phone number into their Workday profile are automatically registered, while all students, faculty, and staff are registered to receive the LSUalert emails. Participation in text messaging is not required but strongly encouraged, and the university makes every effort to restrict messages to true emergencies or alerts of critical nature. The LSUalert system is tested to ensure it is working properly. Because the official .edu pages and the LSU Annual Security and Fire Safety Report PDF return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from the official LSU page text as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries; remaining detail is paraphrased.\n\nLSU's alert framework sits alongside a long-running federal enforcement matter that is separate from LSUalert itself: the U.S. Department of Education opened an investigation into possible Clery Act violations at LSU in February 2021, after an independent Husch Blackwell review found the athletics department had repeatedly failed to forward sexual-misconduct reports to campus police or the Title IX office. As of March 2026 the Department had not publicly announced findings, and [The Reveille](https://lsureveille.com/279469/news/lsu-clery-act-investigation-remains-open-after-five-years-heres-why-it-matters/) reported that the five-year window for the Department to impose a civil monetary penalty tied to the conduct under review had lapsed, though the Department can still issue a finding that a violation occurred even without a fine attached.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notification: an emergency that poses significant danger to the health or safety of the campus community, or that requires immediate action to protect members' safety or health, issued immediately after the university confirms an emergency or dangerous situation. Timely warning: an incident or crime that has already occurred (especially serious crimes against persons on campus) that could present an ongoing threat.","decisionAuthority":"The university determines whether a situation is an emergency on a case-by-case basis, erring on the side of caution because the primary goal is life safety; emergency notifications are coordinated through the Office of Emergency Preparedness. Timely warnings are issued by LSU Police.","timingStandard":"An emergency notification is issued immediately after the university confirms that there is an emergency or dangerous situation. LSUalert notifies the community 'in a timely manner.'","cleryFraming":"Two-tier Clery model: immediate Emergency Notifications via LSUalert for confirmed dangerous situations, and Timely Warnings via LSU Police for already-occurred Clery crimes (e.g., robbery, burglary, sexual assault, domestic violence, stalking) posing an ongoing threat.","testingCadence":"The LSUalert system is tested to ensure it is working properly; LSU directs detailed test-schedule questions to the Office of Emergency Preparedness (emergencyprep@lsu.edu).","scopeLimits":"Emergency notifications may target the entire campus community, a specific area, or a specific at-risk population. LSUalert text messaging is subscription-based and open to students, faculty, and staff; auto-registration for text requires a mobile number in Workday, while all students, faculty, and staff receive the LSUalert emails. The university restricts messages to true emergencies or alerts of critical nature.","channels":["sms","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"LSUalert system definition","quotedText":"The LSUalert System is the emergency notification system utilized by LSU to notify the campus community in a timely manner about serious emergencies, ongoing threats, or disruptions to normal campus operations.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lsu.edu/oep/lsualerts/index.php","sourceDescription":"LSU Office of Emergency Preparedness — LSUalert System","annotations":["Defines LSUalert's purpose and the 'timely manner' standard, covering serious emergencies, ongoing threats, and operational disruptions."],"characterCount":210},{"label":"Emergency notification trigger and timing","quotedText":"In the event of an emergency that poses significant danger to health or safety of the campus community or when an immediate action is required by the campus community to protect the community members' safety or health, an emergency notification will be issued. The notification will be issued immediately after the university confirms that there is an emergency or dangerous situation.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lsu.edu/oep/lsualerts/index.php","sourceDescription":"LSU Office of Emergency Preparedness — LSUalert System","annotations":["Anchors issuance to a confirmed emergency or dangerous situation and sets the 'immediately after confirmation' timing that mirrors the Clery 'without delay' standard."],"characterCount":385},{"label":"Delivery channels and message scope","quotedText":"Emergency notifications will be delivered via LSUalert text message, an accompanying LSUalert email, and a red emergency banner on the LSU Homepage. Emergency messaging topics may include, but are not limited to, weather events, shelter in place activations, active threats, medical outbreaks, fires, gas leaks, and campus closures.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lsu.edu/oep/lsualerts/index.php","sourceDescription":"LSU Office of Emergency Preparedness — LSUalert System","annotations":["Enumerates the three delivery channels (text, email, homepage banner) and the example incident types that warrant an LSUalert."],"characterCount":332},{"label":"Auto-registration via Workday","quotedText":"Students, faculty, and staff who have entered a mobile phone number into their WorkDay profile will be automatically registered for the LSUalert System. Participation in the text messaging system is not required but is strongly encouraged.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lsu.edu/oep/lsualerts/index.php","sourceDescription":"LSU Office of Emergency Preparedness — LSUalert System","annotations":["Ties auto-enrollment to a mobile number in the Workday profile and frames text participation as voluntary-but-encouraged, while emails reach all students, faculty, and staff."],"characterCount":239}],"keyFindings":["LSU runs a two-tier Clery model: immediate Emergency Notifications via LSUalert for confirmed dangerous situations, and Timely Warnings via LSU Police for already-occurred Clery crimes posing an ongoing threat.","LSUalert notifies the community 'in a timely manner,' with emergency notifications issued immediately after the university confirms an emergency or dangerous situation.","Delivery is via LSUalert text message, an accompanying email, and a red emergency banner on the LSU homepage; covered topics include weather, shelter-in-place, active threats, outbreaks, fires, gas leaks, and closures.","Notifications can be scoped to the entire community, a specific area, or a specific at-risk population, with the university erring on the side of caution because life safety is the primary goal.","Auto-registration for text requires a mobile number in the Workday profile (participation voluntary but encouraged); all students, faculty, and staff receive LSUalert emails, and the system is tested to confirm it works."],"sources":[{"title":"LSUalert System — LSU Office of Emergency Preparedness","url":"https://www.lsu.edu/oep/lsualerts/index.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Timely Warnings — LSU Police","url":"https://www.lsu.edu/police/alerts/index.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"2023 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report — LSU Police","url":"https://www.lsu.edu/police/crime-information/2023-lsu-security-fire-report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Be Prepared — LSU Office of Emergency Preparedness","url":"https://www.lsu.edu/oep/prepare/index.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"LSU Clery Act investigation remains open after five years. Here's why it matters — The Reveille","url":"https://lsureveille.com/279469/news/lsu-clery-act-investigation-remains-open-after-five-years-heres-why-it-matters/","type":"student-newspaper"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","lsualert","public-r1","louisiana"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"loyola-marymount-university-lmu-alert-policy","slug":"loyola-marymount-university-lmu-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Loyola Marymount University","shortName":"LMU","state":"CA","type":"private-r2","alertSystemName":"LMU Alert","enrollment":10000},"policy":{"title":"LMU Alert — Emergency Notification System (Campus Safety Services / Clery Act)","systemName":"LMU Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://safety.lmu.edu/publicsafety/lmualert/","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"Loyola Marymount University's [LMU Alert](https://safety.lmu.edu/publicsafety/lmualert/) is the emergency notification system that reaches registered users by text, email, and/or automated phone call (and can also drive an on-campus public address system); per LMU's [Annual Security & Fire Safety Report](https://safety.lmu.edu/media/admin/publicsafety/documents/Campus%20Safety%20ASR%202025.pdf) it is LMU's consistent practice to notify the community as soon as pertinent information is available and is considered to represent a serious or continuing threat to campus.","analysis":"Loyola Marymount, a Jesuit/Marymount Catholic university overlooking Los Angeles, operates its emergency notification system under the brand [LMU Alert](https://safety.lmu.edu/publicsafety/lmualert/). The system is described plainly: 'LMU Alert is an emergency notification system that allows LMU to contact you during an emergency by sending messages via text, email, and/or automated phone calls,' and it may also drive a public address system to push information into on-campus learning spaces and offices. During a campus- or area-wide incident, the university says it will send important information and instructions to the community via LMU Alert, including phone calls, text messages, and/or email to registered users.\n\nRegistration is mandatory for students rather than optional. All registered LMU students are required to provide LMU Alert contact information and must update or confirm it annually; to avoid a registration hold, students confirm or update their information each year prior to Fall registration through the PROWL portal. This annual confirmation cadence is LMU's mechanism for keeping the contact roster accurate — a notable design choice given that stale phone numbers are the most common failure mode for mass-notification systems.\n\nOn Clery framing, LMU's [Annual Security & Fire Safety Report](https://safety.lmu.edu/media/admin/publicsafety/documents/Campus%20Safety%20ASR%202025.pdf) states that when a violent crime or a crime listed in the Clery Act is reported on campus, it is the consistent practice of LMU to notify the campus community as soon as pertinent information about an incident is available and is considered to represent a serious or continuing threat to campus. That language pairs an immediacy commitment ('as soon as pertinent information is available') with a substantive threshold ('serious or continuing threat'), routing both emergency notifications and crime/timely warnings through LMU Alert. Authority sits with the Department of Campus Safety Services (formerly Public Safety; contact public.safety@lmu.edu).\n\nLMU's companion safety app is Rave Guardian, which indicates the underlying mass-notification platform is likely Rave Mobile Safety (Motorola Solutions); the app provides safety tips, maps, phone numbers, and a direct line to Campus Safety. On testing and exercising, Campus Safety facilitates two campus-wide emergency preparedness drills each year in addition to ongoing training and education, and LMU has run an annual campus-wide active-threat drill (e.g., a February exercise). Because the official lmu.edu pages return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from the official LMU Alert and ASR text as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries; remaining detail is paraphrased.","whenCriteria":"When a violent crime or a crime listed in the Clery Act is reported on campus, it is LMU's consistent practice to notify the community as soon as pertinent information about an incident is available and is considered to represent a serious or continuing threat to campus. LMU Alert is also used during any campus- or area-wide incident or emergency.","decisionAuthority":"The Department of Campus Safety Services (formerly Public Safety; public.safety@lmu.edu, 310-338-2893) administers LMU Alert and the university's emergency notification practice.","timingStandard":"It is the consistent practice of LMU to notify the campus community 'as soon as pertinent information about an incident is available' once the incident is considered to represent a serious or continuing threat to campus.","cleryFraming":"LMU Alert serves as the unified channel for emergency notifications and crime warnings; the ASR ties issuance to a Clery-listed or violent crime that represents a serious or continuing threat, with notification sent as soon as pertinent information is available.","testingCadence":"Each year Campus Safety facilitates two campus-wide emergency preparedness drills in addition to ongoing training and education; LMU also runs an annual campus-wide active-threat drill. Students must confirm or update LMU Alert contact information annually before Fall registration.","scopeLimits":"LMU Alert reaches only registered users with current contact information, which is why annual confirmation is mandatory and backed by a registration hold; the public address system reaches only on-campus learning spaces and offices. Notification is gated on a 'serious or continuing threat' determination.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"LMU Alert definition and channels","quotedText":"LMU Alert is an emergency notification system that allows LMU to contact you during an emergency by sending messages via text, email, and/or automated phone calls.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.lmu.edu/publicsafety/lmualert/","sourceDescription":"Loyola Marymount University — LMU Alert page","annotations":["Establishes the three core delivery channels: text, email, and automated phone call."],"characterCount":163},{"label":"Mandatory annual contact-info confirmation","quotedText":"All registered LMU students are required to provide contact information for LMU Alert. Students will be required to update or confirm their LMU Alert contact information annually.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.lmu.edu/publicsafety/lmualert/","sourceDescription":"Loyola Marymount University — LMU Alert page","annotations":["Registration is mandatory and the contact roster is refreshed annually (enforced via a registration hold before Fall registration), keeping the call/text list current."],"characterCount":179},{"label":"Clery serious-or-continuing-threat practice","quotedText":"When a violent crime or crime listed in the Clery Act is reported on our campus, it is the consistent practice of LMU to notify the campus community as soon as pertinent information about an incident is available and is considered to represent a serious or continuing threat to campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.lmu.edu/media/admin/publicsafety/documents/Campus%20Safety%20ASR%202025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Loyola Marymount University — Annual Security & Fire Safety Report 2025","annotations":["Pairs an immediacy commitment ('as soon as pertinent information ... is available') with a substantive 'serious or continuing threat' threshold."],"characterCount":285}],"keyFindings":["LMU Alert reaches registered users by text, email, and/or automated phone call and can also drive an on-campus public address system for learning spaces and offices.","Student registration is mandatory: all registered students must provide LMU Alert contact info and confirm or update it annually, enforced by a registration hold before Fall registration.","LMU's consistent practice is to notify the community 'as soon as pertinent information about an incident is available' once it represents a serious or continuing threat to campus.","Campus Safety facilitates two campus-wide emergency preparedness drills per year plus an annual campus-wide active-threat drill, alongside ongoing training.","The companion app is Rave Guardian, indicating the underlying mass-notification platform is likely Rave Mobile Safety (Motorola Solutions)."],"sources":[{"title":"LMU Alert — Loyola Marymount University Campus Safety","url":"https://safety.lmu.edu/publicsafety/lmualert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Management — Loyola Marymount University","url":"https://safety.lmu.edu/em/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual Security & Fire Safety Report 2025 — Loyola Marymount University","url":"https://safety.lmu.edu/media/admin/publicsafety/documents/Campus%20Safety%20ASR%202025.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Annual Campus-Wide Active Threat Drill is Feb. 19 — LMU Newsroom","url":"https://newsroom.lmu.edu/administrative/annual-campus-wide-active-threat-drill-is-feb-19/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","lmu-alert","rave-guardian","public-address","private-r2","california"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"loyola-university-chicago-loyola-alert-policy","slug":"loyola-university-chicago-loyola-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Loyola University Chicago","shortName":"Loyola Chicago","state":"IL","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"Loyola Alert","enrollment":17384},"policy":{"title":"Loyola Alert (Emergency Communications)","systemName":"Loyola Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.luc.edu/emergencycommunications/"},"summary":"Loyola University Chicago's [Loyola Alert page](https://www.luc.edu/emergencycommunications/) describes an emergency notification system that sends text, email, and voice messages to registered contacts across all three Chicagoland campuses for life-threatening, campus-wide emergencies, with current faculty, staff, and students enrolled by default; a separate [Crime Alerts program](https://www.luc.edu/safety/alerts/) carries the Clery Act Timely Warning function by email.","analysis":"Loyola University Chicago, a private Jesuit research university with [17,384 students in 2024-25](https://www.collegetuitioncompare.com/edu/146719/loyola-university-chicago/enrollment/), runs a cleanly split two-product warning architecture. The emergency tier is [Loyola Alert](https://www.luc.edu/emergencycommunications/), which sends a text message, email, and voice call to the registered phone number and email address of students, faculty, and staff in the event of a life-threatening, campus-wide emergency at any of Loyola's three Chicagoland campuses; when a threat is identified, Campus Safety immediately sends messages via registered participants' preferred channels. The university states that Loyola Alert messages are exclusively used for on-campus incidents that pose a significant threat to life or bodily harm and require immediate action, naming weather emergencies, civil emergencies, active shooters, and health emergencies ordered by public health authorities, and it explicitly ties the system to the emergency notification requirement of the Clery Act. Current faculty, staff, and students are enrolled by default using contact information on file, and anyone with a Loyola UVID is eligible to maintain a profile, with details handled in the [Loyola Alert FAQ](https://www.luc.edu/emergencycommunications/loyolaalertfaqs/) and the [emergency notification section of the Emergency Response Plan](https://www.luc.edu/erp/emergency_notification.shtml). The crime tier is separate: [Crime Alerts](https://www.luc.edu/safety/alerts/), the notifications Campus Safety is required to distribute under the Clery Act Timely Warning provision, are sent to all Loyola email addresses at any time of day or night for crimes on Clery-reportable geography, and Loyola states it has voluntarily expanded that geography to include gun or sex crimes against a Loyola student considered an ongoing threat occurring within Campus Safety's patrol boundaries, a notably broader-than-Clery commitment that matches the off-campus Rogers Park robbery and carjacking warnings preserved in this archive's Loyola case files. All luc.edu hosts are egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language below is carried from search-index retrievals of the official pages and marked unconfirmed pending a direct character-for-character read.","whenCriteria":"Loyola Alert is exclusively used for on-campus incidents that pose a significant threat to life or bodily harm and require immediate action, including weather emergencies, civil emergencies, active shooters, and health emergencies ordered by public health authorities; Crime Alerts are issued for Clery Act crimes on Clery-reportable geography, expanded to gun or sex crimes against Loyola students within Campus Safety patrol boundaries when considered an ongoing threat.","decisionAuthority":"Campus Safety identifies the threat and immediately sends Loyola Alert messages; Campus Safety also distributes Crime Alerts under the Clery Act.","timingStandard":"When a threat is identified, Campus Safety will immediately send messages via registered participants' preferred communication channels; Crime Alerts are sent at any time of day or night.","cleryFraming":"Explicit split framing: Loyola Alert fulfills the Clery emergency notification requirement, while the email-based Crime Alerts program fulfills the Clery Timely Warning requirement, with a stated voluntary expansion of warning geography beyond Clery minimums.","testingCadence":"Not confirmable from this sandbox; no published test schedule surfaced in indexed retrievals of the Loyola Alert pages.","scopeLimits":"Covers all three Chicagoland campuses; current faculty, staff, and students are enrolled by default from information on file, and delivery depends on registered contact data; Crime Alerts go to all Loyola email addresses.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Loyola Alert delivery and trigger","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.luc.edu/emergencycommunications/","sourceDescription":"Loyola University Chicago, Loyola Alert page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Exclusive-use criteria","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.luc.edu/emergencycommunications/loyolaalertfaqs/","sourceDescription":"Loyola University Chicago, Loyola Alert FAQ (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Default enrollment","quotedText":"Current faculty, staff, and students are enrolled in Loyola Alert by default based on the information the University has on file.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.luc.edu/emergencycommunications/","sourceDescription":"Loyola University Chicago, Loyola Alert page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":["Opt-out rather than opt-in architecture for the emergency tier, so reach depends on the accuracy of contact data on file. Unconfirmed for the egress-block reason."],"characterCount":129},{"label":"Crime Alerts as Clery Timely Warnings, with expanded geography","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.luc.edu/safety/alerts/","sourceDescription":"Loyola University Chicago, Campus Safety Crime Alerts page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Loyola runs a split architecture: Loyola Alert (text, email, voice) for immediate-action emergencies under the Clery emergency notification requirement, and email Crime Alerts for the Clery Timely Warning function.","Loyola Alert is exclusively reserved for incidents posing a significant threat to life or bodily harm requiring immediate action, keeping the interruptive channels quiet otherwise.","Current faculty, staff, and students are enrolled by default; the system covers all three Chicagoland campuses.","Loyola states it voluntarily expanded warning geography beyond Clery minimums to gun or sex crimes against students within Campus Safety patrol boundaries when an ongoing threat is judged.","No excerpt is verbatim-confirmed: luc.edu is egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language is carried from search-index retrievals and flagged for direct verification."],"sources":[{"title":"Loyola University Chicago, Loyola Alert (Emergency Communications)","url":"https://www.luc.edu/emergencycommunications/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Loyola University Chicago, Loyola Alert Frequently Asked Questions","url":"https://www.luc.edu/emergencycommunications/loyolaalertfaqs/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Loyola University Chicago, Campus Safety Crime Alerts","url":"https://www.luc.edu/safety/alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Loyola University Chicago, Emergency Response Plan, Emergency Notification","url":"https://www.luc.edu/erp/emergency_notification.shtml","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Loyola University Chicago enrollment 2024-25 (College Tuition Compare)","url":"https://www.collegetuitioncompare.com/edu/146719/loyola-university-chicago/enrollment/","type":"reference"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["loyola-chicago-shots-fired-lake-shore-2021-08-20","loyola-university-chicago-mertz-hall-sexual-assault-2024-03-16","loyola-chicago-rogers-park-robbery-carjacking-2025-02-25","loyola-university-chicago-glenwood-armed-robbery-2025-02-26","loyola-university-chicago-tobey-prinz-beach-homicide-2026-03-19"],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","crime-alert","illinois","loyola-alert","private-r1"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-23","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"loyola-university-new-orleans-loyno-alert-boil-water-policy","slug":"loyola-university-new-orleans-loyno-alert-boil-water-policy","institution":{"name":"Loyola University New Orleans","shortName":"Loyola New Orleans","state":"LA","type":"private-masters","alertSystemName":"Loyno Alert","enrollment":4500},"policy":{"title":"Boil Water Advisory - Emergency Information","systemName":"Loyno Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://emergency.loyno.edu/boil-water-advisory","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Loyola University New Orleans' published [boil-water advisory page](https://emergency.loyno.edu/boil-water-advisory) ties campus response to Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans advisories, commits bottled water for on-campus residents, and names Loyno Alert plus the Emergency Communications system for campus notification.","analysis":"Loyola University New Orleans (private Jesuit university in Uptown New Orleans) publishes institution-specific boil-water response on its [Emergency Information site](https://emergency.loyno.edu/boil-water-advisory). Local content includes the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans as the advisory authority, a campus rule of thumb forbidding drinking/ice/brushing with tap water until lift, bottled water for residential students, and branded Loyno Alert / Emergency Communications delivery.\n\nThat combination of city-agency trigger, residential bottled-water commitment, and Loyno Alert branding is what this record captures beyond generic Clery language.","whenCriteria":"When the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans issues a precautionary boil water advisory because water may be unsafe to drink (advisories usually last at least 24 hours for testing).","decisionAuthority":"Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans issues the advisory and informs when water is safe; Loyola communicates to campus via Loyno Alert and Emergency Communications and provides bottled water to on-campus residents.","timingStandard":"Continue precautions until the city advisory is formally lifted; SWBNO testing typically requires at least 24 hours.","cleryFraming":"Page is an operational emergency-communications criteria page for water-safety advisories rather than a Clery timely-warning crime page; uses Loyno Alert mass notification.","scopeLimits":"On campus and at home guidance; bottled water for students residing on campus.","testingCadence":"Not specified on the boil-water advisory page reviewed.","channels":["sms","email","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"SWBNO advisory trigger and 24-hour testing","quotedText":"If water is potentially unsafe to drink, the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans will issue a precautionary boil water advisory. This announcement advises residents to boil tap water before drinking and usually lasts at least 24 hours. That's how long it takes to test the water. The Sewerage and Water Board will inform the community when it's safe to drink the water.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.loyno.edu/boil-water-advisory","sourceDescription":"Loyola Emergency Information boil water advisory page","annotations":["Names New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board as decision authority for water safety."],"characterCount":373},{"label":"Campus precautions and bottled water for residents","quotedText":"Until the advisory is formally lifted, we ask that you continue to follow the city's safety suggestions, on campus and at home. As a rule of thumb, residents should not drink, make ice or brush teeth using tap water - and should boil water before consuming. Bottled water will be provided to students residing on campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.loyno.edu/boil-water-advisory","sourceDescription":"Loyola Emergency Information boil water advisory page","annotations":["Local residential bottled-water commitment."],"characterCount":320},{"label":"Loyno Alert communication channel","quotedText":"The University will communicate to the campus community via Loyno Alert notifications and our Emergency Communications system during a boil water advisory.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.loyno.edu/boil-water-advisory","sourceDescription":"Loyola Emergency Information boil water advisory page","annotations":["Branded Loyno Alert and Emergency Communications system."],"characterCount":155}],"keyFindings":["SWBNO issues boil-water advisories that drive Loyola campus precautions.","Bottled water provided to on-campus residents during advisories.","Loyno Alert and Emergency Communications notify the campus community."],"sources":[{"title":"Boil Water Advisory - Loyola University New Orleans","url":"https://emergency.loyno.edu/boil-water-advisory","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","criteria-page","emergency-notification","loyno-alert","private-masters","louisiana","boil-water"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"macalester-college-macalester-alert-policy","slug":"macalester-college-macalester-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Macalester College","shortName":"Macalester","state":"MN","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"Macalester Alert (Rave Alert)","enrollment":2138},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Preparedness — Macalester Alert / Rave Alert Emergency-Notification and Clery Timely-Warning Procedures","systemName":"Macalester Alert (Rave Alert)","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.macalester.edu/public-safety/emergency-preparedness/","lastReviewed":"2026-06-22"},"summary":"Macalester College's Department of Public Safety uses the [Rave Alert emergency-notification system](https://www.macalester.edu/public-safety/emergency-preparedness/) — branded to the community as 'Macalester Alert' text messaging — to transmit information as quickly as possible during emergencies, and issues separate [Clery campus safety alerts and timely warnings](https://www.macalester.edu/security/campussecurityact/campus_safety_alerts/) through Public Safety for crimes that represent an ongoing threat.","analysis":"Macalester College is a private liberal-arts college in Saint Paul, Minnesota whose campus emergency-notification function is run by the [Department of Public Safety](https://www.macalester.edu/public-safety/emergency-preparedness/) on the Rave Alert platform. The College states that '[the Rave Alert emergency notification system will be used to transmit information as quickly as possible to the campus community to provide information and direction](https://www.macalester.edu/public-safety/emergency-preparedness/).' Rave Alert is a widely deployed, FedRAMP-authorized mass-notification product (now part of Motorola Solutions) capable of SMS, email, voice, and desktop delivery.\n\nThe community-facing brand is 'Macalester Alert.' Macalester advises members to monitor mobile-phone 'Macalester Alert' text messaging, email, and voicemail for updates during an incident, so the operative posture is multi-channel reach to the contact records on file. The College frames communication frequency around the situation: messages through the Rave Alert system and any other available means will be 'as frequent as necessary' to keep the community informed of material changes and to deliver appropriate direction.\n\nMacalester maintains the standard Clery split between emergency notifications and timely warnings, and publishes both a [Campus Security and Fire Safety Report and a current campus-safety-alerts page](https://www.macalester.edu/public-safety/cleryact/) along with a [dedicated campus safety alerts archive](https://www.macalester.edu/security/campussecurityact/campus_safety_alerts/). Under the Clery framework Macalester applies, timely warnings are issued for crimes reported to campus security authorities or local police that are considered to represent a threat to students and employees, and are issued as soon as pertinent information is available so people can protect themselves. The College also operates a Campus Security Authority (CSA) program and uses ALICE response procedures for active-threat training, reflecting a small-campus model that pairs notification with behavioral protocols.\n\nThe Rave Alert system-use sentence appeared with identical wording across multiple official Macalester Public Safety retrievals and is marked verbatim-confirmed. The exact named decision authority, the precise timely-warning trigger language, and the published periodic test cadence were not surfaced byte-for-byte in this review (macalester.edu and the ASR PDF 403-block automated fetching here), so those fields draw on indexed snippets and Clery-standard framing and are flagged where reconstructed. 'Macalester Alert' is documented as the branded text-messaging label rather than the formal product name (Rave Alert), so the institution field records both.","whenCriteria":"Macalester uses Rave Alert ('Macalester Alert') to transmit information as quickly as possible during a significant emergency or dangerous situation and to provide direction. Timely warnings are issued separately for Clery-reportable crimes reported to campus security authorities or local police that are considered to represent a threat to students and employees.","decisionAuthority":"Macalester's Department of Public Safety administers Rave Alert / Macalester Alert and issues Clery campus safety alerts. The specific position authorized to confirm a threat and trigger an alert was not confirmed verbatim in this review (macalester.edu blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"Macalester states Rave Alert is used to transmit information 'as quickly as possible,' with messages 'as frequent as necessary' to keep the community informed of material changes; timely warnings are issued as soon as pertinent information is available — consistent with the Clery standard.","cleryFraming":"Macalester separates the two Clery functions: Rave Alert / Macalester Alert emergency notifications for significant emergencies or dangerous situations, and timely warnings / campus safety alerts for Clery-reportable crimes that represent a threat. Macalester publishes an annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report and maintains a CSA program.","testingCadence":"Macalester maintains emergency-preparedness procedures (including ALICE response training) and tests its notification system; the exact published periodic test cadence (e.g., per-semester) was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","scopeLimits":"Reach depends on current contact information; the community is advised to monitor Macalester Alert text messaging, email, and voicemail for updates. Communication is sent through Rave Alert 'and any other available means' as frequently as necessary.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","desktop-popup"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Rave Alert system use","quotedText":"The Rave Alert emergency notification system will be used to transmit information as quickly as possible to the campus community to provide information and direction.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.macalester.edu/public-safety/emergency-preparedness/","sourceDescription":"Macalester College — Public Safety, Emergency Preparedness page","annotations":["Names the platform (Rave Alert) and the speed standard ('as quickly as possible'). Identical wording appeared across multiple official Macalester Public Safety retrievals."],"characterCount":166},{"label":"Communication frequency standard","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.macalester.edu/public-safety/emergency-preparedness/","sourceDescription":"Macalester College — Public Safety, Emergency Preparedness page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Branded text-messaging label","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.macalester.edu/public-safety/emergency-preparedness/","sourceDescription":"Macalester College — Public Safety, Emergency Preparedness page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Macalester runs emergency notifications on the Rave Alert platform, branded to the community as 'Macalester Alert' text messaging; both names were corroborated across official Public Safety pages.","The College uses Rave Alert to transmit information 'as quickly as possible' and sends updates 'as frequent as necessary' to keep the community informed of material changes.","Macalester keeps the Clery functions distinct — emergency notifications for significant emergencies and timely warnings / campus safety alerts for crimes that represent a threat — and publishes an annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report.","The College pairs notification with behavioral protocols, operating a CSA program and using ALICE response procedures for active-threat training.","The named decision authority, exact timely-warning trigger language, and published test cadence could not be confirmed verbatim (macalester.edu and ASR PDF blocked automated fetching); one excerpt was confirmed verbatim across multiple official-page retrievals."],"sources":[{"title":"Macalester College — Public Safety, Emergency Preparedness","url":"https://www.macalester.edu/public-safety/emergency-preparedness/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Macalester College — Department of Public Safety, Campus Safety Alerts","url":"https://www.macalester.edu/security/campussecurityact/campus_safety_alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Macalester College — Campus Security and Fire Safety Report (Clery)","url":"https://www.macalester.edu/public-safety/cleryact/","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Macalester College — Current Alerts (Public Safety, Clery)","url":"https://www.macalester.edu/public-safety/cleryact/current_alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Macalester College — ALICE Response Procedures (Public Safety)","url":"https://www.macalester.edu/public-safety/emergency-preparedness/alice-response-procedures/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","private-liberal-arts","minnesota","rave-alert","macalester-alert","alice"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"madisonville-community-college-snap-asr","slug":"madisonville-community-college-snap-asr","institution":{"name":"Madisonville Community College","shortName":"MCC","state":"KY","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"SNAP","enrollment":3500},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification (SNAP) and Timely Warning - Annual Campus Security Report","systemName":"SNAP","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://madisonville.kctcs.edu/about/student-life/campus-safety/annual-security-reports.aspx","lastReviewed":"2025-09-30"},"summary":"Madisonville Community College documents the [KCTCS Safety Notification Alert Process (SNAP)](https://madisonville.kctcs.edu/about/student-life/campus-safety/annual-security-reports.aspx) for immediate multi-channel emergency notifications and Clery timely warnings via campus-wide email, flyers, and website banners.","analysis":"Madisonville Community College (multi-campus KCTCS institution, KY) publishes Emergency Notification and Timely Warning policy on its official [Annual Campus Security Reports](https://madisonville.kctcs.edu/about/student-life/campus-safety/annual-security-reports.aspx) page. KCTCS uses SNAP (Safety Notification Alert Process) for rapid communication. Students are automatically signed up at enrollment; faculty, staff, and interested individuals can sign up online. Immediate campus community notification uses SNAP Alert for text, voice, broadcast, and email; face-to-face is the technology-failure fallback.\n\nEach KCTCS college has a SNAP Team using consultation to confirm significant emergencies or dangerous situations involving immediate threat to health or safety of students or employees on campus. The college President confirms emergencies with administrators, local first responders, and/or the National Weather Service. Upon confirmation the college without delay determines content and initiates notification unless that would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Content and scope consider segments at risk (targeted areas, campus-wide, building-specific).\n\nTimely warnings for serious criminal activity posing ongoing threat are decided by Campus Security Authorities, generally via campus-wide email bulletin, with optional flyers in common areas and website/digital banner posts. CSA confers with KCTCS System Office, Public Relations, Legal, and neighboring LE as needed. Crime bulletins may be developed with campus departments, KCTCS General Counsel, and KCTCS Safety and Emergency Services; approved by Campus Security, Marketing, and/or General Counsel. Complements KCTCS system SNAP coverage.","whenCriteria":"SNAP Alert: incident requiring immediate notification to the campus community for confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat to health or safety of students or employees on campus. Timely warning: serious criminal activity likely to pose ongoing or continued threat to safety of students, staff, faculty, and guests.","decisionAuthority":"President confirms emergencies with administrators, first responders, and/or NWS; SNAP Team/designated personnel determine content and segment scope. Timely warning: Campus Security Authorities decide; CSA primarily issues; may partner with campus departments, KCTCS OGC, and KCTCS Safety and Emergency Services; bulletin approved by Campus Security, Marketing, and/or OGC.","timingStandard":"EN without delay upon confirmation taking community safety into account, unless professional judgment holds notification would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. TW as soon as pertinent information and resources are available.","cleryFraming":"ASR Emergency Notification and Timely Warning sections implementing Clery Act duties via KCTCS SNAP and multi-channel TW distribution.","scopeLimits":"Segmented SNAP notifications by area/building allowed. SNAP student auto-enrollment; faculty/staff opt-in. Face-to-face when technology fails.","testingCadence":"Not specified as a fixed cadence on the Annual Campus Security Reports page sections reviewed.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","digital-signage","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"SNAP system and auto student enrollment","quotedText":"KCTCS uses a Safety Notification Alert Process (SNAP) for communicating information quickly. Students are automatically signed up when they enroll at an KCTCS college. Faculty, staff and interested individuals can sign up to receive SNAP messages online.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://madisonville.kctcs.edu/about/student-life/campus-safety/annual-security-reports.aspx","sourceDescription":"Madisonville CC Annual Security Report - Emergency Notification / SNAP","annotations":["Named SNAP with student auto-enrollment across KCTCS."],"characterCount":254},{"label":"SNAP Alert multi-channel immediate notification","quotedText":"In the event of an incident that requires the immediate notification to the campus community, a SNAP Alert will be issued, that will provide text, voice, broadcast and e-mail messages to all members of the college community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://madisonville.kctcs.edu/about/student-life/campus-safety/annual-security-reports.aspx","sourceDescription":"Madisonville CC Annual Security Report - SNAP Alert","annotations":["SNAP Alert text, voice, broadcast, and email for immediate EN."],"characterCount":224},{"label":"Timely warning email bulletin path","quotedText":"Notification is generally made through a campus-wide email bulletin to all members of the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://madisonville.kctcs.edu/about/student-life/campus-safety/annual-security-reports.aspx","sourceDescription":"Madisonville CC Annual Security Report - Timely Warning","annotations":["Primary TW via campus-wide email bulletin."],"characterCount":107}],"keyFindings":["KCTCS SNAP with student auto-enrollment and multi-channel SNAP Alert.","President confirms emergencies; SNAP Team determines content and segments.","Timely warnings primarily via campus-wide email bulletin with CSA authority."],"sources":[{"title":"Madisonville Community College Annual Campus Security Reports (SNAP and Timely Warning)","url":"https://madisonville.kctcs.edu/about/student-life/campus-safety/annual-security-reports.aspx","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["kentucky","community-college","clery-asr","snap","kctcs","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"maricopa-county-community-college-district-alert-policy","slug":"maricopa-county-community-college-district-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Maricopa County Community College District","shortName":"MCCCD","state":"AZ","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"MEMS Alerts (Rave Alert / Alertus)","enrollment":110000},"policy":{"title":"Maricopa Emergency Management System (MEMS) — Emergency Notifications & Timely Warnings","systemName":"MEMS Alerts / Rave Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://police.maricopa.edu/emergency-preparedness/about-mems/mems-notifications","policyNumber":null},"summary":"The [Maricopa County Community College District](https://police.maricopa.edu/emergency-preparedness/community-alerts) — a ten-college district serving more than 100,000 students each year across metropolitan Phoenix, with [fall 2025 enrollment reaching about 110,000](https://www.maricopa.edu/news/2025/maricopa-community-colleges-welcome-record-breaking-class-fall-semester-kicks) — alerts its community through the Maricopa Emergency Management System (MEMS), built on the [Rave Alert text/email platform and the Alertus mass-notification layer](https://police.maricopa.edu/emergency-preparedness/about-mems/mems-notifications), and supplemented by the Maricopa Guardian (Rave Guardian) safety app.","analysis":"The Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) runs one of the largest community-college emergency-notification programs in the United States, centrally managed by the Maricopa Community Colleges Police Department but spanning ten separately accredited colleges (Phoenix College, Mesa, Glendale, Scottsdale, Chandler-Gilbert, GateWay, Estrella Mountain, Paradise Valley, Rio Salado, and South Mountain). The umbrella program is the [Maricopa Emergency Management System (MEMS)](https://police.maricopa.edu/emergency-preparedness/about-mems/mems-notifications); the student-facing alerting layer is built on the Rave Alert platform, branded in District communications as the 'RAVE ALERT' text/email system, with the Alertus engine driving in-building devices.\n\nEnrollment is automatic. The District states that all students and employees are enrolled in the text-message RAVE ALERT notification system, which sends messages with key directives in the event of incidents affecting the health and safety of people on campus; members are urged to keep contact information current in SIS (students) and HCM (employees) so cell numbers and email addresses reach the system. People not affiliated with a particular college — neighbors, contractors, visitors — may 'opt in' to receive notifications through the [Rave/Alertus community portal](https://police.maricopa.edu/emergency-preparedness/community-alerts). On top of the mass-text layer, the optional [Maricopa Guardian (Rave Guardian) app](https://police.maricopa.edu/emergency-preparedness/rave-guardian-app) adds a safety timer, anonymous tip submission with photos, and a one-touch call to District Police.\n\nThe activation standard tracks the Clery Act's emergency-notification trigger almost verbatim: upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus population, the Maricopa Community Colleges Police Department initiates the campus Mass Notification System (MNS). The MNS is deliberately redundant, reaching people on campus through means that may include emergency beacons, VoIP telephony, sirens, a public address system, bullhorns, and other available channels — and indoors via Alert Beacons and electronic message boards whose flashing strobes signal an incident in the immediate area and display directives for evacuation, lockdown, or shelter in place.\n\nOn the Clery framing, MCCCD distinguishes the two federal instruments in the same way the [Clery Center](https://www.clerycenter.org/the-clery-act) describes them: timely warnings are issued for certain Clery-reportable crimes that represent a threat to the safety of students or employees, while emergency notifications are issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat. Decision and activation authority sits with the Maricopa Community Colleges Police Department. Full procedural detail — the confirmation step, content determination, and annual-test cadence — lives in each college's Annual Security Report (the District publishes a separate ASR per college, e.g. the [Glendale Community College ASR](https://www.gccaz.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/GCC%20ASR%202025%20(Final)_0.pdf)).","whenCriteria":"Upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus population, the police department initiates the Mass Notification System. Timely warnings are issued for certain Clery-reportable crimes that represent a threat to the safety of students or employees.","decisionAuthority":"The Maricopa Community Colleges Police Department confirms the emergency and initiates the campus Mass Notification System (MNS) / MEMS Alerts.","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications are issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation; the precise sequencing and content-determination steps are documented in each college's Annual Security Report.","cleryFraming":"Separates emergency notifications (confirmed significant emergency / immediate threat to health or safety) from timely warnings (certain Clery-reportable crimes posing a threat to the safety of students or employees), consistent with Clery Act categories.","testingCadence":"Per the per-college Annual Security Reports; emergency-notification systems are tested in conjunction with required annual Clery emergency-response tests.","scopeLimits":"The Mass Notification System reaches those on campus through redundant means (beacons, VoIP, sirens, PA, bullhorns); unaffiliated community members may opt in via the Rave/Alertus community portal. Students/employees must keep contact info current in SIS/HCM for text and email to reach them.","channels":["sms","email","siren","pa-system","phone-call","digital-signage","push-notification","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Mass Notification System activation","quotedText":"Upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus population, Maricopa Community Colleges Police Department will initiate the campus Mass Notification System (MNS). The MNS is capable of reaching those on campus through redundant means that may include emergency beacons, VoIP telephony, sirens, a public address system, bullhorns and/or other means available.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.maricopa.edu/emergency-preparedness/about-mems/mems-notifications","sourceDescription":"Maricopa Police — How Will You Be Notified (MEMS Alerts)","annotations":["Tracks the Clery Act emergency-notification trigger nearly verbatim and lists the redundant on-campus channels (beacons, VoIP, sirens, PA, bullhorns)."],"characterCount":446},{"label":"Automatic RAVE Alert enrollment","quotedText":"All students and employees are enrolled in a text-message RAVE ALERT notification system that sends messages with key directives in the event of incidents affecting the health and safety of people on campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.maricopa.edu/emergency-preparedness/community-alerts","sourceDescription":"Maricopa Police — Community Safety and Emergency Alerts (Rave/Alertus)","annotations":["Auto-enrollment for the text-message layer; contact info must be kept current in SIS (students) / HCM (employees) for messages to deliver."],"characterCount":207},{"label":"Alert beacons and strobe message boards","quotedText":"All college campuses are equipped with Alert Beacons which will be used to issue official directives to students and employees in the event of an emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.maricopa.edu/emergency-preparedness/about-mems/mems-notifications","sourceDescription":"Maricopa Police — How Will You Be Notified (MEMS Alerts)","annotations":["Indoor Alertus beacons plus flashing-strobe electronic message boards display evacuation, lockdown, or shelter-in-place directives."],"characterCount":156},{"label":"Community opt-in","quotedText":"If individual members of the community not already affiliated with a particular college/campus would like to receive notifications, those individuals may \"opt in\" to be notified when an incident occurs or a safety notification is issued through the Rave/Alertus system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.maricopa.edu/emergency-preparedness/community-alerts","sourceDescription":"Maricopa Police — Community Safety and Emergency Alerts (Rave/Alertus)","annotations":["Unaffiliated neighbors, contractors, and visitors can self-register for alerts through the Rave/Alertus community portal."],"characterCount":269}],"keyFindings":["MCCCD runs a district-wide program (MEMS) on the Rave Alert text/email platform plus the Alertus in-building engine, centrally managed by the Maricopa Community Colleges Police Department across ten colleges.","All students and employees are automatically enrolled in the text-message RAVE ALERT system; contact info must be kept current in SIS/HCM, and unaffiliated community members can opt in via the Rave/Alertus portal.","Activation tracks Clery: upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat, the police department initiates the Mass Notification System.","The MNS is deliberately redundant — emergency beacons, VoIP telephony, sirens, public address, bullhorns, plus strobe-backed electronic message boards displaying evacuate/lockdown/shelter directives.","The optional Maricopa Guardian (Rave Guardian) app adds a safety timer, anonymous photo tips, and one-touch calling to District Police."],"sources":[{"title":"How Will You Be Notified — MEMS Alerts (Maricopa Police)","url":"https://police.maricopa.edu/emergency-preparedness/about-mems/mems-notifications","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Community Safety and Emergency Alerts — Rave/Alertus (Maricopa Police)","url":"https://police.maricopa.edu/emergency-preparedness/community-alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Maricopa Guardian / Rave Guardian App (Maricopa Police)","url":"https://police.maricopa.edu/emergency-preparedness/rave-guardian-app","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Glendale Community College 2025 Annual Security Report","url":"https://www.gccaz.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/GCC%20ASR%202025%20(Final)_0.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"The Clery Act — Clery Center","url":"https://www.clerycenter.org/the-clery-act","type":"other"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","community-college","mems","rave","alertus","arizona"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-23","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"marion-military-institute-regroup-alert-policy","slug":"marion-military-institute-regroup-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Marion Military Institute","shortName":"MMI","state":"AL","type":"military","alertSystemName":"Regroup","enrollment":332},"policy":{"title":"Marion Military Institute Annual Security Report","systemName":"Regroup","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://marionmilitary.edu/core/uploads/2022/09/MMI-ASR-2022_Final.pdf","lastReviewed":"2026-08-23"},"summary":"Marion Military Institute, the official state military college of Alabama and the nation's oldest military junior college, documents in its [Annual Security Report](https://marionmilitary.edu/core/uploads/2022/09/MMI-ASR-2022_Final.pdf) an emergency notification system built on the Regroup mass-notification platform, sending text, email, and app messages to its corps of cadets, with crime alerts additionally posted to electronic bulletin boards and, depending on the crime, to social media through the Public Information Officer.","analysis":"Marion Military Institute (MMI) is a distinctive alerting environment in this archive: a public two-year military college of roughly [330 cadets](https://www.communitycollegereview.com/marion-military-institute-profile) in Marion, Alabama, founded in 1842, operating within the Alabama Community College System while running a full-time immersive military program that feeds four-year colleges, the service academies, and military careers. The entire covered population lives inside a structured chain of command on one compact campus, which changes what an alert system has to do compared with a sprawling commuter institution.\n\nMMI's [Annual Security Report](https://marionmilitary.edu/core/uploads/2022/09/MMI-ASR-2022_Final.pdf) documents the Regroup mass-notification platform as the delivery backbone: the emergency notification system promulgates messages through text messages, emails, and the Regroup app. For Clery-style crime alerts the report describes a layered approach in which alerts may be disseminated through text, email, and app messages, through advisory posters on electronic bulletin boards, and, depending on the nature of the crime, via social media such as Facebook through the Public Information Officer, a routing rule that puts a named communications role between a crime alert and the public internet.\n\nThe [Campus Safety and Security page](https://marionmilitary.edu/cadets/campus-safety-security/) publishes a two-track reporting structure that reflects the military day: during normal business hours, Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., emergencies go to the Office of the Commandant, while after hours and on weekends they go to the Chief of Campus Safety and Security, whose phone numbers are published. On a campus where the Commandant's office already accounts for every cadet at formations, accountability during an emergency is partly built into the institution's ordinary rhythm rather than depending entirely on the alert system.\n\nAs a state institution rather than a federal service academy, MMI carries no Clery exemption; like Virginia Military Institute and The Citadel elsewhere in this archive, it publishes a standard Annual Security Report with crime statistics and policy statements. Provenance caveat: marionmilitary.edu refused automated fetching from this research environment, so the excerpts below are reconstructed from search-index reproductions of the Annual Security Report and campus safety pages and are marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false. A minutes-based timing standard and a formal testing calendar were not reproduced in the reviewed material and are recorded as unconfirmed.","whenCriteria":"The emergency notification system alerts cadets, faculty, and staff to potential danger on campus; crime alerts follow Clery Act crimes representing a threat to the campus community, with dissemination decisions varying by the nature of the crime.","decisionAuthority":"Emergency reporting routes to the Office of the Commandant during business hours and to the Chief of Campus Safety and Security after hours and on weekends; social-media dissemination of crime alerts runs through the Public Information Officer. A single named alert-activation authority was not reproduced in the sources reviewed in this session.","timingStandard":"A minutes-based service-level standard was not confirmed in the sources reviewed in this session.","cleryFraming":"As a public state military college, MMI is fully subject to the Clery Act, unlike the federal service academies, and publishes an Annual Security Report containing its crime-alert and emergency-notification policy statements and crime statistics.","testingCadence":"A published testing schedule for the Regroup system was not confirmed in the sources reviewed in this session.","scopeLimits":"The covered population is a residential corps of roughly 330 cadets plus faculty and staff on a single compact campus; delivery runs through the Regroup platform's text, email, and app channels, with electronic bulletin boards on campus and Public Information Officer-managed social media as supplements.","channels":["sms","email","push-notification","digital-signage","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Regroup as the notification backbone","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://marionmilitary.edu/core/uploads/2022/09/MMI-ASR-2022_Final.pdf","sourceDescription":"Marion Military Institute Annual Security Report 2022 (host blocked automated fetch; text reconstructed from search-index reproduction)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Layered crime-alert dissemination","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://marionmilitary.edu/core/uploads/2022/09/MMI-ASR-2022_Final.pdf","sourceDescription":"Marion Military Institute Annual Security Report 2022 (host blocked automated fetch; text reconstructed from search-index reproduction)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Two-track emergency reporting by time of day","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://marionmilitary.edu/cadets/campus-safety-security/","sourceDescription":"Marion Military Institute, Campus Safety and Security (host blocked automated fetch; text reconstructed from search-index reproduction)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["MMI, the nation's oldest military junior college and Alabama's official state military college, runs its emergency notifications on the Regroup platform through text, email, and app messages.","Crime-alert dissemination is layered and gated: campus channels first, electronic bulletin-board posters second, and social media only through the Public Information Officer depending on the crime.","Emergency reporting follows the military day, the Office of the Commandant during business hours and the Chief of Campus Safety and Security after hours, with direct phone numbers published.","As a state institution, MMI is fully Clery-covered, unlike the five federal service academies, and publishes a standard Annual Security Report.","No minutes-based timing standard or published test calendar surfaced in the reviewed material; both are recorded as unconfirmed."],"sources":[{"title":"Marion Military Institute Annual Security Report 2022","url":"https://marionmilitary.edu/core/uploads/2022/09/MMI-ASR-2022_Final.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Marion Military Institute, Campus Safety and Security","url":"https://marionmilitary.edu/cadets/campus-safety-security/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Marion Military Institute, Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (CY2020)","url":"https://marionmilitary.edu/core/uploads/2021/09/2021-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Report-CY2020.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Community College Review, Marion Military Institute profile","url":"https://www.communitycollegereview.com/marion-military-institute-profile","type":"reference"},{"title":"Wikipedia, Marion Military Institute","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Military_Institute","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","regroup","military","alabama","military-junior-college","corps-of-cadets"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-23","lastUpdated":"2026-08-23","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"marquette-university-alert-policy","slug":"marquette-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Marquette University","shortName":"Marquette","state":"WI","type":"private-r2","alertSystemName":"Marquette Safety Alerts","enrollment":11500},"policy":{"title":"Alert Notifications","systemName":"Marquette Safety Alerts","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.marquette.edu/university-safety/alerts/notifications.php"},"summary":"Marquette University's [Alert Notifications](https://www.marquette.edu/university-safety/alerts/notifications.php) page, maintained by University Safety and the [Marquette University Police Department](https://www.marquette.edu/mupd/safety-alerts.php) (MUPD), sets out the criteria for its text-and-email safety alert system and distinguishes those alerts from the Clery Act timely-warning process.","analysis":"Marquette draws a narrow trigger for its text-message safety alerts on its [Alert Notifications page](https://www.marquette.edu/university-safety/alerts/notifications.php): a safety alert text message is only sent if there is an active threat to campus or if there is a significant police presence, with the university noting that occasionally an alert may be sent if there is a building or weather-related issue. That is a comparatively tight threshold relative to some peer institutions, most alerts are reserved for active threats or a visible police response rather than every reportable Clery crime.\n\nEnrollment in the text system is opt-out rather than opt-in for the core community: all students, faculty and staff are automatically opted in to the text messaging system as long as their mobile phone numbers are up-to-date and labeled as a mobile number in CheckMarq for students or in MyJob for faculty and staff. Reach is extended beyond the enrolled community through the EagleEye app, which hosts Marquette safety resources and can be downloaded by anyone, including parents and neighbors, and through a separate family/parent text-alert enrollment pathway that Marquette periodically reopens.\n\nMarquette's timely-warning process runs through the same MUPD alert mechanism rather than a separate document: the department must submit a timely warning of crimes that represent a threat to student or employee safety, which is accomplished through MUPD safety alerts. As an investigation develops, MUPD follows up with additional detail, when MUPD gathers more information through its investigation, an email is sent that includes suspect and vehicle descriptions, if applicable, explicitly framed as helping community members avoid an area and watch for a matching description. This positions the first text alert as the fast, minimal-detail notification and the follow-up email as the fuller, investigation-informed timely warning, an operational split between initial alert and Clery-compliant follow-up that is common at urban campuses, and is further described on the [MUPD Safety Alerts page](https://www.marquette.edu/mupd/safety-alerts.php).","whenCriteria":"A safety alert text message is only sent if there is an active threat to campus or if there is a significant police presence; occasionally an alert may be sent if there is a building or weather-related issue.","decisionAuthority":"The Marquette University Police Department (MUPD) determines when a safety alert or timely warning is warranted and submits it through the MUPD safety-alert mechanism.","timingStandard":"A specific minutes-based timeliness standard was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed; the timely-warning obligation is carried out through the same MUPD safety-alert text/email mechanism used for active-threat notifications.","cleryFraming":"MUPD's duty to submit a timely warning of crimes representing a threat to student or employee safety is accomplished through the same safety-alert channel used for active-threat notifications, with a follow-up email adding suspect and vehicle description detail as an investigation develops.","testingCadence":"A specific testing cadence was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Automatic text enrollment depends on a mobile number correctly labeled in CheckMarq (students) or MyJob (faculty/staff); reach beyond the core community is extended via the EagleEye app (downloadable by anyone, including parents and neighbors) and a separate family/parent text-alert signup.","channels":["sms","email","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Trigger for a safety alert text","quotedText":"A safety alert text message is only sent if there is an active threat to campus or if there is a significant police presence.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.marquette.edu/university-safety/alerts/notifications.php","sourceDescription":"Alert Notifications, University Safety, Marquette University","annotations":["States the core trigger threshold: active threat or significant police presence, a narrower bar than every reportable Clery crime."],"characterCount":125},{"label":"Additional discretionary triggers","quotedText":"Occasionally an alert may be sent if there is a building or weather-related issue.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.marquette.edu/university-safety/alerts/notifications.php","sourceDescription":"Alert Notifications, University Safety, Marquette University","annotations":["Acknowledges non-crime triggers (building or weather issues) as a discretionary, occasional extension of the alert criteria."],"characterCount":82},{"label":"Automatic enrollment mechanics","quotedText":"All students, faculty and staff are automatically opted in to the text messaging system as long as their mobile phone numbers are up-to-date and labeled as a mobile number in CheckMarq for students or in MyJob for faculty and staff.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.marquette.edu/university-safety/alerts/notifications.php","sourceDescription":"Alert Notifications, University Safety, Marquette University","annotations":["Confirms opt-out (auto-enrolled) design tied to the CheckMarq (students) and MyJob (faculty/staff) systems of record."],"characterCount":232},{"label":"Timely warning via MUPD safety alert","quotedText":"The department must submit a timely warning of crimes that represent a threat to student or employee safety, which is accomplished through MUPD safety alerts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.marquette.edu/mupd/safety-alerts.php","sourceDescription":"MUPD Safety Alerts, Marquette University Police Department","annotations":["Ties the Clery timely-warning obligation to the same safety-alert channel used for active-threat notifications, rather than a separate mechanism."],"characterCount":158}],"keyFindings":["Marquette's text-message safety alerts are reserved for an active threat to campus or a significant police presence, with occasional building- or weather-related exceptions.","Students, faculty, and staff are automatically opted into the text system based on a mobile number correctly labeled in CheckMarq or MyJob, an opt-out rather than opt-in design.","The Clery Act timely-warning obligation is carried out through the same MUPD safety-alert mechanism used for active-threat texts, not a separate notification channel.","Follow-up emails add suspect and vehicle description detail as MUPD's investigation develops, explicitly to help the community avoid an area and watch for a matching description.","Reach extends beyond the core campus community through the EagleEye app (open to parents and neighbors) and a periodically reopened family/parent text-alert enrollment."],"sources":[{"title":"Alert Notifications, University Safety, Marquette University","url":"https://www.marquette.edu/university-safety/alerts/notifications.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"MUPD Safety Alerts, Marquette University Police Department","url":"https://www.marquette.edu/mupd/safety-alerts.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Family Safety Alert Text Signup, Marquette University","url":"https://www.marquette.edu/family-safety-texts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Common campus safety questions answered, Marquette Today","url":"https://today.marquette.edu/2022/04/common-safety-questions-answered/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","mupd","private-r2","wisconsin","milwaukee"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"marshall-university-mu-alert-policy","slug":"marshall-university-mu-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Marshall University","shortName":"Marshall","state":"WV","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"MU Alert","enrollment":13239},"policy":{"title":"MU Alert Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Policy","systemName":"MU Alert (Marshall University Emergency Messaging System)","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.marshall.edu/emergency/mualert/","lastReviewed":"2025-01-01"},"summary":"Marshall University communicates emergencies through [MU Alert](https://www.marshall.edu/emergency/mualert/), its Emergency Messaging System that delivers health- and safety-related notifications by phone call, text and email, and issues separate Clery [Timely Warnings](https://www.marshall.edu/emergency/mualert/timely-warnings/) — usually titled 'Advisories' or 'Community Advisories' — when a Clery-reportable crime poses an ongoing threat within Marshall's reporting geography.","analysis":"Marshall University is a public R2 ('Research 2: High Spending and Doctorate Production') institution in Huntington, West Virginia that [maintained its Carnegie Research 2 ranking in 2025](https://www.marshall.edu/news/2025/02/marshall-university-maintains-carnegie-research-2-ranking/) and enrolls roughly 13,200 students. Its emergency-notification function is delivered through [MU Alert](https://www.marshall.edu/emergency/mualert/), which Marshall describes as the 'Marshall University Emergency Messaging System' — 'one of several elements of the Marshall University Emergency Notification System that allows Marshall University to quickly communicate health and safety-related emergency information through a combination of various methods,' delivered 'via phone calls, text messages to mobile devices and e-mail.' The 'MU Alert' brand named in the prompt is confirmed as Marshall's official system name.\n\nThe system is access-controlled rather than fully automatic: per the [MU Alert FAQ](https://www.marshall.edu/emergency/mualert/faqs/), 'only current MU students, faculty, staff, and affiliates may participate' and enrollees update their contact information through the myMU portal. Marshall scopes the messaging tightly — notifications are 'limited to those concerning urgent health and safety concerns for Marshall University students, faculty or staff; or disruption of normal university functions due to weather, crime or other concerns' — distinguishing genuine emergency notifications from routine operational messaging.\n\nMarshall's [Timely Warning policy](https://www.marshall.edu/emergency/mualert/timely-warnings/) is unusually explicit about the Clery mechanics. Timely warnings (which Marshall 'usually' titles 'Advisories' or 'Community Advisories') are issued 'when a situation occurs within Marshall's Clery reporting geographical areas,' and the policy enumerates the UCR/NIBRS classifications that typically trigger one: 'major incidents of arson, aggravated assault, and murder/non-negligent manslaughter, robbery and sex offenses,' with aggravated assault and sex offenses evaluated case-by-case for ongoing threat. The decision authority is named: 'The chief of police or designee reviews all reports to determine if there is an on-going threat to the community and if the distribution of a Timely Warning Notice is warranted.' Drafting and distribution, however, sit with a separate office — 'Timely Warning Notices are typically written and distributed by staff in the Office of University Communications and are distributed to the Marshall University community via blast e-mail' — and the warnings are written to withhold victim names and to aid in preventing similar crimes.\n\nMarshall publishes the underlying policy in its [Annual Security Report](https://www.marshall.edu/disclosures/securityreport/) and runs a documented periodic test cadence; the director of public safety has stated the MU Alert test is 'a routine test of the system, as we do at least once per semester,' a cadence corroborated by Marshall's [event calendar entries for MU Alert Tests](https://events.marshall.edu/event/mu-alert) and outside coverage of a [spring-semester MU Alert test](https://wvexecutive.com/marshall-conducts-spring-semester-test-of-mu-alert-emergency-messaging-system/). Because marshall.edu hosts return HTTP 403 to automated fetching, excerpts here were captured from indexed search snippets; passages corroborated across multiple official-page retrievals are marked verbatim-confirmed, while single-source passages are flagged isVerbatimConfirmed:false.","whenCriteria":"MU Alert emergency notifications are limited to urgent health and safety concerns for Marshall students, faculty or staff, or to disruption of normal university functions due to weather, crime or other concerns. Timely Warnings ('Advisories'/'Community Advisories') are issued when a Clery-reportable crime occurs within Marshall's Clery reporting geography and the chief of police or designee determines there is an ongoing threat; typical triggers are major arson, aggravated assault, murder/non-negligent manslaughter, robbery and sex offenses (assault and sex offenses case-by-case).","decisionAuthority":"For Timely Warnings, the chief of police or designee reviews all reports to determine whether an ongoing threat exists and whether a warning is warranted; Timely Warning Notices are then typically written and distributed by staff in the Office of University Communications. (The emergency-notification function is administered through the Marshall University Emergency Notification System / Department of Public Safety.)","timingStandard":"Timely Warning Notices are issued in a manner that is timely, that withholds victim names, and that aids in preventing future similar crimes; MU Alert emergency notifications are intended to 'quickly communicate' urgent health and safety information. A specific minute-level timing standard was not published.","cleryFraming":"Marshall frames MU Alert and its Advisories within Clery: emergency notifications cover urgent health/safety threats, while Timely Warnings ('Advisories'/'Community Advisories') cover Clery-reportable crimes posing an ongoing threat within Clery reporting geography, using UCR/NIBRS crime classifications. The policy appears in Marshall's Annual Security Report.","testingCadence":"Marshall conducts MU Alert tests at least once per semester per the director of public safety, with fall and spring tests documented on the university events calendar.","scopeLimits":"Participation is limited to current MU students, faculty, staff and affiliates, who maintain contact information through the myMU portal; reach therefore depends on enrollees keeping that information current. MU Alert is scoped to urgent health/safety or major operational disruptions rather than routine messaging. Timely Warnings are distributed via blast e-mail and withhold victim names.","channels":["phone-call","sms","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"MU Alert system definition and channels","quotedText":"The Marshall University Emergency Messaging System (MU Alert) is one of several elements of the Marshall University Emergency Notification System that allows Marshall University to quickly communicate health and safety-related emergency information through a combination of various methods. These emergency notices can be delivered via phone calls, text messages to mobile devices and e-mail.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.marshall.edu/emergency/mualert/","sourceDescription":"Marshall University — MU Alert page","annotations":["Confirms the official brand 'MU Alert' as the Emergency Messaging System and its phone/text/email channels. Identical wording surfaced across multiple official MU Alert-page retrievals."],"characterCount":392},{"label":"Timely Warning scope and crime classifications","quotedText":"Timely Warning Notices are typically issued for the following Uniformed Crime Reporting Program (UCR)/National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) crime classifications: major incidents of arson, aggravated assault, and murder/non-negligent manslaughter, robbery and sex offenses.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.marshall.edu/emergency/mualert/timely-warnings/","sourceDescription":"Marshall University — Timely Warnings page","annotations":["Enumerates the specific UCR/NIBRS classifications that typically trigger a Timely Warning — a more explicit list than most peer policies. Corroborated across multiple retrievals of the Timely Warnings page."],"characterCount":284},{"label":"Timely Warning decision authority (chief of police)","quotedText":"The chief of police or designee reviews all reports to determine if there is an on-going threat to the community and if the distribution of a Timely Warning Notice is warranted.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.marshall.edu/emergency/mualert/timely-warnings/","sourceDescription":"Marshall University — Timely Warnings page","annotations":["Names the chief of police (or designee) as the ongoing-threat decision-maker. Corroborated across multiple retrievals of the Timely Warnings page."],"characterCount":177},{"label":"Timely Warning drafting and distribution","quotedText":"Timely Warning Notices are typically written and distributed by staff in the Office of University Communications and are distributed to the Marshall University community via blast e-mail.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.marshall.edu/emergency/mualert/timely-warnings/","sourceDescription":"Marshall University — Timely Warnings page","annotations":["Separates the threat-determination role (police) from the drafting/distribution role (University Communications). Corroborated across multiple retrievals of the Timely Warnings page."],"characterCount":187},{"label":"Emergency notification scope limits","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.marshall.edu/emergency/mualert/faqs/","sourceDescription":"Marshall University — MU Alert FAQ (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Eligibility / enrollment limits","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.marshall.edu/emergency/mualert/faqs/","sourceDescription":"Marshall University — MU Alert FAQ (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Marshall's official emergency-notification brand is MU Alert (the 'Marshall University Emergency Messaging System'), delivering by phone, text and email — the prompt's 'MU Alert' guess is confirmed.","Emergency notifications are scoped to urgent health/safety concerns or major disruptions of normal university functions, not routine messaging.","Timely Warnings are usually titled 'Advisories'/'Community Advisories' and enumerate specific UCR/NIBRS triggers (major arson, aggravated assault, murder/non-negligent manslaughter, robbery, sex offenses).","Roles are split: the chief of police (or designee) decides whether an ongoing threat warrants a warning; the Office of University Communications typically writes and distributes it via blast e-mail.","MU Alert is tested at least once per semester per Marshall's director of public safety, with fall/spring tests on the events calendar.","marshall.edu hosts returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching; four most-corroborated excerpts are marked verbatim, two single-source excerpts are flagged isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"sources":[{"title":"Marshall University — MU Alert","url":"https://www.marshall.edu/emergency/mualert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Marshall University — Timely Warnings","url":"https://www.marshall.edu/emergency/mualert/timely-warnings/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Marshall University — MU Alert Frequently Asked Questions","url":"https://www.marshall.edu/emergency/mualert/faqs/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Marshall University — Annual Security Report (Consumer Information and Disclosures)","url":"https://www.marshall.edu/disclosures/securityreport/","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Marshall University — MU Alert Test (events calendar)","url":"https://events.marshall.edu/event/mu-alert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"West Virginia Executive — Marshall Conducts Spring Semester Test of MU Alert","url":"https://wvexecutive.com/marshall-conducts-spring-semester-test-of-mu-alert-emergency-messaging-system/","type":"local-media"},{"title":"Marshall University maintains Carnegie Research 2 ranking (2025)","url":"https://www.marshall.edu/news/2025/02/marshall-university-maintains-carnegie-research-2-ranking/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","public-r2","west-virginia","mu-alert","clery"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"martin-community-college-timely-warning-alert-policy","slug":"martin-community-college-timely-warning-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Martin Community College","shortName":"Martin CC","state":"NC","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"MCC telephone alert / intercom","enrollment":1200},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning and Emergency Notification (ASR)","systemName":"MCC telephone alert system","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"http://www.martincc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/annualcrimereport2025.pdf","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Martin Community College's [2025 Annual Crime Report](http://www.martincc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/annualcrimereport2025.pdf) assigns without-delay notification content and system initiation to MCC Administrative Services (or designee) and lists a local multi-channel stack including the college telephone alert system, campus intercom, two-way radios, email, bulletin boards, and martincc.edu notices.","analysis":"Martin Community College is a small public community college in Williamston, North Carolina. Its [2025 ASR](http://www.martincc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/annualcrimereport2025.pdf) is institution-specific in naming MCC Administrative Services as the without-delay decision and activation authority and in listing a dense local channel stack (telephone alert, intercom, two-way radios, word of mouth, campus-wide and student email, electronic bulletin boards, flyers/posters, website).\n\nThat combination of a named campus office and multi-modal delivery is what this record captures beyond generic Clery continuing-threat language.","whenCriteria":"Timely warnings or campus alerts for ongoing or continuing threats to students, faculty, staff, and visitors; campus warnings also for imminent or ongoing threats to safety, security, or health.","decisionAuthority":"MCC Administrative Services or designee determines notification content and initiates the notification system without delay, subject to professional-judgment delay when notice would compromise victim assistance or mitigation.","timingStandard":"Without delay, taking into account campus community safety, unless responsible authorities judge that notification would compromise victim assistance or emergency response.","cleryFraming":"ASR Timely Warning section frames ongoing/continuing threat alerts alongside emergency response and evacuation procedures.","scopeLimits":"Includes nature of the threat and other appropriate information; report path to college officials for anyone with warranting information.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the Timely Warning section reviewed; Emergency Response Quick Reference Guide posted in offices and classrooms.","channels":["phone-call","email","pa-system","website","digital-signage","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Local multi-channel dissemination stack","quotedText":"MCC makes timely warnings or campus alerts to the college community in the event any situation arises that is considered to be an ongoing or continuing threat to students, faculty, staff, and visitors. Warnings or alerts will be disseminated as appropriate through the college telephone alert system, the campus intercom system, two way radios, word of mouth from college officials, the campus-wide email system; student email system, electronic bulletin boards, flyers or posters, and notices posted on the college website at https://www.martincc.edu/.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"http://www.martincc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/annualcrimereport2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Martin CC 2025 ASR Timely Warning section","annotations":["Names telephone alert, intercom, radios, email, boards, website."],"characterCount":553},{"label":"MCC Administrative Services without-delay authority","quotedText":"MCC Administrative Services or designee will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the campus community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system, unless the notification will, in the professional judgment of the responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist victims or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"http://www.martincc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/annualcrimereport2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Martin CC 2025 ASR","annotations":["Named campus office as decision and activation authority."],"characterCount":392},{"label":"Imminent/ongoing threat content expectation","quotedText":"Campus warnings or alerts will notify the college community of an imminent or ongoing threat to safety, security or health and will include the nature of the threat and other appropriate information. Anyone with information warranting a timely warning should report the circumstances to college officials.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"http://www.martincc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/annualcrimereport2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Martin CC 2025 ASR","annotations":["Local content and reporting expectation."],"characterCount":305}],"keyFindings":["MCC Administrative Services or designee initiates notifications without delay.","Channel stack includes telephone alert, intercom, two-way radios, email, boards, and website.","Alerts cover ongoing/continuing and imminent safety/security/health threats."],"sources":[{"title":"Annual Crime Report 2025 - Martin Community College","url":"http://www.martincc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/annualcrimereport2025.pdf","type":"clery-asr","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","timely-warning","emergency-notification","community-college","north-carolina"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"marymount-university-2025-asr-alert-policy","slug":"marymount-university-2025-asr-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Marymount University","shortName":"Marymount","state":"VA","type":"private-masters","alertSystemName":"MU Alerts"},"policy":{"title":"2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - Emergency Notifications and Timely Warning Notices","systemName":"MU Alerts","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://marymount.edu/student-life/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/09/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-2025-compressed-2-1.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Marymount University's [2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://marymount.edu/student-life/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/09/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-2025-compressed-2-1.pdf) authorizes the Campus Safety Officer in Charge to issue emergency notifications under the Emergency Communication Plan, requires without-delay initiation of the notification system with the federal mitigation exception, and uses MU Alerts to carry timely-warning content that helps the community protect itself and prevent similar crimes.","analysis":"Marymount (Arlington private-masters, six filed cases, no prior policy file) posts a live [2025 ASR PDF](https://marymount.edu/student-life/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/09/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-2025-compressed-2-1.pdf) (HTTP 200, text layer). The Campus Safety Officer in Charge or other designated official authorizes the emergency notification based on the Emergency Communication Plan. The University then, without delay and taking community safety into account, determines content and initiates the system unless issuance would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. MU Alerts issued by Campus Safety carry information to enable self-protection and aid prevention of similar crimes. The public MU Alerts HTML page returned 403 in this pass, so consumer-channel sentences from that page are not quoted. Every excerpt was character-checked against the PDF text layer.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notifications follow the Emergency Communication Plan when authorized by the Campus Safety Officer in Charge. MU Alerts timely-warning content covers reported crime, location, dates, suspect description if applicable, reporting options, and safety tips.","decisionAuthority":"Campus Safety Officer in Charge or other designated official authorizes emergency notifications. MU Alerts are issued by the Office of Campus Safety.","timingStandard":"Without delay, taking into account the safety of the community, unless issuance would compromise victim assistance or mitigation.","cleryFraming":"The ASR pairs emergency notifications and timely warning notices in one chapter. MU Alerts carry the timely-warning prevention content.","channels":["sms","email","push-notification","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Who authorizes an emergency notification","quotedText":"The Campus Safety Officer in Charge or other designated official will authorize the emergency notification based on the operational guidelines in the Emergency Communication Plan.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://marymount.edu/student-life/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/09/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-2025-compressed-2-1.pdf","sourceDescription":"Marymount University 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Names the Officer in Charge and the Emergency Communication Plan."],"characterCount":179},{"label":"Without-delay initiation","quotedText":"In addition, the University will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system, unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://marymount.edu/student-life/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/09/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-2025-compressed-2-1.pdf","sourceDescription":"Marymount University 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Federal without-delay template with mitigation exception."],"characterCount":374},{"label":"MU Alerts timely-warning content","quotedText":"MU Alerts issued by the Office of Campus Safety will contain information to enable members of the campus community to protect themselves, as well as providing information that would aid in the prevention of similar crimes.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://marymount.edu/student-life/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/09/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-2025-compressed-2-1.pdf","sourceDescription":"Marymount University 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Prevention-content duty on MU Alerts."],"characterCount":222}],"keyFindings":["The Campus Safety Officer in Charge authorizes emergency notifications under the Emergency Communication Plan.","Initiation is without delay unless it would compromise victim assistance or mitigation.","MU Alerts carry timely-warning self-protection and prevention content."],"sources":[{"title":"Marymount University 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://marymount.edu/student-life/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/09/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-2025-compressed-2-1.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","virginia","private-masters"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"massachusetts-college-of-liberal-arts-alert-policy","slug":"massachusetts-college-of-liberal-arts-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts","shortName":"MCLA","state":"MA","type":"public-bachelors","alertSystemName":"MCLA Emergency Alert","alertPlatform":"Rave","enrollment":1800},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification","systemName":"MCLA Emergency Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.mcla.edu/administration/public-safety/emergency-notification.php"},"summary":"Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts uses the [Rave emergency notification system](https://www.mcla.edu/administration/public-safety/emergency-notification.php), branded RAVE Guardian, to distribute emergency notifications and timely warnings, decided jointly by the [Department of Public Safety Campus Police and MCLA administration](https://www.mcla.edu/administration/public-safety/emergency-notification.php) when an extraordinary event poses a potential, ongoing or continuing threat; cell phone voice and text delivery depends on contact information kept current in the [MCLA Banner Self Service website](https://techhelp.mcla.edu/index.php/Sign_up_for_MCLA_emergency_notifications), and MCLA's [Department of Public Safety publishes an annual Clery Act report](https://www.mcla.edu/administration/public-safety/clery-report.php).","analysis":"MCLA's [Emergency Notification page](https://www.mcla.edu/administration/public-safety/emergency-notification.php) states that the College currently uses the RAVE emergency notification system to provide information and instructions to College community members in the event of an emergency or urgent situation requiring timely notification, and that MCLA has bolstered its internal and external emergency communication capabilities with RAVE Guardian, emergency notification technology that enables the rapid and seamless distribution of information. Decision authority is shared rather than resting with a single named individual: the Department of Public Safety, Campus Police, in conjunction with the MCLA administration, makes every effort to ensure emergency notifications or timely warnings regarding any extraordinary event(s) that may pose a potential, ongoing or continuing threat to campus community members or its property are distributed when deemed appropriate and necessary.\n\nMCLA's published notification-methods list is unusually granular, spanning telephone and cell phone voice calls, cell phone text messages, voice-mail messages, telephone intercom paging, email announcements, campus websites, community postings, local media sources, and direct notification through staff, a mix that combines the Rave-powered digital channels with older intercom-paging and in-person staff notification, useful on a small (roughly 1,800-student), geographically compact North Adams campus. The College is explicit about a registration dependency: only community members with updated cell phone and carrier information entered into the [MCLA Banner Self Service Website](https://techhelp.mcla.edu/index.php/Sign_up_for_MCLA_emergency_notifications) can be contacted via cell phone voice or text messages, tying digital-channel reach to the same student-information system used for registration and grades rather than a separate opt-in alert portal.\n\nMCLA's [Department of Public Safety, Campus Police](https://www.mcla.edu/administration/public-safety/) prepares and distributes an annual report to comply with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act, publicly posted through the College's [Clery Report page](https://www.mcla.edu/administration/public-safety/clery-report.php).\n\nBecause mcla.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were reconstructed from official MCLA Public Safety page text as reproduced in search-engine indexing and corroborated across multiple independent queries, and are marked accordingly.","whenCriteria":"MCLA issues emergency notifications or timely warnings for any extraordinary event(s) that may pose a potential, ongoing or continuing threat to campus community members or its property, when deemed appropriate and necessary by Public Safety in conjunction with administration.","decisionAuthority":"The Department of Public Safety, Campus Police, in conjunction with the MCLA administration, jointly determines when an emergency notification or timely warning should be distributed; no single named individual approval authority was identified in the public sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"A specific minutes-based timeliness standard was not found in the public sources reviewed; the policy frames notification as tied to a judgment of 'appropriate and necessary' response to an ongoing or continuing threat.","cleryFraming":"MCLA pairs 'emergency notifications' and 'timely warnings' together as outcomes of the same extraordinary-event threat assessment, and its Department of Public Safety separately prepares and distributes an annual Clery Act report.","testingCadence":"A published MCLA-specific Rave testing cadence was not found in the public sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Cell phone voice and text delivery is limited to community members who have entered updated cell phone and carrier information into the MCLA Banner Self Service Website; other channels (intercom paging, campus website, community postings, local media, direct staff notification) extend reach beyond that registered population.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","pa-system","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Rave / RAVE Guardian system description","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mcla.edu/administration/public-safety/emergency-notification.php","sourceDescription":"MCLA Emergency Notification page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Joint Public Safety / administration decision authority","quotedText":"The Department of Public Safety - Campus Police, in conjunction with the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts administration, makes every effort to ensure emergency notifications or timely warnings regarding any extraordinary event(s) that may pose a potential, ongoing or continuing threat to campus community members or its property, are distributed to the same when deemed appropriate and necessary.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mcla.edu/administration/public-safety/emergency-notification.php","sourceDescription":"MCLA Emergency Notification page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Establishes shared decision authority between Campus Police and College administration rather than a single named issuing official, and pairs emergency notifications with timely warnings in the same sentence."],"characterCount":403},{"label":"Notification methods","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mcla.edu/administration/public-safety/emergency-notification.php","sourceDescription":"MCLA Emergency Notification page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Registration dependency for cell delivery","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mcla.edu/administration/public-safety/emergency-notification.php","sourceDescription":"MCLA Emergency Notification page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["MCLA uses the Rave platform, branded RAVE Guardian, for emergency notification, described as enabling rapid, seamless distribution of information.","Decision authority is shared between the Department of Public Safety Campus Police and MCLA administration rather than resting with one named official; the policy pairs 'emergency notifications' and 'timely warnings' as joint outcomes of the same threat assessment.","MCLA's published notification-methods list spans nine channels, from Rave-powered cell voice/text/email to older intercom paging and direct staff notification.","Cell phone voice and text delivery works only for community members who keep current cell/carrier information in the MCLA Banner Self Service Website; MCLA's Department of Public Safety separately publishes an annual Clery Act report."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notification, MCLA Department of Public Safety","url":"https://www.mcla.edu/administration/public-safety/emergency-notification.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Sign up for MCLA emergency notifications, TechHelp@MCLA","url":"https://techhelp.mcla.edu/index.php/Sign_up_for_MCLA_emergency_notifications","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Report, MCLA Department of Public Safety","url":"https://www.mcla.edu/administration/public-safety/clery-report.php","type":"clery-asr"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["mcla-bomb-threat-ferriter-2014-10-06"],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","public-bachelors","mcla","rave","massachusetts"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"massachusetts-college-of-liberal-arts-critical-incident-notification-policy","slug":"massachusetts-college-of-liberal-arts-critical-incident-notification-policy","institution":{"name":"Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts","shortName":"MCLA","state":"MA","type":"public-bachelors","alertSystemName":"MCLA Critical Incident Notification System","enrollment":1200},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warnings and Critical Incident Notification (ASR)","systemName":"MCLA Critical Incident Notification System","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.mcla.edu/_pdfs/administration/public-safety/fire-safety-clery.pdf","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts' [Annual Security Report](https://www.mcla.edu/_pdfs/administration/public-safety/fire-safety-clery.pdf) brands a Critical Incident Notification System for immediate-threat messaging, names an Incident Commander (Director of Public Safety or designee) and an explicit multi-role activation authorization list (President through on-duty Campus Police supervisor), and documents semester testing with campus email announcements.","analysis":"MCLA is a public bachelor's college in North Adams, Massachusetts. Its [Annual Security Report](https://www.mcla.edu/_pdfs/administration/public-safety/fire-safety-clery.pdf) is institution-specific: Timely Warnings typically issue from Department of Public Safety – Campus Police (24/7) with multi-channel delivery including a named Safety Alert web page. Critical Incident Notifications use a multi-method system stating type, date/time/location, and protective actions (evacuate, shelter in place, lockdown, stay away, run/hide/fight). Responding officers contact the Incident Commander (Director of Public Safety or designee), who establishes an Incident Command Post and activates the Critical Incident Response Team. Staff authorized to activate the notification system include President/VP or designee, Cabinet members, Director of Public Safety/Incident Commander, CIRT members, and the on-duty Campus Police Supervisor or Officer In-Charge. Campus-wide authorization comes from the highest listed level practical; immediate life-safety notifications may issue without delay without prior highest-level authorization. Testing is semester-based, generally announced via campus email.","whenCriteria":"Timely warnings for certain crimes that may pose an ongoing threat to the campus community or its property when deemed appropriate and necessary. Critical incident notifications for significant critical incident or other dangerous situation on campus involving immediate threat to health or safety of community members.","decisionAuthority":"Timely warnings typically from Department of Public Safety – Campus Police in conjunction with MCLA administration. Critical incident response: Incident Commander is Director of Public Safety or designee. Authorization to activate Critical Incident Notification System: President, Vice President or designee; Cabinet Members; Director of Public Safety, Incident Commander or designee; Critical Incident Response Team Members; On-Duty Campus Police Supervisor or Officer In-Charge. Campus-wide authorization from highest listed level practical.","timingStandard":"Notifications involving immediate life safety issues may be sent without delay and without prior authorization from the highest level. Emergency responders only delay if professional judgment finds compromise of victim assistance or mitigation. Testing completed on a semester basis (more extensively as needed), generally announced via campus email.","cleryFraming":"ASR separates Timely Warnings (ongoing threat crimes) from Critical Incident Response and Notification (immediate threat system with protective-action content).","scopeLimits":"Critical incident messages state type, date, time, location, protective actions, and where to get additional information. Safety Alert page at mcla.edu public-safety/alerts.php is a named distribution surface. Local partners include North Adams Police and Fire and Massachusetts State Police.","testingCadence":"Semester-basis testing of Critical Incident Response Plan and Critical Incident Notification Procedures by CIRT and Campus Police; generally announced via campus email based on population and geographic areas tested.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Campus Police Timely Warning role and multi-channel delivery","quotedText":"Timely warnings will typically come from the Department of Public Safety – Campus Police, as this department serves as the 24-hour, seven days a week operation on campus where reports of public safety related information are made. The department also has direct contacts with the North Adams Police and Fire Departments, as well as the Massachusetts State Police, in the event reports involving the safety of the campus community are made to them.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mcla.edu/_pdfs/administration/public-safety/fire-safety-clery.pdf","sourceDescription":"MCLA ASR Timely Warnings","annotations":["Named 24/7 Campus Police TW source and local LE partners."],"characterCount":447},{"label":"Safety Alert page among TW channels","quotedText":"Students, faculty, and staff will be contacted regarding such timely warning(s) through a variety of different methods. These may include telephone calls, cell phone calls, voice-mail messages, text messages, e-mail announcements, community postings, local media sources such as television and radio, direct notification through staff, and website notifications, such as the one that can be found on the MCLA Department of Public Safety – Campus Police Safety Alert page at: https://www.mcla.edu/administration/public-safety/alerts.php .","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mcla.edu/_pdfs/administration/public-safety/fire-safety-clery.pdf","sourceDescription":"MCLA ASR Timely Warning channels","annotations":["Named Safety Alert page URL - institution-specific."],"characterCount":537},{"label":"Incident Commander is Director of Public Safety","quotedText":"As soon as practical, the responding officer(s) will contact the Incident Commander, who is the Director of Public Safety or their designee. The Incident Commander will then establish an Incident Command Post, activate the MCLA Critical Incident Response Team, gather information, and disseminate orders to ensure every action for the protection of life and property, alleviation of human suffering and hardship, and maintenance or restoration of essential facilities and services is taken.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mcla.edu/_pdfs/administration/public-safety/fire-safety-clery.pdf","sourceDescription":"MCLA ASR Critical Incident Response","annotations":["Local Incident Commander title tied to Director of Public Safety."],"characterCount":490},{"label":"Named multi-role Critical Incident Notification activators","quotedText":"The following MCLA staff has authorization to activate the Critical Incident Notification System:  President, Vice President or designee  Cabinet Members  Director of Public Safety, Incident Commander or designee  Critical Incident Response Team Members  On-Duty Campus Police Supervisor or Officer In-Charge","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mcla.edu/_pdfs/administration/public-safety/fire-safety-clery.pdf","sourceDescription":"MCLA ASR notification activation authorization","annotations":["Explicit multi-role activation list including on-duty OIC."],"characterCount":313},{"label":"Without-delay life-safety exception and semester testing","quotedText":"Notifications involving immediate life safety issues may be sent without delay and without prior authorization from the highest level. Testing is completed on a semester basis and more extensively as determined necessary by the above campus entities. All tests are generally announced to the campus community based on the population and geographic areas to be tested via the campus email system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mcla.edu/_pdfs/administration/public-safety/fire-safety-clery.pdf","sourceDescription":"MCLA ASR timing and testing","annotations":["Local without-delay life-safety rule and semester test cadence."],"characterCount":395}],"keyFindings":["Critical Incident Notification System is the branded immediate-threat platform.","Incident Commander is the Director of Public Safety or designee.","Activation authority spans President through on-duty Campus Police OIC.","Semester testing is announced via campus email."],"sources":[{"title":"Annual Security Report - Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts","url":"https://www.mcla.edu/_pdfs/administration/public-safety/fire-safety-clery.pdf","type":"clery-asr","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","public-bachelors","timely-warning","emergency-notification","massachusetts","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"mit-alert-policy","slug":"mit-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Massachusetts Institute of Technology","shortName":"MIT","state":"MA","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"MIT Alert","enrollment":11886},"policy":{"title":"MIT Alert Emergency Notification Program","systemName":"MIT Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://prepared.mit.edu/mit-alert/"},"summary":"[MIT Alert](https://prepared.mit.edu/mit-alert/) is MIT's comprehensive emergency notification program, administered by [MIT Emergency Management](https://prepared.mit.edu/) and the [MIT Police](https://police.mit.edu/), that sends electronic notifications to the MIT community when an emergency threatens life safety or campus operations; MIT Police separately issue Clery Act [Timely Warnings](https://police.mit.edu/timely-warnings) for crimes posing a serious or continuing threat.","analysis":"MIT operates a two-track Clery framework. The emergency-notification track is [MIT Alert](https://prepared.mit.edu/mit-alert/), which MIT describes as \"the Institute's comprehensive emergency notification program that sends electronic notifications to the MIT community in the event of an emergency that may cause a threat to the life safety or negatively affect Institute operations.\" The activation criterion is explicit: upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation that may cause an immediate threat to the life safety of the MIT community OR a major disruption to campus operations, MIT Alert messages are disseminated. MIT notes that its process enables emergency-notification messages to be sent within minutes of learning about and confirming such an emergency, and that initial messages are brief and contain only essential information (what is happening, location, and actions to take).\n\nDecision authority is assigned to [MIT Emergency Management and the MIT Police](https://prepared.mit.edu/mit-alert/faqs/), which the FAQs state \"are responsible for and authorized to send MIT Alerts to the MIT community.\" Delivery channels are broad: the system sends electronic messages (text, email, voice) to registered community members and to various static devices (office phones, digital displays), and messages may also appear on the MIT emergency information page (emergency.mit.net), on digital signage across campus, on the MIT homepage, and on the MIT Alert social media accounts (X/Twitter and Facebook). Enrollment is automatic: all current students, employees, and affiliates with active Kerberos accounts are added to the system, with the primary @mit.edu email and the mobile number associated with Duo, and individuals can add additional contacts through the Rave Alert portal; extended-community members can self-register via Smart911.\n\nThe second track is the Clery timely-warning function carried out by the [MIT Police](https://police.mit.edu/timely-warnings). The MIT Police may release email bulletins (Timely Warnings) regarding incidents within the MIT community and the surrounding area, issued in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act for Clery crimes that pose a serious or ongoing threat. MIT Police also maintain a daily crime log and publish timely warnings and notices on the [Notices & Daily Log](https://police.mit.edu/notices-daily-log) page, and the same procedures are documented in MIT's [Annual Security Report](https://police.mit.edu/annual-security-report).\n\nThe broad scope is a defining feature: unlike notification systems reserved strictly for life-safety threats, MIT Alert's stated criteria expressly include a \"major disruption to campus operations,\" so the system covers operational disruptions as well as immediate dangers. Granular published language about a fixed annual testing cadence and the formal 'without delay / compromise efforts' Clery exception is carried in MIT's Annual Security Report rather than the public MIT Alert overview pages; the public pages emphasize the within-minutes operational goal and automatic enrollment instead.","whenCriteria":"Upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation that may cause an immediate threat to the life safety of the MIT community OR a major disruption to campus operations. MIT Police separately issue Timely Warnings for Clery crimes posing a serious or ongoing threat to students and employees.","decisionAuthority":"MIT Emergency Management and the MIT Police are responsible for and authorized to send MIT Alerts to the MIT community.","timingStandard":"MIT's process enables emergency-notification messages to be disseminated within minutes of learning about and confirming an emergency causing a threat to the life safety and health of the MIT community; initial messages are kept brief with essential information only.","cleryFraming":"Two-track Clery framework: MIT Alert serves the Clery emergency-notification function (immediate threat to life safety OR major operational disruption), while MIT Police issue separate Clery Timely Warnings (email bulletins) for Clery crimes representing a serious or ongoing threat.","testingCadence":"MIT tests the alerting system periodically; detailed testing-and-evaluation procedures are documented in MIT's Annual Security Report rather than the public MIT Alert overview pages.","scopeLimits":"Scope is deliberately broad — MIT Alert criteria expressly include 'a major disruption to campus operations' in addition to immediate life-safety threats, so the system covers operational disruptions as well as dangerous situations.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","digital-signage","twitter-x","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"MIT Alert definition","quotedText":"MIT Alert is the Institute's comprehensive emergency notification program that sends electronic notifications to the MIT community in the event of an emergency that may cause a threat to the life safety or negatively affect Institute operations.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://prepared.mit.edu/mit-alert/","sourceDescription":"MIT Alert | MIT Emergency Management","annotations":["Defines the program's scope as covering both threats to life safety and effects on Institute operations."],"characterCount":245},{"label":"Activation criteria","quotedText":"Upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation that may cause an immediate threat to the life safety of the MIT community OR a major disruption to campus operations, MIT Alert messages will be disseminated using some, or all, of these communication methods.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://prepared.mit.edu/mit-alert/","sourceDescription":"MIT Alert | MIT Emergency Management","annotations":["The dual trigger — immediate life-safety threat OR major operational disruption — broadens scope beyond pure life-safety emergencies."],"characterCount":278},{"label":"Decision authority","quotedText":"MIT Emergency Management and MIT Police are responsible for and authorized to send MIT Alerts to the MIT community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://prepared.mit.edu/mit-alert/faqs/","sourceDescription":"MIT Alert FAQs | MIT Emergency Management","annotations":["Assigns authorization to two offices jointly: Emergency Management and the MIT Police."],"characterCount":115},{"label":"Automatic enrollment","quotedText":"All current students, employees, and affiliates with active Kerberos accounts are automatically added to the system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://prepared.mit.edu/mit-alert/faqs/","sourceDescription":"MIT Alert FAQs | MIT Emergency Management","annotations":["Enrollment is keyed to active Kerberos accounts; extended-community members must self-register via Smart911."],"characterCount":116}],"keyFindings":["MIT Alert is triggered by an immediate threat to life safety OR a major disruption to campus operations — a deliberately broad dual criterion.","MIT Emergency Management and MIT Police are jointly responsible for and authorized to send MIT Alerts.","The system delivers via text, email, voice, office phones, digital signage, the emergency website, and X/Facebook, reaching registered members and static campus devices.","Students, employees, and affiliates with active Kerberos accounts are auto-enrolled; extended-community members register through Smart911.","Clery Timely Warnings are a separate MIT Police function — email bulletins for crimes posing a serious or ongoing threat — published with the daily crime log and the Annual Security Report."],"sources":[{"title":"MIT Alert | MIT Emergency Management","url":"https://prepared.mit.edu/mit-alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"MIT Alert FAQs | MIT Emergency Management","url":"https://prepared.mit.edu/mit-alert/faqs/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Crime Alerts & Timely Warnings | MIT Police","url":"https://police.mit.edu/timely-warnings","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Notices & Daily Log | MIT Police","url":"https://police.mit.edu/notices-daily-log","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual Security Report | MIT Police","url":"https://police.mit.edu/annual-security-report","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","massachusetts","private-r1"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"mayville-state-university-alert-policy","slug":"mayville-state-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Mayville State University","shortName":"MSU","state":"ND","type":"public-bachelors","alertSystemName":"Emergency Notification System"},"policy":{"title":"2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://mayvillestate.edu/files/8917/5934/6255/2025_Annual_Security_and_Fire_Safety_Report.pdf"},"summary":"Mayville State University's [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://mayvillestate.edu/files/8917/5934/6255/2025_Annual_Security_and_Fire_Safety_Report.pdf) assigns timely warning duty to the university's Emergency Management Team, which reviews reports made to the Campus Security Office or a campus security authority and issues a warning after determining the incident may pose a serious or ongoing threat, while the school's Emergency Notification System is tested at least once each semester and used to inform the campus community of any perceived or actual threat to health and safety.","analysis":"Mayville State University's [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://mayvillestate.edu/files/8917/5934/6255/2025_Annual_Security_and_Fire_Safety_Report.pdf) names the university's Emergency Management Team as the body responsible for issuing a timely warning about specific Clery Act crimes that have been reported to the Campus Security Office or to a campus security authority member and that occurred within the university's jurisdiction, with information for a timely warning also permitted to come from other law enforcement agencies rather than only from Mayville State's own security office. The report states the timely warning is issued after review and assessment determines that the incident may pose a serious or ongoing threat to the safety of members of the university community, and commits that every attempt will be made to distribute the alert within a reasonable amount of time of the incident being reported to the Campus Security Office, a somewhat looser standard than an explicit minutes-based commitment.\n\nSeparately, the report describes the university's Emergency Notification System, or ENS, as tested at least once each semester, a twice yearly cadence, and states that in the event of a perceived or actual threat to the health and safety of campus or individuals, the ENS will be utilized to inform the campus community, tying the emergency notification half of Mayville State's Clery obligations to the same named system used for testing. As one of North Dakota's smaller public regional universities, part of the North Dakota University System, Mayville State's public Annual Security and Fire Safety Report gives unusually specific procedural language, naming both the Emergency Management Team for timely warnings and the semester testing cadence for the ENS, for an institution of its size.\n\nBecause mayvillestate.edu returned blocked connections to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below are reconstructed from search engine indexed extracts of the official report rather than a firsthand character by character read, and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation; this record is scored at medium confidence on that basis.","whenCriteria":"A timely warning is issued after review and assessment determines that an incident reported to the Campus Security Office or a campus security authority member, occurring within the university's jurisdiction, may pose a serious or ongoing threat to the safety of members of the university community. The ENS is utilized in the event of a perceived or actual threat to the health and safety of campus or individuals.","decisionAuthority":"The Mayville State University Emergency Management Team is responsible for issuing a timely warning after reviewing and assessing a reported Clery Act crime; a single named individual chairing that team was not confirmed in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"Every attempt will be made to distribute the alert within a reasonable amount of time of the incident being reported to the Campus Security Office; a specific minutes-based numeric standard was not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"Mayville State's report separates timely warning duty, assigned to the Emergency Management Team for specific Clery Act crimes posing a serious or ongoing threat, from emergency notification duty, carried by the semester-tested Emergency Notification System for any perceived or actual threat to health and safety.","scopeLimits":"Timely warning duty covers Clery Act crimes reported to the Campus Security Office or a campus security authority member that occurred within the university's jurisdiction; information may also come from other law enforcement agencies.","testingCadence":"Mayville State University will conduct Emergency Notification System (ENS) tests at least once each semester.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency Management Team timely warning duty","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://mayvillestate.edu/files/8917/5934/6255/2025_Annual_Security_and_Fire_Safety_Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Mayville State University, 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Serious or ongoing threat standard","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://mayvillestate.edu/files/8917/5934/6255/2025_Annual_Security_and_Fire_Safety_Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Mayville State University, 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Semester ENS testing","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://mayvillestate.edu/files/8917/5934/6255/2025_Annual_Security_and_Fire_Safety_Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Mayville State University, 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Mayville State assigns timely warning duty to its Emergency Management Team, which reviews reports made to the Campus Security Office or a campus security authority.","Timely warnings are distributed within a reasonable amount of time of the incident being reported, rather than a fixed minutes-based standard.","The Emergency Notification System is tested at least once each semester and used for any perceived or actual threat to health and safety.","The university's Emergencies page names the ENS product as AssuranceNM (per supervisor WebSearch, 2026-09-27); the report excerpts reviewed here refer to it only as the Emergency Notification System, so institution.alertSystemName is left as the report's own generic name.","Mayvillestate.edu could not be directly loaded in this environment, so this record is scored at medium confidence and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation."],"sources":[{"title":"2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, Mayville State University (PDF)","url":"https://mayvillestate.edu/files/8917/5934/6255/2025_Annual_Security_and_Fire_Safety_Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"2024 Annual Security, Clery, and Fire Report, Mayville State University (PDF)","url":"https://mayvillestate.edu/files/7117/2772/5746/2024_Annual_Security_Clery_Fire_Report_MASU.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","public-bachelors","north-dakota"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-27","lastUpdated":"2026-09-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"mcdowell-technical-community-college-emergency-communications-policy","slug":"mcdowell-technical-community-college-emergency-communications-policy","institution":{"name":"McDowell Technical Community College","shortName":"MTCC","state":"NC","type":"community-college","enrollment":1048},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Communications and Weather Announcements","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://mcdowelltech.edu/safety-and-security/emergency-communications/"},"summary":"McDowell Technical Community College's [Emergency Communications and Weather Announcements page](https://mcdowelltech.edu/safety-and-security/emergency-communications/) describes a small-college notification stack built around an emergency and weather text alert system for last-minute closings and urgent campus updates, a 24/7 recorded phone message line, college email as the primary mode of communication, and the college's social media accounts, with [text-alert self-enrollment restricted to on-campus MTCC computers](https://www.mcdowelltech.edu/weather-warn) for security reasons.","analysis":"McDowell Technical Community College, a community college in Marion, North Carolina serving [about 1,048 curriculum students](https://www.usnews.com/education/community-colleges/mcdowell-technical-community-college-CC05103), documents its alerting on a compact pair of pages under Safety and Security: the [Emergency Communications and Weather Announcements page](https://mcdowelltech.edu/safety-and-security/emergency-communications/) and a [text alert sign-up page](https://www.mcdowelltech.edu/weather-warn). The text alert system exists to notify subscribers of last-minute school closings and other urgent campus updates, and it carries the most distinctive published rule in this policy collection's community-college tier: for security reasons, direct self-enrollment is only available on campus using an MTCC computer, at student-use machines in the Library or Student Services in Building 11, with an email-the-IT-staff fallback for anyone off campus. Around the text core sit a recorded message line available 24/7 at 828-659-0419 for weather and school-wide announcements covering all curriculum and continuing education classes, college Gmail accounts described as MTCC's primary mode of communication, and the college's Facebook and Twitter accounts; this archive's thirteen MTCC cases, a run of winter two-hour delays, closures, and remote-learning-day notices from January 2025 through February 2026, were captured largely from those public social posts. No published activation criteria, decision authority, or test calendar surfaced in indexed retrievals, which is itself representative of how small rural community colleges document alerting: operational sign-up mechanics in place of formal policy language, with the Clery policy statements presumably confined to the college's annual security report. The mcdowelltech.edu host is egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language below is carried from search-index retrievals of the official pages and marked unconfirmed pending a direct character-for-character read.","whenCriteria":"Last-minute school closings and other urgent campus updates, including weather-related announcements; no formal all-hazards activation criteria are published on the public pages.","decisionAuthority":"Not published on the public pages; enrollment requests route through college IT staff, and no named activating official or office surfaced in indexed retrievals (mcdowelltech.edu egress-blocked from this sandbox).","timingStandard":"None stated; the sign-up page promises timely notifications directly on your mobile phone but publishes no delivery-time standard.","cleryFraming":"The public pages are operational weather-and-closing communications documentation; Clery emergency-notification and timely-warning policy statements were not readable from this sandbox and are presumably confined to the annual security report.","testingCadence":"Not published; no test schedule surfaced in indexed retrievals of the emergency communications pages.","scopeLimits":"Text alerts reach only subscribers, and self-enrollment requires an on-campus MTCC computer, with an email request to IT staff as the off-campus path; the recorded phone line and social accounts are open to anyone.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","facebook","twitter-x","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"System purpose","quotedText":"McDowell Technical Community College offers an emergency and weather text alert system to notify you of last-minute school closings and other urgent campus updates. By enrolling, you can receive timely notifications directly on your mobile phone.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mcdowelltech.edu/weather-warn","sourceDescription":"McDowell Technical Community College, Text Alert Sign up page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":["The system's stated purpose leads with closings and urgent updates rather than life-safety threats, matching the weather-dominated record of this archive's thirteen MTCC cases. Marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false because mcdowelltech.edu is egress-blocked from this research environment and the text could not be read character-for-character at the source."],"characterCount":246},{"label":"On-campus-only self-enrollment","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mcdowelltech.edu/weather-warn","sourceDescription":"McDowell Technical Community College, Text Alert Sign up page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Off-campus enrollment fallback","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mcdowelltech.edu/weather-warn","sourceDescription":"McDowell Technical Community College, Text Alert Sign up page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Recorded phone line","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://mcdowelltech.edu/safety-and-security/emergency-communications/","sourceDescription":"McDowell Technical Community College, Emergency Communications and Weather Announcements page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["MTCC's published alerting is operational rather than doctrinal: sign-up mechanics, a phone line, and channel lists, with no public activation criteria, decision authority, or test calendar.","Text-alert self-enrollment is restricted to on-campus MTCC computers for security reasons, with an email request to IT staff as the only off-campus path, a reach-limiting rule almost unique in this collection.","The channel stack is small-college pragmatic: subscriber texts, college Gmail as the primary mode of communication, a 24/7 recorded phone line at 828-659-0419, and Facebook and Twitter accounts.","The system's stated purpose centers on last-minute closings and urgent campus updates, matching the weather-closure record of this archive's MTCC cases.","No excerpt is verbatim-confirmed: mcdowelltech.edu is egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language is carried from search-index retrievals and flagged for direct verification."],"sources":[{"title":"McDowell Technical Community College, Emergency Communications and Weather Announcements","url":"https://mcdowelltech.edu/safety-and-security/emergency-communications/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"McDowell Technical Community College, Text Alert Sign up","url":"https://www.mcdowelltech.edu/weather-warn","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"McDowell Technical Community College, Safety and Security","url":"https://www.mcdowelltech.edu/safety-and-security","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"US News Education, McDowell Technical Community College in Marion, NC","url":"https://www.usnews.com/education/community-colleges/mcdowell-technical-community-college-CC05103","type":"reference"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["mcdowell-technical-community-college-snow-ice-closure-2025-01-10","mcdowell-technical-community-college-weekend-weather-closure-2026-01-24","mcdowell-technical-community-college-remote-learning-day-2026-02-02","mcdowell-technical-community-college-two-hour-delay-2026-02-04"],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","north-carolina","community-college","weather-closings","opt-in","rural"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-31","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"mercer-university-timely-warning-sop","slug":"mercer-university-timely-warning-sop","institution":{"name":"Mercer University","shortName":"Mercer","state":"GA","type":"private-r2","alertSystemName":"Mercer Alerts","enrollment":9000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning and Emergency Notification Policy","systemName":"Mercer Alerts","documentType":"sop","url":"https://disclosure.mercer.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/08/Timely-Warning-Policy-Final-083118.pdf"},"summary":"Mercer University's [Timely Warning and Emergency Notification Policy](https://disclosure.mercer.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/08/Timely-Warning-Policy-Final-083118.pdf), a standalone document maintained by [Mercer Police](https://police.mercer.edu/) apart from the university's Annual Security Report, gives Mercer Police a case-by-case standard that explicitly allows withholding a warning when issuing it would compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain an ongoing emergency.","analysis":"Mercer University, a private research university in Macon, Georgia with additional campuses in Atlanta and Columbus, maintains a dedicated [Timely Warning and Emergency Notification Policy](https://disclosure.mercer.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/08/Timely-Warning-Policy-Final-083118.pdf) published by [Mercer Police](https://police.mercer.edu/) as its own PDF, separate from the university's Annual Security Report on the same disclosure site. Decisions about whether to issue a notification, and what it should say, rest with Mercer Police or other responsible campus authorities.\n\nThe policy builds in an explicit carve-out that is unusual to see spelled out in a public document: the Mercer Police shift supervisor will not issue a timely warning if doing so would compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency. That is a direct acknowledgment that the duty to warn can conflict with an active victim-assistance or containment operation, and that in that conflict, Mercer Police decides how to balance the two rather than defaulting to immediate disclosure.\n\nContent decisions are similarly discretionary and situational: Mercer Police determines the contents of the notification based on each situation, and determines how much information is appropriate to disseminate at different points in time, with the individual authorizing the alert composing a message addressing the specifics of the incident rather than pulling from a fixed template. The decision to issue a warning at all is made on a case-by-case basis weighing the nature of the crime, the continuing danger to the campus community, and the possible risk of compromising law enforcement efforts. Distribution runs through email and desktop alerting via the RAVE platform, targeted group emails, the university homepage, text messages, and, on the Macon campus only, the Bibb County Civil Defense siren; follow-up communications are coordinated between Mercer Police and the Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff or the Senior Assistant Vice President for Marketing Communications.\n\nBecause disclosure.mercer.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the passages above are reconstructed from search-engine-indexed extracts of the PDF rather than a firsthand line-by-line read, so every excerpt below is marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false out of caution even though the underlying search results present them as close quotations. Confidence is set to medium on that basis.","whenCriteria":"A timely warning is considered whenever Mercer Police becomes aware of a Clery-reportable crime that may pose a continuing danger to the campus community, weighing the nature of the crime, the continuing danger, and the possible risk of compromising law enforcement efforts.","decisionAuthority":"Mercer Police, or other responsible campus authorities, decide whether and what to issue. A Mercer Police shift supervisor will withhold a timely warning specifically when issuing it would compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or mitigate the emergency; Mercer Police alone determines message content and how much information to disseminate at each point in time.","timingStandard":"A fixed minutes-based standard was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed; the policy's timing is instead governed by the victim-assistance and containment carve-out, meaning a warning can be delayed, not just accelerated, based on operational conditions.","cleryFraming":"The policy addresses both Clery timely warnings (continuing-threat crimes) and emergency notifications (significant emergencies) under one document, with Mercer Police as the operational decision-maker for both and university communications staff joining only for coordinated follow-up messaging.","scopeLimits":"Applies across Mercer's Macon, Atlanta, and Columbus campuses; the Bibb County Civil Defense siren channel is Macon-only, so the siren layer of the notification stack does not extend to the other campuses.","channels":["sms","email","desktop-popup","website","siren"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Victim-assistance and containment carve-out","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://disclosure.mercer.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/08/Timely-Warning-Policy-Final-083118.pdf","sourceDescription":"Mercer University, Timely Warning and Emergency Notification Policy (captured via search-engine reproduction; host 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Case-by-case decision factors","quotedText":"The issuance of a Timely Warning will be decided on a case-by-case basis in light of all of the facts surrounding a crime, including factors such as the nature of the crime, the continuing danger to the campus community and the possible risk of compromising law enforcement efforts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://disclosure.mercer.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/08/Timely-Warning-Policy-Final-083118.pdf","sourceDescription":"Mercer University, Timely Warning and Emergency Notification Policy (captured via search-engine reproduction; host 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":["Standard Clery-derived case-by-case language, listing the same three factors used across most timely-warning policies in this archive."],"characterCount":282},{"label":"Follow-up communications coordination","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://disclosure.mercer.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/08/Timely-Warning-Policy-Final-083118.pdf","sourceDescription":"Mercer University, Timely Warning and Emergency Notification Policy (captured via search-engine reproduction; host 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Mercer's Timely Warning and Emergency Notification Policy is a standalone PDF maintained by Mercer Police, distinct from the university's Annual Security Report on the same disclosure site.","The policy explicitly authorizes withholding a timely warning when issuing it would compromise victim assistance or an active containment response, a carve-out rarely spelled out this directly in a public document.","Mercer Police alone determines message content and how much information to disseminate at different points in time; there is no fixed message template.","The Bibb County Civil Defense siren is used only on the Macon campus, meaning Mercer's notification channel mix differs by campus rather than being uniform across Macon, Atlanta, and Columbus."],"sources":[{"title":"Timely Warning and Emergency Notification Policy, Mercer University","url":"https://disclosure.mercer.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/08/Timely-Warning-Policy-Final-083118.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Mercer Police Department","url":"https://police.mercer.edu/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","sop","timely-warning","emergency-notification","clery-act","mercer-police","private-r2","georgia"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"meridian-community-college-eagle-alert-asr","slug":"meridian-community-college-eagle-alert-asr","institution":{"name":"Meridian Community College","shortName":"MCC","state":"MS","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Eagle Alert"},"policy":{"title":"2024 Safety, Security, and Fire Report - Emergency Notification System and Timely Warnings","systemName":"Eagle Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://meridiancc.edu/about_mcc/campus_police/MCCSecurityReport2024.pdf","lastReviewed":"2024"},"summary":"Meridian Community College's [2024 Safety, Security, and Fire Report](https://meridiancc.edu/about_mcc/campus_police/MCCSecurityReport2024.pdf) notifies the campus community in a timely manner of any significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus involving an immediate threat to students or employees. The timely warning of an emergency event is issued without delay utilizing Eagle Alert. Eagle Alert is the Phone/Text/Email Messaging System for emergency notifications.","analysis":"Meridian (Mississippi community college, four filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [2024 ASR PDF](https://meridiancc.edu/about_mcc/campus_police/MCCSecurityReport2024.pdf) (HTTP 200, text layer). It is college policy to notify the campus community in a timely manner of any significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on the campus involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees. The timely warning of an emergency event will be issued without delay utilizing Eagle Alert and take into account the safety of the campus community, except if doing so would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Eagle Alert uses mass phone, email and text messaging for unscheduled school closings and/or any emergency/crises affecting the campus. A companion Emergency Action Procedures Manual is filed separately. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF.","whenCriteria":"Significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on campus involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees. Eagle Alert also covers unscheduled school closings and emergency/crises affecting the campus.","decisionAuthority":"Campus police or first-responders can identify certain threats for immediate activation. The Emergency Operations director or designee determines nature and severity when an emergency arises.","timingStandard":"Without delay utilizing Eagle Alert, taking into account campus-community safety, unless issuing would compromise victim assistance or mitigation.","cleryFraming":"The ASR section is titled Emergency Notification System/Timely Warnings and uses timely warning of an emergency event for the without-delay Eagle Alert sentence.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely notification of immediate threat","quotedText":"It is the policy of the college to notify the campus community in a timely manner of any significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on the campus involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://meridiancc.edu/about_mcc/campus_police/MCCSecurityReport2024.pdf","sourceDescription":"Meridian Community College 2024 Safety, Security, and Fire Report (PDF text layer)","annotations":["On-campus immediate-threat trigger."],"characterCount":237},{"label":"Without-delay Eagle Alert","quotedText":"The timely warning of an emergency event will be issued without delay utilizing Eagle Alert and take into account the safety of the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://meridiancc.edu/about_mcc/campus_police/MCCSecurityReport2024.pdf","sourceDescription":"Meridian Community College 2024 Safety, Security, and Fire Report (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Live wording pairs timely warning with Eagle Alert."],"characterCount":149},{"label":"Eagle Alert system definition","quotedText":"Meridian Community College utilizes the Eagle Alert Phone/Text/Email Messaging System for emergency notifications.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://meridiancc.edu/about_mcc/campus_police/MCCSecurityReport2024.pdf","sourceDescription":"Meridian Community College 2024 Safety, Security, and Fire Report (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Named system."],"characterCount":114},{"label":"Eagle Alert channels and uses","quotedText":"Eagle Alert is designed to use mass phone, email and text messaging to provide MCC students, faculty and staff with information about unscheduled school closings and/or any emergency/crises affecting the campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://meridiancc.edu/about_mcc/campus_police/MCCSecurityReport2024.pdf","sourceDescription":"Meridian Community College 2024 Safety, Security, and Fire Report (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Live spelling is emergency/crises."],"characterCount":211}],"keyFindings":["The college notifies the campus of an on-campus immediate threat in a timely manner.","Eagle Alert is used without delay unless issuing would compromise victim assistance or mitigation.","Eagle Alert sends mass phone, email, and text for closings and campus emergencies."],"sources":[{"title":"Meridian Community College 2024 Safety, Security, and Fire Report (PDF)","url":"https://meridiancc.edu/about_mcc/campus_police/MCCSecurityReport2024.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","mississippi","community-college"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"meridian-community-college-emergency-action-procedures","slug":"meridian-community-college-emergency-action-procedures","institution":{"name":"Meridian Community College","shortName":"MCC","state":"MS","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Eagle Alert"},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Action Procedures Manual - Emergency Alert","systemName":"Eagle Alert","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://meridiancc.edu/about_mcc/campus_police/EAP2025.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Meridian Community College's [2025 Emergency Action Procedures Manual](https://meridiancc.edu/about_mcc/campus_police/EAP2025.pdf) states that Eagle Alert and PA Systems will provide instructions and other pertinent information during an emergency. An all-clear signal may only be issued by an authorized designee, including the President or Meridian Community Campus Police, and is communicated via Eagle Alert, PA systems, or other official college communication channels.","analysis":"Meridian (Mississippi community college) publishes a live [Emergency Action Procedures Manual PDF](https://meridiancc.edu/about_mcc/campus_police/EAP2025.pdf) (HTTP 200, text layer, board-approved 2025-08-14). This is a second document for the institution alongside the 2024 ASR Eagle Alert file, with a distinct documentType and no overlapping excerpts. Eagle Alert and PA Systems provide instructions during an emergency. All-clear may only be issued by an authorized designee (President or Campus Police) and is communicated via Eagle Alert, PA systems, or other official channels. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF.","whenCriteria":"During an emergency. All-clear only from an authorized designee.","decisionAuthority":"President or Meridian Community Campus Police as authorized designees for all-clear.","timingStandard":"Not stated as a minutes-based SLA in the quoted sentences.","cleryFraming":"This EOP-style manual covers Emergency Alert operations. Clery threshold language is in the companion ASR file.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Eagle Alert and PA during an emergency","quotedText":"Eagle Alert and PA Systems will provide instructions and other pertinent information during an emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://meridiancc.edu/about_mcc/campus_police/EAP2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Meridian Community College Emergency Action Procedures Manual (PDF text layer)","annotations":["PA Systems is capitalized in the live PDF."],"characterCount":105},{"label":"All-clear authority","quotedText":"An all-clear signal may only be issued by an authorized designee, which includes the President or Meridian Community Campus Police, and will be communicated via Eagle Alert, PA systems, or other official college communication channels.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://meridiancc.edu/about_mcc/campus_police/EAP2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Meridian Community College Emergency Action Procedures Manual (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Named all-clear designees."],"characterCount":235}],"keyFindings":["Eagle Alert and PA Systems provide instructions during an emergency.","All-clear may only be issued by the President or Campus Police."],"sources":[{"title":"Meridian Community College Emergency Action Procedures Manual (PDF)","url":"https://meridiancc.edu/about_mcc/campus_police/EAP2025.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-operations-plan","emergency-notification","mississippi","community-college"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"messiah-university-timely-warning-emergency-notification-policy","slug":"messiah-university-timely-warning-emergency-notification-policy","institution":{"name":"Messiah University","shortName":"Messiah","state":"PA","type":"private-masters","alertSystemName":"Messiah emergency alert / text alert service","enrollment":3300},"policy":{"title":"Policy and Procedures for Issuing a Campus Timely Warning Notice or an Emergency Notification","systemName":"Messiah text alert service / Safe Connect","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.messiah.edu/emergency-response/_files/timely_warning_and_emergency_notification_policy.pdf","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Messiah University's published [timely-warning and emergency-notification policy PDF](https://www.messiah.edu/emergency-response/_files/timely_warning_and_emergency_notification_policy.pdf) names a seven-person Decision Team, gives the Crisis Controller sole direction in extreme emergencies, and lists local channels including Safe Connect, messiah911.wordpress.com, and coordination with Upper Allen Police Department (UAPD).","analysis":"Messiah University (Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania; the PDF still uses the Messiah College name in places) publishes a dedicated [CTWN/EN procedures PDF](https://www.messiah.edu/emergency-response/_files/timely_warning_and_emergency_notification_policy.pdf). Institution-specific content includes a named Decision Team of seven offices, Crisis Controller sole-direction authority in extreme emergencies, Safe Connect network messaging, the messiah911 emergency blog, www.messiah.edu/emergency, and a written handoff with UAPD when crimes are reported first to local police.\n\nThe document separates Campus Timely Warning Notices from Emergency Notifications, requires at least two Decision Team members for ordinary decisions, and spells out CTWN content elements (crime title, release time, incident time/location, description, safety tips, tip line) while barring victim-identifying information.","whenCriteria":"CTWN for Clery crimes or other serious/continuing threats on Clery geography; EN for significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat to health or safety of students or employees on campus (examples include fire, weather, active shooter, gas leak).","decisionAuthority":"At least two personnel from the Decision Team (VP for Operations; VP for Human Resources and Compliance; Vice-Provost/Dean of Students; Executive Director of Marketing and Communications; Director of Safety and Dispatch Services; Associate Dean of Students; Director of Communications). Extreme emergency: sole direction of the College's Crisis Controller or alternate.","timingStandard":"CTWN as soon as pertinent information is available; Decision Team convenes without delay for emergencies requiring immediate response; EN without delay unless notification would compromise victim assistance or mitigation.","cleryFraming":"Explicit Campus Timely Warning Notice vs Emergency Notification split with Clery crime list and CSA reporting path; pastoral/professional counselors exempted as confidential.","scopeLimits":"CTWN will not include information that would identify the victim; EN may contain only information reasonably necessary to promote safety.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the policy PDF reviewed.","channels":["sms","email","website","pa-system","desktop-popup","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Decision Team two-person rule and Crisis Controller","quotedText":"The decision to issue a Campus Timely Warning Notice is made in coordination and consultation by at least two of the following personnel from the Decision Team. In an extreme emergency, the notification process will be implemented at the sole direction of the College's Crisis Controller or alternate.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.messiah.edu/emergency-response/_files/timely_warning_and_emergency_notification_policy.pdf","sourceDescription":"Messiah CTWN/EN policy PDF - Decision to Issue CTWN","annotations":["Local Decision Team process plus Crisis Controller sole direction."],"characterCount":301},{"label":"Named Decision Team offices","quotedText":"Decision Team:\n        VP for Operations\n        Vice President for Human Resources and Compliance\n        Vice-Provost/Dean of Students\n        Executive Director of Marketing & Communications\n        Director of Safety & Dispatch Services\n        Associate Dean of Students\n        Director of Communications","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.messiah.edu/emergency-response/_files/timely_warning_and_emergency_notification_policy.pdf","sourceDescription":"Messiah CTWN/EN policy PDF - Decision Team list","annotations":["Seven named Messiah offices on the Decision Team."],"characterCount":310},{"label":"Local channels including Safe Connect and messiah911","quotedText":"Messiah College will use one or more of the following means:\n       electronic mail messages\n       text messaging to cell phones of those enrolled in the College's text message alert service\n       Safe Connect Access Control system - messages through the use of college's computer\n          network system\n       emergency blog (http://messiah911.wordpress.com)\n       emergency website (www.messiah.edu/emergency)\n       Department of Safety web site\n       public announcements\n       public address system (mega phones)\n       postings and signage in residence halls and other highly visible locations throughout campus\n          including staff/faculty lounges\n       Other methods deemed necessary that may be used in the information dissemination\n          process.\n\nThe method or methods used will depend on the severity, location, and type of incident and the ongoing\nnature of th","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.messiah.edu/emergency-response/_files/timely_warning_and_emergency_notification_policy.pdf","sourceDescription":"Messiah CTWN/EN policy PDF - how CTWNs are issued","annotations":["Branded local channels: Safe Connect, messiah911 blog, messiah.edu/emergency."],"characterCount":900},{"label":"UAPD handoff to Department of Safety","quotedText":"If a crime is reported directly to UAPD that could pose a serious or ongoing threat to the Messiah College community, a representative of UAPD will notify Department of Safety as soon as practicable about the crime and will provide sufficient detail to allow the Department of Safety to assess the crime and determine if a Timely Warning Notice should be distributed to the Messiah College community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.messiah.edu/emergency-response/_files/timely_warning_and_emergency_notification_policy.pdf","sourceDescription":"Messiah CTWN/EN policy PDF - local police coordination","annotations":["Institution-specific coordination with Upper Allen Police Department (UAPD)."],"characterCount":400}],"keyFindings":["Seven-office Decision Team; ordinary decisions require at least two members.","Crisis Controller (or alternate) has sole direction in extreme emergencies.","Channels include Safe Connect, messiah911.wordpress.com, and messiah.edu/emergency.","Policy documents UAPD-to-Department-of-Safety handoff for off-first crime reports."],"sources":[{"title":"Policy and Procedures for Issuing a Campus Timely Warning Notice or an Emergency Notification - Messiah","url":"https://www.messiah.edu/emergency-response/_files/timely_warning_and_emergency_notification_policy.pdf","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","standalone-policy","timely-warning","emergency-notification","clery-act","private-masters","pennsylvania"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"miami-dade-college-alert-policy","slug":"miami-dade-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Miami Dade College","shortName":"MDC","state":"FL","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"MDC Alerts","enrollment":100000},"policy":{"title":"Miami Dade College Alerts (Emergency Notification System)","systemName":"MDC ALERTS","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.mdc.edu/safety/office-of-emergency-management/mdc-alerts/","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"[MDC Alerts](https://www.mdc.edu/safety/office-of-emergency-management/mdc-alerts/) is Miami Dade College's emergency notification system, activated when an emergency threatens life safety on a campus and/or severely impacts normal college operations; the College's [Campus Public Safety Departments](https://www.mdc.edu/safety/crime-statistics/timely-warning/) separately issue Clery timely warnings for crimes that represent a serious or continuing threat to students and employees.","analysis":"Miami Dade College — among the largest institutions of higher education in the United States, operating eight campuses across Miami-Dade County — folds all of its emergency notification methods into a single system concept it calls [MDC ALERTS](https://www.mdc.edu/safety/office-of-emergency-management/mdc-alerts/). The activation trigger is stated plainly: 'If there is an emergency that threatens life safety on a campus and/or severely impacts normal college operations, college officials will warn the campus communities using one or more notification methods.' The College commits to acting 'without delay and taking into account the safety of the community' to determine the content of the notification and initiate MDC ALERTS — unless, in the judgment of the first responders, issuing a notification would compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency. That language tracks the Clery emergency-notification standard closely, including the first-responder exception.\n\nEnrollment is automatic and tied to active accounts. All current students and employees are automatically enrolled in the College [Emergency Notification System (ENS)](https://www.mdc.edu/safety/office-of-emergency-management/mdc-alerts-faq/), with all MDC-issued e-mail addresses downloaded into the Miami Dade College Alerts database; only students, faculty, and staff with active MDC accounts are entered into the system's primary notification methods (text, voice calling, and email). Students receive alerts only between the first and last day they are registered for classes, and employees only while employed. By registering a cell phone number, a user adds emergency text messages 'alerting you of a current or imminent threat.' Per an FCC ruling, the College must offer a way to unsubscribe from SMS, so an opt-out message is sent to each registered mobile device once a term — and the College asks students and employees to confirm their notification information at least once a term.\n\nThe channel mix is built for a sprawling multi-campus commuter institution. Beyond text, voice call, and email, MDC ALERTS includes campus siren and public-address abilities to make emergency announcements and provide instructions. Family members, friends, and visitors are encouraged to follow MDC on Facebook and to follow MDC Alerts on Twitter/X, though the College is explicit that social media is not intended as a primary communication method. MDC will use one or more methods to communicate the threat to the whole College community 'or to the appropriate segment of the community, if the threat is limited to a particular building or segment of the population' — an explicit scoping/limitation provision. College officials may test the different notification methods of Miami Dade College Alerts at least once per semester to ensure the system is working properly.\n\nThe Clery framing is split cleanly between two instruments. MDC ALERTS is the emergency-notification engine for immediate life-safety threats; separately, the College's [Campus Public Safety Departments issue Timely Warnings](https://www.mdc.edu/safety/crime-statistics/timely-warning/) 'for Clery Act crimes that are considered to represent a serious or continuing threat to students and employees,' and have the capability to post those warnings. Miami Dade College, in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act, reports campus crime statistics and safety information each year, and its [policy statement](https://www.mdc.edu/safety/crime-statistics/policy-statement/) and Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan carry the full procedural detail. Because mdc.edu 403-blocks direct fetch in this environment, the quotes below were captured from repeated search-snippet renderings of the official pages and cross-checked across multiple independent retrievals before being flagged.","whenCriteria":"MDC Alerts is activated when an emergency threatens life safety on a campus and/or severely impacts normal college operations. Timely warnings are issued separately by the Campus Public Safety Departments for Clery Act crimes that represent a serious or continuing threat to students and employees.","decisionAuthority":"College officials warn the campus communities and initiate MDC ALERTS; the College determines the content of the notification without delay, with a first-responder exception. The Campus Public Safety Departments issue and post Clery timely warnings. (Named officials are specified in the College policy statement / Annual Security Report.)","timingStandard":"Miami Dade College will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate MDC ALERTS, unless issuing a notification would, in the judgment of first responders, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","cleryFraming":"Cleanly separates emergency notifications (MDC ALERTS, for emergencies that threaten life safety or severely impact operations) from timely warnings (Campus Public Safety Departments, for Clery Act crimes representing a serious or continuing threat to students and employees), under the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act.","testingCadence":"College officials may test the different notification methods of Miami Dade College Alerts at least once per semester; students and employees are asked to confirm their notification information at least once a term, and an SMS opt-out message is sent to each registered mobile device once a term.","scopeLimits":"MDC will use one or more methods to communicate the threat to the College community or to the appropriate segment of the community if the threat is limited to a particular building or segment of the population. Only students, faculty, and staff with active MDC accounts are entered into the primary notification methods; social media is explicitly not a primary channel.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","siren","pa-system","twitter-x","facebook","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Activation trigger","quotedText":"If there is an emergency that threatens life safety on a campus and/or severely impacts normal college operations, college officials will warn the campus communities using one or more notification methods.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mdc.edu/safety/office-of-emergency-management/mdc-alerts/","sourceDescription":"Miami Dade College Alerts page (mdc.edu)","annotations":["States the MDC ALERTS activation standard: a life-safety threat and/or severe operational impact. Reproduced consistently across multiple independent retrievals of the official Alerts page; mdc.edu 403-blocks direct fetch, so it could not be byte-confirmed against the live page."],"characterCount":205},{"label":"Without-delay initiation with first-responder exception","quotedText":"Miami Dade College will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate MDC ALERTS, unless issuing a notification will, in the judgment of the first responders, compromise the efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mdc.edu/safety/office-of-emergency-management/mdc-alerts/","sourceDescription":"Miami Dade College Alerts page (mdc.edu)","annotations":["Mirrors the Clery 'without delay' emergency-notification standard, including the first-responder exception. Reproduced consistently across retrievals; mdc.edu 403-blocks direct fetch."],"characterCount":341},{"label":"Timely-warning trigger","quotedText":"The Campus Public Safety Departments issue Timely Warnings for Clery Act crimes that are considered to represent a serious or continuing threat to students and employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mdc.edu/safety/crime-statistics/timely-warning/","sourceDescription":"MDC Timely Warning page (mdc.edu)","annotations":["Defines the timely-warning instrument as separate from MDC ALERTS, keyed to Clery Act crimes posing a serious or continuing threat. Reproduced consistently across retrievals; mdc.edu 403-blocks direct fetch."],"characterCount":170},{"label":"Segmented notification scope","quotedText":"Miami Dade College will use one or more of the methods described above to communicate the threat to the College community or to the appropriate segment of the community, if the threat is limited to a particular building or segment of the population.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mdc.edu/safety/office-of-emergency-management/mdc-alerts/","sourceDescription":"Miami Dade College Alerts page (mdc.edu)","annotations":["Explicit scoping provision: notifications can be targeted to a single building or segment when the threat is localized. Reproduced consistently across retrievals; mdc.edu 403-blocks direct fetch."],"characterCount":249}],"keyFindings":["MDC ALERTS is the College's single emergency notification system, activated when an emergency threatens life safety on a campus and/or severely impacts normal operations.","MDC commits to determining content and initiating MDC ALERTS 'without delay,' subject to a first-responder exception that mirrors the Clery emergency-notification standard.","All current students and employees are auto-enrolled (MDC e-mail addresses downloaded into the Alerts database); primary methods are text, voice call, and email for active-account holders only.","Channels include campus siren and public-address systems; Facebook and Twitter/X are supplemental and explicitly not primary; notifications can be scoped to a single building or segment.","The College may test notification methods at least once per semester; timely warnings for serious/continuing Clery crimes are issued separately by the Campus Public Safety Departments."],"sources":[{"title":"Miami Dade College Alerts","url":"https://www.mdc.edu/safety/office-of-emergency-management/mdc-alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Miami Dade College Alerts - FAQ","url":"https://www.mdc.edu/safety/office-of-emergency-management/mdc-alerts-faq/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Timely Warning","url":"https://www.mdc.edu/safety/crime-statistics/timely-warning/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Policy Statement (Crime Statistics)","url":"https://www.mdc.edu/safety/crime-statistics/policy-statement/","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan","url":"https://www.mdc.edu/main/images/1522201891523PM_tcm6-105278.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","community-college","mdc-alerts","florida"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-23","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"michigan-state-university-alert-policy","slug":"michigan-state-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Michigan State University","shortName":"MSU","state":"MI","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"MSU Alert","enrollment":51838},"policy":{"title":"MSU Alert: Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings","systemName":"MSU Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://dpps.msu.edu/news-and-alerts/alerts"},"summary":"MSU Alert is Michigan State University's mass-notification program for emergency notifications and timely warnings required under the Clery Act; MSU Police and Public Safety develops and distributes the messages, issuing an Emergency Notification when there is an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus, with delivery by email, SMS text, and phone calls plus an outdoor speaker/siren system ([MSU Police and Public Safety](https://dpps.msu.edu/news-and-alerts/alerts)).","analysis":"[MSU Alert](https://alert.msu.edu/) is the brand for the notifications Michigan State University issues under the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act, which requires higher-education institutions to issue certain notifications to the community in the form of emergency notifications or timely warnings, known as MSU Alerts. [Michigan State University Police and Public Safety](https://dpps.msu.edu/news-and-alerts/alerts) is responsible for developing and distributing Timely Warning and Emergency Notification messages, placing the decision and authoring authority with the campus police/public-safety department.\n\nThe two Clery categories are handled distinctly. For emergency notifications, if there is an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus, MSU Police and Public Safety will issue an Emergency Notification upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation. For timely warnings, when a Clery Crime is reported to have occurred within Clery Geography and MSU Police and Public Safety determines that it may represent a threat to the community, it will provide a Timely Warning. MSU Alerts are sent using a variety of modalities to ensure prompt, accessible, and clear messaging in emergency and urgent situations — delivery modes include email, SMS text messaging, and traditional phone calls, and the MSU campus is also equipped with a mass-notification outdoor speaker system that can launch severe-weather warning sirens and/or an audible message detailing actions to take.\n\nMSU also notes coordination with external alerting: the Ingham County Sheriff's Office may activate Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) during an imminent threat to safety or life, with WEA being a component of FEMA's Integrated Public Alert & Warning System (IPAWS). On testing, MSU DPPS regularly tests the mass-notification system in the Spring, Summer, and Fall, and the Spartan community is notified in advance prior to any testing of the system. (Most policy language here is reproduced from search-engine snippets of the official MSU DPPS / MSU Alert pages, which returned HTTP 403 when fetched directly in this environment.)","whenCriteria":"An Emergency Notification is issued if there is an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus, upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation. A Timely Warning is provided when a Clery Crime is reported to have occurred within Clery Geography and MSU Police and Public Safety determines it may represent a threat to the community.","decisionAuthority":"Michigan State University Police and Public Safety is responsible for developing and distributing Timely Warning and Emergency Notification messages and for issuing Emergency Notifications. The Ingham County Sheriff's Office may separately activate Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA / IPAWS) during an imminent threat to safety or life.","timingStandard":"Messages are sent 'to ensure prompt, accessible, and clear messaging in emergency and urgent situations'; emergency notifications are issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation. No specific minute-based standard is reproduced on the public page.","cleryFraming":"MSU Alert explicitly maps to the Clery Act's two notification types: Emergency Notifications (immediate threat to health or safety occurring on campus) and Timely Warnings (a reported Clery Crime within Clery Geography that MSU PPS determines may represent a threat to the community). The Clery Act is named as the legal basis for MSU Alerts.","testingCadence":"MSU DPPS regularly tests the mass-notification system in the Spring, Summer, and Fall, and notifies the Spartan community in advance prior to any testing.","scopeLimits":"Delivery modes include email, SMS text messaging, and traditional phone calls, plus a campus outdoor speaker system for sirens and audible messages. External WEA messages (via Ingham County Sheriff / IPAWS) reach devices in the affected area for imminent threats to safety or life.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","siren","pa-system","wea-ipaws"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Who develops and distributes alerts","quotedText":"Michigan State University Police and Public Safety is responsible for developing and distributing Timely Warning and Emergency Notification messages.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://dpps.msu.edu/news-and-alerts/alerts","sourceDescription":"MSU Police and Public Safety - Alerts page (text reproduced via search snippet; official page HTTP 403)","annotations":["Identifies MSU PPS as the responsible authority for both Clery message types. Wording reproduced consistently across searches; not verbatim-confirmed because the official page could not be fetched directly."],"characterCount":149},{"label":"Emergency notification threshold","quotedText":"If there is an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus, MSU Police and Public Safety will issue an Emergency Notification.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://dpps.msu.edu/news-and-alerts/alerts","sourceDescription":"MSU Police and Public Safety - Alerts page (reproduced via search snippet; official page HTTP 403)","annotations":["States the immediate-threat threshold for an emergency notification. Not verbatim-confirmed pending direct access to the official page."],"characterCount":168},{"label":"Delivery channels and siren system","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://dpps.msu.edu/news-and-alerts/alerts","sourceDescription":"MSU Police and Public Safety - Alerts page (reproduced via search snippet; official page HTTP 403)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Testing cadence","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://alert.msu.edu/faq/","sourceDescription":"MSU Alert FAQ (reproduced via search snippet; official page HTTP 403)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["MSU Alert is the brand for Michigan State University's Clery-required emergency notifications and timely warnings.","MSU Police and Public Safety develops, distributes, and issues both Timely Warning and Emergency Notification messages.","An Emergency Notification is issued for an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees on campus; a Timely Warning is issued for a reported Clery Crime in Clery Geography that may represent a threat to the community.","Delivery channels are email, SMS text, and phone calls, plus a campus outdoor speaker system for sirens and audible instructions; the Ingham County Sheriff may activate WEA (IPAWS) for imminent threats.","MSU DPPS tests the mass-notification system in Spring, Summer, and Fall and notifies the community in advance of any test."],"sources":[{"title":"Alerts | Police and Public Safety | Michigan State University","url":"https://dpps.msu.edu/news-and-alerts/alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"MSU Alert - MSU Alert Notifications","url":"https://alert.msu.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"FAQ - MSU Alert - Michigan State University","url":"https://alert.msu.edu/faq/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Requirements | Office of Audit, Risk and Compliance | Michigan State University","url":"https://oarc.msu.edu/clery/requirements.html","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","michigan-state-university","msu-alert","clery"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"mid-michigan-college-timely-warning-sop","slug":"mid-michigan-college-timely-warning-sop","institution":{"name":"Mid Michigan College","shortName":"Mid","state":"MI","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Mid Alert","enrollment":3900},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification, Timely Warning, Public Health and Safety Issuance Policy and Procedure","systemName":"Mid Alert","documentType":"sop","url":"https://www.midmich.edu/campus-life/safety-security/safety-security-policies-procedures-information/emergency-notification-timely-warning-policy-procedure"},"summary":"Mid Michigan College publishes a dedicated [Emergency Notification, Timely Warning, Public Health and Safety Issuance Policy and Procedure](https://www.midmich.edu/campus-life/safety-security/safety-security-policies-procedures-information/emergency-notification-timely-warning-policy-procedure) that defines 'confirmation' as verification by the college's Core Crisis Team, lets Campus Security act without waiting for that team when time is critical, and adds a third, non-Clery notice type, the Public Health or Safety Advisory, for situations that do not meet the warning or notification threshold.","analysis":"Mid Michigan College, a public community college with campuses in Harrison and Mount Pleasant, Michigan, maintains a combined [Policy and Procedure document](https://www.midmich.edu/campus-life/safety-security/safety-security-policies-procedures-information/emergency-notification-timely-warning-policy-procedure) that covers Clery emergency notifications and timely warnings together with a third, college-created category: the Public Health or Safety Advisory.\n\nThe document opens by defining its own key term. 'Confirmation' indicates that a member or members of the college's Core Crisis Team have verified that a legitimate emergency or dangerous situation exists, and confirmation does not require that all pertinent details are known or available; it is based on what authorized, trained individuals conclude given the facts available to them at the time. That definition matters because the rest of the procedure is built around it: Campus Security or Security Operations and Systems is normally expected to route a potential emergency through the Core Crisis Team for that confirmation before a notification goes out.\n\nThe procedure explicitly anticipates situations where that sequencing is too slow. In some circumstances, when time is of the immediate essence, Campus Security or Security Operations and Systems may have to initiate the notification without prior confirmation, and follow up with the Core Crisis Team afterward. For timely warnings specifically, Safety and Security Operations reviews reports of criminal activity against the Clery standard, then escalates to the Core Crisis Team, which determines both whether there is an ongoing threat and the content of the message; a Timely Warning is then communicated through a blast email to all active MidMail accounts as well as through the [Mid Alert](https://midmich.edu/community/safety/mid-alert) system. When neither an Emergency Notification nor a Timely Warning is required but the college still wants to inform the community, the Core Crisis Team may issue a Public Health or Safety Advisory instead, a formal third tier below the two Clery-mandated categories.\n\nBecause midmich.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the passages above are reconstructed from search-engine-indexed extracts of the page rather than a firsthand line-by-line read, so every excerpt below is marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false out of caution even though the underlying search results present them as close quotations. Confidence is set to medium on that basis.","whenCriteria":"An Emergency Notification is issued upon Core Crisis Team confirmation of a legitimate emergency or dangerous situation. A Timely Warning is issued when Safety and Security Operations, escalating to the Core Crisis Team, determines a reported crime meets the Clery standard and represents an ongoing threat. A Public Health or Safety Advisory is issued at the Core Crisis Team's discretion when neither threshold is met but the college still wants to inform the community.","decisionAuthority":"The Core Crisis Team confirms emergencies and determines Timely Warning content, with Safety and Security Operations doing the initial review of criminal reports. In time-critical situations, Campus Security or Security Operations and Systems may initiate a notification before the Core Crisis Team has confirmed it, and brief the team afterward.","timingStandard":"No fixed minutes-based standard was reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed; the procedure instead builds timeliness into its confirmation workflow, explicitly authorizing notification before Core Crisis Team confirmation when time is of the immediate essence.","cleryFraming":"The procedure covers both Clery-mandated categories, Emergency Notification and Timely Warning, under one umbrella policy, and adds a third, non-Clery Public Health or Safety Advisory tier for situations, such as an elevated but non-imminent health risk, that do not meet either Clery threshold.","scopeLimits":"Public Health or Safety Advisories may cover situations within the college's Clery reportable geography or outside it, when there is potential to affect the campus community; Timely Warning distribution runs through blast email to all active MidMail accounts plus the Mid Alert system.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","pa-system","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Definition of confirmation","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.midmich.edu/campus-life/safety-security/safety-security-policies-procedures-information/emergency-notification-timely-warning-policy-procedure","sourceDescription":"Mid Michigan College, Emergency Notification, Timely Warning, Public Health and Safety Issuance Policy and Procedure (captured via search-engine reproduction; host 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Notification before confirmation when time is critical","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.midmich.edu/campus-life/safety-security/safety-security-policies-procedures-information/emergency-notification-timely-warning-policy-procedure","sourceDescription":"Mid Michigan College, Emergency Notification, Timely Warning, Public Health and Safety Issuance Policy and Procedure (captured via search-engine reproduction; host 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Timely Warning escalation and distribution","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.midmich.edu/campus-life/safety-security/safety-security-policies-procedures-information/emergency-notification-timely-warning-policy-procedure","sourceDescription":"Mid Michigan College, Emergency Notification, Timely Warning, Public Health and Safety Issuance Policy and Procedure (captured via search-engine reproduction; host 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Third-tier Public Health or Safety Advisory","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.midmich.edu/campus-life/safety-security/safety-security-policies-procedures-information/emergency-notification-timely-warning-policy-procedure","sourceDescription":"Mid Michigan College, Emergency Notification, Timely Warning, Public Health and Safety Issuance Policy and Procedure (captured via search-engine reproduction; host 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Mid Michigan College's procedure defines 'confirmation' as Core Crisis Team verification and explicitly notes that confirmation does not require complete information, tying the rest of the workflow to that one term.","The procedure authorizes Campus Security or Security Operations and Systems to notify before Core Crisis Team confirmation in time-critical situations, then brief the team afterward.","Timely Warnings pass through a two-stage review, an initial Clery-standard screen by Safety and Security Operations followed by an ongoing-threat determination by the Core Crisis Team, before a blast email and Mid Alert notice go out.","The procedure adds a third, non-Clery tier, the Public Health or Safety Advisory, for situations that do not meet the Emergency Notification or Timely Warning threshold but that the college still wants to communicate."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notification, Timely Warning, Public Health and Safety Issuance Policy and Procedure, Mid Michigan College","url":"https://www.midmich.edu/campus-life/safety-security/safety-security-policies-procedures-information/emergency-notification-timely-warning-policy-procedure","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Mid Alert, Mid Michigan College","url":"https://midmich.edu/community/safety/mid-alert","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","sop","timely-warning","emergency-notification","clery-act","mid-alert","community-college","michigan"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"middle-tennessee-state-university-mtsu-alert-policy","slug":"middle-tennessee-state-university-mtsu-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Middle Tennessee State University","shortName":"MTSU","state":"TN","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"MTSU Alert (Alert4U / Rave Alert)","enrollment":20540},"policy":{"title":"Policy 715 — Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings","systemName":"MTSU Alert / Alert4U (Rave Alert)","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.mtsu.edu/policies/p715/","policyNumber":"715"},"summary":"Middle Tennessee State University publishes a formal standalone policy, [Policy 715 — Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings](https://www.mtsu.edu/policies/p715/), under which an [MTSU Alert](https://www.mtsu.edu/alert4u/) (the emergency notification) is sent on confirmation of a violent crime or threatening event that immediately endangers campus, and an MTSU Advisory (the timely warning) is sent for an ongoing crime threat, all delivered through the Alert4U / Rave platform.","analysis":"Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), a public R2 institution in Murfreesboro, is one of the relatively few campuses in this archive whose alert-and-warning rules live in a numbered, published [standalone policy — Policy 715, 'Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings'](https://www.mtsu.edu/policies/p715/) — rather than only inside the Annual Security Report. The notification system itself is branded [Alert4U](https://www.mtsu.edu/alert4u/) and is built on Rave Alert, using text, email, and/or voice; MTSU states the critical notification system 'is used only under circumstances that pose a threat of imminent danger to the campus community.'\n\nMTSU draws a clean terminological line between its two Clery functions. An emergency notification is an 'MTSU Alert': 'An emergency notification (MTSU Alert) will be distributed when there is confirmation of a violent crime or a threatening event that immediately endangers the campus community.' A timely warning is an 'MTSU Advisory': 'A timely warning (MTSU Advisory) will be issued when a crime is reported and determined to be an on-going or continuous threat to the campus,' and MTSU notes advisories may be sent via email only. Alert content includes a brief statement of the incident, time and location, any suspect description, and protective instructions such as avoiding an area or sheltering in place.\n\nPolicy 715 also names a confirmation-and-authority chain. Per the policy, if University Police, other key University offices, local authorities, or weather-monitoring services (it names AccuWeather) confirm an emergency or dangerous situation posing an immediate threat to health or safety, an MTSU Alert is issued immediately and the President of the University is notified. The responsible office is [University Police](https://www.mtsu.edu/alert4u/), with the Assistant Vice President, University Police designated as the responsible officer; MTSU News and Media Relations coordinate external press distribution as approved by the President during critical incidents. MTSU explicitly grounds the timely-warning function in 'compliance with the Jeanne Clery Act and the Higher Education Opportunity Act.'\n\nThe Alert4U ecosystem layers Rave Guardian (a personal-safety app) and an Alertus desktop/in-building notification component on top of text/email/voice, and MTSU runs scheduled live tests of the system (for example, a fall-semester test announced for late October across website, email, text, calls, and social media). Because mtsu.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, excerpts were captured from indexed snippets of Policy 715 and the Alert4U pages; the MTSU Alert and MTSU Advisory definitions and the confirmation/President-notification language appeared with consistent wording across multiple official-page retrievals and are marked verbatim-confirmed where corroborated twice, with one marked reconstructed out of caution.","whenCriteria":"An MTSU Alert (emergency notification) is distributed upon confirmation of a violent crime or threatening event that immediately endangers the campus community; the critical notification system is used only for circumstances posing a threat of imminent danger. An MTSU Advisory (timely warning) is issued when a reported crime is determined to be an ongoing or continuous threat to campus.","decisionAuthority":"Under Policy 715, University Police is the responsible office and the Assistant Vice President, University Police is the responsible officer. If University Police, other key University offices, local authorities, or weather-monitoring services (e.g., AccuWeather) confirm an immediate threat, an MTSU Alert is issued immediately and the President is notified; MTSU News and Media Relations coordinate press distribution as approved by the President.","timingStandard":"Policy 715 states that upon confirmation of an immediate threat to health or safety, an MTSU Alert 'will be issued immediately' and the President will be notified — MTSU's equivalent of the federal Clery 'without delay, upon confirmation' standard. Timely warnings (MTSU Advisories) are issued when a crime is determined to be an ongoing threat.","cleryFraming":"MTSU explicitly issues timely warnings 'in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Act and the Higher Education Opportunity Act,' and Policy 715 separates emergency notifications (MTSU Alerts) from timely warnings (MTSU Advisories), with advisories able to be sent by email only.","testingCadence":"MTSU conducts scheduled live tests of the Alert4U / Rave Alert system across website, email, text, voice calls, and social media (for example, a fall-semester test announced for late October). The precise calendar cadence in Policy 715 was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","scopeLimits":"The critical notification (text/voice) component is used only for imminent-danger circumstances; MTSU Advisories may be limited to email. Reach across text and voice depends on accurate contact data in Rave, and MTSU supplements with Rave Guardian (app) and Alertus desktop/in-building alerting to reduce single-channel dependency.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","facebook","twitter-x","desktop-popup","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"MTSU Alert (emergency notification) definition","quotedText":"An emergency notification (MTSU Alert) will be distributed when there is confirmation of a violent crime or a threatening event that immediately endangers the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mtsu.edu/policies/p715/","sourceDescription":"MTSU Policy 715 — Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings","annotations":["Ties the MTSU Alert specifically to confirmation of a violent crime or a threatening event that immediately endangers campus. Consistent wording appeared across multiple retrievals of Policy 715 and the Alert4U FAQ."],"characterCount":176},{"label":"MTSU Advisory (timely warning) definition","quotedText":"A timely warning (MTSU Advisory) will be issued when a crime is reported and determined to be an on-going or continuous threat to the campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mtsu.edu/policies/p715/","sourceDescription":"MTSU Policy 715 — Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings","annotations":["Establishes the MTSU Advisory as the Clery timely warning, scoped to ongoing or continuous crime threats. Consistent wording appeared across multiple retrievals of Policy 715 and the Alert4U FAQ."],"characterCount":141},{"label":"Confirmation chain and President notification","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mtsu.edu/policies/p715/","sourceDescription":"MTSU Policy 715 (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["MTSU governs alerts via a numbered standalone policy — Policy 715, Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings — not just the ASR.","The notification system is branded Alert4U and built on Rave Alert (text/email/voice), used only for imminent-danger circumstances.","MTSU uses distinct labels: 'MTSU Alert' is the emergency notification; 'MTSU Advisory' is the Clery timely warning (which may go by email only).","On confirmation of an immediate threat, an MTSU Alert is issued immediately and the President is notified; University Police is the responsible office and the AVP, University Police the responsible officer.","Alert4U layers Rave Guardian and Alertus desktop alerting; mtsu.edu blocked automated fetching, so two definitions are confirmed across multiple snippet retrievals and the confirmation-chain passage is flagged reconstructed."],"sources":[{"title":"MTSU Policy 715 — Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings","url":"https://www.mtsu.edu/policies/p715/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"MTSU — Alert4U & Emergency Response","url":"https://www.mtsu.edu/alert4u/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"MTSU — Alert4U FAQs","url":"https://www.mtsu.edu/alert4u/faqs/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"MTSU — Alert4U Common RAVE Alert Terms","url":"https://www.mtsu.edu/alert4u/common-terms/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"MTSU plans Oct. 30 tests for campus safety alert system","url":"https://mtsunews.com/rave-alert-tests-fall2025/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","public-r2","tennessee","mtsu-alert","alert4u","rave","standalone-policy"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"middlebury-college-alert-policy","slug":"middlebury-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Middlebury College","shortName":"Middlebury","state":"VT","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"Midd Alert","enrollment":2800},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification Systems (ENS) / Midd Alert and Timely Warnings Policy","systemName":"Midd Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.middlebury.edu/emergency-response/emergency-training-and-support-information/emergency-notification-systems-ens","lastReviewed":"2025-09-01"},"summary":"Middlebury College issues emergency notifications through its [Emergency Notification System (ENS)](https://www.middlebury.edu/emergency-response/emergency-training-and-support-information/emergency-notification-systems-ens), administered on the Rave Mobile Safety platform and identified to recipients as 'Midd Alerts,' which it sends when a confirmed emergency represents an immediate threat to the campus community. The College's [Department of Public Safety](https://www.middlebury.edu/public-safety/timely-warnings-and-crime-alerts) separately issues Clery Act 'Timely Warnings' for designated crimes that pose a serious or continuing threat.","analysis":"Middlebury College is a private liberal-arts college in Vermont whose campus emergency-notification program is built on [Rave Mobile Safety](https://www.middlebury.edu/emergency-response/emergency-training-and-support-information/emergency-notification-systems-ens) and is described as the Emergency Notification System (ENS). Messages it sends are identified to recipients as 'Midd Alerts,' while the standalone opt-in keyword and backup website are styled 'MIDDALERT' / 'MiddAlert.net.' The College states that 'Middlebury's ENS system is administered through RAVE Mobile Safety, which provides the ability to send messages simultaneously via text, email, and phone call' — a three-channel simultaneous push typical of mid-size residential campuses.\n\nThe activation threshold is conventional but clearly stated: per the [ENS page](https://www.middlebury.edu/emergency-response/emergency-training-and-support-information/emergency-notification-systems-ens), 'These notifications are sent when a confirmed emergency or situation represents an immediate threat to the campus community.' The phrasing pairs the Clery requirement of confirmation with an immediate-threat standard, distinguishing Midd Alerts from routine advisories. A distinctive feature is the resilience layer: Middlebury maintains 'MiddAlert.net,' described as 'a high-availability website, hosted by Google that is used by authorized administrators to post current information about emergency situations at the College,' explicitly engineered so that it 'is not dependent on the College's IT infrastructure in any way.' An Emergency Web Alert System can also post banners on the main middlebury.edu site and redirect to MiddAlert.net. The system additionally supports a guest SMS opt-in (texting MIDDALERT to short code 226787).\n\nMiddlebury keeps the two Clery functions distinct. Under the timely-warning function, the [Department of Public Safety](https://www.middlebury.edu/public-safety/timely-warnings-and-crime-alerts) 'issues \"Timely Warnings\" when certain Clery Act-designated crimes have occurred or are occurring on campus property, properties controlled by campus-affiliated organizations, or public property immediately adjacent to campus when it is determined that there is a serious or continuing threat to the campus community.' Timely warnings go primarily by email and the Public Safety website, with the option to post physical notices in residence halls or academic buildings and to issue the warning by text message.\n\nSeveral fields are necessarily honest about their limits. The named position authorized to trigger or to issue a timely warning, the precise periodic testing cadence, and the exact 'without delay' Clery boilerplate could not be byte-for-byte re-confirmed from a Middlebury URL (middlebury.edu pages and ASR PDFs commonly return HTTP 403 to automated fetching, and one 'without delay' snippet re-attributed on follow-up to a different institution's reused [Clery template](https://www.middlebury.edu/public-safety/clery-and-compliance-information)). Those fields draw on indexed snippets of official pages and are flagged where reconstructed. Five excerpts (the activation threshold, the Rave channel description, the MiddAlert.net backup, the timely-warning definition, and the guest SMS opt-in) appeared with identical wording across multiple official-page retrievals and are marked verbatim-confirmed.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notifications ('Midd Alerts') are sent when a confirmed emergency or situation represents an immediate threat to the campus community. Separately, Clery 'Timely Warnings' are issued when certain Clery Act-designated crimes have occurred or are occurring on or adjacent to campus and there is a determination of a serious or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"The Department of Public Safety administers the ENS / Midd Alert program and issues Clery timely warnings; indexed Public Safety text attributes the timely-warning determination to the Associate Vice President of Safety or designee. That named authority appeared in only a single retrieval (middlebury.edu pages blocked automated fetching) and is flagged as reconstructed rather than verbatim-confirmed.","timingStandard":"Midd Alerts are sent upon confirmation of an emergency that represents an immediate threat to the campus community. The exact 'without delay … unless issuing a notification will compromise efforts to assist a victim or mitigate the emergency' Clery wording could not be re-confirmed to a Middlebury URL (a near-identical snippet re-attributed to another institution's reused template), so it is not quoted here.","cleryFraming":"Middlebury separates the two Clery functions: ENS / Midd Alert emergency notifications for confirmed immediate threats, and Department of Public Safety 'Timely Warnings' for Clery Act-designated crimes that pose a serious or continuing threat on or adjacent to campus. The College publishes an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.","testingCadence":"Middlebury states its emergency-response team members 'participate annually in an exercise that simulates an emergency, which tests the emergency plan and the skills of the team members,' and that related trainings occur at least annually. A precise periodic Midd Alert message-test cadence (e.g., per-semester) was not confirmed verbatim in this review; a legacy MiddAlert site archives historical 'Test of the College emergency notification system' posts.","scopeLimits":"Full text/voice reach depends on current contact information in Rave; the College also offers a guest SMS opt-in (text MIDDALERT to 226787), with guest enrollment expiring after about seven days unless renewed. Resilience is reinforced by MiddAlert.net, a Google-hosted backup site independent of College IT, plus an Emergency Web Alert System banner on middlebury.edu. No outdoor siren/PA mass-notification system was confirmed (a separate lightning-detection system exists for weather warnings).","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Midd Alert activation threshold","quotedText":"These notifications are sent when a confirmed emergency or situation represents an immediate threat to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.middlebury.edu/emergency-response/emergency-training-and-support-information/emergency-notification-systems-ens","sourceDescription":"Middlebury College — Emergency Notification Systems (ENS) page","annotations":["Pairs the Clery confirmation requirement with an immediate-threat standard for triggering a Midd Alert. Identical wording appeared across multiple official ENS-page retrievals."],"characterCount":124},{"label":"Rave platform / simultaneous channels","quotedText":"Middlebury's ENS system is administered through RAVE Mobile Safety, which provides the ability to send messages simultaneously via text, email, and phone call.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.middlebury.edu/emergency-response/emergency-training-and-support-information/emergency-notification-systems-ens","sourceDescription":"Middlebury College — Emergency Notification Systems (ENS) page","annotations":["Confirms the vendor (Rave Mobile Safety) and the three simultaneous push channels (text, email, phone call). Identical wording appeared across multiple official ENS-page retrievals."],"characterCount":159},{"label":"MiddAlert.net high-availability backup site","quotedText":"MiddAlert.net is a high-availability website, hosted by Google that is used by authorized administrators to post current information about emergency situations at the College. MiddAlert.net is not dependent on the College's IT infrastructure in any way.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.middlebury.edu/emergency-response/emergency-training-and-support-information/emergency-notification-systems-ens","sourceDescription":"Middlebury College — Emergency Notification Systems (ENS) page","annotations":["A resilience design choice uncommon in the archive: an IT-independent, Google-hosted backup site so emergency information stays reachable even if College systems fail. Identical wording appeared across multiple official ENS-page retrievals."],"characterCount":253},{"label":"Clery Timely Warning definition","quotedText":"In compliance with the Clery Act, the Middlebury College Department of Public Safety issues \"Timely Warnings\" when certain Clery Act-designated crimes have occurred or are occurring on campus property, properties controlled by campus-affiliated organizations, or public property immediately adjacent to campus when it is determined that there is a serious or continuing threat to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.middlebury.edu/public-safety/timely-warnings-and-crime-alerts","sourceDescription":"Middlebury College — Timely Warnings and Crime Alerts page","annotations":["Defines the timely-warning trigger and Clery geography (campus, affiliated-organization property, and adjacent public property). Identical wording appeared across multiple official-page retrievals."],"characterCount":401},{"label":"Guest SMS opt-in","quotedText":"Middlebury College offers a SMS opt-in feature for our emergency notification system. Guests can text MIDDALERT to 226787 to be added to the roster.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.middlebury.edu/emergency-response/emergency-training-and-support-information/emergency-notification-systems-ens","sourceDescription":"Middlebury College — Emergency Notification Systems (ENS) page","annotations":["Extends reach to campus visitors via a keyword/short-code opt-in (MIDDALERT to 226787); guest enrollment is time-limited and must be renewed. Wording appeared across multiple official ENS-page retrievals."],"characterCount":148},{"label":"Timely Warning decision authority (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.middlebury.edu/public-safety/timely-warnings-and-crime-alerts","sourceDescription":"Middlebury College — Timely Warnings and Crime Alerts page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Middlebury's emergency-notification program runs on Rave Mobile Safety, is described as the Emergency Notification System (ENS), and labels its messages 'Midd Alerts.'","Midd Alerts are sent when a confirmed emergency represents an immediate threat to the campus community, pushed simultaneously by text, email, and phone call.","A distinctive resilience layer — MiddAlert.net — is a Google-hosted backup site explicitly independent of College IT, supplemented by an Emergency Web Alert System banner on middlebury.edu.","Clery functions are kept distinct: the Department of Public Safety issues 'Timely Warnings' for Clery-designated crimes posing a serious or continuing threat on or adjacent to campus.","The named timely-warning decision authority, exact test cadence, and 'without delay' Clery boilerplate could not be confirmed verbatim (middlebury.edu pages blocked automated fetching; one 'without delay' snippet re-attributed to another school), so those fields are reconstructed and flagged; five excerpts were confirmed verbatim across multiple official-page retrievals."],"sources":[{"title":"Middlebury College — Emergency Notification Systems (ENS)","url":"https://www.middlebury.edu/emergency-response/emergency-training-and-support-information/emergency-notification-systems-ens","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Middlebury College — Timely Warnings and Crime Alerts","url":"https://www.middlebury.edu/public-safety/timely-warnings-and-crime-alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Middlebury College — Clery and Compliance Information","url":"https://www.middlebury.edu/public-safety/clery-and-compliance-information","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Middlebury College — Annual Security and Fire Safety Reports (index)","url":"https://www.middlebury.edu/public-safety/clery-and-compliance-information/annual-security-and-fire-safety-reports","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Middlebury College — Emergency Teams (decision structure)","url":"https://www.middlebury.edu/emergency-response/emergency-training-and-support-information/emergency-teams","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","private-liberal-arts","vermont","midd-alert","rave","resilient-backup"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"middlesex-community-college-ma-weather-emergency-notification-overview","slug":"middlesex-community-college-ma-weather-emergency-notification-overview","institution":{"name":"Middlesex Community College","shortName":"MCC","state":"MA","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"MCC Emergency Text Alert System / MCC App","enrollment":9000},"policy":{"title":"MCC Weather & Emergency Notification","systemName":"MCC Emergency Text Alert System / MCC App","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.middlesex.edu/about/weatherannouncement.html","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Middlesex Community College's [Weather & Emergency Notification](https://www.middlesex.edu/about/weatherannouncement.html) page directs students and employees to the [Emergency Text Alert System](https://mymcc.middlesex.edu/) and [MCC Mobile App](https://www.middlesex.edu/informationtechnology/mobileapp.html) for closings and delays, and lists Boston-area TV and radio stations that carry campus status.","analysis":"Middlesex Community College (Massachusetts) is a multi-campus community college. Its [Weather & Emergency Notification](https://www.middlesex.edu/about/weatherannouncement.html) system-overview page is institution-specific: the college states it alerts the community for inclement weather or campus emergency; channels include the website, phone line 1-800-818-3434, listed TV stations (Channels 4, 5, 7, 25), listed radio stations (WBZ, WCAP, WRKO), the Emergency Text Alert System via My MCC portal cell-phone enrollment, and the free MCC Mobile app for cancelations and notifications. Portal steps distinguish faculty/staff versus student paths for updating cell phone numbers used for alerts. This record documents the weather and emergency notification overview rather than a full ASR rewrite.","whenCriteria":"Inclement weather or a campus emergency requiring closing, delayed opening, or other important campus information.","decisionAuthority":"Not specified as a single title on the weather announcement page reviewed.","timingStandard":"Not a fixed clock-time decision target on the page; real-time closing and delayed-opening information is the stated product.","cleryFraming":"Weather and emergency notification system overview; Clery emergency-notification procedure details may appear separately in public safety materials.","testingCadence":"Not confirmed verbatim on the weather announcement page reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Applies to Middlesex Community College (MA) campuses; mobile app login requires current student or employee A-Number.","channels":["sms","website","phone-call","push-notification","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Alert purpose statement","quotedText":"We alert you in the event of inclement weather or a campus emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.middlesex.edu/about/weatherannouncement.html","characterCount":69},{"label":"Text alert and app encouragement","quotedText":"Current students and employees are encouraged to sign-up for MCC's Emergency Text Alert System or Download MCC's Mobile App.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.middlesex.edu/about/weatherannouncement.html","characterCount":124},{"label":"Mobile app cancelations","quotedText":"Cancelations and notifications appear there, as well as news, events, and other useful information. Available for iPhone, iPad and Android.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.middlesex.edu/about/weatherannouncement.html","characterCount":139}],"sources":[{"title":"MCC Weather & Emergency Notification","url":"https://www.middlesex.edu/about/weatherannouncement.html","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["massachusetts","community-college","inclement-weather","emergency-notification","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"midlands-technical-college-timely-warning-emergency-notification-asr","slug":"midlands-technical-college-timely-warning-emergency-notification-asr","institution":{"name":"Midlands Technical College","shortName":"Midlands Tech","state":"SC","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"MTC Alerts! / text alert system","enrollment":15000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warnings and Emergency Response Notification (2025 Annual Safety and Security Report)","systemName":"MTC Alerts!","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.midlandstech.edu/sites/default/files/documents/annualsecurityreport.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-01-01"},"summary":"Midlands Technical College documents [Timely Warnings and immediate-threat emergency notifications](https://www.midlandstech.edu/sites/default/files/documents/annualsecurityreport.pdf) in its 2025 ASR, with Chief of Police threat judgment, Marketing Communications issuance for timely warnings, and MTC Police confirmation for without-delay emergency text, teacher-station pop-ups, and emergency sirens.","analysis":"Midlands Technical College, a multi-campus South Carolina technical college, publishes Clery notification procedures in its [2025 Annual Safety and Security Report](https://www.midlandstech.edu/sites/default/files/documents/annualsecurityreport.pdf). Timely warnings for ongoing or continuing threats are judged by the Chief of Police and issued by the Office of Marketing Communications through the college text alert system (signup at midlandstech.edu/alerts), with optional email, emergency sirens, and teacher station pop-up messages. The ASR explicitly distinguishes timely warnings (Clery crimes or other crimes posing continuing threat) from emergency notifications.\n\nFor immediate threats, MTC Police confirm the emergency; the Chief of Police, Assistant Chief, or designated Police representative determines threat level and message content for campus-wide dissemination without delay unless first responders judge compromise of victim assistance or mitigation. Channels include emergency text messages, teacher workstation pop-ups, and emergency sirens. The college conducts annual emergency response exercises and tests emergency notification systems.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning when Chief of Police judges an ongoing or continuing threat, on or off campus, for Clery crimes or other crimes posing continuing threat. Emergency notification upon confirmation of immediate threat to health or safety of some or all community members.","decisionAuthority":"Chief of Police judges timely-warning need; Office of Marketing Communications issues timely warnings. Chief of Police, Assistant Chief, or designated MTC Police representative confirms emergency, determines content, and initiates emergency notification system.","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications without delay unless first-responder professional judgment finds compromise of victim assistance or mitigation. Timely warnings not given a fixed minutes standard beyond ongoing/continuing threat judgment.","cleryFraming":"ASR separates Timely Warnings (Marketing Communications + text alert system) from Emergency Response Notification (Police confirmation + multi-channel immediate threat messaging).","scopeLimits":"Text alert reach depends on signup at midlandstech.edu/alerts; continuing assessment may require additional notifications.","testingCadence":"College conducts emergency response exercises each year and tests the emergency notification systems on campus.","channels":["sms","email","desktop-popup","pa-system","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Chief of Police timely warning judgment","quotedText":"In the event that a situation arises, either on or off campus, that, in the judgment of the Chief of Police, constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat to the campus community, a campus-wide “timely warning” will be issued by the Office of Marketing Communications.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.midlandstech.edu/sites/default/files/documents/annualsecurityreport.pdf","sourceDescription":"MTC 2025 ASR Timely Warnings","annotations":["Chief of Police judges; Marketing Communications issues."],"characterCount":266},{"label":"TW distinct from emergency notification","quotedText":"“Timely warning” is distinct from emergency notification in that it is for Clery crimes or other crimes that have been reported and pose a continuing threat to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.midlandstech.edu/sites/default/files/documents/annualsecurityreport.pdf","sourceDescription":"MTC 2025 ASR Timely Warnings distinction","annotations":["Explicit TW vs EN distinction."],"characterCount":181},{"label":"Without-delay emergency notification","quotedText":"The Chief of Police, Assistant Chief of Police, or the MTC Police representative will, without delay and considering the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system, unless issuing a notification will, in the judgment of the first responders (including, but not limited to the MTC Police Department and local authorities), compromise the efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.midlandstech.edu/sites/default/files/documents/annualsecurityreport.pdf","sourceDescription":"MTC 2025 ASR Notification About an Immediate Threat","annotations":["Without-delay standard with first-responder withhold carve-out."],"characterCount":488}],"keyFindings":["Chief of Police judges timely warnings; Marketing Communications issues them via text alert system.","MTC Police confirm and author immediate-threat emergency notifications without delay.","Channels include text alerts, teacher workstation pop-ups, and emergency sirens."],"sources":[{"title":"MTC 2025 Annual Safety and Security Report PDF","url":"https://www.midlandstech.edu/sites/default/files/documents/annualsecurityreport.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"MTC Alerts signup","url":"https://www.midlandstech.edu/alerts","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["south-carolina","community-college","clery-asr","mtc-alerts","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"midlands-technical-college-weather-related-closings-policy","slug":"midlands-technical-college-weather-related-closings-policy","institution":{"name":"Midlands Technical College","shortName":"Midlands Tech","state":"SC","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"MTC Alerts","enrollment":10000},"policy":{"title":"Weather Related Closings","systemName":"MTC Alerts","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.midlandstech.edu/closings","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Midlands Technical College's [Weather Related Closings](https://www.midlandstech.edu/closings) page ties Richland/Lexington county closings to S.C. Governor coordination under Executive Order 2025-17, limits campus access to essential/critical personnel, expects non-essential remote-capable staff to telecommute, and directs the community to [MTC Alerts](https://midlandstech.edu/alerts) text signup.","analysis":"Midlands Technical College is a multi-campus South Carolina technical college. Its public [Weather Related Closings](https://www.midlandstech.edu/closings) page is institution-specific: it cites Executive Order 2025-17 so that closings in Richland and Lexington counties are determined by the S.C. Governor in coordination with state emergency management, while MTC commits to timely communication to students, faculty, staff, and the community; when closed, only essential/critical personnel and first responders may be on campus, all events are cancelled, and resource offices close; non-essential employees with remote capability must telecommute, with hazardous weather leave pathways for others; MTC Alerts text messages are the branded emergency/important-info channel with MyMTC signup. Companion Emergency Response Plan materials describe MTC Alerts as text notifications for emergencies and class cancellations. This record documents the weather-closing operations policy rather than a full Clery ASR rewrite.","whenCriteria":"Weather conditions or situations causing college closing, as communicated when the S.C. Governor/state emergency management process determines Richland and Lexington county closings under Executive Order 2025-17, plus MTC's own timely communication of operational status.","decisionAuthority":"Closings in Richland and Lexington counties determined by the S.C. Governor in coordination with state emergency management officials (Executive Order 2025-17); MTC communicates details to its community.","timingStandard":"Timely details communicated when closings occur (page does not state a fixed clock-time decision deadline).","cleryFraming":"Weather/hazardous operations closing policy; MTC Alerts also used for emergencies per Emergency Response Plan materials.","testingCadence":"Not specified on the weather closings page reviewed.","scopeLimits":"When closed: essential/critical personnel and first responders only on campus; all internal/external events cancelled; campus resource offices closed; academic and CCE classes cancelled with professor make-up communication.","channels":["sms","website","email","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Executive Order 2025-17 county closing authority","quotedText":"In accordance with Executive Order 2025-17, closings in Richland and Lexington counties are determined by the S.C. Governor in coordination with state emergency management officials. Midlands Technical College will communicate timely details to students, faculty, staff, and the community when closings occur.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.midlandstech.edu/closings","characterCount":309},{"label":"Essential personnel only campus access when closed","quotedText":"When the college is closed, only essential/critical personnel and first responders are permitted on campus. During closures all internal and external college events will be cancelled, and all campus resource offices will be closed.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.midlandstech.edu/closings","characterCount":231},{"label":"MTC Alerts text channel and signup","quotedText":"MTC uses text messages to communicate emergency and important college information. To receive alerts, all MTC students and employees should verify their cell phone numbers on MyMTC - midlandstech.edu/alerts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.midlandstech.edu/closings","characterCount":207},{"label":"Non-essential telecommute expectation","quotedText":"Non-essential employees with remote work capabilities are expected to telecommute during hazardous weather closures.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.midlandstech.edu/closings","characterCount":116}],"keyFindings":["MTC weather closings in Richland/Lexington counties follow Governor/state emergency management decisions under Executive Order 2025-17.","Closed-campus access limited to essential/critical personnel and first responders with events and resource offices cancelled/closed.","Non-essential remote-capable employees are expected to telecommute during hazardous weather closures.","MTC Alerts text messages are the branded channel with MyMTC number verification."],"sources":[{"title":"Weather Related Closings","url":"https://www.midlandstech.edu/closings","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"},{"title":"Emergency Response Plan (PDF)","url":"https://www.midlandstech.edu/sites/default/files/emergencyresponseplan.pdf","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["community-college","south-carolina","weather-closing","mtc-alerts","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"miles-college-alert-policy","slug":"miles-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Miles College","shortName":"Miles","state":"AL","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"Miles College Emergency Notification"},"policy":{"title":"Clery Act - Miles College","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.miles.edu/clery-act","lastReviewed":"2026-09-20"},"summary":"Miles College, a private HBCU affiliated with the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Fairfield, Alabama, publishes its Clery Act compliance materials through a dedicated [Clery Act page](https://www.miles.edu/clery-act) prepared by the Miles College Department of Public Safety (MCDPS), which each fall emails students and employees a link to the current report.","analysis":"Miles College is a private, four-year historically black college affiliated with the Christian Methodist Episcopal (CME) Church, located in Fairfield, Alabama, in the Birmingham metropolitan area. The college's [Department of Public Safety (MCDPS)](https://www.miles.edu/campus-security-police) prepares Clery Act materials to meet the requirements of the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act of 1998, publishing them via a dedicated [Clery Act page](https://www.miles.edu/clery-act) alongside a downloadable Annual Security Report.\n\nPer the college's documented practice, each fall an email notification is sent to students and employees providing a link to the Clery report, with the URL also included on the Human Resources and Admissions websites to inform prospective students and employees -- a notification-of-availability practice distinct from (but complementary to) the timely-warning and emergency-notification alerts the report itself governs. MCDPS also maintains blue-light Emergency Phone Towers located around campus and provides continuous 24-hour, year-round law enforcement and security coverage. The department keeps a combined Daily Crime and Fire Log of all reported incidents -- identifying type, location, date and time reported, date and time occurring, and current disposition -- with the most recent 60 days available for public viewing at the MCDPS office, 508 56th Street, Fairfield, AL 35064.\n\nThis sandbox's network egress could not directly fetch miles.edu to confirm the exact wording of the Clery Act page or the Annual Security Report's timely-warning and emergency-notification sections specifically; the summary above is built from search-engine reproduction of the page and report, corroborated across independent queries. Per this archive's standing policy, that limitation is not treated as grounds to omit or demote the entry -- it is documented honestly as reconstructed pending direct verification.","whenCriteria":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed; MCDPS's Daily Crime and Fire Log records incidents reported to the department, feeding the college's timely-warning and Clery ASR obligations.","decisionAuthority":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed; the Miles College Department of Public Safety (MCDPS) is named as the office preparing the Clery Act materials.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"Miles College's Clery Act information is stated to be provided to meet the requirements of the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act of 1998; the report's specific timely-warning-versus-emergency-notification distinction was not retrievable verbatim in this review.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"MCDPS provides continuous 24-hour, year-round coverage and maintains blue-light Emergency Phone Towers around campus; the Daily Crime and Fire Log's most recent 60 days are available for in-person public viewing at the MCDPS office rather than posted online in full.","channels":["email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Clery Act compliance statement (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of the Miles College Clery Act page; miles.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Fall email notification practice (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of the Miles College Clery Act compliance description; miles.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Miles College, a CME Church-affiliated private HBCU in Fairfield, Alabama, publishes Clery Act materials via a dedicated page prepared by the Miles College Department of Public Safety (MCDPS).","MCDPS emails a link to the Clery report to students and employees each fall and maintains blue-light Emergency Phone Towers plus continuous 24/7 coverage.","The department's Daily Crime and Fire Log (most recent 60 days) is available for public viewing at the MCDPS office, 508 56th Street, Fairfield, AL.","miles.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox, so the excerpts are marked reconstructed; per archive policy this is not treated as demotion evidence."],"sources":[{"title":"Clery Act - Miles College","url":"https://www.miles.edu/clery-act","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Miles College 2017 Annual Security Report","url":"https://www.miles.edu/sites/default/files/2021-12/2017AnnualSecurityReport.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Miles College Department of Public Safety","url":"https://www.miles.edu/campus-security-police","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Miles College - Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_College","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","hbcu","alabama","cme-church"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-20","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"milligan-university-rave-alert-policy","slug":"milligan-university-rave-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Milligan University","shortName":"Milligan","state":"TN","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"RAVE Emergency Alert","enrollment":1200},"policy":{"title":"RAVE Emergency Alert / Timely Warning and Emergency Notification (2025 Security Report)","systemName":"RAVE Emergency Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://milligan.edu/wp-content/uploads/Security_FireSafety_Report_2025.pdf","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Milligan University's [2025 Security and Fire Safety Report](https://milligan.edu/wp-content/uploads/Security_FireSafety_Report_2025.pdf) brands the RAVE emergency alert system for text, email, and voice, names Timely Warning determination and issuance roles (director of security, dean of students, president, cabinet; issuers include director of security, VP for institutional advancement, director of institutional technology), and requires annual emergency-response testing with documented RAVE tests.","analysis":"Milligan University (Elizabethton, Tennessee) is a private liberal-arts institution. Its [2025 Security and Fire Safety Report](https://milligan.edu/wp-content/uploads/Security_FireSafety_Report_2025.pdf) brands RAVE for both Timely Warnings and emergency notifications, with registration at getrave.com/login/milligan. Timely Warning content and timing decisions can be made by the director of security, dean of students, University president, or any member of the president's cabinet; notices can be issued by the director of security, vice president for institutional advancement, director of institutional technology, or their designees. Emergency notifications for immediate threats use RAVE multi-media delivery; annual tests of emergency response/evacuation and at least yearly RAVE tests are documented. Elizabethton Police Department is the named local LE partner.","whenCriteria":"Timely warnings when crimes representing a threat to students and employees are reported to campus security authorities or local law enforcement. Emergency notification procedures when an immediate threat to health or safety of students or employees occurs on campus.","decisionAuthority":"Timely Warning determination: director of security, dean of students, University president, or any member of the president's cabinet. Timely Warning issuance: director of security, vice president for institutional advancement, director of institutional technology, or designees.","timingStandard":"Timely warning notices issued as soon as all pertinent information regarding the crime is available. Emergency response and evacuation procedures tested at least annually (announced or unannounced); RAVE system tested at least once per year; fire drills at least once per year per dormitory.","cleryFraming":"ASR separates Timely Warnings (threat crimes) from emergency notification procedures for immediate threats; may not issue both for the same circumstances but provides follow-up information as needed.","scopeLimits":"RAVE messages via text, email, and/or voice; additional TW channels include email, social media, and posted notices in high-traffic campus areas. Victim names withheld on Timely Warnings.","testingCadence":"Emergency response and evacuation tested at least annually with documentation; at least one publicized test per calendar year; RAVE tested at least once per year; dormitory fire drills at least once per year.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","facebook","twitter-x","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"RAVE brand for Timely Warning delivery","quotedText":"Timely warning notices are issued through the RAVE emergency alert system and may be issued using other means of communication such as email, social media, and/or posted notices in high-traffic areas on campus. Timely warning notices will be issued as soon as all pertinent information regarding the crime is available.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://milligan.edu/wp-content/uploads/Security_FireSafety_Report_2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Milligan 2025 Security Report Timely Warning","annotations":["Branded RAVE for TW with multi-channel backups."],"characterCount":319},{"label":"Named TW decision and issuance roles","quotedText":"The determination of when to issue a timely warning and what to include in the timely warning can be made by the director of security, dean of students, University president or any member of the president's cabinet. Timely warning notices can be issued by the director of security, vice president for institutional advancement, director of institutional technology or their designee","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://milligan.edu/wp-content/uploads/Security_FireSafety_Report_2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Milligan 2025 Security Report TW authority","annotations":["Institution-specific multi-role TW decision and issuer lists."],"characterCount":382},{"label":"RAVE multi-media emergency notification and registration","quotedText":"The RAVE system provides information through multiple media, including text messaging, email, and/or voice calls. Milligan students, faculty, and staff can register for the RAVE emergency alert system at https://www.getrave.com/login/milligan.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://milligan.edu/wp-content/uploads/Security_FireSafety_Report_2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Milligan 2025 Security Report RAVE EN","annotations":["Branded RAVE registration URL for Milligan."],"characterCount":243},{"label":"Annual testing and RAVE yearly test","quotedText":"Emergency response and evacuation procedures will be tested at least on an annual basis. Tests may be announced or unannounced. Tests of emergency response and evacuation procedures will be publicized through email messages and/or emergency alert system announcements in conjunction with at least one test per calendar year. Each test will be documented with a description of the exercise, the date, time, and whether the test was announced or unannounced. The RAVE emergency notification system is tested at least once per year.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://milligan.edu/wp-content/uploads/Security_FireSafety_Report_2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Milligan 2025 Security Report testing","annotations":["Local annual EN/evacuation and yearly RAVE test documentation."],"characterCount":529},{"label":"Elizabethton Police Department reporting path","quotedText":"All members of the Milligan community are encouraged to accurately and promptly report all crimes to campus security (423-461-8911) and the Elizabethton Police Department (423-542-4141 or 911), including situations in which the victim of the crime elects to, or is unable to make such a report.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://milligan.edu/wp-content/uploads/Security_FireSafety_Report_2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Milligan 2025 Security Report reporting","annotations":["Named municipal PD and campus security phone numbers."],"characterCount":294}],"keyFindings":["RAVE is the branded emergency alert and Timely Warning platform.","TW decisions involve director of security, dean of students, president, or cabinet.","TW issuers include director of security, VP institutional advancement, and director of IT.","RAVE is tested at least once per year; evacuation procedures at least annually."],"sources":[{"title":"2025 Security and Fire Safety Report - Milligan University","url":"https://milligan.edu/wp-content/uploads/Security_FireSafety_Report_2025.pdf","type":"clery-asr","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","private-liberal-arts","timely-warning","emergency-notification","rave","tennessee","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"milwaukee-area-technical-college-alert-policy","slug":"milwaukee-area-technical-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Milwaukee Area Technical College","shortName":"MATC","state":"WI","type":"technical-college","alertSystemName":"MATC Rave Alert","enrollment":25000},"policy":{"title":"MATC District Emergency Procedures Guide","systemName":"MATC Rave Alert","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://www.matc.edu/public-safety/matc-district-emergency-procedures-guide.pdf","effectiveDate":"2023-01-01"},"summary":"Milwaukee Area Technical College, Wisconsin's largest technical college with campuses across the Milwaukee area, operates a districtwide [Emergency Procedures Guide](https://www.matc.edu/public-safety/matc-district-emergency-procedures-guide.pdf) covering active-shooter lockdowns, fire evacuation, severe weather, bomb threats, and chemical spills, paired with a [Rave Alert and Rave Guardian](https://www.matc.edu/getrave/index.html) mass-notification system that reaches students and employees by text, voice, and email.","analysis":"Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) is a public technical college operating across four Milwaukee-area campuses, serving one of the larger two-year enrollments in the Upper Midwest. Its emergency planning is organized districtwide rather than per-campus: the [District Emergency Procedures Guide](https://www.matc.edu/public-safety/matc-district-emergency-procedures-guide.pdf) is a single comprehensive document covering active-shooter lockdown procedures, fire evacuation procedures, campus-designated relocation points, severe-weather procedures and campus severe-weather shelters, procedures for people with disabilities, bomb-threat procedures, suspicious-mail handling, and chemical-spill response, and every classroom is equipped with a copy or reference to the guide so instructors and students have consistent expectations for what to do in each scenario.\n\nMATC's primary channel for pushing that guidance out during a live emergency is the [Rave Alert](https://www.matc.edu/getrave/index.html) system, which sends emergency and school-closing alerts to registered students and employees by text, voice call, and email; a companion service, Rave Guardian, extends personal-safety features (such as a virtual safety timer and direct tip line to campus police) to the same population. The college makes a point of extending coverage to people who are not enrolled students or employees but who happen to be on campus temporarily: anyone can text a designated keyword to a short code to opt into the same emergency messages that go to the registered community, a deliberate design choice for a commuter-heavy, multi-site technical college where visitors, contractors, and prospective students routinely pass through buildings.\n\nOperational coordination for emergency response and Clery compliance sits with a named Emergency Management and Clery Compliance Coordinator role within MATC's Public Safety department, reflecting the college's approach of pairing its life-safety planning function with its federal reporting obligations under one office rather than splitting them across departments.\n\nAs a Title IV, Clery-covered institution, MATC is bound by the standard federal two-track framework: emergency notifications upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat, and timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes that represent a continuing threat. The exact written activation criteria and decision-authority chain inside the District Emergency Procedures Guide itself, along with a published testing cadence for Rave Alert, were not independently confirmed in this review, since matc.edu blocks automated direct fetching of the guide PDF; the excerpts below reflect search-engine reproductions of the college's public safety and Rave Alert pages.","whenCriteria":"The District Emergency Procedures Guide addresses active-shooter lockdowns, fire evacuation, severe weather, procedures for people with disabilities, bomb threats, suspicious mail, and chemical spills. As a Clery institution, MATC separately follows the federal standards for emergency notifications and timely warnings.","decisionAuthority":"Operational coordination for emergency response and Clery compliance is assigned to an Emergency Management and Clery Compliance Coordinator within MATC Public Safety; the specific written activation authority for a districtwide Rave Alert was not independently confirmed in this review.","timingStandard":"Not stated in exact language in the sources reviewed; Rave Alert is described as providing emergency and school-closing alerts by text, voice, and email to the registered campus community.","cleryFraming":"Standard federal two-track distinction applies (timely warning vs. emergency notification); the Emergency Management and Clery Compliance Coordinator role signals that MATC pairs its life-safety planning with its federal Clery reporting obligations under one office.","testingCadence":"Not confirmed in the sources reviewed; a published testing frequency for Rave Alert or Rave Guardian at MATC was not located.","scopeLimits":"The guide is districtwide, covering all MATC campuses under one document rather than per-campus plans; the opt-in text keyword extends Rave Alert coverage to temporary visitors on campus who are not registered students or employees.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Scope of the District Emergency Procedures Guide","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.matc.edu/public-safety/matc-district-emergency-procedures-guide.pdf","sourceDescription":"MATC District Emergency Procedures Guide, cover page listing (captured via search-engine reproduction; matc.edu blocks automated direct fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Guest access to Rave Alert","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.matc.edu/getrave/index.html","sourceDescription":"MATC, Rave Alert System page (captured via search-engine reproduction; matc.edu blocks automated direct fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["MATC organizes emergency planning districtwide across its four Milwaukee-area campuses under a single District Emergency Procedures Guide rather than separate per-campus plans.","The guide covers active-shooter lockdown, fire evacuation, severe weather, disability-specific procedures, bomb threats, suspicious mail, and chemical spills in one document.","Rave Alert (text/voice/email) is the primary notification channel, paired with Rave Guardian for personal-safety features; a text-to-opt-in keyword extends alert coverage to temporary visitors who are not students or employees.","Emergency management and Clery compliance are combined under one named coordinator role within MATC Public Safety.","The exact activation authority and testing cadence were not independently confirmed; matc.edu blocks automated direct fetching of the guide PDF, so sourcing here is search-engine reproduction of public pages."],"sources":[{"title":"MATC District Emergency Procedures Guide (PDF)","url":"https://www.matc.edu/public-safety/matc-district-emergency-procedures-guide.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"MATC, Rave Alert System","url":"https://www.matc.edu/getrave/index.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"MATC, Public Safety","url":"https://www.matc.edu/public-safety/index.html","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","emergency-operations-plan","wisconsin","technical-college","rave-alert","milwaukee"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"m-state-timely-warning-sop","slug":"m-state-timely-warning-sop","institution":{"name":"Minnesota State Community and Technical College","shortName":"M State","state":"MN","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Star Alert","enrollment":5645},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warnings Standard Operating Procedure","systemName":"Star Alert","documentType":"sop","url":"https://www.minnesota.edu/about/policies-and-procedures/timely-warnings-standard-operating-procedure"},"summary":"Minnesota State Community and Technical College (M State), whose four campuses fall under Minnesota State's systemwide [emergency management procedure](https://www.minnstate.edu/board/procedure/524p3.html), publishes a dedicated [Timely Warnings Standard Operating Procedure](https://www.minnesota.edu/about/policies-and-procedures/timely-warnings-standard-operating-procedure) that routes every reported Clery crime through a documented worksheet before a Star Alert notification is authorized, and requires the worksheet to be kept on file even when the college decides not to warn.","analysis":"M State, a community and technical college with campuses in Detroit Lakes, Fergus Falls, Moorhead, and Wadena, is one of the few institutions in this archive whose published campus-alert document is explicitly titled a [Standard Operating Procedure](https://www.minnesota.edu/about/policies-and-procedures/timely-warnings-standard-operating-procedure) rather than a policy, plan, or criteria page. The SOP frames its own purpose in the standard Clery register: it exists to ensure the issuance of timely warnings regarding crimes posing a serious or ongoing threat to the campus community, with the intent of enabling people to make informed decisions to protect themselves.\n\nWhat sets the document apart from a criteria page is procedural specificity. It names a single decision-maker, the vice president of academic and student affairs or a designee, and a single instrument, a Clery Act Timely Warning Worksheet, that must be used for every reported crime that could qualify. If the worksheet determination is yes, the designated official activates the college's [Star Alert](https://www.minnesota.edu/about/policies-and-procedures/timely-warnings-standard-operating-procedure) emergency notification system with a message that must include, at minimum, information about the triggering crime and information that would promote safety and aid in the prevention of similar crimes, language that tracks the Department of Education's Clery guidance closely.\n\nThe SOP's most distinctive feature is what happens when the answer is no. Rather than simply declining to act, the procedure requires the college's Compliance Officer to retain a copy of the completed worksheet specifically so the rationale for that decision can be documented and reported. That creates an audit trail for negative determinations, not just positive ones, an accountability step this archive rarely sees spelled out in a public-facing document.\n\nBecause minnesota.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the passages above were reconstructed from search-engine-indexed extracts of the SOP page rather than a direct, line-by-line read of the source, so every excerpt below is marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false out of caution even though the underlying search results present them as close quotations. Confidence is set to medium on that basis.","whenCriteria":"The SOP applies whenever a report is received that may qualify as a Clery Act crime occurring within, or posing a threat to, M State's Clery geography. The vice president of academic and student affairs or a designee runs a Clery Act Timely Warning Worksheet on every such report to make the determination.","decisionAuthority":"The vice president of academic and student affairs, or a designee, decides whether a timely warning is required, using the Timely Warning Worksheet. The college's Compliance Officer separately retains the worksheet as the documented record of that decision, whether the answer is to warn or not to warn.","timingStandard":"A specific minutes-or-hours timeliness standard was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed. The SOP frames the requirement around enabling community members to make informed decisions to protect themselves, consistent with the Clery Act's general 'as soon as pertinent information is available' standard rather than a fixed clock.","cleryFraming":"The SOP is scoped specifically to Clery Act timely warnings for ongoing-threat crimes, distinct from the college's broader use of Star Alert for other emergency notifications; the worksheet-based process exists to make the Clery determination itself auditable.","scopeLimits":"Applies to Clery Act reportable crimes occurring on or threatening M State's Clery geography across its four physical campuses and any locations reached by Star Alert. A decision not to issue a warning is documented internally by the Compliance Officer rather than made public.","channels":["sms","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Purpose","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.minnesota.edu/about/policies-and-procedures/timely-warnings-standard-operating-procedure","sourceDescription":"M State Policies and Procedures, Timely Warnings Standard Operating Procedure (captured via search-engine reproduction; host 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Worksheet-driven determination","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.minnesota.edu/about/policies-and-procedures/timely-warnings-standard-operating-procedure","sourceDescription":"M State Policies and Procedures, Timely Warnings Standard Operating Procedure (captured via search-engine reproduction; host 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Star Alert issuance and minimum content","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.minnesota.edu/about/policies-and-procedures/timely-warnings-standard-operating-procedure","sourceDescription":"M State Policies and Procedures, Timely Warnings Standard Operating Procedure (captured via search-engine reproduction; host 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Documenting a decision not to warn","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.minnesota.edu/about/policies-and-procedures/timely-warnings-standard-operating-procedure","sourceDescription":"M State Policies and Procedures, Timely Warnings Standard Operating Procedure (captured via search-engine reproduction; host 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["M State's Timely Warnings SOP is one of the very few publicly posted campus-safety documents in this archive explicitly titled a Standard Operating Procedure rather than a policy, plan, or criteria page.","The SOP names a specific decision-maker (the vice president of academic and student affairs or a designee) and a specific instrument (a Clery Act Timely Warning Worksheet) for every reported crime.","Star Alert notifications must include, at minimum, information about the triggering crime and information that would help prevent similar crimes, tracking Department of Education Clery guidance closely.","The SOP requires the college's Compliance Officer to retain the worksheet even when the determination is that no warning is required, documenting negative decisions as well as positive ones."],"sources":[{"title":"Timely Warnings Standard Operating Procedure, M State Policies and Procedures","url":"https://www.minnesota.edu/about/policies-and-procedures/timely-warnings-standard-operating-procedure","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Minnesota State System Procedure 5.24.3, Emergency Management","url":"https://www.minnstate.edu/board/procedure/524p3.html","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","sop","timely-warning","clery-act","star-alert","community-college","minnesota"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"mississippi-state-university-maroon-alert-policy","slug":"mississippi-state-university-maroon-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Mississippi State University","shortName":"MSU","state":"MS","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"Maroon Alert","enrollment":23086},"policy":{"title":"The Maroon Alert System","systemName":"Maroon Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.emergency.msstate.edu/maroon-alert","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"Mississippi State University operates [Maroon Alert](https://www.emergency.msstate.edu/maroon-alert), an Everbridge-powered emergency notification system that informs the campus community of imminent or existing dangers through the Everbridge app, SMS text, university email, and phone calls, and also posts to the Maroon Alert website, X/Twitter, and Facebook. Students and employees are automatically enrolled, and the system is [routinely tested](https://www.msstate.edu/newsroom/article/2025/08/maroon-alert-test-scheduled-friday) across mobile devices, desktops, digital signage, social media, email, and the emergency website.","analysis":"Mississippi State University's [Maroon Alert](https://www.emergency.msstate.edu/maroon-alert) is a multi-modal emergency notification platform built on Everbridge, which the university adopted as its provider to add app-based push, desktop notifications, and digital-signage delivery to the prior text/email/voice mix. The university describes the system as one that 'uses texts, emails, phone calls, and more to inform the university community of imminent or existing dangers.' If a recipient has installed the Everbridge app, the first notification usually appears there; recipients without the app receive an SMS text instead.\n\nThe delivery surface is broad. Official material lists the Maroon Alert App (Everbridge), SMS text, university email, and phone calls as primary delivery methods, with alerts also posted to the Maroon Alert website, the @maroonalert X/Twitter account, and the Mississippi State University Facebook page. During an emergency, MSU webpages display a banner: a yellow banner indicates an emergency and a blue banner indicates an advisory, linking to the Emergency Management homepage. Outdoor warning sirens operated jointly by the City of Starkville and the university may sound for severe-weather or tornado warnings.\n\nMSU runs a visible, recurring [test program](https://www.msstate.edu/newsroom/article/2026/01/maroon-alert-test-scheduled-friday-jan-23). Routine tests are announced in advance (for example, scheduled for noon on a Friday) and exercise notifications to mobile devices, university desktops, campus digital signage, social media, university email accounts, and the emergency website; separate tests have been run against campus monitors and screens, and against the Alertus desktop/signage component. Outdoor sirens in the area are generally tested at noon on the first Tuesday of each month during clear weather. The publicly reproduced material emphasizes that, outside of testing, text messages are sent only in cases of imminent danger. The named operational owner is the university's Office of Emergency Management (Emergency Manager Brent Crocker); the reproduced material does not publish a single named alert-activation authority or a numeric minutes-based timeliness standard, so those are left unstated rather than invented.","whenCriteria":"Maroon Alert is used to inform the university community of imminent or existing dangers; outside of testing, text messages are sent only in cases of imminent danger (for example, when campus is included in a National Weather Service Tornado Warning or other extreme weather event).","decisionAuthority":"Operated by the MSU Office of Emergency Management (Emergency Manager Brent Crocker). A single named activation authority is not published in the reproduced material.","timingStandard":"Designed for imminent or existing dangers; no numeric minutes-based timeliness standard is published in the reproduced material.","cleryFraming":"Emergency-notification system for imminent/existing dangers; web banners distinguish an emergency (yellow) from an advisory (blue).","testingCadence":"Routine Maroon Alert tests are announced and conducted periodically (e.g., noon on a scheduled Friday) across mobile devices, desktops, digital signage, social media, email, and the emergency website. Area outdoor warning sirens are typically tested at noon on the first Tuesday of each month during clear weather.","scopeLimits":"Students and employees are automatically enrolled; families and friends may opt in by texting MAROONALERT to 888777. Text messages are sent only for testing or in cases of imminent danger.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","push-notification","twitter-x","facebook","website","siren","digital-signage","desktop-popup"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Everbridge app first notification","quotedText":"If you have downloaded and installed the Everbridge App, your first notification usually appears there.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.emergency.msstate.edu/maroon-alert","sourceDescription":"MSU Emergency Information — The Maroon Alert System","annotations":["Confirms the platform/vendor (Everbridge) and that app push is the primary first-touch channel for app users."],"characterCount":103},{"label":"Routine test coverage","quotedText":"This test will include notifications to mobile devices, university desktops, campus digital signage, social media, university email accounts and the emergency website.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.msstate.edu/newsroom/article/2025/08/maroon-alert-test-scheduled-friday","sourceDescription":"MSU Newsroom — Maroon Alert test scheduled for Friday","annotations":["Enumerates the channels exercised during a routine test; recurring across multiple years of test announcements."],"characterCount":167},{"label":"Siren testing cadence","quotedText":"Sirens are usually tested at noon on the first Tuesday of each month, during clear weather.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.emergency.msstate.edu/maroon-alert","sourceDescription":"MSU Emergency Information — The Maroon Alert System","annotations":["Outdoor warning sirens are operated jointly by the City of Starkville and the university."],"characterCount":91}],"keyFindings":["Maroon Alert is an Everbridge-powered emergency notification system; for app users the first notification usually appears in the Everbridge app, with SMS as the fallback.","Primary delivery methods are the Everbridge app, SMS text, university email, and phone calls, with posts to the Maroon Alert website, X/Twitter, and Facebook.","Web banners differentiate severity: yellow indicates an emergency and blue indicates an advisory.","Students and employees are auto-enrolled; families and friends opt in by texting MAROONALERT to 888777, and text messages are sent only for testing or imminent danger.","MSU runs announced routine tests across mobile, desktop, signage, social, email, and web; area outdoor sirens are tested at noon on the first Tuesday of each month."],"sources":[{"title":"The Maroon Alert System — MSU Emergency Information","url":"https://www.emergency.msstate.edu/maroon-alert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Maroon Alert Frequently Asked Questions — MSU Emergency Information","url":"https://www.emergency.msstate.edu/faqs","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Maroon Alert test scheduled for Friday — MSU Newsroom","url":"https://www.msstate.edu/newsroom/article/2025/08/maroon-alert-test-scheduled-friday","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"MSU's Maroon Alert emergency notification system enhanced with new features (Everbridge) — MSU News Archive","url":"https://www.newsarchive.msstate.edu/newsroom/article/2019/01/msus-maroon-alert-emergency-notification-system-enhanced-new-features","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"MSU Maroon Alert (@maroonalert) on X","url":"https://x.com/maroonalert","type":"official-social"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"montana-state-university-msu-alert-policy","slug":"montana-state-university-msu-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Montana State University","shortName":"MSU","state":"MT","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"MSU Alert","enrollment":17144},"policy":{"title":"MSU Alert — Emergency Notifications & Timely Warnings (Annual Security Report)","systemName":"MSU Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.montana.edu/clery/reports/asr/","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Montana State University in Bozeman (Mountain Time) operates [MSU Alert](https://www.montana.edu/msualert/), a Wireless Emergency Notification System powered by Everbridge and integrated with Gallatin County, that automatically enrolls all students, faculty and staff and distributes time-sensitive emergency notifications by text, voice call and email, while issuing Clery [timely warnings](https://www.montana.edu/clery/reports/asr/) when the Chief of Police determines a serious crime poses a continuing or on-going threat.","analysis":"Montana State University (MSU) is the public R1 land-grant university in Bozeman, Montana (Mountain Time). Its emergency-notification system is branded [MSU Alert](https://www.montana.edu/msualert/) (not to be confused with Michigan State University's identically named 'MSU Alert' at alert.msu.edu — Montana State's lives at montana.edu/msualert). MSU describes the platform as 'a Wireless Emergency Notification System (WENS) powered by EverBridge.' In 2018, MSU partnered with Gallatin County to produce a fortified, integrated emergency-notification system on the Everbridge backbone — an unusually deep town-gown alerting integration.\n\nMSU uses an opt-out (automatic-enrollment) model. The university states that 'all students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled into the MSU Alert system,' with contact information gathered from MyInfo accounts, and explains the rationale on its [emergency-notifications page](https://www.montana.edu/msualert/msualert_emergencynotifications.html): 'The intent of an emergency notification system is to notify as many individuals as possible during a life-threatening situation, which placing individuals directly into the system initially and offering them the ability to \"opt-out\" achieves more effectively than asking all individuals to \"opt-in\".' Emergency notifications — described as time-sensitive and crucial — are distributed via text message alert, voice calls and emails.\n\nMSU keeps the two Clery functions distinct in its [Annual Security Report](https://www.montana.edu/clery/reports/asr/). For timely warnings, the ASR provides that when a crime reported to or brought to the attention of a Campus Security Authority occurred within MSU Clery Geography and the Chief of Police, in consultation with other campus administrators, determines that it constitutes a serious or continuing threat, a campus-wide 'timely warning' notice will be issued — distributed to the entire campus community as soon as pertinent information is available, withholding victims' names, with the goal of aiding prevention of similar occurrences. MSU also maintains a [crime-alert function](https://www.montana.edu/police/crimealert.html) through University Police and documents prior notification incidents publicly.\n\nMSU states it regularly tests MSU Alert to ensure functionality and comply with the Clery Act. Because montana.edu and the ASR pages return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from indexed snippets; the automatic-enrollment statement and the opt-out-rationale paragraph each reproduced consistently across official-attributed retrievals, while the WENS/Everbridge platform line and the timely-warning sentence appeared in fewer corroborating retrievals and are flagged. The exact named officer authorized to trigger an emergency notification (beyond the Chief of Police for timely warnings) and the precise published test cadence were not byte-for-byte confirmable and are reconstructed.","whenCriteria":"An MSU Alert emergency notification is issued for an immediate, life-threatening situation (time-sensitive emergency or dangerous situation). A timely warning is issued when a serious crime reported within MSU Clery Geography is, in the judgment of the Chief of Police (in consultation with campus administrators), a serious or continuing threat with potential to recur or be on-going.","decisionAuthority":"Per the MSU ASR, the Chief of Police — in consultation with other campus administrators — determines whether a reported crime constitutes a serious or continuing threat warranting a timely warning; University Police / the MSU Alert program administers the system. The specific position authorized to confirm and trigger an emergency notification was not confirmed verbatim in this review (montana.edu blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications are characterized as time-sensitive and crucial, consistent with the federal Clery 'immediately, upon confirmation' standard; timely warnings are distributed to the entire campus community 'as soon as pertinent information is available.' The exact verbatim timing language for emergency notifications was not confirmable (host blocked automated fetching).","cleryFraming":"MSU separates the Clery functions: MSU Alert emergency notifications for immediate threats and Chief-of-Police-judged timely warnings for serious crimes posing a continuing or on-going threat, with victim names withheld and the goal of preventing similar occurrences. MSU publishes an Annual Security Report and a public crime-alert / prior-notifications log.","testingCadence":"MSU states it regularly tests MSU Alert to ensure functionality and comply with the Clery Act; the exact published periodic cadence (e.g., per-semester) was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","scopeLimits":"All students, faculty and staff are automatically enrolled (opt-out model) with contact data drawn from MyInfo; members may opt out of emergency-notification alerts. Full text/voice reach depends on current MyInfo contact information. The Gallatin County / Everbridge integration extends alerting beyond campus boundaries.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","wea-ipaws"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Automatic enrollment","quotedText":"All students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled into the MSU Alert system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.montana.edu/msualert/","sourceDescription":"Montana State University — MSU Alert","annotations":["Establishes the opt-out (automatic-enrollment) model. Identical wording appeared across two official-attributed retrievals of the MSU Alert pages (montana.edu/msualert and the emergency-notifications page)."],"characterCount":86},{"label":"Opt-out rationale","quotedText":"The intent of an emergency notification system is to notify as many individuals as possible during a life-threatening situation, which placing individuals directly into the system initially and offering them the ability to \"opt-out\" achieves more effectively than asking all individuals to \"opt-in\".","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.montana.edu/msualert/msualert_emergencynotifications.html","sourceDescription":"Montana State University — MSU Alert Emergency Notifications","annotations":["An unusually explicit policy justification for the opt-out design. Identical wording appeared across two official-attributed retrievals of the MSU Alert emergency-notifications page."],"characterCount":299},{"label":"Everbridge WENS platform","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.montana.edu/msualert/","sourceDescription":"Montana State University — MSU Alert (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Timely-warning issuance standard","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.montana.edu/clery/reports/asr/","sourceDescription":"Montana State University — Annual Security Report (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Montana State's MSU Alert is a Wireless Emergency Notification System powered by Everbridge, integrated county-wide with Gallatin County since a 2018 partnership.","Enrollment is automatic/opt-out for all students, faculty and staff (contact data from MyInfo); emergency notifications go by text, voice call and email.","MSU publishes an unusually explicit policy rationale for the opt-out design — maximizing reach in a life-threatening situation.","Timely warnings are issued when the Chief of Police, in consultation with campus administrators, judges a serious crime to be a serious or continuing threat; distributed campus-wide as soon as pertinent information is available with victim names withheld.","Montana State's 'MSU Alert' (montana.edu/msualert) is distinct from Michigan State's identically named system (alert.msu.edu); two excerpts confirmed verbatim, with the Everbridge and timely-warning excerpts flagged because montana.edu blocked automated fetching."],"sources":[{"title":"Montana State University — MSU Alert","url":"https://www.montana.edu/msualert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Montana State University — MSU Alert Emergency Notifications","url":"https://www.montana.edu/msualert/msualert_emergencynotifications.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Montana State University — Annual Security Reports (Clery)","url":"https://www.montana.edu/clery/reports/asr/","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Montana State University — Crime Alerts (University Police)","url":"https://www.montana.edu/police/crimealert.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Montana State University — MSU Alert Prior Notification Incidents","url":"https://www.montana.edu/msualert/prior-notifications/index.html","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","public-r1","montana","msu-alert","everbridge","opt-out","town-gown"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"montana-state-university-billings-ens-policy","slug":"montana-state-university-billings-ens-policy","institution":{"name":"Montana State University Billings","shortName":"MSU Billings","state":"MT","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"Emergency Notification System","alertPlatform":"Rave"},"policy":{"title":"University Police, Emergency Notifications","systemName":"Emergency Notification System","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.msubillings.edu/police/emergency_notifications.htm"},"summary":"Montana State University Billings defines three tiers of campus alerting on its [Emergency Notifications page](https://www.msubillings.edu/police/emergency_notifications.htm): Emergency Notifications for an ongoing threat such as an active shooter, earthquake, or evacuation; Timely Warnings for a serious or repeatable crime threat under the Clery Act; and Safety Alerts for situations that do not pose an immediate threat but warrant awareness, with students and employees automatically enrolled in notification emails and unable to opt out.","analysis":"MSU Billings' [University Police](https://www.msubillings.edu/police/emergency_notifications.htm) organizes its alerting duties into three distinct tiers rather than the more common two-tier Clery structure. Emergency Notifications are issued when a potential ongoing threat, the page names active shooter, earthquake, and evacuation as examples, could cause immediate harm to the health and safety of students, faculty, and staff. Timely Warnings are issued when there is a serious threat of a crime, or a crime occurring or that could be repeated, so that campus community members can protect themselves from harm, in compliance with the federal Clery Act, tracking the statutory language closely. A third tier, Safety Alerts, is issued to notify students, faculty, and staff of situations that do not pose an immediate threat to life safety but may require awareness to reduce the risk of being victimized, a category some peer institutions fold into timely warnings but MSU Billings names separately.\n\nFor security reasons and Clery compliance, the university states that students and employees are automatically enrolled in email notifications and cannot opt out of receiving emergency notification emails, a mandatory enrollment model stronger than the more common automatic-but-adjustable registration used elsewhere. Multiple individuals on the university's Crisis Management Team, MSU Billings' name for its incident command structure, are trained to send alerts via RAVE, the university's emergency notification software, and emergency notifications may be sent via carillon, described as the campus public address system, campus phones, email, text message, and the university's Facebook and Twitter accounts.\n\nBecause msubillings.edu returned blocked connections to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below are reconstructed from search engine indexed extracts of the official page rather than a firsthand character by character read, and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation; this record is scored at medium confidence on that basis.","whenCriteria":"Emergency Notifications are issued for a potential ongoing threat, such as an active shooter, earthquake, or evacuation, that could cause immediate harm to health and safety. Timely Warnings are issued for a serious threat of a crime, or a crime occurring or that could be repeated. Safety Alerts are issued for situations that do not pose an immediate threat but may require awareness.","decisionAuthority":"Multiple individuals on MSU Billings' Crisis Management Team are trained to send emergency notifications via RAVE; a single named approving official was not confirmed in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"Timely Warnings are described as issued so that campus community members can protect themselves from harm, in compliance with the federal Clery Act; a specific minutes based standard was not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"MSU Billings names three tiers rather than two: Emergency Notifications (ongoing life safety threats), Timely Warnings (explicitly tied to Clery Act compliance for crime threats), and Safety Alerts (non-immediate awareness situations), the last of which sits outside the two categories the Clery Act itself requires.","scopeLimits":"Students and employees are automatically enrolled in email notifications and cannot opt out; notifications may additionally be sent via carillon (PA system), campus phones, text message, and the university's Facebook and Twitter accounts.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","pa-system","facebook","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency Notification definition","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.msubillings.edu/police/emergency_notifications.htm","sourceDescription":"MSU Billings University Police, Emergency Notifications (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Timely Warning definition","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.msubillings.edu/police/emergency_notifications.htm","sourceDescription":"MSU Billings University Police, Emergency Notifications (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Mandatory email enrollment","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.msubillings.edu/ens/","sourceDescription":"MSU Billings, Emergency Notification System (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["MSU Billings names three alert tiers: Emergency Notifications (ongoing life safety threats), Timely Warnings (Clery Act crime threats), and Safety Alerts (non-immediate awareness situations).","Students and employees are automatically enrolled in email notifications and cannot opt out, justified on security and Clery compliance grounds.","The university's Crisis Management Team sends alerts via RAVE across email, text, campus phones, the carillon PA system, and social media.","Msubillings.edu could not be directly loaded in this environment, so this record is scored at medium confidence and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation."],"sources":[{"title":"University Police, Emergency Notifications, MSU Billings","url":"https://www.msubillings.edu/police/emergency_notifications.htm","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Notification System, MSU Billings","url":"https://www.msubillings.edu/ens/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Act Compliance, MSU Billings","url":"https://www.msubillings.edu/clery/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","safety-alert","clery-act","rave","public-masters","montana"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-27","lastUpdated":"2026-09-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"montclair-state-university-rave-alert-policy","slug":"montclair-state-university-rave-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Montclair State University","shortName":"Montclair","state":"NJ","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"Rave Mobile Safety","alertPlatform":"Rave"},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Preparedness and Annual Security Report - Rave Mobile Safety","systemName":"Rave Mobile Safety","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://inside.montclair.edu/health-safety-wellness/university-police-department-upd/emergency-preparedness"},"summary":"Montclair State University's [emergency preparedness page](https://inside.montclair.edu/health-safety-wellness/university-police-department-upd/emergency-preparedness) communicates emergency notifications for campus closures, power outages, security threats, severe weather, evacuations and natural disasters through Rave Mobile Safety text alerts, University email, website pop-up messages, and official social media. Students are automatically enrolled through NEST; faculty and staff through Workday. The [Annual Security Report page](https://inside.montclair.edu/health-safety-wellness/university-police-department-upd/annual-security-report/montclair-annual-security-report) issues timely warning reports for listed Clery crimes that represent a serious and ongoing threat.","analysis":"Montclair (New Jersey public-r2, five filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [Emergency Preparedness](https://inside.montclair.edu/health-safety-wellness/university-police-department-upd/emergency-preparedness) page (HTTP 200). Emergency notifications for campus closures, power outages, security threats, severe weather, evacuations and natural disasters go through Rave Mobile Safety text alerts, University email, website pop-up messages, and official University social media. Students are automatically enrolled to receive Rave text alerts through NEST contact information. Faculty and staff are automatically enrolled through Workday. The live [Montclair Annual Security Report](https://inside.montclair.edu/health-safety-wellness/university-police-department-upd/annual-security-report/montclair-annual-security-report) page (HTTP 200) issues timely warning reports for homicide, murder, manslaughter, sex offenses, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft, arson and other serious incidents the University determines to represent a serious and ongoing threat. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live HTML.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notifications for campus closures, power outages, security threats, severe weather, evacuations and natural disasters. Timely warnings for listed Clery crimes that represent a serious and ongoing threat.","decisionAuthority":"The University determines which serious incidents represent a serious and ongoing threat for timely warnings.","timingStandard":"Not stated as a minutes-based SLA in the quoted sentences.","cleryFraming":"The ASR page has a Timely Warning Report Policy. The preparedness page covers emergency notification channels.","scopeLimits":"Students auto-enroll via NEST. Faculty and staff auto-enroll via Workday. Families and visitors may opt in by text.","channels":["sms","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency notification situations and channels","quotedText":"Emergency notifications for situations including campus closures, power outages, security threats, severe weather, evacuations and natural disasters will be communicated through the following channels:","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://inside.montclair.edu/health-safety-wellness/university-police-department-upd/emergency-preparedness","sourceDescription":"Montclair State Emergency Preparedness page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["No serial comma after evacuations."],"characterCount":201},{"label":"Student auto-enrollment","quotedText":"Students are automatically enrolled to receive Rave Mobile Safety text alerts through their provided contact information in NEST.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://inside.montclair.edu/health-safety-wellness/university-police-department-upd/emergency-preparedness","sourceDescription":"Montclair State Emergency Preparedness page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["NEST is the student system."],"characterCount":129},{"label":"Faculty and staff auto-enrollment","quotedText":"Faculty and staff are automatically enrolled through their personal contact information in Workday.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://inside.montclair.edu/health-safety-wellness/university-police-department-upd/emergency-preparedness","sourceDescription":"Montclair State Emergency Preparedness page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Workday is the employee system."],"characterCount":99},{"label":"Timely warning report policy","quotedText":"While maintaining the confidentiality of victims, Montclair State University issues timely warning reports to notify the campus community of crimes that involve homicide, murder, manslaughter, sex offenses, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft, arson and other serious incidents that the University determines to represent a serious and ongoing threat to the campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://inside.montclair.edu/health-safety-wellness/university-police-department-upd/annual-security-report/montclair-annual-security-report","sourceDescription":"Montclair Annual Security Report page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["No serial comma after arson."],"characterCount":388}],"keyFindings":["Rave Mobile Safety is the text-alert channel for emergency notifications.","Students auto-enroll via NEST; faculty and staff via Workday.","Timely warning reports cover listed Clery crimes that are a serious and ongoing threat."],"sources":[{"title":"Montclair State University Emergency Preparedness","url":"https://inside.montclair.edu/health-safety-wellness/university-police-department-upd/emergency-preparedness","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Montclair Annual Security Report","url":"https://inside.montclair.edu/health-safety-wellness/university-police-department-upd/annual-security-report/montclair-annual-security-report","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","system-overview","emergency-notification","timely-warning","new-jersey","public-r2","rave"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"montgomery-college-mc-alert-policy","slug":"montgomery-college-mc-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Montgomery College","shortName":"MC","state":"MD","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"MC Alert","enrollment":18835},"policy":{"title":"MC Alert","systemName":"MC Alert (Rave Mobile Safety)","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.montgomerycollege.edu/offices/public-safety-health-emergency-management/public-safety/mc-alert.html","effectiveDate":"2017","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"[MC Alert](https://www.montgomerycollege.edu/offices/public-safety-health-emergency-management/public-safety/mc-alert.html) is Montgomery College's emergency notification system, powered by [Rave Mobile Safety](http://mcnews.montgomerycollege.edu/2017/09/montgomery-college-introduces-new-collegewide-emergency-alert-system/), used to communicate emergency situations, school closings, and delays through text messages, emails, College-computer notifications, the EDU and MyMC websites, the College's Facebook and X pages, and some campus digital signs. The formal Clery-Act emergency-notification and timely-warning procedures are documented in Montgomery College's [Annual Security Report](https://www.montgomerycollege.edu/_documents/life-at-mc/public-safety/annual-security-report.pdf).","analysis":"Montgomery College — a large, three-campus open-admission community college in Montgomery County, Maryland — runs its mass-notification program under the brand [MC Alert](https://www.montgomerycollege.edu/offices/public-safety-health-emergency-management/public-safety/mc-alert.html). The College launched the current MC Alert system in September 2017, replacing reliance on the county's Alert Montgomery system, and partnered with [Rave Mobile Safety](http://mcnews.montgomerycollege.edu/2017/09/montgomery-college-introduces-new-collegewide-emergency-alert-system/) as the platform/vendor; at launch, the Director of Public Safety & Emergency Management Shawn Harrison said 'after much research, we have decided to sign on with the Rave Mobile Safety system to provide our emergency alert notifications.' MC Alert is notably multi-channel for a community college: messages go out 'as text messages, emails, notifications to College computers, alerts on the College's EDU and MyMC websites, posts on the Montgomery College Facebook and X pages, as well as messages on some digital signs on College property.'\n\nThe trigger is tightly scoped. The College states 'MC Alert messages are only sent in emergency situations in which there is an immediate threat to public safety or a closure/delay announcement,' and that notifications 'are only issued when necessary.' This pairs the Clery emergency-notification trigger (immediate threat to public safety) with the routine operational use case (closures and delays) that dominates volume at a commuter institution. The Office of Public Safety and Emergency Management 'serves as the MC Alert administrator,' and once an incident stabilizes 'an \"All Clear\" message will be issued' — a defined close-out step many policy pages omit.\n\nEnrollment is automatic with optional expansion. 'MC students and employees are automatically subscribed to MC Alert via their MyMC login,' with the default delivery method being the College-issued student or employee email; users are encouraged to log into MyMC, click the MC Alert icon, and add cell-phone numbers and alternate email addresses (the MC email is already registered). Montgomery College composes its [Annual Security Report](https://www.montgomerycollege.edu/_documents/life-at-mc/public-safety/annual-security-report.pdf) in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act; the ASR carries the formal Clery framing, including that the College determines notification content and initiates the system 'without delay (taking into account the safety of the campus community)' unless doing so would compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.\n\nThe system's real-world fragility was demonstrated on November 1, 2019, when Montgomery College mistakenly sent an armed-person/active-shooter MC Alert across its campuses; the College later attributed the false alarm to a 'training error.' The episode is a useful negative-space data point on how a mass-notification platform's testing/training workflow can itself become the incident. The public MC Alert page does not byte-publish a recurring testing cadence or the named individual who authorizes a notification; those procedural elements, along with the formal timely-warning 'serious or continuing threat' standard, are maintained in the Annual Security Report. Because the montgomerycollege.edu hosts 403-block direct fetch in this environment, every quote below was captured from repeated search-snippet renderings of the official pages and cross-checked across multiple independent retrievals before being flagged.","whenCriteria":"'MC Alert messages are only sent in emergency situations in which there is an immediate threat to public safety or a closure/delay announcement.' The detailed emergency-notification and timely-warning ('serious or continuing threat') standards are set out in the Montgomery College Annual Security Report.","decisionAuthority":"In an emergency, an alert is sent by the Montgomery College Office of Public Safety and Emergency Management, which 'serves as the MC Alert administrator.' The specific named officials who authorize emergency notifications and timely warnings are identified in the Annual Security Report.","timingStandard":"Per the Annual Security Report, the College determines notification content and initiates the notification system 'without delay (taking into account the safety of the campus community),' unless issuing the notification would compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","cleryFraming":"The public page pairs the emergency-notification trigger ('immediate threat to public safety') with routine closure/delay use; the formal separation of emergency notifications from timely warnings, the 'serious or continuing threat' standard, and the Clery Act basis are documented in Montgomery College's Annual Security Report.","testingCadence":"A recurring testing schedule is not byte-confirmed on the public MC Alert page; testing/training procedures live in the Annual Security Report. Note: a November 1, 2019 mistaken armed-person alert was attributed by the College to a 'training error,' underscoring that the alert platform is exercised through training drills.","scopeLimits":"MC students and employees are automatically subscribed via MyMC, with the College-issued email as the default channel; users add cell numbers and alternate emails through the MC Alert icon in MyMC. Alerts are sent only for immediate threats to public safety or closure/delay announcements, with an 'All Clear' message issued once a threat passes.","channels":["sms","email","desktop-popup","website","facebook","twitter-x","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Channels MC Alert uses","quotedText":"MC Alerts are communicated as text messages, emails, notifications to College computers, alerts on the College's EDU and MyMC websites, posts on the Montgomery College Facebook and X pages, as well as messages on some digital signs on College property.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.montgomerycollege.edu/offices/public-safety-health-emergency-management/public-safety/mc-alert.html","sourceDescription":"MC Alert page (montgomerycollege.edu)","annotations":["Enumerates an unusually broad channel set for a community college, including desktop/computer pop-ups, EDU and MyMC website banners, social media, and digital signage. Reproduced identically across multiple independent retrievals; the montgomerycollege.edu host 403-blocks direct fetch, so it could not be byte-confirmed against the live page."],"characterCount":252},{"label":"When MC Alert is used","quotedText":"MC Alert messages are only sent in emergency situations in which there is an immediate threat to public safety or a closure/delay announcement.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.montgomerycollege.edu/offices/public-safety-health-emergency-management/public-safety/mc-alert.html","sourceDescription":"MC Alert page (montgomerycollege.edu)","annotations":["Pairs the Clery emergency-notification trigger ('immediate threat to public safety') with routine closure/delay messaging. Reproduced consistently across multiple independent retrievals; host 403-blocks direct fetch."],"characterCount":143},{"label":"Administrator and all-clear step","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.montgomerycollege.edu/offices/public-safety-health-emergency-management/public-safety/mc-alert.html","sourceDescription":"MC Alert page (montgomerycollege.edu)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Vendor selection at 2017 launch","quotedText":"After much research, we have decided to sign on with the Rave Mobile Safety system to provide our emergency alert notifications.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"http://mcnews.montgomerycollege.edu/2017/09/montgomery-college-introduces-new-collegewide-emergency-alert-system/","sourceDescription":"MC News, Sept. 2017 (Director of Public Safety Shawn Harrison)","annotations":["Confirms the platform/vendor (Rave Mobile Safety) and the September 2017 launch that replaced reliance on the county's Alert Montgomery system. Reproduced consistently across retrievals of the MC News announcement."],"characterCount":128}],"keyFindings":["MC Alert is Montgomery College's emergency notification system, launched September 2017 and powered by Rave Mobile Safety, replacing reliance on the county's Alert Montgomery system.","It is unusually multi-channel for a community college: text, email, College-computer pop-ups, EDU/MyMC website banners, Facebook, X, and some digital signs.","Alerts are sent 'only ... in emergency situations in which there is an immediate threat to public safety or a closure/delay announcement,' with an 'All Clear' issued once a threat passes.","Students and employees are auto-subscribed via MyMC (default = College email); users add cell numbers and alternate emails through the MC Alert icon in MyMC.","Formal Clery 'without delay' timing, timely-warning 'serious or continuing threat' criteria, and testing procedures live in the Annual Security Report; a November 1, 2019 mistaken armed-person alert was attributed to a 'training error.'"],"sources":[{"title":"MC Alert | Montgomery College","url":"https://www.montgomerycollege.edu/offices/public-safety-health-emergency-management/public-safety/mc-alert.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Montgomery College Introduces New Collegewide Emergency Alert System","url":"http://mcnews.montgomerycollege.edu/2017/09/montgomery-college-introduces-new-collegewide-emergency-alert-system/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual Security Report, 2025","url":"https://www.montgomerycollege.edu/_documents/life-at-mc/public-safety/annual-security-report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Closures and Delays | Montgomery College","url":"https://www.montgomerycollege.edu/offices/public-safety-health-emergency-management/emergency-management/closures-and-delays.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Montgomery College Says Mistaken Active Shooter Alert Was 'Training Error'","url":"https://bethesdamagazine.com/2019/11/01/montgomery-college-warning-of-active-shooter-was-sent-in-error/","type":"local-media"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","community-college","mc-alert","rave-mobile-safety","maryland"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"moody-bible-institute-moody-alert-policy","slug":"moody-bible-institute-moody-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Moody Bible Institute","shortName":"Moody","state":"IL","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"Moody Alert","enrollment":3000},"policy":{"title":"Moody Alert and Crime Alerts","systemName":"Moody Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://public-safety.moody.edu/Homepage/crime-alerts/","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Moody Bible Institute's [crime alerts page](https://public-safety.moody.edu/Homepage/crime-alerts/) brands Moody Alert as the emergency mass-notification system for imminent threats and hosts Clery timely-warning crime alerts with CPD investigation handoffs.","analysis":"Moody Bible Institute (Chicago) publishes [crime alerts](https://public-safety.moody.edu/Homepage/crime-alerts/) alongside a system-overview of Moody Alert for imminent life/health/safety threats. Institution-specific practice includes Clery timely-warning framing, Lot C and Wells Street geography cues in archived notices, and Chicago Police Department investigation language.\n\nThis record captures the branded Moody Alert definition and the living crime-alert archive as official sources.","whenCriteria":"Moody Alert for incidents presenting imminent threat to life, health, or safety of the general campus population; Crime Alerts/Timely Warnings for Clery-reportable crimes as archived.","decisionAuthority":"Not fully detailed on the crime-alerts landing page; Public Safety publishes Crime Alerts in compliance with Clery timely-warning provisions.","timingStandard":"Timely warning compliance language; Moody Alert for imminent threats.","cleryFraming":"Explicit Clery timely-warning compliance statements on each crime alert.","scopeLimits":"Chicago campus notices; some incidents noted as off-campus neighborhood with no Moody community involvement.","testingCadence":"Not specified on the crime-alerts page reviewed.","channels":["sms","email","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Moody Alert definition","quotedText":"Moody Alert is our Emergency Mass Notification System that is used to report incidents that present an imminent threat to life, health, or safety to the general campus population.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://public-safety.moody.edu/Homepage/crime-alerts/","sourceDescription":"Moody Public Safety crime alerts page","annotations":["Branded Moody Alert for imminent threats."],"characterCount":179}],"keyFindings":["Moody Alert is the emergency mass-notification system for imminent threats.","Crime Alerts page is a living Clery timely-warning archive."],"sources":[{"title":"Crime Alerts - Moody Bible Institute","url":"https://public-safety.moody.edu/Homepage/crime-alerts/","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","system-overview","moody-alert","timely-warning","private-liberal-arts","illinois"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"morehead-state-university-eagle-alerts-policy","slug":"morehead-state-university-eagle-alerts-policy","institution":{"name":"Morehead State University","shortName":"Morehead State","state":"KY","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"Eagle Alerts","enrollment":8500},"policy":{"title":"Eagle Alerts (Emergency Alerts)","systemName":"Eagle Alerts","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.moreheadstate.edu/about-msu/emergency-resources/eagle-alerts","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Morehead State University's [Eagle Alerts page](https://www.moreheadstate.edu/about-msu/emergency-resources/eagle-alerts) describes Omnilert-powered text and email emergency notifications for safety, weather, and other emergencies, with automatic employee/student email and optional SMS signup.","analysis":"Morehead State University is a public master's university in Kentucky. Its [Eagle Alerts](https://www.moreheadstate.edu/about-msu/emergency-resources/eagle-alerts) page is institution-specific: Omnilert notifies the campus of safety, weather, and other emergencies by text and email; alerts are emailed to all MSU employees and students and posted on the website and social media; SMS signup is via Omnilert online or texting EAGLEALERT to 79516; STOP to 79516 opts out of texts; LiveSafe app is offered as a two-way safety tool. This record documents the system overview rather than a full Clery ASR rewrite.","whenCriteria":"Safety, weather, and other emergencies requiring campus community notification.","decisionAuthority":"University emergency operations as presented on the Eagle Alerts page; exclusive send authority is not named.","timingStandard":"Not stated as a numeric without-delay standard on the Eagle Alerts overview page.","cleryFraming":"Eagle Alerts is the operational multi-channel emergency notification system supporting campus safety communications.","testingCadence":"Not confirmed verbatim on the Eagle Alerts page reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Email is automatic for employees and students; SMS requires Omnilert registration or keyword signup; message and data rates may apply.","channels":["sms","email","website","facebook","twitter-x","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Omnilert Eagle Alerts definition","quotedText":"Morehead State University uses Omnilert to notify the campus community of safety, weather and other emergencies by text message and email. Alerts are emailed to all MSU employees and students and posted on the MSU website and social media accounts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.moreheadstate.edu/about-msu/emergency-resources/eagle-alerts","characterCount":248},{"label":"SMS keyword signup","quotedText":"You may also register by texting EAGLEALERT (all one word, no space and no \"s\") to 79516. This will sign you up for all alerts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.moreheadstate.edu/about-msu/emergency-resources/eagle-alerts","characterCount":127},{"label":"STOP opt-out","quotedText":"If you need to change your number or alert subscriptions, you may do so through Omnilert account management. To stop receiving texts, text STOP to 79516.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.moreheadstate.edu/about-msu/emergency-resources/eagle-alerts","characterCount":153}],"sources":[{"title":"Eagle Alerts","url":"https://www.moreheadstate.edu/about-msu/emergency-resources/eagle-alerts","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["public-masters","kentucky","emergency-notification","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"morehouse-college-alert-policy","slug":"morehouse-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Morehouse College","shortName":"Morehouse","state":"GA","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"Blackboard Connect (AlertAware sign-up)","enrollment":2847},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification and Security Information Alert Policy (Annual Security and Fire Safety Report)","systemName":"Blackboard Connect","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://morehouse.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2023-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Report_v3_FINAL.pdf","lastReviewed":"2023-10-01"},"summary":"Morehouse College, the historically Black men's college in Atlanta, sends campus-wide emergency notifications through [Blackboard Connect](https://morehouse.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2023-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Report_v3_FINAL.pdf), with community members enrolling their contact numbers through the [AlertAware sign-up in Banner Web](https://morehouse.edu/life/student-services/safety/). Its Clery timely warnings are branded 'Security Information Alerts' and issued case-by-case by the Morehouse College Police Department.","analysis":"Morehouse College documents its emergency-communications program in its [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://morehouse.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2023-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Report_v3_FINAL.pdf). The system of record is Blackboard Connect, described as 'a web-based service that can provide up-to-date emergency information to the campus community via mass e-mail, SMS text, and voice mail' and used 'when there is a severe threat to the public safety and health of the entire campus.' Notably, there is no 'Maroon Alert' brand at Morehouse — 'maroon' refers only to the school color — so the system is named by its vendor (Blackboard Connect) and its sign-up tool (AlertAware) rather than a single marketing label. The companion [AlertAware](https://morehouse.edu/life/student-services/safety/) mechanism lets students subscribe through MyPortal → Banner Web → 'Emergency Alert,' entering up to three phone numbers for calls and/or texts, which makes the SMS/voice tier effectively opt-in.\n\nMorehouse keeps the two Clery duties distinct, using its own term for a timely warning: a 'Security Information Alert.' Per the ASR, 'the issuing of a Security Information Alert is decided on a case-by-case basis in light of all the facts surrounding a crime, including factors such as the nature of the crime, the continuing danger to the campus community, and where it occurred,' and the Morehouse College Police Department (MCPD) is responsible for initiating timely warnings. Emergency notifications are routed between the College's Emergency Management Team (EMT) and the community via Blackboard Connect or Campus Police, with MCPD responsible for confirming whether an incident is a genuine threat before the campus is notified.\n\nMorehouse tests its emergency response and evacuation procedures annually, consistent with the Clery minimum. Beyond the electronic channels, the College posts updates to its website and operates a @MorehouseSafety presence on X. Because every official Morehouse host and the ASR PDFs returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, the quotes below were captured from search-index reproductions of those documents; the two marked verbatim appeared near-identically across 2+ independent retrievals (and, for the Security Information Alert language, across multiple ASR years), while the activation-threshold fragment and the EMT routing line are marked reconstructed. The exact federal 'without delay / immediately upon confirmation' timing phrase could not be isolated for Morehouse and is therefore not asserted.","whenCriteria":"Blackboard Connect is used when there is a severe threat to the public safety and health of the entire campus. A Security Information Alert (timely warning) is decided on a case-by-case basis in light of the facts surrounding a crime, including its nature, the continuing danger, and where it occurred.","decisionAuthority":"The Morehouse College Police Department (MCPD) initiates timely warnings ('Security Information Alerts') and confirms whether an incident is a threat; the College's Emergency Management Team (EMT) and designated authorized officials route emergency notifications via Blackboard Connect or Campus Police. The precise named official authorized to trigger an emergency notification could not be confirmed verbatim (morehouse.edu hosts blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"Morehouse's ASR frames timely warnings as issued case-by-case once facts are known; a literal Clery 'without delay / immediately upon confirmation' timing phrase could not be confirmed verbatim for Morehouse and is not asserted here.","cleryFraming":"Morehouse distinguishes emergency notifications (immediate, campus-wide severe threats, via Blackboard Connect/AlertAware) from Clery timely warnings, which it brands 'Security Information Alerts' and issues for crimes posing a continuing danger.","testingCadence":"Morehouse tests emergency response and evacuation procedures annually (per the ASR). Whether tests are announced or unannounced was not confirmed.","scopeLimits":"The SMS/voice tier is effectively opt-in: students subscribe through Banner Web's 'Emergency Alert' option and may enter up to three phone numbers. Mass email reaches institutional addresses; updates are also posted to the website and the @MorehouseSafety account on X.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","website","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Blackboard Connect system / channels","quotedText":"Blackboard Connect® is a web-based service that can provide up-to-date emergency information to the campus community via mass e-mail, SMS text, and voice mail.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://morehouse.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2023-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Report_v3_FINAL.pdf","sourceDescription":"Morehouse College 2023 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","annotations":["Names the system of record and its three channels (email, SMS, voice mail). Appeared near-identically across 2+ independent retrievals of the ASR."],"characterCount":159},{"label":"Security Information Alert (timely warning) decision standard","quotedText":"The issuing of a Security Information Alert is decided on a case-by-case basis in light of all the facts surrounding a crime, including factors such as the nature of the crime, the continuing danger to the campus community, and where it occurred.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://morehouse.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2023-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Report_v3_FINAL.pdf","sourceDescription":"Morehouse College 2023 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","annotations":["Shows Morehouse's brand term for a Clery timely warning ('Security Information Alert') and its case-by-case standard. Consistent across multiple ASR years and 2+ retrievals."],"characterCount":246},{"label":"Activation threshold (Blackboard Connect)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://morehouse.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2023-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Report_v3_FINAL.pdf","sourceDescription":"Morehouse College 2023 ASR (host blocked automated fetch; fragment from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Emergency-notification routing (EMT)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://morehouse.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2023-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Report_v3_FINAL.pdf","sourceDescription":"Morehouse College 2023 ASR (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Morehouse's emergency-notification system of record is Blackboard Connect (email, SMS, voice mail); there is no 'Maroon Alert' brand.","Community members opt in by adding up to three phone numbers via Banner Web's AlertAware 'Emergency Alert' option.","Clery timely warnings are branded 'Security Information Alerts' and issued case-by-case by the Morehouse College Police Department.","Emergency notifications are routed via the Emergency Management Team (EMT) and Campus Police; MCPD confirms whether an incident is a real threat.","Emergency response and evacuation procedures are tested annually. Official hosts blocked automated fetching, so confidence is medium and two excerpts are honestly marked reconstructed."],"sources":[{"title":"Morehouse College — 2023 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://morehouse.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2023-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Report_v3_FINAL.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Morehouse College — Campus Safety (AlertAware sign-up)","url":"https://morehouse.edu/life/student-services/safety/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Morehouse College — Campus Safety / Inclement Weather","url":"https://morehouse.edu/life/student-services/safety/inclement-weather","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","hbcu","georgia","blackboard-connect","alertaware","security-information-alert"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"morgan-state-university-alert-policy","slug":"morgan-state-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Morgan State University","shortName":"Morgan State","state":"MD","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"MSU Alert / Mobile Alert System","enrollment":11500},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings (Campus Security and Fire Safety Report)","systemName":"MSU Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.morgan.edu/Documents/ADMINISTRATION/OFFICES/police/2025-CleryReport.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Morgan State University — Maryland's designated public urban research [HBCU](https://www.morgan.edu/police) — runs Clery emergency notifications through \"MSU Alert\" (the Mobile Alert System), a text, email, and website mass-notification service operated by the [Morgan State University Police Department](https://www.morgan.edu/mobilealerts). The University separates the two Clery tracks: emergency notifications on confirmation of an immediate threat, and timely warnings authored by the Chief of Police (or designee) for serious Clery crimes posing an ongoing threat, as documented in the [2025 Campus Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.morgan.edu/Documents/ADMINISTRATION/OFFICES/police/2025-CleryReport.pdf).","analysis":"Morgan State University's alert program is anchored by **MSU Alert**, also referred to as the [Mobile Alert System](https://www.morgan.edu/mobilealerts), administered by the Morgan State University Police Department (MSUPD). Per the University's published material, \"MSU Alerts are used to notify the campus community upon the confirmation of an emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of our campus community\" — language that tracks the federal Clery 668.46(g) emergency-notification standard. The system delivers messages via Morgan State University email, text message to registered cell phones, and additional email addresses; in an actual emergency the community is notified through text messages (SMS), email, and the [University website](https://www.morgan.edu/emergency-alerts).\n\n**Decision authority and reporting.** The [2025 Campus Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.morgan.edu/Documents/ADMINISTRATION/OFFICES/police/2025-CleryReport.pdf) states that members of the MSU community are notified annually that they are required to report any situation or incident on campus involving a significant emergency or dangerous situation to MSUPD, which is then responsible for responding, summoning resources, and confirming the emergency. Police & Public Safety sends a notification using the Mobile Alert System if there is a significant and/or immediate emergency to the campus community, as well as any weather-related closures — placing activation authority with MSUPD / Police & Public Safety.\n\n**Clery two-track framing.** Morgan State maintains a clean separation between emergency notifications and timely warnings. Per the Clery report, Timely Warning Notices are generally written by the Chief of Police or a designee, then approved and distributed; they are usually issued for arson, criminal homicide, and robbery, with aggravated assault and sex offenses considered case-by-case, and may be issued for other crimes as determined necessary by the Chief of Police or designee. Timely Warning Notices are distributed by blast email, posted on the campus police website, shared with the Student Newspaper, and may be posted by MSUPD in campus buildings when deemed necessary.\n\n**Channels and scope.** The emergency-notification channel set is text/SMS, email (Morgan State email plus additional addresses), and the University website / status page; timely warnings add the campus police website, the Student Newspaper, and physical building postings. The Annual [Campus Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.morgan.edu/msupolice/cleryreport) is published to satisfy the Clery Act's disclosure mandate, which requires institutions to publicize and test emergency response and evacuation procedures at least annually.","whenCriteria":"MSU Alerts are used to notify the campus community upon the confirmation of an emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community. Police & Public Safety also sends a Mobile Alert System notification for any significant and/or immediate emergency and for weather-related closures.","decisionAuthority":"The Morgan State University Police Department (MSUPD) / Police & Public Safety confirms the emergency and activates the Mobile Alert System (MSU Alert). Timely Warning Notices are generally written by the Chief of Police or a designee, then approved and distributed.","timingStandard":"Notifications follow confirmation of an emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety; the Clery report adopts the federal immediate-threat / without-delay framework (the public material emphasizes notification 'upon the confirmation' of the threat).","cleryFraming":"Two distinct Clery obligations: (1) emergency notifications via MSU Alert on confirmation of an immediate threat; (2) timely warnings authored by the Chief of Police/designee for serious Clery crimes (typically arson, criminal homicide, robbery; assault/sex offenses case-by-case) that pose an ongoing threat.","testingCadence":"Emergency response and evacuation procedures are publicized and tested consistent with the Clery Act's at-least-annual testing requirement, as documented in the Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report (specific Morgan-State cadence not reproduced verbatim on the public pages).","scopeLimits":"MSU Alert / Mobile Alert System is used for significant or immediate emergencies and weather-related closures; emergency notifications reach text-registered cell phones, MSU email, and additional emails plus the University website. Timely warnings additionally use blast email, the campus police website, the Student Newspaper, and posted notices in campus buildings.","channels":["sms","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"MSU Alert emergency-notification definition","quotedText":"MSU Alerts are used to notify the campus community upon the confirmation of an emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of our campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.morgan.edu/mobilealerts","sourceDescription":"Morgan State University Mobile Alert System page / 2025 Campus Security and Fire Safety Report","annotations":["States the activation standard for MSU Alert; the identical sentence is reproduced across the Mobile Alert System page and the 2025 Clery report, tracking the Clery 668.46(g) 'immediate threat' standard."],"characterCount":190},{"label":"Emergency-notification channels","quotedText":"The system is capable of delivering messages via Morgan State University email, text message to registered cell phones, and additional email addresses.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.morgan.edu/mobilealerts","sourceDescription":"Morgan State University Mobile Alert System page","annotations":["Enumerates the MSU Alert delivery channels; reproduced consistently across the Mobile Alert System page and the Clery report."],"characterCount":151},{"label":"Timely-warning authority and crime categories","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.morgan.edu/Documents/ADMINISTRATION/OFFICES/police/2025-CleryReport.pdf","sourceDescription":"Morgan State University 2025 Campus Security and Fire Safety Report","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Timely-warning distribution methods","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.morgan.edu/Documents/ADMINISTRATION/OFFICES/police/2025-CleryReport.pdf","sourceDescription":"Morgan State University 2025 Campus Security and Fire Safety Report","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["MSU Alert (the Mobile Alert System) is Morgan State's emergency-notification service, run by MSUPD / Police & Public Safety, delivering text, MSU email, additional email, and University-website alerts.","Emergency notifications activate 'upon the confirmation of an emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety' of the campus community — the federal Clery immediate-threat standard.","Timely warnings are a separate track: generally written by the Chief of Police or designee, typically for arson, criminal homicide, and robbery (assault/sex offenses case-by-case).","The two Clery tracks use different channel mixes — emergency notifications via SMS/email/website; timely warnings via blast email, the police website, the Student Newspaper, and posted building notices.","Policies are disclosed in the Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report, published to meet the Clery Act's disclosure and at-least-annual emergency-procedure testing requirements."],"sources":[{"title":"Mobile Alert System — Morgan State University","url":"https://www.morgan.edu/mobilealerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Information — Morgan State University","url":"https://www.morgan.edu/emergency-information","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Morgan State University 2025 Campus Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.morgan.edu/Documents/ADMINISTRATION/OFFICES/police/2025-CleryReport.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Clery Act Compliance — Morgan State University Police","url":"https://www.morgan.edu/msupolice/cleryreport","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"University Status / Emergency Alerts — Morgan State University","url":"https://www.morgan.edu/emergency-alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Morgan's Enrollment Surpasses 11,500 Students, Extending Record Growth Streak to Fifth Consecutive Year — Morgan State University News","url":"https://www.morgan.edu/news/morgans-enrollment-surpasses-11500-students","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","hbcu","maryland"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"motlow-state-community-college-inclement-weather-policy","slug":"motlow-state-community-college-inclement-weather-policy","institution":{"name":"Motlow State Community College","shortName":"Motlow","state":"TN","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Motlow Alerts","enrollment":7000},"policy":{"title":"Inclement Weather Policy 2:10:05:00","systemName":"Motlow Alerts","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.motlow.edu/about/policies/inclement-weather.html","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Motlow State Community College's [Inclement Weather Policy 2:10:05:00](https://www.motlow.edu/about/policies/inclement-weather.html) assigns closing decisions to the President on recommendation of the Executive Vice President for Business and Finance, implements virtual remote format when campuses close, and routes public notice through media, the website, and [Motlow Alerts](https://www.motlow.edu/belong/safety/alerts.html).","analysis":"Motlow is a multi-campus Tennessee community college. Its [Inclement Weather Policy](https://www.motlow.edu/about/policies/inclement-weather.html) (effective April 30, 2021) is institution-specific: students are not penalized for weather-related nonattendance when they communicate barriers and make up work; the Executive Vice President for Business and Finance monitors conditions and recommends closing to the President; when the President closes campuses the Vice President for External Affairs notifies media, the website, and Motlow Alert; closing means a virtual remote format with D2L classwork and remote faculty/staff work; dual enrollment students at high schools follow high school status. Companion [Motlow Alerts](https://www.motlow.edu/belong/safety/alerts.html) materials describe text notifications for closings, delayed openings, and imminent threats. This record documents the weather decision and notification policy rather than a full ASR rewrite.","whenCriteria":"Inclement weather conditions that may prohibit safe travel or warrant campus delays, closures, or shifts to virtual remote operations.","decisionAuthority":"President of Motlow State Community College, on recommendation of the Executive Vice President for Business and Finance; Vice President for External Affairs coordinates public notification.","timingStandard":"Not a fixed clock-time target on the policy page; decisions and notifications as conditions warrant, with website media and Motlow Alert as channels.","cleryFraming":"Weather and operational continuity policy with Motlow Alert channels; Clery emergency-notification procedure details appear separately in public safety materials.","testingCadence":"Not confirmed verbatim on the weather policy page reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Applies to Motlow campuses; dual enrollment students at high schools follow high school open or close status.","channels":["sms","website","email","twitter-x","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"President decision and EVP monitoring","quotedText":"The Executive Vice President for Business and Finance will monitor the weather conditions. If conditions appear to warrant the recommendation for closing all Motlow State Community College campuses, then the Executive Vice President for Business and Finance will call the President who will make the decision whether to close.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.motlow.edu/about/policies/inclement-weather.html","characterCount":326},{"label":"Close means virtual remote format","quotedText":"In the event conditions warrant closing Motlow campuses, the announcement will indicate that Motlow campuses are closed which means that a virtual (remote) format will be implemented for the day and evening classes.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.motlow.edu/about/policies/inclement-weather.html","characterCount":215},{"label":"Student discretion and no penalty when communicated","quotedText":"Students, faculty, and staff should use their discretion when inclement weather conditions prohibit safe travel. Because conditions may vary in the college’s 11-county service area, students will not be penalized for being unable to attend classes provided they communicate their barrier to their instructor on the day of the inclement weather and that they make up any work missed within the time allotted by their instructor.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.motlow.edu/about/policies/inclement-weather.html","characterCount":427}],"sources":[{"title":"Inclement Weather Policy 2:10:05:00","url":"https://www.motlow.edu/about/policies/inclement-weather.html","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"},{"title":"Motlow Alerts","url":"https://www.motlow.edu/belong/safety/alerts.html","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["community-college","tennessee","weather-closing","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"mount-holyoke-college-emergency-notification-policy","slug":"mount-holyoke-college-emergency-notification-policy","institution":{"name":"Mount Holyoke College","shortName":"MHC","state":"MA","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"Mount Holyoke College Emergency Notification System","enrollment":2275},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification System / Campus Emergencies","systemName":"Mount Holyoke College Emergency Notification System","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.mtholyoke.edu/directory/departments-offices-centers/public-safety-and-service/campus-emergencies/emergency-notification-system","lastReviewed":"2026-06-22"},"summary":"Mount Holyoke College — a private women's liberal-arts college in South Hadley, Massachusetts — runs an [Emergency Notification System](https://www.mtholyoke.edu/directory/departments-offices-centers/public-safety-and-service/campus-emergencies/emergency-notification-system) that automatically enrolls faculty, students, and staff via their College email address and sends as-needed texts, emails, and calls, while its [Public Safety and Service department](https://www.mtholyoke.edu/directory/departments-offices-centers/public-safety-and-service/campus-emergencies) issues Clery emergency notifications or timely warnings depending on the urgency of the situation.","analysis":"Mount Holyoke College is a private women's liberal-arts college in South Hadley, Massachusetts, and a founding member of the Seven Sisters and the Five College Consortium. Mount Holyoke labels its platform plainly as the [Emergency Notification System](https://www.mtholyoke.edu/directory/departments-offices-centers/public-safety-and-service/campus-emergencies/emergency-notification-system), administered by the Department of Public Safety and Service. The system's defining feature is automatic enrollment keyed to the College email address: 'Faculty, students and staff are automatically enrolled into the notification system using your College email address when you join the College community,' with the individual responsible for keeping contact information current and encouraged to provide multiple means of contact.\n\nMount Holyoke draws a clean line between its two Clery functions based on urgency. The college states that when crimes or emergencies reported to [Public Safety and Service](https://www.mtholyoke.edu/directory/departments-offices-centers/public-safety-and-service/campus-emergencies) pose a danger to the community, the department 'must issue an emergency notification (texts, emails, calls) or a timely warning (email, postings) depending on the urgency of the situation.' Pairing the channel mix to the function — full text/email/call blast for imminent emergencies, email and postings for less time-critical timely warnings — is a clear, defensible operational rule.\n\nThe system also accommodates non-community members: guests on campus can opt in for three days by texting 'MHCGuestAlert' to 67283, the kind of short-code keyword channel typical of Rave-style platforms. Mount Holyoke does not charge for the Emergency Notification System (though carrier message and data rates may apply for real and test messages), and text messages are sent on an as-needed basis. The college tests the system once a semester and over each summer, with additional testing as part of drills, exercises, or as necessary — a published cadence stronger than many peers state explicitly.\n\nMount Holyoke documents its broader Clery obligations through its [Clery Act and compliance program](https://www.mtholyoke.edu/directory/departments-offices-centers/public-safety-and-service/reporting-records-and-crime-victim-services/clery-act-and-compliance). Because mtholyoke.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were captured from multiple independent WebSearch retrievals of the official pages; the automatic-enrollment sentence and the emergency-notification-versus-timely-warning sentence each appeared with identical wording across separate retrievals and are marked verbatim-confirmed, while the test-cadence sentence (surfaced once) is marked reconstructed.","whenCriteria":"When crimes or emergencies reported to Public Safety and Service pose a danger to the community, the department must issue an emergency notification (texts, emails, calls) or a timely warning (email, postings) depending on the urgency of the situation. Text messages are otherwise sent only on an as-needed basis.","decisionAuthority":"The Department of Public Safety and Service issues emergency notifications and timely warnings. The specific named position authorized to confirm an emergency and trigger an alert was not confirmable verbatim (mtholyoke.edu blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"Mount Holyoke ties the choice of function to urgency — an emergency notification (texts/emails/calls) for the most time-critical danger versus a timely warning (email/postings) otherwise — consistent with the Clery requirement to notify immediately upon confirmation of a significant emergency. The precise published timing language was not confirmed byte-for-byte in this review.","cleryFraming":"Mount Holyoke maintains both Clery functions and selects between them by urgency: emergency notifications (texts, emails, calls) for imminent danger and timely warnings (email, postings) for less time-critical Clery threats. The college maintains a Clery Act and compliance program and publishes the required reports.","testingCadence":"The emergency notification system is tested once a semester and over each summer; additional testing may be conducted as part of drills and exercises, or as necessary.","scopeLimits":"Faculty, students, and staff are automatically enrolled via their College email address, but full text/voice reach depends on each person keeping contact information current and providing multiple means of contact. Guests can opt in for three days by texting MHCGuestAlert to 67283. The college does not charge for the system, though carrier message and data rates may apply.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Automatic enrollment via College email","quotedText":"Faculty, students and staff are automatically enrolled into the notification system using your College email address when you join the College community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mtholyoke.edu/directory/departments-offices-centers/public-safety-and-service/campus-emergencies/emergency-notification-system","sourceDescription":"Mount Holyoke College — Emergency Notification System","annotations":["Establishes auto-enrollment keyed to the College email address, removing opt-in friction. Identical wording appeared across multiple independent WebSearch retrievals of the official Emergency Notification System page."],"characterCount":153},{"label":"Emergency notification vs. timely warning by urgency","quotedText":"Public Safety and Service must issue an emergency notification (texts, emails, calls) or a timely warning (email, postings) depending on the urgency of the situation.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mtholyoke.edu/directory/departments-offices-centers/public-safety-and-service/campus-emergencies","sourceDescription":"Mount Holyoke College — Campus Emergencies","annotations":["Maps the channel mix to the Clery function and ties the choice to urgency. Identical wording appeared across two separate WebSearch retrievals of the official pages."],"characterCount":166},{"label":"Test cadence once a semester and over each summer","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mtholyoke.edu/directory/departments-offices-centers/public-safety-and-service/campus-emergencies/emergency-notification-system","sourceDescription":"Mount Holyoke College — Emergency Notification System (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Mount Holyoke runs an Emergency Notification System administered by the Department of Public Safety and Service.","Faculty, students, and staff are automatically enrolled using their College email address when they join the community.","The department selects between an emergency notification (texts, emails, calls) and a timely warning (email, postings) depending on the urgency of the situation.","Guests can opt in for three days by texting MHCGuestAlert to 67283 (a Rave-style keyword short code); the system is free though carrier rates may apply.","The system is tested once a semester and over each summer, plus during drills/exercises — an explicit published cadence.","Two excerpts were confirmed verbatim across independent retrievals; the test-cadence sentence is marked reconstructed because mtholyoke.edu blocked automated fetching."],"sources":[{"title":"Mount Holyoke College — Emergency Notification System","url":"https://www.mtholyoke.edu/directory/departments-offices-centers/public-safety-and-service/campus-emergencies/emergency-notification-system","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Mount Holyoke College — Campus Emergencies","url":"https://www.mtholyoke.edu/directory/departments-offices-centers/public-safety-and-service/campus-emergencies","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Mount Holyoke College — Clery Act and Compliance","url":"https://www.mtholyoke.edu/directory/departments-offices-centers/public-safety-and-service/reporting-records-and-crime-victim-services/clery-act-and-compliance","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Town of South Hadley — Residents can opt-in to Mount Holyoke College's emergency notification system","url":"https://www.southhadley.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=763&ARC=1487","type":"government"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","private-liberal-arts","womens-college","massachusetts","auto-enrollment","five-college-consortium"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"mt-san-antonio-college-emergency-notification-policy","slug":"mt-san-antonio-college-emergency-notification-policy","institution":{"name":"Mt. San Antonio College","shortName":"Mt. SAC","state":"CA","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Mt. SAC Emergency Notification System","enrollment":29000},"policy":{"title":"Mt. SAC Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications (ASR)","systemName":"Mt. SAC Emergency Notification System","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.mtsac.edu/safety/pdf/2025-MtSAC-ASR.pdf","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Mt. San Antonio College's [2025 Annual Security Report](https://www.mtsac.edu/safety/pdf/2025-MtSAC-ASR.pdf) separates Clery Timely Warnings (Chief of Police and Campus Safety decision; Marketing and Communication drafting) from Emergency Notifications for significant emergencies with immediate threat, issued without delay at the College President/CEO or designee direction via the Emergency Notification System plus social media, boards, PA, and signage.","analysis":"Mt. San Antonio College is a large California community college. Its institution-specific [2025 ASR](https://www.mtsac.edu/safety/pdf/2025-MtSAC-ASR.pdf) brands the campus product as the Emergency Notification System (ENS) and enumerates distinct Timely Warning versus Emergency Notification criteria, authorities, and channels. Timely Warnings address listed Clery crimes representing a serious and continuing threat, with the Chief of Police and Campus Safety or designee deciding case-by-case and Marketing and Communication developing the text. Emergency Notifications cover immediate threats (fire, earthquake, armed intruder, gas leak, and related hazards), confirmed by Police and Campus Safety, LA County Fire, or LA County Sheriff, drafted at President/CEO or designee direction, and released without delay unless mitigation would be compromised. Enrollment is advertised at https://www.mtsac.edu/emergency/notification.html.","whenCriteria":"Timely Warnings for listed Clery crimes on campus/public property adjacent that represent a serious and continuing threat; Emergency Notifications upon confirmation of any significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus that represents an immediate threat to health or safety of students or employees.","decisionAuthority":"Timely Warnings: Chief of Police and Campus Safety or designee (Marketing & Communication develops text). Emergency Notifications: College President/CEO or designee directs development; confirmation by Police and Campus Safety, Los Angeles County Fire Department, or Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.","timingStandard":"Emergency Notification will be made without delay to the campus community unless issuing a notification will compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond, or otherwise mitigate the emergency. Timely Warnings issued in a manner that is timely and will aid in prevention of similar crimes.","cleryFraming":"ASR separates Timely Warning (serious/continuing threat crimes) from Emergency Notification (immediate threat significant emergencies); if an Emergency Notification is issued there is no need to issue a Timely Warning; all-clear broadcast when threat no longer exists.","scopeLimits":"Campus community registered for ENS text/email; additional channels (social media, message boards, PA, signage, in-person) used as appropriate; pastoral/professional counselor crime reports exempt from Timely Warning duty.","testingCadence":"Annually, Mt. SAC conducts emergency management exercises to test emergency procedures (scenarios change year to year).","channels":["sms","email","twitter-x","website","pa-system","digital-signage","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency Notification definition","quotedText":"An Emergency Notification is a mass notification that is utilized for significant emergency or dangerous situations involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring at Mt. SAC.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mtsac.edu/safety/pdf/2025-MtSAC-ASR.pdf","sourceDescription":"Mt. SAC 2025 Annual Security Report - Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Institution-specific EN product definition."],"characterCount":216},{"label":"Without delay standard","quotedText":"An Emergency Notification will be made without delay to the campus community unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mtsac.edu/safety/pdf/2025-MtSAC-ASR.pdf","sourceDescription":"Mt. SAC 2025 Annual Security Report - Procedures for Disseminating Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Clery without-delay timing with mitigation exception."],"characterCount":268},{"label":"EN decision/development authority","quotedText":"Emergency Notifications are developed by Marketing & Communication personnel at the direction of the College President/CEO or designee.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mtsac.edu/safety/pdf/2025-MtSAC-ASR.pdf","sourceDescription":"Mt. SAC 2025 Annual Security Report - Procedures for Disseminating Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Named President/CEO direction with Marketing drafting."],"characterCount":135},{"label":"Timely Warning decision authority","quotedText":"The decision whether or not to issue a Timely Warning will be made by the Chief of Police and Campus Safety or designee on a case-by-case basis in light of all available facts surrounding the reported crime.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mtsac.edu/safety/pdf/2025-MtSAC-ASR.pdf","sourceDescription":"Mt. SAC 2025 Annual Security Report - Decision to Issue Timely Warnings","annotations":["Named Chief of Police case-by-case TW authority."],"characterCount":207},{"label":"Confirmation authorities","quotedText":"An emergency is confirmed when Police and Campus Safety, the Los Angeles County Fire Department, or the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department have assessed the situation to confirm that it represents an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mtsac.edu/safety/pdf/2025-MtSAC-ASR.pdf","sourceDescription":"Mt. SAC 2025 Annual Security Report - Confirming the Existence of a Significant Emergency","annotations":["Named confirmation partners for EN trigger."],"characterCount":270}],"keyFindings":["ASR separates Timely Warning (Chief of Police) from Emergency Notification (President/CEO direction).","Emergency Notifications use without-delay language and all-clear follow-up.","ENS enrollment is directed to mtsac.edu/emergency/notification.html."],"sources":[{"title":"Mt. San Antonio College 2025 Annual Security Report","url":"https://www.mtsac.edu/safety/pdf/2025-MtSAC-ASR.pdf","type":"clery-asr","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["community-college","california","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"murray-state-university-raceralert-policy","slug":"murray-state-university-raceralert-policy","institution":{"name":"Murray State University","shortName":"Murray State","state":"KY","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"RacerAlert","enrollment":7900},"policy":{"title":"RacerAlert Emergency Notification System, Clery/Minger Notification","systemName":"RacerAlert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.murraystate.edu/about/Offices/police/cleryminger/notification.aspx"},"summary":"Murray State University's [RacerAlert](https://www.murraystate.edu/about/Offices/police/racerAlert/index.aspx) emergency notification system is documented in a [Clery/Minger notification](https://www.murraystate.edu/about/Offices/police/cleryminger/notification.aspx) page that defines three distinct message types, Alerts, Timely Warning Notices, and Police Department Announcements, each tied to a different trigger.","analysis":"Murray State frames [RacerAlert](https://www.murraystate.edu/about/Offices/police/racerAlert/index.aspx) broadly at the top level: RacerAlert ENS is a system intended to notify the campus community about any situation or condition that could threaten the safety of individuals on campus. Underneath that umbrella, the Murray State Police Department publishes three named message categories rather than a single undifferentiated alert type, which is a more granular structure than many peer institutions publish.\n\nAlerts are the emergency-notification tier: Alerts are emergency alerts letting you know about incident or condition that requires immediate attention and are required by the Clery Act, with a stated minimum delivery of text messages and emails, and the possibility of sirens, phone display, social media, and campus signage layered on top depending on the incident. Timely Warning Notices are the separate, Clery-mandated crime-pattern tier: Timely Warning Notices are messages about crimes that have already occurred but represent an ongoing threat, worded around the Clery Act's own requirement that the university alert the campus community to certain crimes in a manner that is timely and will aid in the prevention of similar crimes. A third, non-Clery tier exists for lower-stakes information sharing, Police Department Announcements are messages sent by the Murray State Police to inform the Murray State community of general safety information that is not required by the Clery Act, but which the police believe will assist the community in being safer, a useful category because it lets MSU Police disseminate safety information without inflating the count of formal Alerts or Timely Warning Notices.\n\nDistribution for RacerAlert emergency notifications depends on self-registered contact data, sent to students, faculty, and staff who have provided their cell phone contact information through their MyGate accounts, meaning coverage is opt-in rather than automatically populated from a separate registration system. Murray State publishes its RacerAlert emergency procedures and shelter-in-place guidance as companion pages to the [notification-type definitions](https://www.murraystate.edu/about/Offices/police/cleryminger/notification.aspx), and restates the same Clery framework in its [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.murraystate.edu/about/Offices/police/media/Annual_Security_Report.pdf).","whenCriteria":"Alerts are issued for an incident or condition that requires immediate attention and is required by the Clery Act. Timely Warning Notices are issued for crimes that have already occurred but represent an ongoing threat. Police Department Announcements cover general safety information not required by Clery but believed to help the community stay safer.","decisionAuthority":"The Murray State University Police Department determines and issues RacerAlert Alerts, Timely Warning Notices, and Police Department Announcements.","timingStandard":"The Clery Act requires Murray State to alert the campus community to certain crimes in a manner that is timely and will aid in the prevention of similar crimes; a specific minutes-based numeric standard was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"Murray State separates its notifications into three tiers: Clery-required Alerts (immediate-attention incidents), Clery-required Timely Warning Notices (ongoing-threat crime patterns), and non-Clery Police Department Announcements (general safety information at police discretion).","testingCadence":"A specific testing cadence for RacerAlert was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"RacerAlert emergency notifications are sent to students, faculty, and staff who have provided their cell phone contact information through their MyGate accounts, an opt-in registration model rather than automatic enrollment from a separate university record.","channels":["sms","email","siren","phone-call","twitter-x","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"RacerAlert purpose","quotedText":"RacerAlert ENS is a system intended to notify the campus community about any situation or condition that could threaten the safety of individuals on campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.murraystate.edu/about/Offices/police/racerAlert/index.aspx","sourceDescription":"RacerAlert, Murray State University","annotations":["The top-level purpose statement for the whole RacerAlert emergency notification system."],"characterCount":156},{"label":"Alert definition and minimum channels","quotedText":"Alerts are emergency alerts letting you know about incident or condition that requires immediate attention and are required by the Clery Act. At a minimum, this type of notification will be made using text messages and emails.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.murraystate.edu/about/Offices/police/cleryminger/notification.aspx","sourceDescription":"Notification, Clery/Minger Compliance, Murray State University","annotations":["Defines the emergency-notification tier and sets text and email as the guaranteed minimum channels."],"characterCount":226},{"label":"Timely Warning Notice definition","quotedText":"Timely Warning Notices are messages about crimes that have already occurred but represent an ongoing threat.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.murraystate.edu/about/Offices/police/cleryminger/notification.aspx","sourceDescription":"Notification, Clery/Minger Compliance, Murray State University","annotations":["Defines the second, Clery-mandated tier, distinct from the immediate-attention Alert category."],"characterCount":108},{"label":"Police Department Announcement definition","quotedText":"Police Department Announcements are messages sent by the Murray State Police to inform the Murray State community of general safety information that is not required by the Clery Act, but which the police believe will assist the community in being safer.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.murraystate.edu/about/Offices/police/cleryminger/notification.aspx","sourceDescription":"Notification, Clery/Minger Compliance, Murray State University","annotations":["Defines a third, non-Clery discretionary tier that lets police share safety information without triggering formal Alert or Timely Warning Notice status."],"characterCount":253},{"label":"Distribution basis","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.murraystate.edu/about/Offices/police/racerAlert/index.aspx","sourceDescription":"RacerAlert, Murray State University","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Murray State publishes three distinct RacerAlert message tiers: Alerts (Clery-required, immediate attention), Timely Warning Notices (Clery-required, ongoing crime threat), and Police Department Announcements (not Clery-required, general safety information).","Alerts carry a stated minimum of text message and email delivery, with sirens, phone display, social media, and campus signage available as additional channels.","Police Department Announcements exist specifically as a non-Clery outlet, letting MSU Police share safety information without inflating the formal Alert or Timely Warning Notice count.","RacerAlert distribution depends on cell phone contact information provided through MyGate, an opt-in registration model.","The three-tier structure is documented on a dedicated Clery/Minger compliance page rather than folded into a single general alert FAQ."],"sources":[{"title":"RacerAlert, Murray State University","url":"https://www.murraystate.edu/about/Offices/police/racerAlert/index.aspx","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Notification, Clery/Minger Compliance, Murray State University","url":"https://www.murraystate.edu/about/Offices/police/cleryminger/notification.aspx","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"For Calendar Year 2024/2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, Murray State University Police Department","url":"https://www.murraystate.edu/about/Offices/police/media/Annual_Security_Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","raceralert","public-masters","kentucky"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"navajo-technical-university-alert-policy","slug":"navajo-technical-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Navajo Technical University","shortName":"NTU","state":"NM","type":"tribal-college","alertSystemName":"RAVE Alert","enrollment":1704},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification (RAVE Alert) and Clery Act Reporting — Safety & Security / Annual Clery Act Crime and Safety Report","systemName":"RAVE Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.navajotech.edu/about/safety-security/","lastReviewed":"2024-07-01"},"summary":"Navajo Technical University, a tribal university headquartered in Crownpoint, New Mexico, delivers campus emergency, weather, and operational alerts through a [multi-faceted \"RAVE Alert\" notification system](https://www.navajotech.edu/about/safety-security/) administered by its campus Safety office, and it discloses crime statistics through an [annual Clery Act Crime and Safety Report](https://www.navajotech.edu/about/disclosures/) as a federally recognized Tribal College/University.","analysis":"Navajo Technical University (NTU) is a tribally controlled university chartered by the Navajo Nation and based in Crownpoint, New Mexico, with additional sites in the Four Corners region. It is one of the very few Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) documented in this policy archive, and like most TCUs it runs a lean, vendor-hosted emergency-notification program rather than a large dedicated public-safety bureaucracy. NTU's [Safety & Security office](https://www.navajotech.edu/about/safety-security/) states that the university 'uses a multi-faceted notification system for emergencies, weather alerts, and for campus community incidents and situations which may threaten the university's ability to conduct regular daily activity,' branded RAVE Alert.\n\nThe system is the Rave Mobile Safety platform — the same commercial 'Rave Alert' product used by hundreds of US campuses — provisioned for NTU at its own [Rave login portal](https://www.getrave.com/login/navajotech). NTU's campus Safety office 'encourages all NTU personnel to sign up for the RAVE Alert system,' and states that 'in the event of an emergency all registered numbers will receive an alert indicating what procedures to follow.' This is an opt-in / self-registration model rather than the auto-enrollment used by larger universities, which is typical for small TCUs that rely on community sign-up to populate contact lists.\n\nFor Clery Act compliance, NTU states that it 'complies with federal reporting requirements under the Clery Act' and produces 'an annual Clery Act Crime and Safety Report,' published through its [Disclosures page](https://www.navajotech.edu/about/disclosures/). NTU also maintains an Emergency Response Plan (referenced on its safety pages and student handbook) that governs how the campus operates during major emergencies. Because the navajotech.edu host returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching, the exact named decision authority, the precise 'without delay / immediately' timing language, the channel mix (beyond Rave's standard SMS/voice/email), and the periodic test cadence could not be byte-for-byte confirmed in this review. The two excerpts captured here appeared with identical wording across multiple independent retrievals of NTU's own Safety & Security text, but the surrounding policy paragraphs (timing standard, decision authority, testing) were not verbatim-confirmable, so this record is rated medium confidence and the structured fields are flagged where reconstructed.","whenCriteria":"RAVE Alert is used for 'emergencies, weather alerts, and for campus community incidents and situations which may threaten the university's ability to conduct regular daily activity.' The specific federal-standard activation language (confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety) is presumed to follow Clery in NTU's Emergency Response Plan but was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","decisionAuthority":"NTU's campus Safety office administers and promotes the RAVE Alert system. The specific position(s) authorized to confirm an emergency and trigger an alert were not confirmed verbatim (navajotech.edu blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim. NTU's Clery-aligned Emergency Response Plan is expected to follow the federal 'immediately, upon confirmation' standard, but the exact published timing language could not be captured from the blocked host in this review.","cleryFraming":"NTU states it 'complies with federal reporting requirements under the Clery Act' and produces 'an annual Clery Act Crime and Safety Report,' available through its Disclosures page. The distinct treatment of emergency notifications versus timely warnings was not separately confirmed verbatim in this review.","testingCadence":"Not confirmed in this review. NTU's published Safety & Security text encourages registration but did not surface a specific periodic RAVE Alert test cadence that could be quoted verbatim.","scopeLimits":"Reach depends on self-registration: the campus Safety office 'encourages all NTU personnel to sign up,' and 'all registered numbers' receive alerts — i.e., individuals who have not enrolled may not be reached by SMS/voice. This opt-in model is typical of small Tribal Colleges and is a known coverage limitation relative to auto-enrollment systems.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Multi-faceted RAVE Alert notification system","quotedText":"Navajo Tech uses a multi-faceted notification system for emergencies, weather alerts, and for campus community incidents and situations which may threaten the university's ability to conduct regular daily activity.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.navajotech.edu/about/safety-security/","sourceDescription":"NTU — Safety & Security page","annotations":["Defines NTU's notification scope as covering emergencies, weather, and operational-continuity incidents — broader than a strict imminent-threat-only standard. Identical wording surfaced across multiple independent retrievals of NTU's Safety & Security text; the navajotech.edu host returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so this is corroborated cross-search rather than from a single confirmed live fetch."],"characterCount":214},{"label":"Registration and emergency delivery","quotedText":"The campus Safety office encourages all NTU personnel to sign up for the RAVE Alert system. In the event of an emergency all registered numbers will receive an alert indicating what procedures to follow.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.navajotech.edu/about/safety-security/","sourceDescription":"NTU — Safety & Security page","annotations":["Confirms the brand (RAVE Alert / Rave Mobile Safety) and the opt-in self-registration model — 'all registered numbers' receive alerts, so reach depends on enrollment. The Rave portal at getrave.com/login/navajotech independently confirms the platform. Surfaced via multiple cross-searches; host 403-blocked direct fetch."],"characterCount":203},{"label":"Clery Act compliance and annual report","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.navajotech.edu/about/disclosures/","sourceDescription":"NTU — Disclosures page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["NTU's campus alert system is RAVE Alert (Rave Mobile Safety), confirmed via the university's own Rave login portal at getrave.com/login/navajotech — one of the few Tribal College/University alert programs in this archive.","The system is opt-in: the campus Safety office encourages all NTU personnel to sign up, and 'all registered numbers' receive alerts, so reach depends on self-registration.","RAVE Alert covers emergencies, weather alerts, and operational-continuity incidents, a broader scope than imminent-threat-only systems.","NTU complies with the Clery Act and publishes an annual Clery Act Crime and Safety Report via its Disclosures page.","Decision authority, exact timing language, full channel mix, and test cadence could not be confirmed verbatim because navajotech.edu blocked automated fetching; this record is rated medium confidence and those fields are flagged as reconstructed."],"sources":[{"title":"Navajo Technical University — Safety & Security","url":"https://www.navajotech.edu/about/safety-security/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Navajo Technical University — Disclosures (Clery)","url":"https://www.navajotech.edu/about/disclosures/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Navajo Technical University — RAVE Alert login portal","url":"https://www.getrave.com/login/navajotech","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Navajo Technical University — Human Resources Safety","url":"https://hr.navajotech.edu/safety/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Navajo Technical University — Student Handbook (PDF)","url":"https://www.navajotech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/ntuStudentHandbook.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery","tribal-college","new-mexico","rave-alert","navajo-nation","opt-in"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"nebraska-indian-community-college-alert-policy","slug":"nebraska-indian-community-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Nebraska Indian Community College","shortName":"NICC","state":"NE","type":"tribal-college","alertSystemName":"NICC Annual Security Report Notification"},"policy":{"title":"2025 Annual Security Report","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.thenicc.edu/images/pdfs/2025-NICC-Annual-Security-Report.pdf"},"summary":"Nebraska Indian Community College, a tribal college chartered by the Omaha and Santee Sioux Nations with campuses at Macy and Santee, distributes its [2025 Annual Security Report](https://www.thenicc.edu/images/pdfs/2025-NICC-Annual-Security-Report.pdf) to all currently enrolled students and current employees by October 1 of each year in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act and the Campus Fire Safety Right-To-Know Act.","analysis":"Nebraska Indian Community College's [2025 Annual Security Report](https://www.thenicc.edu/images/pdfs/2025-NICC-Annual-Security-Report.pdf) states the college distributes the report in compliance with Clery Act requirements, specifically providing notice to all currently enrolled students and current employees by October 1 of each year, and describes the college as complying with both the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act and the Campus Fire Safety Right-To-Know Act notification requirements together in one combined disclosure, a common approach at small colleges without separate offices for each obligation.\n\nNICC serves the Omaha and Santee Sioux tribal communities in northeastern Nebraska across sites in Macy and Santee, and the report directs non-emergency incidents to a dedicated campus phone line rather than a 911 dispatch center, reflecting the rural, reservation-based geography the college serves, where county and tribal law enforcement jurisdictions overlap and a single campus phone line can be the fastest way to reach the right responder. As a federally recognized tribal college, NICC's Clery obligations sit alongside its mission as one of the smallest and most resource-constrained institutions this archive documents, part of the reason the collection actively prioritizes tribal college coverage.\n\nBecause thenicc.edu returned blocked connections to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below are reconstructed from search engine indexed extracts of the official report rather than a firsthand character by character read, and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation; this record is scored at low confidence on that basis, reflecting how little of the report's specific notification triggering language and channel list could be independently confirmed beyond the October 1 distribution commitment.","whenCriteria":"NICC distributes its Annual Security Report, providing notice to all currently enrolled students and current employees by October 1 of each year; a specific live-incident emergency notification or timely warning triggering threshold beyond that annual disclosure commitment was not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed.","decisionAuthority":"Not specified with a named office or official in the sources reviewed beyond the general Clery Act compliance commitment.","timingStandard":"Not specified with a numeric standard in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"NICC states it complies with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act and the Campus Fire Safety Right-To-Know Act notification requirements together, distributing its Annual Security Report by October 1 of each year to all currently enrolled students and current employees.","scopeLimits":"Non-emergency incidents on campus are reported by dialing a dedicated campus phone line; the report's specific geographic Clery scope across the college's Macy and Santee sites was not independently confirmed beyond the general tribal college service area.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","channels":["phone-call","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Annual disclosure commitment","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.thenicc.edu/images/pdfs/2025-NICC-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Nebraska Indian Community College, 2025 Annual Security Report (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Combined Clery and fire safety compliance","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.thenicc.edu/images/pdfs/2025-NICC-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Nebraska Indian Community College, 2025 Annual Security Report (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Non-emergency reporting line","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.thenicc.edu/images/pdfs/2025-NICC-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Nebraska Indian Community College, 2025 Annual Security Report (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["NICC distributes its Annual Security Report to all currently enrolled students and current employees by October 1 of each year, combining Clery Act and Campus Fire Safety Right-To-Know Act compliance.","Non-emergency incidents are reported through a dedicated campus phone line rather than a general 911 dispatch center.","Thenicc.edu could not be directly loaded in this environment, so this record is scored at low confidence and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation."],"sources":[{"title":"2025 Annual Security Report, Nebraska Indian Community College (PDF)","url":"https://www.thenicc.edu/images/pdfs/2025-NICC-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"low","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","tribal-college","nebraska","omaha-nation","santee-sioux"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-27","lastUpdated":"2026-09-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"nevada-state-university-ns-alert-policy","slug":"nevada-state-university-ns-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Nevada State University","shortName":"NSU","state":"NV","type":"public-bachelors","alertSystemName":"NS Alert","enrollment":7549},"policy":{"title":"Campus Emergency","systemName":"NS Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://nevadastate.edu/campus-emergency/","lastReviewed":"2026-08-23"},"summary":"Nevada State University, a public primarily bachelor's-granting institution in Henderson, Nevada, runs [NS Alert](https://nevadastate.edu/campus-emergency/) as an opt-out emergency notification system that automatically includes all students and staff, with campus policing and alert infrastructure provided through the [University Police Services](https://unlv.edu/police/nsc/alert) command shared with UNLV under the Nevada System of Higher Education.","analysis":"Nevada State University's public alerting posture is documented across two official surfaces: the university's own [Campus Emergency page](https://nevadastate.edu/campus-emergency/) and an NS Alert page maintained by [University Police Services](https://unlv.edu/police/nsc/alert), the Nevada System of Higher Education police command headquartered at UNLV that serves the southern NSHE institutions, including Nevada State. That shared-command arrangement is the structural fact worth noticing: like the University of Alaska Southeast's reliance on municipal police, Nevada State does not field a standalone police force whose sole client is its own campus, so the incident information that triggers an NS Alert flows through a police organization serving several institutions at once.\n\nThe activation criterion reproduced from the police services page is threat-based: NS Alert is the emergency notification system used for incidents that present an imminent threat to life, health, or safety of Nevada State students, employees, faculty, and community members. Enrollment is deliberately opt-out rather than opt-in. University materials describe the emergency notification system as one in which all faculty, staff, and students are automatically included, with contact information maintained by the individual through the MyNSU portal, where a student logs in with an NSHE/NSU ID, opens the student center, and reviews the email addresses and phone numbers held under Personal Information. University Police Services recommends that contact information be updated regularly, since the system can only reach the numbers on file.\n\nA December 2023 [campus awareness update](https://nevadastate.edu/campus-news/campus-awareness-update-12-6-23/) published after the fatal shooting at neighboring UNLV shows the system under live scrutiny: the university publicly acknowledged that it had identified and addressed issues with desktop alerts and implemented updates to make its emergency communication infrastructure more robust and reliable, an unusually candid published admission of a delivery-channel defect. Nevada State also coordinates emergency communication with the City of Henderson, whose own [notification programs](https://www.cityofhenderson.com/government/departments/emergency-management/stay-alert-henderson-emergency-notifications) cover the area surrounding the 500-acre foothills campus.\n\nProvenance caveat: nevadastate.edu and unlv.edu both refused automated fetching from this research environment, so the excerpts below are reconstructed from search-index reproductions of the official pages and are marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false. A named individual decision authority and a minutes-based timing standard were not reproduced in the reviewed material.","whenCriteria":"NS Alert is used for incidents that present an imminent threat to life, health, or safety of Nevada State students, employees, faculty, and community members.","decisionAuthority":"Alert infrastructure and campus policing run through University Police Services, the NSHE southern command shared with UNLV; a specific named Nevada State officer or title with NS Alert activation authority was not reproduced in the sources reviewed in this session.","timingStandard":"A minutes-based service-level standard for issuing an NS Alert was not confirmed in the sources reviewed in this session.","cleryFraming":"The reviewed pages present NS Alert under the imminent-threat emergency-notification framing; the university's Clery Annual Security Report, published through University Police Services, is where the timely-warning versus emergency-notification distinction is formally drawn.","testingCadence":"A published testing schedule for NS Alert was not confirmed in the sources reviewed in this session; a December 2023 campus update documents post-incident remediation of desktop-alert delivery issues.","scopeLimits":"The system is opt-out: all faculty, staff, and students are automatically included, and contact information is self-maintained through the MyNSU portal under Personal Information, so delivery accuracy depends on individuals keeping their records current. Emergency communication is coordinated with the City of Henderson for the area around campus.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","desktop-popup","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Activation criterion","quotedText":"NS Alert is the emergency notification system used for incidents that present an imminent threat to life, health or safety to NS students, employees, faculty, and community members.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://unlv.edu/police/nsc/alert","sourceDescription":"University Police Services, Nevada State University NS Alert page (host blocked automated fetch; text reconstructed from search-index reproduction)","annotations":["States the imminent-threat trigger and names the covered population, including community members beyond students and employees; wording reconstructed from search-index text because unlv.edu refused automated fetching from this environment."],"characterCount":181},{"label":"Opt-out enrollment","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://nevadastate.edu/campus-emergency/","sourceDescription":"Nevada State University, Campus Emergency page (host blocked automated fetch; text reconstructed from search-index reproduction)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Post-incident remediation of desktop alerts","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://nevadastate.edu/campus-news/campus-awareness-update-12-6-23/","sourceDescription":"Nevada State University, Campus Awareness Update, December 6, 2023 (host blocked automated fetch; text reconstructed from search-index reproduction)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["NS Alert is an opt-out system: all Nevada State students, faculty, and staff are automatically included, with contact information self-maintained through the MyNSU portal.","The stated activation criterion is an imminent threat to life, health, or safety, covering students, employees, faculty, and community members.","Campus policing and the NS Alert page run through University Police Services, the NSHE southern command shared with UNLV, so alert-triggering information flows through a multi-institution police organization.","A December 2023 campus update publicly acknowledged and remediated desktop-alert delivery issues after the fatal shooting at neighboring UNLV.","A named activation authority and a minutes-based timing standard were not reproduced in the sources reviewed; both are recorded as unconfirmed."],"sources":[{"title":"Nevada State University, Campus Emergency","url":"https://nevadastate.edu/campus-emergency/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University Police Services, Nevada State University NS Alert","url":"https://unlv.edu/police/nsc/alert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Nevada State University, Campus Awareness Update, December 6, 2023","url":"https://nevadastate.edu/campus-news/campus-awareness-update-12-6-23/","type":"official-statement"},{"title":"Nevada State College Annual Security and Fire Safety Report 2020 (University Police Services)","url":"https://www.unlv.edu/sites/default/files/page_files/27/2020-ASR-NSC.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"College Tuition Compare, Nevada State University enrollment (2024)","url":"https://www.collegetuitioncompare.com/edu/441900/nevada-state-university/enrollment/","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","ns-alert","opt-out","public-bachelors","nevada","shared-police-command"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-23","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"new-england-institute-of-technology-alert-policy","slug":"new-england-institute-of-technology-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"New England Institute of Technology","shortName":"NEIT","state":"RI","type":"technical-college","alertSystemName":"Rave Emergency Notification System (ENS)","enrollment":1922},"policy":{"title":"Rave Emergency Notification System and Timely Warning Policy (Annual Security & Fire Safety Report)","systemName":"Rave Emergency Notification System (ENS)","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.neit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Final-2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-09-01"},"summary":"New England Institute of Technology (NEIT), a technical college in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, runs the [Rave Emergency Notification System (ENS)](https://www.neit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Final-2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf) — reaching the community by NEIT email, text, and voice mail — and routes Clery timely warnings through its Executive Vice President in consultation with the [Director of Public Safety](https://www.neit.edu/about/safety-security/department-of-public-safety).","analysis":"New England Institute of Technology (NEIT) documents its emergency-communications program in its [2025 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report](https://www.neit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Final-2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf). The system is the **Rave Emergency Notification System (ENS)** — referred to by its vendor and function rather than a marketed brand — and NEIT states that 'notification through Rave ENS is made via NEIT e-mail, and/or text message, and/or telephone / voice mail.'\n\nNEIT's enrollment model is hybrid and notable: all students are enrolled in the ENS through contact information already maintained in the Registrar's Office, and faculty and staff through the Business Office, so email and voice reach are effectively automatic — but a personal cell number for text alerts is opt-in ('If a student wishes to receive notifications on his/her cell phone, he/she must provide the cell phone number to the Registrar's Office'). The activation threshold follows the Clery standard: when a situation 'in the judgment of NEIT's administration constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat to the health or safety of students and/or employees,' the institution acts 'without delay' to determine content and initiate a campus-wide emergency notification.\n\nFor the Clery timely-warning duty, NEIT vests authority in its **Executive Vice President**: 'A timely warning notification may be issued after the Executive Vice President confers with the Director of Public Safety, the Vice President of Student Support Services and other University Officials to determine the content of the message,' with the EVP or designee ultimately sending the warning and clearing it once the threat passes. In addition to the Rave ENS, NEIT issues timely warnings 'via the university e-mail system, in-class announcements, or other appropriate means.' No published test cadence surfaced, so it is not asserted. Every neit.edu host and the ASR PDF returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so the excerpts below were captured from search-index reproductions and corroborated across 2+ independent retrievals; the full activation-threshold sentence is marked reconstructed because only its core clauses were independently corroborated.","whenCriteria":"When a situation arises that, in the judgment of NEIT's administration, constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat to the health or safety of students and/or employees, the institution will, 'without delay,' and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate a campus-wide emergency notification through the Rave ENS.","decisionAuthority":"Timely warnings are issued by the Executive Vice President (or designee), who confers with the Director of Public Safety, the Vice President of Student Support Services, and other University Officials to determine content; the EVP also handles updates and clears the notice once the threat is over.","timingStandard":"NEIT commits to acting 'without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community' — the federal Clery standard — to determine content and initiate an emergency notification.","cleryFraming":"NEIT distinguishes emergency notifications (ongoing/continuing threat, via Rave ENS) from timely warnings, which are issued in addition to Rave ENS via the university email system, in-class announcements, or other appropriate means. Documented in the 2025 ASR.","testingCadence":"No NEIT-specific ENS test cadence was found in public materials and none is asserted.","scopeLimits":"All students are auto-enrolled in the ENS via Registrar's Office records (faculty/staff via the Business Office), so email and voice reach are automatic; a personal cell number for text alerts is opt-in and must be supplied to the Registrar's Office.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Rave ENS channels","quotedText":"Notification through Rave ENS is made via NEIT e-mail, and/or text message, and/or telephone / voice mail.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.neit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Final-2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"NEIT 2025 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report","annotations":["Names the ENS channels (email, text, voice mail). 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Appeared near-identically across 2+ retrievals."],"characterCount":246},{"label":"Timely-warning authority chain","quotedText":"A timely warning notification may be issued after the Executive Vice President confers with the Director of Public Safety, the Vice President of Student Support Services and other University Officials to determine the content of the message that will inform the campus community of the threat.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.neit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Final-2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"NEIT 2025 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report","annotations":["Establishes the Executive Vice President as the timely-warning authority and the consultation chain. Corroborated across 2 retrievals."],"characterCount":293},{"label":"Timely-warning channels add-on","quotedText":"In addition to notification through Rave Emergency Notification System (ENS), NEIT, as appropriate, will issue timely warnings via the university e-mail system, in-class announcements, or other appropriate means.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.neit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Final-2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"NEIT 2025 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report","annotations":["Adds in-class announcements as a distinctive timely-warning channel for a small campus. Corroborated across 2 retrievals."],"characterCount":212},{"label":"Activation threshold (“without delay”)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.neit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Final-2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"NEIT 2025 ASR (host blocked automated fetch; core clauses corroborated, full sentence reconstructed)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["NEIT runs the Rave Emergency Notification System (ENS), reaching the community by NEIT email, text, and voice mail.","Students are auto-enrolled via Registrar's Office records (faculty/staff via the Business Office); a cell number for texts is opt-in.","Emergency notifications are issued 'without delay' upon an administration judgment of an ongoing or continuing threat.","Timely warnings are authorized by the Executive Vice President in consultation with the Director of Public Safety and VP of Student Support Services, and also use in-class announcements.","No test cadence surfaced; the ASR host blocked automated fetch, so the full activation sentence is reconstructed and confidence is medium."],"sources":[{"title":"NEIT — 2025 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.neit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Final-2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"NEIT — Department of Public Safety","url":"https://www.neit.edu/about/safety-security/department-of-public-safety","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"NEIT — Student Safety & Security","url":"https://www.neit.edu/about/safety-security","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"New England Commission of Higher Education — NEIT","url":"https://www.neche.org/institutions/new-england-institute-of-technology/","type":"government"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","technical-college","rhode-island","rave","ens"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"new-jersey-institute-of-technology-alert-policy","slug":"new-jersey-institute-of-technology-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"New Jersey Institute of Technology","shortName":"NJIT","state":"NJ","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"Campus Wide Notification System","enrollment":12000},"policy":{"title":"University Emergency Notification System","systemName":"Campus Wide Notification System (CWNS)","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.njit.edu/dos/university-emergency-notification-system","lastReviewed":"2025-08-01"},"summary":"NJIT's [Campus Wide Notification System](https://www.njit.edu/dos/university-emergency-notification-system) sends text, phone, and email alerts, and Public Safety states it will immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation, with the on-duty sergeant or ranking supervisor determining message content 'without delay' per the [Department of Public Safety](https://www.njit.edu/publicsafety/emergencies.php).","analysis":"NJIT's emergency notification policy, published through the Dean of Students and Campus Life office alongside the Department of Public Safety, describes a dispatch-first workflow: officers are dispatched immediately to a reported emergency, and the university will withhold a notification only if, in the professional judgment of police officials, issuing it would compromise efforts to assist victims or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency, the standard Clery-permitted exception to immediate notification.\n\nThe Campus-Wide Notification System (CWNS) is the delivery mechanism: an opt-in text, voicemail, and email system that NJIT states is used only for situations such as delayed openings or closings caused by weather, or potential and imminent threats to the safety of the university community. Internally, when an incident is confirmed, the duty sergeant or ranking police supervisor on duty determines the content of the notification and initiates the CWNS without delay, a phrase that functions as NJIT's closest documented equivalent to a numeric timeliness standard, weighing speed against the safety of the NJIT community rather than committing to a fixed number of minutes.\n\nContent construction is oriented around actionability: NJIT states the content of the notification will be constructed to give out pertinent information regarding a confirmed threat to campus safety, and, if necessary, the steps students, faculty, and staff should take to help ensure their own safety from that particular threat, language that tracks the Clery Act's emphasis on giving recipients concrete protective guidance rather than a bare confirmation that something happened.\n\nBecause njit.edu hosts return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were captured from search-indexed page text across the Dean of Students and Public Safety pages and the Campus Wide Notification System page, cross-checked across multiple independent search queries that returned consistent wording, particularly for the 'without delay' decision-authority language. NJIT's [2025 Annual Campus Security and Fire Report](https://www.njit.edu/publicsafety/sites/njit.edu.publicsafety/files/2025%20NJIT%20Annual%20Campus%20Security%20and%20Fire%20Report.pdf) was located but not independently fetched in this pass.","whenCriteria":"NJIT Public Safety will immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation; the CWNS is also used for delayed openings or closings caused by weather.","decisionAuthority":"The duty sergeant or ranking police supervisor on duty determines the content of the notification and initiates the Campus Wide Notification System, without delay and taking into account the safety of the NJIT community.","timingStandard":"NJIT's stated standard is that the duty sergeant or ranking supervisor acts 'without delay,' rather than a specific numeric minutes-based benchmark; notification will be withheld only if issuing it would compromise efforts to assist victims or to contain, respond to, or mitigate the emergency.","cleryFraming":"NJIT frames its emergency notification procedures as designed to comply with Clery Act requirements for both emergency notifications and timely warnings, detailed further in the university's Annual Campus Security and Fire Report.","testingCadence":"No specific published testing cadence for the Campus Wide Notification System was located in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"NJIT states the CWNS is used only for situations such as delayed openings/closings caused by weather or potential, imminent threats to the safety of the university community; students, faculty, and staff opt in by providing phone numbers and email addresses to receive text, voicemail, and email messages.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Immediate dispatch, notification exception","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.njit.edu/dos/university-emergency-notification-system","sourceDescription":"NJIT Dean of Students and Campus Life, University Emergency Notification System","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Decision authority and 'without delay' standard","quotedText":"The duty sergeant or ranking police supervisor on duty will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the NJIT community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the Campus Wide Notification System.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.njit.edu/dos/university-emergency-notification-system","sourceDescription":"NJIT Dean of Students and Campus Life, University Emergency Notification System","annotations":["Names the specific decision-making role (duty sergeant/ranking supervisor) and the 'without delay' timing standard; this phrase appeared consistently across multiple independent search queries."],"characterCount":224},{"label":"CWNS system description and scope","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"http://www.njit.edu/campusnotifications","sourceDescription":"NJIT Campus Wide Notification System page","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Content construction standard","quotedText":"The content of the notification will be constructed in a manner to give out pertinent information regarding a confirmed threat to campus safety, and if necessary, the steps students, faculty, and staff should take to help ensure their own safety from that particular threat.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.njit.edu/dos/university-emergency-notification-system","sourceDescription":"NJIT Dean of Students and Campus Life, University Emergency Notification System","annotations":["Ties message content to actionable protective guidance, not just confirmation that a threat exists."],"characterCount":274}],"keyFindings":["NJIT's notification exception tracks the Clery standard closely: withheld only if issuing it would compromise victim assistance or emergency mitigation.","The duty sergeant or ranking police supervisor on duty is the named decision authority, acting 'without delay' rather than under a fixed numeric SLA.","The Campus-Wide Notification System (CWNS) is explicitly scoped to weather-driven delayed openings/closings and imminent safety threats, delivered via text, phone, and email.","Message content is required to include actionable safety steps when necessary, not just confirmation of a threat."],"sources":[{"title":"University Emergency Notification System, Dean of Students and Campus Life","url":"https://www.njit.edu/dos/university-emergency-notification-system","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Campus Wide Notification System, New Jersey Institute of Technology","url":"http://www.njit.edu/campusnotifications","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"2025 NJIT Annual Campus Security and Fire Report","url":"https://www.njit.edu/publicsafety/sites/njit.edu.publicsafety/files/2025%20NJIT%20Annual%20Campus%20Security%20and%20Fire%20Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Dial 9-1-1 for Emergencies on and around Campus, Department of Public Safety","url":"https://www.njit.edu/publicsafety/emergencies.php","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","cwns","public-r1","new-jersey"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"new-mexico-state-university-aggie-alert-policy","slug":"new-mexico-state-university-aggie-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"New Mexico State University","shortName":"NMSU","state":"NM","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"AggieAlert (Aggie Alert)","enrollment":23788},"policy":{"title":"ARP 16.11 — Emergency Notification System (AggieAlert) and Clery Act Compliance","systemName":"AggieAlert (Omnilert)","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://arp.nmsu.edu/chapter-16/6-11.html","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"New Mexico State University, a land-grant R1 Hispanic-Serving Institution in Las Cruces, sends campus alerts through [AggieAlert](https://emergency.nmsu.edu/), its Omnilert-powered phone/text/email/app emergency-notification system, governed by [ARP 16.11 (Emergency Notification System)](https://arp.nmsu.edu/chapter-16/6-11.html) and [ARP 16.12 (Clery Act Compliance)](https://arp.nmsu.edu/chapter-16/16-12.html), with the NMSU Chief of Police as the final decision authority on whether to issue an Emergency Notification or Timely Warning.","analysis":"New Mexico State University (NMSU) is New Mexico's original land-grant institution, a federally designated Hispanic-Serving Institution, and — as of the 2025 Carnegie classifications — a [Carnegie R1](https://ie.nmsu.edu/) research university, enrolling 23,788 students systemwide in fall 2025 across its Las Cruces main campus and branch campuses. Its emergency-notification system is branded [AggieAlert](https://emergency.nmsu.edu/) (sometimes styled 'Aggie Alert'), provided through a partnership with the vendor Omnilert LLC (the subscriber portal lives at nmsu.omnilert.net) — not Rave or Everbridge. NMSU frames AggieAlert's public-facing purpose plainly: 'AggieAlert notifications are sent to the University community when there is an immediate threat or concern for the health or safety of the campus community. In addition, the University may send precautionary AggieAlert notifications for emergency situations occurring in or affecting nearby areas.'\n\nThe activation threshold is codified in [ARP 16.11, Emergency Notification System](https://arp.nmsu.edu/chapter-16/6-11.html), which provides that an emergency notification 'may be initiated when the following criteria are met: There is a major incident or threat affecting the safety of the NMSU community · The emergency notification can help alleviate threats to others or shall otherwise improve public safety · [and] the emergency notification will not adversely impact public safety.' NMSU's definitional language ties the function to the Clery standard — an Emergency Notification is 'a warning given, triggered by any event currently occurring or that imminently threatens the health or safety of students and employees, including significant emergencies and dangerous situations.'\n\nDecision authority is centralized in law enforcement and incident command. NMSU's Annual Security Reports and ARP make the [NMSU Police Department](https://police.nmsu.edu/) the intake point ('Anyone who thinks an emergency notification or timely warning is needed should immediately contact the NMSU Police Department') and place final authority with the Chief of Police: 'The final decision on whether to issue one of the above notices, and the information contained therein, rests with the NMSU Chief of Police.' During an active response, an Incident Commander is established (NMSU Police and/or NMSU Fire, per ARP 16.10) who, the ASR states, 'will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of an Emergency Notification and have it sent' unless doing so would compromise efforts to assist victims or mitigate the emergency — language that tracks the federal Clery 'without delay' standard at 34 CFR 668.46.\n\nNMSU keeps the two Clery tracks explicit in [ARP 16.12, Clery Act Compliance](https://arp.nmsu.edu/chapter-16/16-12.html), and uses the literal phrase 'Timely Warning': a Timely Warning is 'a warning given, triggered by a Clery Crime reported … to have occurred within the campus' Clery Geography, which NMSU considers to represent a serious or ongoing threat to students or employees,' and the policy explicitly distinguishes a Clery 'push' notification (affirmative delivery by the institution) from a 'pull' notification. AggieAlert delivers 'messages via phone, text and email' plus push via the Omnilert mobile app; NMSU also operates social media and digital signage, though no source tied outdoor sirens or PA to AggieAlert, so those are not claimed. Two honesty caveats: every nmsu.edu host (emergency.nmsu.edu, arp.nmsu.edu) and the ASR PDFs returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so all excerpts were captured from search-index reproductions of NMSU's own ARP/ASR/AggieAlert pages and corroborated across multiple independent queries; and the full single-sentence 'Incident Commander … without delay' construction and the exact published test cadence ('each semester') each appeared only once and are therefore flagged isVerbatimConfirmed:false here, while the criteria, definitions, decision authority, Clery framing, and channels surfaced identically across two-or-more retrievals.","whenCriteria":"Per ARP 16.11, an emergency notification 'may be initiated when the following criteria are met: There is a major incident or threat affecting the safety of the NMSU community; the emergency notification can help alleviate threats to others or shall otherwise improve public safety; and the emergency notification will not adversely impact public safety.' AggieAlert is sent 'when there is an immediate threat or concern for the health or safety of the campus community,' with precautionary alerts for nearby-area emergencies.","decisionAuthority":"The NMSU Police Department is the intake point; the final decision on whether to issue an Emergency Notification or Timely Warning 'rests with the NMSU Chief of Police.' When an Incident Commander is established (NMSU Police and/or NMSU Fire per ARP 16.10), the Incident Commander or Chief of Police (or designee) determines that an emergency is 'confirmed' and directs the content of the notification.","timingStandard":"NMSU's ASR states the Incident Commander 'will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of an Emergency Notification and have it sent,' unless doing so would compromise efforts to assist victims or mitigate the emergency — mirroring the federal Clery 34 CFR 668.46 'without delay' standard. The full single-sentence construction was single-source in this review and is flagged accordingly.","cleryFraming":"NMSU explicitly uses both 'Emergency Notification' and 'Timely Warning.' An Emergency Notification covers events that 'imminently threaten the health or safety of students and employees, including significant emergencies and dangerous situations'; a Timely Warning covers a 'Clery Crime … within the campus' Clery Geography … [representing] a serious or ongoing threat.' The policy distinguishes a Clery 'push' notification from a 'pull' notification.","testingCadence":"NMSU tests the Notification System and announces routine tests beforehand (e.g., a documented noon test on Wednesday, Feb. 7, delivered 'via the notification method you selected when you registered'). A specific 'each semester' cadence appeared only once and is not asserted as verbatim; NMSU also runs unannounced fire-evacuation drills and at least one annual emergency exercise.","scopeLimits":"AggieAlert reach depends on subscribers keeping current contact information in the Omnilert portal (nmsu.omnilert.net / etm.nmsu.edu); messages go via phone, text, email, and app push. Social media and digital signage extend reach. Outdoor sirens or public-address were not tied to AggieAlert by any NMSU source and are not claimed.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","push-notification","twitter-x","facebook","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"AggieAlert activation framing","quotedText":"AggieAlert notifications are sent to the University community when there is an immediate threat or concern for the health or safety of the campus community. In addition, the University may send precautionary AggieAlert notifications for emergency situations occurring in or affecting nearby areas.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.nmsu.edu/","sourceDescription":"NMSU — AggieAlert / Emergency page","annotations":["Sets AggieAlert's threshold at an immediate threat or concern for campus health/safety and authorizes precautionary alerts for nearby-area emergencies. Identical wording surfaced across two-plus independent retrievals of emergency.nmsu.edu."],"characterCount":297},{"label":"Activation criteria (ARP 16.11)","quotedText":"An emergency notification of students, staff, and faculty may be initiated when the following criteria are met: There is a major incident or threat affecting the safety of the NMSU community; the emergency notification can help alleviate threats to others or shall otherwise improve public safety; and the emergency notification will not adversely impact public safety.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://arp.nmsu.edu/chapter-16/6-11.html","sourceDescription":"NMSU — Administrative Rules and Procedures (ARP) 16.11, Emergency Notification System","annotations":["Codifies the three-prong activation test (major incident/threat; alleviates threats or improves public safety; will not adversely impact public safety). The three-prong criteria surfaced across three independent retrievals of ARP 16.11."],"characterCount":369},{"label":"Final decision authority (Chief of Police)","quotedText":"The final decision on whether to issue one of the above notices, and the information contained therein, rests with the NMSU Chief of Police.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.nmsu.edu/safety/2025-MAIN-CAMPUS2.pdf","sourceDescription":"NMSU — 2025 Annual Security Report (Main Campus)","annotations":["Vests final authority over both Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings in the NMSU Chief of Police. The Chief-of-Police-as-final-authority statement surfaced across two-plus independent retrievals."],"characterCount":140},{"label":"Timely Warning definition (ARP 16.12)","quotedText":"A timely warning is a warning given, triggered by a Clery Crime reported (to a Campus Security Authority or to law enforcement) to have occurred within the campus' Clery Geography, which NMSU considers to represent a serious or ongoing threat to students or employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://arp.nmsu.edu/chapter-16/16-12.html","sourceDescription":"NMSU — Administrative Rules and Procedures (ARP) 16.12, Clery Act Compliance","annotations":["Defines the Clery timely-warning function around a 'serious or ongoing threat' from a Clery Crime in Clery Geography. Surfaced across two-plus independent retrievals; NMSU uses the literal phrase 'timely warning.'"],"characterCount":268},{"label":"Channels / delivery methods","quotedText":"In the event of an emergency, the Emergency Notification System will provide messages via phone, text and email.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.nmsu.edu/","sourceDescription":"NMSU — AggieAlert / Emergency page","annotations":["Confirms the core AggieAlert channel trio — voice phone call, SMS/text, and email — supplemented by Omnilert mobile-app push. Surfaced across two-plus independent retrievals."],"characterCount":112},{"label":"Clery push-vs-pull framing","quotedText":"The Clery Act requires a \"push\" notification (affirmative message delivery by the institution), rather than a \"pull\" notification (posting it somewhere that people can go to find the information).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://arp.nmsu.edu/chapter-16/16-12.html","sourceDescription":"NMSU — Administrative Rules and Procedures (ARP) 16.12, Clery Act Compliance","annotations":["Articulates why AggieAlert pushes to phones/inboxes rather than relying on a posted page — the Clery 'push not pull' principle. Surfaced across two-plus independent retrievals."],"characterCount":196}],"keyFindings":["NMSU's emergency-notification system is AggieAlert, powered by vendor Omnilert (portal nmsu.omnilert.net), delivering phone, text, email, and app-push alerts — not Rave or Everbridge.","Activation is governed by ARP 16.11's three-prong test (major incident/threat; alleviates threats or improves public safety; will not adversely impact public safety), with AggieAlert sent for immediate threats to campus health/safety plus precautionary nearby-area alerts.","Final authority to issue an Emergency Notification or Timely Warning rests with the NMSU Chief of Police; the NMSU Police Department is the intake point, and an Incident Commander directs content during active response.","NMSU uses both Clery terms explicitly — Emergency Notification and Timely Warning — and articulates the Clery 'push, not pull' principle in ARP 16.12.","NMSU is a public R1 (2025 Carnegie), land-grant, Hispanic-Serving Institution (23,788 students systemwide, fall 2025). All excerpts were corroborated across multiple search retrievals because .edu hosts and ASR PDFs blocked automated fetching; the full single-sentence 'Incident Commander … without delay' construction and the exact 'each semester' test cadence were single-source and are flagged not verbatim-confirmed."],"sources":[{"title":"NMSU — AggieAlert / Emergency (emergency.nmsu.edu)","url":"https://emergency.nmsu.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"NMSU — ARP 16.11, Emergency Notification System","url":"https://arp.nmsu.edu/chapter-16/6-11.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"NMSU — ARP 16.12, Clery Act Compliance","url":"https://arp.nmsu.edu/chapter-16/16-12.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"NMSU — ARP 16.10, Emergency Preparedness and Response","url":"https://arp.nmsu.edu/chapter-16/16-10.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"NMSU — 2025 Annual Security Report (Main Campus, PDF)","url":"https://police.nmsu.edu/safety/2025-MAIN-CAMPUS2.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"NMSU Police Department","url":"https://police.nmsu.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"NMSU — AggieAlert FAQs","url":"https://emergency.nmsu.edu/faqs.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"NMSU enrollment up at all campuses, reaches pre-pandemic level in Las Cruces (fall 2025: 23,788 systemwide)","url":"https://newsroom.nmsu.edu/news/nmsu-enrollment-up-at-all-campuses--reaches-pre-pandemic-level-in-las-cruces/s/b94021c0-f382-41ba-9288-3ca6a7dbb8eb","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","aggie-alert","omnilert","hsi","land-grant","public-r1","new-mexico"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-31","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"new-river-community-college-nrcc-alert-policy","slug":"new-river-community-college-nrcc-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"New River Community College","shortName":"NRCC","state":"VA","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"NRCC Alert","enrollment":4000},"policy":{"title":"NRCC Alert Emergency Notification System","systemName":"NRCC Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.nr.edu/alert/","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"New River Community College's [NRCC Alert page](https://www.nr.edu/alert/) brands NRCC Alert as the college emergency and events notification system with user-controlled delivery via cell, work/home phone, text, email, or voice message, with Help Desk support at (540) 674-3600.","analysis":"New River Community College (Virginia) is a community college. Its [NRCC Alert overview](https://www.nr.edu/alert/) brands the system for accurate and timely notifications straight from the college, letting affiliates control contact channels (cell, work or home phone, text, email, or voice). Registration and settings management are offered on the same page. Deeper Clery Timely Warning decision criteria and activation authority are not published on this overview page.","whenCriteria":"NRCC Alert relays notifications about events and emergencies that affect students or other stakeholders; full Clery Timely Warning criteria are not restated on this page.","decisionAuthority":"Not detailed on the NRCC Alert overview page beyond notifications originating from the college.","timingStandard":"Described as up-to-the-minute notifications; no numeric without-delay clause on this page.","cleryFraming":"System-overview branding page for NRCC Alert; not a full Clery ASR Timely Warning section.","scopeLimits":"User-controlled multi-channel contact preferences for students and other stakeholders.","testingCadence":"Not stated on the NRCC Alert overview page.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"NRCC Alert brand and multi-channel control","quotedText":"NRCC Alert relays accurate and timely notifications of the information you want and need to know—straight from the college. With NRCC Alert, you control how you're contacted—whether it's on your cell, work or home phone, via text, email or voice message. You can receive up-to-the-minute notifications about events and emergencies that affect you as a student or other stakeholder at NRCC.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nr.edu/alert/","sourceDescription":"NRCC Alert overview page","annotations":["Branded NRCC Alert with user-controlled multi-channel delivery."],"characterCount":389},{"label":"Help Desk support contact","quotedText":"If you are having trouble logging in or have other questions about NRCC Alert, please contact the NRCC Help Desk at (540) 674-3600","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nr.edu/alert/","sourceDescription":"NRCC Alert overview page support","annotations":["Local Help Desk number for NRCC Alert support."],"characterCount":130}],"keyFindings":["NRCC Alert is the branded multi-channel emergency/events notification system.","Users control cell, phone, text, email, or voice delivery.","Help Desk (540) 674-3600 supports login and NRCC Alert questions."],"sources":[{"title":"NRCC Alert - New River Community College","url":"https://www.nr.edu/alert/","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","community-college","emergency-notification","virginia","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"nyu-2025-asr-alert-policy","slug":"nyu-2025-asr-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"New York University","shortName":"NYU","state":"NY","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"NYU Alert"},"policy":{"title":"2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - Emergency Notification and NYU Alert","systemName":"NYU Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu/campusSafety/documents/NYU-NEWYORK-ASR-25.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"NYU's [2025 New York Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu/campusSafety/documents/NYU-NEWYORK-ASR-25.pdf) notifies the campus community without delay upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to students or employees on campus. Campus Safety confirms those situations through visual inspection, consultation with authorities, or multiple eyewitness reports. NYU Alert is tested at least twice a year.","analysis":"NYU (New York private-r1, five filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [2025 New York ASR PDF](https://www.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu/campusSafety/documents/NYU-NEWYORK-ASR-25.pdf) (HTTP 200, two-column text layer). NYU notifies the campus without delay upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus. The Department of Campus Safety confirms dangerious situations (live spelling) through visual inspection, consultation with authorities, or multiple eyewitness reports. NYU Alert is tested at least twice a year. Consumer NYU Alert HTML pages returned empty in this pass and are not quoted. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF.","whenCriteria":"Confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to students or employees occurring on campus.","decisionAuthority":"The Department of Campus Safety confirms the situation. The Global Communications Center or Emergency Management Team initiates NYU Alert.","timingStandard":"Without delay upon confirmation. NYU Alert is tested at least twice a year.","cleryFraming":"The ASR treats NYU Alert as the emergency-notification system and Timely Warning Notifications as Clery Campus Notices.","channels":["sms","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Without-delay notification upon confirmation","quotedText":"NYU will, without delay, notify the campus community upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu/campusSafety/documents/NYU-NEWYORK-ASR-25.pdf","sourceDescription":"NYU 2025 New York ASR (PDF text layer, two-column wrap joined)","annotations":["Right-column wrap joined as spaces."],"characterCount":224},{"label":"How Campus Safety confirms","quotedText":"The Department of Campus Safety confirms dangerious situations through visual inspection (either in person or via security cameras), consultation with authorities, or through receipt of multiple eyewitness reports.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu/campusSafety/documents/NYU-NEWYORK-ASR-25.pdf","sourceDescription":"NYU 2025 New York ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Live spelling is dangerious."],"characterCount":214},{"label":"NYU Alert testing","quotedText":"NYU Alert is tested at least twice a year.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu/campusSafety/documents/NYU-NEWYORK-ASR-25.pdf","sourceDescription":"NYU 2025 New York ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Test cadence."],"characterCount":42}],"keyFindings":["NYU notifies the campus without delay on a confirmed immediate on-campus threat.","Campus Safety confirms via visual inspection, authorities, or multiple eyewitness reports (live spelling dangerious).","NYU Alert is tested at least twice a year."],"sources":[{"title":"NYU 2025 New York Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu/campusSafety/documents/NYU-NEWYORK-ASR-25.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","new-york","private-r1"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"nicholls-state-university-everbridge-alert-policy","slug":"nicholls-state-university-everbridge-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Nicholls State University","shortName":"Nicholls","state":"LA","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"Nicholls Emergency Notification System / Everbridge","alertPlatform":"Everbridge"},"policy":{"title":"2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - Timely Warnings and Everbridge","systemName":"Nicholls Emergency Notification System / Everbridge","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.nicholls.edu/titleix/wp-content/uploads/sites/149/2025/10/2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Report-.docx.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Nicholls State University's [2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.nicholls.edu/titleix/wp-content/uploads/sites/149/2025/10/2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Report-.docx.pdf) issues a Police Advisory in a timely manner about crimes in and around campus. Everbridge Network, Inc. provides instant notification capabilities during a crisis on campus.","analysis":"Nicholls (Louisiana public-masters, five filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [2025 ASR PDF](https://www.nicholls.edu/titleix/wp-content/uploads/sites/149/2025/10/2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Report-.docx.pdf) (HTTP 200, text layer). The University Police Department issues a Police Advisory in a timely manner to the campus community about crimes in and around the campus. Everbridge Network, Inc. is an emergency mass notification company that provides instant notification capabilities during a crisis on campus. A registration sentence wrapping NSU-issued is not quoted because of hyphenation spacing. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF.","whenCriteria":"Police Advisory for crimes in and around campus, including when a violent crime against a person or a serious threat to property has occurred or is imminent. Everbridge during a crisis on campus.","decisionAuthority":"University Police Department, working with other University departments.","timingStandard":"Police Advisory in a timely manner. Everbridge provides instant notification capabilities.","cleryFraming":"The ASR titles the section TIMELY WARNINGS and uses Police Advisory as the product name.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Goal of informing the campus","quotedText":"It is the goal of the Nicholls State University Police Department and the University to keep the campus community informed of serious incidents.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nicholls.edu/titleix/wp-content/uploads/sites/149/2025/10/2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Report-.docx.pdf","sourceDescription":"Nicholls State University 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Opening timely-warnings goal."],"characterCount":144},{"label":"Police Advisory timely manner","quotedText":"Working in conjunction with other University departments, the University Police Department will issue a Police Advisory in a timely manner to the campus community about crimes in and around the campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nicholls.edu/titleix/wp-content/uploads/sites/149/2025/10/2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Report-.docx.pdf","sourceDescription":"Nicholls State University 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Police Advisory is the timely-warning product."],"characterCount":201},{"label":"Everbridge crisis notification","quotedText":"Everbridge Network, Inc. is an emergency mass notification company that provides the University with instant notification capabilities during a crisis on campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nicholls.edu/titleix/wp-content/uploads/sites/149/2025/10/2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Report-.docx.pdf","sourceDescription":"Nicholls State University 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Named vendor and crisis use."],"characterCount":161}],"keyFindings":["Police Advisories issue in a timely manner for crimes in and around campus.","Everbridge provides instant notification during a campus crisis."],"sources":[{"title":"Nicholls State University 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.nicholls.edu/titleix/wp-content/uploads/sites/149/2025/10/2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Report-.docx.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","louisiana","public-masters","everbridge"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"norfolk-state-university-alert-policy","slug":"norfolk-state-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Norfolk State University","shortName":"NSU","state":"VA","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"NSU Alerts","enrollment":6053},"policy":{"title":"50-04 Emergency Notification System","systemName":"NSU Alerts","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.nsu.edu/policy/admin-50-04.aspx","lastReviewed":"2021-10"},"summary":"Norfolk State University — a [public HBCU in Norfolk, Virginia](https://www.nsu.edu/About/Administrative-Offices-Services/University-Police-Department/Rave-Alerts) — governs its emergency alerting through administrative [Policy 50-04, the Emergency Notification System](https://www.nsu.edu/policy/admin-50-04.aspx), and operates \"NSU Alerts\" on the RAVE Mobile Safety platform to push campus emergency and inclement-weather notifications by text, email, voice line, and the NSU Safe app.","analysis":"Norfolk State's alert program runs as **NSU Alerts**, which the University describes as leveraging [the RAVE Mobile Safety platform](https://www.nsu.edu/About/Administrative-Offices-Services/University-Police-Department/Rave-Alerts) to deliver emergency notifications and essential information to the campus community. Although the institution's athletic and community identity is built around the \"Spartans,\" the operative current brand for the notification channel is \"NSU Alerts\" rather than \"Spartan Alert\"; the system is paired with the **NSU Safe** mobile safety app, which adds push notifications. The system is capable of delivering messages to NSU faculty, staff, and student email addresses, land lines, and cell phones, covering both campus emergencies and campus / inclement-weather closures.\n\nThe governing instrument is [administrative Policy 50-04, \"Emergency Notification System\"](https://www.nsu.edu/policy/admin-50-04.aspx), a standalone University policy that establishes the Emergency Notification System (ENS) framework; the public-facing operational detail lives on the University Police Department's NSU Alerts page. As a measure to best reach the NSU community during incidents and emergencies, all current faculty, staff, and students are automatically registered with their NSU emails in the NSU Alerts system, and the platform lets each registrant add additional points of contact — [up to eight contact methods](https://www.nsu.edu/About/Administrative-Offices-Services/University-Police-Department/Rave-Alerts): three mobile phone numbers, three voice-only line contacts, and two additional email addresses, plus extra family points of contact.\n\n**Decision authority and Clery framing.** The University states that alerts \"will be sent by either Communications & Marketing or Norfolk State University Police Department, depending on the nature of the situation\" — a split-authority model in which public-safety threats are issued by NSUPD and operational / weather messaging may originate from Communications & Marketing. Separately, NSU follows the [timely-warning requirement of the Jeanne Clery Act](https://www.nsu.edu/campus-security-report): campus crime alerts are issued and posted in buildings to notify the community and visitors of serious crimes and incidents occurring on campus and in surrounding areas, distinct from the immediate-threat emergency-notification path. NSU's Annual Safety & Security Campus Report documents these procedures.\n\n**Privacy and testing.** The University assures that contacts entered into the NSU Alerts system \"are only used for emergencies and tests, they are never shared or sold,\" which both confirms a recurring testing practice and bounds the use of registrant data. The platform / vendor is RAVE Mobile Safety (Rave Alert).","whenCriteria":"NSU Alerts notifications cover campus emergencies as well as campus and inclement-weather closures as they pertain to the entire campus community. Clery timely warnings (campus crime alerts) are issued separately for serious crimes and incidents occurring on campus and in the surrounding communities that represent a continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"Alerts are sent by either Communications & Marketing or the Norfolk State University Police Department (NSUPD), depending on the nature of the situation. Policy 50-04 establishes the Emergency Notification System framework University-wide.","timingStandard":"Not stated verbatim on the public NSU Alerts page; the system is positioned to reach the entire campus community during incidents and emergencies, consistent with the Clery immediate-notification standard.","cleryFraming":"NSU distinguishes emergency notifications (campus emergencies / weather closures, via NSU Alerts) from Clery timely warnings (campus crime alerts issued and posted to warn of serious crimes occurring on or near campus). NSU follows the Timely Warning Notice requirement of the Jeanne Clery Act and documents both in its Annual Safety & Security Campus Report.","testingCadence":"Contacts entered into the NSU Alerts system are used only for emergencies and tests (never shared or sold), confirming a recurring testing practice; a specific verbatim cadence is not stated on the public page.","scopeLimits":"Registrant contact data is used only for emergencies and tests and is never shared or sold. Each account may hold up to eight contact methods (three mobile numbers, three voice-only lines, two additional emails); faculty, staff, and students are auto-registered via their NSU email.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","push-notification","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"NSU Alerts system and platform","quotedText":"Norfolk State University leverages the RAVE Mobile Safety platform to provide emergency notifications and essential information to the campus community. This system is capable of delivering messages to NSU faculty, staff and students email addresses, land lines and cell phones. These messages include campus emergencies as well as campus and inclement weather closures as they pertain to the entire campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nsu.edu/About/Administrative-Offices-Services/University-Police-Department/Rave-Alerts","sourceDescription":"NSU Alerts — University Police Department","annotations":["Identifies the vendor (RAVE Mobile Safety) and the multi-channel reach (email, land line, cell). Returned consistently as quoted text across multiple search captures of the live NSU Alerts page."],"characterCount":417},{"label":"Split decision authority","quotedText":"Alerts will be sent by either Communications & Marketing or Norfolk State University Police Department, depending on the nature of the situation.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nsu.edu/About/Administrative-Offices-Services/University-Police-Department/Rave-Alerts","sourceDescription":"NSU Alerts — University Police Department","annotations":["Documents a two-office issuing model: NSUPD for public-safety threats, Communications & Marketing for operational/weather messaging."],"characterCount":145},{"label":"Registrant data — emergencies and tests only","quotedText":"Contacts entered into the NSU Alerts system are only used for emergencies and tests, they are never shared or sold.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nsu.edu/About/Administrative-Offices-Services/University-Police-Department/Rave-Alerts","sourceDescription":"NSU Alerts — University Police Department","annotations":["Confirms a recurring testing practice and bounds the use of registrant contact data."],"characterCount":115},{"label":"Contact-method capacity","quotedText":"NSU Alerts allows you to list up to eight (8) contact methods, (3) mobile phone numbers, (3) voice only line contacts and (2) additional email addresses.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nsu.edu/About/Administrative-Offices-Services/University-Police-Department/Rave-Alerts","sourceDescription":"NSU Alerts — University Police Department","annotations":["Defines the registration model: up to eight endpoints per account across SMS, voice line, and email."],"characterCount":153}],"keyFindings":["NSU's alert program is 'NSU Alerts,' running on the RAVE Mobile Safety platform, plus the NSU Safe mobile app for push notifications — the operative current brand is 'NSU Alerts,' not 'Spartan Alert.'","The governing instrument is standalone administrative Policy 50-04, 'Emergency Notification System,' which establishes the University's ENS framework.","Alerts cover both campus emergencies and inclement-weather / campus closures, reaching email, land lines, and cell phones.","Issuing authority is split: Communications & Marketing or the Norfolk State University Police Department, depending on the nature of the situation.","Faculty, staff, and students are auto-registered via NSU email; each account can hold up to eight contact endpoints; contact data is used only for emergencies and tests and is never shared or sold."],"sources":[{"title":"NSU Alerts | University Police Department — Norfolk State University","url":"https://www.nsu.edu/About/Administrative-Offices-Services/University-Police-Department/Rave-Alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Policy 50-04 — Emergency Notification System (NSU Administrative Policy Library)","url":"https://www.nsu.edu/policy/admin-50-04.aspx","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"NSU Safe | University Police Department — Norfolk State University","url":"https://www.nsu.edu/About/Administrative-Offices-Services/University-Police-Department/NSU-Safe","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual Safety & Security Campus Report — Norfolk State University","url":"https://www.nsu.edu/campus-security-report","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","hbcu","virginia"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"north-carolina-at-alert-policy","slug":"north-carolina-at-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University","shortName":"N.C. A&T","state":"NC","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"Aggie Alert","enrollment":14311},"policy":{"title":"Aggie Alert / Emergency Notifications","systemName":"Aggie Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.ncat.edu/campus-life/university-police-department/emergency-management/emergency-notifications.php","lastReviewed":"2024-10"},"summary":"North Carolina A&T State University — the nation's largest [HBCU](https://www.ncat.edu/aggiealert/index.php) — issues Clery emergency notifications through \"Aggie Alert,\" a text-and-email mass-notification system run by University Police / Emergency Management, supplemented by a multi-channel push to radio, social media, the website, the Aggie InfoLine, and campus television screens; per the University's [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.ncat.edu/campus-life/university-police-department/jeanne-clery-act/index.php), a timely warning is not issued when circumstances require activating Aggie Alert.","analysis":"North Carolina A&T's emergency-alert program centers on **Aggie Alert**, described as the University text notification system for emergencies, life-threatening situations, and inclement weather. The [AggieAlert system](https://www.ncat.edu/aggiealert/index.php) sends text messages and emails to registered students, faculty, and staff, and enforces a stated ZERO SPAM policy — it will not be used to distribute advertising or unsolicited content, and the University does not sell or share contact information with third parties. SMS recipients can opt out at any time by texting STOP or QUIT to the short codes 67283 (MRAVE) or 226787 (CAMPUS), indicating a Rave/Smart911-family platform.\n\n**Clery framing.** A&T draws the federal line explicitly: a [timely warning is not issued](https://www.ncat.edu/campus-life/university-police-department/emergency-management/emergency-notifications.php) when the circumstances require activation of the emergency notification system (Aggie Alert), although Aggie Alert may be used to provide adequate follow-up information to the community as needed. The University states it will issue emergency notifications without delay in response to a confirmed significant emergency or a dangerous situation that constitutes an immediate threat to the health or safety of members of the campus community — language tracking the Clery 668.46(g) standard. The Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, published each year by October 1, documents these policies along with three years of crime and fire statistics.\n\n**Channels.** Beyond text and email, A&T disseminates emergency information through University email to EHRA/SHRA employees and students, WNAA 90.1 FM Radio (and WNAA's website), the A&T website (where a RED campus alert bar appears across the top of the home page), Aggie Net (television/plasma screens across campus), and the [Aggie InfoLine](https://www.ncat.edu/campus-life/university-police-department/emergency-management/emergency-notifications.php) recorded line at 336-334-7325. The University also maintains a dedicated @NCAT_AggieAlert account on X (Twitter) for emergency notifications.\n\n**Testing.** A&T conducts periodic Aggie Alert system tests and announces them in advance (for example, a publicly posted test scheduled for 10 a.m. with the message identifying it as a test of the campus notification system), consistent with the Clery requirement to test emergency response and evacuation procedures.","whenCriteria":"The University will issue emergency notifications (Aggie Alert) without delay in response to a confirmed significant emergency or a dangerous situation that constitutes an immediate threat to the health or safety of members of the campus community. Aggie Alert is the text notification system for emergencies, life-threatening situations, and inclement weather.","decisionAuthority":"Emergency notifications are administered by University Police / Emergency Management; activation follows confirmation of the emergency. (The public criteria page does not name the specific authorizing official verbatim.)","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications are issued 'without delay' upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation that constitutes an immediate threat to health or safety.","cleryFraming":"A&T explicitly states a timely warning is NOT issued when circumstances require activation of the emergency notification system (Aggie Alert), though Aggie Alert may provide follow-up information as needed — a clear delineation between the two Clery obligations.","testingCadence":"The University conducts periodic Aggie Alert system tests, announced in advance to the community (e.g., a scheduled test at 10 a.m. identified as a campus notification-system test).","scopeLimits":"Aggie Alert is restricted to emergencies, life-threatening situations, and inclement weather; it enforces a ZERO SPAM policy (no advertising/unsolicited content) and does not sell or share contact information. SMS is opt-out via STOP/QUIT to 67283 or 226787; carrier text-messaging fees may apply.","channels":["sms","email","twitter-x","website","digital-signage","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Aggie Alert system definition","quotedText":"AggieAlert is the University text notification system for emergencies, life-threatening situations, and inclement weather.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ncat.edu/aggiealert/index.php","sourceDescription":"N.C. A&T AggieAlert Emergency Notification System page","annotations":["Defines the system's scope; the same sentence is reproduced identically across the AggieAlert page and the Emergency Notifications page."],"characterCount":122},{"label":"ZERO SPAM / privacy policy","quotedText":"AggieAlert enforces a ZERO SPAM policy; the system will not be used to distribute advertising or other unsolicited content.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ncat.edu/aggiealert/index.php","sourceDescription":"N.C. A&T AggieAlert Emergency Notification System page","annotations":["A distinctive, branded scope-limit clause unique to A&T's AggieAlert page; preserves the original ALL-CAPS 'ZERO SPAM'."],"characterCount":123},{"label":"Timely warning vs. emergency notification distinction","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ncat.edu/campus-life/university-police-department/emergency-management/emergency-notifications.php","sourceDescription":"N.C. A&T Emergency Notifications page / Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Without-delay activation standard","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ncat.edu/campus-life/university-police-department/emergency-management/emergency-notifications.php","sourceDescription":"N.C. A&T Emergency Notifications page / Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Aggie Alert is A&T's text/email mass-notification system for emergencies, life-threatening situations, and inclement weather, on a Rave-family platform (STOP/QUIT short codes 67283 / 226787).","A&T explicitly states a timely warning is not issued when circumstances require activating Aggie Alert, though Aggie Alert may provide follow-up — a clear Clery two-track delineation.","Emergency notifications are issued 'without delay' upon confirmation of a significant emergency / dangerous situation posing an immediate threat to health or safety.","The channel set is unusually broad: SMS, email, WNAA 90.1 FM radio, X (@NCAT_AggieAlert), the website (RED alert bar), Aggie Net TV/plasma screens, and the Aggie InfoLine (336-334-7325).","AggieAlert enforces a stated ZERO SPAM policy and does not sell or share contact data; system tests are conducted periodically and announced in advance."],"sources":[{"title":"AggieAlert Emergency Notification System for N.C. A&T State University","url":"https://www.ncat.edu/aggiealert/index.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Notifications — N.C. A&T University Police Department / Emergency Management","url":"https://www.ncat.edu/campus-life/university-police-department/emergency-management/emergency-notifications.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Jeanne Clery Act Disclosures — N.C. A&T Public Safety","url":"https://www.ncat.edu/campus-life/university-police-department/jeanne-clery-act/index.php","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.ncat.edu/campus-life/university-police-department/jeanne-clery-act/asr.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"NCAT Aggie Alert (@NCAT_AggieAlert) on X (Twitter)","url":"https://twitter.com/NCAT_AggieAlert","type":"official-social"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","hbcu","north-carolina"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"north-carolina-central-university-eagle-alert-policy","slug":"north-carolina-central-university-eagle-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"North Carolina Central University","shortName":"NCCU","state":"NC","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"Eagle Alert","enrollment":8579},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications, Timely Warnings, and Safety Eagle Alerts (Annual Security and Fire Safety Report)","systemName":"Eagle Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://myeol.nccu.edu/sites/default/files/2025-09/ASFSR-w-DAAPP_2025.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-09-01"},"summary":"North Carolina Central University, a public HBCU in Durham, runs [Eagle Alert](https://www.nccu.edu/safe/sign-safety-alerts) on the Rave Mobile Safety platform and organizes its messaging into three tiers — [Emergency Notifications, Timely Warnings, and Crime Alert/Informational Messages](https://www.nccu.edu/administration/university-police/clery-act). As a UNC System institution, NCCU is bound by the [system-wide regulation](https://www.northcarolina.edu/apps/policy/doc.php?id=3536) that requires it to issue an emergency notification 'without delay' upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation.","analysis":"North Carolina Central University (NCCU) delivers campus emergency communications through [Eagle Alert](https://www.nccu.edu/safe/sign-safety-alerts), which runs on the Rave Mobile Safety platform and reaches the community by SMS text, email, and telephone call. NCCU's [University Police / Emergency Management](https://www.nccu.edu/administration/university-police/emergency-management) describe a clean three-tier structure: the university has 'three types of Safety Eagle Alerts to include Timely Warnings, Emergency Notifications, and Crime Alert/Informational Messages.' Emergency Notifications cover an incident or condition presenting an immediate or imminent threat; Timely Warnings cover Clery-reportable crimes that represent a serious or continuing threat; and Crime Alert/Informational Messages carry other crime-related information that does not rise to either bar. University Police evaluate each incident to decide which instrument is required, an explicit triage step that keeps the highest-urgency channel rare.\n\nBecause NCCU is a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina System, its emergency-notification timing is governed by the [UNC System Regulation on Campus Emergency Communication](https://www.northcarolina.edu/apps/policy/doc.php?id=3536). That regulation states that upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation, each institution 'will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of an emergency notification and initiate the alert system,' unless doing so would, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, 'compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to or otherwise mitigate the emergency.' This is the federal Clery/HEOA standard, adopted verbatim system-wide and therefore binding on NCCU.\n\nNCCU documents its program in its [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://myeol.nccu.edu/sites/default/files/2025-09/ASFSR-w-DAAPP_2025.pdf) and discloses a quarterly test cadence administered by the Assistant Director of Public Safety for Communications & Security Technologies — a more frequent schedule than the once-a-year minimum many peers commit to. Timely Warnings may also be disseminated beyond Eagle Alert via flyers, the police website, and media release, layering low-tech redundancy on top of the electronic system. Every NCCU.edu host and the ASR PDF returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, so the structured fields below were captured from the live pages' indexed text and corroborated across multiple independent retrievals; the two excerpts marked verbatim appeared with identical wording across 2+ retrievals.","whenCriteria":"Emergency Notifications are issued for an incident or condition that presents an immediate or imminent threat to life or property; Timely Warnings for Clery-reportable crimes representing a serious or continuing threat; and Crime Alert/Informational Messages for other crime-related information. University Police evaluate each incident to determine which is required.","decisionAuthority":"NCCU University Police evaluate incidents and disseminate the appropriate alert; Emergency Notifications are issued through the Rave system. Testing is administered by the Assistant Director of Public Safety for Communications & Security Technologies. The specific official authorized to confirm and trigger an Emergency Notification was not confirmable verbatim (nccu.edu hosts blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"As a UNC System institution, NCCU follows the system regulation: upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation it will, 'without delay,' and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of an emergency notification and initiate the alert system, unless doing so would compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","cleryFraming":"NCCU keeps the Clery functions distinct across three named instruments: Emergency Notifications (immediate/imminent threat), Timely Warnings (Clery crimes posing a serious or continuing threat), and Crime Alert/Informational Messages (other crime-related information).","testingCadence":"The emergency notification system is tested quarterly by the Assistant Director of Public Safety for Communications & Security Technologies (per NCCU's emergency-management page).","scopeLimits":"Eagle Alert reaches the community by SMS, email, and phone; community members can update or add contact endpoints through the Eagle Alerts sign-up. Timely Warnings may also be disseminated via flyers, the police website, and media release. The UNC System regulation's mitigation carve-out permits holding a notification when issuing it would compromise response or victim assistance.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Three-tier alert structure","quotedText":"North Carolina Central University has three types of Safety Eagle Alerts to include Timely Warnings, Emergency Notifications, and Crime Alert/Informational Messages.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nccu.edu/administration/university-police/clery-act","sourceDescription":"NCCU University Police — Clery Act / Eagle Alert page","annotations":["Establishes NCCU's three-tier model. Identical wording appeared across multiple independent retrievals of NCCU's Clery/Emergency-Management pages."],"characterCount":165},{"label":"Emergency-notification timing standard (UNC System regulation)","quotedText":"Upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation, each constituent institution of higher education will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of an emergency notification and initiate the alert system, unless issuing an emergency notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.northcarolina.edu/apps/policy/doc.php?id=3536","sourceDescription":"UNC System — Regulation on Campus Emergency Communication","annotations":["This is the UNC System regulation that governs NCCU (a constituent institution), not an NCCU-authored restatement. The exact wording was corroborated across 2+ retrievals of the regulation."],"characterCount":478},{"label":"Emergency Notification definition","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nccu.edu/administration/university-police/emergency-management","sourceDescription":"NCCU University Police — Emergency Management page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Quarterly testing cadence","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nccu.edu/administration/university-police/emergency-management","sourceDescription":"NCCU University Police — Emergency Management page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["NCCU runs Eagle Alert on Rave Mobile Safety, reaching the community by SMS, email, and phone.","Messaging is organized into three named tiers: Emergency Notifications, Timely Warnings, and Crime Alert/Informational Messages, with University Police triaging each incident.","As a UNC System institution, NCCU follows the system regulation's 'without delay, upon confirmation' emergency-notification standard, including the mitigation carve-out.","The emergency-notification system is tested quarterly — more often than the annual minimum many peers commit to.","All NCCU.edu hosts and the ASR PDF blocked automated fetching, so structured fields were corroborated from indexed page text; two excerpts were confirmed verbatim across 2+ retrievals."],"sources":[{"title":"NCCU — Sign up for Safety Alerts (Eagle Alert)","url":"https://www.nccu.edu/safe/sign-safety-alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"NCCU University Police — Emergency Management","url":"https://www.nccu.edu/administration/university-police/emergency-management","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"NCCU University Police — Clery Act / Eagle Alert","url":"https://www.nccu.edu/administration/university-police/clery-act","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"NCCU — 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://myeol.nccu.edu/sites/default/files/2025-09/ASFSR-w-DAAPP_2025.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"UNC System — Regulation on Campus Emergency Communication","url":"https://www.northcarolina.edu/apps/policy/doc.php?id=3536","type":"government"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","hbcu","north-carolina","eagle-alert","rave","unc-system","three-tier"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"nc-state-wolfalert-policy","slug":"nc-state-wolfalert-policy","institution":{"name":"North Carolina State University","shortName":"NC State","state":"NC","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"WolfAlert","enrollment":40503},"policy":{"title":"REG 04.00.01 — Emergency Notification and Crisis Communications","systemName":"WolfAlert","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://policies.ncsu.edu/regulation/reg-04-00-01/","policyNumber":"REG 04.00.01"},"summary":"[WolfAlert](https://emergency.ncsu.edu/wolfalert/) is North Carolina State University's official emergency communication system, governed by university regulation [REG 04.00.01: Emergency Notification and Crisis Communications](https://policies.ncsu.edu/regulation/reg-04-00-01/), which establishes three message tiers — Emergency Notifications, Crime Warnings, and Safety Notices — issued primarily by [NC State Police and the office of Emergency Management and Mission Continuity](https://emmc.ehps.ncsu.edu/emergencies/).","analysis":"North Carolina State University governs its alerting through university regulation [REG 04.00.01: Emergency Notification and Crisis Communications](https://policies.ncsu.edu/regulation/reg-04-00-01/), which defines [WolfAlert](https://emergency.ncsu.edu/wolfalert/) as the university's primary brand for emergency and related notification systems, used for emergencies as well as non-emergency situations causing a significant and real or perceived threat to the campus community. The regulation establishes three distinct WolfAlert message types with separate criteria, a cleaner-than-average mapping of the Clery emergency-notification-versus-timely-warning structure into local policy.\n\nWolfAlert Emergency Notifications are issued to immediately notify the campus community, upon confirmation, of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees — examples cited include shooters on campus, tornado warnings, or gas leaks. WolfAlert Crime Warnings are the Clery timely-warning track: issued to notify the campus community of Clery crimes occurring anywhere within NC State's Clery geography that are considered a serious or continuing threat to students and employees, with examples such as sexual assaults, burglary, robbery, or aggravated assaults. WolfAlert Safety Notices form a third tier for crimes that do not occur within NC State's Clery geography but warrant campus awareness for safety purposes, or for situations not deemed an emergency or dangerous situation but that nonetheless require campus awareness for notification reasons — a category that captures advisory-grade communications outside the strict Clery triggers.\n\nDecision authority is assigned institutionally: [NC State Police and Emergency Management and Mission Continuity](https://emmc.ehps.ncsu.edu/emergencies/) have primary responsibility for issuing a WolfAlert announcement, and the regulation directs that accurate information regarding an emergency situation be posted as quickly as possible and consistently updated. University Police prepares and distributes the [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://go.ncsu.edu/asr-2025), working with departments across campus to compile it.\n\nWhen WolfAlert activates, the message is distributed across a redundant channel set: campus sirens, the OnCampus app, the NC State homepage, text messaging, email (broadcast email), Alertus desktop notifications, digital billboard/campus screens, and the social-media accounts Facebook and X. Testing is unusually frequent and predictable — [monthly WolfAlert tests are scheduled for 12:15 p.m. on the first Monday of every month](https://emergency.ncsu.edu/wolfalert/), and NC State separately runs WolfAlert active-threat/emergency drills. The combination of a three-tier message taxonomy, confirmation-based emergency notification, primary issuing authority vested in NC State Police and Emergency Management and Mission Continuity, a multi-channel delivery stack, and monthly first-Monday testing defines NC State's WolfAlert compliance posture.","whenCriteria":"Three tiers under REG 04.00.01: (1) WolfAlert Emergency Notifications — issued to immediately notify the campus community, upon confirmation, of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees (e.g., shooters on campus, tornado warnings, gas leaks); (2) WolfAlert Crime Warnings — issued for Clery crimes occurring within NC State's Clery geography considered a serious or continuing threat (e.g., sexual assaults, burglary, robbery, aggravated assaults); (3) WolfAlert Safety Notices — for crimes outside NC State's Clery geography that warrant awareness, or non-emergency situations requiring campus awareness.","decisionAuthority":"NC State Police and the office of Emergency Management and Mission Continuity have primary responsibility for issuing a WolfAlert announcement under REG 04.00.01. University Police prepares and distributes the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.","timingStandard":"WolfAlert Emergency Notifications are issued to immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation; the regulation directs that accurate information regarding an emergency be posted as quickly as possible and consistently updated.","cleryFraming":"REG 04.00.01 separates WolfAlert into three tiers that map to the Clery framework: Emergency Notifications (immediate threat to health/safety), Crime Warnings (Clery crimes within NC State's Clery geography posing a serious or continuing threat — the timely-warning track), and Safety Notices (crimes outside Clery geography or non-emergency situations requiring awareness).","testingCadence":"Monthly WolfAlert tests are scheduled for 12:15 p.m. on the first Monday of every month; NC State also conducts WolfAlert active-threat/emergency drills.","scopeLimits":"WolfAlert covers emergencies and non-emergency situations posing a significant real or perceived threat to the campus community. Crime Warnings apply within NC State's Clery geography; Safety Notices extend awareness to crimes outside Clery geography or to non-emergency situations. Delivery channels include campus sirens, the OnCampus app, the NC State homepage, text, email, Alertus desktop, digital billboards, Facebook, and X.","channels":["siren","push-notification","website","sms","email","desktop-popup","digital-signage","facebook","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"WolfAlert Emergency Notification criterion","quotedText":"WolfAlert Emergency Notifications are issued to immediately notify the campus community, upon confirmation, of a significant emergency or dangerous situation.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://policies.ncsu.edu/regulation/reg-04-00-01/","sourceDescription":"REG 04.00.01 — Emergency Notification and Crisis Communications | NC State","annotations":["Returned identically across multiple independent searches of REG 04.00.01 and the WolfAlert pages; states the upon-confirmation, immediate-notification trigger for the emergency tier. Direct fetch of the .edu policy/PDF returned HTTP 403."],"characterCount":158},{"label":"WolfAlert Crime Warning criterion","quotedText":"WolfAlert Crime Warnings are issued to notify the campus community of Clery crimes occurring anywhere within NC State's Clery geography that are considered to be a serious or continuing threat to students and employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://policies.ncsu.edu/regulation/reg-04-00-01/","sourceDescription":"REG 04.00.01 — Emergency Notification and Crisis Communications | NC State","annotations":["Recurred identically across independent searches of REG 04.00.01; defines the Clery timely-warning track (serious or continuing threat within Clery geography). Direct fetch 403-blocked."],"characterCount":219},{"label":"WolfAlert Safety Notice criterion","quotedText":"WolfAlert Safety Notices are communications to the campus community for crimes that do not occur on NC State's Clery geography but are determined to require the awareness of campus for safety purposes, or for situations that are not deemed an emergency or dangerous situation but are determined to require the awareness of campus for notification reasons.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://policies.ncsu.edu/regulation/reg-04-00-01/","sourceDescription":"REG 04.00.01 — Emergency Notification and Crisis Communications | NC State","annotations":["Returned identically across independent searches of REG 04.00.01; defines the third (advisory) tier covering crimes outside Clery geography and non-emergency awareness situations. Direct fetch 403-blocked."],"characterCount":355},{"label":"Issuing authority","quotedText":"NC State Police and Emergency Management and Mission Continuity have primary responsibility for issuing a WolfAlert announcement.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://policies.ncsu.edu/regulation/reg-04-00-01/","sourceDescription":"REG 04.00.01 — Emergency Notification and Crisis Communications | NC State","annotations":["Reconstructed from search-result summaries of REG 04.00.01 (direct fetch 403-blocked); names the units with primary issuing authority. Exact original wording not confirmed word-for-word."],"characterCount":129}],"keyFindings":["WolfAlert is NC State's official emergency communication system, governed by regulation REG 04.00.01 (Emergency Notification and Crisis Communications) and used for both emergencies and non-emergency significant-threat situations.","Three message tiers: Emergency Notifications (immediate threat to health/safety, issued upon confirmation), Crime Warnings (Clery crimes within Clery geography posing a serious or continuing threat), and Safety Notices (crimes outside Clery geography or non-emergency awareness situations).","NC State Police and the office of Emergency Management and Mission Continuity hold primary responsibility for issuing WolfAlerts; University Police prepares the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.","Delivery is redundant: campus sirens, the OnCampus app, the NC State homepage, text, email, Alertus desktop notifications, digital billboards, and the Facebook and X accounts.","WolfAlert is tested monthly at 12:15 p.m. on the first Monday of every month, supplemented by active-threat/emergency drills."],"sources":[{"title":"REG 04.00.01 — Emergency Notification and Crisis Communications | NC State Policies, Regulations & Rules","url":"https://policies.ncsu.edu/regulation/reg-04-00-01/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"WolfAlert | Emergency Information | NC State University","url":"https://emergency.ncsu.edu/wolfalert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Information | NC State University","url":"https://emergency.ncsu.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual Security and Fire Safety Report October 2025 | NC State","url":"https://go.ncsu.edu/asr-2025","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Emergencies | Emergency Management and Mission Continuity | NC State","url":"https://emmc.ehps.ncsu.edu/emergencies/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","north-carolina","public-r1"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"north-country-community-college-timely-warning-emergency-notification-policy","slug":"north-country-community-college-timely-warning-emergency-notification-policy","institution":{"name":"North Country Community College","shortName":"NCCC","state":"NY","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Crime Alert / Safety Alert / Emergency Notification","enrollment":2000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning and Emergency Notification","systemName":"Crime Alert / Safety Alert / Emergency Notification","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.nccc.edu/campus-safety/policy%20on%20timely%20warning%20and%20emergency%20notifications.pdf","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"North Country Community College's [Timely Warning and Emergency Notification policy](https://www.nccc.edu/campus-safety/policy%20on%20timely%20warning%20and%20emergency%20notifications.pdf) (adopted May 27, 2021) defines Crime Alerts, Safety Alerts, Emergency Notifications, and Information Bulletins for Clery crimes and other serious threats across three campus locations, and lists titled officers authorized to issue alerts.","analysis":"North Country Community College is a multi-campus SUNY community college sponsored by Essex and Franklin Counties. Its [Timely Warning and Emergency Notification policy](https://www.nccc.edu/campus-safety/policy%20on%20timely%20warning%20and%20emergency%20notifications.pdf) is institution-specific: alerts are required for Clery Act crimes that present a serious or continuing threat; alerts may also cover non-Clery crimes and non-criminal emergencies such as weather, maintenance, and environmental health issues; Emergency Notifications are required for significant emergencies posing an immediate health or safety threat; labeled products include Crime Alert, Safety Alert, Emergency Notification, and Information Bulletin; scope generally covers three campus locations and adjoining streets but allows notices outside that area when community impact is likely; employees and students who learn of warranting information should notify the Administrator-on-Call; issuance is at the discretion of a listed set of title holders including President, AVP of Student Affairs, communications leadership, and others. This record documents the institution-specific Clery timely warning and emergency notification policy rather than a full ASR rewrite.","whenCriteria":"Clery Act crimes representing a serious or continuing threat; other crimes or non-criminal emergencies posing significant or continuing threats; significant emergencies posing immediate health or safety threats.","decisionAuthority":"Alerts and notifications issued at the discretion of authorized title holders including College President (or Executive Assistant to the President), Associate Vice President of Student Affairs, Director of Human Resources, Vice President of Academic Affairs, Vice President of Enrollment and Marketing, Communications Director, Chief Financial Officer, and Executive Director of the Association for Association housing. Employees or students who learn of warranting information should notify the Administrator-on-Call.","timingStandard":"Not a fixed clock-time target in the policy PDF; notifications as soon as practicable when criteria are met, with discretion of authorized title holders.","cleryFraming":"Explicit Clery Act timely warning and emergency notification policy framing for Crime Alerts, Safety Alerts, and Emergency Notifications.","testingCadence":"Not confirmed verbatim in the portions of the policy PDF reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Three campus locations and generally adjacent/adjoining streets; notices outside that area allowed when likely to significantly impact the college community. Safety Alerts may be selective to affected areas.","channels":["email","sms","website","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Clery crimes requiring alerts","quotedText":"Alerts are required for all incidents that constitute Clery Act Crimes and are considered to represent a serious or continuing threat to the campus community. These crimes include: Murder and Non-Negligent Manslaughter, Sex Offenses, Robbery, Aggravated Assault, Burglary, Motor Vehicle Theft, Arson, and Hate Crimes.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nccc.edu/campus-safety/policy%20on%20timely%20warning%20and%20emergency%20notifications.pdf","characterCount":317},{"label":"Emergency Notification definition","quotedText":"Emergency Notification - A notification issued for a significant emergency or dangerous situation that poses an immediate threat to the health and/or safety of some or all of the members of our campus locations.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nccc.edu/campus-safety/policy%20on%20timely%20warning%20and%20emergency%20notifications.pdf","characterCount":211},{"label":"Non-criminal emergencies included","quotedText":"Alerts may also be issued for: Crimes other than \"Clery Act\" crimes that pose a serious or continuing threat to the campus community (e.g. kidnapping or bomb threat), and non-criminal emergencies that pose a significant or continuing threat to the campus community or a segment of the campus community (e.g. weather related emergencies, maintenance issues, environmental health and safety issues, etc.).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nccc.edu/campus-safety/policy%20on%20timely%20warning%20and%20emergency%20notifications.pdf","characterCount":403}],"sources":[{"title":"Timely Warning and Emergency Notification policy PDF","url":"https://www.nccc.edu/campus-safety/policy%20on%20timely%20warning%20and%20emergency%20notifications.pdf","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["new-york","community-college","clery","emergency-notification","timely-warning","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"north-dakota-state-university-ndsu-alert-policy","slug":"north-dakota-state-university-ndsu-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"North Dakota State University","shortName":"NDSU","state":"ND","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"NDSU Alert (Campus Emergency Notification Systems / NotiFind)","enrollment":11952},"policy":{"title":"Campus Emergency Notification Systems (CENS) — Timely Warnings and Immediate Notifications","systemName":"NDSU CENS / NotiFind","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.ndsu.edu/police_safety/communications_call_center/campusemergencynotificationsystems","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"North Dakota State University delivers campus alerts through its [Campus Emergency Notification Systems (CENS)](https://www.ndsu.edu/police_safety/communications_call_center/campusemergencynotificationsystems), publicly reached at [ndsu.edu/alert](https://www.ndsu.edu/alert), a multi-channel system (email LISTSERV, the NotiFind text/voice platform, campus voicemail broadcast, and on-campus cable-TV interruption) operated by the University Police Communications Call Center and dedicated, in NDSU's own words, to the federal Clery Act requirements for 'TIMELY WARNINGS' and 'IMMEDIATE NOTIFICATIONS.'","analysis":"North Dakota State University is a public R1 land-grant university in Fargo that regained the Carnegie 'Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity' (R1) classification in December 2021 and retained it in the 2025 update ([NDSU news](https://www.ndsu.edu/news/regional-research-powerhouse-ndsu-maintains-r1-classification-one-nations-top-research)), enrolling roughly 12,000 students ([KFGO](https://kfgo.com/2024/09/24/fall-enrollment-at-ndsu-near-12000-students/)). Its campus-alert function is organized under the [Campus Emergency Notification Systems (CENS)](https://www.ndsu.edu/police_safety/communications_call_center/campusemergencynotificationsystems), surfaced to the public at [ndsu.edu/alert](https://www.ndsu.edu/alert), and is explicitly tied to the Clery Act: NDSU states that CENS 'is dedicated to providing the federal Clery Act requirements for \"TIMELY WARNINGS\" and \"IMMEDIATE NOTIFICATIONS.\"' Notably, NDSU labels its emergency-notification side 'Immediate Notifications' rather than the more common federal phrase 'Emergency Notifications,' while still using the standard Clery 'timely warning' label for ongoing-threat crime alerts.\n\nCENS is unusually multi-channel for a campus its size, and the channel mix reflects North Dakota's infrastructure. NDSU describes alerts going out through 'the NDSU-CAMPUS-ALERT@LISTSERV for official email notification to all current students and employees, communications sent through the NOTIFIND system to registered cellphone and/or landline phones, NDSU telephone voice mail broadcast to the AURA phone system, and an emergency alert system for audio and video interruption of available on-campus analog cable television service.' That layers email, SMS/text and voice (via [NotiFind](https://www.ndsu.edu/onestop/resources/help/notifind)), campus voicemail broadcast, and on-campus cable-TV takeover into one notification ecosystem. NotiFind is the [North Dakota University System](https://ndus.edu/student-services-overview/student-safety/)-wide notification brand layered on the Everbridge platform purchased by the state for all eleven NDUS institutions, so NDSU's text/voice delivery shares a common state backbone with the rest of the system.\n\nFor the Clery activation threshold, NDSU's policy language tracks the federal standard closely: the university issues an emergency/immediate notification 'upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on the campus,' and issues a timely warning for any Clery Act crime that 'represents an ongoing threat to the safety of students or employees.' The systems are administered day-to-day by the [University Police Communications Call Center](https://www.ndsu.edu/police_safety/communications_call_center) — a 24/7 dispatch operation in the University Police and Safety Building — which both operates CENS and runs its scheduled tests.\n\nThe testing cadence is firmly published and unusually specific: 'Monthly testing of the systems is conducted by the University Police Communications Call Center on the first Wednesday of each month at 2PM.' Two limits on this review are worth flagging honestly. First, every ndsu.edu page and the Annual Security Report PDF returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so the verbatim excerpts below were captured from search-index reproductions of the official CENS and Clery pages and corroborated across multiple independent queries (the activation, channel-list, dual-Clery, and monthly-test wording each surfaced identically four-or-more times). Second, a standalone 'without delay … determine the content … initiate' timing sentence and any single sentence naming the specific official who authorizes a live alert could NOT be confirmed as NDSU's own wording — search results that contained that boilerplate traced back to a different institution's policy — so this record deliberately does not assert that language for NDSU.","whenCriteria":"NDSU issues an immediate/emergency notification 'upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on the campus.' It separately issues a timely warning for any Clery Act crime that 'represents an ongoing threat to the safety of students or employees.'","decisionAuthority":"The University Police Communications Call Center — a 24/7 dispatch operation in the University Police and Safety Building — operates the Campus Emergency Notification Systems and conducts the monthly tests. A single sentence naming the specific position authorized to confirm and trigger a live alert could not be verified as NDSU's own wording (the ndsu.edu pages and the ASR PDF blocked automated fetching, and the only matching 'will confirm' boilerplate traced to a different institution), so it is not asserted here.","timingStandard":"NDSU's confirmed threshold language is that an immediate/emergency notification is issued 'upon the confirmation of' a significant emergency or dangerous situation. A separate 'without delay … determine the content … initiate' Clery timing sentence could not be confirmed as NDSU's own wording in this review and is not attributed to NDSU.","cleryFraming":"NDSU keeps both Clery functions explicit and named: CENS 'is dedicated to providing the federal Clery Act requirements for \"TIMELY WARNINGS\" and \"IMMEDIATE NOTIFICATIONS.\"' The public page is titled 'Timely warnings and immediate notifications.' NDSU uses 'Immediate Notifications' as its label for the Clery emergency-notification function.","testingCadence":"NDSU publishes a fixed cadence: 'Monthly testing of the systems is conducted by the University Police Communications Call Center on the first Wednesday of each month at 2PM.'","scopeLimits":"The email LISTSERV (NDSU-CAMPUS-ALERT) reaches all current students and employees; full text/voice reach via NotiFind depends on registered cellphone/landline numbers. The cable-TV interruption channel reaches on-campus analog cable only. Outdoor sirens, desktop pop-ups, and a dedicated emergency social-media channel were not confirmed for NDSU and are not claimed.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Clery dual-framing (Timely Warnings / Immediate Notifications)","quotedText":"NDSU CENS is dedicated to providing the federal Clery Act requirements for \"TIMELY WARNINGS\" and \"IMMEDIATE NOTIFICATIONS.\"","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ndsu.edu/police_safety/communications_call_center/campusemergencynotificationsystems","sourceDescription":"NDSU — Campus Emergency Notification Systems (CENS) page","annotations":["Names both Clery functions explicitly; NDSU labels the emergency-notification side 'Immediate Notifications.' Identical wording surfaced across five-plus independent search retrievals of the official CENS page."],"characterCount":123},{"label":"Activation criteria / threshold","quotedText":"NDSU must issue an emergency notification upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on the campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ndsu.edu/police_safety/communications_call_center/cleryact/","sourceDescription":"NDSU — Clery Act page (Communications Call Center)","annotations":["Sets the activation threshold at confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation posing an immediate threat. Identical wording surfaced across four independent search retrievals of the official Clery Act page."],"characterCount":217},{"label":"Timely-warning trigger","quotedText":"NDSU must issue a timely warning for any Clery Act crime that represents an ongoing threat to the safety of students or employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ndsu.edu/police_safety/communications_call_center/cleryact/","sourceDescription":"NDSU — Clery Act page (Communications Call Center)","annotations":["Establishes the separate timely-warning standard around 'ongoing threat' to the campus community. Corroborated across two-plus independent retrievals of the official Clery Act page."],"characterCount":130},{"label":"Multi-channel delivery list","quotedText":"the NDSU-CAMPUS-ALERT@LISTSERV for official email notification to all current students and employees, communications sent through the NOTIFIND system to registered cellphone and/or landline phones, NDSU telephone voice mail broadcast to the AURA phone system, and an emergency alert system for audio and video interruption of available on-campus analog cable television service.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ndsu.edu/police_safety/communications_call_center/campusemergencynotificationsystems","sourceDescription":"NDSU — Campus Emergency Notification Systems (CENS) page","annotations":["Documents the full channel mix: email LISTSERV, NotiFind text/voice to registered phones, campus voicemail broadcast (AURA), and on-campus analog cable-TV audio/video interruption. Identical wording surfaced across five-plus independent search retrievals."],"characterCount":378},{"label":"Testing cadence","quotedText":"Monthly testing of the systems is conducted by the University Police Communications Call Center on the first Wednesday of each month at 2PM.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ndsu.edu/police_safety/communications_call_center/campusemergencynotificationsystems","sourceDescription":"NDSU — Campus Emergency Notification Systems (CENS) page","annotations":["Publishes a fixed monthly test on the first Wednesday at 2 PM, run by the Communications Call Center that operates the system. Identical wording surfaced across four independent search retrievals."],"characterCount":140}],"keyFindings":["NDSU's campus-alert function is organized as the Campus Emergency Notification Systems (CENS), surfaced publicly at ndsu.edu/alert, and explicitly dedicated to the Clery Act's 'TIMELY WARNINGS' and 'IMMEDIATE NOTIFICATIONS.'","CENS is multi-channel: email LISTSERV (all students/employees), the NotiFind text/voice platform to registered phones, campus voicemail broadcast via the AURA phone system, and on-campus cable-TV audio/video interruption.","NotiFind is the North Dakota University System-wide notification brand layered on an Everbridge platform purchased by the state for all eleven NDUS institutions.","The activation threshold follows the Clery standard — issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation posing an immediate threat — with a separate timely warning for crimes representing an ongoing threat.","The system is tested on a fixed cadence — the first Wednesday of each month at 2 PM — by the University Police Communications Call Center, which operates CENS. The exact named live-alert decision authority and a standalone 'without delay' timing sentence could not be confirmed as NDSU's own wording (.edu hosts and the ASR PDF blocked automated fetching), so they are not asserted."],"sources":[{"title":"NDSU — Campus Emergency Notification Systems (CENS)","url":"https://www.ndsu.edu/police_safety/communications_call_center/campusemergencynotificationsystems","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"NDSU — Timely warnings and immediate notifications (ndsu.edu/alert)","url":"https://www.ndsu.edu/alert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"NDSU — Clery Act (Communications Call Center)","url":"https://www.ndsu.edu/police_safety/communications_call_center/cleryact/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"NDSU — University Police Communications Call Center","url":"https://www.ndsu.edu/police_safety/communications_call_center","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"NDSU — Annual Security Report (Clery ASR) landing page","url":"https://www.ndsu.edu/police_safety/communications_call_center/annualsecurityreport","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"NDSU OneStop — NotiFind help (text/voice notification system)","url":"https://www.ndsu.edu/onestop/resources/help/notifind","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"North Dakota University System — Student Safety (NotiFind / Everbridge)","url":"https://ndus.edu/student-services-overview/student-safety/","type":"government"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","ndsu","cens","notifind","everbridge","public-r1","north-dakota"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"north-hennepin-community-college-star-alert-asr","slug":"north-hennepin-community-college-star-alert-asr","institution":{"name":"North Hennepin Community College","shortName":"NHCC","state":"MN","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Star Alert","enrollment":6000},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Response and Timely Warning (Star Alert / Blackboard Connect) - Annual Security Report","systemName":"Star Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.nhcc.edu/sites/default/files/2023-09/AnnualSecurityReport.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"North Hennepin Community College documents [Star Alert Blackboard Connect emergency notifications and Clery timely warnings](https://www.nhcc.edu/sites/default/files/2023-09/AnnualSecurityReport.pdf) with auto Star ID registration, PA/VOIP active messaging, and annual drill testing.","analysis":"NHCC (Brooklyn Park, MN; Minnesota State system) publishes Emergency Response and Timely Warning procedures in its [Annual Security Report](https://www.nhcc.edu/sites/default/files/2023-09/AnnualSecurityReport.pdf). Upon confirming a significant emergency or dangerous situation posing immediate threat to health and safety of students, faculty, or staff, NHCC uses active messaging (PA via VOIP phones covering classrooms, public spaces, interior offices), passive messaging (main web page, campus-wide mass email, signs, closed-circuit TVs), and individual messaging via Star Alert (Blackboard Connect) SMS, phone, and email as selected by the recipient (opt-out system).\n\nUpon enrollment or hiring, students/faculty/staff are auto-registered using Star ID and receive activation email to add contacts and preferences. After first responders are alerted, an immediate Star Alert issues with essential details; additional messaging follows. Named officials are responsible for EN dissemination; Public Safety swiftly notifies upon confirmation. Timely warnings issue for Clery Act crimes reported to CSAs or local police that officials consider a serious or continuing threat (not limited to violent person-crimes). Case-by-case factors: nature, continuing danger, law-enforcement compromise; local LE may be consulted. TW disseminated via Star Alert text/email, campus email, and other methods. Annual announced or unannounced emergency response/evacuation tests with procedures publicized at least once per calendar year. Complements Minnesota community-college coverage.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notification: confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation posing immediate threat to health and safety of students, faculty, or staff. Timely warning: Clery Act crimes reported to CSAs or local police representing serious or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"NHCC officials verify emergency and determine segments, coordinating with local first responders. Named persons/organizations responsible for EN dissemination; Public Safety notifies community. TW need/content: NHCC officials case-by-case, consulting local LE when determining need and content.","timingStandard":"EN without delay taking community safety into account, unless professional judgment holds notification would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Immediate Star Alert after first responders alerted. Annual emergency response/evacuation tests.","cleryFraming":"ASR Emergency Response and Timely Warning section with named Star Alert / Blackboard Connect system and active/passive/individual messaging tiers.","scopeLimits":"Star Alert is opt-out; permanent opt-out available. TW not limited to violent crimes. Segmented EN allowed. Records retained seven years.","testingCadence":"Annual tests of emergency response and evacuation procedures (announced or unannounced); procedures communicated in conjunction with at least one test each calendar year.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system","website","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Star Alert Blackboard Connect system","quotedText":"North Hennepin Community College utilizes an emergency notification system branded Star Alert, provided by Blackboard Connect, which disseminates emergency notification through SMS text, direct phone calls, and email, at the selection of the recipient.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nhcc.edu/sites/default/files/2023-09/AnnualSecurityReport.pdf","sourceDescription":"NHCC ASR - Individual messaging / Star Alert","annotations":["Named Star Alert / Blackboard Connect with recipient channel selection."],"characterCount":252},{"label":"Timely warning Clery crime standard","quotedText":"Timely Warning: North Hennepin Community College will issue a timely warning for all Clery Act crimes reported to Campus Security Authorities or local police agencies and considered by North Hennepin Community College officials to represent a serious or continuing threat to students, faculty, and staff.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nhcc.edu/sites/default/files/2023-09/AnnualSecurityReport.pdf","sourceDescription":"NHCC ASR - Timely Warning","annotations":["Clery crime TW for serious/continuing threats to students/faculty/staff."],"characterCount":304},{"label":"Star Alert TW dissemination","quotedText":"warnings will be disseminated via Star Alert text and email, the campus email system, and other notification methods to ensure that students, faculty, and staff are promptly informed.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nhcc.edu/sites/default/files/2023-09/AnnualSecurityReport.pdf","sourceDescription":"NHCC ASR - Timely Warning dissemination","annotations":["Star Alert plus campus email for TW distribution."],"characterCount":183}],"keyFindings":["Star Alert / Blackboard Connect for SMS, phone, and email (opt-out).","Three-tier messaging: active PA/VOIP, passive web/email/TV, individual Star Alert.","Annual announced or unannounced emergency response and evacuation tests."],"sources":[{"title":"North Hennepin Community College Annual Security Report PDF","url":"https://www.nhcc.edu/sites/default/files/2023-09/AnnualSecurityReport.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"NHCC Public Safety page","url":"https://www.nhcc.edu/public-safety","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["minnesota","community-college","clery-asr","star-alert","blackboard-connect","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"north-shore-community-college-rave-alert-policy","slug":"north-shore-community-college-rave-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"North Shore Community College","shortName":"NSCC","state":"MA","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"RAVE ALERT","enrollment":7000},"policy":{"title":"Immediate Threat Emergency Notification and Timely Warnings (ASR)","systemName":"RAVE ALERT","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.northshore.edu/safety/police/files/jeanne-clery-disclosure.pdf","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"North Shore Community College's [Jeanne Clery disclosure ASR](https://www.northshore.edu/safety/police/files/jeanne-clery-disclosure.pdf) names four decision roles (AVP Facilities Operations and Services; Chief of NSCC Police; Lieutenant of NSCC Police; Executive Director of External and Public Relations) for without-delay emergency notifications and brands RAVE ALERT for voice, email, and text.","analysis":"North Shore Community College (Danvers and Lynn, Massachusetts) documents EN and timely-warning practice in its [Clery ASR](https://www.northshore.edu/safety/police/files/jeanne-clery-disclosure.pdf). Institution-specific content includes a four-office without-delay decision list, RAVE ALERT as the emergency messaging system (voice/email/SMS), MyNorthshore enrollment path, and Chief-of-Police discretion for additional Crime Alert categories beyond the listed Clery crimes.\n\nThat named decision chain and branded system are what make the record worth capturing beyond generic Clery language.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notification for immediate threats; Crime Alerts / timely warnings for listed Clery crimes posing ongoing threat and other crimes as determined by the Chief of Police or designee.","decisionAuthority":"AVP of Facilities Operations and Services, Chief of NSCC Police, Lieutenant of NSCC Police, and/or Executive Director of External and Public Relations determine EN content and initiate systems without delay. Timely warnings: Chief of Police or designee for additional crime categories.","timingStandard":"Without delay for emergency notifications unless first responders judge that notice would compromise victim assistance or mitigation.","cleryFraming":"ASR separates Immediate Threat Emergency Notification from Issuing Timely Warnings / Crime Alerts with case-by-case crime lists.","scopeLimits":"May limit notification to a particular building or segment of the population; suspect descriptions only with sufficient detail.","testingCadence":"ASR includes emergency drills, testing, lockdown drills, and ALERTUS sections (see full ASR for annual testing detail).","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Named four-role without-delay EN authority","quotedText":"As per the requirements of the law, Assistant Vice President of Facilities Operations and Services, the Chief of NSCC Police, Lieutenant of NSCC Police, and/or the Executive Director of External and Public Relations will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system, unless issuing a notification will, in the judgment of the first responders (including, but not limited to: Campus, Local, State and Federal Law Enforcement, Fire and Emergency Medical Services), compromise the efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.northshore.edu/safety/police/files/jeanne-clery-disclosure.pdf","sourceDescription":"NSCC Clery ASR emergency notification decision section","annotations":["Four named NSCC offices - not generic boilerplate."],"characterCount":670},{"label":"RAVE ALERT voice email text system","quotedText":"The emergency messaging system (RAVE ALERT), a service that allows College officials to reach all students, faculty and staff with time-sensitive information during unforeseen events or emergencies. The system uses voice, e-mail, and text messaging to broadcast pertinent information and, when appropriate, provide directions to those in the affected area(s).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.northshore.edu/safety/police/files/jeanne-clery-disclosure.pdf","sourceDescription":"NSCC Clery ASR Emergency Messaging System","annotations":["Branded RAVE ALERT delivery stack."],"characterCount":359},{"label":"Chief of Police Crime Alert discretion","quotedText":"Other crimes as determined necessary by the Chief of Police, or his or her designee in his or her absence. A timely warning notice will typically include the following, unless issuing any of this information would risk compromising law enforcement efforts: Date and time or timeframe of the incident; A brief description of the incident; Information that will promote safety and potentially aid in the prevention of similar crimes (crime prevention or safety tips).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.northshore.edu/safety/police/files/jeanne-clery-disclosure.pdf","sourceDescription":"NSCC Clery ASR Crime Alert criteria","annotations":["Local Chief discretion plus typical Crime Alert content elements."],"characterCount":465}],"keyFindings":["Four named offices share without-delay EN decision and initiation authority.","RAVE ALERT provides voice, email, and text emergency messaging.","Chief of Police may expand Crime Alerts beyond the listed Clery crime set."],"sources":[{"title":"Jeanne Clery Disclosure / ASR - North Shore Community College","url":"https://www.northshore.edu/safety/police/files/jeanne-clery-disclosure.pdf","type":"clery-asr","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","rave","community-college","massachusetts"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"northeast-wisconsin-technical-college-nwtc-alert-policy","slug":"northeast-wisconsin-technical-college-nwtc-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Northeast Wisconsin Technical College","shortName":"NWTC","state":"WI","type":"technical-college","alertSystemName":"NWTC Alert"},"policy":{"title":"2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - NWTC Alert","systemName":"NWTC Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.nwtc.edu/getmedia/1ba4b41a-8e38-4870-9368-2a19f1368e1f/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Northeast Wisconsin Technical College's [2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.nwtc.edu/getmedia/1ba4b41a-8e38-4870-9368-2a19f1368e1f/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf) uses NWTC Alert (Rave) for both emergency notifications and Timely Warning Notices, auto-enrolls students and staff, and initiates without-delay notifications upon confirmation of an immediate threat to students, employees, and visitors.","analysis":"Northeast Wisconsin Technical College (technical-college, Wisconsin, three filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [2025 ASR PDF](https://www.nwtc.edu/getmedia/1ba4b41a-8e38-4870-9368-2a19f1368e1f/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf) (HTTP 200). Distinct from Gateway Technical College, which already has an AlertME file on this branch. NWTC Alert is an opt-out Rave system. Timely Warning Notices cover Clery geography and off-campus situations that the security manager, in consultation with the College president and executive leadership, judges a serious or continuing threat. Live PDF uses Unicode hyphen U+2010 in on-campus / non-campus / off-campus. Every excerpt was character-checked against the PDF text layer.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notification upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to students, employees, and visitors. Timely Warning Notice when a crime or situation in NWTC Clery geography or off-campus constitutes a serious or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"Security manager in consultation with responsible authorities, including the College president and executive leadership. Timely Warning Notices are at the discretion of the College president or designee.","timingStandard":"Emergency notification without delay upon confirmation. Timely Warning Notices as soon as pertinent information is available.","cleryFraming":"NWTC Alert carries both Emergency Notifications and Timely Warning Notices. The product is opt-out for students and staff.","channels":["sms","email","pa-system","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency notification without delay","quotedText":"In the event of an emergency, NWTC will initiate and provide, without delay, immediate notifications to the appropriate segment(s) of the College community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, employees, and visitors.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nwtc.edu/getmedia/1ba4b41a-8e38-4870-9368-2a19f1368e1f/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"NWTC 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Visitors are in the immediate-threat class."],"characterCount":315},{"label":"NWTC Alert automatic enrollment","quotedText":"Students and staff are automatically enrolled in the NWTC Alert email and text message notification.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nwtc.edu/getmedia/1ba4b41a-8e38-4870-9368-2a19f1368e1f/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"NWTC 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Opt-out Rave enrollment."],"characterCount":100},{"label":"Timely Warning Notice trigger","quotedText":"In the event a crime is reported, or a situation arises, within NWTC Clery Act geography (on‐campus, public property, and non‐campus property) or off‐campus, that, in the judgment of the security manager and in consultation with responsible authorities, including the College president and executive leadership, constitutes a serious or continuing threat, a Timely Warning Notice will be issued.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nwtc.edu/getmedia/1ba4b41a-8e38-4870-9368-2a19f1368e1f/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"NWTC 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Live PDF uses U+2010 hyphens in on-campus, non-campus, and off-campus. Off-campus situations can trigger a warning."],"characterCount":395}],"keyFindings":["NWTC Alert (Rave) carries both emergency notifications and Timely Warning Notices.","Students and staff are auto-enrolled; the system is opt-out.","Timely Warning Notices can cover off-campus situations as well as Clery geography."],"sources":[{"title":"Northeast Wisconsin Technical College 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.nwtc.edu/getmedia/1ba4b41a-8e38-4870-9368-2a19f1368e1f/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","wisconsin","technical-college","rave"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"northeastern-state-university-alert-policy","slug":"northeastern-state-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Northeastern State University","shortName":"NSU","state":"OK","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"NSU Emergency Alert","enrollment":7500},"policy":{"title":"Northeastern State University Emergency Operations Overview and General Emergency Procedures","systemName":"NSU Emergency Alert","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://academics.nsuok.edu/Portals/49/emergencyoperations.pdf","lastReviewed":"2013-05-01"},"summary":"Northeastern State University, headquartered in Tahlequah on the historic capital grounds of the Cherokee Nation, directs its campus emergency response through an [Emergency Operations Overview](https://academics.nsuok.edu/Portals/49/emergencyoperations.pdf) built around a Campus Emergency Response Team and an Emergency Operations Center, with the [authority to declare a university state of emergency](https://nsuok.edu/EmergencyOperations.aspx) resting with the University President or a designee.","analysis":"Northeastern State University operates three Oklahoma campuses (Tahlequah, Broken Arrow, and Muskogee) and has one of the highest proportions of Native American students of any public university in the country, reflecting its location on land that once served as the capital of the Cherokee Nation. Its emergency framework is documented in an [Emergency Operations Overview and General Emergency Procedures](https://academics.nsuok.edu/Portals/49/emergencyoperations.pdf) plan, developed as a collaborative effort between a standing planning committee, University Police, and the Office of the President; the university states the plan and its procedures are designed to be flexible to accommodate a range of contingencies rather than scripting a single fixed response.\n\nThe plan's operational core is the Campus Emergency Response Team (CERT), described as the core leadership group charged with developing, maintaining, and managing the university's emergency-management plan. When an incident is declared, an Emergency Operations Center (EOC), the physical location where coordination of information and resources for incident management normally takes place, is stood up; staffing of the EOC may include the University President's Cabinet, tying the university's highest administrative layer directly into incident coordination rather than leaving it purely to public-safety staff. Formal declaration authority is centralized: the authority to declare, and to end, a university state of emergency rests with the University President or the President's designee, who, in consultation with the university's Incident Management Team, serves as overall incident command for both minor and major emergency situations.\n\nTesting is written into the plan on two different cadences for two different systems. The university's Department of Public Safety meets once annually to evaluate the emergency procedures outlined in the Emergency Operations Plan and to consider revisions and updates as necessary, a governance-level review rather than a live drill. Separately, the campus's outdoor Emergency Alert System (siren/PA) is tested on a quarterly basis to ensure proper operation, and at least one of those quarterly tests each year is required to include the public-address system, with that specific test publicized in advance so the campus community knows to expect it.\n\nAs a Title IV, Clery-covered institution, NSU is bound by the federal two-track framework requiring emergency notifications for confirmed significant emergencies and timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes representing a continuing threat. The precise branded name and vendor of NSU's day-to-day mass-notification system (text/email/app) and its own testing cadence, distinct from the outdoor siren/PA system described above, were not independently confirmed in this review, since nsuok.edu blocks automated direct fetching of its emergency-planning PDFs; the excerpts below reflect search-engine reproductions of the university's published emergency-operations pages.","whenCriteria":"The Emergency Operations Overview and General Emergency Procedures plan is designed to be flexible to accommodate a variety of contingencies; the University President or designee, in consultation with the Incident Management Team, serves as overall incident command for both minor and major emergency situations. As a Clery institution, NSU separately follows the federal standards for emergency notifications and timely warnings.","decisionAuthority":"The authority to declare and to end a university state of emergency rests with the University President or the President's designee. The Campus Emergency Response Team develops, maintains, and manages the emergency-management plan; EOC staffing may include the University President's Cabinet.","timingStandard":"Not stated in exact language in the sources reviewed for the day-to-day mass-notification channel; the plan describes the Emergency Operations Center as the coordination point once an incident is declared and the President/designee assumes overall incident command.","cleryFraming":"Standard federal two-track distinction applies (timely warning vs. emergency notification); the reviewed Emergency Operations Overview itself is framed around incident command, EOC staffing, and general emergency procedures rather than Clery-specific notification language.","testingCadence":"The Department of Public Safety meets once annually to evaluate the emergency procedures in the plan and consider revisions. Separately, the outdoor Emergency Alert System (siren/PA) is tested quarterly, with at least one of those quarterly tests each year including the public-address system and being publicized in advance.","scopeLimits":"The plan covers the Tahlequah campus's emergency-operations structure; the specific application to NSU's Broken Arrow and Muskogee campuses, and the branded name of NSU's day-to-day mass-notification vendor, were not independently confirmed in this review.","channels":["siren","pa-system","email","sms","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Presidential declaration authority","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://academics.nsuok.edu/Portals/49/emergencyoperations.pdf","sourceDescription":"NSU Emergency Operations Overview and General Emergency Procedures (captured via search-engine reproduction; nsuok.edu blocks automated direct fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Quarterly Emergency Alert System testing","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://nsuok.edu/EmergencyOperations.aspx","sourceDescription":"NSU, Emergency Operations page (captured via search-engine reproduction; nsuok.edu blocks automated direct fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["NSU centralizes state-of-emergency declaration and incident-command authority in the University President or designee, who consults the university's Incident Management Team for both minor and major incidents.","The Campus Emergency Response Team (CERT) develops, maintains, and manages the emergency plan; Emergency Operations Center staffing may include the President's Cabinet, tying top administration into incident coordination directly.","Two distinct testing cadences are documented: an annual procedures review by the Department of Public Safety, and quarterly tests of the outdoor Emergency Alert System, with at least one annual test including the public-address system and advance publicity.","NSU sits on the historic capital grounds of the Cherokee Nation in Tahlequah and enrolls a high proportion of Native American students among public universities nationally.","The branded day-to-day mass-notification vendor and its specific testing cadence were not independently confirmed; nsuok.edu blocks automated direct fetching of its emergency-planning PDFs."],"sources":[{"title":"NSU Emergency Operations Overview and General Emergency Procedures (PDF)","url":"https://academics.nsuok.edu/Portals/49/emergencyoperations.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Operations, Northeastern State University","url":"https://nsuok.edu/EmergencyOperations.aspx","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Management, Northeastern State University","url":"https://offices.nsuok.edu/publicsafety/emergencymanagement/default.aspx","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Northeastern State University Annual Security and Fire Safety Report 2024","url":"https://offices.nsuok.edu/studentaffairs/compliance/2024%20Annual%20Security%20Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","emergency-operations-plan","oklahoma","public-masters","cherokee-nation","incident-command"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"northeastern-university-alert-policy","slug":"northeastern-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Northeastern University","shortName":"NU","state":"MA","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"NU Alert","enrollment":32553},"policy":{"title":"NU Alerts Emergency Notification System","systemName":"NU Alert (Rave Mobile Safety)","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://nupd.northeastern.edu/nualert/"},"summary":"Northeastern's [NU Alert](https://nupd.northeastern.edu/nualert/) emergency notification system, run by the Northeastern University Police Department and powered by RAVE Mobile Safety, delivers voice, email, text, and social-media messages, and is paired with a three-tier [safety-notification framework](https://nupd.northeastern.edu/safety-notifications/) that distinguishes NU Alerts, Timely Warnings, and NU Advisory messages under the Clery Act.","analysis":"Northeastern operates a clearly tiered notification scheme administered by the Northeastern University Police Department (NUPD). The top tier is NU Alert, the Clery emergency-notification channel. Per NUPD's [Safety Notifications page](https://nupd.northeastern.edu/safety-notifications/), \"NU Alerts are issued when an immediate threat to health or safety of the campus has been confirmed.\" The [NU Alert system](https://nupd.northeastern.edu/nualert/) \"can deliver voice message, e-mail, text message, and social media posts based on the type of communication required\" and is \"powered by RAVE Mobile Safety,\" the same higher-education mass-notification vendor used across many peer institutions.\n\nThe second tier is the Clery timely warning. NUPD states that \"Timely Warning notifications are sent by email when a serious and/or violent crime has occurred on campus but there is no imminent threat.\" Northeastern later layered on a third, lower-urgency tier: \"NU Advisory messages are sent to a campus community by email notification when an incident does not require an NU Alert or Timely Warning but offers an opportunity to provide safety information.\" This three-tier structure (alert / timely warning / advisory) lets NUPD calibrate channel and urgency to the threat — reserving the high-intensity multi-channel NU Alert for confirmed immediate threats and using email-only delivery for the two lower tiers.\n\nEnrollment is automatic for the campus community: a student's Northeastern email account is automatically enrolled, and students are prompted annually via the Student Hub to register their cell phones and personal email so they receive voice and text alerts, not just email. The user profile lets community members view, edit, add, or test their own mobile devices, voice-only numbers, and email addresses tied to NU Alert. The Clery Act provides the legal backbone: as student-press reporting on Northeastern's notification practices [noted](https://huntnewsnu.com/92815/campus/campus-life/the-law-that-guided-northeasterns-emergency-alerts-amid-string-of-violence/), the law requires covered institutions to maintain and disclose campus crime information and to provide timely warning of threats, and NUPD released NU Alerts as required under the Clery Act in incidents involving confirmed immediate threats. Because Northeastern's official .edu pages returned HTTP 403 to this research environment, the excerpts below reproduce the exact wording surfaced from those official NUPD pages; material that could not be reproduced word-for-word is paraphrased here rather than quoted.","whenCriteria":"NU Alerts are issued when an immediate threat to health or safety of the campus has been confirmed; Timely Warnings are sent when a serious and/or violent crime has occurred on campus but there is no imminent threat; NU Advisory messages are sent when an incident does not require an NU Alert or Timely Warning but offers an opportunity to provide safety information.","decisionAuthority":"The Northeastern University Police Department (NUPD) administers the NU Alert / Timely Warning / NU Advisory notification framework and determines which tier applies and what content is sent; the specific authorizing rank is detailed in Northeastern's Annual Security Report and is paraphrased rather than quoted here.","timingStandard":"NU Alerts follow the Clery emergency-notification standard, issued once an immediate threat to campus health or safety has been confirmed; Timely Warnings are issued for serious/violent crimes posing an ongoing (non-imminent) threat.","cleryFraming":"Northeastern maps its notifications directly onto the Clery Act: NU Alert is the emergency-notification channel for confirmed immediate threats, Timely Warning is the Clery timely-warning channel for ongoing-threat crimes, and NU Advisory is a supplemental, non-Clery-mandated email tier for lower-urgency safety information.","testingCadence":"From their NU Alert user profile, community members can view, edit, add, or test their own mobile devices, voice-only phone numbers, and email addresses; the system is exercised under the Clery testing requirement, with the institution-wide test schedule documented in the Annual Security Report.","scopeLimits":"NU Alert reaches the affected campus community via voice, email, text, and social media; Timely Warnings and NU Advisory messages are email-only. A Northeastern email account is auto-enrolled, and phone/text delivery requires annual device registration via the Student Hub.","channels":["phone-call","email","sms","twitter-x","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"NU Alert activation criteria","quotedText":"NU Alerts are issued when an immediate threat to health or safety of the campus has been confirmed.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://nupd.northeastern.edu/safety-notifications/","sourceDescription":"Safety Notifications | Northeastern University Police Department","annotations":["Exact wording returned identically from the official NUPD Safety Notifications page across multiple searches; the page itself returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch in this environment."],"characterCount":99},{"label":"Timely Warning criteria","quotedText":"Timely Warning notifications are sent by email when a serious and/or violent crime has occurred on campus but there is no imminent threat.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://nupd.northeastern.edu/safety-notifications/","sourceDescription":"Safety Notifications | Northeastern University Police Department","annotations":["Distinguishes the Clery timely-warning tier (email-only, ongoing but non-imminent threat) from NU Alert."],"characterCount":138},{"label":"NU Advisory criteria","quotedText":"NU Advisory messages are sent to a campus community by email notification when an incident does not require an NU Alert or Timely Warning but offers an opportunity to provide safety information.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://nupd.northeastern.edu/safety-notifications/","sourceDescription":"Safety Notifications | Northeastern University Police Department","annotations":["Defines the third, lower-urgency tier added beyond the two Clery-mandated notification types."],"characterCount":194},{"label":"NU Alert channels and vendor","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://nupd.northeastern.edu/nualert/","sourceDescription":"NU Alerts Emergency Notification System | NUPD","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Northeastern uses a three-tier framework: NU Alert (confirmed immediate threat), Timely Warning (serious/violent crime, no imminent threat), and NU Advisory (lower-urgency safety information).","NU Alert is powered by RAVE Mobile Safety and can deliver voice, email, text, and social-media messages; Timely Warnings and NU Advisories are email-only.","NUPD administers the notification framework and decides which tier and content apply to a given incident.","Enrollment is automatic via a student's Northeastern email account; voice and text delivery requires annual device registration through the Student Hub, and users can self-test their contact points.","The framework is built around Clery Act obligations — NU Alert as the emergency-notification channel and Timely Warning as the Clery timely-warning channel — with NU Advisory as a supplemental non-mandated tier."],"sources":[{"title":"NU Alerts Emergency Notification System | NUPD","url":"https://nupd.northeastern.edu/nualert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Safety Notifications | Northeastern University Police Department","url":"https://nupd.northeastern.edu/safety-notifications/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Information | Northeastern University","url":"https://www.northeastern.edu/emergency-information/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"The law that guided Northeastern's emergency alerts amid string of violence | The Huntington News","url":"https://huntnewsnu.com/92815/campus/campus-life/the-law-that-guided-northeasterns-emergency-alerts-amid-string-of-violence/","type":"student-newspaper"},{"title":"Northeastern University — Student Population and Demographics (IPEDS-derived, 2024-25 total 32,553)","url":"https://www.collegetuitioncompare.com/edu/167358/northeastern-university/enrollment/","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","rave-alert","nu-alert","massachusetts","private-r1"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"northern-arizona-university-alert-policy","slug":"northern-arizona-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Northern Arizona University","shortName":"NAU","state":"AZ","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"NAU Alert","enrollment":28467},"policy":{"title":"Northern Arizona University Emergency Operations and Response Plan (EORP)","systemName":"NAU Alert","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://in.nau.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2021/09/NAU_Emergency-Operations-Plan-2021.pdf","effectiveDate":"2021-09-01"},"summary":"[Northern Arizona University](https://in.nau.edu/emergency-management/emergency-operations-plan/), a Carnegie R2 research university in Flagstaff enrolling more than 28,000 students, maintains an [Emergency Operations and Response Plan (EORP)](https://in.nau.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2021/09/NAU_Emergency-Operations-Plan-2021.pdf) built on Incident Command System and NIMS structure, paired with the free, opt-in [NAU Alert](https://nau.edu/about/safety/alerts/) text-messaging system.","analysis":"Northern Arizona University (NAU), headquartered in Flagstaff at over 7,000 feet in elevation, is a Carnegie R2 (high research activity) institution enrolling more than 28,000 students, a scale and geography (wildfire-prone forest terrain, seasonal winter storms) that shapes its emergency planning. The university's current framework is its [Emergency Operations and Response Plan (EORP)](https://in.nau.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2021/09/NAU_Emergency-Operations-Plan-2021.pdf), issued by the [Office of Emergency Management](https://in.nau.edu/emergency-management/emergency-operations-plan/) in September 2021, superseding an earlier August 2011 Emergency Operations Plan. NAU states the plan's purpose is to establish policies, procedures, and an organizational structure for response to major emergencies occurring on or near campus, incorporating Incident Command System (ICS) and National Incident Management System (NIMS) operating procedures for handling disruptions such as fires, floods, storms, earthquakes, hazardous materials incidents, and terrorist threats.\n\nThe 2011 predecessor plan was formally signed by university leadership, including the university president, reflecting executive-level sign-off on the emergency framework, a practice NAU's current EORP continues under its present Office of Emergency Management structure. As with most large public research universities, the emergency management office, not a single crisis-only office, retains ongoing planning and coordination responsibility for the plan's maintenance.\n\nMass notification runs through [NAU Alert](https://nau.edu/about/safety/alerts/), described by the university as the fastest way to receive notification in the event of an emergency or campus closure; each NAU student, faculty, or staff member can register up to three phone numbers to receive urgent text messages, including weather-related closures. NAU pairs this with the [NAUSafe mobile app](https://in.nau.edu/its/nausafe/), which layers on-demand safety tools and alerts. As a Title IV, Clery-covered institution, NAU is bound by the standard federal split between timely warnings for continuing threats and emergency notifications upon confirmation of an imminent danger, documented separately in NAU's [Crime Alerts and Emergency Notifications](https://legacy.nau.edu/university-policy-library/crime-alerts-emergency-notifications/) policy, though this review could not independently confirm its exact notification-criteria wording.\n\nA sourcing caveat: the nau.edu family of hosts, including the EORP PDF itself, returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this review's environment, so the passages above are reconstructed from search-engine-indexed excerpts of the plan and its supporting pages rather than a directly retrieved copy of the document. No excerpt below is confirmed word-for-word against the source, so this record carries medium confidence.","whenCriteria":"The EORP's stated purpose is to establish policies, procedures, and an organizational structure for response to major emergencies occurring on or near campus, explicitly naming fires, floods, storms, earthquakes, hazardous materials incidents, and terrorist threats as example, non-exhaustive triggers.","decisionAuthority":"The plan is issued and maintained by NAU's Office of Emergency Management; the predecessor 2011 edition was formally signed by university leadership including the university president, reflecting executive sign-off on the emergency framework.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed. NAU Alert is described as the fastest way to receive notification of an emergency or campus closure; as a Clery-covered institution NAU is bound by the federal standard of notification without delay upon confirmation.","cleryFraming":"Standard federal two-track distinction applies (timely warning vs. emergency notification), tracked separately in NAU's Crime Alerts and Emergency Notifications policy. NAU's specific Annual Security Report notification-criteria language was not independently retrievable and is reconstructed from the federal standard.","testingCadence":"NAU periodically tests its emergency notification system (university news coverage has reported system-wide tests), though a fixed, published testing cadence was not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"NAU Alert is opt-in text messaging; each community member may register up to three phone numbers. The system is layered with the NAUSafe mobile app. The EORP's geographic scope covers the Flagstaff campus and its wildfire- and winter-storm-prone surrounding terrain; exact coverage of NAU's satellite and online-only locations was not independently confirmed.","channels":["sms","email","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"EORP stated purpose","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://in.nau.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2021/09/NAU_Emergency-Operations-Plan-2021.pdf","sourceDescription":"NAU Emergency Operations and Response Plan, 2021 edition (captured via search-engine-indexed excerpt; nau.edu PDF host 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"ICS/NIMS integration and named hazard types","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://legacy.nau.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/NAU-EOP-AUG-2011.pdf","sourceDescription":"NAU Emergency Operations Plan, August 2011 edition (captured via search-engine-indexed excerpt)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"NAU Alert as fastest notification channel","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://nau.edu/about/safety/alerts/","sourceDescription":"NAU Alerts page (captured via search-engine-indexed excerpt)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["NAU's current framework is the 2021 Emergency Operations and Response Plan (EORP), superseding an August 2011 predecessor that was signed by the university president and other leadership.","The plan is explicitly built on Incident Command System (ICS) and National Incident Management System (NIMS) procedures, naming fires, floods, storms, earthquakes, hazmat incidents, and terrorist threats as example triggers.","NAU Alert is opt-in text messaging (up to three phone numbers per person), layered with the NAUSafe mobile app for on-demand safety tools.","As a large R2 research university in wildfire- and winter-storm-prone terrain around Flagstaff, NAU's plan structure reflects a broad, geographically driven all-hazards posture.","The nau.edu host family, including the EORP PDF, 403-blocks automated fetching in this review's environment, so all quoted language is reconstructed from search-indexed excerpts rather than a directly retrieved document; confidence is medium, not high."],"sources":[{"title":"NAU Emergency Operations and Response Plan (EORP), 2021 (PDF)","url":"https://in.nau.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2021/09/NAU_Emergency-Operations-Plan-2021.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"NAU Emergency Operations Plan, August 2011 (PDF)","url":"https://legacy.nau.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/NAU-EOP-AUG-2011.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"NAU Office of Emergency Management, Emergency Operations Plan","url":"https://in.nau.edu/emergency-management/emergency-operations-plan/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"NAU Alerts","url":"https://nau.edu/about/safety/alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"NAU Crime Alerts and Emergency Notifications policy","url":"https://legacy.nau.edu/university-policy-library/crime-alerts-emergency-notifications/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-operations-plan","arizona","public-r2","nims","incident-command-system","wildfire","emergency-notification","timely-warning"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"northern-illinois-university-niu-alert-policy","slug":"northern-illinois-university-niu-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Northern Illinois University","shortName":"NIU","state":"IL","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"NIU Alert"},"policy":{"title":"Types of Safety Notifications - NIU Alert and Safety Warning","systemName":"NIU Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.niu.edu/publicsafety/emergency/types_of_notifications/index.shtml"},"summary":"Northern Illinois University's [Types of Safety Notifications page](https://www.niu.edu/publicsafety/emergency/types_of_notifications/index.shtml) initiates an NIU Alert upon confirmation that an emergency is currently occurring on or imminently threatening the health or safety of people on campus. An NIU Safety Warning is initiated when a Clery crime in the NIU Police patrol area is considered a serious or continuing threat.","analysis":"NIU (Illinois public-r2, five filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [Types of Safety Notifications](https://www.niu.edu/publicsafety/emergency/types_of_notifications/index.shtml) page (HTTP 200). An NIU Alert is initiated upon confirmation that an emergency is currently occurring on or imminently threatening the health or safety of people on campus, with the intent to notify as many people as possible, as rapidly as possible. An NIU Alert may be limited to the location of the emergency. An NIU Safety Warning is initiated when a Clery crime has occurred within the NIU Police patrol area and is considered by NIU Police to represent a serious or continuing threat. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live HTML.","whenCriteria":"NIU Alert upon confirmation of an emergency currently occurring on or imminently threatening health or safety on campus. Safety Warning for a Clery crime in the NIU Police patrol area that is a serious or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"NIU Police consider whether a Clery crime represents a serious or continuing threat for Safety Warnings.","timingStandard":"Notify as many people as possible, as rapidly as possible. Safety Warnings are updated as additional information becomes available.","cleryFraming":"The page keeps NIU Alert (emergency, immediate/imminent threat) distinct from Safety Warning (Clery crime, serious or continuing threat).","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","desktop-popup","pa-system","push-notification","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"NIU Alert trigger","quotedText":"An NIU Alert is a notification that is initiated upon confirmation that an emergency is currently occurring on or imminently threatening the health or safety of people on campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.niu.edu/publicsafety/emergency/types_of_notifications/index.shtml","sourceDescription":"NIU Types of Safety Notifications page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Currently occurring or imminently threatening."],"characterCount":178},{"label":"Rapid mass notification intent","quotedText":"The intent of an NIU Alert is to notify as many people as possible, as rapidly as possible, of a dangerous situation with instructions and follow-up information as needed.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.niu.edu/publicsafety/emergency/types_of_notifications/index.shtml","sourceDescription":"NIU Types of Safety Notifications page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["As rapidly as possible."],"characterCount":171},{"label":"Location-limited NIU Alert","quotedText":"Depending on the emergency, an NIU Alert may be limited to the location of the emergency on campus, such as a hazardous material spill or a small fire.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.niu.edu/publicsafety/emergency/types_of_notifications/index.shtml","sourceDescription":"NIU Types of Safety Notifications page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Segmenting is live."],"characterCount":151},{"label":"Safety Warning trigger","quotedText":"An NIU Safety Warning is a notification that is initiated when a Clery crime (listed below) has occurred within the NIU Police patrol area and is considered by NIU Police to represent a serious or continuing threat to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.niu.edu/publicsafety/emergency/types_of_notifications/index.shtml","sourceDescription":"NIU Types of Safety Notifications page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Patrol area, not only Clery geography wording."],"characterCount":239}],"keyFindings":["NIU Alert fires on a confirmed emergency currently occurring on or imminently threatening campus health or safety.","Alerts may be limited to the location of the emergency.","Safety Warnings cover Clery crimes in the NIU Police patrol area that are a serious or continuing threat."],"sources":[{"title":"NIU Types of Safety Notifications","url":"https://www.niu.edu/publicsafety/emergency/types_of_notifications/index.shtml","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","criteria-page","emergency-notification","timely-warning","illinois","public-r2"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"northern-marianas-college-alert-policy","slug":"northern-marianas-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Northern Marianas College","shortName":"NMC","state":"MP","type":"territory","alertSystemName":"Campus Alert (official NMC email + NMC platforms)","enrollment":1239},"policy":{"title":"Campus Security and Emergency Notification Procedures","systemName":"NMC Campus Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.marianas.edu/campus-security","lastReviewed":"2025-04-01"},"summary":"Northern Marianas College — the sole institution of higher education in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands — issues emergency 'Campus Alert' messages through official NMC email and a defined set of [official NMC platforms](https://www.marianas.edu/campus-security) (website, Facebook, Instagram, and radio), backed by 24/7 security in Building O and its Clery [reports](https://www.marianas.edu/reports).","analysis":"Northern Marianas College (NMC) is the only institution of higher education in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), based in Saipan. Its campus-security operation is staffed twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week by security personnel located in Building O, reachable at 237-6800 (and listed in emergency communications as NMC Security at (670) 287-4218). For life-threatening emergencies the college directs the community to call 911 / the CNMI Department of Public Safety (DPS).\n\nNMC's emergency-notification model is channel-defined rather than branded around a single SMS product. The college instructs students and employees to monitor their official NMC email accounts for any announcements — including information that may involve safety precautions, campus closures, or impacts to class schedules — and to watch official NMC platforms: the NMC website, the NMC Facebook page, NMC Instagram, and news outlets including radio stations. This was demonstrated in practice during an April 2025 cascade of 'Campus Alert' and 'Campus Advisory' messages responding to a social-media threat, when the college reported that its emergency response team had been activated and was working closely with authorities. The reliance on email plus social media and radio (rather than a dedicated mass-SMS short code) is a practical fit for a small single-island community college, though it carries an inherent limitation: community members who do not check NMC email or follow NMC social accounts may miss alerts.\n\nNMC documents its Clery Act compliance through its [reports / resource documents](https://www.marianas.edu/reports) page, which hosts its Annual Security Report and related safety policies, and it maintains formal procedures touching campus notification (for example, Procedure 8001.01 governing notification to the campus community regarding registered sex offenders). As a Clery-covered institution, NMC is bound by the federal requirement to issue timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes that pose a continuing threat and emergency notifications upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety.\n\nThe exact verbatim policy text — formal decision authority, the 'immediately, upon confirmation' timing standard, and any testing cadence — could not be retrieved in this review because the marianas.edu host blocked automated fetching of the Annual Security Report and campus-security pages. The channel and contact details above are drawn from official NMC pages and Campus Alert posts as indexed; the formal Clery decision-authority and timing fields below are reconstructed from the federal standard and flagged as such. Given the CNMI's exposure to typhoons and earthquakes, a multi-platform mix anchored by radio is well suited to conditions where cellular or power may be degraded.","whenCriteria":"NMC issues 'Campus Alert' / 'Campus Advisory' messages for safety precautions, campus closures, schedule impacts, and active threats (e.g., the April 2025 social-media threat that activated the emergency response team). As a Clery-covered institution it is also bound by the federal timely-warning and emergency-notification standards; exact criteria language was not retrievable in this review and is reconstructed.","decisionAuthority":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed. Campus Alerts are issued by the college (emergency response team activation referenced in April 2025 messaging); campus security operates 24/7 from Building O.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed; as a Clery-covered institution NMC is subject to the federal 'immediately, upon confirmation' standard for emergency notifications and the 'timely' standard for warnings.","cleryFraming":"Annual Security Report and safety policy documents are published on the marianas.edu reports page; the college uses 'Campus Alert' and 'Campus Advisory' labels for its public notifications and maintains notification procedures such as Procedure 8001.01 (sex-offender community notification).","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Emergency notification depends on community members monitoring official NMC email and NMC platforms (website, Facebook, Instagram, radio); those who do not check these channels may miss alerts. No dedicated mass-SMS short code was identified in the sources reviewed.","channels":["email","website","facebook","twitter-x","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Monitor official NMC email and platforms","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.marianas.edu/proanews/campus-alert-04-02-2025-9-20pm","sourceDescription":"NMC Campus Alert (April 2025) — reconstructed from indexed search snippet, not confirmed word-for-word against the official page","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Official NMC platforms for announcements","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.marianas.edu/proanews/campus-alert-04-02-2025-9-20pm","sourceDescription":"NMC Campus Alert (April 2025) — reconstructed from indexed search snippet","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Northern Marianas College is the sole higher-education institution in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (Saipan).","Emergency notification is channel-defined, not a branded SMS product: community members must monitor official NMC email plus the NMC website, Facebook, Instagram, and radio.","Campus security is staffed 24/7 in Building O (237-6800 / (670) 287-4218); life-threatening emergencies are directed to 911 / CNMI DPS.","An April 2025 social-media threat triggered a real-world cascade of 'Campus Alert' and 'Campus Advisory' messages and activation of the emergency response team.","Clery reports live on marianas.edu/reports, but exact decision-authority, timing, and testing language could not be retrieved (host blocked automated fetching), so those fields are reconstructed and the excerpts are flagged isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"sources":[{"title":"NMC — Campus Security","url":"https://www.marianas.edu/campus-security","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"NMC — Reports / Resource Documents (Annual Security Report host)","url":"https://www.marianas.edu/reports","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"NMC — Campus Alert, 04.02.2025 9:20PM","url":"https://www.marianas.edu/proanews/campus-alert-04-02-2025-9-20pm","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"NMC — Campus Alert 04.05.2025 Update","url":"https://www.marianas.edu/proanews/campus-alert-04-05-2025-update-as-of-5-00pm-april-5-2025","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Marianas Variety — Police investigating threat to NMC (April 2025)","url":"https://www.mvariety.com/news/local/police-investigating-threat-to-nmc/article_b303da99-95ea-4261-a149-84b746e4a6de.html","type":"local-media"}],"confidence":"low","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","territory","cnmi","northern-mariana-islands","clery-asr"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"northern-marianas-college-annual-security-report","slug":"northern-marianas-college-annual-security-report","institution":{"name":"Northern Marianas College","shortName":"NMC","state":"MP","type":"territory","alertSystemName":"Campus Alert (official NMC email + NMC platforms)","enrollment":1253},"policy":{"title":"Annual Security Report and Campus Safety and Security Surveys (Reports / Resource Documents)","systemName":"NMC Campus Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.marianas.edu/reports"},"summary":"Northern Marianas College publishes its Clery Act disclosure documents on its [Reports / Resource Documents page](https://www.marianas.edu/reports), where the newest indexed Annual Security Report dates to 2017 alongside separate 2021 Campus Safety and Security Surveys for its Saipan, Tinian, and Rota sites, with the college's own [Clery and VAWA obligations articulated](https://www.marianas.edu/titleix) on its Title IX Compliance Statement.","analysis":"This record documents the Annual Security Report surface of Northern Marianas College, the sole institution of higher education in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; NMC's operational Campus Alert notification practices are documented in a companion criteria-page record in this archive. NMC hosts its Clery documents on its [Reports / Resource Documents page](https://www.marianas.edu/reports), and the inventory indexed there is itself the finding: the newest Annual Security Report visible in search indexes is the 2017 Annual Security Report, accompanied by 2021 Campus Safety and Security Surveys filed separately for the Saipan, Tinian, and Rota campuses (the survey is the U.S. Department of Education data collection whose results publish through the [Campus Safety and Security Statistics site](https://surveys.ope.ed.gov/campussafety) and College Navigator).\n\nThe per-campus survey split reflects NMC's real geography: instructional sites on three separate islands of the CNMI, each of which the Clery framework treats as its own campus for statistics purposes. The apparent staleness of the ASR itself (2017 as the newest indexed edition, against a federal requirement to publish annually each October 1) is documented here honestly as what the public index shows; whether newer ASRs exist behind the reports page but are not surfaced to search engines could not be determined, because marianas.edu blocks automated fetching from this environment and the reports page and its PDFs could not be opened directly.\n\nNMC states its Clery obligations most explicitly on its [Title IX Compliance Statement](https://www.marianas.edu/titleix), which describes the Clery Act's requirement that federal-aid-participating institutions maintain and disclose campus crime information and notes the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 amendments requiring statistics and policy statements for dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in annual security reports. Related community-notification machinery appears in NMC procedure: [Procedure 8001.01](https://www.marianas.edu/campus-security) sets guidelines for responding to the enrollment or presence of a convicted sex offender, including appropriate notification to the campus community, and the college's 24/7 security operation in Building O anchors the reporting structures an ASR describes.\n\nDocumentation caveat, per this archive's convention: no marianas.edu page or PDF could be fetched from this environment, so the ASR's actual emergency-notification and timely-warning policy statements, its crime statistics, and its publication history could not be read or byte-verified. Every excerpt below is a search-index reconstruction marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false, the whenCriteria and timing fields are reconstructed from the federal standard rather than quoted from NMC text, and this record carries low confidence. Character-verifying the 2017 ASR (and establishing whether any newer edition exists) is queued for the unrestricted-network recovery workstream.","whenCriteria":"The ASR genre requires policy statements on emergency notification (upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety) and timely warnings (Clery crimes representing a serious or continuing threat). NMC's own written criteria could not be read from the 2017 ASR (host blocks automated fetching) and are reconstructed from the federal standard here.","decisionAuthority":"Not confirmed from the ASR itself. NMC's campus security operates 24/7 from Building O; its Title IX and campus security pages carry the college's Clery statements, and Procedure 8001.01 assigns sex-offender community notification to college officials (Dean of Student Services / Director of Counseling Programs and Services per NMC's indexed procedures).","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim; as a Clery-covered institution NMC is bound by the federal immediately-upon-confirmation standard for emergency notifications, the timely standard for warnings, and the October 1 annual publication requirement for the ASR. The newest ASR indexed publicly is the 2017 edition.","cleryFraming":"The Reports / Resource Documents page hosts the 2017 Annual Security Report and 2021 Campus Safety and Security Surveys filed per campus (Saipan, Tinian, Rota); the Title IX Compliance Statement articulates the Clery and VAWA disclosure obligations those documents implement.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed; no notification-system test schedule is visible in the indexed ASR surface.","scopeLimits":"Clery geography spans three islands, with separate Campus Safety and Security Surveys for the Saipan, Tinian, and Rota sites. The public index shows no ASR newer than 2017; whether newer editions exist unindexed behind the reports page could not be determined from this environment.","channels":["email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"NMC's statement of its Clery and VAWA obligations","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.marianas.edu/titleix","sourceDescription":"NMC Title IX Compliance Statement (via search-index reproduction; marianas.edu blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Indexed Clery document inventory on the Reports page","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.marianas.edu/reports","sourceDescription":"NMC Reports / Resource Documents page (document titles as indexed by search engines)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Sex-offender community notification procedure","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.marianas.edu/campus-security","sourceDescription":"NMC Campus Security page (via search-index reproduction; marianas.edu blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["NMC hosts its Clery disclosure documents on marianas.edu/reports; the newest Annual Security Report visible in public search indexes is the 2017 edition, a notable staleness finding against the federal annual October 1 publication requirement (whether newer unindexed editions exist could not be determined).","Campus Safety and Security Surveys are filed separately for the Saipan, Tinian, and Rota sites (2021 editions indexed), matching NMC's three-island Clery geography.","NMC's Title IX Compliance Statement carries the college's own articulation of its Clery and VAWA obligations, including statistics and policy statements for dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in annual security reports.","Procedure 8001.01 provides standing community-notification guidelines for the enrollment or presence of convicted sex offenders.","marianas.edu blocks automated fetching from this environment, so the 2017 ASR's actual emergency-notification and timely-warning statements could not be read; all excerpts are search-index reconstructions flagged isVerbatimConfirmed:false and the record carries low confidence, with character verification queued for the unrestricted-network recovery workstream."],"sources":[{"title":"NMC Reports / Resource Documents (Annual Security Report and Campus Safety and Security Surveys host page)","url":"https://www.marianas.edu/reports","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"NMC Title IX Compliance Statement","url":"https://www.marianas.edu/titleix","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"NMC Campus Security","url":"https://www.marianas.edu/campus-security","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"U.S. Department of Education Campus Safety and Security Survey","url":"https://surveys.ope.ed.gov/campussafety","type":"government"}],"confidence":"low","tags":["policy","clery","clery-asr","timely-warning","emergency-notification","territory","cnmi","northern-mariana-islands"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-31","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"northern-virginia-community-college-alert-policy","slug":"northern-virginia-community-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Northern Virginia Community College","shortName":"NOVA","state":"VA","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"NOVA Alert","enrollment":75000},"policy":{"title":"Policy 114P — Emergency Notifications / Timely Warnings","systemName":"NOVA Alert","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.nvcc.edu/dist/files/sites/policies/pdfs/114P-Emergency-Notifications-Timely-Warnings.pdf","policyNumber":"114P"},"summary":"[NOVA Alert](https://alert.nvcc.edu/) is Northern Virginia Community College's multi-campus emergency notification service (powered by Rave), governed by [Policy 114P on Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings](https://www.nvcc.edu/dist/files/sites/policies/pdfs/114P-Emergency-Notifications-Timely-Warnings.pdf) and used to alert students, faculty, and staff to significant emergencies, dangerous situations, and Clery-reportable threats.","analysis":"Northern Virginia Community College — one of the largest community colleges in the United States, spread across six campuses in Northern Virginia — runs its alerting program under [Policy 114P, Emergency Notifications / Timely Warnings](https://www.nvcc.edu/dist/files/sites/policies/pdfs/114P-Emergency-Notifications-Timely-Warnings.pdf). The student-facing notification platform is NOVA Alert, a free service in which students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled for email alerts through their official NOVA email address; users may add mobile numbers or additional email addresses by registering at [alert.nvcc.edu](https://alert.nvcc.edu/), which runs on the Rave mass-notification platform.\n\nNOVA distinguishes the two Clery instruments. [Emergency notifications](https://www.nvcc.edu/student-life/college-safety/police/clery-act/notification.html) are triggered by any significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees — a category broad enough to include shootings, communicable-disease outbreaks, severe weather, and gas leaks, and they may be tailored to only the segment of the campus at risk. Timely warnings, by contrast, are issued for Clery-reportable crimes that represent a serious or continuing threat to campus safety, and must be issued in a manner likely to reach the entire campus community. NOVA states it issues timely warnings 'in compliance with the Clery Act.'\n\nThe channel mix reflects a commuter, multi-campus institution. Beyond SMS and email, NOVA can send an emergency alert to every College-owned computer connected to its network while logged on — pushing desktop messages into classrooms, computer labs, and offices, including off-site staff logged in remotely. For closures and delays, a text alert goes to cell phones registered on NOVA Alert and a notice is posted to the College website's home page; broadcast media and social media supplement these channels.\n\nOn authority, the College's [emergency-preparedness](https://www.nvcc.edu/student-life/college-safety/emergency-preparedness/notifications.html) and police materials indicate that the Chief of Police or the authorized designee may activate the Emergency Operations Plan in response to a major emergency, situating activation authority with the NOVA Police Department command. Full procedural detail (the confirmation step, content determination, and 'without delay' timing language) lives in the 114P policy PDF and the College's Annual Security Report, both hosted on nvcc.edu.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notifications: any significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees (shootings, disease outbreaks, weather, gas leaks). Timely warnings: Clery-reportable crimes representing a serious or continuing threat to campus safety.","decisionAuthority":"The Chief of Police or the authorized designee may activate the Emergency Operations Plan in response to a major emergency; NOVA Police Department command oversees notification activation.","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications are issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation; timely warnings are issued in a manner likely to reach the entire campus community. (Precise 'without delay' language is in Policy 114P / the Annual Security Report.)","cleryFraming":"Explicitly separates emergency notifications (immediate threat, may be localized to the at-risk segment) from timely warnings (Clery-reportable crimes posing a serious or continuing threat, campus-wide reach).","scopeLimits":"Emergency notifications may be tailored exclusively to the segment of the campus population at risk; timely warnings must reach the entire campus community.","channels":["sms","email","website","desktop-popup","twitter-x","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"NOVA Alert auto-enrollment","quotedText":"NOVA Alert is a free notification service offered by NOVA. Students, faculty, and staff are automatically signed up for email alerts through their official NOVA email address.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nvcc.edu/student-life/college-safety/emergency-preparedness/notifications.html","sourceDescription":"NOVA Alert Notification Systems page","annotations":["Email enrollment is automatic via the NOVA address; SMS and extra addresses require opt-in registration at alert.nvcc.edu."],"characterCount":175},{"label":"College-network desktop alerts","quotedText":"NOVA can send an emergency alert to every computer owned by the College and connected to the NOVA computer network, while it is logged on to the College network. This allows emergency messages to be sent to classrooms, computer labs, and staff in their offices or logged in off-site.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nvcc.edu/student-life/college-safety/emergency-preparedness/notifications.html","sourceDescription":"NOVA Alert Notification Systems page","annotations":["Desktop-popup channel reaches networked, logged-in machines across classrooms, labs, and remote staff — important for a commuter campus where people may not check phones."],"characterCount":283},{"label":"Clery timely-warning compliance","quotedText":"To promote awareness and informed decision-making, NOVA issues Timely Warnings in compliance with the Clery Act. These warnings alert you about Clery-reportable crimes that represent a serious or continuing threat to campus safety.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nvcc.edu/student-life/college-safety/police/clery-act/crime-alerts.html","sourceDescription":"NOVA Crime Alerts (Clery Act) page","annotations":["Defines NOVA's timely-warning trigger as Clery-reportable crimes posing a serious or continuing threat — distinct from the broader emergency-notification trigger."],"characterCount":231}],"keyFindings":["NOVA Alert (powered by Rave) auto-enrolls students, faculty, and staff for email alerts via their NOVA address; SMS and additional contacts require opt-in at alert.nvcc.edu.","Policy 114P separates emergency notifications (immediate threat to health/safety, may be localized) from timely warnings (Clery-reportable crimes, campus-wide reach).","A networked desktop-alert channel pushes full-screen messages to every logged-in College-owned computer — classrooms, labs, and remote staff included.","The Chief of Police or authorized designee may activate the Emergency Operations Plan in response to a major emergency.","Closure/delay notices go out by text to registered phones plus a notice on the College website home page, supplemented by broadcast and social media."],"sources":[{"title":"Policy 114P — Emergency Notifications / Timely Warnings","url":"https://www.nvcc.edu/dist/files/sites/policies/pdfs/114P-Emergency-Notifications-Timely-Warnings.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"NOVA Alert Notification Systems","url":"https://www.nvcc.edu/student-life/college-safety/emergency-preparedness/notifications.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Crime Alerts (Clery Act)","url":"https://www.nvcc.edu/student-life/college-safety/police/clery-act/crime-alerts.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Notification (Clery Act)","url":"https://www.nvcc.edu/student-life/college-safety/police/clery-act/notification.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"NOVA Annual Security Report 2024","url":"https://www.nvcc.edu/dist/files/sites/student-life/college-safety/2024-NOVA-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","community-college","nova-alert","rave","virginia"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-23","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"northwest-college-powell-wy-emergency-notification-policy","slug":"northwest-college-powell-wy-emergency-notification-policy","institution":{"name":"Northwest College","shortName":"NWC","state":"WY","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"NWC Emergency Notification System","enrollment":1779},"policy":{"title":"Campus Safety & Security","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://nwc.edu/security/index.html","lastReviewed":"2026-07-03"},"summary":"Northwest College (Powell, WY) automatically enrolls every student who registers for classes into its Emergency Notification System, which delivers text, email, and voice-message alerts, backed by the campus public-address system for on-site broadcasts, per its [Campus Safety & Security page](https://nwc.edu/security/index.html).","analysis":"Northwest College (Powell, WY) does not appear to brand its general Emergency Notification System with a distinct marketing name the way several peer Wyoming community colleges do (CC Alert, Rustler Alert, Alert Me); its [Campus Safety & Security](https://nwc.edu/security/index.html) page refers to it plainly as the \"NWC Emergency Notification System.\" NWC does, however, use a separate named brand, \"Trapper Alerts,\" for warnings about events or situations on or off campus that can pose an ongoing or continuing threat to individuals or property, language that tracks the Clery Act's timely-warning standard rather than the emergency-notification one. Enrollment is automatic and tied directly to course registration: enrolling in classes automatically enrolls a student in the notification system, and the college directs students to periodically verify their phone number is current in the MyNWC portal rather than through a separate opt-in signup flow.\n\nDelivery combines a digital layer (text, email, voice messages to every individual enrolled in the system) with a physical, on-site layer, the campus public address system, which broadcasts situation statements and directions during live incidents. The college also layers in web-based channels: emergency messages can appear on the MyNWC portal, and in a significant event the college home page may carry an emergency banner or be replaced with emergency information, echoing the emergency-homepage-takeover pattern documented at the University of Wyoming. Separately, NWC's [Security & Fire Safety Report](https://nwc.edu/security/report.html), its Clery Annual Security Report, is distributed to full-time employees and residential students through internal mail, to prospective students through Admissions, and by email link to all employees and students, each by October 1 of the reporting year, as required under Clery.\n\nThis environment's outbound network returns HTTP 403 for direct fetches of nwc.edu, so the excerpts below were captured from official page text as reproduced in search-engine indexing. Three sentences below returned consistently across independently run search queries in this session and are marked verbatim-confirmed, including the Trapper Alerts branding surfaced during this record's independent verification pass; the PA-system detail and ASR-distribution timeline were captured with less repeated corroboration and are reported as reconstructed. No named decision-authority language, minutes-based timing standard, or testing cadence specific to NWC could be confirmed from the sources available.","whenCriteria":"The system delivers alerts during emergencies to individuals enrolled in the Emergency Notification System; a specific itemized activation-trigger list was not confirmed verbatim.","decisionAuthority":"Not confirmed in the sources reviewed; the Campus Security office administers the page and the linked Security & Fire Safety Report, but no single named approving official for activation was reproduced verbatim.","timingStandard":"No specific minutes-based timeliness standard was reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"NWC appears to draw the standard Clery two-track distinction through its naming: the general Emergency Notification System for confirmed, ongoing threats to campus, and a separately branded \"Trapper Alerts\" for events or situations on or off campus that can pose an ongoing or continuing threat to individuals or property, which tracks the Clery timely-warning standard. The college's Security & Fire Safety Report is its Clery Annual Security Report, distributed each year by October 1.","testingCadence":"No confirmed recurring testing cadence dedicated to the Emergency Notification System was found in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Enrollment is automatic upon registering for classes, tying reach directly to current enrollment rather than a separate signup step; the campus public address system extends physical, on-site reach beyond registered phone numbers during a live incident.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Multi-channel delivery","quotedText":"Alerts are sent as texts, emails and voice messages to every individual enrolled in the Emergency Notification System.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://nwc.edu/security/index.html","sourceDescription":"Campus Safety & Security - Northwest College","annotations":["Returned byte-identically across two independently run search queries of the Campus Safety & Security page."],"characterCount":118},{"label":"Automatic enrollment tied to registration","quotedText":"When you enroll in classes, you are automatically enrolled in the NWC Emergency Notification System.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://nwc.edu/security/index.html","sourceDescription":"Campus Safety & Security - Northwest College","annotations":["Returned byte-identically across two independently run search queries; confirms enrollment is tied automatically to course registration rather than a separate opt-in step."],"characterCount":100},{"label":"Trapper Alerts (timely-warning branding)","quotedText":"events/situations on or off campus that can pose an ongoing or continuing threat to individuals or property","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://nwc.edu/security/index.html","sourceDescription":"Campus Safety & Security - Northwest College","annotations":["Found during this record's independent verification pass; reproduced consistently across independently run search queries, confirming NWC uses a distinct \"Trapper Alerts\" brand for Clery timely-warning-type communications, separate from the general Emergency Notification System."],"characterCount":107},{"label":"PA system broadcast","quotedText":"The campus public address system broadcasts situation statements and directions.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://nwc.edu/security/index.html","sourceDescription":"Campus Safety & Security - Northwest College","annotations":["Captured in a single search rendering of the page; reported as reconstructed rather than independently repeated word-for-word."],"characterCount":80},{"label":"Annual Security and Fire Safety Report distribution","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://nwc.edu/security/report.html","sourceDescription":"NWC Security & Fire Safety Report - Northwest College","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["NWC's general Emergency Notification System has no distinct marketing brand name, but the college separately brands its Clery timely-warning-type communications as \"Trapper Alerts.\"","Enrollment is automatic upon registering for classes rather than a separate opt-in signup, with students directed to keep their MyNWC phone number current.","Delivery combines digital channels (text, email, voice) with a physical campus public-address system that broadcasts situation statements and directions during live incidents.","NWC's Clery Annual Security and Fire Safety Report is distributed to employees and residential students by October 1 each year via internal mail, and to prospective students via Admissions.","No named decision-authority language, minutes-based timing standard, or dedicated testing cadence could be confirmed for NWC's system from the sources available."],"sources":[{"title":"Campus Safety & Security - Northwest College","url":"https://nwc.edu/security/index.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"NWC Security & Fire Safety Report - Northwest College","url":"https://nwc.edu/security/report.html","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","community-college","wyoming"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"northwest-indian-college-rave-alert-policy","slug":"northwest-indian-college-rave-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Northwest Indian College","shortName":"NWIC","state":"WA","type":"tribal-college","alertSystemName":"RAVE Alert","enrollment":636},"policy":{"title":"Student Safety and Security — Emergency Procedures / Severe Weather Notifications","systemName":"RAVE Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://nwic.smartcatalogiq.com/en/2023-2025/2023-2025-catalog/student-safety-and-security/emergency-procedures/safety-and-access-to-northwest-indian-college-campus-facilities/","lastReviewed":"2024-01-01"},"summary":"Northwest Indian College — the tribal college of the Lummi Nation near Bellingham, Washington — delivers campus emergency and closure messages through [RAVE Alert](https://www.getrave.com/login/nwic), a Rave Mobile Safety notification platform that reaches registrants by email and cell-phone text, layered over the [Student Safety and Security / Emergency Procedures](https://nwic.smartcatalogiq.com/en/2023-2025/2023-2025-catalog/student-safety-and-security/emergency-procedures/safety-and-access-to-northwest-indian-college-campus-facilities/) chapter of its college catalog, which also documents how [severe-weather closures](https://iq3.smartcatalogiq.com/en/Catalogs/Northwest-Indian-College/2023-2025/2023-2025-Catalog/Student-Safety-and-Security/Severe-Weather-Notifications) are pushed to RAVE, the NWIC website, and broadcast media.","analysis":"Northwest Indian College (NWIC) is the accredited tribal college of the Lummi Nation, with its main campus on the Lummi Indian Reservation near Bellingham, Washington, and extended sites across the Pacific Northwest. NWIC operates the [RAVE Alert](https://www.getrave.com/login/nwic) mass-notification platform from Rave Mobile Safety — the same FedRAMP-authorized system used by hundreds of U.S. campuses — and maintains an NWIC-specific Rave registration portal at getrave.com/login/nwic, confirming the brand at the institution level. Following the standard Rave model, registrants receive notifications by email and/or cell-phone text.\n\nNWIC's [Student Safety and Security](https://nwic.smartcatalogiq.com/en/2023-2025/2023-2025-catalog/student-safety-and-security/emergency-procedures/safety-and-access-to-northwest-indian-college-campus-facilities/) chapter in the 2023-2025 college catalog houses the college's emergency-procedures content, including campus-access rules (facilities open to the community during normal business hours; unused classrooms and offices generally locked) and severe-weather notification procedures. The most precisely documented use of RAVE is for weather closures: the [Severe Weather Notifications](https://iq3.smartcatalogiq.com/en/Catalogs/Northwest-Indian-College/2023-2025/2023-2025-Catalog/Student-Safety-and-Security/Severe-Weather-Notifications) policy states that, when possible, notification is released to radio and television stations, the RAVE Alert notification system, and the NWIC website by 6:00 a.m. for morning closures, with evening closures made by no later than 4:00 p.m., and notice also sent to all campus departments — a clear, time-bound multi-channel commitment.\n\nThis severe-weather discipline is borne out in practice: in November 2021 NWIC closed its Lummi campus for three consecutive days due to inclement weather and posted the closure on its public website, illustrating that RAVE/website notifications are an operational reality rather than a paper policy. As a Clery-covered institution, NWIC is bound by the federal requirement to issue emergency notifications upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation and to issue timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes representing a continuing threat; those obligations are reflected in the college's Student Safety and Security catalog chapter and Annual Security Report framework.\n\nBecause the NWIC SmartCatalog hosts (nwic.smartcatalogiq.com and iq3.smartcatalogiq.com) and nwic.edu return HTTP 403 to automated fetching, the precise verbatim wording of NWIC's general emergency-notification threshold, the named decision authority, and any published test cadence for RAVE Alert could not be byte-for-byte confirmed in this review; those fields below are reconstructed from indexed snippets and the Clery framework and are flagged honestly. The severe-weather sentence (the most distinctive RAVE excerpt) appeared with identical wording across two independent retrievals and is marked verbatim-confirmed. Confidence is set to medium.","whenCriteria":"NWIC uses RAVE Alert, the NWIC website, and broadcast media for emergency and closure communication; the most precisely documented trigger is severe-weather/inclement-weather campus closures. As a Clery-covered college, NWIC also issues emergency notifications upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation and timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes that represent a continuing threat. (General-emergency threshold wording not byte-for-byte confirmable — SmartCatalog host returned HTTP 403; framing reconstructed from indexed snippets and the Clery standard.)","decisionAuthority":"NWIC administration (and the campus offices responsible for safety and security) decide on closures and emergency messaging and push them through RAVE Alert; the specific position authorized to confirm and trigger a RAVE Alert was not confirmed verbatim in this review (nwic.edu and the SmartCatalog hosts blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"For severe-weather closures NWIC commits to releasing notification by 6:00 a.m. (morning closures) or by no later than 4:00 p.m. (evening closures). For Clery emergency notifications the federal 'immediately, upon confirmation' standard applies; that exact language was not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"As a Clery-covered tribal college, NWIC distinguishes emergency notifications (for significant emergencies/dangerous situations) from timely warnings (for Clery-reportable crimes that pose a continuing threat) within its Student Safety and Security catalog chapter and Annual Security Report framework. The specific verbatim timely-warning policy text was not retrievable in this review (host blocked automated fetching).","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed; a published periodic test cadence for RAVE Alert (e.g., annual or per-term) was not confirmed (the SmartCatalog and nwic.edu hosts blocked automated fetching).","scopeLimits":"RAVE Alert reach depends on registration (email and/or cell-phone text) through the NWIC Rave portal, so coverage is tied to who has signed up and current contact information; severe-weather notice is supplemented by broadcast radio/TV and the NWIC website. NWIC's rural Lummi Reservation and multi-site Pacific Northwest footprint makes cellular and broadcast coverage gaps an inherent delivery limitation.","channels":["sms","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Severe-weather notification channels and timing","quotedText":"When possible, notification will be released to radio and television stations and the RAVE Alert notification system and the NWIC website by 6:00 a.m.; evening closures will be made by no later than 4:00 p.m.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://iq3.smartcatalogiq.com/en/Catalogs/Northwest-Indian-College/2023-2025/2023-2025-Catalog/Student-Safety-and-Security/Severe-Weather-Notifications","sourceDescription":"Northwest Indian College — 2023-2025 Catalog, Severe Weather Notifications","annotations":["Names RAVE Alert, the NWIC website, and broadcast media as severe-weather notification channels and sets the 6:00 a.m. / 4:00 p.m. timing commitment. Identical wording appeared across two independent retrievals of the SmartCatalog page."],"characterCount":208},{"label":"NWIC-specific RAVE registration portal","quotedText":"Rave Login - Northwest Indian College","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.getrave.com/login/nwic","sourceDescription":"Rave Mobile Safety — NWIC login/registration portal","annotations":["The institution-specific Rave portal (getrave.com/login/nwic) confirms NWIC operates RAVE Alert by Rave Mobile Safety; registrants opt in to email and/or cell-phone text notifications."],"characterCount":37},{"label":"RAVE Alert delivery channels (paraphrased from index)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://nwic.smartcatalogiq.com/en/2023-2025/2023-2025-catalog/student-safety-and-security/emergency-procedures/safety-and-access-to-northwest-indian-college-campus-facilities/","sourceDescription":"Northwest Indian College — 2023-2025 Catalog, Student Safety and Security (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index and standard Rave model)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["NWIC operates RAVE Alert (Rave Mobile Safety), confirmed by an NWIC-specific Rave portal at getrave.com/login/nwic; registrants receive email and/or cell-phone text notifications.","Emergency-procedures and severe-weather content lives in the Student Safety and Security chapter of NWIC's 2023-2025 college catalog.","Severe-weather closures are pushed to RAVE Alert, the NWIC website, and broadcast radio/TV by 6:00 a.m. (morning) or by no later than 4:00 p.m. (evening) — a time-bound multi-channel commitment.","NWIC's three-day Lummi-campus weather closure in November 2021 shows the RAVE/website notification process operating in practice.","General-emergency threshold wording, named decision authority, and a published RAVE test cadence could not be confirmed verbatim (SmartCatalog and nwic.edu hosts returned HTTP 403), so those fields are reconstructed and flagged; confidence is medium."],"sources":[{"title":"Northwest Indian College — 2023-2025 Catalog: Student Safety and Security / Emergency Procedures","url":"https://nwic.smartcatalogiq.com/en/2023-2025/2023-2025-catalog/student-safety-and-security/emergency-procedures/safety-and-access-to-northwest-indian-college-campus-facilities/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Northwest Indian College — 2023-2025 Catalog: Severe Weather Notifications","url":"https://iq3.smartcatalogiq.com/en/Catalogs/Northwest-Indian-College/2023-2025/2023-2025-Catalog/Student-Safety-and-Security/Severe-Weather-Notifications","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Rave Login — Northwest Indian College (RAVE Alert portal)","url":"https://www.getrave.com/login/nwic","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Northwest Indian College — Lummi campus closure Nov. 16-18, 2021 (inclement weather)","url":"https://www.nwic.edu/2021/11/15/college-closure-nov-16-to-18-2021-due-to-inclement-weather/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Northwest Indian College — College Policies","url":"https://www.nwic.edu/about-nwic/college-policies/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","tribal-college","washington","lummi-nation","rave-alert","severe-weather"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"northwest-mississippi-community-college-ranger-alert-policy","slug":"northwest-mississippi-community-college-ranger-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Northwest Mississippi Community College","shortName":"NWCC","state":"MS","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Ranger Alert","enrollment":7500},"policy":{"title":"Ranger Alert emergency notification system overview","systemName":"Ranger Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.northwestms.edu/l/current-students/techhelp","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Northwest Mississippi Community College documents [Ranger Alert](https://www.northwestms.edu/l/current-students/techhelp) as its notification system for inclement weather, school closings, campus information, and campus emergencies, with cell numbers auto-pulled from myNWCC student information fields.","analysis":"Northwest Mississippi Community College, a multi-campus Mississippi community college, publishes Ranger Alert instructions on its student Tech Help page. Source: [Tech Help / Ranger Alerts](https://www.northwestms.edu/l/current-students/techhelp). The college states it will use Ranger Alert for notifications related to inclement weather, school closings, campus information, and emergencies on campus. Messages automatically pull from cell phone fields in myNWCC.\n\nStudents who are not receiving alerts are directed to log into myNWCC, choose Student Information, Modify My Information, and enter cell phone number and provider. Opt-out is available by texting STOP after receiving a Ranger Alert text message. Catalog ASR language (not independently re-verified line-by-line in this record) also references timely warnings via email, Ranger Alert, and social media.","whenCriteria":"Inclement weather, school closings, campus information, and emergencies on campus.","decisionAuthority":"Not named as a specific role on the Tech Help overview; Ranger Alert is the college-named channel for operational and emergency notifications.","timingStandard":"Not quantified on the Tech Help page.","cleryFraming":"Public system overview for Ranger Alert weather/closure/emergency messaging; ASR timely-warning language referenced via catalog but not fully excerpted here.","scopeLimits":"Reach depends on myNWCC cell phone and provider fields; STOP text opt-out available.","testingCadence":"Facebook archives note Ranger Alert system tests; fixed cadence not stated on the Tech Help page.","channels":["sms","email","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Ranger Alert use cases","quotedText":"Northwest will use the RANGER ALERT system to send notifications related to inclement weather, school closings, campus information, and emergencies on campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.northwestms.edu/l/current-students/techhelp","sourceDescription":"NWCC Tech Help Ranger Alerts section","annotations":["Defines weather, closing, campus info, and emergency uses."],"characterCount":158},{"label":"myNWCC cell phone source","quotedText":"Ranger Alert messages automatically pull from cell phone fields from myNWCC.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.northwestms.edu/l/current-students/techhelp","sourceDescription":"NWCC Tech Help Ranger Alerts section","annotations":["Contact data sourced from myNWCC cell fields."],"characterCount":76},{"label":"STOP opt-out","quotedText":"In the event that you do not wish to receive any of the alerts simply text STOP after receiving a RANGER ALERT via text message.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.northwestms.edu/l/current-students/techhelp","sourceDescription":"NWCC Tech Help Ranger Alerts section","annotations":["SMS STOP opt-out instruction."],"characterCount":128}],"keyFindings":["Ranger Alert covers weather, closings, campus information, and emergencies.","Cell numbers auto-pull from myNWCC student information fields.","STOP text message opt-out available."],"sources":[{"title":"NWCC Tech Help / Ranger Alerts","url":"https://www.northwestms.edu/l/current-students/techhelp","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["mississippi","community-college","system-overview","ranger-alert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"northwest-state-community-college-rave-quick-alert-asr","slug":"northwest-state-community-college-rave-quick-alert-asr","institution":{"name":"Northwest State Community College","shortName":"Northwest State","state":"OH","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"RAVE ALERT / Quick Alert","enrollment":4000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warnings and Emergency Notification (RAVE ALERT / Quick Alert) - Annual Security Report","systemName":"RAVE ALERT / Quick Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://northweststate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-Report-PDF.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-09-01"},"summary":"Northwest State Community College documents [Campus Administration Timely Warning Notices via email blast and RAVE ALERT](https://northweststate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-Report-PDF.pdf) plus Quick Alert for campus emergencies and closings.","analysis":"Northwest State Community College (Archbold, OH) publishes Timely Warnings and emergency communication procedures in its [2025 Annual Security Report](https://northweststate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-Report-PDF.pdf). Campus-wide Timely Warning Notices issue when a crime within NSCC Clery Geography constitutes a serious or continuing threat in the judgment of Campus Administration or designee. Typical classifications include murder, aggravated assault (case-by-case for known parties), force/violence robbery, sexual assault (case-by-case for report lag), major arson, and other Clery crimes as determined necessary by NSCC PD.\n\nTimely Warning Notices are typically written and distributed by Campus Administration or designee as soon as pertinent information is available, withholding victim names. Distribution is via email blast to all student and staff accounts; additional methods include text/email through the College's RAVE ALERT system and building postings by Building Administrators. Quick Alert is a fast/reliable urgent-information system for campus emergencies, school closings, and important student information; students update contacts via myNSCC. Opt-in for emergency text and voice is through My NSCC Quick Alert or Campus Police. Complements Ohio multi-campus CC coverage.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning: crime within NSCC Clery Geography constituting serious or continuing threat in judgment of Campus Administration or designee. Quick Alert: campus emergencies, school closings, important student information and reminders.","decisionAuthority":"Campus Administration or designee judges TW need and typically writes/distributes Timely Warning Notices. NSCC PD or designee may determine other Clery crimes necessitate TW.","timingStandard":"Timely Warning Notices as soon as pertinent information is available. EN procedures apply for immediate threats; separate TW not required for same circumstances with adequate follow-up.","cleryFraming":"ASR Timely Warnings and Emergency Response sections with named RAVE ALERT and Quick Alert systems.","scopeLimits":"No TW required for crimes reported only to pastoral or professional counselors. Sexual assault and some assault/robbery subtypes case-by-case. Quick Alert contact updates via myNSCC Home tab.","testingCadence":"Annual emergency response drills and exercises including tabletop, field, and emergency notification system tests in conjunction with other emergency agencies.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Email blast and RAVE ALERT TW channels","quotedText":"Timely Warning Notices will be issued to the campus community via email blast to all student and staff assigned email accounts. Timely warnings may also be issued using some or all of the following methods of communication: text messages or emails sent through the College's RAVE ALERT system, or building postings by Building Administrators.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://northweststate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-Report-PDF.pdf","sourceDescription":"Northwest State 2025 ASR - Timely Warning distribution","annotations":["Email blast primary; RAVE ALERT and building postings optional."],"characterCount":342},{"label":"Campus Administration writes TW","quotedText":"Timely Warning Notices are typically written and distributed by the Campus Administration or designee.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://northweststate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-Report-PDF.pdf","sourceDescription":"Northwest State 2025 ASR - Timely Warning authorship","annotations":["Campus Administration owns TW drafting and distribution."],"characterCount":102},{"label":"Quick Alert system overview","quotedText":"Northwest State Community College utilizes the Quick Alert system as a fast and reliable means of sending urgent information to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://northweststate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-Report-PDF.pdf","sourceDescription":"Northwest State 2025 ASR - Quick Alert Emergency Communication System","annotations":["Named Quick Alert for urgent campus messaging."],"characterCount":149}],"keyFindings":["RAVE ALERT and Quick Alert dual branding for mass notification.","Campus Administration writes Timely Warning Notices; email blast primary channel.","Annual multi-modality emergency response drills and notification system tests."],"sources":[{"title":"Northwest State Community College 2025 Annual Security Report PDF","url":"https://northweststate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-Report-PDF.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["ohio","community-college","clery-asr","rave","quick-alert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"northwestern-oklahoma-state-university-emergency-alert-policy","slug":"northwestern-oklahoma-state-university-emergency-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Northwestern Oklahoma State University","shortName":"NWOSU","state":"OK","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"Emergency Text Message Alert System / RAVE","enrollment":2000},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Text Message Alert System and NWOSU Alert Plan","systemName":"Emergency Text Message Alert System","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.nwosu.edu/campus-safety","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Northwestern Oklahoma State University's [Campus Safety page](https://www.nwosu.edu/campus-safety) documents the Emergency Text Message Alert System and RAVE app for emergency cell/email notifications, ITV and desktop monitors, with annual/monthly testing.","analysis":"NWOSU is a public master's university in Oklahoma. Its [Campus Safety](https://www.nwosu.edu/campus-safety) page is institution-specific: an Emergency Text Message Alert System uses cell text to alert students, faculty, and staff in emergencies; students and employees are automatically enrolled for email and text to the phone number on file with changes via the BBC portal; the NWOSU Alert Plan pairs the text system with the RAVE app and messages on ITV room monitors and desktop monitors; for serious crimes that threaten the community, notices may also use campus newspaper, newsletters, residence-hall postings, and bulletin boards; full system testing (texting, ITV, alert siren, and web page) is annual with monthly test-message alerts. This record documents the system overview rather than a full Clery ASR rewrite.","whenCriteria":"Emergency events; lockdown and armed-intruder response; serious crimes on or off campus considered a threat to the campus community.","decisionAuthority":"Campus police and university officials activate the campus alert system after lockdown declaration; IT staff support number registration.","timingStandard":"Not stated as a numeric without-delay standard on the Campus Safety overview page.","cleryFraming":"The Emergency Text Message Alert System and RAVE app form the operational multi-channel emergency notification framework supporting campus safety communications.","testingCadence":"Testing of the Campus Alert System (texting, ITV, alert siren, and web page) once annually; test message alert tested monthly.","scopeLimits":"Automatic enrollment uses phone number on file; carrier text charges may apply; portal account needed for changes.","channels":["sms","email","desktop-popup","digital-signage","siren","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Text alert system definition","quotedText":"Northwestern has installed an alert system that utilizes text messaging services via cell phones to alert students, faculty and staff in the event of an emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nwosu.edu/campus-safety","characterCount":163},{"label":"Automatic email and text enrollment","quotedText":"Students and employees are automatically entered to receive email and text notifications to the phone number on file.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nwosu.edu/campus-safety","characterCount":117},{"label":"RAVE app and multi-channel components","quotedText":"A major component of our plan is the campus Emergency Text Message Alert System, along with the RAVE app, that will provide employees and students emergency information via messages on cell phones, monitors in all ITV rooms and desktop monitors.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nwosu.edu/campus-safety","characterCount":245}],"sources":[{"title":"NWOSU Campus Safety","url":"https://www.nwosu.edu/campus-safety","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["public-masters","oklahoma","emergency-notification","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"northwestern-university-alert-policy","slug":"northwestern-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Northwestern University","shortName":"Northwestern","state":"IL","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"AlertNU","enrollment":23856},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification Systems","systemName":"AlertNU","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.northwestern.edu/emergency-management/campus-safety-plan/notification-system/"},"summary":"Northwestern University's Emergency Notification System disseminates timely information to the campus community when there is a threat to safety, sending AlertNU messages for immediate or imminent life-safety threats and Crime Notices for Clery Act-reportable serious or continuing threats ([Emergency Management](https://www.northwestern.edu/emergency-management/campus-safety-plan/notification-system/)).","analysis":"Northwestern's [Emergency Notification System](https://www.northwestern.edu/emergency-management/campus-safety-plan/notification-system/) disseminates timely information to the campus community in the event of a threat to safety affecting the University. The framework distinguishes two message types. AlertNU messages are used for an immediate or imminent life-safety threat believed to be occurring on or near campus — for example, an active aggressor — where immediate action is required and community members should follow the instructions in the AlertNU communication. AlertNU messages may be sent via email, text, or phone calls and posted on digital screens and the Northwestern homepage, where they are denoted with the color red.\n\nThe second message type is the Crime Notice. Crime Notices are issued for incidents of crime considered to be serious or continuing threats to safety, as required by the [Clery Act](https://www.northwestern.edu/up/your-safety/clery-act-safety-reports.html). They are issued for Clery Act reportable crimes occurring on Clery Act Geography when it is determined there could be a serious or continuing threat to the safety of the campus community, and they typically include the date, time, and location of occurrence, a description of the incident, and information that could aid community members in altering their behavior to protect their personal safety and minimize additional incidents. The university lists examples such as robbery, assault, vehicle theft, and hate crimes.\n\nEnrollment is partly automatic and partly opt-in. Students, faculty, and staff automatically have their Northwestern email entered into the [emergency notification system](https://www.northwestern.edu/up/your-safety/emergency-notifications.html); to receive notifications via landline, cell phone, and text message, individuals must enter contact information in the student records system, CAESAR (for students), or the myHR system (for faculty and staff). Members of the larger community can enroll in AlertNU for 365 days by texting \"AlertNU\" to 226787 and receive a confirmation text upon successful subscription.\n\nNorthwestern periodically [tests its emergency notification system](https://www.northwestern.edu/safety-security/about/emergency-notification-test.html) (the underlying platform has been reported as Rave) to ensure it can quickly and effectively warn students, faculty, staff, and visitors about an immediate or imminent threat on campus; a system test was announced for October 2024. On Clery framing, AlertNU corresponds to the federal emergency-notification requirement (immediate threats to health or safety), while Crime Notices correspond to the longstanding timely-warning requirement for Clery-reportable crimes posing a serious or continuing threat.","whenCriteria":"AlertNU messages are sent for an immediate or imminent life-safety threat believed to be occurring on or near campus (e.g., an active aggressor) requiring immediate action. Crime Notices are issued for Clery Act reportable crimes occurring on Clery Act Geography when there could be a serious or continuing threat to the safety of the campus community.","decisionAuthority":"Issued through Northwestern's Emergency Management / Department of Safety & Security and University Police as part of the campus safety plan; the page frames AlertNU and Crime Notices as the university's official notification channels (specific individual approvers are governed by the campus safety plan rather than reproduced on the public overview page).","timingStandard":"The Emergency Notification System disseminates 'timely information' upon a threat to safety; AlertNU is for immediate/imminent life-safety threats requiring immediate action. Crime Notices (timely warnings) are issued when a serious or continuing threat is determined.","cleryFraming":"AlertNU messages map to the Clery emergency-notification requirement (immediate or imminent threat to health/safety). Crime Notices are the Clery timely-warning requirement, issued for Clery Act reportable crimes on Clery Act Geography that pose a serious or continuing threat, and include incident details plus safety/prevention guidance.","testingCadence":"The emergency notification system is tested periodically (a test was announced for October 2024) to confirm it can quickly and effectively warn the community about an immediate or imminent threat.","scopeLimits":"AlertNU is limited to immediate or imminent life-safety threats on or near campus; Crime Notices are limited to Clery Act reportable crimes on Clery Act Geography posing a serious or continuing threat. Email is auto-enrolled for students/faculty/staff; landline, cell, and text require contact info in CAESAR (students) or myHR (employees); the larger community can self-enroll for 365 days by texting AlertNU to 226787.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","digital-signage","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"System purpose","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Northwestern Emergency Management - Emergency Notification Systems page (text reproduced via search snippet; official page returned HTTP 403 in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"AlertNU trigger","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Northwestern Emergency Management - Emergency Notification Systems page (reproduced via search snippet; official page HTTP 403)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Crime Notices / Clery","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Northwestern Emergency Management - Emergency Notification Systems page (reproduced via search snippet; official page HTTP 403)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Community self-enrollment","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Northwestern University Police - Emergency Notifications page (reproduced via search snippet; official page HTTP 403)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Northwestern's Emergency Notification System has two tiers: AlertNU (immediate/imminent life-safety threats) and Crime Notices (Clery-required serious or continuing threats).","AlertNU messages are sent via email, text, and phone calls and posted on digital screens and the Northwestern homepage (denoted in red), and require immediate action.","Crime Notices map to the Clery timely-warning requirement for reportable crimes on Clery Act Geography and include incident details plus prevention guidance.","Email is automatically enrolled for students/faculty/staff; landline, cell, and text require entry in CAESAR (students) or myHR (employees); the public can self-enroll for 365 days by texting AlertNU to 226787.","The system is tested periodically (e.g., an October 2024 test) to confirm it can quickly warn the community of an immediate or imminent threat."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notification Systems - Emergency Management, Northwestern University","url":"https://www.northwestern.edu/emergency-management/campus-safety-plan/notification-system/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Notifications - University Police, Northwestern University","url":"https://www.northwestern.edu/up/your-safety/emergency-notifications.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Act Safety Reports - University Police, Northwestern University","url":"https://www.northwestern.edu/up/your-safety/clery-act-safety-reports.html","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Upcoming test of the emergency notification system - Department of Safety & Security","url":"https://www.northwestern.edu/safety-security/about/emergency-notification-test.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"AlertNU to test emergency notification system Wednesday - The Daily Northwestern","url":"https://dailynorthwestern.com/2024/10/14/lateststories/alertnu-to-test-emergency-notification-system-wednesday/","type":"student-newspaper"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","northwestern","alertnu","crime-notice","clery"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"norwich-university-alert-policy","slug":"norwich-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Norwich University","shortName":"Norwich","state":"VT","type":"military","alertSystemName":"Norwich RAVE Alert","enrollment":2400},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Information","systemName":"Norwich RAVE Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.norwich.edu/offices/emergency-information"},"summary":"Norwich University, a private senior military college in Northfield, Vermont, has [partnered with RAVE Mobile Safety](https://www.norwich.edu/offices/emergency-information) to run the Norwich University Emergency Notification System, requiring students to register their contact information during fall or spring orientation; per Norwich's [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.norwich.edu/documents/annual-security-and-fire-safety-2023), the Chief of Public Safety or a designee, in consultation with University senior leadership, decides on a case-by-case basis whether to issue a Clery timely warning.","analysis":"Norwich University's [Emergency Information page](https://www.norwich.edu/offices/emergency-information) states that Norwich University will only use the Emergency Notification System when it is imperative to contact students, faculty, and staff as quickly as possible, a framing that positions the RAVE-powered system as reserved for genuinely urgent situations rather than routine campus communication. Delivery reaches whichever communication devices a community member specifies during registration, including email accounts, cell phones, landlines, and text-messaging devices, so the same alert can arrive across several channels simultaneously for a single recipient.\n\nRegistration is mandatory rather than purely voluntary for the student population: [students are required to register for the emergency mass-notification system at the beginning of the fall or spring semester during orientation](https://www.norwich.edu/documents/annual-security-and-fire-safety-2023), accomplished by logging into the my.norwich.edu portal, opening Banner Web, and updating Personal Information to register contact details, with a dedicated link to review or edit Emergency Notification System information. This orientation-cycle registration requirement is more prescriptive than the purely opt-in registration model used at many of the civilian institutions in this archive, though it mirrors the structured, mandatory-formation culture of a Corps of Cadets institution.\n\nOn decision authority, Norwich's Annual Security and Fire Safety Report states that the Chief of Public Safety or designee, in consultation with University senior leadership, makes the decision whether to issue a timely warning on a case-by-case basis in light of all the facts surrounding the incident, and that timely warnings are issued as soon as possible after the Department of Public Safety is notified, subject to the availability of accurate facts concerning the incident. Norwich frames this within the standard [federal Clery Act](https://www.clerycenter.org/the-clery-act) timely-warning requirement: warnings go out to the entire campus community when there is information that a Clery Act crime has occurred on or near the University that the institution considers to represent a serious or continuing threat to campus safety.\n\nAs a private, state-chartered senior military college rather than one of the five federal service academies, Norwich carries no Clery exemption; unlike West Point, Annapolis, or the Air Force Academy, it publishes a standard civilian-style Annual Security and Fire Safety Report and periodically documents live system tests, including notification tests run in June, September, and December in recent academic years, plus a campus siren test that pairs a loud tone with recorded instructions describing a mock emergency scenario.\n\nBecause norwich.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were reconstructed from official Norwich University Emergency Information page and Annual Security and Fire Safety Report text as reproduced in search-engine indexing and corroborated across multiple independent queries, and are marked accordingly.","whenCriteria":"Norwich states it will only use the Emergency Notification System when it is imperative to contact students, faculty, and staff as quickly as possible; timely warnings specifically follow information that a Clery Act crime has occurred on or near the University and is considered a serious or continuing threat to campus safety.","decisionAuthority":"The Chief of Public Safety or designee, in consultation with University senior leadership, makes the decision whether to issue a timely warning on a case-by-case basis in light of all the facts surrounding the incident.","timingStandard":"Timely warnings are issued as soon as possible after the Department of Public Safety is notified; however, the release of the warning is subject to the availability of accurate facts concerning the incident.","cleryFraming":"Norwich issues timely warnings in compliance with the federal Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act of 1998 whenever a Clery Act crime is believed to represent a serious or continuing threat to campus safety; as a private senior military college rather than a federal service academy, Norwich carries no Clery exemption.","testingCadence":"Norwich has documented emergency notification system tests conducted at multiple points across the academic year (including June, September, and December test dates in recent years), plus separate campus siren tests pairing a warning tone with recorded mock-emergency instructions.","scopeLimits":"Delivery is limited to the communication devices a student, faculty, or staff member specifies during registration (email, cell phone, landline, text-messaging device); student registration is mandatory at the start of each fall or spring semester during orientation, accomplished through the my.norwich.edu/Banner Web portal.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","siren"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Mandatory orientation-cycle registration","quotedText":"Students are required to register for the emergency mass-notification system at the beginning of the fall or spring semester during orientation.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.norwich.edu/documents/annual-security-and-fire-safety-2023","sourceDescription":"Norwich University Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (host blocked automated fetch; text corroborated across independent search-index queries)","annotations":["This exact sentence recurred identically across independent search queries of Norwich's Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, documenting a mandatory rather than purely opt-in registration requirement for students."],"characterCount":144},{"label":"RAVE Mobile Safety partnership","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.norwich.edu/offices/emergency-information","sourceDescription":"Norwich University, Emergency Information page (host blocked automated fetch; 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warnings go out as soon as possible after Public Safety is notified, subject to fact availability.","As a private, state-chartered senior military college rather than a federal service academy, Norwich has no Clery exemption and publishes an ordinary Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.","Norwich documents periodic live system tests (including June, September, and December dates in recent years) plus separate campus siren tests pairing a tone with recorded mock-emergency instructions."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Information, Norwich University","url":"https://www.norwich.edu/offices/emergency-information","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Public Safety, Norwich University","url":"https://www.norwich.edu/offices/public-safety","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual Security and Fire Safety Report for 2022-2023, Norwich University","url":"https://www.norwich.edu/documents/annual-security-and-fire-safety-2023","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","military","senior-military-college","rave-alert","vermont"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"nueta-hidatsa-sahnish-college-alert-policy","slug":"nueta-hidatsa-sahnish-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College","shortName":"NHSC","state":"ND","type":"tribal-college","alertSystemName":"NHSC Emergency Notification"},"policy":{"title":"Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://nhsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/ASR-AFR-Fall-2020-NHSC-final.pdf","lastReviewed":"2020-11-01"},"summary":"Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College, the tribal college of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation in New Town, North Dakota, documents its campus-safety and Clery Act emergency-notification obligations through a published [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://nhsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/ASR-AFR-Fall-2020-NHSC-final.pdf) and a dedicated [Crisis Emergency Response Team (CERT) manual](https://nhsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CERT-Manual-081918.pdf).","analysis":"Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College (NHSC) is the tribal college of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara (MHA) Nation, based in New Town, North Dakota, on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. The college states on its [Campus Safety page](https://nhsc.edu/students/campus-security/) that it strives to maintain a safe and secure atmosphere for members of the student body, faculty, staff, and the general public, and it publishes an [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://nhsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/ASR-AFR-Fall-2020-NHSC-final.pdf) in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act.\n\nNHSC's most distinctive publicly available document is its [Crisis Emergency Response Team (CERT) manual](https://nhsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CERT-Manual-081918.pdf), a standing internal emergency-management structure that predates and undergirds the college's Clery-mandated notification practice -- the manual is dated to the 2018-2019 academic year and lays out the college's crisis-response organization rather than being a pure crime-statistics disclosure. Crime and safety reports at NHSC can be directed to campus Police at 701-627-3617 or to Campus Security at any of several listed direct lines, reflecting a small tribal-college security operation staffed with multiple individually reachable officers rather than a centralized dispatch center.\n\nThis sandbox's network egress could not directly fetch nhsc.edu to confirm the exact wording of either the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report or the CERT manual; the summary above is built from search-engine reproduction of the college's published pages and PDFs, corroborated across independent queries. Per this archive's standing policy, that limitation is not treated as grounds to omit or demote the entry -- it is documented honestly as reconstructed pending direct verification.","whenCriteria":"Per the college's Campus Safety page, NHSC strives to maintain a safe and secure atmosphere for the student body, faculty, staff, and the general public; the specific Clery activation-criteria language from the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report was not retrievable verbatim from this sandbox.","decisionAuthority":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed; the college's Crisis Emergency Response Team (CERT), documented in a standing 2018-2019 manual, appears to be the internal body responsible for crisis coordination, though its specific alert-activation authority was not confirmed verbatim.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"NHSC publishes an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act; the report's specific timely-warning-versus-emergency-notification language was not retrievable verbatim in this review.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"NHSC is a single-site tribal college in New Town, North Dakota, on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation; crime and safety reports are routed to campus Police and Campus Security via several individually listed phone lines rather than a single centralized number.","channels":["phone-call","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Campus safety mission (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of the NHSC Campus Safety page; nhsc.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College, the MHA Nation's tribal college in New Town, North Dakota, publishes an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report and maintains a standing Crisis Emergency Response Team (CERT) manual.","Crime and safety reports are routed to campus Police (701-627-3617) or to several individually listed Campus Security lines rather than a centralized dispatch number.","nhsc.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox, so the excerpt is marked reconstructed; per archive policy this is not treated as demotion evidence."],"sources":[{"title":"Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College Annual Security and Fire Safety Report 2020","url":"https://nhsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/ASR-AFR-Fall-2020-NHSC-final.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"NHSC Crisis Emergency Response Team (CERT) Manual 2018-2019","url":"https://nhsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CERT-Manual-081918.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Campus Safety - NHS College","url":"https://nhsc.edu/students/campus-security/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","tribal-college","north-dakota","mha-nation"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-20","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"oberlin-college-alert-policy","slug":"oberlin-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Oberlin College & Conservatory","shortName":"Oberlin","state":"OH","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"ObieAlert","enrollment":2900},"policy":{"title":"ObieAlert Emergency Alert System and Clery Timely Warnings Policy","systemName":"ObieAlert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.oberlin.edu/campus-safety/emergency-alert-system","lastReviewed":"2025-09-01"},"summary":"Oberlin College & Conservatory issues emergency notifications through [ObieAlert](https://www.oberlin.edu/campus-safety/emergency-alert-system), a Rave/AppArmor mass-notification system and mobile safety app launched in Fall 2024 that is 'activated only for emergency messages and timely warnings' when a critical incident is imminent or underway. The system is distinct from ['ObieSafe'](https://www.oberlin.edu/obiesafe/archive), the College's separate COVID-era public-health communications brand, and the [Office of Campus Safety](https://oberlinreview.org/33737/news/oberlin-college-launches-obiealert-a-comprehensive-new-safety-app-for-campus/) issues Clery timely warnings in conjunction with the Dean of Students and Communications.","analysis":"Oberlin College & Conservatory is a private liberal-arts college in Ohio whose emergency-notification system is branded [ObieAlert](https://www.oberlin.edu/campus-safety/emergency-alert-system). There is a common point of confusion the archive should record: ObieAlert is the emergency-alert system, whereas 'ObieSafe' is a separate, COVID-era public-health and communications brand (a newsletter and resource hub) that lives under a different part of the site and is not the mass-notification system. ObieAlert was introduced in Fall 2024; per the [Oberlin Review](https://oberlinreview.org/33737/news/oberlin-college-launches-obiealert-a-comprehensive-new-safety-app-for-campus/) it replaced 'the previous notification system' (whose own brand name Oberlin does not publicly state), and the College attributes the platform to a named vendor: 'ObieAlert was created by Rave Mobile Safety and its mobile safety platform AppArmor, an industry leader in emergency notification messaging.'\n\nThe activation threshold is tightly scoped. Oberlin states that 'ObieAlert notifications are activated only for emergency messages and timely warnings, and are issued when a critical incident is imminent or underway as soon as sufficient detail is available to provide constructive information to protect and inform members of the campus community.' The College illustrates the scope with concrete scenarios — National Weather Service tornado warnings, or police/fire responses requiring shelter-in-place or rapid evacuation — which usefully bounds the system away from routine messaging.\n\nObieAlert is broadly multi-channel. The [Emergency Alert System page](https://www.oberlin.edu/campus-safety/emergency-alert-system) states it 'offers mass notification through voice messages, text messaging, email, and the internet,' and that 'ObieAlert emergency notifications are automatically sent to all oberlin.edu email addresses, all phone numbers (student and employee) provided to campus, and to all network computers and digital displays throughout campus.' That automatic email-plus-network-display reach means every member of the community is covered by at least email and desktop/digital-signage delivery, with text and voice depending on phone numbers entered through the My Self Service Profile. The companion mobile app bundles non-broadcast safety tools (Mobile Blue Light, Friend Walk, Virtual WalkHome, emergency contacts).\n\nSeveral structured fields are honest about their evidentiary limits. The precise 'without delay' Clery timing standard, the named decision authority (indexed snippets point to the Director of Campus Safety with the Dean of Students), the timely-warning framing, and the testing cadence (indexed snippets describe an annual test mid-fall and mid-spring announced in the Campus Digest) all originate from Oberlin's [Annual Campus Safety Report PDFs](https://www.oberlin.edu/media/35715/download?inline=), which returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching and surfaced only as single, paraphrased snippets. Those fields are therefore reconstructed and flagged rather than quoted as verbatim. Five excerpts (the activation threshold, the example scenarios, the channel list, the automatic-delivery scope, and the Rave/AppArmor vendor attribution) appeared with identical wording across multiple official-page retrievals and are marked verbatim-confirmed.","whenCriteria":"ObieAlert notifications are activated only for emergency messages and timely warnings, and are issued when a critical incident is imminent or underway as soon as sufficient detail is available to inform and protect the campus community. Example scenarios include NWS tornado warnings and police/fire responses requiring shelter-in-place or rapid evacuation.","decisionAuthority":"The Office of Campus Safety issues ObieAlert messages and, in conjunction with the offices of the Dean of Students and Communications, issues Clery timely warnings. Indexed Annual Campus Safety Report text attributes the message script to the Director of Campus Safety with the Dean of Students (and area-targeting decisions to the Director, Assistant Director, and shift supervisor); that ASR wording surfaced only as a single paraphrased snippet (ASR PDFs returned HTTP 403), so it is flagged as reconstructed.","timingStandard":"ObieAlert messages are issued when a critical incident is imminent or underway, as soon as sufficient detail is available. The exact 'without delay … confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation' Clery wording appears only in the 403-blocked Annual Campus Safety Report and could not be confirmed verbatim, so it is not quoted here.","cleryFraming":"Oberlin separates the two Clery functions within one platform: ObieAlert emergency notifications for imminent/underway critical incidents, and Clery timely warnings issued by the Office of Campus Safety (with the Dean of Students and Communications) for Clery crimes within the College's Clery geography. Oberlin publishes an Annual Campus Safety Report. Physical 'Special Alert' crime postings are placed at locations across campus as a separate timely-warning channel.","testingCadence":"Indexed Annual Campus Safety Report text describes an ObieAlert message delivery test conducted approximately mid-semester in both fall and spring, announced in advance in the Campus Digest and documented. That cadence surfaced only as a single paraphrased snippet (ASR PDFs returned HTTP 403) and is flagged as reconstructed; it should not be conflated with separate residence-hall evacuation drills.","scopeLimits":"Every oberlin.edu email address plus all network computers and campus digital displays automatically receive ObieAlert notifications, so email and desktop/digital-signage reach is universal; text and voice reach depends on phone numbers entered via the My Self Service Profile. No outdoor warning siren was confirmed as an ObieAlert channel (the City of Oberlin fire department runs a separate community notification).","channels":["phone-call","sms","email","website","desktop-popup","digital-signage","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"ObieAlert activation threshold","quotedText":"ObieAlert notifications are activated only for emergency messages and timely warnings, and are issued when a critical incident is imminent or underway as soon as sufficient detail is available to provide constructive information to protect and inform members of the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.oberlin.edu/campus-safety/emergency-alert-system","sourceDescription":"Oberlin College & Conservatory — Emergency Alert System page","annotations":["Tightly scopes the system to emergency messages and timely warnings only, with an imminent/underway critical-incident threshold. Identical wording appeared across multiple official Emergency Alert System page retrievals."],"characterCount":283},{"label":"Example activation scenarios","quotedText":"Instances in which the system could be used include tornado warnings issued by the National Weather Service or police or fire responses that require notice to shelter in place or evacuate quickly.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.oberlin.edu/campus-safety/emergency-alert-system","sourceDescription":"Oberlin College & Conservatory — Emergency Alert System page","annotations":["Concrete scenarios (NWS tornado warnings, police/fire shelter-in-place or evacuation) that bound the system's use. Identical wording appeared across multiple official-page retrievals."],"characterCount":196},{"label":"Mass-notification channels","quotedText":"ObieAlert offers mass notification through voice messages, text messaging, email, and the internet.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.oberlin.edu/campus-safety/emergency-alert-system","sourceDescription":"Oberlin College & Conservatory — Emergency Alert System page","annotations":["States the core delivery channels: voice, text, email, and web. Identical wording appeared across multiple official Emergency Alert System page retrievals."],"characterCount":99},{"label":"Automatic delivery scope","quotedText":"ObieAlert emergency notifications are automatically sent to all oberlin.edu email addresses, all phone numbers (student and employee) provided to campus, and to all network computers and digital displays throughout campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.oberlin.edu/campus-safety/emergency-alert-system","sourceDescription":"Oberlin College & Conservatory — Emergency Alert System page","annotations":["Guarantees universal email plus network-computer and digital-display reach, with phone delivery to numbers on file. Identical wording appeared across multiple official-page retrievals."],"characterCount":222},{"label":"Rave / AppArmor vendor attribution","quotedText":"ObieAlert was created by Rave Mobile Safety and its mobile safety platform AppArmor, an industry leader in emergency notification messaging.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.oberlin.edu/campus-safety/emergency-alert-system","sourceDescription":"Oberlin College & Conservatory — Emergency Alert System page","annotations":["Confirms the platform (Rave Mobile Safety / AppArmor). Corroborated by the AppArmor dashboard host oberlin.apparmor.com and the app's package id; identical wording appeared across multiple retrievals."],"characterCount":140},{"label":"Clery timely-warning framing (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.oberlin.edu/campus-safety/criminal","sourceDescription":"Oberlin College & Conservatory — Reporting / Annual Campus Safety Report (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Oberlin's emergency-notification system is branded ObieAlert (Rave Mobile Safety / AppArmor), launched Fall 2024; it is distinct from 'ObieSafe,' a separate COVID-era public-health communications brand.","ObieAlert is activated only for emergency messages and timely warnings, when a critical incident is imminent or underway (e.g., NWS tornado warnings or police/fire shelter-in-place or evacuation).","Delivery is broadly multi-channel — voice, text, email, web — and is automatically sent to all oberlin.edu emails and to all network computers and digital displays campus-wide.","Clery timely warnings are issued by the Office of Campus Safety in conjunction with the Dean of Students and Communications, with separate physical 'Special Alert' crime postings across campus.","The exact 'without delay' timing standard, named decision authority, and twice-yearly test cadence appear only in 403-blocked Annual Campus Safety Report PDFs and surfaced as single paraphrased snippets, so those fields are reconstructed and flagged; five excerpts were confirmed verbatim across multiple official-page retrievals."],"sources":[{"title":"Oberlin College & Conservatory — Emergency Alert System (ObieAlert)","url":"https://www.oberlin.edu/campus-safety/emergency-alert-system","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Oberlin College & Conservatory — ObieAlert launch bulletin","url":"https://www.oberlin.edu/campus-safety/bulletins/obiealert-emergency-notification-system-and-app-debut-fall","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Oberlin Review — Oberlin College Launches ObieAlert","url":"https://oberlinreview.org/33737/news/oberlin-college-launches-obiealert-a-comprehensive-new-safety-app-for-campus/","type":"student-newspaper"},{"title":"Oberlin College & Conservatory — Annual Campus Safety Report 2025 (PDF)","url":"https://www.oberlin.edu/media/35715/download?inline=","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Oberlin College & Conservatory — ObieSafe (separate COVID-era brand) archive","url":"https://www.oberlin.edu/obiesafe/archive","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Oberlin College & Conservatory — Special Alerts (timely-warning postings)","url":"https://www.oberlin.edu/campus-safety/criminal/alerts","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","private-liberal-arts","ohio","obiealert","rave","apparmor","conservatory"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"ocean-county-college-viking-alert-policy","slug":"ocean-county-college-viking-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Ocean County College","shortName":"OCC","state":"NJ","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Viking Alert","enrollment":7095},"policy":{"title":"Viking Alert and Campus Safety and Security","systemName":"Viking Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.ocean.edu/campus-life/campus-safety/about-campus-security/"},"summary":"Ocean County College's [campus safety pages](https://www.ocean.edu/campus-life/campus-safety/about-campus-security/) describe Viking Alert, the college's emergency alert system, which delivers notifications to all OCC community members by email while students and employees are encouraged to opt in to text messaging, with the system tested during the Fall and Spring semesters and a board-adopted [Campus Safety and Security policy](https://www.ocean.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/8200-Policy-and-Procedure-8.24.17.pdf) behind it.","analysis":"Ocean County College, a public community college in Toms River, New Jersey with a [2024-25 enrollment of 7,095](https://www.univstats.com/colleges/ocean-county-college/student-population/), brands its emergency alert system Viking Alert after its mascot. The college's [About Campus Safety and Security page](https://www.ocean.edu/campus-life/campus-safety/about-campus-security/) and the legacy [Viking Alert instructions page](https://legacy.ocean.edu/content/public/current-students/Viking_Alerts_Emergency_Text_Messaging_System.html) together describe the architecture: all OCC community members receive notifications via email, employees and students are encouraged to opt in to Viking Alert text messaging, and community members can also sign up; the legacy instructions route registration through an ocean.sendwordnow.com portal, identifying the Send Word Now mass-notification platform behind the brand. The system's stated uses span emergency alerts as well as text messaging about student services and other important updates, and the college states the notification system is tested during the Fall and Spring semesters, one of the more concrete published test commitments among community colleges in this archive. The college's Security Department, which works with the Toms River Police Department to safeguard the campus, operates under a board-adopted [Campus Safety and Security policy and procedure numbered 8200](https://www.ocean.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/8200-Policy-and-Procedure-8.24.17.pdf), whose PDF was not readable from this sandbox and is cited here for provenance rather than quoted. The archive's thirteen OCC cases are a nearly pure weather-and-outage run, from remote-operations notices to the February 2026 blizzard power-outage closures, which is consistent with an unarmed community-college security department whose acute genres are operational rather than criminal. The ocean.edu host is egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language below is carried from search-index retrievals of the official pages and marked unconfirmed pending a direct character-for-character read.","whenCriteria":"Emergency alerts plus schedule-affecting and student-services updates; the archive's OCC record shows weather closures, remote-operations shifts, and power outages as the operative genres.","decisionAuthority":"The OCC Security Department administers campus safety in coordination with the Toms River Police Department under board policy 8200; specific activation titles were not readable from this sandbox (ocean.edu egress-blocked).","timingStandard":"Not published on the pages that surfaced; no without-delay sentence was confirmable from this sandbox.","cleryFraming":"The public pages are system overviews; the board-adopted Campus Safety and Security policy 8200 and the Annual Security Report would carry the formal Clery statements, neither readable from this sandbox.","testingCadence":"The notification system is tested during the Fall and Spring semesters.","scopeLimits":"Email reaches all OCC community members; text delivery is opt-in for students and employees, with community members also able to sign up through the Send Word Now portal.","channels":["email","sms"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Opt-in encouragement and system name","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ocean.edu/campus-life/campus-safety/about-campus-security/","sourceDescription":"Ocean County College, About Campus Safety and Security page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Semester test cadence","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ocean.edu/campus-life/campus-safety/about-campus-security/","sourceDescription":"Ocean County College, About Campus Safety and Security page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Viking Alert delivers email to all OCC community members with opt-in text messaging for students, employees, and community members, registered through a Send Word Now portal.","The system's published scope mixes emergency alerts with student-services text messaging, a dual-use pattern that risks alert fatigue but keeps the channel warm.","The college publishes a per-semester test commitment for the notification system.","A board-adopted Campus Safety and Security policy numbered 8200 sits behind the security operation, cited here for provenance; its text was not readable from this sandbox.","No excerpt is verbatim-confirmed: ocean.edu is egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language is carried from search-index retrievals and flagged for direct verification."],"sources":[{"title":"Ocean County College, About Campus Safety and Security","url":"https://www.ocean.edu/campus-life/campus-safety/about-campus-security/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Ocean County College, Viking Alert Instructions (legacy site)","url":"https://legacy.ocean.edu/content/public/current-students/Viking_Alerts_Emergency_Text_Messaging_System.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Ocean County College, Campus Safety and Security Policy and Procedure 8200","url":"https://www.ocean.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/8200-Policy-and-Procedure-8.24.17.pdf","type":"official-statement"},{"title":"Ocean County College student population 2024-25 (Univstats)","url":"https://www.univstats.com/colleges/ocean-county-college/student-population/","type":"reference"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["ocean-county-college-weather-remote-operations-2025-02-12","ocean-county-college-blizzard-power-outage-closure-2026-02-23","ocean-county-college-power-outage-remote-operations-2026-02-25"],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","community-college","new-jersey","viking-alert","send-word-now","opt-in"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-23","lastUpdated":"2026-08-23","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"oglala-lakota-college-alert-policy","slug":"oglala-lakota-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Oglala Lakota College","shortName":"OLC","state":"SD","type":"tribal-college","alertSystemName":"Not corroborated (no named mass-notification system found)","enrollment":1188},"policy":{"title":"Security Policies and Crime Statistics (Annual Security Report)","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.olc.edu/assets/docs/uploads/registrar/security-policies-and-crime-statistics-2023.pdf","lastReviewed":"2023-01-01"},"summary":"Oglala Lakota College — the tribal college of the Oglala Sioux Tribe on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota — publishes its Clery procedures in a [Security Policies and Crime Statistics report](https://www.olc.edu/assets/docs/uploads/registrar/security-policies-and-crime-statistics-2023.pdf) and provides campus security through the Oglala Sioux Tribe Public Safety Department, but this review could not corroborate a named campus mass-notification (text/email alert) brand for OLC; its [Students Right To Know](https://www.olc.edu/resources/students-right-to-know/) page and the security report describe a decentralized, district-center-and-Piya-Wiconi emergency-reporting structure rather than a single push-alert system.","analysis":"Oglala Lakota College (OLC) is the tribal college of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, with its administrative center at Piya Wiconi near Kyle, South Dakota, and a network of district college centers spread across the Pine Ridge Reservation and into Rapid City. As a Clery-covered institution it publishes a [Security Policies and Crime Statistics report](https://www.olc.edu/assets/docs/uploads/registrar/security-policies-and-crime-statistics-2023.pdf) (its Annual Security Report), and it surfaces consumer/safety disclosures through a [Students Right To Know](https://www.olc.edu/resources/students-right-to-know/) page; an older copy of the same security/safety policies is also mirrored on the college's [document warehouse](http://warehouse.olc.edu/local_links/registrar/docs/safety_security_policies.pdf).\n\nWhat OLC's published material clearly documents is its emergency-reporting and security structure rather than a branded mass-notification platform. Campus security is provided by the Oglala Sioux Tribe Public Safety Department, which regularly patrols the campus and the district college centers. The reporting chain is decentralized to fit the college's geographically dispersed footprint: any student or staff member with an emergency may dial 911 from a district center, while at Piya Wiconi the caller must dial 9-911 to reach the emergency police dispatcher. Emergencies at the centers are reported to and handled by the Public Safety Department located in each district, whereas emergencies at Piya Wiconi are reported to Campus Security/Maintenance, who assess the situation and decide whether police need to be notified, with all incidents documented.\n\nNotably, OLC does run a program it calls 'Early Alert,' but that is an academic early-warning/student-success intervention — not a Clery emergency-notification or timely-warning system — and it should not be conflated with campus safety alerting. This review found no corroborable evidence that OLC operates a named campus mass-notification brand (such as RAVE, Everbridge, or Omnilert) to push emergency text/email alerts to the community. That absence is honestly reported here: it may reflect either that OLC relies on a decentralized phone/dispatch and word-of-mouth model across its district centers, or simply that any such system is not described in the indexed, publicly reachable portions of its materials.\n\nBecause olc.edu and warehouse.olc.edu return HTTP 403 to automated fetching, the Security Policies and Crime Statistics PDF could not be opened directly, and no exact sentence could be confirmed across two independent retrievals at byte level; all excerpts below are therefore paraphrases of indexed snippets and are marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false. The verbatim text of OLC's emergency-notification threshold, timely-warning policy, named decision authority, channels, and any test cadence were not retrievable in this review. Given the genuine documentation thinness specific to a mass-notification system, confidence is set to low.","whenCriteria":"Not corroborated for a mass-notification system. OLC's published Security Policies and Crime Statistics report documents an emergency-reporting structure (911 from district centers; 9-911 at Piya Wiconi) rather than explicit verbatim criteria for when a campus-wide emergency notification or timely warning is issued. As a Clery-covered college OLC is bound by the federal standards, but the exact threshold wording was not retrievable (host returned HTTP 403).","decisionAuthority":"Campus security is provided by the Oglala Sioux Tribe Public Safety Department; at Piya Wiconi, Campus Security/Maintenance assess emergencies and decide whether to notify police, while at the district centers the local Public Safety Department responds. The specific position authorized to issue a campus-wide emergency notification or timely warning was not confirmed (olc.edu and warehouse.olc.edu blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"Not confirmed in the sources reviewed; as a Clery-covered tribal college OLC is bound by the federal 'immediately, upon confirmation' emergency-notification standard and the 'timely' standard for warnings, but no verbatim timeliness language was retrievable (host returned HTTP 403).","cleryFraming":"OLC publishes a Security Policies and Crime Statistics report (its Annual Security Report) and consumer disclosures via a Students Right To Know page. The report documents campus security by the Oglala Sioux Tribe Public Safety Department and a district-center/Piya-Wiconi emergency-reporting structure; the specific verbatim emergency-notification and timely-warning policy text was not retrievable in this review. (OLC's academic 'Early Alert' program is a student-success tool, not a Clery alerting system.)","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed; no published test cadence for any campus mass-notification system was found (and no such named system could be corroborated).","scopeLimits":"OLC spans Piya Wiconi plus multiple district college centers across the Pine Ridge Reservation and Rapid City, a geographically dispersed and rural footprint. The publicly documented model is decentralized phone/dispatch reporting through tribal Public Safety rather than a single campus-wide push-alert channel; no named text/email mass-notification system could be corroborated in this review.","channels":["phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Campus security provider (paraphrased from index)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.olc.edu/assets/docs/uploads/registrar/security-policies-and-crime-statistics-2023.pdf","sourceDescription":"Oglala Lakota College — Security Policies and Crime Statistics 2023 (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Emergency-reporting structure (paraphrased from index)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.olc.edu/assets/docs/uploads/registrar/security-policies-and-crime-statistics-2023.pdf","sourceDescription":"Oglala Lakota College — Security Policies and Crime Statistics 2023 (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Piya Wiconi emergency handling (paraphrased from index)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.olc.edu/assets/docs/uploads/registrar/security-policies-and-crime-statistics-2023.pdf","sourceDescription":"Oglala Lakota College — Security Policies and Crime Statistics 2023 (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["OLC publishes a Security Policies and Crime Statistics report (its Annual Security Report) and consumer disclosures via a Students Right To Know page.","Campus security is provided by the Oglala Sioux Tribe Public Safety Department; emergency reporting is decentralized (911 from district centers; 9-911 at Piya Wiconi, where Campus Security/Maintenance assess and decide on police).","No named campus mass-notification (text/email push-alert) brand for OLC could be corroborated in this review — the documented model is phone/dispatch reporting through tribal Public Safety.","OLC's academic 'Early Alert' program is a student-success early-warning tool, NOT a Clery emergency-notification or timely-warning system, and should not be conflated with safety alerting.","olc.edu and warehouse.olc.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so no exact policy sentence could be byte-for-byte confirmed; all excerpts are paraphrases marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false and confidence is low."],"sources":[{"title":"Oglala Lakota College — Security Policies and Crime Statistics 2023 (PDF)","url":"https://www.olc.edu/assets/docs/uploads/registrar/security-policies-and-crime-statistics-2023.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Oglala Lakota College — Safety & Security Policies (document warehouse PDF)","url":"http://warehouse.olc.edu/local_links/registrar/docs/safety_security_policies.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Oglala Lakota College — Students Right To Know","url":"https://www.olc.edu/resources/students-right-to-know/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Oglala Lakota College — Early Alert (academic early-warning program, not safety alerting)","url":"https://www.olc.edu/academics/early-alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Oglala Lakota College — Student Resources","url":"https://www.olc.edu/current-students/student-resources/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Oglala Lakota College — Student Population and Demographics (IPEDS-derived, 2024-25 total 1,188)","url":"https://www.collegetuitioncompare.com/edu/219277/oglala-lakota-college/enrollment/","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"low","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","tribal-college","south-dakota","pine-ridge","oglala-sioux","thin-documentation"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"ohio-northern-university-rave-alert-policy","slug":"ohio-northern-university-rave-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Ohio Northern University","shortName":"ONU","state":"OH","type":"private-masters","alertSystemName":"Rave Alert","alertPlatform":"Rave"},"policy":{"title":"Public Safety, Emergency Notifications","systemName":"Rave Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.onu.edu/student-life/public-safety"},"summary":"Ohio Northern University runs its emergency notifications on the [Rave Alert System](https://www.onu.edu/student-life/public-safety), described as a high speed notification network that instantly broadcasts synchronized text messages and emails to the entire campus community the moment an emergency situation or severe weather threat unfolds, paired with the Rave Guardian personal safety app that lets students, faculty, staff, and affiliates build a safety network of friends and family.","analysis":"Ohio Northern University's [Public Safety office](https://www.onu.edu/student-life/public-safety) describes its emergency communication tool as the Rave Alert System, a high speed notification network that instantly broadcasts synchronized text messages and emails to the entire campus community the moment an emergency situation or severe weather threat unfolds. The synchronized framing signals that ONU treats consistent, simultaneous wording across text and email as a deliberate design goal, reducing the risk that different channels carry conflicting information during a fast moving incident.\n\nONU layers the Rave Guardian app on top of the mass alert channel, describing it as turning any smartphone into a personal safety device and letting students, faculty, staff, and affiliates create a profile with their ONU username and password to invite friends and family into their own safety network. That framing positions Rave Guardian as a person to person safety tool, distinct from the institution wide Rave Alert broadcast, and complements the university's stated See Something, Say Something culture of campus reporting.\n\nAs a small private university bound by the same Clery Act emergency notification and timely warning requirements as larger public institutions, ONU's public facing description does not spell out a formal Clery emergency notification versus timely warning distinction in the specific page content captured; that structural detail would sit in ONU's Annual Security Report rather than the public safety landing page reviewed here. Because onu.edu returned blocked connections to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below are reconstructed from search engine indexed extracts rather than a firsthand character by character read, and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation; this record is scored at medium confidence on that basis.","whenCriteria":"Rave Alert is described as broadcasting synchronized text messages and emails to the entire campus community the moment an emergency situation or severe weather threat unfolds.","decisionAuthority":"ONU's Public Safety office is presented as administering Rave Alert and Rave Guardian; a single named individual with sign off authority to trigger an alert was not confirmed in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"Rave Alert is described as broadcasting instantly the moment an emergency or severe weather threat unfolds; a specific minutes based standard beyond instantly was not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"The public safety page describes Rave Alert and Rave Guardian in general emergency and severe weather terms rather than drawing an explicit Clery emergency notification versus timely warning distinction in the specific text captured.","scopeLimits":"Rave Alert reaches the entire campus community by text and email; Rave Guardian is a separate, individually configured personal safety app for students, faculty, staff, and affiliates that also extends to invited friends and family.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","channels":["sms","email","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"What Rave Alert is","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.onu.edu/student-life/public-safety","sourceDescription":"Ohio Northern University, Public Safety (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Rave Guardian personal safety network","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.onu.edu/student-life/public-safety","sourceDescription":"Ohio Northern University, Public Safety (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Ohio Northern University uses the Rave Alert System to broadcast synchronized, instant text messages and emails to the entire campus community for emergencies and severe weather.","The Rave Guardian app is a separate, individually configured personal safety tool letting students, faculty, staff, and affiliates invite friends and family into their own safety network.","Onu.edu could not be directly loaded in this environment, so this record is scored at medium confidence and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation."],"sources":[{"title":"Public Safety, Ohio Northern University","url":"https://www.onu.edu/student-life/public-safety","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","rave-alert","rave-guardian","private-masters","ohio"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-27","lastUpdated":"2026-09-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"oklahoma-city-community-college-can-alert-policy","slug":"oklahoma-city-community-college-can-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Oklahoma City Community College","shortName":"OCCC","state":"OK","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Campus Alert Notification (CAN)"},"policy":{"title":"Campus Alert Notification System (CAN)","systemName":"Campus Alert Notification (CAN)","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.occc.edu/can/"},"summary":"Oklahoma City Community College's [Campus Alert Notification System page](https://www.occc.edu/can/) describes CAN as a comprehensive alert notification system for students and employees, designed to quickly communicate information regarding emergency situations on campus and any campus closures that may be necessary. Current students and employees already have their college email in the system.","analysis":"OCCC (Oklahoma community college, four filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [CAN / OCCC Shield page](https://www.occc.edu/can/) (HTTP 200). CAN is a comprehensive alert notification system for all students and employees. It is designed to quickly communicate information regarding emergency situations on campus and any campus closures that may be necessary. As a current student or employee, the college email address already is included. Text messages require a current cellphone number on file in the self-service portal. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live HTML.","whenCriteria":"Emergency situations on campus and any campus closures that may be necessary.","decisionAuthority":"Not named on the quoted CAN paragraphs.","timingStandard":"The system is designed to quickly communicate. No minutes-based SLA is quoted.","cleryFraming":"This file is the consumer CAN overview. A separate Clery statistics page exists; it was not quoted here.","scopeLimits":"College email is included for current students and employees. Text requires a cellphone number on file. Alternate contacts can be added through the OCCC Shield App.","channels":["email","sms","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"CAN definition","quotedText":"CAN is a comprehensive alert notification system for all of our students and employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.occc.edu/can/","sourceDescription":"Oklahoma City Community College CAN / Shield page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Named system."],"characterCount":87},{"label":"Emergency and closure purpose","quotedText":"This system is designed to quickly communicate information regarding emergency situations on campus and any campus closures that may be necessary.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.occc.edu/can/","sourceDescription":"Oklahoma City Community College CAN / Shield page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Trigger includes campus closures."],"characterCount":146},{"label":"Email auto-inclusion","quotedText":"As a current OCCC student or employee, your college email address already is included in the Campus Alert Notification system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.occc.edu/can/","sourceDescription":"Oklahoma City Community College CAN / Shield page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Live wording is already is included."],"characterCount":126}],"keyFindings":["CAN is the comprehensive alert system for OCCC students and employees.","It is used for on-campus emergencies and campus closures.","College email is already included; text requires a number on file."],"sources":[{"title":"Oklahoma City Community College Campus Alert Notification System","url":"https://www.occc.edu/can/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","system-overview","emergency-notification","oklahoma","community-college"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"oklahoma-state-university-alert-policy","slug":"oklahoma-state-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Oklahoma State University","shortName":"OSU","state":"OK","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"Cowboy Alert","enrollment":27241},"policy":{"title":"Cowboy Alert — Emergency Notification System","systemName":"Cowboy Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://safety.okstate.edu/safety-resources/cowboy-alert.html","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"Oklahoma State University's Stillwater emergency notification system is branded [Cowboy Alert](https://safety.okstate.edu/safety-resources/cowboy-alert.html), an AT&T RAVE-powered service that pushes a phone call, text message, and/or email to members of the OSU community in a situation deemed an emergency; campus and city outdoor warning sirens supplement it for severe weather, and members [opt in](https://police.okstate.edu/cowboy-alert-system) and manage contact numbers through their O-Key account.","analysis":"Oklahoma State University-Stillwater operates its campus emergency notification system under the brand [Cowboy Alert](https://safety.okstate.edu/safety-resources/cowboy-alert.html) — distinct from Oregon State University's separately-archived \"OSU Alert,\" despite the shared OSU abbreviation. Per OSU Campus & Public Safety, the university has partnered with AT&T RAVE to implement a service called Cowboy Alert that will notify those in the Cowboy community who have signed up for the service in the event of an emergency. In a situation deemed an emergency, OSU officials will deploy a message to members of the OSU community with information regarding the event and how they should proceed, in the form of a phone call, text message and/or email.\n\nThe system is opt-in: students, faculty, and staff register their phone through their [O-Key account](https://police.okstate.edu/cowboy-alert-system) under \"Campus Alerts\" to subscribe to Cowboy Alert and receive text messages and/or voicemails, and they update their contact number under \"Emergency Contacts\" in the same account. OSU narrows the scope of Cowboy Alert deliberately: emergencies may include a campus intruder, acts of terrorism, or biohazard threats, and OSU states that alerts will not be used for weather-related events unless the situation poses a threat to the lives of people on campus — routing routine severe weather to the outdoor warning siren network instead.\n\nFor severe weather, OSU-Stillwater relies on outdoor warning sirens operated by the City of Stillwater. The city tests the outdoor warning sirens on the first Tuesday of every month at 11:30 a.m. (skipping the test if the weather is stormy that day), and campus tornado sirens sound a three- to five-minute blast when a tornado warning is issued. OSU's Clery framing is conventional: timely reporting of crimes allows the University to assess the necessity of issuing a timely emergency notification or warning to the campus community, and Campus Security Authorities (CSAs) are required to report specified crimes occurring on campus, in public areas surrounding campus, and in certain non-campus buildings owned or leased by OSU.\n\nBecause okstate.edu hosts return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from official OSU Campus Safety, OSU Police, and OSU-system page text as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries; decision-authority and timing detail not reproduced verbatim is paraphrased and flagged where uncertain.","whenCriteria":"Cowboy Alert is deployed in a situation deemed an emergency — examples cited by OSU include a campus intruder, acts of terrorism, or biohazard threats. OSU explicitly states that Cowboy Alert will not be used for weather-related events unless the situation poses a threat to the lives of people on campus; routine severe weather is handled via outdoor warning sirens.","decisionAuthority":"OSU officials deploy Cowboy Alert messages in a situation deemed an emergency; OSU Police (university police services) operate the alert function. The exact named approval authority and a written 'confirmation' standard were not reproduced verbatim in the public sources reviewed and are not asserted here.","timingStandard":"OSU describes Cowboy Alert as the channel by which officials deploy a message to the OSU community in an emergency with information on how to proceed; a specific 'without delay' or minutes-based timeliness standard was not reproduced verbatim in the public sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"OSU frames Cowboy Alert as its emergency-notification mechanism and ties Clery compliance to CSA reporting: timely reporting allows the University to assess the necessity of issuing a timely emergency notification or warning. Campus Security Authorities are required to report specified Clery crimes on campus, in surrounding public areas, and in certain non-campus OSU buildings.","testingCadence":"Cowboy Alert's own notification-system test cadence was not reproduced verbatim in the public sources reviewed. The supplementary outdoor warning sirens (operated by the City of Stillwater) are tested on the first Tuesday of every month at 11:30 a.m., weather permitting.","scopeLimits":"Cowboy Alert is reserved for situations deemed emergencies (e.g., campus intruder, terrorism, biohazard) and is not used for weather events unless lives on campus are threatened. It is opt-in via O-Key, so reach is limited to those who have subscribed and kept their contact information current. Severe-weather warning is delegated to the campus and city outdoor warning sirens.","channels":["phone-call","sms","email","siren"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Cowboy Alert vendor and purpose","quotedText":"Oklahoma State University has partnered with AT&T RAVE to implement a service called Cowboy Alert that will notify those in the Cowboy community who have signed up for the service in the event of an emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.okstate.edu/cowboy-alert-system","sourceDescription":"OSU Police — The Cowboy Alert System","annotations":["Names AT&T RAVE as the platform and confirms Cowboy Alert is an opt-in ('have signed up') emergency service."],"characterCount":209},{"label":"Emergency message channels","quotedText":"In a situation deemed an emergency, OSU officials will deploy a message to members of the OSU community with information regarding the event and how they should proceed. This information will likely be in the form of a phone call, text message and/or email.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.okstate.edu/cowboy-alert-system","sourceDescription":"OSU Police — The Cowboy Alert System","annotations":["Establishes the three delivery modes — phone call, text, and/or email — and the action-oriented content ('how they should proceed')."],"characterCount":257},{"label":"Scope limit on weather alerts","quotedText":"These emergencies may include a campus intruder, acts of terrorism, or biohazard threats. Additionally, alerts will not be used for weather-related events unless the situation poses a threat to the lives of people on campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.okstate.edu/cowboy-alert-system","sourceDescription":"OSU Police — The Cowboy Alert System","annotations":["Defines the scope envelope and explicitly excludes routine weather from Cowboy Alert, reserving it for life-threatening situations."],"characterCount":224},{"label":"Outdoor warning siren test schedule","quotedText":"The City of Stillwater tests the outdoor warning sirens on the first Tuesday of every month at 11:30 a.m. If the weather is stormy that day, they will not test the sirens.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.okstate.edu/safety-resources/cowboy-alert.html","sourceDescription":"OSU Campus Safety — Cowboy Alert","annotations":["Documents the supplementary siren layer for severe weather and its monthly first-Tuesday test, with a stormy-weather exception."],"characterCount":171}],"keyFindings":["OSU-Stillwater's emergency notification system is branded Cowboy Alert (powered by AT&T RAVE) — not 'OSU Alert,' which is Oregon State's separately-archived system.","Cowboy Alert is opt-in: members subscribe and manage their contact number through their O-Key account ('Campus Alerts' / 'Emergency Contacts').","Emergency messages are delivered as a phone call, text message, and/or email, telling recipients how to proceed.","OSU deliberately limits Cowboy Alert to life-safety emergencies (campus intruder, terrorism, biohazard) and does not use it for weather unless lives on campus are at risk.","Severe-weather warning is delegated to outdoor warning sirens that the City of Stillwater tests on the first Tuesday of each month at 11:30 a.m."],"sources":[{"title":"Cowboy Alert — OSU Campus Safety","url":"https://safety.okstate.edu/safety-resources/cowboy-alert.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"The Cowboy Alert System — OSU Police","url":"https://police.okstate.edu/cowboy-alert-system","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"OSU Campus Safety","url":"https://safety.okstate.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Guide for Campus Security Authorities — OSU Clery Act","url":"https://safety.okstate.edu/police/clery-act/guide-for-campus-security-authorities.html","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"University Police Services — Oklahoma State University Catalog","url":"https://catalog.okstate.edu/about/university-police-services/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","cowboy-alert","rave","public-r1","oklahoma"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"old-dominion-university-odu-alert-policy","slug":"old-dominion-university-odu-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Old Dominion University","shortName":"ODU","state":"VA","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"ODU Alert","enrollment":23743},"policy":{"title":"ODU Alert Emergency Notification System (University Policy 3012, Safety and Security)","systemName":"ODU Alert","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.odu.edu/about/policiesandprocedures/university/3000/3012","policyNumber":"3012"},"summary":"[ODU Alert](https://www.odu.edu/emergency-alert) is Old Dominion University's immediate emergency notification system, activated upon confirmation by ODU Police of a significant emergency or dangerous situation posing an immediate threat to health or safety; under [University Policy 3012](https://www.odu.edu/about/policiesandprocedures/university/3000/3012) all students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled via their ODU email, with text and phone delivery also available.","analysis":"Old Dominion University defines [ODU Alert](https://www.odu.edu/emergency-alert) as \"an immediate notification system utilized when there is a confirmed immediate threat or danger to the Old Dominion University community,\" giving examples such as a hurricane approaching the area, a gas leak, an active shooter on campus, or a bomb threat. The governing instrument is [University Policy 3012 (Safety and Security)](https://www.odu.edu/about/policiesandprocedures/university/3000/3012), which states that emergency notifications will be provided to the campus community (or a segment of it), upon confirmation by ODU Police Department personnel, of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on campus that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees — the standard Clery Act emergency-notification trigger.\n\nODU draws a clear line between emergency notifications and Clery timely warnings. A timely warning, or \"Safety Timely Warning,\" is used to notify the ODU community of serious or ongoing threats as soon as pertinent information is available and is distributed community-wide so individuals can make informed decisions about their own safety, consistent with the [Clery Act](https://www.odu.edu/police/clery). The university surfaces this distinction directly in message metadata: urgent ODU Alert messages carry subject lines including, but not limited to, \"Safety Timely Warning,\" \"Emergency Notification,\" or \"Weather Alert,\" and test messages are delivered with the subject line \"TEST: ODU Alerts,\" so recipients can tell at a glance whether a message is an emergency notification, a timely warning, a weather advisory, or a test.\n\nEnrollment is automatic and broad. All ODU students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled in the ODU Alert system through their ODU email address, and student primary cell phone numbers are automatically enrolled for SMS as well, with phone (voice) and non-ODU email options additionally available; recipients also retain access to the ODU weather/emergency telephone hotline and the university homepage for emergency information. Students who wish to opt out of SMS and voice notifications must do so via the \"Update Me Now\" button on the My Information panel of the myODU Portal — email notifications, however, continue regardless.\n\nDelivery is multi-channel and centrally coordinated. ODU's Office of Strategic Communication and Marketing uses the ODU Alerts emergency notification system together with university email, the university website, university social media accounts, automated telephone alerts, emergency phone banks, computer (desktop) alerts, texts, local media outlets, and other communications platforms to inform the community. Activation decisions rest with the ODU Police Department or senior administration when an ongoing threat to the university community is determined. Because the .edu hosts return HTTP 403 to automated fetches in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from text that recurred identically across multiple independent searches of the official ODU emergency, police/Clery, and Policy 3012 pages rather than from a direct page fetch.","whenCriteria":"ODU Alert is an immediate notification system used when there is a confirmed immediate threat or danger to the ODU community (examples: hurricane, gas leak, active shooter, bomb threat). Per Policy 3012, emergency notifications are provided upon confirmation by ODU Police of a significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees. A Safety Timely Warning is used to notify the community of serious or ongoing threats as soon as pertinent information is available.","decisionAuthority":"Emergency notifications are issued upon confirmation by Old Dominion University Police Department (ODUPD) personnel; the ODU Police Department or senior administration determines when an ongoing threat to the community warrants alerting. The Assistant Vice President for Public Safety/Chief of Police is responsible for the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report and the Daily Crime Log. The Office of Strategic Communication and Marketing operates the alerting channels.","timingStandard":"Timely warnings are issued 'as soon as pertinent information is available'; emergency notifications are issued upon confirmation of an immediate threat. ODU frames its standard around the Clery Act requirement to notify the community without unreasonable delay once a qualifying threat is confirmed (except where notification would compromise efforts to respond to or contain the emergency).","cleryFraming":"Explicit two-track Clery model with message-level labeling: 'Emergency Notification' for confirmed significant emergencies/dangerous situations posing an immediate threat to health or safety on campus, and 'Safety Timely Warning' for serious or ongoing Clery threats, plus a 'Weather Alert' category; tests use the 'TEST: ODU Alerts' subject line.","testingCadence":"ODU tests the ODU Alert system periodically; test messages are clearly labeled with the subject line 'TEST: ODU Alerts.' Exact recurring schedule not reproduced verbatim from the official page in this environment.","scopeLimits":"All students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled via ODU email; student primary cell numbers are auto-enrolled for SMS, with voice and non-ODU email available. Students may opt out of SMS/voice via the 'Update Me Now' button in the myODU Portal, but email notifications continue. The university also maintains a weather/emergency telephone hotline and posts emergency information on the ODU homepage.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","website","twitter-x","facebook","desktop-popup"],"excerpts":[{"label":"ODU Alert definition","quotedText":"The ODU Alert is an immediate notification system utilized when there is a confirmed immediate threat or danger to the Old Dominion University community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.odu.edu/emergency-alert","sourceDescription":"Emergency Alert — Old Dominion University","annotations":["Returned word-for-word and identically across multiple independent searches of the ODU emergency pages; defines ODU Alert and its confirmation-based, immediate-threat trigger. Direct fetch of the .edu page returned HTTP 403."],"characterCount":153},{"label":"Subject-line conventions","quotedText":"For urgent messages, subject lines include, but not limited to, \"Safety Timely Warning,\" \"Emergency Notification\" or \"Weather Alert.\" If the message is a test of the system, it will be delivered with the subject line \"TEST: ODU Alerts.\"","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.odu.edu/life/health-safety/safety/alerts","sourceDescription":"ODU Alerts — Old Dominion University","annotations":["Recurred identically across independent searches of the ODU Alerts page; documents how emergency notifications, timely warnings, weather alerts, and tests are labeled in message subject lines."],"characterCount":236},{"label":"Policy 3012 emergency-notification trigger","quotedText":"Emergency notifications will be provided to the campus community (or a segment of the community), upon confirmation by ODUPD personnel, of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on campus that involves immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.odu.edu/about/policiesandprocedures/university/3000/3012","sourceDescription":"University Policy 3012 (Safety and Security) — Old Dominion University","annotations":["Reproduced consistently across independent searches of University Policy 3012; establishes the ODUPD-confirmation requirement and the Clery emergency-notification standard."],"characterCount":286},{"label":"Automatic enrollment","quotedText":"All ODU students, faculty and staff are automatically enrolled in the ODU Alert system through their ODU email address.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.odu.edu/life/health-safety/safety/alerts","sourceDescription":"ODU Alerts — Old Dominion University","annotations":["Recurred identically across independent searches; documents automatic email enrollment for all affiliates (with text/phone additionally available)."],"characterCount":119}],"keyFindings":["ODU Alert is Old Dominion University's immediate emergency notification system, activated only upon confirmation of an immediate threat or danger (e.g., hurricane, gas leak, active shooter, bomb threat).","University Policy 3012 (Safety and Security) governs the system: emergency notifications are provided upon confirmation by ODU Police of a significant emergency/dangerous situation on campus posing an immediate threat to health or safety.","ODU labels messages by type in the subject line — 'Safety Timely Warning,' 'Emergency Notification,' or 'Weather Alert' for live messages, and 'TEST: ODU Alerts' for tests — making the Clery emergency-notification vs. timely-warning distinction explicit to recipients.","All students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled via ODU email; student primary cell numbers are auto-enrolled for SMS, with voice and non-ODU email available, and SMS/voice can be opted out via the myODU Portal 'Update Me Now' button (email continues).","The Office of Strategic Communication and Marketing delivers alerts across email, website, social media, automated telephone alerts, emergency phone banks, desktop alerts, text, and local media; activation rests with ODU Police or senior administration."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Alert — Old Dominion University","url":"https://www.odu.edu/emergency-alert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"ODU Alerts — Old Dominion University","url":"https://www.odu.edu/life/health-safety/safety/alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University Policy 3012 (Safety and Security) — Old Dominion University","url":"https://www.odu.edu/about/policiesandprocedures/university/3000/3012","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Act — Old Dominion University Police Department","url":"https://www.odu.edu/police/clery","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"ODU enhances campus safety with new tools and expanded alerts — 13News Now","url":"https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/local/mycity/norfolk/odu-campus-safety-withnew-tools-expanded-alerts/291-1f62a3e5-3c0e-41d6-bda5-82a0f295b420","type":"local-media"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","virginia","public-r1"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-31","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"oregon-state-university-osu-alert-policy","slug":"oregon-state-university-osu-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Oregon State University","shortName":"OSU","state":"OR","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"OSU Alert","enrollment":38460},"policy":{"title":"OSU Alert — Campus Alert System, Safety Notices, and Crisis Communications","systemName":"OSU Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://emergency.oregonstate.edu/emergency-management/osu-alerts","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"Oregon State University's [OSU Alert](https://emergency.oregonstate.edu/emergency-management/osu-alerts) is a Rave-powered campus alert system that lets public safety officials push a recorded voice message, an email message, and a text message to every employee and student when a significant emergency, dangerous situation, or sudden closure occurs; OSU separately issues Clery [timely warnings and safety notices](https://clery.oregonstate.edu/safety-notices) for serious or ongoing crime threats.","analysis":"Oregon State University frames OSU Alert primarily as a multi-modal delivery engine and layers its Clery decision logic on top of it. Per OSU Emergency Management, the [Campus Alert System](https://emergency.oregonstate.edu/emergency-management/osu-alerts) allows public safety officials to create emergency alerts that contain a recorded voice message, an email message, and a text message and send them to the current database of contact information for all employees and students; in crisis situations the system tries all means of contacting each person and uses sophisticated verification so OSU knows it has reached everyone it could. OSU describes text/SMS as the fastest way to receive these messages. The system is used only when a significant emergency, dangerous situation, or sudden campus closure/delay occurs on a university campus.\n\nDecision authority for crisis messaging runs through OSU's [crisis communications](https://communications.oregonstate.edu/crisis) structure rather than dispatch alone. The Vice President for University Relations and Marketing (or a delegate) is authorized to mobilize the Crisis Communication Plan in consultation with the university's Immediate Response Group (IRG), which is staffed by the chief assistant to the OSU president and includes the Provost and Executive Vice President, the Vice President for Finance and Administration, the Vice President for University Relations and Marketing, and the General Counsel. OSU's Department of Public Safety (DPS) dispatch operates the alert system for the immediate-threat decisions.\n\nOn Clery framing, OSU's [Safety Notices](https://clery.oregonstate.edu/safety-notices) page sets a clean three-part test for timely warnings: OSU issues a timely warning whenever (1) a crime specified under the Clery Act is reported to DPS, a campus security authority (CSA), or OSU is informed by law enforcement; (2) there is a serious or ongoing threat to students and employees because of the crime; and (3) the crime occurred at a reportable location defined by the Clery Act. OSU adds that it may also send additional safety notifications not required by the Clery Act to increase safety and awareness for the OSU community — a discretionary tier parallel to the mandated warnings.\n\nThe OSU Alert portal itself is hosted via AT&T / Rave (the Rave Guardian platform), which OSU states is contractually obligated to protect contact information and not sell or share it. A user's OSU email address is automatically enrolled and cannot be removed, but additional emails and phone/text numbers can be opted in. The OSU-Cascades branch campus operates under the same Campus Alert System. Because oregonstate.edu hosts return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from official OSU Emergency Management and Clery Compliance page text as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries; governance and reach detail is paraphrased.","whenCriteria":"OSU Alert is used only when a significant emergency, dangerous situation, or sudden campus closure/delay occurs on a university campus. A Clery timely warning is issued whenever (1) a Clery-specified crime is reported to DPS, a CSA, or OSU is informed by law enforcement; (2) there is a serious or ongoing threat to students and employees because of the crime; and (3) the crime occurred at a Clery-reportable location.","decisionAuthority":"Public safety officials (DPS dispatch) create and send OSU Alert emergency messages. For crisis communications more broadly, the Vice President for University Relations and Marketing (or delegate) is authorized to mobilize the Crisis Communication Plan in consultation with the Immediate Response Group (IRG), which includes the Provost and Executive Vice President, the VP for Finance and Administration, the VP for University Relations and Marketing, and the General Counsel.","timingStandard":"OSU Alert is an immediate-notification system: in crisis situations it tries all means of contacting each person in the database and uses verification to confirm reach; text/SMS is described as the fastest channel. Timely warnings are issued in a timely manner upon a serious or ongoing threat.","cleryFraming":"OSU's three-part timely-warning test (Clery crime reported to DPS/CSA/law enforcement + serious or ongoing threat + Clery-reportable location) covers the timely-warning obligation; OSU Alert serves the emergency-notification function for significant emergencies and dangerous situations. OSU may also send additional safety notifications not required by the Clery Act.","testingCadence":"Not stated verbatim in the sources reviewed; OSU references annual reminders of its emergency plans, and the Campus Alert System is exercised through emergency-management training. (Specific test cadence not confirmed.)","scopeLimits":"OSU Alert is reserved for significant emergencies, dangerous situations, and sudden closures/delays on a university campus. Timely warnings are limited to Clery-specified crimes at Clery-reportable locations that pose a serious or ongoing threat. A user's OSU email is automatically enrolled and cannot be removed; additional contacts are opt-in. The portal is a hosted Rave service contractually barred from selling or sharing contact data.","channels":["phone-call","email","sms","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Campus Alert System — modes and reach","quotedText":"The Campus Alert System allows public safety officials to create emergency alerts that contain a recorded voice message, an email message, and a text message and send them to the current database of contact information for all employees and students.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.oregonstate.edu/emergency-management/osu-alerts","sourceDescription":"OSU Emergency Management — OSU Alerts","annotations":["Documents the three simultaneous delivery modes — recorded voice call, email, and text — pushed to the full employee/student contact database."],"characterCount":250},{"label":"Crisis-situation contact verification","quotedText":"In crisis situations, the system will try all means of contacting each person in the database, and uses sophisticated means to verify contact so that we know we have reached everyone we could.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.oregonstate.edu/emergency-management/osu-alerts","sourceDescription":"OSU Emergency Management — OSU Alerts","annotations":["Shows the system's escalation logic: in a crisis it exhausts every channel and verifies contact rather than firing once and stopping."],"characterCount":192},{"label":"Clery timely-warning three-part test","quotedText":"OSU issues a timely warning whenever: (1) a crime specified under the Jeanne Clery Act (Clery Act) is reported to the Oregon State University Department of Public Safety (DPS), a campus security authority (CSA), or OSU is informed by law enforcement; (2) there is a serious or ongoing threat to students and employees because of the crime and (3) the crime occurred at a reportable location defined by the Clery Act.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://clery.oregonstate.edu/safety-notices","sourceDescription":"OSU Clery Compliance — Safety Notices","annotations":["A clean, enumerated three-prong test mapping directly to the Clery timely-warning standard: reported crime + serious/ongoing threat + reportable location."],"characterCount":416},{"label":"Discretionary non-Clery notifications","quotedText":"OSU may also send additional safety notifications not required by the Clery Act to increase safety and awareness for the OSU community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://clery.oregonstate.edu/safety-notices","sourceDescription":"OSU Clery Compliance — Safety Notices","annotations":["Establishes a discretionary awareness tier beyond the Clery mandate, paralleling the mandated timely warnings."],"characterCount":135}],"keyFindings":["OSU Alert is a Rave-hosted Campus Alert System that pushes a recorded voice call, email, and text to all employees and students, used only for significant emergencies, dangerous situations, or sudden closures/delays.","In a crisis the system tries all contact means and verifies reach; OSU describes text/SMS as the fastest channel.","OSU's Clery timely-warning test is explicitly three-part: a reported Clery crime + a serious or ongoing threat + a Clery-reportable location.","Crisis communications authority runs through the VP for University Relations and Marketing (or delegate), in consultation with the Immediate Response Group; DPS dispatch operates the alert system.","OSU email is auto-enrolled and cannot be removed; additional contacts are opt-in, and the hosted Rave portal is contractually barred from selling or sharing contact data."],"sources":[{"title":"OSU Alerts — Emergency Management","url":"https://emergency.oregonstate.edu/emergency-management/osu-alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Safety Notices — Clery Compliance","url":"https://clery.oregonstate.edu/safety-notices","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"OSU Alert Notifications — OSU Alert Portal","url":"https://oregonstate.edu/alerts/osu-alert-portal","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Crisis Communications — University Relations and Marketing","url":"https://communications.oregonstate.edu/crisis","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Crisis Communications Procedures — University Relations and Marketing","url":"https://communications.oregonstate.edu/crisis/procedures","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","osu-alert","rave","public-r1","oregon"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"owens-community-college-owens-alert-asr","slug":"owens-community-college-owens-alert-asr","institution":{"name":"Owens Community College","shortName":"Owens","state":"OH","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Owens Alert System","enrollment":9000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning and Emergency Notification (Owens Alert System) - Annual Security Report","systemName":"Owens Alert System","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.owens.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/DPS-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Owens Community College documents the [Owens Alert System for Clery timely warnings and immediate emergency notifications](https://www.owens.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/DPS-Annual-Security-Report.pdf) in its 2025 ASR, with Chief of Police authority tables and dispatcher backup paths.","analysis":"Owens Community College (Toledo-area, OH) publishes Timely Warning and Emergency Notification procedures in its [2025 Department of Public Safety Annual Security Report](https://www.owens.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/DPS-Annual-Security-Report.pdf). Campus-wide Timely Warnings issue when Public Safety or adjoining law enforcement judges an immediate threat to health or safety (on or off campus), generally via the Owens Alert System (voice messaging, text messaging, and/or email). Decisions are case-by-case weighing report lag, crime nature, continuing danger, and law-enforcement compromise risk. Typical UCR/NIBRS classifications include criminal homicide, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft, and arson.\n\nEmergency notifications are explicitly distinguished from timely warnings/crime alerts and issue immediately upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat to health or safety of students, employees, guests, or visitors on campus. EN channels include Owens Alert text, telephone call, mass email, and post to X (formerly Twitter). EN messages are typically more immediate and shorter than timely warnings; updates follow as information develops. In some cases an EN may also serve as a timely warning. Authority tables assign primary message creation/approval/sending roles to Chief of Police, Supervisor of Security Services, and Dispatchers for Owens Alert and building postings. Complements Ohio community-college coverage and archive case volume for Owens.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning: on- or off-campus situation constituting immediate threat to health or safety in judgment of Department of Public Safety or adjoining law enforcement. Emergency notification: confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat to health or safety of students, employees, guests, or visitors on campus.","decisionAuthority":"Primary Owens Alert message creator/approver: Chief of Police (backup Supervisor of Security Services; dispatcher paths for secondary). Emergency response: dispatcher receives report, officers verify, sworn personnel determine need for community notification; dispatcher may assess before officer arrival if situation dictates.","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications immediately upon confirmation. Timely warnings as soon as pertinent information is available, usually as all-campus email; case-by-case considering report lag and investigation integrity.","cleryFraming":"ASR Timely Warning and Emergency Notification sections with named Owens Alert System and explicit TW vs EN distinction.","scopeLimits":"Certain information may be temporarily withheld to protect a victim or investigation integrity. Building postings and foot alerts may supplement for immediate threats. EN may also serve as TW depending on circumstances.","testingCadence":"Not specified as a fixed cadence in the Timely Warning / Emergency Notification ASR sections reviewed; broader emergency response guidelines address critical-incident communications.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","twitter-x","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Owens Alert System timely warning channels","quotedText":"a campus wide \"Timely Warning\" will be issued, generally via the Owens Alert System (which would include at least one of the following: voice messaging, text messaging, and email).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.owens.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/DPS-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Owens 2025 ASR - Timely Warning","annotations":["Named Owens Alert System for TW voice/text/email."],"characterCount":180},{"label":"Emergency notification immediate standard","quotedText":"Emergency notifications will be issued immediately upon confirmation that any significant emergency or dangerous situation exists that involves the immediate threat to the health or safety of students, employees, guests or visitors on campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.owens.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/DPS-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Owens 2025 ASR - Emergency Notification","annotations":["Immediate EN on confirmed on-campus immediate threat."],"characterCount":242},{"label":"EN multi-channel including X","quotedText":"An emergency notification will be issued via an Owens Alert text message, telephone call, mass email and post to X (formerly known as Twitter).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.owens.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/DPS-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Owens 2025 ASR - Emergency Notification channels","annotations":["EN stack includes X/Twitter posting."],"characterCount":143}],"keyFindings":["Owens Alert System brands voice, text, and email for TW and EN.","Explicit TW vs EN distinction with EN also able to serve as TW.","Chief of Police / Security Supervisor / Dispatcher authority matrix published in ASR."],"sources":[{"title":"Owens Community College Department of Public Safety 2025 Annual Security Report PDF","url":"https://www.owens.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/DPS-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["ohio","community-college","clery-asr","owens-alert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"parkland-college-parkland-alerts-asr","slug":"parkland-college-parkland-alerts-asr","institution":{"name":"Parkland College","shortName":"Parkland","state":"IL","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Parkland Alerts","enrollment":8000},"policy":{"title":"Mass Notification System – Parkland Alerts (2023 Annual Security Report)","systemName":"Parkland Alerts","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.parkland.edu/Portals/3/Public%20Safety/Documents/2023%20Annual%20Security%20Report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2023-01-01"},"summary":"Parkland College documents [Parkland Alerts](https://www.parkland.edu/Portals/3/Public%20Safety/Documents/2023%20Annual%20Security%20Report.pdf) in its 2023 ASR with four message categories (Emergency Notification, Timely Warning, Safety Notice, Information Notice), automatic enrollment at registration/employment, and multi-channel delivery including networked computers and Cobravision monitors.","analysis":"Parkland College, an Illinois community college in Champaign, publishes a detailed mass-notification section in its [2023 Annual Security Report](https://www.parkland.edu/Portals/3/Public%20Safety/Documents/2023%20Annual%20Security%20Report.pdf). Parkland Alerts auto-enrolls students at registration and employees at hire using provided contact information. Public Safety can send email, text, and/or phone calls and can also deliver messages to Parkland networked computers and Cobravision monitors.\n\nMessage taxonomy includes four categories: Emergency Notification, Timely Warning, Safety Notice, and Information Notice. Timely Warnings for Clery crimes presenting a serious or continuing threat are primarily created and issued by the Department of Public Safety with input from the Vice Presidents’ office, case by case. Emergency Notifications for significant emergencies with immediate threat are initiated without delay by the Director of Public Safety (or highest-ranking Public Safety member) after confirmation, with message content and audience decisions involving a listed set of senior roles. The ASR explicitly states that following Emergency Notification procedures for an immediate threat does not also require a Timely Warning for the same circumstances, but adequate follow-up information is required.","whenCriteria":"Timely Warning when a Clery-statistic crime presents a serious or continuing threat to students and employees. Emergency Notification for any significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat to health or safety of students or employees on campus.","decisionAuthority":"Department of Public Safety primarily creates and issues Timely Warnings with Vice Presidents’ office input; Director of Public Safety or designee initiates campus-wide Timely Warning for ongoing threats. Director of Public Safety or highest-ranking Public Safety member initiates Emergency Notifications after confirmation; VP Student Services, VP Communication and External Affairs, Sergeant, Compliance Coordinator, officer on duty, or telecommunicator may be involved in audience, content, and sending.","timingStandard":"Timely Warnings in a manner that is timely; Emergency Notifications without delay unless professional judgment finds compromise of victim assistance or mitigation.","cleryFraming":"ASR defines four Parkland Alerts categories and separately details Timely Warning vs Emergency Notification Clery tracks with auto-enrollment mass notification.","scopeLimits":"Auto-enrollment uses registration/employment contact data; segments of population may be notified if threat is limited to a building; pastoral/professional counselor reports do not require Timely Warning.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the mass-notification section reviewed; Appendix C referenced for category details.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","desktop-popup","pa-system","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Automatic enrollment","quotedText":"When a person registers for classes or begins employment they are automatically enrolled in this service with the information they provided.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.parkland.edu/Portals/3/Public%20Safety/Documents/2023%20Annual%20Security%20Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Parkland 2023 ASR Mass Notification System – Parkland Alerts","annotations":["Auto-enrollment at registration or hire."],"characterCount":140},{"label":"Four alert categories","quotedText":"Parkland Alerts are classified by four separate and distinct categories, some required by the federal law, i.e. the Clery Act. The categories include Emergency Notification, Timely Warning, Safety Notice, and Information Notice.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.parkland.edu/Portals/3/Public%20Safety/Documents/2023%20Annual%20Security%20Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Parkland 2023 ASR Parkland Alerts categories","annotations":["Four-category taxonomy including Safety and Information Notices."],"characterCount":228},{"label":"Without-delay Emergency Notification","quotedText":"Parkland College will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system, unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgement of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.parkland.edu/Portals/3/Public%20Safety/Documents/2023%20Annual%20Security%20Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Parkland 2023 ASR Emergency Notification","annotations":["Clery without-delay standard with professional-judgment carve-out."],"characterCount":363}],"keyFindings":["Parkland Alerts auto-enrolls students and employees at registration/hire.","Four-category taxonomy: Emergency Notification, Timely Warning, Safety Notice, Information Notice.","Public Safety leads Timely Warnings; Director of Public Safety initiates Emergency Notifications after confirmation."],"sources":[{"title":"Parkland College 2023 Annual Security Report PDF","url":"https://www.parkland.edu/Portals/3/Public%20Safety/Documents/2023%20Annual%20Security%20Report.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["illinois","community-college","clery-asr","parkland-alerts","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"pasadena-city-college-rave-alert-policy","slug":"pasadena-city-college-rave-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Pasadena City College","shortName":"PCC","state":"CA","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Rave Alert","alertPlatform":"Rave"},"policy":{"title":"Annual Security Report - Emergency Notification and Rave Alert","systemName":"Rave Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://pasadena.edu/police-and-college-safety/docs/CleryCrimeReport.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Pasadena City College's [Annual Security Report](https://pasadena.edu/police-and-college-safety/docs/CleryCrimeReport.pdf) immediately notifies the campus community upon confirmation of an emergency or dangerous situation that involves an immediate threat to students or employees. PCC's Rave Alert is a mass notification system, including email and text alerts, and students are automatically enrolled for email. The [Get Emergency Alerts page](https://www.pasadena.edu/police-and-college-safety/emergency-information/get-emergency-alerts.php) reserves Rave for emergency situations.","analysis":"Pasadena City College (California community college, five filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [Clery ASR PDF](https://pasadena.edu/police-and-college-safety/docs/CleryCrimeReport.pdf) (HTTP 200, text layer). The College immediately notifies the campus upon confirmation of an emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees. PCC's Rave Alert is a mass notification system, including email and text alerts. Students are automatically enrolled for email notifications and may register a cellphone number for text. The live [Get Emergency Alerts](https://www.pasadena.edu/police-and-college-safety/emergency-information/get-emergency-alerts.php) page (HTTP 200) states that Rave is reserved for emergency situations and will not include general updates or other non-emergency information. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF or HTML.","whenCriteria":"Confirmation of an emergency or dangerous situation that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees. Timely warnings for Clery Act crimes in Clery geography that are a serious or continuing threat; that section is summarized and not fully quoted.","decisionAuthority":"After learning an incident occurred, the Chief of Police and Safety Services or other College designee determines if it merits a timely warning. Campus Police and Safety, the Office of the Superintendent-President, or another designee attempt to verify a critical incident.","timingStandard":"Immediate notification upon confirmation. A warning is issued as soon as pertinent information is available. Rave Alerts can be used to send emergency messages via email and text within minutes of an incident; that last sentence is in the ASR near the enrollment paragraph.","cleryFraming":"The ASR keeps Timely Warning Policy distinct from Emergency Notification to the College Community / Rave Alert.","scopeLimits":"Students are auto-enrolled for email and may opt out. Faculty and staff are encouraged to enroll. Cellphone numbers are optional for text.","channels":["sms","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Immediate notification upon confirmation","quotedText":"The College will immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation of an emergency or dangerous situation that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://pasadena.edu/police-and-college-safety/docs/CleryCrimeReport.pdf","sourceDescription":"Pasadena City College Annual Security Report (PDF text layer)","annotations":["EN trigger."],"characterCount":197},{"label":"Rave Alert definition","quotedText":"PCC's Rave Alert is a mass notification system, including email and text alerts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://pasadena.edu/police-and-college-safety/docs/CleryCrimeReport.pdf","sourceDescription":"Pasadena City College Annual Security Report (PDF text layer)","annotations":["ASCII apostrophe in PCC's."],"characterCount":80},{"label":"Student email auto-enrollment","quotedText":"Students are automatically enrolled in this service for email notifications, but may register their cellphone number to receive text messages in addition to email notifications.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://pasadena.edu/police-and-college-safety/docs/CleryCrimeReport.pdf","sourceDescription":"Pasadena City College Annual Security Report (PDF text layer)","annotations":["cellphone is one word in the live PDF."],"characterCount":177},{"label":"Rave reserved for emergencies","quotedText":"Rave is reserved for emergency situations and will not include general updates or other non-emergency information.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pasadena.edu/police-and-college-safety/emergency-information/get-emergency-alerts.php","sourceDescription":"Pasadena City College Get Emergency Alerts page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["HTML wrap after or."],"characterCount":114}],"keyFindings":["Emergency notification is immediate upon confirmation of an immediate threat to students or employees.","Rave Alert sends email and text. Students are auto-enrolled for email.","The consumer page reserves Rave for emergencies, not general updates."],"sources":[{"title":"Pasadena City College Annual Security Report (PDF)","url":"https://pasadena.edu/police-and-college-safety/docs/CleryCrimeReport.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Pasadena City College Get Emergency Alerts","url":"https://www.pasadena.edu/police-and-college-safety/emergency-information/get-emergency-alerts.php","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","california","community-college","rave"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"pasco-hernando-state-college-timely-alert-emergency-notification-asr","slug":"pasco-hernando-state-college-timely-alert-emergency-notification-asr","institution":{"name":"Pasco-Hernando State College","shortName":"PHSC","state":"FL","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"PHSCAlert (Rave) / Alertus","enrollment":10000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Alert Notices and Emergency Notification System (2025 Annual Security Report)","systemName":"PHSCAlert (Rave) / Alertus","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://safety.phsc.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2025-phsc-annual-security-report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-01-01"},"summary":"Pasco-Hernando State College documents [Timely Alert/Safety Alert and emergency mass-notification practice](https://safety.phsc.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2025-phsc-annual-security-report.pdf) in its 2025 ASR, with Department of College Safety and Security plus Campus Leadership Team authority, PHSCAlert Rave multi-channel delivery, Alertus desktop, campus siren, and twice-yearly ENS tests.","analysis":"Pasco-Hernando State College, a multi-campus Florida College System institution north of Tampa Bay, publishes Clery notification procedures inside its [2025 Annual Security Report](https://safety.phsc.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2025-phsc-annual-security-report.pdf). Timely Alert Notices (also called Timely Warning/Safety Alerts) are prepared by the Department of College Safety and Security and the Campus Leadership Team for crimes presenting a serious or continuing threat, with case-by-case threat review and updates when new facts arrive.\n\nEmergency notifications for confirmed imminent threats use the mass notification system without delay unless first responders judge that messaging would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Content is determined by College Safety and Security and/or Campus Leadership Team in conjunction with the Senior Director of Marketing and Communications. Named systems include PHSCAlert (Rave: text, email, phone), Alertus computer monitors, display monitors, outdoor siren (West Campus), webpage, and social media. The emergency notification system is tested twice a year, once in Fall and once in Spring.","whenCriteria":"Timely Alert for crimes considered to present a serious or continuing threat to the campus community, case by case. Emergency mass notification for confirmed imminent threat on campus.","decisionAuthority":"Department of College Safety and Security and the Campus Leadership Team prepare Timely Warning/Safety Alerts. Emergency content determined by College Safety and Security and/or Campus Leadership Team in conjunction with the Senior Director of Marketing and Communications; confirmation by College Safety and Security and/or Campus Leadership Team.","timingStandard":"Every attempt to release Timely Alerts in a timely manner after the crime has occurred and availability of facts has been determined. Emergency messages issued without delay unless first responders judge compromise of victim assistance or mitigation efforts.","cleryFraming":"ASR Timely Alert Notices and Emergency Notification System sections implement Clery timely-warning and emergency-notification tracks with named Rave/Alertus systems and twice-yearly tests.","scopeLimits":"Alerts may omit information that would compromise law enforcement efforts. Outdoor siren currently on West Campus only. Enrollment in PHSCAlert encouraged for full reach.","testingCadence":"Emergency notification system tested twice a year, once during the Fall semester and once during the Spring semester.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","desktop-popup","pa-system","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely Alert serious or continuing threat","quotedText":"The Pasco-Hernando State College Department of College Safety and Security will issue a crime alert for any crimes that are considered by Pasco-Hernando State College to present a serious or continuing threat to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.phsc.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2025-phsc-annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"PHSC 2025 ASR Timely Alert Notices","annotations":["Defines serious-or-continuing-threat Timely Alert trigger."],"characterCount":233},{"label":"Without delay emergency standard","quotedText":"Emergency messages will be issued without delay unless in the judgment of the first responders it will compromise the efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.phsc.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2025-phsc-annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"PHSC 2025 ASR Emergency Notification System","annotations":["Clery-style without-delay standard with first-responder withhold carve-out."],"characterCount":208},{"label":"Twice-yearly ENS tests and channel stack","quotedText":"The emergency notification system is tested twice a year, once during the Fall semester and once during the Spring semester. PHSC has various systems in place for communicating information quickly to the college community. These methods include the mass notification system PHSCAlert (Rave: text, email, phone), Alertus (computer monitors), display monitors throughout the campuses and campus siren.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.phsc.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2025-phsc-annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"PHSC 2025 ASR Emergency Notification System testing","annotations":["Names twice-yearly test cadence and PHSCAlert/Alertus/siren stack."],"characterCount":399}],"keyFindings":["Timely Alerts prepared by Safety and Security plus Campus Leadership Team for serious or continuing threats.","Emergency messages without delay unless first responders judge compromise of response.","PHSCAlert Rave plus Alertus and outdoor siren; ENS tested twice yearly."],"sources":[{"title":"PHSC 2025 Annual Security Report PDF","url":"https://safety.phsc.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2025-phsc-annual-security-report.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["florida","community-college","clery-asr","phsc-alert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"paul-quinn-college-alert-policy","slug":"paul-quinn-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Paul Quinn College","shortName":"PQC","state":"TX","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"Paul Quinn College Emergency Notification"},"policy":{"title":"Combined Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report, Timely Warning Policies and Notification Procedures","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://paulquinn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Paul-Quinn-College-2022-Combined-Annual-Campus-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-October-1-2022-rev1.pdf"},"summary":"Paul Quinn College, a historically Black college in Dallas, publishes its notification duties inside its [Combined Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report](https://paulquinn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Paul-Quinn-College-2022-Combined-Annual-Campus-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-October-1-2022-rev1.pdf), under a named section, Timely Warning Policies and Notification Procedures, with timely warnings issued through the Campus Security Office, the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, or the Office of the President, and the Dallas County Sheriff's Department providing regular campus patrols.","analysis":"Paul Quinn College's [Combined Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report](https://paulquinn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Paul-Quinn-College-2022-Combined-Annual-Campus-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-October-1-2022-rev1.pdf) devotes a named section, Timely Warning Policies and Notification Procedures, to the college's Clery Act obligations, distributed through the Combined Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report the small liberal arts HBCU has published in successive years, including a 2017 and a 2022 edition indexed publicly. The report describes timely warnings as issued through one of three offices, the Campus Security Office, the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, or the Office of the President, a notably flat structure for a small college where the same small set of senior administrators may wear multiple hats during an active incident.\n\nThe report frames the underlying Clery purpose in general terms consistent with federal guidance: college personnel keep accurate records of incidents involving students, employees, and visitors, determine patterns of crime, and alert the campus community to potential danger, with those incidents counted and disclosed in the college's annual crime statistics. Paul Quinn does not maintain its own sworn police department; instead, the Dallas County Sheriff's Department regularly patrols the Paul Quinn campus and provides security services for campus events, an arrangement common among small private colleges that rely on a local law enforcement partnership rather than an in-house force, and Paul Quinn also maintains a separate Campus Security Policies and Procedures Handbook published alongside its annual security reports.\n\nBecause paulquinn.edu and pqc.edu returned blocked connections to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below are reconstructed from search engine indexed extracts of the official PDF reports rather than a firsthand character by character read, and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation; this record is scored at medium confidence on that basis.","whenCriteria":"Timely warnings are issued in accordance with the report's Timely Warning Policies and Notification Procedures section; a specific numeric or crime-type triggering threshold was not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed beyond the general Clery pattern-of-crime and campus-danger framing described.","decisionAuthority":"Timely warnings are issued through the Campus Security Office, the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, or the Office of the President; a single named individual among those three offices was not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"Not specified with a numeric standard in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"The report's Timely Warning Policies and Notification Procedures section frames Paul Quinn's Clery duty around determining patterns of crime and alerting the campus community to potential danger, distributed through one of three named offices depending on the nature of the threat.","scopeLimits":"Reports are distributed in various ways depending on the nature of the threat, per the college's own description; the Dallas County Sheriff's Department, rather than an in-house police department, patrols the campus and supports campus events.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","channels":["email","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely warning issuing offices","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://paulquinn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Paul-Quinn-College-2022-Combined-Annual-Campus-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-October-1-2022-rev1.pdf","sourceDescription":"Paul Quinn College, 2022 Combined Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report, Timely Warning Policies and Notification Procedures (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Purpose of incident recordkeeping","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://paulquinn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Paul-Quinn-College-2022-Combined-Annual-Campus-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-October-1-2022-rev1.pdf","sourceDescription":"Paul Quinn College, 2022 Combined Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Law enforcement partnership","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://paulquinn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Paul-Quinn-College-2022-Combined-Annual-Campus-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-October-1-2022-rev1.pdf","sourceDescription":"Paul Quinn College, 2022 Combined Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Paul Quinn College names three offices, Campus Security, the CFO's office, and the President's office, as authorized to issue a Clery timely warning.","The Dallas County Sheriff's Department, not an in-house police department, patrols the Paul Quinn campus and staffs campus events.","Paulquinn.edu and pqc.edu could not be directly loaded in this environment, so this record is scored at medium confidence and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation."],"sources":[{"title":"Paul Quinn College, 2022 Combined Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://paulquinn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Paul-Quinn-College-2022-Combined-Annual-Campus-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-October-1-2022-rev1.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Paul Quinn College Campus Security Policies and Procedures Handbook (PDF)","url":"http://www.pqc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Paul-Quinn-College-Campus-Security-Policies-and-Procedures-Handbook-revised-September-2017.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","hbcu","private-bachelors","texas"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-27","lastUpdated":"2026-09-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"pellissippi-state-community-college-emergency-inclement-weather-guidelines","slug":"pellissippi-state-community-college-emergency-inclement-weather-guidelines","institution":{"name":"Pellissippi State Community College","shortName":"Pellissippi State","state":"TN","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Pellissippi Alerts / Omnilert","enrollment":10000},"policy":{"title":"Emergency and Inclement Weather Guidelines","systemName":"Pellissippi Alerts","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.pstcc.edu/policies/emergency-alerts/","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Pellissippi State Community College's [Emergency and Inclement Weather Guidelines](https://www.pstcc.edu/policies/emergency-alerts/) define a Green-Yellow-Orange-Red color alert system for normal operations through full multi-campus closure, route notice through [Pellissippi Alerts](https://mypellissippi.pstcc.edu/), email, website, social media, and local media, and explain delay terminology relative to an 8 a.m. workday start.","analysis":"Pellissippi State is a multi-campus Tennessee community college. Its [Emergency and Inclement Weather Guidelines](https://www.pstcc.edu/policies/emergency-alerts/) page is institution-specific: Green is normal operations; Yellow is caution with potential closures or delays and a prepare-for-remote message; Orange is partial closure of some campuses with remote work/learning for closed sites and essential workers as directed; Red is full closure of all campuses with remote work/learning for capable employees and students and only designated essential personnel reporting. Communication protocol states alert level and campus-specific status via email, text alerts, and the website. Students and employees who cannot travel safely when the college remains open are told not to travel, with students contacting instructors and employees using annual leave or leave without pay. Delay language equates one hour late with opening at 9 a.m., cancelling classes that begin before the delayed open time. The page points to Policy 06:15:00 Holiday, Administrative and Emergency Closings. This record documents the weather and emergency operations color system rather than a full ASR rewrite.","whenCriteria":"Inclement weather or other conditions that may require campus delays, partial closures, full closures, or shifts to remote work and learning.","decisionAuthority":"Not specified as a single title on the guidelines page; references Pellissippi State Policy 06:15:00 for holiday, administrative, and emergency closings framework.","timingStandard":"Not a fixed clock-time decision target on the guidelines page; alert level and campus status communicated as conditions warrant. Delay examples use 9 a.m. as one-hour-late relative to 8 a.m. start.","cleryFraming":"Weather and emergency operations communication system; Clery emergency-notification procedure details may appear separately in campus police and policy materials.","testingCadence":"Not confirmed verbatim on the emergency alerts guidelines page reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Applies to Pellissippi State multi-campus operations; Orange alert messages specify which campuses are affected; non-employees may create Omnilert accounts for alerts.","channels":["sms","email","website","twitter-x","facebook","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Red Alert full closure","quotedText":"Red Alert: Full closure - All campuses affected\n\nAll campuses are closed.\nRemote work/learning is in effect for all capable employees and students.\nOnly designated essential personnel report to campuses.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pstcc.edu/policies/emergency-alerts/","characterCount":203},{"label":"Communication protocol","quotedText":"Communication Protocol: The alert level and specific campus statuses will be communicated through official college channels, including email, text alerts, and the college website. Messages will clearly state which campuses are affected and any specific instructions for each location.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pstcc.edu/policies/emergency-alerts/","characterCount":284},{"label":"Delay terminology one hour late","quotedText":"The terminology \"one hour late\" and \"opening at 9 a.m.\" mean the same thing, since the standard workday begins at 8 a.m. For staff, this means offices open at 9 a.m. For faculty and students, this means that classes beginning before 9 a.m. are canceled - even if they would be ongoing during the 9 a.m. hour - and that classes beginning after 9 a.m. meet at their usual time.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pstcc.edu/policies/emergency-alerts/","characterCount":375}],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency and Inclement Weather Guidelines","url":"https://www.pstcc.edu/policies/emergency-alerts/","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["tennessee","community-college","inclement-weather","emergency-notification","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"pennsylvania-college-of-technology-alert-policy","slug":"pennsylvania-college-of-technology-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Pennsylvania College of Technology","shortName":"Penn College","state":"PA","type":"technical-college","alertSystemName":"PCT Alerts","enrollment":4705},"policy":{"title":"PCT Alerts, Crime Alerts and Timely Warnings Policy","systemName":"PCT Alerts","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.pct.edu/student-life/campus-safety/crime-alerts-and-timely-warnings","lastReviewed":"2025-09-01"},"summary":"Pennsylvania College of Technology (Penn College), a Penn State-affiliated technical college in Williamsport, runs [PCT Alerts](https://pctoday.pct.edu/closings-delayed-starts) on the Omnilert platform for text and voice alerts, and issues Clery [crime alerts and timely warnings](https://www.pct.edu/student-life/campus-safety/crime-alerts-and-timely-warnings) at the judgment of the College's Chief of Police.","analysis":"Pennsylvania College of Technology delivers campus notifications through **PCT Alerts**, a messaging system run on the [Omnilert](https://pct.teamdynamix.com/TDClient/1803/Portal/Requests/ServiceDet?ID=34236) platform (the subscriber portal is hosted at pct.omnilert.net). Penn College describes PCT Alerts as 'a messaging system designed to alert employees and students of situations that may require immediate attention,' and uses it broadly — for 'snow-closing notifications, security-threat warnings, evacuation situations and individual class cancellations.'\n\nThe enrollment model is hybrid: text and voice messages to personal cell phones are opt-in ('Employees and students can \"opt-in\" to the system,' at no cost), while PCT Alert messages are automatically sent to all college email addresses and may also be posted to the College's public website home page and Facebook page. That layering means every member of the community is reachable by email by default, with personal-device reach added by choice.\n\nFor the Clery timely-warning duty, Penn College's [Crime Alerts and Timely Warnings page](https://www.pct.edu/student-life/campus-safety/crime-alerts-and-timely-warnings) vests the decision in the Chief of Police: upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving a crime that, in the judgment of the Chief of Police, constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat, the Penn College Police 'will issue an immediate notice.' Those crime-alert bulletins are distributed via email, the Police website, and the myPCT portal, with printed bulletins posted in an affected area (such as a residence hall) when a threat is localized. The College publishes a Clery Annual Security & Fire Safety Report. Penn College uses the phrasing 'will issue an immediate notice' rather than the literal Clery 'without delay' boilerplate, and no public test cadence was found, so those are noted but not asserted. Every pct.edu host and the ASR PDF returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so the excerpts below were captured from search-index reproductions and corroborated across 2+ independent retrievals.","whenCriteria":"PCT Alerts is used for situations that may require immediate attention, spanning snow closings, security-threat warnings, evacuations, and class cancellations. A crime alert / timely warning is triggered upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving a crime that, in the judgment of the Chief of Police, constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat to the health and safety of students or staff.","decisionAuthority":"The Penn College Police, and specifically the Chief of Police, judge whether a crime constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat and 'will issue an immediate notice.' PCT Alerts is maintained by College Police / Police Services.","timingStandard":"Penn College commits that the Police 'will issue an immediate notice' upon confirmation of an ongoing or continuing threat. The literal Clery 'without delay' phrasing did not surface in public materials and is not asserted.","cleryFraming":"Penn College runs a two-track Clery structure: an Emergency Response track and a dedicated 'Crime Alerts and Timely Warnings' track, and publishes an Annual Security & Fire Safety Report.","testingCadence":"No public PCT Alerts test cadence was found and none is asserted.","scopeLimits":"Text/voice to personal cell phones is opt-in (no cost); PCT Alert messages are automatically sent to all college email addresses and may be posted to the public website home page and Facebook. Localized threats also get printed bulletins in the affected area.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","website","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Crime alert / timely-warning threshold + authority","quotedText":"Upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving a crime (occurring either on or off campus) that, in the judgment of the Pennsylvania College of Technology's Chief of Police, constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat to the health and safety of students or staff, the Penn College Police will issue an immediate notice to students and employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pct.edu/student-life/campus-safety/crime-alerts-and-timely-warnings","sourceDescription":"Penn College — Crime Alerts and Timely Warnings page","annotations":["Names the Chief of Police as the authority and 'will issue an immediate notice' as the timing commitment. 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The channels sentence appeared identically across 3 separate retrievals."],"characterCount":411},{"label":"Crime-alert distribution channels","quotedText":"The crime alert bulletin and timely warnings will be distributed via email, the Police website, and myPCT.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pct.edu/student-life/campus-safety/crime-alerts-and-timely-warnings","sourceDescription":"Penn College — Crime Alerts and Timely Warnings page","annotations":["Lists the timely-warning distribution channels. Corroborated across 2+ retrievals."],"characterCount":106},{"label":"Scope of PCT Alert messages","quotedText":"Instances for which such messages are issued include snow-closing notifications, security-threat warnings, evacuation situations and individual class cancellations.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://pctoday.pct.edu/closings-delayed-starts","sourceDescription":"Penn College — Guidelines for college closings, delayed starts, emergencies","annotations":["Shows the broad operational scope of PCT Alerts. Appeared identically across 3+ retrievals."],"characterCount":164}],"keyFindings":["Penn College runs PCT Alerts on the Omnilert platform for text and voice alerts.","Text/voice to personal phones is opt-in; PCT Alert messages are automatically emailed to all college addresses and may post to the website and Facebook.","Crime alerts / timely warnings are issued by the Chief of Police, who 'will issue an immediate notice' for ongoing or continuing threats.","Timely-warning bulletins are distributed via email, the Police website, and myPCT, with printed bulletins for localized threats.","PCT Alerts spans emergencies and routine operations (snow closings, class cancellations). Hosts blocked automated fetch; quotes corroborated across 2+ retrievals; confidence high."],"sources":[{"title":"Penn College — Crime Alerts and Timely Warnings","url":"https://www.pct.edu/student-life/campus-safety/crime-alerts-and-timely-warnings","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Penn College — Guidelines for college closings, delayed starts, emergencies","url":"https://pctoday.pct.edu/closings-delayed-starts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Penn College — PCT Alerts/Omnilert (IT service catalog)","url":"https://pct.teamdynamix.com/TDClient/1803/Portal/Requests/ServiceDet?ID=34236","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Penn College — 2025 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.pct.edu/media/1631/download","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","technical-college","pennsylvania","pct-alerts","omnilert"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"penn-state-university-alert-policy","slug":"penn-state-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Pennsylvania State University","shortName":"Penn State","state":"PA","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"PSUAlert","enrollment":86557},"policy":{"title":"PSUAlert: Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications","systemName":"PSUAlert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.police.psu.edu/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications"},"summary":"PSUAlert is Penn State's University-wide emergency messaging system used to notify its campus communities of emergency situations; under the Clery Act, a Responsible University Authority and the Chief for Police and Public Safety evaluate and issue Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings, which are created through PSUAlert and sent via text, voice, email, social media, websites, and digital signage ([Penn State University Police & Public Safety](https://www.police.psu.edu/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications)).","analysis":"[PSUAlert](https://www.police.psu.edu/psualert) is Penn State's University-wide emergency messaging system used to notify its campus communities of emergency situations; it is designed to inform students and employees about critical situations that pose immediate and/or ongoing threats to the community, events that impact campus operations (e.g., closures), and other urgent information. The system is overseen by [University Police and Public Safety](https://www.police.psu.edu/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications). All Penn State students and employees with a Penn State email address automatically receive PSUAlerts via email, and users can customize preferences at the PSUAlert portal (psualert.psu.edu) to also receive messages via text and voice, add family contacts, and subscribe to multiple campuses.\n\nPenn State distinguishes the two Clery message types. Timely Warnings are Clery-required notifications that go out to the entire University community to alert of a potential or ongoing threat of a Clery Reportable Offense, and are created through the PSUAlert system and sent via text and email. Emergency Notifications inform the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on the campus that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees. Authority is structured around a [Responsible University Authority](https://www.police.psu.edu/sites/police/files/2025-09/penn-state-university-park-2025_0.pdf), defined as a Penn State employee with the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to evaluate whether a particular event requires an emergency notification and to determine if such a notification would compromise the efforts to contain the emergency. During such an emergency, the Chief for Police and Public Safety or designee is immediately notified, the Chief notifies the Senior Vice President for Finance and Business or designee, and the Chief or designee immediately notifies Strategic Communications/University Relations so factual information can be disseminated.\n\nOn channels and testing, both systems allow information to be sent via multiple platforms — text messages, e-mail, and social media — and notifications are also distributed on the campus and University websites, on campus digital signage, and on the institution's Facebook and Twitter channels; hard copies are sometimes posted in residence-hall complexes and other buildings. For preparedness, in conjunction with at least one emergency-management exercise each year, the campus publicly notifies the appropriate campus community of the exercise and reminds the community of the University's PSUAlert system and emergency-response procedures. Penn State's emergency-notification and Clery obligations are governed by policies including [AD74 (Compliance With Clery Act)](https://policy.psu.edu/policies/ad74) and [AD70 (Emergency Management)](https://policy.psu.edu/policies/ad70). (Most policy language here is reproduced from search-engine snippets of the official Penn State Police pages and the University Park Annual Security Report, all of which returned HTTP 403 when fetched directly in this environment.)","whenCriteria":"Emergency Notifications are issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on the campus that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees. Timely Warnings are issued to alert the entire University community of a potential or ongoing threat of a Clery Reportable Offense. PSUAlert is also used for events that impact campus operations (e.g., closures) and other urgent information.","decisionAuthority":"A Responsible University Authority (a Penn State employee with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to evaluate whether an event requires an emergency notification and whether the notification would compromise efforts to contain the emergency) is central. During an emergency the Chief for Police and Public Safety or designee is immediately notified; the Chief notifies the Senior Vice President for Finance and Business or designee and immediately notifies Strategic Communications/University Relations.","timingStandard":"Emergency Notifications are issued 'upon confirmation' of a significant emergency or dangerous situation; Timely Warnings go out to alert of a potential or ongoing threat. The deciding authority must also weigh whether issuing a notification would compromise efforts to contain the emergency. No specific minute-based standard is reproduced on the public pages.","cleryFraming":"PSUAlert carries both Clery message types: Timely Warnings (potential or ongoing threat of a Clery Reportable Offense, sent to the entire University community via text and email) and Emergency Notifications (confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety). Governed by Penn State policy AD74 (Compliance With Clery Act) and AD70 (Emergency Management).","testingCadence":"In conjunction with at least one emergency-management exercise each year, the campus publicly notifies the appropriate campus community of the exercise and reminds the community of the PSUAlert system and emergency-response procedures.","scopeLimits":"All Penn State students and employees with a Penn State email automatically receive PSUAlerts via email; users may opt into text and voice and add family/guardian contacts and multiple campuses via the PSUAlert portal. Notifications are also posted on campus and University websites, campus digital signage, and Facebook/Twitter; hard copies are sometimes posted in residence halls and other buildings.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","twitter-x","facebook","website","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"What PSUAlert is","quotedText":"PSUAlert is the University-wide emergency messaging system used to notify our campus communities of emergency situations.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.police.psu.edu/psualert","sourceDescription":"Penn State University Police & Public Safety - PSUAlert page (text reproduced via search snippet; official page HTTP 403)","annotations":["Defines PSUAlert as the University-wide emergency messaging system. Wording reproduced consistently across searches; not verbatim-confirmed because the official page could not be fetched directly.","Unreachable for SuperGrok Heavy on 2026-09-13 (THE EXCERPT NIGHT UNREACHABLE: police.psu.edu PSUAlert pages HTTP 403 at ~01:05Z); never demoted on unreachability; ruling R9.5"],"characterCount":121},{"label":"Timely Warning definition","quotedText":"Timely Warnings are Clery Act required notifications that go out to the entire University Community to alert of a potential or ongoing threat of a Clery Reportable Offense. Timely Warnings are created through the PSU Alert system and sent via text and email.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.police.psu.edu/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"Penn State - Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications page (reproduced via search snippet; official page HTTP 403)","annotations":["Distinguishes Timely Warnings (Clery Reportable Offense, ongoing/potential threat) and ties them to the PSUAlert system. Not verbatim-confirmed pending direct access to the official page.","Unreachable for SuperGrok Heavy on 2026-09-13 (THE EXCERPT NIGHT UNREACHABLE: police.psu.edu PSUAlert pages HTTP 403 at ~01:05Z); never demoted on unreachability; ruling R9.5"],"characterCount":258},{"label":"Emergency Notification definition","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.police.psu.edu/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"Penn State - Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications page (reproduced via search snippet; official page HTTP 403)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Responsible University Authority","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.police.psu.edu/sites/police/files/2025-09/penn-state-university-park-2025_0.pdf","sourceDescription":"Penn State University Park 2025 Annual Security Report (reproduced via search snippet; PDF returned HTTP 403)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["PSUAlert is Penn State's University-wide emergency messaging system for immediate/ongoing threats, operational events such as closures, and other urgent information.","Penn State separates Clery Timely Warnings (potential or ongoing threat of a Clery Reportable Offense, sent to the entire community) from Emergency Notifications (confirmed significant emergency involving an immediate threat to health or safety).","A Responsible University Authority evaluates whether an event requires a notification and whether issuing it would compromise efforts to contain the emergency; the Chief for Police and Public Safety, the Senior VP for Finance and Business, and Strategic Communications are looped in during an emergency.","Messages go out via text, voice, email, social media (Facebook/Twitter), University and campus websites, and digital signage; all students and employees with a Penn State email automatically receive PSUAlerts by email.","At least one emergency-management exercise is conducted each year, paired with a public reminder of the PSUAlert system and emergency-response procedures; Clery obligations are governed by policies AD74 and AD70."],"sources":[{"title":"Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications | University Police & Public Safety","url":"https://www.police.psu.edu/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"PSUAlert | University Police & Public Safety - Penn State","url":"https://www.police.psu.edu/psualert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University Park 2025 Annual Security Report and Annual Fire Safety Report","url":"https://www.police.psu.edu/sites/police/files/2025-09/penn-state-university-park-2025_0.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Compliance With Clery Act (AD74) | Penn State Policies","url":"https://policy.psu.edu/policies/ad74","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Management (AD70) | Penn State Policies","url":"https://policy.psu.edu/policies/ad70","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","pennsylvania-state-university","psualert","clery"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-10-12","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"pensacola-state-college-timely-warning-emergency-notification-asr","slug":"pensacola-state-college-timely-warning-emergency-notification-asr","institution":{"name":"Pensacola State College","shortName":"PSC","state":"FL","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"PSC ALERT","enrollment":9000},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings (2025 Annual Security Report)","systemName":"PSC ALERT","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://pensacolastate.edu/docs/publicsafety/2025-PSC-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-01-01"},"summary":"Pensacola State College documents [emergency notification channels including PSC ALERT and Clery timely-warning practice](https://pensacolastate.edu/docs/publicsafety/2025-PSC-Annual-Security-Report.pdf) in its 2025 Annual Security Report, with Chief of Police authority for timely warnings and multi-channel distribution including digital signs.","analysis":"Pensacola State College, a multi-campus Florida College System institution in the Pensacola Bay area, publishes emergency-notification and timely-warning procedures inside its [2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://pensacolastate.edu/docs/publicsafety/2025-PSC-Annual-Security-Report.pdf) rather than as a free-standing SOP PDF. Emergency notifications rely on the college website home page as the detailed source of truth, with PSC ALERT providing opt-in SMS, voice, and non-college email delivery alongside internal email. Digital signs in most buildings sound a tone and display emergency information, and Facebook and Twitter are named social channels for official emergency posts.\n\nTimely warnings are assigned to the Chief of Police and are issued as soon as pertinent information is available for Clery crime categories plus any crime considered a threat to the public. Distribution systems named for timely warnings include campus email, cellular text, telephone messages from the PSCAlert profile, the PSC website, and digital signs on all campuses and centers.","whenCriteria":"Timely warnings for Clery-listed crimes and any crime considered to represent a threat to the public, issued as soon as pertinent information is available. Emergency communications for hazard warnings, weather updates, class cancellations, and other important emergency information.","decisionAuthority":"A timely warning may be issued by the Chief of Police. Emergency website and multi-channel emergency communications are operated by the college as described in the ASR emergency-notification section.","timingStandard":"Timely warnings will be issued as soon as pertinent information is available.","cleryFraming":"ASR sections on Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings implement Clery multi-channel notification and crime-warning obligations with named Chief of Police authority for timely warnings.","scopeLimits":"Timely-warning distribution uses campus email, cell text, PSCAlert phone messages, website, and digital signs; PSC ALERT opt-in extends reach to non-college email and personal phones; social media used for emergency posts.","testingCadence":"PSC conducts emergency response exercises each year, including tabletop drills, field exercises, and tests of the emergency notification systems on campus.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","website","desktop-popup","facebook","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Chief of Police timely-warning authority","quotedText":"A timely warning may be issued by the Chief of Police in order to alert the campus community to certain crimes in a manner that is timely and will aid in the prevention of similar crimes.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://pensacolastate.edu/docs/publicsafety/2025-PSC-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"PSC 2025 ASR Timely Warnings","annotations":["Names Chief of Police as timely-warning issuer."],"characterCount":187},{"label":"As soon as pertinent information available","quotedText":"The intent of the warning is focused on criminal incident(s) in order to enable the campus community to protect themselves and will be issued as soon as pertinent information is available.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://pensacolastate.edu/docs/publicsafety/2025-PSC-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"PSC 2025 ASR Timely Warnings timing","annotations":["States as-soon-as-pertinent-information timing standard."],"characterCount":188},{"label":"PSC ALERT delivery options","quotedText":"Options include email to any non-college email address; voice mail messaging to cell phones and home phones; and SMS text messaging to any text-capable cell phone.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://pensacolastate.edu/docs/publicsafety/2025-PSC-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"PSC 2025 ASR PSC ALERT section","annotations":["Lists email, voice, and SMS opt-in channels for PSC ALERT."],"characterCount":163}],"keyFindings":["Chief of Police issues timely warnings as soon as pertinent information is available.","PSC ALERT provides opt-in SMS, voice, and non-college email alongside website and digital signs.","Annual tests of emergency notification systems are conducted."],"sources":[{"title":"PSC 2025 Annual Security Report PDF","url":"https://pensacolastate.edu/docs/publicsafety/2025-PSC-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"PSCAlert overview page","url":"https://pensacolastate.edu/pscalert/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["florida","community-college","clery-asr","psc-alert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"pepperdine-university-everbridge-alert-policy","slug":"pepperdine-university-everbridge-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Pepperdine University","shortName":"Pepperdine","state":"CA","type":"private-r2","alertSystemName":"Everbridge Mass Notification","enrollment":8800},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Communication — Everbridge Mass Notification & LiveSafe (Emergency Operations Committee)","systemName":"Everbridge Mass Notification","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://emergency.pepperdine.edu/emergency-communication/","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"Pepperdine University communicates emergencies through [Everbridge Mass Notification](https://emergency.pepperdine.edu/emergency-communication/) — used only at the discretion of the University's [Emergency Operations Committee (EOC)](https://emergency.pepperdine.edu/emergency-operations-committee-eoc/) during major campus incidents, life-safety emergencies, and testing — supplemented by the LiveSafe app and a real-time [Emergency Information website](https://emergency.pepperdine.edu/).","analysis":"Pepperdine, a Christian university on the Malibu coast (a campus repeatedly threatened by wildfire), centers its emergency communication on the commercial [Everbridge](https://emergency.pepperdine.edu/emergency-communication/) mass-notification platform rather than a home-branded 'Pepperdine Alert' name. The university states that 'Everbridge Mass Notification is the University's emergency communication system that allows the University to send a message to University faculty, staff and student cell, office, and home phones, as well as send text message, and email.' Critically, the platform is gated: 'The system is only used at the discretion of the University's EOC during major campus incidents, life safety emergencies, and for testing' — a deliberately high activation bar that limits the channel to genuine emergencies and scheduled tests.\n\nActivation authority is institutionalized in an [Emergency Operations Committee (EOC)](https://emergency.pepperdine.edu/emergency-operations-committee-eoc/), an interdisciplinary body Pepperdine describes as the University's centralized decision-making body during emergencies. The EOC both decides when Everbridge is used and posts information and decisions affecting the community to the Emergency Information website in real time. The Everbridge roster is driven by the contact information each individual maintains in the WaveNet portal, so reach depends on community members keeping that record current.\n\nPepperdine layers additional channels around Everbridge. The [LiveSafe app](https://emergency.pepperdine.edu/emergency-communication/) improves two-way communication with the Department of Public Safety — letting users discreetly call 9-1-1, submit emergency and non-emergency tips, use a person-to-person SafeWalk virtual escort, and view the University's emergency procedures. Depending on the nature of the situation, community members may receive information through Everbridge, the LiveSafe app, the [Emergency Information website](https://emergency.pepperdine.edu/), or direct University communication from supervisors, co-workers, or Emergency Response Team members.\n\nOn Clery framing, Pepperdine publishes an Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report on or before October 1 each year in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Act, and stresses that 'it is vitally important that emergency situations involving the University community are reported in the most accurate and timeliest manner.' The public-facing pages emphasize the Everbridge/EOC operational model more than a separately enumerated emergency-notification-versus-timely-warning rubric; the precise Clery decision criteria and announced-test cadence live in the ASR. Because the official pepperdine.edu and emergency.pepperdine.edu pages return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from the official Emergency Communication, EOC, and Overview pages as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries; remaining detail is paraphrased.","whenCriteria":"Everbridge Mass Notification is used only at the discretion of the University's Emergency Operations Committee (EOC) during major campus incidents, life-safety emergencies, and for testing. Depending on the situation, community members receive information via Everbridge, the LiveSafe app, the Emergency Information website, or direct University communication.","decisionAuthority":"The interdisciplinary Emergency Operations Committee (EOC) is the University's centralized decision-making body during emergencies; Everbridge is activated only at the EOC's discretion, and the EOC posts decisions to the Emergency Information website in real time.","timingStandard":"Pepperdine states it is vitally important that emergency situations involving the University community are reported in the most accurate and timeliest manner to both emergency responders and affected community members; specific numeric deadlines reside in the Annual Security & Fire Safety Report.","cleryFraming":"Pepperdine publishes an Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report on or before October 1 each year per the Jeanne Clery Act; public pages emphasize the Everbridge/EOC operational model, with the detailed emergency-notification and timely-warning criteria carried in the ASR.","testingCadence":"Everbridge is used for testing as one of its three authorized purposes (major campus incidents, life-safety emergencies, and testing); the precise announced-test cadence is documented in the Annual Security & Fire Safety Report.","scopeLimits":"Everbridge reach depends on contact information each individual maintains in the WaveNet portal, so out-of-date records will not be reached. The system is deliberately restricted to EOC-authorized use for major incidents, life-safety emergencies, and testing — it is not used for routine communications.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","push-notification","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Everbridge definition and channels","quotedText":"Everbridge Mass Notification is the University's emergency communication system that allows the University to send a message to University faculty, staff and student cell, office, and home phones, as well as send text message, and email.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.pepperdine.edu/emergency-communication/","sourceDescription":"Pepperdine Emergency Information — Emergency Communication","annotations":["Names the commercial Everbridge platform as Pepperdine's emergency communication system and lists its delivery channels (cell/office/home phone, text, email)."],"characterCount":237},{"label":"EOC-discretion activation bar","quotedText":"The system is only used at the discretion of the University's EOC during major campus incidents, life safety emergencies, and for testing.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.pepperdine.edu/emergency-communication/","sourceDescription":"Pepperdine Emergency Information — Emergency Communication","annotations":["Sets a deliberately high activation threshold and vests the decision in the Emergency Operations Committee; the channel is reserved for major incidents, life-safety emergencies, and tests."],"characterCount":138},{"label":"LiveSafe app capabilities","quotedText":"The LiveSafe app is designed to improve communication between University community members and Public Safety and enables individuals to discreetly call 9-1-1 as well as connect to Public Safety at the touch of a button.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.pepperdine.edu/emergency-communication/","sourceDescription":"Pepperdine Emergency Information — Emergency Communication","annotations":["Establishes LiveSafe as the two-way companion channel for tips, discreet 9-1-1 contact, and direct Public Safety connection alongside one-way Everbridge alerts."],"characterCount":219}],"keyFindings":["Pepperdine uses the commercial Everbridge Mass Notification platform (not a home-branded alert name) as its emergency communication system across cell/office/home phone, text, and email.","Everbridge is activated only at the discretion of the interdisciplinary Emergency Operations Committee (EOC) and only for major campus incidents, life-safety emergencies, and testing — a high, deliberate activation bar.","The LiveSafe app provides a two-way channel (discreet 9-1-1, tips, SafeWalk escort, emergency procedures) complementing the one-way Everbridge alerts and the real-time Emergency Information website.","Everbridge reach depends on each individual's WaveNet contact record, so stale contact info will not be reached.","Pepperdine publishes its Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report on or before October 1 each year under the Clery Act; the detailed emergency-notification/timely-warning criteria live in the ASR rather than the public Everbridge pages."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Communication — Pepperdine Emergency Information","url":"https://emergency.pepperdine.edu/emergency-communication/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Operations Committee (EOC) — Pepperdine Emergency Information","url":"https://emergency.pepperdine.edu/emergency-operations-committee-eoc/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Overview — Pepperdine Emergency Information","url":"https://emergency.pepperdine.edu/overview/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Security Report — Public Safety, Pepperdine University","url":"https://www.pepperdine.edu/publicsafety/safety/security-report.htm","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Fall Enrollment Census — Office of Institutional Effectiveness, Pepperdine University","url":"https://www.pepperdine.edu/oie/institutional-research/0student_fall_semester_enrollment_census.htm","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","everbridge","livesafe","emergency-operations-committee","private-r2","california"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-02","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"peru-state-college-bobcat-alert-policy","slug":"peru-state-college-bobcat-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Peru State College","shortName":"PSC","state":"NE","type":"public-bachelors","alertSystemName":"BOBCAT ALERT","alertPlatform":"Omnilert"},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Resources","systemName":"BOBCAT ALERT","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://peru.edu/emergency/resources","lastReviewed":"2026-09-20"},"summary":"Peru State College, Nebraska's oldest public college, located in the small town of Peru, maintains [BOBCAT ALERT](https://peru.edu/emergency/resources), an Omnilert-powered mass communication system for students, faculty, and staff, supplemented by a campus two-way radio system used for both daily operations and emergency alerts.","analysis":"Peru State College is a small public four-year college in Peru, Nebraska, the state's oldest institution of higher education. The college's [Emergency Resources page](https://peru.edu/emergency/resources) describes BOBCAT ALERT, powered by the Omnilert emergency notification platform, as the college's primary mass-communication tool: it has the ability to send out mass communication to individuals across campus in the event of an emergency via email, text message, or voice message. Students, faculty, and staff opt in to this service through an online account managed at the college's emergency resources portal.\n\nDistinctively for a small rural college, Peru State also documents a campus two-way radio system that the Emergency Resources page states is operational on campus for daily use as well as for emergency alerts, with alerts sent through this system stated to contain instructions for the emergency -- a redundant, locally-operated communications layer alongside the Omnilert electronic system, plausible given Peru's rural southeastern-Nebraska location and potential for cellular-service gaps during severe weather. The college's separate [Natural Disaster Emergencies page](https://www.peru.edu/security/emergency/natural-disaster-emergencies/) addresses weather-specific procedures.\n\nThis sandbox's network egress could not directly fetch peru.edu to confirm the exact wording of the Emergency Resources page; the summary above is built from search-engine reproduction of the page, corroborated across independent queries. Per this archive's standing policy, that limitation is not treated as grounds to omit or demote the entry -- it is documented honestly as reconstructed pending direct verification.","whenCriteria":"Per the college's Emergency Resources page, BOBCAT ALERT sends mass communication across campus in the event of an emergency; the specific Clery activation-criteria language was not retrievable verbatim from this sandbox.","decisionAuthority":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed for this entry.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"BOBCAT ALERT is opt-in via an online account; the college supplements it with a campus two-way radio system operational for both daily use and emergency alerts, a redundant local-communications layer distinctive among this archive's small rural-college entries.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"BOBCAT ALERT description (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of the Peru State College Emergency Resources page; peru.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Two-way radio redundancy (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of the Peru State College Emergency Resources page; peru.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Peru State College, Nebraska's oldest public college, uses BOBCAT ALERT (Omnilert) for email/text/voice mass notification, opt-in via an online account.","The college supplements electronic alerts with a campus two-way radio system operational for both daily use and emergencies.","peru.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox, so the excerpts are marked reconstructed; per archive policy this is not treated as demotion evidence."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Resources - Peru State College","url":"https://peru.edu/emergency/resources","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Natural Disaster Emergencies - Peru State College","url":"https://www.peru.edu/security/emergency/natural-disaster-emergencies/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Peru State College - Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru_State_College","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","public-bachelors","nebraska","omnilert","bobcat-alert"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-20","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"philander-smith-university-2025-asr-alert-policy","slug":"philander-smith-university-2025-asr-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Philander Smith University","shortName":"Philander Smith","state":"AR","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"e2 Campus Emergency Alert"},"policy":{"title":"2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - Timely Warning Notices and e2 Campus Emergency Alert","systemName":"e2 Campus Emergency Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.philander.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Report-2025.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Philander Smith University's [2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.philander.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Report-2025.pdf) issues special notices in a timely manner to publicize violent crimes or perceived patterns of crime, and defines e2 Emergency Alert as a text messaging notification system that can contact students and employees in an emergency. In an emergency, notification begins immediately.","analysis":"Philander Smith (Arkansas HBCU, four filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [2025 ASR PDF](https://www.philander.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Report-2025.pdf) (HTTP 200, text layer). Timely Warning Notices publicize violent crimes or perceived patterns of crime in a particular area to heighten awareness and help prevent reoccurrences (live spelling). e2 Emergency Alert is a text messaging notification system; individuals must subscribe. In an emergency, notification will begin immediately and may use one or all listed methods. A sentence that reads Philander Smith current emergency mass communication methods is missing a word and is not quoted. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF.","whenCriteria":"Timely Warning Notices for violent crimes or perceived patterns of crime in a particular area. e2 Emergency Alert in the event of an emergency. Immediate notification in an emergency.","decisionAuthority":"The ASR does not name a single issuing official in the quoted sentences. Campus-wide warnings may use e2 Campus, mass emails, and bulletin boards.","timingStandard":"Special notices in a timely manner. In an emergency, notification will begin immediately.","cleryFraming":"The ASR has a Timely Warning Notices section and a separate e2 Campus Emergency Alert / Emergency Communication Methods section.","scopeLimits":"Individuals must subscribe to e2 Campus Emergency Alert to receive an alert. The system is used in addition to other mass communication methods.","channels":["sms","email","website","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely Warning Notices policy","quotedText":"It is University policy to issue special notices in a timely manner to publicize violent crimes or perceived patterns of crime in a particular area to heighten awareness and help prevent reoccurrences.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.philander.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Report-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Philander Smith University 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Live spelling is reoccurrences."],"characterCount":201},{"label":"e2 Emergency Alert definition","quotedText":"e2 Emergency Alert refers to a text messaging notification system that can be used to contact students and employees in the event of an emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.philander.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Report-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Philander Smith University 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["System name in the ASR is e2 Emergency Alert."],"characterCount":146},{"label":"Subscription required","quotedText":"Individuals must subscribe to the e2 Campus Emergency Alert system to receive an alert via the following methods:","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.philander.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Report-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Philander Smith University 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Opt-in. Following methods list is not quoted as a sentence."],"characterCount":113},{"label":"Immediate emergency notification","quotedText":"In an emergency, notification will begin immediately and may use one or all of these methods:","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.philander.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Report-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Philander Smith University 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["A following bullet renders as e 2Campus with a dropped space and is not quoted."],"characterCount":93}],"keyFindings":["Timely Warning Notices publicize violent crimes or perceived patterns of crime to prevent reoccurrences.","e2 Emergency Alert is a text system that requires subscription.","In an emergency, notification begins immediately."],"sources":[{"title":"Philander Smith University 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.philander.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Report-2025.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","arkansas","hbcu"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"piedmont-community-college-nc-blackboard-connect-eas-asr","slug":"piedmont-community-college-nc-blackboard-connect-eas-asr","institution":{"name":"Piedmont Community College","shortName":"PCC","state":"NC","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Emergency Alert System / Blackboard Connect","enrollment":2500},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning Notices and Emergency Alert System (Blackboard Connect) - Annual Security Report","systemName":"Emergency Alert System / Blackboard Connect","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://piedmontcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-2022.pdf","lastReviewed":"2022-10-01"},"summary":"Piedmont Community College documents [Timely Warning Notices via Blackboard Connect Emergency Alert System](https://piedmontcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-2022.pdf) with College Safety and VP Administrative Services/CFO issuance and President activation authority in the College Safety Plan.","analysis":"Piedmont Community College (Roxboro/Person County, NC) publishes Timely Warning Notices and Emergency Alert System procedures in its [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://piedmontcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-2022.pdf) and College Safety Plan. The College Safety Office, with the Vice President of Administrative Services/CFO, issues Emergency Alerts in a timely manner for certain crimes in and around the community. Once an alert is determined, the message is transmitted via Blackboard Connect; students and employees are encouraged to register for email, audio, text, and social media notifications and keep contacts current. Alerts also post on digital signs and the College website.\n\nPCC adopted Blackboard Connect as part of the Emergency Alert System for voice, email, and text when emergencies threaten the collegial environment. Faculty/staff enroll at no cost. Periodic system testing is conducted. The College Safety Plan states EAS activates when switchboard contacts a College Safety Official, the President, or any available VP; notifications go via Blackboard Connect (text, voice, email, digital signage), VoIP speaker phones, and verbal College Safety Officials. The President or designee determines when to broadcast and instructs activation. Emergency response and evacuation systems are tested annually. Complements Person/Caswell NC CC coverage.","whenCriteria":"Timely Warning / Emergency Alert for certain crimes in and around the community that warrant community notification. EAS for campus emergencies before, during, and after incidents threatening the collegial environment.","decisionAuthority":"College Safety Office with VP Administrative Services/CFO issues Emergency Alerts. President or designee determines when to broadcast and instructs administrative assistant to activate EAS. Switchboard escalates to College Safety Official, President, or VP.","timingStandard":"Emergency Alerts issued in a timely manner. Annual emergency response and evacuation testing. Periodic EAS testing for safety measures.","cleryFraming":"ASR Timely Warning Notices and Emergency Alert System sections with named Blackboard Connect EAS; Safety Plan Methods of Communication.","scopeLimits":"Students and employees encouraged to register with Blackboard Connect. Faculty/staff enrollment at no cost. Digital signs and website supplement Blackboard Connect.","testingCadence":"Emergency response and evacuation procedures and systems tested annually (announced and unannounced exercises documented). Periodic EAS testing.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","digital-signage","website","facebook","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Blackboard Connect EAS adoption","quotedText":"Piedmont Community College has adopted Blackboard Connect as part of the College's Emergency Alert System. The Blackboard Connect system allows PCC to notify faculty/staff quickly by sending voice, email and text messages should an emergency situation occur that may threaten the collegial environment.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://piedmontcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-2022.pdf","sourceDescription":"Piedmont CC ASR - Emergency Alert System (EAS)","annotations":["Named Blackboard Connect as EAS platform for voice/email/text."],"characterCount":302},{"label":"Blackboard Connect alert transmission","quotedText":"Once the College determines that an alert will be issued, the department transmits the message utilizing Blackboard Connect.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://piedmontcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-2022.pdf","sourceDescription":"Piedmont CC ASR - Distribution of College Emergency Alert System","annotations":["Blackboard Connect is the transmission path for alerts."],"characterCount":124},{"label":"President activates EAS","quotedText":"The President or designee will determine when a message is to be broadcasted and will instruct his/her administrative assistant to activate the Emergency Alert System.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://piedmontcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/College-Safety-Plan-8.10.2021.pdf","sourceDescription":"Piedmont CC College Safety Plan - Emergency Alert System","annotations":["President/designee owns EAS activation decision."],"characterCount":167}],"keyFindings":["Blackboard Connect is the Emergency Alert System for voice, email, text, and digital signage.","College Safety and VP Administrative Services/CFO issue timely Emergency Alerts.","President or designee activates EAS; annual emergency response testing."],"sources":[{"title":"Piedmont Community College Annual Security and Fire Safety Report PDF","url":"https://piedmontcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-2022.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Piedmont Community College Safety Plan PDF","url":"https://piedmontcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/College-Safety-Plan-8.10.2021.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["north-carolina","community-college","clery-asr","blackboard-connect","emergency-alert-system","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"piedmont-technical-college-blackboard-connect-asr","slug":"piedmont-technical-college-blackboard-connect-asr","institution":{"name":"Piedmont Technical College","shortName":"PTC","state":"SC","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Blackboard Connect","enrollment":5000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning and Emergency Notification (Blackboard Connect) - Annual Security Report","systemName":"Blackboard Connect","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.ptc.edu/sites/default/files/documents/public_safety/ASR/asr.pdf","lastReviewed":"2023-10-01"},"summary":"Piedmont Technical College documents [Blackboard Connect text alerts plus email and early-warning siren channels](https://www.ptc.edu/sites/default/files/documents/public_safety/ASR/asr.pdf) for Clery timely warnings and emergency notifications, with Director of Campus Police and Security as primary TW decision-maker.","analysis":"Piedmont Technical College (Greenwood, SC multi-campus) publishes Alerting the College Community, Timely Warning, and Emergency Notification procedures in its [Annual Security Report](https://www.ptc.edu/sites/default/files/documents/public_safety/ASR/asr.pdf). PTC uses Blackboard Connect for text messages to parties who have not opted out, plus broadcast email to college accounts, outdoor early-warning sirens in certain areas, website banners, social media, and other means depending on the incident.\n\nTimely Warnings notify the community of Clery crimes on PTC Clery geography that the Director of Campus Police and Security or designee judges a serious or continued threat (examples: sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault), typically via broadcast email and/or text. Emergency Notifications immediately notify upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat to health, safety, and/or security on campus (examples: active shooter, tornado warnings), typically through a combination of messaging systems. Campus Police contact the President for significant situations and may confer with local law enforcement/first responders before activating EN. Annual drills and exercises assess emergency plans; Campus Police maintain a Comprehensive Emergency Operations Plan. Complements SC technical-college cluster with York Tech, FDTC, Spartanburg, and HGTC.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning: Clery crimes on PTC Clery geography representing serious or continued threat in judgment of Director of Campus Police and Security or designee. Emergency notification: confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat to health, safety, and/or security of students and employees on campus.","decisionAuthority":"Timely warning judgment: Director of Campus Police and Security or designee. Significant/dangerous situations: Campus Police contact President; may confer with local first responders to confirm before EN activation.","timingStandard":"Emergency Notification immediately upon confirmation. Timely Warning when Director judges serious or continued threat. Annual drills/exercises.","cleryFraming":"ASR Alerting the College Community, Timely Warning, and Emergency Notification sections with named Blackboard Connect platform.","scopeLimits":"Blackboard Connect sends to parties who have not voluntarily opted out. Outdoor sirens available only in certain areas. EN confirmation may involve local law enforcement coordination.","testingCadence":"Drills and exercises each year to assess and evaluate emergency plans and capabilities with on- and off-campus departments.","channels":["sms","email","siren","website","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Blackboard Connect text system","quotedText":"PTC utilizes a text message alert system called Blackboard Connect. This messaging system sends alert via text messages to all parties which have not voluntarily opted-out of the system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ptc.edu/sites/default/files/documents/public_safety/ASR/asr.pdf","sourceDescription":"PTC ASR - Alerting the College Community","annotations":["Named Blackboard Connect with opt-out model."],"characterCount":186},{"label":"Timely warning Clery geography standard","quotedText":"PTC will issue a \"Timely Warning\" to notify the campus community of any Clery crimes that occurred or are occurring anywhere on PTC's Clery geography that are considered to be, in the judgement of the Director of Campus Police and Security or their designee, a serious or continued threat to students and employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ptc.edu/sites/default/files/documents/public_safety/ASR/asr.pdf","sourceDescription":"PTC ASR - Timely Warning","annotations":["Director of Campus Police owns TW judgment for Clery geography crimes."],"characterCount":315},{"label":"Emergency notification immediate threat standard","quotedText":"PTC will issue an \"Emergency Notification\" that will immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health, safety and/or security of students and employees on campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ptc.edu/sites/default/files/documents/public_safety/ASR/asr.pdf","sourceDescription":"PTC ASR - Emergency Notification","annotations":["Immediate EN on confirmed on-campus immediate threat."],"characterCount":265}],"keyFindings":["Blackboard Connect opt-out text system plus email and outdoor early-warning sirens.","Director of Campus Police and Security decides timely warnings for Clery geography crimes.","President contacted for significant situations; annual multi-department drills."],"sources":[{"title":"Piedmont Technical College Annual Security Report PDF","url":"https://www.ptc.edu/sites/default/files/documents/public_safety/ASR/asr.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"PTC Emergency Notification System FAQs","url":"https://www.ptc.edu/college-resources/campus-police-and-security/emergency-management/emergency-notification-system","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["south-carolina","community-college","clery-asr","blackboard-connect","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"pierce-college-emergency-notification-policy","slug":"pierce-college-emergency-notification-policy","institution":{"name":"Pierce College District","shortName":"Pierce College","state":"WA","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Pierce College Emergency Notification System"},"policy":{"title":"2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - Timely and Emergency Notifications","systemName":"Pierce College Emergency Notification System","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://pierce.ctc.edu/documents/2025/10/Pierce-College-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-2025.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Pierce College District's [2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://pierce.ctc.edu/documents/2025/10/Pierce-College-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-2025.pdf) issues an emergency notification and activates procedures in the event of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the college community. The [notification page](https://www.pierce.ctc.edu/about/campus-safety/emergency/notification.html) says Campus Safety, after confirming a threat, works with College Administration to determine Emergency Notification content.","analysis":"Pierce College District (Washington community college, six filed cases, no prior policy file) posts a live [2025 ASR PDF](https://pierce.ctc.edu/documents/2025/10/Pierce-College-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-2025.pdf) (HTTP 200, text layer) and a live [Notification of Immediate Threat](https://www.pierce.ctc.edu/about/campus-safety/emergency/notification.html) page (HTTP 200). The ASR states that in the event of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the college community health or safety, the college will issue an emergency notification and activate the emergency notification procedures (the live sentence omits 'of' before health). The HTML page states that when Campus Safety confirms a situation may pose a threat or is an immediate threat, Campus Safety works collaboratively with College Administration to determine Emergency Notification content. A timely-warning sentence on the HTML page contains an NBSP and is not quoted. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF or HTML.","whenCriteria":"Significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to college-community health or safety. Campus Safety confirms a threat or immediate threat from any campus office or department.","decisionAuthority":"Campus Safety works collaboratively with College Administration on Emergency Notification content. HTML also names the Director of Safety and Security or an Executive Team Member for timely warnings; that sentence is not quoted because of an NBSP.","timingStandard":"Not stated as a minutes-based SLA in the quoted sentences.","cleryFraming":"The ASR pairs Timely and Emergency Notifications in one chapter. This file quotes the emergency-notification track.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","digital-signage","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency notification trigger","quotedText":"In the event of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the college community health or safety, the college will issue an emergency notification and activate the emergency notification procedures.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://pierce.ctc.edu/documents/2025/10/Pierce-College-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Pierce College 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Live wording omits 'of' before health. Preserved."],"characterCount":236},{"label":"Campus Safety and Administration determine content","quotedText":"In the event Campus Safety receives information from any office or department on the college campus, and confirms that a situation may pose a threat, or is an immediate threat, to the health and safety of the Pierce College community, Campus Safety will work collaboratively with the College Administration to determine the content of an Emergency Notification message.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pierce.ctc.edu/about/campus-safety/emergency/notification.html","sourceDescription":"Pierce College Notification of Immediate Threat page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Confirmation plus collaborative content determination."],"characterCount":369}],"keyFindings":["Emergency notifications activate on a confirmed significant emergency or immediate threat.","Campus Safety and College Administration jointly determine Emergency Notification content.","The system uses text and email; the ASR also lists digital-display clocks."],"sources":[{"title":"Pierce College District 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://pierce.ctc.edu/documents/2025/10/Pierce-College-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-2025.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Pierce College Notification of Immediate Threat","url":"https://www.pierce.ctc.edu/about/campus-safety/emergency/notification.html","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","washington","community-college"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"pikes-peak-state-college-emergency-notification-system-asr","slug":"pikes-peak-state-college-emergency-notification-system-asr","institution":{"name":"Pikes Peak State College","shortName":"PPSC","state":"CO","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"PPSC Emergency Notification System","enrollment":12000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning and Emergency Notification Procedures - Annual Security Report","systemName":"PPSC Emergency Notification System","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.pikespeak.edu/administration-operations/campus-police/_police-uploads/annual-security-reports/2025PPSCAnnualSecurityReport.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Pikes Peak State College documents [Chief-of-Police timely warnings and Policy Group emergency notifications](https://www.pikespeak.edu/administration-operations/campus-police/_police-uploads/annual-security-reports/2025PPSCAnnualSecurityReport.pdf) via the PPSC Emergency Notification System with automatic student/employee text and email opt-in.","analysis":"Pikes Peak State College (Colorado Springs multi-campus, CO) publishes Timely Warning and Emergency Notification Procedures in its [2025 Annual Security Report](https://www.pikespeak.edu/administration-operations/campus-police/_police-uploads/annual-security-reports/2025PPSCAnnualSecurityReport.pdf). All students and employees are automatically opted in for text and email notification messages. Timely warnings inform the community of Clery Act crimes and other serious incidents posing serious or continuing threat; the Chief of Police or designee determines criteria are met, the President or designee approves, and Marketing and Communications issues (except time-sensitive events where Chief of Police may send directly via the Emergency Notification System).\n\nEmergency notifications cover significant emergencies or dangerous situations involving immediate threat to health or safety on or imminently threatening a PPSC campus (fire, tornado, gas leak, armed intruder, civil unrest, hazmat spill, etc.). Confirmation rests with Chief of Police or any Policy Group member (President, chiefs of staff, VPs, Marketing ED). Content is coordinated with Marketing; transmission is via the Emergency Notification System by Marketing or, if unavailable, the Chief Technology Officer; Chief of Police may send directly for efficiency. Segmented notifications allowed. Complements Colorado community-college coverage.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning: Clery Act crime (or other continuing-threat crime) in Clery geography representing serious or continuing threat. Emergency notification: confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat to health or safety on or imminently threatening a PPSC campus.","decisionAuthority":"Timely warning: Chief of Police determines criteria; President approves; Marketing issues (Chief may send directly if time-sensitive). Emergency notification confirmation and audience: Chief of Police or any Policy Group member; content with Marketing; system transmission by Marketing or CTO; Chief may send directly.","timingStandard":"Without delay taking community safety into account, unless professional judgment holds notification would compromise victim assistance or emergency mitigation.","cleryFraming":"ASR Section 3 Timely Warning and Emergency Notification Procedures with named PPSC Emergency Notification System and auto opt-in.","scopeLimits":"No TW required for non-Clery crimes or crimes reported only to pastoral/professional counselors. Single burglary/MVT/drug-alcohol-weapons incidents generally no TW unless series poses continuing threat. EN may target entire campus or a segment.","testingCadence":"Chief of Police meets annually with Campus Police and Marketing to review and update notification templates. Broader system test cadence not specified in the TW/EN procedures section reviewed.","channels":["sms","email","pa-system","digital-signage","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Automatic text and email opt-in","quotedText":"All students and employees are automatically opted in to receive these notification messages via text and email.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pikespeak.edu/administration-operations/campus-police/_police-uploads/annual-security-reports/2025PPSCAnnualSecurityReport.pdf","sourceDescription":"PPSC 2025 ASR - Timely Warning and Emergency Notification Procedures","annotations":["Auto opt-in for students and employees on text and email."],"characterCount":112},{"label":"ENS multi-channel timely warnings","quotedText":"Timely warnings are issued through PPSC's Emergency Notification System at the discretion of the PPSC Chief of Police (or designee). Notifications may take the form of text messages, emails, scrolling messages, public address system announcements, social media, and/or other appropriate means.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pikespeak.edu/administration-operations/campus-police/_police-uploads/annual-security-reports/2025PPSCAnnualSecurityReport.pdf","sourceDescription":"PPSC 2025 ASR - Timely Warning Methods","annotations":["Named ENS with multi-channel TW stack under Chief discretion."],"characterCount":293},{"label":"Chief sole discretion for time-sensitive TW","quotedText":"In a time-sensitive event, the PPSC Chief of Police (or designee) has the sole discretion and ability to issue timely warning messages.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pikespeak.edu/administration-operations/campus-police/_police-uploads/annual-security-reports/2025PPSCAnnualSecurityReport.pdf","sourceDescription":"PPSC 2025 ASR - Responsibility for Issuing Timely Warning","annotations":["Chief may bypass Marketing for time-sensitive TW."],"characterCount":135}],"keyFindings":["Automatic text/email opt-in for all students and employees.","Chief of Police + President + Marketing path for TW; Chief sole discretion when time-sensitive.","Named Policy Group confirms emergencies and may initiate EN process."],"sources":[{"title":"Pikes Peak State College 2025 Annual Security Report PDF","url":"https://www.pikespeak.edu/administration-operations/campus-police/_police-uploads/annual-security-reports/2025PPSCAnnualSecurityReport.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"PPSC Emergency Notification System page","url":"https://www.pikespeak.edu/administration-operations/emergency-management/notifications.php","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["colorado","community-college","clery-asr","emergency-notification-system","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"pima-community-college-alert-policy","slug":"pima-community-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Pima Community College","shortName":"PCC","state":"AZ","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"PCCAlert","enrollment":19186},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warnings / Emergency Notifications (PCCAlert) — Annual Security & Fire Safety Report","systemName":"PCCAlert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.pima.edu/administration/police/docs/clery-annual-report.pdf","policyNumber":null},"summary":"[Pima Community College](https://www.pima.edu/administration/police/timely-warning.html) — a multi-campus district serving the Tucson, Arizona metro — issues emergency notifications and timely warnings through [PCCAlert](https://www.pima.edu/administration/police/docs/pccalert-faq.pdf), a text-message and email system that the PCC Police Department activates for emergencies affecting the life safety of the College community, with timely-warning authority resting with the Chief of Police.","analysis":"Pima Community College (PCC) is the principal community-college district for Tucson and Pima County, Arizona, operating multiple campuses and learning centers. Its emergency communications run on [PCCAlert](https://www.pima.edu/administration/police/docs/pccalert-faq.pdf), an opt-in/opt-out text-and-email notification platform managed by the PCC Police Department. The College's branding is 'PCCAlert' rather than 'PimaAlert'; older student-facing references also used 'PCC Alert.' The system is documented in the [PCC Annual Security & Fire Safety Report](https://www.pima.edu/administration/police/docs/clery-annual-report.pdf), prepared in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act and the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act.\n\nPCC has activated the PCCAlert notification system to provide accurate information and guidance via text message and email to the PCC community about emergencies affecting the life safety of the College community. Enrollment is broad and inclusive: anyone can sign up for PCCAlerts — students, parents, employees, and members of the community — and the College deliberately will not remove College email accounts from PCCAlert so that active community members keep receiving safety information. Students and employees update their mobile numbers through the Banner system, and employees are asked to note a cell number in the Banner field used for emergency texts.\n\nOn the Clery framing, PCC separates the two federal instruments. For [timely warnings](https://www.pima.edu/administration/police/timely-warning.html): if a crime is reported to have occurred within the PCC Clery geography that, in the judgment of the Chief of Police (or a designee in PCC Police), constitutes a serious or continuing threat to the community, a campus-wide timely warning is issued — locating activation authority squarely with the Chief of Police. PCC describes itself as responsible for reporting to the campus community significant crime incidents on or near the campuses that may pose a continuing threat to campus safety and security. Emergency notifications, by contrast, address confirmed emergencies affecting the life safety of the College community and are pushed through PCCAlert's text and email channels.\n\nOn testing, PCC publicizes a regular cadence: the PCCAlert system is tested at least once a year — and in some cases once per semester — with the College making every effort to notify the community in advance of testing by regular means of communication. The College also maintains a [Timely Warnings/Bulletins archive](https://www.pima.edu/administration/police/timely-warning.html) of issued notices, and publishes emergency-response procedures alongside the PCCAlert description in its Annual Security & Fire Safety Report.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning: a crime reported within the PCC Clery geography that, in the judgment of the Chief of Police or designee, constitutes a serious or continuing threat to the community — a campus-wide warning is issued. Emergency notification: confirmed emergencies affecting the life safety of the College community, pushed via PCCAlert text and email.","decisionAuthority":"The Chief of Police (or a designee in PCC Police) judges whether a reported crime poses a serious or continuing threat and authorizes a campus-wide timely warning; the PCC Police Department activates PCCAlert for life-safety emergencies.","timingStandard":"Timely warnings are issued campus-wide when the Chief of Police judges a serious or continuing threat exists; PCCAlert is activated to provide accurate information and guidance about emergencies affecting life safety.","cleryFraming":"Distinguishes timely warnings (Clery-reportable crimes posing a serious or continuing threat to the community, per Chief of Police judgment) from emergency notifications (emergencies affecting the life safety of the College community via PCCAlert), under the Jeanne Clery Act and the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act.","testingCadence":"PCCAlert is tested at least once a year, and in some cases once per semester; the College makes every effort to notify the community in advance of testing by regular means of communication.","scopeLimits":"Anyone can sign up for PCCAlerts (students, parents, employees, community members); College email accounts are not removed from PCCAlert so active members keep receiving safety information. Mobile numbers are updated via Banner.","channels":["sms","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"PCCAlert activation and purpose","quotedText":"PCC has activated the PCCAlert notification system to provide accurate information and guidance via text message and email to the PCC community about emergencies affecting the life safety of the College community. Anyone can sign up for PCCAlerts: students, parents, employees and members of the community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pima.edu/administration/police/docs/clery-annual-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"PCC Annual Security & Fire Safety Report","annotations":["Defines the trigger as emergencies affecting life safety and opens enrollment to parents and the broader community, not just students/employees."],"characterCount":306},{"label":"Timely-warning criteria and authority","quotedText":"If a crime is reported to have occurred within the PCC Clery Geography that in the judgment of the Chief of Police (or designee in PCC Police) constitutes a serious or continuing threat to the community, a campus-wide Timely Warning will be issued.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pima.edu/administration/police/timely-warning.html","sourceDescription":"PCC Police — Timely Warnings/Bulletins","annotations":["Places timely-warning activation authority with the Chief of Police (or designee) and ties the trigger to the Clery 'serious or continuing threat' standard within Clery geography."],"characterCount":248},{"label":"Annual / per-semester testing","quotedText":"The PCCAlert system will be tested at least once a year, and in some cases, testing may occur once per semester. Every effort will be made to notify the College community in advance of testing by regular means of communication.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pima.edu/administration/police/docs/pccalert-faq.pdf","sourceDescription":"PCCAlert Frequently Asked Questions","annotations":["Documents the Clery-required test cadence (annual, sometimes per-semester) with advance notice to the community."],"characterCount":227},{"label":"Email retention to keep members reachable","quotedText":"The College will NOT remove college email accounts from PCCAlert to ensure active community members are receiving this important safety information.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pima.edu/administration/police/docs/pccalert-faq.pdf","sourceDescription":"PCCAlert Frequently Asked Questions","annotations":["Email enrollment is sticky by design so active students/employees can't inadvertently drop off the life-safety list; mobile numbers are managed via Banner."],"characterCount":148}],"keyFindings":["PCC's system is branded PCCAlert (not 'PimaAlert'); it delivers life-safety emergency information by text message and email and is run by the PCC Police Department.","Enrollment is unusually broad — students, parents, employees, and community members may sign up — and College email accounts are deliberately never removed so active members stay reachable.","Timely-warning authority rests with the Chief of Police (or designee), triggered by a reported Clery-geography crime constituting a serious or continuing threat to the community.","PCCAlert is tested at least once a year and sometimes once per semester, with advance notice to the community by regular means.","Mobile numbers are updated through Banner; the system and emergency-response procedures are documented in the PCC Annual Security & Fire Safety Report."],"sources":[{"title":"PCC Police — Timely Warnings/Bulletins","url":"https://www.pima.edu/administration/police/timely-warning.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"PCC 2025 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report","url":"https://www.pima.edu/administration/police/docs/clery-annual-report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"PCCAlert Frequently Asked Questions","url":"https://www.pima.edu/administration/police/docs/pccalert-faq.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"PCC Police — Help in Emergencies","url":"https://www.pima.edu/administration/police/emergencies.html","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","community-college","pccalert","arizona"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"plymouth-state-university-psu-alert-policy","slug":"plymouth-state-university-psu-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Plymouth State University","shortName":"PSU","state":"NH","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"PSU Alert","enrollment":4000},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Text Alert System / Timely Warning Policy","systemName":"PSU Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.plymouth.edu/about/emergency-information/emergency-text-alert-system","lastReviewed":"2025-09-01"},"summary":"Plymouth State University in Plymouth, New Hampshire issues a campus-wide [timely warning](https://www.plymouth.edu/police/services/laws-policies) through university email, text alert, and web systems when an incident constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat, and separately runs [PSU Alert](https://www.plymouth.edu/about/emergency-information/emergency-text-alert-system), an opt-in emergency text system students and employees must register for through myPlymouth to receive.","analysis":"Plymouth State's timely-warning policy, published through University Police Department [Laws and Policies](https://www.plymouth.edu/police/services/laws-policies) materials, states that when an incident constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat, a campus-wide 'timely warning' will be issued through University e-mail, text alert, and web systems to students, faculty, and staff, and that in situations that could pose an immediate threat to the community, the warning will also be posted on the UPD website. The decision standard tracks the familiar Clery three-factor test: case-by-case, weighing the nature of the crime, the danger to the campus community, and the possible risk of compromising law enforcement efforts.\n\nThe delivery system, branded PSU Alert (administered as the [Emergency Text Alert System](https://www.plymouth.edu/about/emergency-information/emergency-text-alert-system)), is opt-in and requires an affirmative registration step: users log in through myPlymouth, register a cell number, and the system sends a validation test text that must be confirmed before the account is active. Plymouth State is explicit that registration is mandatory for the text channel specifically, calling it the most immediate means of emergency communication, while the university website remains the designated primary information source during an unfolding emergency. Students may also register a parent or guardian's phone number as a secondary contact, extending reach beyond the enrolled campus population itself.\n\nFor closures and cancellations specifically (a lower-urgency, more routine category than a Clery timely warning), Plymouth State documents a broader channel set: notifications go to local media and are posted to the PSU website, the PSU Alert Line, and sent via email and text messaging systems, coordinated by the university's Communications & Marketing team working with emergency responders to keep information timely, factual, and informative, per the university's [Annual Security Report](https://www.plymouth.edu/sites/default/files/media/2024-09/annual-security-report-for-2024.pdf).\n\nBecause plymouth.edu hosts return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were captured from search-indexed page text for the Laws and Policies and Emergency Text Alert System pages, cross-checked across multiple independent search queries that returned consistent wording. Note that Plymouth State's 'PSU' abbreviation and 'PSU Alert' branding is coincidentally identical to Penn State's own 'PSUAlert' system; the two are unrelated institutions, and all sourcing here is specific to Plymouth State University in New Hampshire, part of the University System of New Hampshire.","whenCriteria":"When an incident constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat, a campus-wide timely warning will be issued; in situations that could pose an immediate threat to the community, the warning is also placed on the University Police Department website.","decisionAuthority":"University Police Department makes the timely-warning determination; a specific named title (e.g., chief or duty officer) beyond 'UPD' was not confirmed in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"The decision to issue a timely warning is made on a case-by-case basis; no specific numeric minutes/hours SLA was confirmed in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"Plymouth State frames the case-by-case timely-warning decision around the standard Clery three-factor test: nature of the crime, danger to the campus community, and possible risk of compromising law enforcement efforts.","testingCadence":"PSU Alert registration includes a validation test text sent at signup to confirm each new registrant's account; no fixed recurring system-wide test cadence was confirmed in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Text-channel delivery through PSU Alert is opt-in and requires registration via myPlymouth; students may add a parent/guardian number as a secondary contact. Timely warnings themselves are pushed via university email, text alert, and web systems regardless of individual PSU Alert text registration for the email/web channels.","channels":["email","sms","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely warning trigger and channels","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.plymouth.edu/police/services/laws-policies","sourceDescription":"Plymouth State University Police Department, Laws and Policies","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Case-by-case decision factors","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.plymouth.edu/police/services/laws-policies","sourceDescription":"Plymouth State University Police Department, Laws and Policies","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Emergency Text Alert System registration","quotedText":"With this service, PSU can text your cell phone with timely information about emergencies, class cancellations, or other urgent campus communications.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.plymouth.edu/about/emergency-information/emergency-text-alert-system","sourceDescription":"Plymouth State University, Emergency Text Alert System","annotations":["Describes the opt-in text channel's scope: emergencies, class cancellations, and other urgent communications."],"characterCount":150},{"label":"Validation and secondary contacts","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.plymouth.edu/about/emergency-information/emergency-text-alert-system","sourceDescription":"Plymouth State University, Emergency Text Alert System","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Plymouth State's timely-warning trigger is an 'ongoing or continuing threat,' distributed via university email, text alert, and web systems, with website posting added for incidents posing an immediate community threat.","The decision standard is the classic Clery three-factor test applied by University Police.","PSU Alert (the Emergency Text Alert System) is opt-in, requiring myPlymouth registration and a validation text before activation, with an option to add a parent/guardian number.","Plymouth State's 'PSU Alert' branding coincidentally shares its abbreviation with Penn State's unrelated 'PSUAlert' system; this file concerns Plymouth State University, New Hampshire, exclusively."],"sources":[{"title":"Laws and Policies, Plymouth State University Police Department","url":"https://www.plymouth.edu/police/services/laws-policies","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Text Alert System, Plymouth State University","url":"https://www.plymouth.edu/about/emergency-information/emergency-text-alert-system","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual Security Report and Annual Fire Report, October 01, 2024","url":"https://www.plymouth.edu/sites/default/files/media/2024-09/annual-security-report-for-2024.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","psu-alert","public-masters","new-hampshire"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"point-loma-nazarene-university-rave-alert-policy","slug":"point-loma-nazarene-university-rave-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Point Loma Nazarene University","shortName":"PLNU","state":"CA","type":"private-masters","alertSystemName":"Rave Alert","enrollment":4500},"policy":{"title":"Rave Alert Emergency Alert System and Emergency Preparedness","systemName":"Rave Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.pointloma.edu/offices/public-safety/emergency-preparedness","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Point Loma Nazarene University's [Emergency Preparedness page](https://www.pointloma.edu/offices/public-safety/emergency-preparedness) brands Rave Alert for SMS and email during campus emergencies, documents automatic enrollment for students and employees with opt-out, community enrollment at getrave.com/login/PLNUcommunity, multi-channel secondary methods (computers, digital signs, speakers, social media), and two university-wide emergency drills each year.","analysis":"Point Loma Nazarene University is a private master's university in California. Its [Emergency Preparedness](https://www.pointloma.edu/offices/public-safety/emergency-preparedness) page is institution-specific: PLNU uses Rave Alert for SMS and email during campus emergencies; all students and employees are automatically enrolled but may opt out; parents and community members enroll at a PLNU-specific Rave community URL; other alert methods include university computers, digital signs, speakers, and PLNU social media including X; PLNU holds two university-wide emergency drills each year (fall campus lockdown drill and spring building evacuation drill).","whenCriteria":"Rave Alert SMS/email during campus emergencies; multi-channel methods may also share alerts during emergencies.","decisionAuthority":"Public Safety coordinates emergency response assistance; drill program is university-wide (specific activation authority not named beyond Public Safety contact (619) 849-2525).","timingStandard":"Not a fixed minute SLA; drills occur twice yearly (fall lockdown, spring evacuation).","cleryFraming":"Page is emergency preparedness oriented; Clery ASR materials are separate on campus security pages.","scopeLimits":"Students and employees auto-enrolled; community/parents via PLNUcommunity Rave login; multi-channel secondary methods on campus.","testingCadence":"Two university-wide emergency drills each year: campus lockdown drill in fall and building evacuation drill in spring.","channels":["sms","email","digital-signage","pa-system","twitter-x","website","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Rave Alert brand and auto-enrollment","quotedText":"PLNU uses a system called Rave Alert to send SMS messages and emails to students, employees, and others during campus emergencies. All PLNU students and employees are automatically enrolled but may opt-out of receiving emergency alerts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pointloma.edu/offices/public-safety/emergency-preparedness","sourceDescription":"PLNU Emergency Preparedness page","annotations":["Local Rave Alert brand and auto-enrollment/opt-out rules."],"characterCount":236},{"label":"Community Rave enrollment URL","quotedText":"Parents of students, campus neighbors, and members of the community who wish to enroll in the emergency alert system, can sign up at https://getrave.com/login/PLNUcommunity","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pointloma.edu/offices/public-safety/emergency-preparedness","sourceDescription":"PLNU Emergency Preparedness page","annotations":["Institution-specific Rave community login path."],"characterCount":172},{"label":"Twice-yearly lockdown and evacuation drills","quotedText":"PLNU holds two university-wide emergency drills each year: a campus lockdown drill during the fall semester and a building evacuation drill during the spring semester.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pointloma.edu/offices/public-safety/emergency-preparedness","sourceDescription":"PLNU Emergency Preparedness page","annotations":["Named annual drill cadence and drill types."],"characterCount":167},{"label":"Secondary alert methods","quotedText":"During an emergency, alerts may be shared using other methods, including university computers, digital signs, speakers, or PLNU social media accounts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pointloma.edu/offices/public-safety/emergency-preparedness","sourceDescription":"PLNU Emergency Preparedness page","annotations":["Local multi-channel secondary alerting methods."],"characterCount":150}],"keyFindings":["Rave Alert with PLNU-specific community enrollment URL.","Private-masters policy with explicit twice-yearly drill cadence."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Preparedness - Point Loma Nazarene University","url":"https://www.pointloma.edu/offices/public-safety/emergency-preparedness","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["private-masters","california","rave-alert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"polk-state-college-emergency-notification-policy","slug":"polk-state-college-emergency-notification-policy","institution":{"name":"Polk State College","shortName":"Polk State","state":"FL","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Polk State College Alert","enrollment":10000},"policy":{"title":"Polk State Emergency Notification System","systemName":"Polk State College Alert / Emergency Notification System","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.polk.edu/public-safety-security/emergency-preparedness/","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Polk State College's [Emergency Preparedness page](https://www.polk.edu/public-safety-security/emergency-preparedness/) states the College will immediately notify the community of significant safety or health threats via the Polk State Emergency Notification System (WEBS, InformaCast-Berbee, Polk State College Alert, and email).","analysis":"Polk State College is a Florida community college. Its public Emergency Preparedness page ([source](https://www.polk.edu/public-safety-security/emergency-preparedness/)) is institution-specific: for significant threats to safety or health, Polk State immediately notifies the community and gives response directions through the multi-channel Emergency Notification System; components include outdoor/common-area WEBS loudspeakers, InformaCast-Berbee IP phone voice/text, Polk State College Alert to registered mobiles and emails, mass student/staff/faculty email, face-to-face notification, and website/social follow-up. The page also documents expected evacuation and shelter-in-place procedures. This record documents the system overview rather than a full Clery ASR rewrite.","whenCriteria":"Significant threat to the safety or health of the college community; emergency situations requiring response directions.","decisionAuthority":"Campus administration and first responders as described for evacuations; the preparedness page does not name a single exclusive send authority for Polk State College Alert.","timingStandard":"Immediately notify the community of significant threats; exact Clery without-delay phrasing is not restated on the preparedness overview.","cleryFraming":"The Emergency Notification System is the operational multi-channel emergency notification framework supporting campus safety communications.","testingCadence":"Not confirmed verbatim on the Emergency Preparedness page reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Polk State College Alert delivery depends on registered mobile/email contacts; WEBS and InformaCast reach campus facilities with installed hardware.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system","website","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Immediate notify standard","quotedText":"In the event of a significant threat to the safety or health of the college community, Polk State will immediately notify the community and give directions for responding to the threat. These communications will be made via the Polk State Emergency Notification System.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.polk.edu/public-safety-security/emergency-preparedness/","characterCount":269},{"label":"System components","quotedText":"The Polk State Emergency Notification System consists of the Wide-Area Emergency Broadcast System (WEBS), the InformaCast-Berbee System, Polk State College Alert, and staff and student e-mail accounts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.polk.edu/public-safety-security/emergency-preparedness/","characterCount":201},{"label":"Polk State College Alert channels","quotedText":"Polk State College Alert will send messages to registered mobile phones, wireless PDAs, pagers, and/or e-mail addresses. In addition, e-mail messages may be sent to all Polk State students, staff, and faculty e-mail addresses.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.polk.edu/public-safety-security/emergency-preparedness/","characterCount":226}],"sources":[{"title":"Polk State Emergency Preparedness","url":"https://www.polk.edu/public-safety-security/emergency-preparedness/","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["community-college","florida","emergency-notification","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"pomona-college-alert-policy","slug":"pomona-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Pomona College","shortName":"Pomona","state":"CA","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"Everbridge Mass Notification (Claremont Colleges Services Campus Safety)","enrollment":1750},"policy":{"title":"Campus Emergency Communications and Timely Warning / Emergency Notification (Annual Security & Fire Safety Report)","systemName":"Everbridge / Campus Public Alert System","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://services.claremont.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-2025_Clery-Report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Pomona College, a small private liberal-arts college in Claremont, California, issues emergency notifications through [Everbridge Mass Notification](https://www.pomona.edu/emergency/preparation/campus) — administered by Claremont Colleges Services (TCCS) Campus Safety — together with the Campus Public Alert System (49 outdoor broadcast/emergency-phone stations), the LiveSafe app, the College's emergency website and social media, and issues Clery emergency notifications [upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation](https://services.claremont.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-2025_Clery-Report.pdf) posing an immediate threat to health or safety.","analysis":"Pomona College is a roughly 1,750-student private liberal-arts college and the founding member of The Claremont Colleges consortium in Claremont, California. Because campus safety for the consortium is operated centrally by Claremont Colleges Services (TCCS), Pomona's alert-and-warning policy is partly its own [Campus Emergency Communications](https://www.pomona.edu/emergency/preparation/campus) program and partly the shared [TCCS Campus Safety policies](https://studenthandbook.pomona.edu/campuspolicies/tccs-safety) documented in Pomona's [Annual Security & Fire Safety Report](https://services.claremont.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-2025_Clery-Report.pdf). Pomona confirms on its own page that it uses the emergency notification system Everbridge, which it put into service with TCCS in fall 2007.\n\nThe core emergency-notification platform is [Everbridge Mass Notification](https://www.pomona.edu/emergency/preparation/campus), described as a service that enables Campus Safety to notify the community quickly about a major emergency and to provide information and instructions, with messages sent via email, text and recorded message to campus phone extensions. Critically, Everbridge is multi-college: Pomona states notification 'will occur through the Everbridge email system to all Claremont Colleges students,' so an alert can reach the whole consortium. The system is layered with a hardened physical channel — the Campus Public Alert System comprises 49 emergency alert broadcast stations across campus that double as a public-address system, broadcasting warning tones and short messages, with blue-light emergency-phone stations that connect a caller directly to Campus Safety. Pomona rounds out the channel set with the LiveSafe app, the College's emergency-information website and its main social-media accounts (Twitter/X, Instagram, Facebook).\n\nThe Clery framing is explicit in the ASR. Pomona states that emergency notifications are issued 'upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation (including a Clery reportable crime) involving an immediate threat to the health or safety' of Pomona students, faculty or staff, and that alerts are relayed 'as quickly as possible.' On the timely-warning side, the shared TCCS policy defines 'timely' as 'as soon as reasonably practicable' after an incident is reported to Campus Safety, a Campus Security Authority, or local police, and requires that a [timely warning notice decision matrix / determination form](https://studenthandbook.pomona.edu/campuspolicies/tccs-safety) be used to document the decision to alert or not alert the community, with the completed form retained by TCC for a seven-year period — an auditable paper trail that is comparatively rare to see stated publicly. The exact named decision authority (the specific Campus Safety position that confirms and triggers Everbridge) and the published periodic test cadence were not byte-for-byte confirmable here because the claremont.edu ASR PDFs and pomona.edu pages were reachable only via the search index; those fields are described from indexed snippets and flagged. Several excerpts (the Everbridge description, the confirmation/threshold language, the decision-matrix/seven-year retention rule, and the 'timely' definition) appeared with consistent wording across multiple official retrievals. A 2026-08-02 review confirmed the Everbridge description verbatim against an independent web search of the exact phrase, and found that TCCS had since published a newer [2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://services.claremont.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-2025_Clery-Report.pdf) (covering January through December 2024, prepared under Pomona's Clery Officer, Associate Dean Destiny Marrufo), which now supersedes the 2024 edition previously cited here; the policy.url and ASR citations in this file were updated to that current document.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notifications are issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation (including a Clery-reportable crime) involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of Pomona students, faculty or staff, and are relayed as quickly as possible. Timely warning notices are issued for Clery-reportable crimes when warranted; 'timely' means as soon as reasonably practicable after the incident is reported to Campus Safety, a CSA, or local police.","decisionAuthority":"Claremont Colleges Services (TCCS) Campus Safety administers Everbridge and issues emergency notifications and timely warnings for Pomona College. A timely warning notice decision matrix / determination form documents each decision to alert or not alert, and the completed form is retained by TCC for seven years. The specific named Campus Safety position authorized to confirm and trigger Everbridge was not confirmable verbatim in this review and is described generically.","timingStandard":"Pomona's ASR states emergency notifications are issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation and that alerts are relayed 'as quickly as possible' — consistent with the Clery 'immediately, upon confirmation' standard. For timely warnings, the shared TCCS policy defines 'timely' as 'as soon as reasonably practicable' after the incident is reported.","cleryFraming":"Pomona's policy is documented in its Annual Security & Fire Safety Report and the shared TCCS Campus Safety policies. It separates emergency notifications (immediate threats, including Clery-reportable crimes) from timely warning notices, and requires a documented decision matrix / determination form for timely-warning decisions, retained for seven years.","testingCadence":"The ASR and TCCS materials document the Everbridge and Campus Public Alert System but did not, in the indexed snippets available to this review, state a specific periodic test cadence for the notification system; that field is left unstated rather than reconstructed.","scopeLimits":"Everbridge is consortium-wide: notification can occur through the Everbridge email system to all Claremont Colleges students, and students, faculty and staff with a campus phone extension and college email are already in the Everbridge database (text/voice reach depends on subscribing and current contact info). The Campus Public Alert System (49 outdoor broadcast/emergency-phone stations) adds an outdoor public-address layer that does not depend on personal devices.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","pa-system","push-notification","website","twitter-x","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Everbridge Mass Notification description","quotedText":"Everbridge Mass Notification is an emergency notification service that enables Campus Safety to notify you quickly about a major emergency on campus and to provide you with information and instructions. Messages are sent via email, text and recorded message to campus phone extensions.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pomona.edu/emergency/preparation/campus","sourceDescription":"Pomona College — Campus Emergency Communications","annotations":["Identifies Everbridge as the primary emergency-notification platform and its three core channels (email, text, recorded message to campus phone extensions). Consistent wording appeared across multiple retrievals of the official Campus Emergency Communications page."],"characterCount":285},{"label":"Emergency notification activation threshold","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://services.claremont.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-2025_Clery-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Pomona College — 2025 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (PDF, covering 2024; host blocked automated fetch, text originally indexed from the 2024 edition's identical boilerplate Clery activation language)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Campus Public Alert System (49 broadcast stations)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pomona.edu/emergency/preparation/campus","sourceDescription":"Pomona College — Campus Emergency Communications (host reachable via search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Timely warning decision matrix / seven-year retention","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://studenthandbook.pomona.edu/campuspolicies/tccs-safety","sourceDescription":"Pomona College Student Handbook — TCCS Campus Safety Policies (host reachable via search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Definition of 'timely'","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://studenthandbook.pomona.edu/campuspolicies/tccs-safety","sourceDescription":"Pomona College Student Handbook — TCCS Campus Safety Policies (host reachable via search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Pomona College's emergency-notification platform is Everbridge Mass Notification, administered by Claremont Colleges Services (TCCS) Campus Safety and in service since fall 2007; alerts can reach the whole Claremont Colleges consortium.","Channels are layered: Everbridge (email/text/recorded message), the Campus Public Alert System of 49 outdoor broadcast/emergency-phone stations, the LiveSafe app, the emergency website, and social media.","Emergency notifications are issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation (including a Clery-reportable crime) posing an immediate threat to health or safety, relayed as quickly as possible.","Timely warnings require a documented decision matrix / determination form retained for seven years, and 'timely' is defined as as soon as reasonably practicable after a report to Campus Safety, a CSA, or local police.","The named Campus Safety decision authority and a specific test cadence were not byte-for-byte confirmable (claremont.edu ASR PDFs and pomona.edu pages reachable only via the search index); those fields are described from snippets and flagged."],"sources":[{"title":"Pomona College — Campus Emergency Communications","url":"https://www.pomona.edu/emergency/preparation/campus","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Pomona College — 2025 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (PDF, covering Jan-Dec 2024)","url":"https://services.claremont.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-2025_Clery-Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Pomona College Student Handbook — TCCS Campus Safety Policies and Procedures","url":"https://studenthandbook.pomona.edu/campuspolicies/tccs-safety","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Pomona College — How to Update Your Emergency Contact Information","url":"https://www.pomona.edu/emergency/how-update-your-emergency-contact-information","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Claremont Public Alert (Everbridge) — FAQs","url":"https://member.everbridge.net/453003085611465/faq","type":"other"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","private-liberal-arts","california","everbridge","claremont-colleges","multi-channel"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-02","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"portland-state-psu-alert-policy","slug":"portland-state-psu-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Portland State University","shortName":"PSU","state":"OR","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"PSU Alert","enrollment":19687},"policy":{"title":"Warnings, Alerts and Reports — PSU Alert, Timely Warning Safety Bulletins, and Campus Safety Advisories","systemName":"PSU Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.pdx.edu/campus-safety/warnings-alerts-and-reports","lastReviewed":"2026-06-22"},"summary":"Portland State University runs a three-tier notification model: [PSU Alert](https://www.pdx.edu/emergency-management/psu-alert) emergency notifications for immediate threats to health or safety, plus two non-emergency tiers — [Timely Warning Safety Bulletins and Campus Safety Advisories](https://www.pdx.edu/campus-safety/warnings-alerts-and-reports) issued by the Campus Public Safety Office under the Clery Act, the latter two sent only to @pdx.edu email and never through the PSU Alert channel.","analysis":"Portland State University (PSU) is a public R2 doctoral university in downtown Portland, Oregon, with roughly 19,700 students. Its campus-wide notification program is unusually explicit about separating emergency from non-emergency messaging. Per the [Warnings, Alerts and Reports page](https://www.pdx.edu/campus-safety/warnings-alerts-and-reports), the PSU Campus Public Safety Office (CPSO) can issue three distinct types of message: Timely Warning Safety Bulletins, Campus Safety Advisories, and PSU Alerts.\n\nA [PSU Alert](https://www.pdx.edu/emergency-management/psu-alert) is the emergency-notification tier, reserved for a significant emergency or dangerous situation that, in the judgment of the Director of the Campus Public Safety Office or the University Vice President of Finance and Administration, creates an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees. PSU names the same two decision authorities for both timely warnings and PSU Alerts, an unusually transparent statement of who holds trigger authority. PSU states alerts are 'sent immediately once an emergency is confirmed by PSU Emergency Management or the Campus Public Safety Office (CPSO)' — its plain-language rendering of the Clery 'without delay, upon confirmation' standard.\n\nThe two non-emergency tiers are Clery instruments. A Timely Warning Safety Bulletin is issued when certain Clery-reportable crimes occur on or near campus and, in the judgment of the same two officials, constitute a serious or continuing threat to the campus community; the bulletin describes the reported incident and offers prevention advice. A Campus Safety Advisory is a lower tier sent when a crime or potential crime meets almost all of the criteria for a timely warning, or for a safety-related event on or near campus — PSU's own example is an apartment fire near campus billowing smoke over campus. Crucially, PSU states that non-emergency messages such as Timely Warnings and Campus Safety Advisories are 'sent exclusively to @pdx.edu email addresses and are not delivered through PSU Alert,' so PSU Alert's SMS/voice reach is deliberately reserved for genuine emergencies.\n\nEnrollment in PSU Alert is hybrid: all students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled to receive alerts at their @pdx.edu email, but text-message and personal-email delivery is opt-in via the [myPSU / Odin self-service portal](https://www.pdx.edu/emergency-management/psu-alert-faq). One naming caution applies to this record: Penn State also brands its system 'PSUAlert' on psu.edu / police.psu.edu, so every source cited here is the Oregon institution's pdx.edu domain to avoid cross-contamination. The .edu host returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so excerpt wording was captured from indexed search snippets; the three-tier definitions and the @pdx.edu-only restriction recurred identically across multiple official-page retrievals and are marked verbatim-confirmed, while the alert-timing sentence is marked reconstructed.","whenCriteria":"PSU Alert is issued when a significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus creates an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees. A Timely Warning Safety Bulletin is issued for Clery-reportable crimes that constitute a serious or continuing threat. A Campus Safety Advisory is issued when a crime or potential crime meets almost all of the criteria for a timely warning, or for a safety-related event on or near campus (e.g., a nearby fire billowing smoke over campus).","decisionAuthority":"For both PSU Alerts and Timely Warnings, the trigger decision rests with the Director of the Campus Public Safety Office or the University Vice President of Finance and Administration. PSU Emergency Management and the Campus Public Safety Office (CPSO) confirm emergencies before a PSU Alert is sent.","timingStandard":"PSU states PSU Alerts are sent immediately once an emergency is confirmed by PSU Emergency Management or the Campus Public Safety Office — its plain-language version of the federal Clery 'without delay, upon confirmation' standard. PSU notes actual delivery times may vary by cellular provider, device settings, and network conditions.","cleryFraming":"PSU explicitly separates the Clery functions into three named tiers. PSU Alert handles emergency notifications (immediate threat to health/safety); Timely Warning Safety Bulletins handle Clery-reportable crimes that are a serious or continuing threat; Campus Safety Advisories handle near-threshold or safety-related events. The two non-emergency tiers are delivered only to @pdx.edu email, not through PSU Alert. PSU publishes Annual Campus Security & Fire Safety Reports under the Jeanne Clery Act.","testingCadence":"Not confirmed verbatim in this review; PSU's emergency-management pages reference periodic testing and community sign-up reminders, but the precise published cadence for PSU Alert tests was not byte-for-byte confirmable (pdx.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching).","scopeLimits":"All students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled for PSU Alert at their @pdx.edu email; text-message and personal-email delivery is opt-in via the myPSU/Odin portal, so full SMS/voice reach depends on the individual opting in and keeping contact information current. Non-emergency Timely Warnings and Campus Safety Advisories are intentionally limited to @pdx.edu email and are not delivered through PSU Alert.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Three-tier notification model","quotedText":"The PSU Campus Public Safety Office can issue three types of notification messages: Timely Warning Safety Bulletins, Campus Safety Advisories and PSU Alerts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pdx.edu/campus-safety/warnings-alerts-and-reports","sourceDescription":"PSU — Warnings, Alerts and Reports (Campus Public Safety)","annotations":["Establishes PSU's distinctive three-tier model under one office (CPSO). Identical wording appeared across multiple official pdx.edu retrievals (campus-safety/warnings-alerts-and-reports and the PSU Alert pages)."],"characterCount":157},{"label":"PSU Alert activation threshold and decision authority","quotedText":"If a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurs on campus that, in the judgment of the Director of the Campus Public Safety Office or the University Vice President of Finance and Administration, creates an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees, or otherwise warrants a notification, a \"PSU Alert\" emergency notification can be issued.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pdx.edu/campus-safety/warnings-alerts-and-reports","sourceDescription":"PSU — Warnings, Alerts and Reports (Campus Public Safety)","annotations":["Names the two officials authorized to trigger a PSU Alert and ties activation to an immediate threat to health or safety. Wording recurred identically across official pdx.edu page retrievals."],"characterCount":371},{"label":"Non-emergency tiers restricted to @pdx.edu email","quotedText":"Non-emergency messages, such as Timely Warnings and Campus Safety Advisories, are sent exclusively to @pdx.edu email addresses and are not delivered through PSU Alert.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pdx.edu/campus-safety/warnings-alerts-and-reports","sourceDescription":"PSU — Warnings, Alerts and Reports (Campus Public Safety)","annotations":["Deliberately reserves PSU Alert's SMS/voice channel for genuine emergencies; Clery timely warnings and advisories go to university email only. Wording recurred identically across official pdx.edu retrievals."],"characterCount":167},{"label":"PSU Alert timing standard","quotedText":"PSU Alerts are sent immediately once an emergency is confirmed by PSU Emergency Management or the Campus Public Safety Office (CPSO).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pdx.edu/emergency-management/psu-alert-faq","sourceDescription":"PSU — PSU Alert FAQ (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["PSU's plain-language version of the Clery 'without delay, upon confirmation' standard. Surfaced via the search index; pdx.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":133}],"keyFindings":["Portland State's emergency-notification system is PSU Alert, one of three message tiers run by the Campus Public Safety Office (the others being Timely Warning Safety Bulletins and Campus Safety Advisories).","PSU Alert is reserved for a significant emergency or dangerous situation creating an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees.","PSU names two trigger authorities for both PSU Alerts and timely warnings: the Director of the Campus Public Safety Office or the University Vice President of Finance and Administration.","Non-emergency Timely Warnings and Campus Safety Advisories are sent only to @pdx.edu email and never through the PSU Alert SMS/voice channel.","Naming caution: Penn State also brands its system 'PSUAlert'; this record cites only the Oregon institution's pdx.edu domain. The .edu host blocked automated fetching, so three excerpts were confirmed verbatim via repeated identical official-page retrievals and the timing sentence is reconstructed."],"sources":[{"title":"PSU — Warnings, Alerts and Reports (Campus Public Safety)","url":"https://www.pdx.edu/campus-safety/warnings-alerts-and-reports","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"PSU Alert: Campus Emergency Notifications","url":"https://www.pdx.edu/emergency-management/psu-alert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"PSU Alert FAQ","url":"https://www.pdx.edu/emergency-management/psu-alert-faq","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"PSU — Timely Warning Archive","url":"https://www.pdx.edu/campus-safety/timely-warning-archive","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"PSU — Carnegie Classification (R2 Doctoral)","url":"https://carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/institution/portland-state-university/","type":"government"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","public-r2","oregon","psu-alert","three-tier"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"post-university-informacast-alert-policy","slug":"post-university-informacast-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Post University","shortName":"Post","state":"CT","type":"for-profit","alertSystemName":"Campus Alert","alertPlatform":"InformaCast"},"policy":{"title":"Campus Alerts","systemName":"Campus Alert (InformaCast)","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://post.edu/student-services/campus-safety/campus-alerts/"},"summary":"Post University, a for-profit institution in Waterbury, Connecticut, moved its Campus Alert system from Rave to [InformaCast](https://post.edu/student-services/campus-safety/campus-alerts/), a mass notification platform reaching on-campus phones, personal cell phones, and digital signage, with main campus students and Post Associates automatically added to the system once enrolled and a panic button in the InformaCast mobile app letting Campus Safety see who is requesting help and their location.","analysis":"Post University's [Campus Alerts page](https://post.edu/student-services/campus-safety/campus-alerts/) states that in the event of a campus emergency or weather related closing, main campus students are notified by a phone call or text message to the contact information on file, and that Post main campus students and Post Associates do not need to sign up for the Campus Alert service because their contact information is automatically added to the system once they become an enrolled student or employee, an automatic enrollment model rather than an opt in registration portal.\n\nThe university has moved away from the Rave platform common at many peer institutions to InformaCast, described as a more modern mass notification system that sends broadcasts reaching everyone with critical information through on-campus phones, personal cell phones, and other devices including digital signage on campus. InformaCast's mobile app adds a panic button feature, letting main campus students request assistance directly from their mobile phones, with Post University Campus Safety able to see who is requesting help and their location, a person to person safety feature layered on top of the institution wide mass notification broadcast.\n\nAs a private, for-profit university, Post is bound by the same Clery Act requirement that all institutions maintain some kind of campus emergency alert and notification system; the specific text distinguishing a Clery emergency notification from a timely warning was not confirmed on the Campus Alerts page reviewed. Because post.edu returned blocked connections to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below are reconstructed from search engine indexed extracts of the official page rather than a firsthand character by character read, and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation; this record is scored at medium confidence on that basis.","whenCriteria":"Main campus students are notified by a phone call or text message to contact information on file in the event of a campus emergency or weather related closing.","decisionAuthority":"Post University Campus Safety is presented as administering the InformaCast system and able to see who is requesting help through the panic button feature and their location; a single named official with sign off authority to trigger a broadcast was not confirmed in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"Not specified with a numeric standard in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"The Campus Alerts page frames Post's notification system around campus emergencies and weather related closings generally; a specific Clery emergency notification versus timely warning distinction was not independently confirmed on the page reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Post main campus students and Post Associates are automatically added to the Campus Alert system once enrolled; the panic button feature is scoped to main campus students using the InformaCast mobile app.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","channels":["phone-call","sms","digital-signage","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Automatic enrollment","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://post.edu/student-services/campus-safety/campus-alerts/","sourceDescription":"Post University, Campus Alerts (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Move from Rave to InformaCast","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://post.edu/student-services/campus-safety/campus-alerts/","sourceDescription":"Post University, Campus Alerts (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"InformaCast panic button","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://post.edu/student-services/campus-safety/campus-alerts/","sourceDescription":"Post University, Campus Alerts (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Post University automatically enrolls main campus students and Post Associates in its Campus Alert system without a separate opt in step.","Post moved from the Rave platform to InformaCast, a mass notification system reaching on-campus phones, personal cell phones, and digital signage.","InformaCast's mobile app includes a panic button letting Campus Safety see who is requesting help and their location.","Post.edu could not be directly loaded in this environment, so this record is scored at medium confidence and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation."],"sources":[{"title":"Campus Alerts, Post University","url":"https://post.edu/student-services/campus-safety/campus-alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Campus Safety Resources, Post University","url":"https://post.edu/student-services/campus-safety/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Security Report, Post University","url":"https://post.edu/student-services/campus-safety/security-report/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","informacast","for-profit","connecticut"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-27","lastUpdated":"2026-09-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"prairie-view-am-university-alert-policy","slug":"prairie-view-am-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Prairie View A&M University","shortName":"PVAMU","state":"TX","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"Panther Alert System","enrollment":10085},"policy":{"title":"Panther Alert System / Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings","systemName":"Panther Alert System","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.pvamu.edu/universitycompliance/wp-content/uploads/sites/87/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Prairie View A&M University — the second-oldest public institution in Texas and an [HBCU](https://www.pvamu.edu/emergency/) in the Texas A&M System — runs the \"Panther Alert System,\" a Rave Alert-powered emergency-notification service delivering phone, text, email, and RAVE Guardian push alerts. The Chief of Police or designee authorizes Panther Alerts without delay upon confirmation of an immediate threat, and the [Clery Coordinator](https://www.pvamu.edu/universitycompliance/wp-content/uploads/sites/87/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf) tests the Panther Alert system monthly and the timely-warning system quarterly, per the University's 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.","analysis":"Prairie View A&M University's emergency-notification program is the **Panther Alert System**, established to keep the campus community informed of emergency situations — severe weather, serious threats to safety, and similar events — via phone, text messages, and emails, per the [Panther Alert System page](https://www.pvamu.edu/emergency/). In Spring 2022 the University phased out Blackboard Connect and replaced it with **Rave Alert** as the provider; Rave Alert delivers phone calls, text messages, email, and push notifications to the RAVE Guardian App, and allows parents, friends, and community members to opt into text alerts. Rave Guardian is a free companion safety app that turns a smartphone into a personal safety device and is required to receive push notifications from PVAMU.\n\n**Decision authority and timing.** Per the [2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.pvamu.edu/universitycompliance/wp-content/uploads/sites/87/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf), upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus, the Chief of Police or their designee will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content and distribution of alerts — language that closely tracks the federal Clery 668.46(g) standard. For law-enforcement-related incidents, generating a Panther Alert message and activating the system is generally the responsibility of the Chief of Police or designee, who distributes alerts to the university community via blast email, text, and phone call.\n\n**Clery framing.** PVAMU separates the two Clery obligations. A campus-wide timely warning is issued when a Clery-reportable crime within PVAMU's Clery geography is reported to University Police or another campus security authority and constitutes a serious or continuing threat to the campus community. Emergency notifications, by contrast, address confirmed significant emergencies or dangerous situations posing an immediate threat. The [Clery Coordinator](https://www.pvamu.edu/bsrv/wp-content/uploads/sites/148/Annex-A-Warnings.pdf) works closely with the University Police Department (UPD), the Office of Risk Management & Safety (RMS), and other officials to prepare and distribute the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.\n\n**Testing cadence.** PVAMU publishes an explicit, unusually granular testing schedule: the Clery Coordinator tests the Panther Alert system on a monthly basis and tests the timely-warning notification system on a quarterly basis — a stronger documented cadence than the federal at-least-annual minimum. The full channel set — phone calls, text messages, emails, and RAVE Guardian notifications — is used to communicate any threat requiring action.","whenCriteria":"Upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus, the Chief of Police or designee activates the Panther Alert System without delay. Any threat requiring action is communicated immediately through phone calls, text messages, emails, and Rave Guardian notifications.","decisionAuthority":"The Chief of Police or their designee determines the content and distribution of alerts and, for law-enforcement incidents, is generally responsible for generating the Panther Alert message and activating the notification system; the Clery Coordinator owns timely-warning preparation and system testing in coordination with UPD and Risk Management & Safety.","timingStandard":"The Chief of Police or designee will act 'without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community' upon confirmation of an immediate threat — tracking the Clery 668.46(g) without-delay standard.","cleryFraming":"Two-track Clery model: a campus-wide timely warning when a Clery-reportable crime in PVAMU's Clery geography poses a serious or continuing threat, versus an emergency notification on confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation posing an immediate threat to health or safety.","testingCadence":"The Clery Coordinator tests the Panther Alert system on a monthly basis and tests the timely-warning notification system on a quarterly basis — an explicit cadence exceeding the federal at-least-annual minimum.","scopeLimits":"The Panther Alert System is for emergency situations (severe weather, serious threats to safety, etc.). Rave Alert reaches students and faculty/staff by phone call, text, email, and RAVE Guardian push; parents, friends, and community members may opt in to text alerts only.","channels":["phone-call","sms","email","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Panther Alert System definition","quotedText":"To keep the PVAMU campus communities informed in the event of an emergency, the university has established the Panther Alert System, which notifies the campus community of emergency situations (severe weather, serious threats to safety, etc.) via phone, text messages, and e-mails.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pvamu.edu/emergency/","sourceDescription":"Prairie View A&M University — Panther Alert System page","annotations":["Defines the system, its purpose, example triggers, and core channels; reproduced consistently across the Panther Alert System page and supporting PVAMU pages."],"characterCount":281},{"label":"Without-delay activation authority","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pvamu.edu/universitycompliance/wp-content/uploads/sites/87/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Prairie View A&M University 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Panther Alert testing cadence","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pvamu.edu/universitycompliance/wp-content/uploads/sites/87/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Prairie View A&M University 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Rave Alert channels and opt-in","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pvamu.edu/emergency/","sourceDescription":"Prairie View A&M University — Panther Alert System page","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["The Panther Alert System is PVAMU's emergency-notification service, on Rave Alert since Spring 2022 (replacing Blackboard Connect), delivering phone, text, email, and RAVE Guardian push alerts.","The Chief of Police or designee activates Panther Alerts 'without delay' upon confirmation of an immediate threat — the federal Clery 668.46(g) standard — distributing via blast email, text, and phone call.","Two-track Clery framing: campus-wide timely warnings for Clery-geography crimes posing a serious/continuing threat, versus emergency notifications for confirmed immediate threats.","Unusually explicit testing cadence: the Clery Coordinator tests the Panther Alert system monthly and the timely-warning system quarterly — well above the federal at-least-annual minimum.","Parents, friends, and community members can opt into Panther Alert text messages, extending reach beyond the enrolled/employed community; the Clery Coordinator coordinates with UPD and Risk Management & Safety on the ASR."],"sources":[{"title":"Panther Alert System — Prairie View A&M University","url":"https://www.pvamu.edu/emergency/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Prairie View A&M University 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.pvamu.edu/universitycompliance/wp-content/uploads/sites/87/Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Annex A — Warnings (Emergency Operations Plan annex, PDF)","url":"https://www.pvamu.edu/bsrv/wp-content/uploads/sites/148/Annex-A-Warnings.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Panther Alert System Emergency Notification Instructions for Students (PDF)","url":"https://www.pvamu.edu/emergency/wp-content/uploads/sites/34/PAS_Instructions_Students.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","hbcu","texas"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"pratt-institute-alert-policy","slug":"pratt-institute-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Pratt Institute","shortName":"Pratt","state":"NY","type":"private-bachelors","alertSystemName":"Pratt Emergency Alert System","enrollment":4500},"policy":{"title":"Security and Safety Alerts","systemName":"Pratt Emergency Alert System","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.pratt.edu/administrative-departments/department-of-campus-safety/security-and-safety-alerts/"},"summary":"Pratt Institute's [Security and Safety Alerts policy](https://www.pratt.edu/administrative-departments/department-of-campus-safety/security-and-safety-alerts/) lists armed/hostile intruder, bomb/explosives threat, communicable disease outbreak, severe weather, terrorist incident, civil unrest, natural disaster and hazardous materials incidents as example emergency-notification triggers, and routes campus-wide timely warnings through the director of Pratt Campus Safety (or a designee) with sign-off from the assistant vice president for campus safety and preparedness; the [Pratt Emergency Alert System](https://www.pratt.edu/administrative-departments/department-of-campus-safety/security-and-safety-alerts/) delivers alerts by email and text and is tested twice a year, per Pratt's [Annual Security and Fire Safety Compliance Report](https://www.pratt.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Pratt-Institute-2024-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Compliance-Report_Final.pdf).","analysis":"Pratt Institute's [Security and Safety Alerts page](https://www.pratt.edu/administrative-departments/department-of-campus-safety/security-and-safety-alerts/) is unusually explicit about the categories of incident that can trigger an emergency notification, listing armed/hostile intruder, bomb/explosives threat, communicable disease outbreak, severe weather, terrorist incident, civil unrest, natural disaster, and hazardous materials incident as examples, an enumerated list rather than a single open-ended 'significant emergency' standard. Reporting flows to the [Pratt Department of Campus Safety Command Center at 718.636.3540](https://www.pratt.edu/administrative-departments/department-of-campus-safety/security-and-safety-alerts/), which functions as Pratt's dispatch point for both routine and emergency calls on its Brooklyn campus.\n\nPratt draws a clear Clery-style distinction between emergency notifications and timely warnings in its published decision chain: when a crime reported within Pratt's Clery Geography, on campus, on public property, or in a qualifying non-campus location, is judged by the director of Pratt Campus Safety or a designee to constitute an ongoing or serious threat, a campus-wide timely warning is issued by that director or designee, with the approval of the assistant vice president for campus safety and preparedness. Naming both an issuing official and an approving official in the same sentence is more granular than many of the policies in this archive, which often name only one decision-maker.\n\nThe [Pratt Emergency Alert System](https://www.pratt.edu/administrative-departments/department-of-campus-safety/security-and-safety-alerts/) itself is described as the critical first step for getting vital information about building or campus emergencies, campus closings, and weather emergencies, delivered by email and text messaging to everyone signed up for the Pratt Emergency Alert Text Messaging System; Pratt states the underlying mass-notification system is tested twice annually, a concrete, published testing cadence that is not always disclosed in institutional alert policies. Pratt's [2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Compliance Report](https://www.pratt.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Pratt-Institute-2024-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Compliance-Report_Final.pdf) situates this system within Pratt's broader Clery Act compliance program.\n\nBecause pratt.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were reconstructed from official Pratt Institute page text as reproduced in search-engine indexing and corroborated across multiple independent queries, and are marked accordingly.","whenCriteria":"Pratt lists example emergency-notification triggers explicitly: armed/hostile intruder, bomb/explosives threat, communicable disease outbreak, severe weather, terrorist incident, civil unrest, natural disaster, and hazardous materials incident.","decisionAuthority":"Timely warnings are issued by the director of Pratt Campus Safety or a designee, with the approval of the assistant vice president for campus safety and preparedness; Pratt names both an issuing and an approving official in its published policy language.","timingStandard":"A specific minutes-based timeliness standard was not found in the public sources reviewed; the policy frames timely warnings as issued when a reported crime is judged to constitute an ongoing or serious threat.","cleryFraming":"Pratt explicitly separates timely warnings, issued for a reported Clery-geography crime judged an ongoing or serious threat, from emergency notifications, tied to enumerated incident categories such as armed intruder, bomb threat, disease outbreak, severe weather, terrorism, civil unrest, natural disaster, and hazmat.","testingCadence":"Pratt states its emergency mass notification system is tested twice annually.","scopeLimits":"Timely warnings are scoped to Pratt's Clery Geography (on campus, public property, and qualifying non-campus locations); Pratt Emergency Alert System text messages reach only those individually signed up for the Pratt Emergency Alert Text Messaging System, with email as a parallel channel.","channels":["sms","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency notification trigger examples","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pratt.edu/administrative-departments/department-of-campus-safety/security-and-safety-alerts/","sourceDescription":"Pratt Institute Security and Safety Alerts page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Timely warning issuance and approval chain","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pratt.edu/administrative-departments/department-of-campus-safety/security-and-safety-alerts/","sourceDescription":"Pratt Institute Security and Safety Alerts page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Pratt Emergency Alert System sign-up","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pratt.edu/administrative-departments/department-of-campus-safety/security-and-safety-alerts/","sourceDescription":"Pratt Institute Security and Safety Alerts page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Testing cadence","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pratt.edu/administrative-departments/department-of-campus-safety/security-and-safety-alerts/","sourceDescription":"Pratt Institute Security and Safety Alerts page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Pratt enumerates eight specific emergency-notification trigger categories (armed/hostile intruder, bomb/explosives threat, communicable disease outbreak, severe weather, terrorist incident, civil unrest, natural disaster, hazardous materials incident) rather than relying on a single open-ended standard.","Timely warnings require sign-off from two named roles: the director of Pratt Campus Safety (or designee) issues, and the assistant vice president for campus safety and preparedness approves.","The Pratt Emergency Alert System delivers alerts by email and text to opted-in community members and is tested twice annually, a specific published cadence.","Pratt's Clery compliance is documented in a separate Annual Security and Fire Safety Compliance Report."],"sources":[{"title":"Security and Safety Alerts, Pratt Institute Department of Campus Safety","url":"https://www.pratt.edu/administrative-departments/department-of-campus-safety/security-and-safety-alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Pratt Institute 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Compliance Report","url":"https://www.pratt.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Pratt-Institute-2024-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Compliance-Report_Final.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Emergency Response Guide, Pratt Institute Department of Campus Safety","url":"https://www.pratt.edu/administrative-departments/department-of-campus-safety/emergency-response-guide/","type":"official-archive"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["pratt-institute-main-building-fire-2013-02-15"],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","private-bachelors","pratt-institute","art-school","new-york"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"princeton-university-tigeralert-policy","slug":"princeton-university-tigeralert-policy","institution":{"name":"Princeton University","shortName":"Princeton","state":"NJ","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"TigerAlert","enrollment":9137},"policy":{"title":"TigerAlert Notification System","systemName":"TigerAlert (formerly PTENS)","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://emergency.princeton.edu/stay-informed/tigeralert"},"summary":"[TigerAlert](https://emergency.princeton.edu/stay-informed/tigeralert) (formerly PTENS) is Princeton University's emergency notification system, allowing authorized Princeton officials to send instructions simultaneously via landline phones, cellular phones, text messaging, and e-mail; emergency messages cannot be opted out of, and the broader Clery framework adds Timely Warnings for crimes posing a [serious or continuing threat](https://publicsafety.princeton.edu/safety/alerts-warnings).","analysis":"The [TigerAlert notification system](https://emergency.princeton.edu/stay-informed/tigeralert) — renamed from the Princeton Telephone and E-mail Notification System (PTENS) in 2018 — is Princeton University's emergency notification backbone. The University describes it as a system that \"allows authorized Princeton officials to send news and instructions simultaneously to University faculty, staff, and students through landline phones, cellular phones, text messaging, and e-mail.\" The University uses it to communicate during events such as weather-related closings, public health crises, public safety emergencies, and other unique emergency situations. In an actual emergency, Princeton draws on a wider toolkit beyond TigerAlert alone — the [TigerSafe app](https://emergency.princeton.edu/stay-informed/tigeralert), web announcements, e-mail, and blue light towers.\n\nA central policy feature is that emergency messages are mandatory: individuals may not opt out of emergency messages, which will continue to be sent through all available TigerAlert methods of communication (telephone, text messaging, and e-mail). Members of the community can, however, manage how they receive non-emergency messages via the Rave platform, which delivers Princeton University alerts; through a web portal accessible via the Central Authentication System, individuals select which non-emergency messages they receive and how. Rave Mobile Safety is therefore the underlying alert platform/vendor for the Princeton system.\n\nOn the Clery side, Princeton's [Department of Public Safety](https://publicsafety.princeton.edu/safety/alerts-warnings) issues a Timely Warning for any Clery Act crime that represents a serious or continuing threat to students and employees, and issues emergency notifications upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus — the standard two-trigger Clery structure documented in the University's [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://publicsafety.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toruqf2581/files/documents/Security&FireSafety_Report_2025_V5.pdf). Princeton conducts an annual system test; the University notes that, with the exception of the annual system test, it will only send text messages for urgent situations, and the annual test lets new members of the community confirm their contact information is accurate so they can be reached in an emergency.","whenCriteria":"TigerAlert is used to communicate during weather-related closings, public health crises, public safety emergencies, and other unique emergency situations. Under the Clery Act, Princeton issues a Timely Warning for any Clery crime representing a serious or continuing threat, and issues emergency notifications upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety occurring on campus.","decisionAuthority":"Authorized Princeton officials send TigerAlert messages; Clery Timely Warnings and emergency notifications are handled through the Department of Public Safety.","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications are issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety. With the exception of the annual system test, the University will only send text messages for urgent situations.","cleryFraming":"Two-trigger Clery framework: Timely Warnings for Clery crimes representing a serious or continuing threat to students and employees, and emergency notifications upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation posing an immediate threat to health or safety on campus.","testingCadence":"An annual system test is conducted, allowing new members of the campus community to confirm their contact information is accurate and that they can be reached in an emergency.","scopeLimits":"Emergency messages are mandatory and cannot be opted out of (sent via telephone, text messaging, and e-mail). Non-emergency message preferences are user-managed via the Rave platform through the Central Authentication System portal. Outside the annual test, text messages are reserved for urgent situations.","channels":["phone-call","sms","email","push-notification","website","siren"],"excerpts":[{"label":"TigerAlert definition and channels","quotedText":"The Princeton TigerAlert notification system is an emergency notification system that allows authorized Princeton officials to send news and instructions simultaneously to University faculty, staff, and students through landline phones, cellular phones, text messaging, and e-mail.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.princeton.edu/stay-informed/tigeralert","sourceDescription":"TigerAlert Notification System, Princeton Emergency Management","annotations":["Names the four core delivery channels and vests authorship in 'authorized Princeton officials.'"],"characterCount":281},{"label":"Mandatory emergency messages","quotedText":"Individuals may not opt out of emergency messages, which will continue to be sent through all available TigerAlert methods of communication (telephone, text messaging and email).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.princeton.edu/stay-informed/tigeralert","sourceDescription":"TigerAlert Notification System, Princeton Emergency Management","annotations":["Distinguishes mandatory emergency messages from user-configurable non-emergency messages managed via Rave."],"characterCount":178},{"label":"Clery two-trigger framework","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://publicsafety.princeton.edu/safety/alerts-warnings","sourceDescription":"Alerts & Warnings, Princeton Department of Public Safety","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["TigerAlert (formerly PTENS, renamed 2018) lets authorized Princeton officials push alerts via landline, cell, text, and e-mail.","Emergency messages are mandatory — individuals cannot opt out of them across telephone, text, and e-mail.","Non-emergency message preferences are user-managed through the Rave platform via the Central Authentication System portal (Rave Mobile Safety is the vendor).","In a real emergency Princeton also uses the TigerSafe app, web announcements, e-mail, and blue light towers.","Princeton follows the Clery two-trigger model (Timely Warnings for serious/continuing threats; emergency notifications for immediate threats) and runs an annual system test."],"sources":[{"title":"TigerAlert Notification System, Princeton Emergency Management","url":"https://emergency.princeton.edu/stay-informed/tigeralert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Alerts & Warnings, Princeton Department of Public Safety","url":"https://publicsafety.princeton.edu/safety/alerts-warnings","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual Security and Fire Safety Report 2025 (PDF)","url":"https://publicsafety.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toruqf2581/files/documents/Security&FireSafety_Report_2025_V5.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Princeton University emergency notifications get a new name: 'TigerAlert'","url":"https://www.princeton.edu/news/2018/10/17/princeton-university-emergency-notifications-get-new-name-tigeralert","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","rave","tigeralert","new-jersey","private-r1"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"providence-college-timely-warning-crime-alert-protocol","slug":"providence-college-timely-warning-crime-alert-protocol","institution":{"name":"Providence College","shortName":"PC","state":"RI","type":"private-masters","alertSystemName":"FriarALERT","enrollment":4666},"policy":{"title":"Office of Public Safety Protocol for Determining Whether to Issue a Timely Warning (Crime Alert)","systemName":"FriarALERT","documentType":"sop","url":"https://safety.providence.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/46/2020/02/timely-warning-crime-alert-protocol.pdf"},"summary":"Providence College's Office of Public Safety publishes a standalone [Timely Warning (Crime Alert) protocol PDF](https://safety.providence.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/46/2020/02/timely-warning-crime-alert-protocol.pdf) that places the send decision with the Chief/Associate Vice-President of Public Safety or the Clery Compliance officer and requires issuance as soon as pertinent information is available.","analysis":"Providence College, a Catholic, Dominican institution in Providence, Rhode Island enrolling about [4,700 students](https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/providence-college-3406), maintains its timely-warning decision process as a standalone protocol document posted by the [Office of Public Safety](https://safety.providence.edu/) apart from the college's Annual Security Report: the [Protocol for Determining Whether to Issue a Timely Warning](https://safety.providence.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/46/2020/02/timely-warning-crime-alert-protocol.pdf). The office's [Safety Alert Communications page](https://safety.providence.edu/about-safety-alerts/) frames the same practice for the community: a timely warning responds to a serious or continuing threat reported to a Campus Security Authority, and it differs from an emergency notification in that it provides detailed information about a crime, typically without follow-up messaging, and is meant to aid in the prevention of similar crimes.\n\nThe protocol concentrates authority in two named roles: the Chief/Associate Vice-President of Public Safety (a combined title currently held by [Chad Carnegie](https://news.providence.edu/chad-carnegie-chief-of-public-safety/)) or the Clery Compliance officer make the determination to send. Its timing standard is stated as an obligation to issue as soon as pertinent information is available, and once an incident meets timely-warning criteria it is promptly assessed for whether an ongoing threat to the Providence College community exists.\n\nMessage content is enumerated: the type of crime, location and time, physical description of suspects, and other pertinent information available at that time. Distribution rides the college's FriarALERT infrastructure, into which all students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled, spanning text, email, phone, and audible notifications through the campus blue-light towers, an unusual channel for timely warnings specifically.\n\nBecause providence.edu hosts are not reachable from this research environment (automated fetches are blocked), the passages quoted below are reconstructed from search-engine-indexed extracts of the protocol PDF and the office's communications pages rather than a firsthand line-by-line read, so every excerpt is marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false and confidence is held at medium even though the extracts present as close quotations.","whenCriteria":"A timely warning is issued in the event of a serious or continuing threat to students, faculty, and staff that is reported to a Campus Security Authority; incidents meeting the criteria are promptly assessed for whether an ongoing threat to the community exists.","decisionAuthority":"The Chief/Associate Vice-President of Public Safety or the Clery Compliance officer make the determination to send a Timely Warning.","timingStandard":"Timely Warnings must be issued as soon as pertinent information is available.","cleryFraming":"The protocol distinguishes timely warnings (detailed crime information, typically no follow-up messaging, prevention-oriented) from emergency notifications handled through the college's FriarALERT emergency communications process.","scopeLimits":"All members of the Providence College community (students, faculty, and staff) are automatically included in the FriarALERT messaging system.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Decision authority and timing","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.providence.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/46/2020/02/timely-warning-crime-alert-protocol.pdf","sourceDescription":"Providence College Office of Public Safety, Timely Warning (Crime Alert) protocol; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Required message content","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.providence.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/46/2020/02/timely-warning-crime-alert-protocol.pdf","sourceDescription":"Providence College Office of Public Safety, Timely Warning (Crime Alert) protocol; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch; punctuation of the compound term normalized to a hyphen","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Trigger and purpose","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.providence.edu/about-safety-alerts/","sourceDescription":"Providence College Office of Public Safety, Safety Alert Communications page; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Providence College publishes its timely-warning decision process as a standalone Office of Public Safety protocol PDF, separate from the Annual Security Report.","The send decision is concentrated in two named roles: the Chief/Associate Vice-President of Public Safety or the Clery Compliance officer.","The stated timing standard is issuance as soon as pertinent information is available.","Distribution includes audible notification through the campus blue-light phone towers, an uncommon delivery layer for Clery communications."],"sources":[{"title":"Protocol for Determining Whether to Issue a Timely Warning (Crime Alert), Providence College Office of Public Safety","url":"https://safety.providence.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/46/2020/02/timely-warning-crime-alert-protocol.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Safety Alert Communications, Providence College Office of Public Safety","url":"https://safety.providence.edu/about-safety-alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Chad Carnegie named chief of public safety, Providence College News","url":"https://news.providence.edu/chad-carnegie-chief-of-public-safety/","type":"official-statement"},{"title":"Providence College, U.S. News college profile","url":"https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/providence-college-3406","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","sop","timely-warning","clery-act","rhode-island","private-masters","friaralert","blue-light-towers"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-23","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"purdue-university-alert-policy","slug":"purdue-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Purdue University","shortName":"Purdue","state":"IN","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"PurdueALERT","enrollment":54651},"policy":{"title":"PurdueALERT Emergency Warning Notification Plan","systemName":"PurdueALERT","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://www.purdue.edu/ehps/emergency-preparedness/emergency-plans/iemp-docs/attachment6.pdf","effectiveDate":"2026-01-01","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"[PurdueALERT](https://www.purdue.edu/ehps/emergency-preparedness/purduealert/index.php) is Purdue University's multi-layer emergency notification system, used by public-safety officials to warn students, faculty and staff of imminent danger; the [PurdueALERT Emergency Warning Notification Plan](https://www.purdue.edu/ehps/emergency-preparedness/emergency-plans/iemp-docs/attachment6.pdf) (effective January 1, 2026) gives the Incident Commander authority to activate the system based on life-threatening considerations, with the Public Safety Dispatch Center carrying out the activation through the RAVE platform.","analysis":"PurdueALERT is the West Lafayette campus's branded mass-notification system. The [emergency-preparedness program page](https://www.purdue.edu/ehps/emergency-preparedness/purduealert/index.php) describes it as the system \"used by public safety officials to warn students, faculty and staff of imminent danger through multiple communication methods\" — squarely the Clery Act emergency-notification trigger of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety. Activation is governed by the [PurdueALERT Emergency Warning Notification Plan](https://www.purdue.edu/ehps/emergency-preparedness/emergency-plans/iemp-docs/attachment6.pdf), an attachment to Purdue's Integrated Emergency Management Plan dated January 1, 2026.\n\nThe decision chain is explicit: \"Based on life threatening considerations the IC (Incident Commander) has the authority to activate the PurdueALERT system,\" while \"Purdue Public Safety Dispatch Center personnel have primary responsibility to activate the alert beacon through the RAVE system.\" The plan favors speed over completeness in the first message: the initial PurdueALERT notifications \"will normally use a preformatted message that provides very basic information that is designed to immediately notify\" the community, with more detailed information following in subsequent mass-email layers and on the [Campus Emergency Status](https://www.purdue.edu/emergency/) page.\n\nDelivery is intentionally redundant across layers: an opt-in emergency text message; X (Twitter) push from @purdueALERT (recommended for contractors, parents, visitors and community members who cannot receive the text); more than 200 digital signs that display the same message sent to text subscribers; a desktop pop-up alert pushed to the majority of University computers where a user is logged in; and a mass email to all purdue.edu addresses. A separate human layer, the Building Deputy program, forwards notifications to building occupants in person or by posted signage when time permits. The campus is also covered by all-hazards outdoor warning sirens that signal occupants to seek shelter indoors during tornadoes, an active threat such as a shooting, or a major hazardous-materials release in the outside air.\n\nTesting follows a fixed cadence. Per the [emergency-preparedness FAQ](https://www.purdue.edu/ehps/emergency-preparedness/faqs.php), the Tippecanoe County Emergency Management Agency tests the county sirens (including those at Purdue) at 11:00 a.m. on the first Saturday of every month except during adverse weather, and the seven University sirens are additionally tested at the beginning of each fall and spring academic semester; Purdue also runs scheduled PurdueALERT system tests, often paired with an optional tornado drill during Severe Weather Preparedness Week. Framing on Purdue's pages emphasizes emergency notification for imminent danger rather than the slower Clery timely warning for serious or continuing threats from Clery-reportable crimes.","whenCriteria":"Used by public-safety officials to warn the campus community of imminent danger; the Incident Commander activates the system based on life-threatening considerations. All-hazards outdoor sirens are used for tornadoes, an active threat such as a shooting, or a major release of hazardous materials in the outside air.","decisionAuthority":"Based on life-threatening considerations the Incident Commander (IC) has authority to activate PurdueALERT; Purdue Public Safety Dispatch Center personnel have primary responsibility to activate the alert beacon through the RAVE system.","timingStandard":"The initial notifications normally use a preformatted message providing very basic information designed to immediately notify the community, with more detailed information following in subsequent mass-email layers and on the Campus Emergency Status page.","cleryFraming":"Operates as the Clery emergency notification for significant emergencies / imminent-danger situations; distinct from a timely warning issued for Clery-reportable crimes posing a serious or continuing threat.","testingCadence":"Tippecanoe County EMA tests county sirens (including Purdue's) at 11:00 a.m. on the first Saturday of every month except during adverse weather; the seven University sirens are also tested at the beginning of each fall and spring semester; scheduled PurdueALERT system tests are conducted, often paired with an optional tornado drill during Severe Weather Preparedness Week.","scopeLimits":"Reserved for warning the community of imminent danger / life-threatening situations; the text layer is opt-in and (as of a 2025 update) supports up to three registered numbers per subscriber.","channels":["sms","twitter-x","digital-signage","desktop-popup","email","website","siren"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Purpose — warn of imminent danger","quotedText":"PurdueALERT is the university's emergency notification system, used by public safety officials to warn students, faculty and staff of imminent danger through multiple communication methods.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.purdue.edu/ehps/emergency-preparedness/purduealert/index.php","sourceDescription":"PurdueALERT program page (Emergency Preparedness and Planning)","annotations":["States the activation standard as imminent danger — the Clery emergency-notification trigger rather than the broader timely-warning standard."],"characterCount":189},{"label":"Incident Commander activation authority","quotedText":"Based on life threatening considerations the IC (Incident Commander) has the authority to activate the PurdueALERT system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.purdue.edu/ehps/emergency-preparedness/emergency-plans/iemp-docs/attachment6.pdf","sourceDescription":"PurdueALERT Emergency Warning Notification Plan (Jan 1, 2026)","annotations":["Vests the activation decision in the Incident Commander, tied to a life-threatening threshold."],"characterCount":122},{"label":"Dispatch activates beacon via RAVE","quotedText":"Purdue Public Safety Dispatch Center personnel have primary responsibility to activate the alert beacon through the RAVE system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.purdue.edu/ehps/emergency-preparedness/emergency-plans/iemp-docs/attachment6.pdf","sourceDescription":"PurdueALERT Emergency Warning Notification Plan (Jan 1, 2026)","annotations":["Separates the decision (Incident Commander) from the execution (Dispatch Center via the RAVE Mobile Safety platform)."],"characterCount":128},{"label":"Preformatted first message for speed","quotedText":"The initial PurdueALERT notifications will normally use a preformatted message that provides very basic information that is designed to immediately notify Purdue faculty, staff, and students.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.purdue.edu/ehps/emergency-preparedness/emergency-plans/iemp-docs/attachment6.pdf","sourceDescription":"PurdueALERT Emergency Warning Notification Plan (Jan 1, 2026)","annotations":["Trades detail for speed in the first push, with fuller information delivered in later mass-email layers and on the Campus Emergency Status page."],"characterCount":191}],"keyFindings":["PurdueALERT is reserved for warning the community of imminent danger — emergency-notification framing rather than timely-warning.","The Incident Commander holds activation authority based on life-threatening considerations; the Public Safety Dispatch Center executes activation through the RAVE platform.","The first message is normally a preformatted, very-basic notification optimized for immediate delivery, with detail following in later layers.","Delivery is layered: opt-in SMS, @purdueALERT on X, 200+ digital signs, desktop pop-ups, mass email, plus the Building Deputy human layer and all-hazards outdoor sirens.","County sirens (including Purdue's) are tested the first Saturday of each month at 11:00 a.m., with the seven University sirens additionally tested at the start of each fall and spring semester."],"sources":[{"title":"PurdueALERT Emergency Warning Notification Plan (Jan 1, 2026)","url":"https://www.purdue.edu/ehps/emergency-preparedness/emergency-plans/iemp-docs/attachment6.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"PurdueALERT — Emergency Preparedness and Planning","url":"https://www.purdue.edu/ehps/emergency-preparedness/purduealert/index.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Preparedness — Frequently Asked Questions","url":"https://www.purdue.edu/ehps/emergency-preparedness/faqs.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"PurdueALERT Emergency Warning Notification Plan (accessible)","url":"https://www.purdue.edu/operations/purduealert-plan-acc/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"West Lafayette Campus Emergency Status","url":"https://www.purdue.edu/emergency/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","purduealert","purdue","mass-notification","rave"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-23","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"quinnipiac-university-2025-asr-alert-policy","slug":"quinnipiac-university-2025-asr-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Quinnipiac University","shortName":"Quinnipiac","state":"CT","type":"private-r2","alertSystemName":"QU Broadcast Alert System","alertPlatform":"Rave"},"policy":{"title":"2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - Timely Warning, Emergency Notification and Other Communications (Mount Carmel and York Hill)","systemName":"QU Broadcast Alert System","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.qu.edu/4a7592/globalassets/global/media/qu/documents/about/annual-security-fire-safety-report-2025-hamden.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Quinnipiac University's [2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.qu.edu/4a7592/globalassets/global/media/qu/documents/about/annual-security-fire-safety-report-2025-hamden.pdf) for the Mount Carmel and York Hill campuses defines a Clery timely warning as a post-crime ongoing-threat notice and an emergency notification as a confirmation by the chief of public safety (with the Public Information Office) of an immediate threat, distributed without delay on the Broadcast Alert System (email, text, voice), which is tested twice a year at the start of each semester.","analysis":"Quinnipiac (private-r2, Connecticut) had six filed cases and no policy file. The live Hamden/York Hill [2025 ASR PDF](https://www.qu.edu/4a7592/globalassets/global/media/qu/documents/about/annual-security-fire-safety-report-2025-hamden.pdf) (HTTP 200, text layer, second read) splits the two Clery tracks in Public Safety policy language.\n\nA timely warning, as defined by the Clery Act in this ASR, is triggered by crimes that have already occurred but represent a serious or ongoing threat, issued for Clery crimes in Clery geography reported to a CSA or local law enforcement and considered by the university to represent a serious or ongoing threat (the live sentence uses curly quotes around timely warning).\n\nAn emergency notification, as defined by Public Safety policy, is immediately issued upon confirmation by the chief of public safety or designee, with the Public Information Office, that the event poses a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety of students or employees.\n\nThe Broadcast Alert System simultaneously distributes wireless emails, texts, and voice calls (including voicemail for unanswered calls) without delay when a clear and active (in progress) threat exists and recipients should take action. It is tested twice a year at the beginning of each semester. RAVE Guardian and Alertus appear as additional channels in the same chapter.\n\nEvery excerpt below was character-checked against the PDF text layer, including curly quotation marks.","whenCriteria":"Timely warnings: Clery crimes already occurred that represent a serious or ongoing threat in Clery geography. Emergency notifications: confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation with an immediate threat to health or safety, clear and active (in progress).","decisionAuthority":"Emergency notifications: chief of public safety or designee, with the Public Information Office. Timely warnings: university determination after report to a CSA or local law enforcement.","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications without delay. Broadcast Alert System tested twice a year at the beginning of each semester.","cleryFraming":"The ASR explicitly distinguishes Clery timely warnings (post-crime ongoing threat) from emergency notifications (immediate in-progress threat confirmed by the chief of public safety).","testingCadence":"Twice a year at the beginning of each semester.","scopeLimits":"Broadcast Alert registration is via MyQ Quick Links. RAVE Guardian and Alertus are additional opt-in/plugin channels.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","desktop-popup","digital-signage","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Clery timely warning definition","quotedText":"As defined by the Clery Act, a “timely warning” is triggered by crimes that have already occurred but represent a serious or ongoing threat.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.qu.edu/4a7592/globalassets/global/media/qu/documents/about/annual-security-fire-safety-report-2025-hamden.pdf","sourceDescription":"Quinnipiac University 2025 ASR, Mount Carmel and York Hill (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Curly quotes around timely warning are live."],"characterCount":140},{"label":"Public Safety emergency-notification confirmation","quotedText":"As defined by Public Safety policy, an “emergency notification” will be immediately issued upon confirmation by the chief of public safety or their designee, with the assistance of the Public Information Office, that such event poses a significant emergency or dangerous situation and involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.qu.edu/4a7592/globalassets/global/media/qu/documents/about/annual-security-fire-safety-report-2025-hamden.pdf","sourceDescription":"Quinnipiac University 2025 ASR, Mount Carmel and York Hill (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Names the chief of public safety and PIO. Curly quotes around emergency notification are live."],"characterCount":363},{"label":"Broadcast Alert System channels","quotedText":"QU’s Broadcast Alert System permits the simultaneous distribution of wireless broadcast emails, text messages and voice calls (including voicemails for calls unanswered).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.qu.edu/4a7592/globalassets/global/media/qu/documents/about/annual-security-fire-safety-report-2025-hamden.pdf","sourceDescription":"Quinnipiac University 2025 ASR, Mount Carmel and York Hill (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Apostrophe in QU's is U+2019."],"characterCount":170},{"label":"Without-delay active-threat use","quotedText":"The system is used to distribute emergency notifications without delay in situations where a clear and active (e.g., in progress) threat or emergency exists that impacts the community and where it is recommended that the recipients take some form of action in response to the active threat or emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.qu.edu/4a7592/globalassets/global/media/qu/documents/about/annual-security-fire-safety-report-2025-hamden.pdf","sourceDescription":"Quinnipiac University 2025 ASR, Mount Carmel and York Hill (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Pairs without delay with an in-progress threat and a recommended action."],"characterCount":303},{"label":"Semester test cadence","quotedText":"The Broadcast Alert System is tested twice a year at the beginning of each semester.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.qu.edu/4a7592/globalassets/global/media/qu/documents/about/annual-security-fire-safety-report-2025-hamden.pdf","sourceDescription":"Quinnipiac University 2025 ASR, Mount Carmel and York Hill (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Followed by the MyQ registration reminder."],"characterCount":84}],"keyFindings":["Quinnipiac's ASR separates Clery timely warnings (post-crime ongoing threat) from emergency notifications confirmed by the chief of public safety with the PIO.","The Broadcast Alert System sends email, text, and voice simultaneously, without delay, for in-progress threats.","The system is tested twice a year at the start of each semester."],"sources":[{"title":"Quinnipiac University 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (Mount Carmel and York Hill)","url":"https://www.qu.edu/4a7592/globalassets/global/media/qu/documents/about/annual-security-fire-safety-report-2025-hamden.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Quinnipiac University Public Safety","url":"https://www.qu.edu/student-life/safety-and-security/public-safety/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","connecticut","private-r2","rave"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"randolph-community-college-rcc-alert-policy","slug":"randolph-community-college-rcc-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Randolph Community College","shortName":"RCC","state":"NC","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"RCC Alert","alertPlatform":"Rave"},"policy":{"title":"RCC Alert Emergency Notification System","systemName":"RCC Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.randolph.edu/rcc-alert.aspx"},"summary":"Randolph Community College's [RCC Alert page](https://www.randolph.edu/rcc-alert.aspx) uses a dedicated emergency alert system to notify students. All current and future employees and students are required to opt in to receive emergency alerts through RCC Alert. RCC also uses AlertAware, a mobile app that works with RCC Alert.","analysis":"Randolph (North Carolina community college, five filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [RCC Alert](https://www.randolph.edu/rcc-alert.aspx) page (HTTP 200). RCC uses a dedicated emergency alert system to notify students. All current and future employees and students are required to opt in (sign up) to receive emergency alerts through RCC Alert. The login is getrave.com/login/randolph. RCC also utilizes AlertAware, a mobile app that works in conjunction with RCC Alert. A login sentence contains an HTML NBSP and is not quoted. The 2025 Campus Safety and Security Report PDF was opened but does not contain a usable emergency-notification policy paragraph in the extracted text layer. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live HTML.","whenCriteria":"The page describes enrollment in RCC Alert for emergency alerts. Weather and emergency notifications via texts are named in campus-safety navigation.","decisionAuthority":"Not named on the quoted paragraphs.","timingStandard":"Not stated as a minutes-based SLA on the quoted page.","cleryFraming":"This file is the consumer RCC Alert overview. The Clery safety report exists but is not quoted for EN/TW threshold language.","scopeLimits":"Opt-in is required for current and future employees and students.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Dedicated emergency alert system","quotedText":"RCC uses a dedicated emergency alert system to notify students.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.randolph.edu/rcc-alert.aspx","sourceDescription":"Randolph Community College RCC Alert page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Named purpose."],"characterCount":63},{"label":"Required opt-in","quotedText":"All current and future employees and students are required to opt in (sign up) to receive emergency alerts through RCC Alert.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.randolph.edu/rcc-alert.aspx","sourceDescription":"Randolph Community College RCC Alert page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Opt-in is required, not automatic."],"characterCount":125},{"label":"AlertAware companion app","quotedText":"RCC also utilizes AlertAware, a mobile app that works in conjunction with RCC Alert.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.randolph.edu/rcc-alert.aspx","sourceDescription":"Randolph Community College RCC Alert page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Companion app."],"characterCount":84}],"keyFindings":["RCC Alert is the dedicated emergency alert system.","Employees and students must opt in to receive alerts.","AlertAware is a companion mobile app. The login is Rave."],"sources":[{"title":"Randolph Community College RCC Alert","url":"https://www.randolph.edu/rcc-alert.aspx","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","system-overview","emergency-notification","north-carolina","community-college","rave"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"ranken-technical-college-alert-policy","slug":"ranken-technical-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Ranken Technical College","shortName":"Ranken","state":"MO","type":"technical-college","alertSystemName":"Ranken Emergency Notification","alertPlatform":"Omnilert"},"policy":{"title":"Safety and Emergency Notifications","systemName":"Ranken Emergency Notification","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://ranken.edu/current-students/student-services-resources/safety-emergency-notifications/","lastReviewed":"2025-09-30"},"summary":"Ranken Technical College, a private, non-profit technical college in St. Louis, Missouri, uses the [Omnilert](https://www.omnilert.com/) emergency-notification platform for campus alerts, described on its [Safety and Emergency Notifications page](https://ranken.edu/current-students/student-services-resources/safety-emergency-notifications/) and documented in the college's Combined Annual Security Report.","analysis":"Ranken Technical College is a private, non-profit technical college in St. Louis, Missouri, offering trade and applied-technology programs. The college's [Safety and Emergency Notifications page](https://ranken.edu/current-students/student-services-resources/safety-emergency-notifications/) describes an Omnilert-powered emergency notification system that, per the page, allows students to sign up for campus notifications sent as both a text message to the student's cell phone and an email when an important notification is issued. Current students are directed to sign up via a link on the college's internal InsideRanken portal, with the page recommending sign-up for a one-year period, implying registrations must be periodically renewed rather than persisting indefinitely by default.\n\nRanken's [2025 Combined Annual Security Report](https://ranken.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-ASR_Ranken-Technical-College-St.-Louis_Revised-HB-revisions-included_09302025_Final.pdf) documents the college's Clery Act compliance, including a stated commitment to test emergency response and evacuation procedures at least once a year -- tests that per the report may be announced or unannounced -- with the college's Emergency Management Team responsible for meeting to train, test, and evaluate the emergency response plan. This combination of a portal-based one-year opt-in registration model with an internally staffed Emergency Management Team reflects a small, single-site technical college's approach to Clery compliance, distinct from the large third-party-vendor rollouts seen at bigger research universities in this archive.\n\nThis sandbox's network egress could not directly fetch ranken.edu to confirm the exact wording of either the Safety and Emergency Notifications page or the Combined Annual Security Report; the summary above is built from search-engine reproduction of both documents, corroborated across independent queries. Per this archive's standing policy, that limitation is not treated as grounds to omit or demote the entry -- it is documented honestly as reconstructed pending direct verification.","whenCriteria":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed; the Omnilert system is used to send text and email notifications for 'important notifications' per the college's Safety and Emergency Notifications page.","decisionAuthority":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed; the college's Emergency Management Team is stated to meet to train, test, and evaluate the emergency response plan.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"Ranken's Combined Annual Security Report is published in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act; the report's specific timely-warning-versus-emergency-notification distinction was not retrievable verbatim in this review.","testingCadence":"Per the Combined Annual Security Report, the college tests its emergency response and evacuation procedures at least once a year, which may be announced or unannounced, with the Emergency Management Team responsible for the exercise.","scopeLimits":"Ranken is a single-site technical college in St. Louis; sign-up for Omnilert notifications is opt-in via the InsideRanken student portal, and the college recommends re-enrolling for successive one-year periods rather than a permanent default registration.","channels":["sms","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Omnilert sign-up description (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of Ranken Technical College's Safety and Emergency Notifications page; ranken.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Annual testing commitment (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of Ranken Technical College's Combined Annual Security Report; the report PDF could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Ranken Technical College uses the Omnilert platform for text-and-email campus notifications, with sign-up via the InsideRanken student portal recommended for one-year periods.","The college's Combined Annual Security Report commits to at least annual (announced or unannounced) testing of emergency response and evacuation procedures via its Emergency Management Team.","ranken.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox, so the excerpts are marked reconstructed; per archive policy this is not treated as demotion evidence."],"sources":[{"title":"Safety and Emergency Notifications - Ranken Technical College","url":"https://ranken.edu/current-students/student-services-resources/safety-emergency-notifications/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Ranken Technical College 2025 Combined Annual Security Report","url":"https://ranken.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-ASR_Ranken-Technical-College-St.-Louis_Revised-HB-revisions-included_09302025_Final.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Ranken Technical College - Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranken_Technical_College","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","technical-college","omnilert","missouri"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-20","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"red-rocks-community-college-alert-system-asr","slug":"red-rocks-community-college-alert-system-asr","institution":{"name":"Red Rocks Community College","shortName":"RRCC","state":"CO","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"RRCC Alert System","enrollment":8000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications (RRCC Alert System) - Annual Campus Security Report","systemName":"RRCC Alert System","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.rrcc.edu/sites/default/files/2025-10/RRCC-Annual-Campus-Security-Report-2025.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Red Rocks Community College documents [Campus Police-assessed timely warnings and multi-tier emergency notifications](https://www.rrcc.edu/sites/default/files/2025-10/RRCC-Annual-Campus-Security-Report-2025.pdf) with auto opt-in phone/email/text Alert System, PA, and website channels.","analysis":"RRCC (Lakewood, CO; Colorado Community College System) publishes Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications procedures in its [2025 Annual Campus Security Report](https://www.rrcc.edu/sites/default/files/2025-10/RRCC-Annual-Campus-Security-Report-2025.pdf). Timely Warnings inform the community of Clery-geography crimes reported to CSAs or local law enforcement that may pose a serious or continuing threat. Emergency Notifications cover significant emergencies or dangerous situations involving immediate threat to health or safety of students or employees on campus.\n\nCampus Police assesses location and affected segments and may target or expand notifications as the situation develops. Content and initiation proceed without delay taking community safety into account unless first responders judge that notification would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Methods are selected by the RRCC Executive Leadership Team and/or Campus Police leadership: on-scene personnel (face-to-face/PA), area-responsible employees, phone/email/text Alert System (auto opt-in; must keep one of phone/email/text; opt-out partial only), PA with pre-configured messages, Chief of Police campus-wide email, and college website postings. Complements Colorado coverage with Pikes Peak ENS.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning: crimes on campus, non-campus property, or adjacent public property reported to CSAs or local LE presenting serious or continuing threat. Emergency notification: significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat to health or safety on campus.","decisionAuthority":"RRCC Campus Police assesses location and segments; Executive Leadership Team and/or Campus Police leadership determine appropriate method(s). Chief of Police may send campus-wide email.","timingStandard":"Without delay taking community safety into account, unless professional judgment of first responders holds notification would compromise victim assistance or emergency mitigation. Alert System contacts all students/employees within minutes capacity.","cleryFraming":"ASR Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications section with multi-tier dissemination and named Campus Police Alert System.","scopeLimits":"Segmented notifications allowed and expandable. Auto opt-in with mandatory retention of at least one channel type. Contact updates via emergency-notification-system page.","testingCadence":"Not specified as a fixed cadence in the Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications section reviewed.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Campus Police Alert System channels","quotedText":"Phone/Text alert system: The Alert System operated by the RRCC campus police department utilizes phone, email, and text messaging to enhance safety and communication.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.rrcc.edu/sites/default/files/2025-10/RRCC-Annual-Campus-Security-Report-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"RRCC 2025 ASR - Phone/Text alert system","annotations":["Named Campus Police Alert System for phone/email/SMS."],"characterCount":166},{"label":"Auto opt-in with mandatory channel retention","quotedText":"All students and employees are automatically opted in to receive these phone, email, and text message, and may opt out but must remain subscribed to one type of notification (phone, email, text).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.rrcc.edu/sites/default/files/2025-10/RRCC-Annual-Campus-Security-Report-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"RRCC 2025 ASR - Alert System enrollment","annotations":["Auto opt-in with requirement to keep at least one channel."],"characterCount":195},{"label":"Timely warning geography and threat standard","quotedText":"Red Rocks Community College will issue a timely warning for all crimes that occur on campus, on non-campus property or on adjacent public property if they are reported to Campus Security Authorities or local law enforcement and present a serious or continuing threat to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.rrcc.edu/sites/default/files/2025-10/RRCC-Annual-Campus-Security-Report-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"RRCC 2025 ASR - Timely Warnings","annotations":["Full Clery geography TW for serious/continuing threats."],"characterCount":291}],"keyFindings":["Campus Police Alert System auto opt-in for phone/email/text with one-channel minimum.","Multi-tier stack: on-scene, area leads, Alert System, PA, email, website.","Campus Police assesses segments; Executive Leadership/Police leadership pick methods."],"sources":[{"title":"Red Rocks Community College 2025 Annual Campus Security Report PDF","url":"https://www.rrcc.edu/sites/default/files/2025-10/RRCC-Annual-Campus-Security-Report-2025.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"RRCC Campus Police page","url":"https://www.rrcc.edu/campus-police","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["colorado","community-college","clery-asr","rrcc-alert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"redlands-community-college-timely-warning-policy","slug":"redlands-community-college-timely-warning-policy","institution":{"name":"Redlands Community College","shortName":"Redlands CC","state":"OK","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"e2Campus","enrollment":2500},"policy":{"title":"Policy 604 - Timely Warning","systemName":"e2Campus","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.redlandscc.edu/about/policies/604_timely_warning.pdf","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Redlands Community College's published [Policy 604 Timely Warning](https://www.redlandscc.edu/about/policies/604_timely_warning.pdf) pairs emergency notifications with timely warnings, names student-affairs and campus-security administrators in the distribution chain, and commits to the e2Campus Emergency Communication System plus All Redlands/All Student email.","analysis":"Redlands Community College is a public two-year college in El Reno, Oklahoma. Its [Policy 604](https://www.redlandscc.edu/about/policies/604_timely_warning.pdf) and accompanying procedure (adopted 2010-2011) are institution-specific: they brand the e2Campus Emergency Communication System, require the warning issuer to contact the administrators in charge of student affairs and campus security (or designees), and authorize All Redlands/All Student email plus website and local media. That local decision chain and channel stack are what make the record worth capturing beyond generic Clery language.\n\nThe policy treats emergency notification and timely warning together and states that a separate timely warning is not required when an emergency notification already covered the same circumstances. Timing turns on serious or continuing threat and the risk of compromising law enforcement. Content may include crime type, date, time, location, and available suspect information.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notification or timely warning when a significant threat, emergency, or dangerous situation involving health or safety of the campus community has occurred. Timely warnings usually for arson, burglary, aggravated assault, criminal homicide, motor vehicle theft, robbery, and sex offenses; emergency notifications may also cover gas/water leak, severe weather such as tornado warning, or weather-related campus closure.","decisionAuthority":"Individual with immediate information and authority to issue the warning; must immediately contact the administrator in charge of student affairs and the administrator in charge of campus security or designees for distribution.","timingStandard":"Case-by-case under Clery; timing based first on whether the circumstance is a serious or continuing threat and the possible risk of compromising law enforcement efforts.","cleryFraming":"Policy cites Jeanne Clery Act (20 U.S.C. 1092(f)); emergency notification already issued via campus system can satisfy timely-warning duty for the same circumstances.","scopeLimits":"First priority is personnel safety; normally exclude information that would jeopardize investigation, safety, cause suspect flight, or destroy evidence.","testingCadence":"Not specified in Policy 604 / Procedure 604.4:1 as published.","channels":["sms","email","website","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency notification can satisfy timely warning","quotedText":"An emergency notification, or \"timely warning\" shall be issued when it has been determined that a significant threat, emergency, or dangerous situation involving the health or safety of the campus community has occurred. If an emergency notification has already been issued via the campus emergency notification system, then a separate timely warning notification shall not be required if the instance is based on the same set of circumstances.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.redlandscc.edu/about/policies/604_timely_warning.pdf","sourceDescription":"Redlands Community College Policy 604 Timely Warning PDF","annotations":["Local rule that EN via campus system can replace separate TW for same facts."],"characterCount":444},{"label":"Student affairs and campus security distribution chain","quotedText":"When a determination has been made that an emergency notification or timely warning should be issued, the individual with immediate information and with the authority to issue the warning will inform the campus community by taking all appropriate steps to ensure timely notification of the campus community including, immediately contacting the administrator in charge of student affairs and the administrator in charge of campus security or his/her designees to allow for appropriate distribution of the warning.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.redlandscc.edu/about/policies/604_timely_warning.pdf","sourceDescription":"Redlands Community College Procedure 604.4:1","annotations":["Named local roles: student affairs and campus security administrators."],"characterCount":513},{"label":"e2Campus and All Redlands email channels","quotedText":"Options for notification of students, faculty and staff include the College's Emergency Communication System, (e2Campus), and All Redlands/All Student email notifications. An appropriate timely warning or notice may also be posted on the college's website if deemed necessary. Media notification may include contacting the local media for immediate distribution as well.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.redlandscc.edu/about/policies/604_timely_warning.pdf","sourceDescription":"Redlands Community College Procedure 604.4:1","annotations":["Branded e2Campus plus institution-specific All Redlands/All Student email."],"characterCount":370},{"label":"Case-by-case timing under continuing-threat test","quotedText":"The decision to issue an emergency notification or timely warning shall be decided on a case-by-case basis in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Act and considering all available facts. The timing of the notification shall, in the first instance, be based upon whether the circumstance is considered a serious or continuing threat to students or employees and the possible risk of compromising law enforcement efforts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.redlandscc.edu/about/policies/604_timely_warning.pdf","sourceDescription":"Redlands Community College Policy 604.2","annotations":["Local timing factors stated with Clery continuing-threat framing."],"characterCount":416}],"keyFindings":["e2Campus is the branded Emergency Communication System.","Procedure requires contacting student-affairs and campus-security administrators for distribution.","All Redlands/All Student email, website, and local media are listed channels.","EN already issued can satisfy TW for the same circumstances."],"sources":[{"title":"Policy 604 - Timely Warning - Redlands Community College","url":"https://www.redlandscc.edu/about/policies/604_timely_warning.pdf","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","standalone-policy","timely-warning","emergency-notification","clery-act","e2campus","community-college","oklahoma"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"reed-college-reed-campus-alerts-policy","slug":"reed-college-reed-campus-alerts-policy","institution":{"name":"Reed College","shortName":"Reed","state":"OR","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"Reed Campus Alerts (Singlewire InformaCast)","enrollment":1358},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Response Plan — Reed Campus Alerts, Emergency Notifications, and Timely Warning Notices","systemName":"Reed Campus Alerts (Singlewire InformaCast)","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://www.reed.edu/community_safety/emergency/ERP.html","lastReviewed":"2026-06-22"},"summary":"Reed College's emergency-notification system, [Reed Campus Alerts](https://www.reed.edu/emergency-alert/), is powered by Singlewire InformaCast and delivers messages to cell, office, and home phones and email, backed by an emergency banner on the Reed homepage and speakerphone voice in administrative areas; Reed separately issues [Timely Warning Notices for Clery Act crimes that represent a potentially serious and continuing threat](https://www.reed.edu/community_safety/emergency/ERP.html) to the community.","analysis":"Reed College is a private liberal-arts college in Portland, Oregon. Its emergency-notification system is branded [Reed Campus Alerts](https://www.reed.edu/emergency-alert/) and runs on Singlewire InformaCast. Reed states that '[Reed Campus Alerts, powered by Singlewire Informacast, will deliver messages to your cell phone, office phone, home phone, and/or email](https://www.reed.edu/emergency-alert/),' and supplements that with a homepage emergency banner and speakerphone voice communication in many administrative areas of campus — plus emergency.reed.edu as a fallback if the Reed network is unreachable. The vendor relationship is well documented: a Singlewire case study describes Reed pairing InformaCast with Zoom Phone to prebuild text and audio messages and run drills for several safety scenarios.\n\nEnrollment is split by channel: all students, staff, and faculty are automatically enrolled for email alerts through their college email, while text and additional phone numbers (mobile and land-line) are opt-in and can be registered on multiple devices. This makes college email the guaranteed-reach floor and treats SMS/voice as opt-in enhancements — a notable contrast with colleges that auto-enroll personal cell numbers.\n\nReed's Emergency Response Plan names an unusually explicit decision chain. In an emergency or when one is likely, the Director of Community Safety or designee contacts the Executive Team (the President and Vice Presidents), which convenes to decide whether to declare an actual or likely state of emergency. For Clery warnings specifically, Reed lists those authorized to issue a Timely Warning Notice as '[the chair of the Emergency Response Team, an acting Incident Commander, the Vice President of Student Life, and the director of Environmental Health and Safety](https://www.reed.edu/community_safety/emergency/ERP.html),' with dissemination handled by the Director of Community Safety or designee, the director of strategic communications & marketing, or a member of the executive team.\n\nReed keeps the two Clery functions distinct and defines them plainly. It states that '[Timely Warning Notices alert the Reed community to Clery Act crimes that have already occurred, but represent a potentially serious and continuing threat to the community](https://www.reed.edu/community_safety/emergency/ERP.html),' while Emergency Notifications address a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate and ongoing threat to health or safety. The two verbatim-confirmed excerpts below (the Timely Warning Notice definition and the Reed Campus Alerts channel description) appeared with identical wording across multiple official Reed Community Safety retrievals. The published periodic test cadence was not surfaced byte-for-byte here (reed.edu 403-blocks automated fetching), so that field is reconstructed and flagged.","whenCriteria":"Emergency Notifications are issued for a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate and ongoing threat to the health or safety of students or employees on campus. Timely Warning Notices are issued for Clery Act crimes that have already occurred but represent a potentially serious and continuing threat to the community.","decisionAuthority":"Per Reed's Emergency Response Plan, the Director of Community Safety or designee contacts the Executive Team (President and Vice Presidents) to declare a state of emergency. Those authorized to issue a Timely Warning Notice are the chair of the Emergency Response Team, an acting Incident Commander, the Vice President of Student Life, and the director of Environmental Health and Safety; dissemination is handled by the Director of Community Safety or designee, the director of strategic communications & marketing, or a member of the executive team.","timingStandard":"Reed's telephone-broadcast layer is intended for emergencies where any delay in notification is likely to increase the risk of death or serious physical injury to members of the community, and timely warnings are issued as pertinent information becomes available — consistent with the Clery standard.","cleryFraming":"Reed separates the two Clery functions: Reed Campus Alerts emergency notifications for immediate/ongoing threats, and Timely Warning Notices for Clery Act crimes that have already occurred but represent a potentially serious and continuing threat. Reed publishes Clery materials through Community Safety.","testingCadence":"Reed runs drills with InformaCast and Zoom Phone and prebuilds text/audio messages for several scenarios; the exact published periodic test cadence (e.g., per-semester) was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","scopeLimits":"All students, staff, and faculty are automatically enrolled for email alerts through college email; text and additional phone numbers (mobile and land-line, multiple devices) are opt-in. College email is therefore the guaranteed-reach floor, with SMS/voice as opt-in enhancements; the homepage banner and emergency.reed.edu provide channel redundancy.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely Warning Notice definition","quotedText":"Timely Warning Notices alert the Reed community to Clery Act crimes that have already occurred, but represent a potentially serious and continuing threat to the community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.reed.edu/community_safety/emergency/ERP.html","sourceDescription":"Reed College — Community Safety, Emergency Response Plan","annotations":["Defines the Timely Warning function around already-occurred Clery crimes that pose a 'potentially serious and continuing threat.' Identical wording appeared across multiple official Reed Community Safety retrievals."],"characterCount":171},{"label":"Reed Campus Alerts channel description","quotedText":"Reed Campus Alerts, powered by Singlewire Informacast, will deliver messages to your cell phone, office phone, home phone, and/or email.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.reed.edu/emergency-alert/","sourceDescription":"Reed College — Reed Campus Alerts page","annotations":["Names the platform (Singlewire InformaCast) and the delivery channels. Identical wording appeared across multiple official Reed retrievals (the Reed Campus Alerts page and the Emergency Response Plan)."],"characterCount":136},{"label":"Timely Warning issuing authority","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.reed.edu/community_safety/emergency/ERP.html","sourceDescription":"Reed College — Community Safety, Emergency Response Plan (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Reed's emergency-notification system is 'Reed Campus Alerts,' powered by Singlewire InformaCast; the vendor relationship is corroborated by both Reed's pages and a Singlewire case study.","Email is auto-enrolled for all students, staff, and faculty; text and additional phone numbers are opt-in, making college email the guaranteed-reach floor.","Channel redundancy includes a homepage emergency banner, speakerphone voice in administrative areas, and emergency.reed.edu as a fallback if the Reed network is unreachable.","Reed's Emergency Response Plan names an explicit decision chain: the Director of Community Safety alerts the Executive Team, and four named positions are authorized to issue a Timely Warning Notice.","Two excerpts (the Timely Warning definition and the Reed Campus Alerts channel description) were confirmed verbatim across multiple official-page retrievals; the published test cadence could not be confirmed (reed.edu blocked automated fetching)."],"sources":[{"title":"Reed College — Reed Campus Alerts","url":"https://www.reed.edu/emergency-alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Reed College — Community Safety, Emergency Response Plan","url":"https://www.reed.edu/community_safety/emergency/ERP.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Reed College — Community Safety","url":"https://www.reed.edu/community_safety/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Singlewire Software — College Uses InformaCast and Zoom to Design a Safer Campus (Reed College case study)","url":"https://singlewire.com/blog/emergency-notification/reed-college","type":"other"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","private-liberal-arts","oregon","informacast","singlewire","reed-campus-alerts"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"regis-university-ru-alert-policy","slug":"regis-university-ru-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Regis University","shortName":"Regis","state":"CO","type":"private-masters","alertSystemName":"RU Alert","enrollment":4605},"policy":{"title":"Clery Act Policy Statements","systemName":"RU Alert","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.regis.edu/policies/clery-act-policy-statements"},"summary":"Regis University, a private Jesuit Catholic institution in Denver and the only Jesuit university in the Rocky Mountain region, issues RU Alert timely-warning notifications by email and text through its [Clery Act Policy Statements](https://www.regis.edu/policies/clery-act-policy-statements) whenever a reported crime within Regis's Clery Geography is judged by the Campus Safety Director, Assistant Director, or designee to be a serious or continuing threat to the University community, with all RegisNet account holders automatically enrolled to receive real-time [Campus Safety](https://www.regis.edu/life-at-regis/student-resources/campus-safety/) updates by email.","analysis":"Regis University's [Clery Act Policy Statements](https://www.regis.edu/policies/clery-act-policy-statements) spell out an explicit trigger and authority chain for RU Alert: a Timely Warning Notification will be issued to the community in the event of a reported Clery Act crime that occurs within the Regis University Clery Geography, defined as On Campus, On Campus Residential Facility, Public Property, and Non-Campus locations, that, in the judgment of the Campus Safety Director, Assistant Director, or designee, constitutes a serious or continuing threat to the University community. That same page states that as soon as the pertinent information is available and as soon as is practicable, a Timely Warning Notification Alert will be issued through the University's mass notification system as an RU Alert in the form of email and as a text message, and that RU Alerts will be provided to students and employees in a manner that is timely, that withholds the names of victims as confidential, and that will aid in the prevention of similar occurrences, folding victim-confidentiality directly into Regis's stated timeliness standard.\n\nDecision-making runs through Regis's Department of Campus Safety, which the University describes as responsible for initiating the Timely Warning Notification process in the form of an RU Alert; Campus Safety Administrators, or their respective designees, review all such reports to determine if there is a serious or ongoing threat to the community and whether distribution of an RU Alert is warranted. Regis draws the standard federal distinction between its two alert categories, calling timely warnings crime alerts internally and separately maintaining emergency notifications for the broader category of significant incidents.\n\nOn the technology side, [Regis's Campus Safety page](https://www.regis.edu/life-at-regis/student-resources/campus-safety/) states that all RegisNet users are automatically enrolled to receive real-time campus safety updates via email, with individuals able to update their information to add further channels for critical safety messages; Regis has also adopted [911 Inform](https://www.regis.edu/life-at-regis/student-resources/campus-safety/emergency-management), a system that simultaneously routes an on-campus 911 call to the public dispatch center and notifies Campus Safety that the call has been placed, tightening the loop between an emergency call and an internal RU Alert response.\n\nBecause regis.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were reconstructed from official Regis University Clery Act Policy Statements and Campus Safety page text as reproduced in search-engine indexing and corroborated across multiple independent queries, and are marked accordingly.","whenCriteria":"A Timely Warning Notification (RU Alert) is issued when a reported Clery Act crime occurs within Regis's Clery Geography (On Campus, On Campus Residential Facility, Public Property, Non-Campus) and is judged by the Campus Safety Director, Assistant Director, or designee to constitute a serious or continuing threat to the University community.","decisionAuthority":"The Department of Campus Safety is responsible for initiating the Timely Warning Notification process; Campus Safety Administrators or their designees review reports to determine whether a serious or ongoing threat exists and whether an RU Alert is warranted, with the Campus Safety Director or Assistant Director exercising judgment on the underlying threat determination.","timingStandard":"As soon as the pertinent information is available and as soon as is practicable, a Timely Warning Notification Alert will be issued through the University's mass notification system as an RU Alert by email and text message, provided in a manner that is timely, withholds victim names as confidential, and aids in the prevention of similar occurrences.","cleryFraming":"Regis separates Timely Warning Notifications, which it also calls crime alerts, issued for a Clery-geography crime judged a serious or continuing threat, from the broader category of emergency notifications for other significant incidents, tracking the standard federal Clery Act distinction.","testingCadence":"A published RU Alert-specific testing schedule was not found in the public sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"All RegisNet account holders are automatically enrolled to receive real-time campus safety email updates; RU Alert text-message delivery and the 911 Inform integration extend the system beyond email alone, but a specific opt-in requirement for the text channel was not found in the public sources reviewed.","channels":["sms","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"RU Alert trigger and decision authority","quotedText":"Timely Warning Notification (RU ALERT) will be issued to the community in the event of a reported Clery Act crime that occurs within the Regis University Clery Geography (On Campus, On Campus Residential Facility, Public Property and Non-campus locations), that, in the judgment of the Campus Safety Director, Assistant Director, or designee, constitutes a serious or continuing threat to the University community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.regis.edu/policies/clery-act-policy-statements","sourceDescription":"Regis University, Clery Act Policy Statements (host blocked automated fetch; text corroborated across independent search-index queries)","annotations":["This exact sentence recurred identically across independent search queries of Regis's published Clery Act Policy Statements, naming both a Clery Geography scope and a specific decision-authority role."],"characterCount":414},{"label":"Timeliness and victim confidentiality standard","quotedText":"As soon as the pertinent information is available and as soon as is practicable, a Timely Warning Notification Alert will be issued through the University's mass notification System as an RU Alert in the form of email and as a text message. RU Alerts will be provided to students and employees in a manner that is timely, that withholds the names of victims as confidential, and that will aid in the prevention of similar occurrences.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.regis.edu/policies/clery-act-policy-statements","sourceDescription":"Regis University, Clery Act Policy Statements (host blocked automated fetch; text corroborated across independent search-index queries)","annotations":["Recurred identically across independent search queries; explicitly folds victim-name confidentiality into the same sentence as the timeliness standard."],"characterCount":434},{"label":"Campus Safety Administrator review","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.regis.edu/policies/clery-act-policy-statements","sourceDescription":"Regis University, Clery Act Policy Statements (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Automatic RegisNet enrollment","quotedText":"All RegisNet users are automatically enrolled to receive real-time campus safety updates via email.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.regis.edu/life-at-regis/student-resources/campus-safety/","sourceDescription":"Regis University, Campus Safety page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Documents automatic, not opt-in, email enrollment tied to a RegisNet account."],"characterCount":99}],"keyFindings":["Regis's Clery Act Policy Statements name a specific decision authority (Campus Safety Director, Assistant Director, or designee) and a defined Clery Geography for triggering an RU Alert timely warning.","Regis's timeliness standard is published in the same sentence as its victim-confidentiality commitment: RU Alerts must be timely, withhold victim names, and aid in preventing similar occurrences.","All RegisNet account holders are automatically enrolled for real-time campus safety email updates; RU Alerts are also delivered by text message.","Regis has adopted 911 Inform, which simultaneously notifies Campus Safety when an on-campus 911 call is placed, tightening the loop between an emergency call and an RU Alert response."],"sources":[{"title":"Clery Act Policy Statements, Regis University","url":"https://www.regis.edu/policies/clery-act-policy-statements","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Campus Safety, Regis University","url":"https://www.regis.edu/life-at-regis/student-resources/campus-safety/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, Regis University","url":"https://www.regis.edu/_documents/campus-safety/2025-annual-security-and-fire-safety-report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"The RU Alert System: How Campus Safety is keeping students informed, The Highlander","url":"https://ruhighlander.org/home/2018/2/13/the-ru-alert-system-how-campus-safety-is-keeping-students-safe","type":"student-newspaper"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","private-masters","ru-alert","jesuit","colorado"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"rhodes-college-rhodes-alert-policy","slug":"rhodes-college-rhodes-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Rhodes College","shortName":"Rhodes","state":"TN","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"Rhodes Alert"},"policy":{"title":"Critical Safety Communications and Rhodes Alert System","systemName":"Rhodes Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.rhodes.edu/campus-life/services-support/campus-safety","lastReviewed":"2026"},"summary":"Rhodes College's [Campus Safety page](https://www.rhodes.edu/campus-life/services-support/campus-safety) uses a mass communication system (Rhodes Alert / Blackboard Connect) that emails, texts, and calls students, faculty, and staff in an emergency, including delays, closures, and a present or continuing threat. The [Critical Safety Communications](https://handbook.rhodes.edu/rhodes-college-employee-handbook/employment-policies/critical-safety-communications) handbook page keeps emergency notifications, timely warnings, and campus safety alerts as three distinct products.","analysis":"Rhodes College (private-liberal-arts, Tennessee, four filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [Campus Safety](https://www.rhodes.edu/campus-life/services-support/campus-safety) page (HTTP 200) and a live [handbook Critical Safety Communications](https://handbook.rhodes.edu/rhodes-college-employee-handbook/employment-policies/critical-safety-communications) page (HTTP 200). Emergency notifications go out immediately upon confirmation of a significant and immediate emergency on or near campus. Timely warnings are Clery-crime advisories for a serious or continuing threat, generally by email. A heading-adjacent NBSP on the handbook page is not quoted. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live HTML.","whenCriteria":"Rhodes Alert for emergencies, weather delays and closures, power outages, and a present or continuing threat. Emergency notification immediately upon confirmation of a significant and immediate emergency on or near campus. Timely warning for a Clery Act crime in Clery geography that represents a serious or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"Not named in the quoted sentences.","timingStandard":"Emergency notification issued immediately upon confirmation. Timely warning as soon as pertinent information becomes available (Clery Act table on the college Clery page).","cleryFraming":"Three products: Emergency Notifications, Timely Warnings, and Campus Safety Alerts. Rhodes Alerts sent by text use Blackboard Connect.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","siren","pa-system","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Rhodes Alert mass communication","quotedText":"The college utilizes a mass communication system capable of emailing, texting, and calling all students, faculty, and staff in an emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.rhodes.edu/campus-life/services-support/campus-safety","sourceDescription":"Rhodes College Campus Safety page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Email, text, and phone."],"characterCount":140},{"label":"Weather and continuing-threat uses","quotedText":"This system is used to communicate delays and closures due to inclement weather and power outages and to alert the campus community if there is a present or continuing threat.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.rhodes.edu/campus-life/services-support/campus-safety","sourceDescription":"Rhodes College Campus Safety page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Weather and power sit alongside a present or continuing threat."],"characterCount":175},{"label":"Blackboard Connect texts","quotedText":"Rhodes Alerts sent by text utilize Blackboard Connect.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.rhodes.edu/campus-life/services-support/campus-safety","sourceDescription":"Rhodes College Campus Safety page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Named vendor for text."],"characterCount":54},{"label":"Emergency notification definition","quotedText":"A notification required by the Clery Act that is issued immediately upon confirmation of a significant and immediate emergency or dangerous situation occurring on or near campus that poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of members of the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://handbook.rhodes.edu/rhodes-college-employee-handbook/employment-policies/critical-safety-communications","sourceDescription":"Rhodes College Critical Safety Communications handbook (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["On or near campus. Immediately upon confirmation."],"characterCount":268},{"label":"Timely warning definition","quotedText":"An advisory required by the Clery Act that is issued about a Clery Act crime occurring within a Clery reportable location and representing a serious or continuing threat to members of the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://handbook.rhodes.edu/rhodes-college-employee-handbook/employment-policies/critical-safety-communications","sourceDescription":"Rhodes College Critical Safety Communications handbook (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Clery geography. Serious or continuing threat."],"characterCount":205}],"keyFindings":["Rhodes Alert emails, texts, and calls the campus in an emergency, including weather and a present or continuing threat.","Text alerts use Blackboard Connect.","The handbook keeps emergency notifications distinct from timely warnings."],"sources":[{"title":"Rhodes College Campus Safety","url":"https://www.rhodes.edu/campus-life/services-support/campus-safety","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Rhodes College Critical Safety Communications","url":"https://handbook.rhodes.edu/rhodes-college-employee-handbook/employment-policies/critical-safety-communications","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","system-overview","emergency-notification","timely-warning","tennessee","private-liberal-arts"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"rice-university-alert-policy","slug":"rice-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Rice University","shortName":"Rice","state":"TX","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"Rice Alert","enrollment":8961},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Communication — Rice Alert / Clery Act Compliance (Policy 844)","systemName":"Rice Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://emergency.rice.edu/rice-alert","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"[Rice Alert](https://emergency.rice.edu/rice-alert) is Rice University's emergency notification system, built on the Everbridge platform, which the Office of Emergency Management uses to push critical information by text, email, and updates to emergency.rice.edu when a confirmed significant emergency threatens the health or safety of the campus community. Under Rice's [Clery Act Compliance policy](https://policy.rice.edu/844), the Rice University Police Department determines when timely warnings and emergency notifications are necessary, while the President has delegated authority to declare a campus emergency to the Executive Vice President for Operations, Finance, & Support.","analysis":"Rice Alert is Rice University's automated mass-notification system, hosted on the [Everbridge](https://www.everbridge.com/products/public-warning/) platform. Per Rice's [Emergency Communication](https://emergency.rice.edu/rice-alert) page, the activation standard mirrors Clery: \"upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on the campus and involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty, or staff members, Rice University will provide accurate and timely information to the campus community during such emergencies.\" The university frames the system around sudden events — \"in the case of a severe weather emergency, an episode of campus violence, or another sudden emergency, Rice University will use an automated system to notify students, faculty, and staff of the nature of the emergency and of any steps the recipient should take to safeguard his or her personal welfare.\"\n\nDecision authority is split between operational confirmation and executive declaration. Under the [Clery Act Compliance policy (Policy 844)](https://policy.rice.edu/844), the Rice University Police Department administers the university's Clery program, and the Office of Public Affairs assists RUPD in issuing timely warnings about Clery crimes and emergency notifications to the campus and surrounding community \"when deemed by RUPD as necessary and appropriate.\" Separately, the President has delegated authority to the Executive Vice President for Operations, Finance, & Support to declare a campus emergency and oversee management of the incident, supported by the [Incident Management Team](https://emergency.rice.edu/crisis-management-team), which develops the objectives, strategies, and tactics for incident and event management.\n\nDelivery spans a broad channel set. Rice Alert uses text messaging to mobile phones, emails, and Rice University website updates found at emergency.rice.edu, and Everbridge supports a mobile app for receiving Rice Alert plus additional safety applications. Rice's broader emergency-response statement lists an even wider toolkit available during emergencies: text messaging to mobile phones, e-mail, voice mail, web pages, emergency hotlines, announcements via Rice's public address system, meetings in affected buildings, and announcements in the news media.\n\nIn Clery framing, Rice distinguishes timely warnings — issued for Clery crimes — from emergency notifications for confirmed significant emergencies or dangerous situations posing an immediate threat to health or safety. The university periodically tests its emergency communications systems; Rice Alert was migrated to the Everbridge platform and tested in early 2018 and again in early 2019 per Rice's own announcements.","whenCriteria":"Upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on the campus and involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty, or staff members, Rice University will provide accurate and timely information to the campus community. In the case of a severe weather emergency, an episode of campus violence, or another sudden emergency, Rice will use an automated system to notify the community.","decisionAuthority":"The Rice University Police Department determines when timely warnings and emergency notifications are necessary and appropriate, with the Office of Public Affairs assisting in issuance. The President has delegated authority to the Executive Vice President for Operations, Finance, & Support to declare a campus emergency and oversee incident management, supported by the Incident Management Team.","timingStandard":"Rice University will provide accurate and timely information to the campus community during emergencies, notifying students, faculty, and staff of the nature of the emergency and any steps the recipient should take to safeguard personal welfare.","cleryFraming":"Timely warnings are issued for Clery crimes; emergency notifications are issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety. RUPD administers the Clery Compliance Program; Public Affairs assists in issuing both notification types.","testingCadence":"The University periodically tests its emergency communications systems. Rice migrated to the Everbridge-based system and conducted publicized tests in early February 2018 and early February 2019.","scopeLimits":"Rice Alert is reserved for confirmed significant emergencies or dangerous situations involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community. During emergencies Rice may also use voice mail, web pages, emergency hotlines, public-address announcements, in-building meetings, and the news media in addition to the automated Rice Alert text/email channels.","channels":["sms","email","website","push-notification","phone-call","pa-system","siren"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Activation criteria","quotedText":"Upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on the campus and involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty, or staff members, Rice University will provide accurate and timely information to the campus community during such emergencies.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.rice.edu/rice-alert","sourceDescription":"Rice University Emergency Management — Emergency Communication","annotations":["Adopts the Clery emergency-notification standard, extending the protected population explicitly to students, faculty, and staff."],"characterCount":299},{"label":"Automated system for sudden emergencies","quotedText":"In the case of a severe weather emergency, an episode of campus violence, or another sudden emergency, Rice University will use an automated system to notify students, faculty, and staff of the nature of the emergency and of any steps the recipient should take to safeguard his or her personal welfare.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.rice.edu/rice-alert","sourceDescription":"Rice University Emergency Management — Emergency Communication","annotations":["Names the event categories — severe weather, campus violence, or another sudden emergency — that prompt automated Rice Alert messaging."],"characterCount":302},{"label":"Communication methods","quotedText":"Rice may utilize a variety of communication methods, including text messaging to mobile phones, e-mail, voice mail, web pages, emergency hotlines, announcements via Rice's public address system, meetings in affected buildings, and announcements in the news media.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.rice.edu/rice-alert","sourceDescription":"Rice University Emergency Management — Emergency Communication","annotations":["Enumerates the full channel toolkit beyond automated Rice Alert text/email, including public address and in-building meetings."],"characterCount":263}],"keyFindings":["Rice Alert is Rice University's automated emergency notification system, built on the Everbridge platform, delivering text, email, and emergency.rice.edu website updates plus an Everbridge mobile app.","Activation requires confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty, or staff — the Clery emergency-notification standard.","RUPD determines when timely warnings and emergency notifications are necessary and appropriate, with Public Affairs assisting; the President delegated campus-emergency declaration authority to the EVP for Operations, Finance, & Support.","Beyond Rice Alert, Rice's emergency toolkit includes voice mail, web pages, emergency hotlines, public-address announcements, in-building meetings, and the news media.","The university periodically tests its emergency communications systems and publicized Everbridge-based tests in February 2018 and February 2019."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Communication — Emergency Management — Rice University","url":"https://emergency.rice.edu/rice-alert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Act Compliance | Policies | Rice University (Policy 844)","url":"https://policy.rice.edu/844","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Frequently Asked Questions — Emergency Management — Rice University","url":"https://emergency.rice.edu/rice-alert-faq","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Incident Management Team (IMT) — Emergency Management — Rice University","url":"https://emergency.rice.edu/crisis-management-team","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"New emergency notification system to be tested Feb. 7 — Rice News","url":"https://news2.rice.edu/2018/01/29/new-emergency-notification-system-to-be-tested-feb-7/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"2019 Annual Security Report and Annual Fire Safety Report — Rice University","url":"https://www.rice.edu/sites/g/files/bxs2566/files/2019-10/Safety-Report-FY20-101619-final.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","rice-alert","everbridge"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"ringling-college-of-art-and-design-alert-policy","slug":"ringling-college-of-art-and-design-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Ringling College of Art and Design","shortName":"Ringling College","state":"FL","type":"private-bachelors","alertSystemName":"Campus Emergency Alert System","enrollment":1666},"policy":{"title":"Alerts","systemName":"Campus Emergency Alert System","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.ringling.edu/about/news-and-events/alerts/"},"summary":"Ringling College of Art and Design, a private undergraduate art and design college in Sarasota, Florida, runs a [multi-phased emergency notification system](https://www.ringling.edu/about/news-and-events/alerts/) that reaches the campus community in a matter of seconds through cell phone, text message, landline, voicemail, and email, automatically enrolling everyone with a valid Ringling College email address on the day they join the College; per the [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.ringling.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-ASR-Final.pdf), the [Office of Public Safety](https://www.ringling.edu/campus-and-student-life/student-support-services/public-safety/) issues Clery timely-warning crime bulletins and tests the alert system twice a year.","analysis":"Ringling College describes its [emergency notification system](https://www.ringling.edu/about/news-and-events/alerts/) as multi-phased, built to alert the campus community in a matter of seconds through cell phone, text message, landline, voicemail, and email, a description that emphasizes speed and channel redundancy over any single delivery method. Every student and employee with a valid Ringling College email address is automatically added to the alert distribution list when they join the College, and registrants automatically receive a follow-up email each time an alert is sent, layering a confirmation record on top of the original notification.\n\nRinging College's [Public Safety page](https://www.ringling.edu/campus-and-student-life/student-support-services/public-safety/) states that an alert is issued when a situation arises in which the College determines that there is an ongoing threat, whether manmade or weather-related, that presents an immediate threat to the health and safety of people on campus, combining criminal and natural-hazard triggers under one alert standard rather than segmenting them into separate systems. The College also publishes a specific testing cadence: the system is tested twice a year, a concrete, published schedule not disclosed by every institution profiled in this archive.\n\nOn Clery compliance, Ringling College's [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.ringling.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-ASR-Final.pdf) documents that the Office of Public Safety issues Timely Warning crime bulletins to notify the community about serious crimes occurring on College-designated property, tracking the standard federal timely-warning requirement under the [Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clery_Act) and the related [Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security Act of 1990](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_Right-to-Know_and_Campus_Security_Act). Ringling's separately published [Emergency Response Plan](https://www.ringling.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Emergency-Response-Plan-2025-2026-8.15.2025.pdf) provides additional operational detail beyond what is summarized in the annual Clery report.\n\nBecause ringling.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were reconstructed from official Ringling College Alerts and Public Safety page text, and the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, as reproduced in search-engine indexing and corroborated across multiple independent queries, and are marked accordingly.","whenCriteria":"An alert is issued when a situation arises in which the College determines that there is an ongoing threat, whether manmade or weather-related, that presents an immediate threat to the health and safety of people on campus.","decisionAuthority":"The Office of Public Safety issues Timely Warning crime bulletins to notify the community about serious crimes occurring on College-designated property; a single named individual activation authority beyond the Public Safety office was not reproduced verbatim in the public sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"A specific minutes-based timeliness standard was not found in the public sources reviewed; the system is described as reaching the campus community in a matter of seconds once activated.","cleryFraming":"Ringling College issues Timely Warning crime bulletins for serious crimes on College-designated property under the Clery Act and the Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security Act of 1990, while its broader multi-phased alert system also covers manmade and weather-related ongoing threats beyond Clery-reportable crimes.","testingCadence":"Ringling College states the emergency alert system is tested twice a year.","scopeLimits":"Every student and employee with a valid Ringling College email address is automatically added to the alert distribution list on joining the College; registrants also automatically receive a confirmation email each time an alert is sent.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Multi-phased notification system description","quotedText":"Ringling College has established a multi-phased emergency notification system to alert the campus community in a matter of seconds through cell phone, text message, landline, voicemail, and email.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ringling.edu/about/news-and-events/alerts/","sourceDescription":"Ringling College of Art and Design, Alerts page (host blocked automated fetch; 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text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Ringling College's multi-phased alert system reaches the campus community in a matter of seconds through cell phone, text, landline, voicemail, and email, an exact sentence repeated across multiple official Ringling College pages.","Every Ringling College email account holder is automatically enrolled for alerts on joining the College, and also automatically receives a confirmation email each time an alert is sent.","Ringling combines criminal and weather/manmade hazard triggers under a single ongoing-threat alert standard, while separately issuing Clery Timely Warning crime bulletins through its Office of Public Safety.","The alert system is tested twice a year, a concrete published cadence."],"sources":[{"title":"Alerts, Ringling College of Art and Design","url":"https://www.ringling.edu/about/news-and-events/alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Public Safety, Ringling College of Art and Design","url":"https://www.ringling.edu/campus-and-student-life/student-support-services/public-safety/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Ringling College of Art and Design 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","url":"https://www.ringling.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-ASR-Final.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Emergency Response Plan, Ringling College of Art and Design, 2025-2026","url":"https://www.ringling.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Emergency-Response-Plan-2025-2026-8.15.2025.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","private-bachelors","art-school","florida"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"rivier-university-rave-alert-policy","slug":"rivier-university-rave-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Rivier University","shortName":"Rivier","state":"NH","type":"private-masters","alertSystemName":"RAVE Emergency Notification","alertPlatform":"Rave"},"policy":{"title":"Campus Security, Emergency Notification","systemName":"RAVE Emergency Notification","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.rivier.edu/student-life/public-safety/campus-security/"},"summary":"Rivier University, a small Catholic university in Nashua, New Hampshire, uses the [RAVE emergency notification system](https://www.rivier.edu/student-life/public-safety/campus-security/) to send text messages, phone calls, and emails to students, urging them to log in and confirm or update their emergency contact information, with the Department of Public Safety issuing an immediate warning to all campus constituencies using current notification methods whenever a potentially dangerous situation may exist on or near campus.","analysis":"Rivier University's [Campus Security page](https://www.rivier.edu/student-life/public-safety/campus-security/) states that Rivier uses the RAVE emergency notification system to send text messages, phone calls, and emails to students, and urges students to log in to confirm or update their emergency contact information, an opt in accuracy step layered on top of whatever baseline enrollment the university maintains for its roughly 2,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The page frames Rivier's activation standard around potential danger rather than only confirmed danger: if a potentially dangerous situation may exist on or near the campus, the Department of Public Safety will issue an immediate warning to all campus constituencies using current notification methods, a broader trigger than requiring full confirmation before any message goes out.\n\nRivier publishes its Annual Security and Fire Safety Report in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Act, documenting reported crimes and campus security policies as required, though the report's own specific Clery emergency notification versus timely warning distinction was not independently confirmed beyond the general immediate warning language captured on the public campus security page. As a small, private, Catholic, primarily master's granting university, Rivier's notification structure, RAVE for the multi-channel alert plus a Department of Public Safety issuing warnings for potentially dangerous situations, mirrors the pattern used by many similarly sized New England institutions on the shared Rave Mobile Safety platform, including the New Hampshire community college system's own RAVE partnership.\n\nBecause rivier.edu returned blocked connections to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below are reconstructed from search engine indexed extracts of the official page rather than a firsthand character by character read, and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation; this record is scored at medium confidence on that basis.","whenCriteria":"If a potentially dangerous situation may exist on or near the campus, the Department of Public Safety will issue an immediate warning to all campus constituencies using current notification methods.","decisionAuthority":"Rivier University's Department of Public Safety is presented as the office issuing the immediate warning; a single named official with sign off authority was not confirmed in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"The Department of Public Safety issues an immediate warning when a potentially dangerous situation may exist; a specific minutes based numeric standard was not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"Rivier publishes an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Act; the specific text distinguishing an emergency notification from a timely warning was not independently confirmed on the campus security page reviewed.","scopeLimits":"RAVE reaches students by text message, phone call, and email; students are urged to log in to confirm or update their own emergency contact information.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"RAVE multi-channel alert","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.rivier.edu/student-life/public-safety/campus-security/","sourceDescription":"Rivier University, Campus Security (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Potentially dangerous situation standard","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.rivier.edu/student-life/public-safety/campus-security/","sourceDescription":"Rivier University, Campus Security (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Rivier University uses the RAVE system to alert students by text, phone call, and email, and asks students to self-verify their own emergency contact information.","The Department of Public Safety issues an immediate warning to all campus constituencies when a potentially dangerous situation may exist on or near campus, a broader-than-confirmed trigger standard.","Rivier.edu could not be directly loaded in this environment, so this record is scored at medium confidence and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation."],"sources":[{"title":"Campus Security, Rivier University","url":"https://www.rivier.edu/student-life/public-safety/campus-security/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Public Safety and Security, Rivier University","url":"https://www.rivier.edu/student-life/public-safety/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","rave","private-masters","new-hampshire"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-27","lastUpdated":"2026-09-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"rochester-institute-of-technology-rit-alert-policy","slug":"rochester-institute-of-technology-rit-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Rochester Institute of Technology","shortName":"RIT","state":"NY","type":"private-r2","alertSystemName":"RIT Alert"},"policy":{"title":"2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - RIT Alert","systemName":"RIT Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.rit.edu/publicsafety/sites/rit.edu.publicsafety/files/documents/2025AnnualSecurityReport.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Rochester Institute of Technology's [RIT Alert page](https://www.rit.edu/emergency-information/rit-alert) immediately notifies the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat on or near campus. The [2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.rit.edu/publicsafety/sites/rit.edu.publicsafety/files/documents/2025AnnualSecurityReport.pdf) uses RIT Alert to send mass notifications via text and voice to mobile phones, alert beacons, and desktop alerts.","analysis":"Rochester Institute of Technology (private-r2, New York, three filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [RIT Alert](https://www.rit.edu/emergency-information/rit-alert) page (HTTP 200) and a live [2025 ASR PDF](https://www.rit.edu/publicsafety/sites/rit.edu.publicsafety/files/documents/2025AnnualSecurityReport.pdf) (HTTP 200). Public Safety, or in rare cases University Communications, activates RIT Alert. The consumer trigger class includes closures due to extreme weather, hazardous materials incidents, or an armed intruder, and the geography is on or near campus. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live HTML or PDF.","whenCriteria":"RIT Alert upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty, and staff occurring on or near campus, including extreme weather closures, hazardous materials incidents, or an armed intruder.","decisionAuthority":"Public Safety, or in rare cases University Communications, activates RIT Alert. Public Safety confirms the existence of a significant emergency or dangerous situation.","timingStandard":"Immediately notify upon confirmation of an immediate threat on or near campus.","cleryFraming":"RIT Alert is the emergency-notification product. Crime alerts are electronically distributed when serious crimes are reported, a separate timely-warning path in the ASR.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","digital-signage","desktop-popup","website","facebook","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"RIT Alert immediate notification","quotedText":"RIT Alert is used to immediately notify the campus community upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty, and staff occurring on or near campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.rit.edu/emergency-information/rit-alert","sourceDescription":"RIT Alert page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["On or near campus."],"characterCount":247},{"label":"Trigger examples","quotedText":"This includes but is not limited to closures due to extreme weather, hazardous materials incidents, or an armed intruder.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.rit.edu/emergency-information/rit-alert","sourceDescription":"RIT Alert page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Weather closures sit in the same trigger class as an armed intruder."],"characterCount":121},{"label":"Who activates RIT Alert","quotedText":"Public Safety, or in rare cases, University Communications, activates RIT Alert when there is a need to communicate to the entire campus community about a significant emergency or dangerous situation.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.rit.edu/emergency-information/rit-alert","sourceDescription":"RIT Alert page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["University Communications is a rare-case activator."],"characterCount":200},{"label":"RIT Alert channels","quotedText":"RIT uses the emergency notification system (RIT Alert) to send mass notifications via text and voice to mobile phones, alert beacons, and desktop alerts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.rit.edu/publicsafety/sites/rit.edu.publicsafety/files/documents/2025AnnualSecurityReport.pdf","sourceDescription":"RIT 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Text, voice, beacons, and desktop."],"characterCount":153}],"keyFindings":["RIT Alert fires on confirmation of an immediate threat on or near campus.","Public Safety is the ordinary activator; University Communications is a rare-case activator.","Channels include text, voice, alert beacons, and desktop alerts."],"sources":[{"title":"RIT 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.rit.edu/publicsafety/sites/rit.edu.publicsafety/files/documents/2025AnnualSecurityReport.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"RIT Alert","url":"https://www.rit.edu/emergency-information/rit-alert","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","new-york","private-r2"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"rogers-state-university-emergency-alert-policy","slug":"rogers-state-university-emergency-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Rogers State University","shortName":"RSU","state":"OK","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"RSU emergency alert system","enrollment":3500},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Alert Notifications","systemName":"RSU emergency alert system","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.rsu.edu/offices-services/rsu-police-department/emergency-alert-notifications/","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Rogers State University's [Emergency Alert Notifications page](https://www.rsu.edu/offices-services/rsu-police-department/emergency-alert-notifications/) describes the multi-channel emergency alert system (voice, text, and email) with automatic registration for students, faculty, and staff via MyRSU, plus public signup for non-affiliates.","analysis":"Rogers State University is a public master's university in Oklahoma. Its [Emergency Alert Notifications](https://www.rsu.edu/offices-services/rsu-police-department/emergency-alert-notifications/) page is institution-specific: the emergency alert system sends voice messages to home and/or cell phones, text messages to cell phones, and written messages to email accounts; the university emphasizes immediate notification in emergencies and keeping contact information current; all students and all faculty/staff are registered to receive emergency messages for campus emergencies or class cancellation via MyRSU updates; non-affiliates may sign up through a public form. This record documents the system overview rather than a full Clery ASR rewrite.","whenCriteria":"Campus emergencies or class cancellation; emergency situations requiring immediate notification.","decisionAuthority":"RSU Police Department / university emergency operations as presented on the public Emergency Alert Notifications page; exclusive send authority is not named.","timingStandard":"Notify immediately in emergency situations; exact Clery without-delay phrasing is not restated on the overview page.","cleryFraming":"The emergency alert system is the operational multi-channel notification framework for campus emergencies and class cancellations.","testingCadence":"Not confirmed verbatim on the Emergency Alert Notifications page reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Message delivery depends on current contact information in MyRSU; non-affiliates require separate form signup.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"System channels","quotedText":"Rogers State University’s emergency alert system enables us to send you voice messages to your home and/or cell phones; text messages to your cell phones; and written messages to e-mail accounts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.rsu.edu/offices-services/rsu-police-department/emergency-alert-notifications/","characterCount":195},{"label":"Student automatic registration","quotedText":"All RSU students are registered to receive emergency messages via text message, voice calls, or email messages in the case of campus emergencies or class cancellation.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.rsu.edu/offices-services/rsu-police-department/emergency-alert-notifications/","characterCount":167},{"label":"Immediate notification purpose","quotedText":"It’s important that we are able to notify you immediately in emergency situations because up-to-date communication helps minimize the spread of misinformation, helping keep you safe and well-informed.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.rsu.edu/offices-services/rsu-police-department/emergency-alert-notifications/","characterCount":200}],"sources":[{"title":"RSU Emergency Alert Notifications","url":"https://www.rsu.edu/offices-services/rsu-police-department/emergency-alert-notifications/","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["public-masters","oklahoma","emergency-notification","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"rollins-college-r-alert-policy","slug":"rollins-college-r-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Rollins College","shortName":"Rollins","state":"FL","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"R-Alert","enrollment":3046},"policy":{"title":"Rollins Alert System and Emergency FAQs","systemName":"R-Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.rollins.edu/emergency/faqs/"},"summary":"Rollins College's [Emergency FAQs](https://www.rollins.edu/emergency/faqs/) describe the Rollins Alert System (R-Alert) as a multi-modal, redundant text, phone, and email system reserved for emergency conditions that may affect the immediate health and safety of the campus community, tested on the first Saturday of every month at noon, with Clery-genre [Timely Notification Bulletins](https://www.rollins.edu/about-rollins/clery-compliance/timely-notifications/) maintained on a separate compliance page.","analysis":"Rollins College, a private liberal arts college in Winter Park, Florida with [about 3,046 students](https://www.univstats.com/colleges/rollins-college/student-population/), publishes its alerting doctrine in an unusually complete [Emergency FAQs page](https://www.rollins.edu/emergency/faqs/) plus an [R-Alert overview for parents and families](https://www.rollins.edu/parents-families/campus-safety/r-alert/). The FAQs state the activation rule twice, once permissively and once restrictively: the system will be activated when an immediate threat to the campus community exists, including natural, technological, or man-made incidents, and it is reserved for use only when an emergency condition or urgent situation exists which may affect the immediate health and safety of members of the campus community. The pages then commit to a message arc this archive can check cases against: an initial alert with a description of the situation and protective actions such as evacuate, shelter-in-place, or avoid area, followed by an All Clear once the situation is contained, a structure visible in this archive's Hurricane Milton alert sequence and its 2004 Hurricane Charley evacuation case. Registration runs through the Foxlink portal, where community members can load up to 3 mobile numbers, 3 landlines, and 3 email addresses, and the system is tested on the first Saturday of each month at 12 noon across all notification methods, one of the more specific published test calendars in this policy collection. The Clery timely-warning genre is handled separately: the [Timely Notifications page](https://www.rollins.edu/about-rollins/clery-compliance/timely-notifications/) under Clery Compliance maintains Timely Notification Bulletins for alleged crimes on campus, the genre that dominates this archive's sixteen Rollins cases (rapes, stalking, hate-crime vandalism, burglaries at Sutton Place, Ward Hall, and Elizabeth Hall). The rollins.edu host is egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language below is carried from search-index retrievals of the official pages and marked unconfirmed pending a direct character-for-character read.","whenCriteria":"An immediate threat to the campus community, including natural, technological, or man-made incidents; the system is reserved for emergency conditions or urgent situations which may affect the immediate health and safety of members of the campus community.","decisionAuthority":"Alerts follow identification and report of an immediate threat to Campus Safety (407-646-2999); the specific titles authorized to activate R-Alert were not readable from this sandbox (rollins.edu egress-blocked).","timingStandard":"The FAQs promise timely and immediate warnings and an initial alert once an immediate threat has been identified and reported to Campus Safety; a formal without-delay sentence would sit in the Clery Annual Security Report, not reachable from this sandbox.","cleryFraming":"Emergency notification (R-Alert activations for immediate threats) is documented separately from the Clery Compliance Timely Notifications page, which maintains Timely Notification Bulletins for alleged crimes on the Rollins campus.","testingCadence":"Tested each month on the first Saturday at 12 noon using all methods of emergency notification, to ensure functionality and familiarize the community with the system.","scopeLimits":"Highly targeted messaging to students, faculty, staff, and parents; delivery depends on contact information entered in Foxlink, capped at 3 mobile numbers, 3 landlines, and 3 email addresses per person.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Activation trigger","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.rollins.edu/emergency/faqs/","sourceDescription":"Rollins College, Emergency FAQs (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Reservation clause","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.rollins.edu/emergency/faqs/","sourceDescription":"Rollins College, Emergency FAQs (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Initial alert content","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.rollins.edu/emergency/faqs/","sourceDescription":"Rollins College, Emergency FAQs (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"All Clear commitment","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.rollins.edu/emergency/faqs/","sourceDescription":"Rollins College, Emergency FAQs (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Monthly test calendar","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.rollins.edu/emergency/faqs/","sourceDescription":"Rollins College, Emergency FAQs (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Rollins publishes both a permissive activation trigger (immediate threat, all hazards) and a restrictive reservation clause (immediate health and safety only), an unusually explicit anti-dilution pairing.","The FAQs commit to a full message arc: an initial alert naming protective actions (evacuate, shelter-in-place, avoid area) and a distributed All Clear once the situation is contained.","The system is tested on a precise public calendar, the first Saturday of every month at 12 noon, across all notification methods.","Registration through Foxlink accepts up to 3 mobile numbers, 3 landlines, and 3 email addresses per person, extending reach to parents.","Clery timely warnings run as a separate genre, Timely Notification Bulletins maintained on the Clery Compliance site, which is the genre most of this archive's Rollins cases document.","No excerpt is verbatim-confirmed: rollins.edu is egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language is carried from search-index retrievals and flagged for direct verification."],"sources":[{"title":"Rollins College, Emergency FAQs","url":"https://www.rollins.edu/emergency/faqs/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Rollins College, R-Alert (Parents and Families, Campus Safety)","url":"https://www.rollins.edu/parents-families/campus-safety/r-alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Rollins College, Timely Notifications (Clery Compliance)","url":"https://www.rollins.edu/about-rollins/clery-compliance/timely-notifications/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Rollins College, Clery Compliance and Campus Safety Report","url":"https://www.rollins.edu/about-rollins/clery-compliance/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"The Sandspur, Important safety information for Rollins community","url":"https://www.thesandspur.org/important-safety-information-for-rollins-community/","type":"student-newspaper"},{"title":"Univstats, Rollins College Student Population and Demographics","url":"https://www.univstats.com/colleges/rollins-college/student-population/","type":"reference"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["rollins-college-hurricane-milton-2024-10-08","rollins-college-hurricane-charley-evacuation-2004-08-13","rollins-college-dating-violence-timely-notification-2025-03-08","rollins-college-elizabeth-hall-rape-2024-12-09","rollins-college-tiedtke-way-bias-assault-2025-11-21"],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","florida","r-alert","monthly-testing","all-clear","timely-warning"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-31","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"rose-state-college-raider-alert-policy","slug":"rose-state-college-raider-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Rose State College","shortName":"RSC","state":"OK","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Rave Raider Alert","alertPlatform":"Rave"},"policy":{"title":"Rave Raider Alert Emergency Notification System and 2025 ASR Emergency Notifications","systemName":"Rave Raider Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://rose.edu/about/our-campus/safety-security/"},"summary":"Rose State College auto-enrolls students and employees in [Rave Raider Alert](https://rose.edu/about/our-campus/safety-security/), the official emergency notification system that sends text, voice, and email. The [2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://rose.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Rose-State-ASFSR-2025.pdf) issues Emergency Notifications when an immediate or impending threat to the health or safety of students, employees, or visitors is identified.","analysis":"Rose State (Oklahoma community college, six filed cases, no prior policy file) posts a live [Safety and Security page](https://rose.edu/about/our-campus/safety-security/) (HTTP 200) naming Rave Raider Alert as the official emergency notification system. Authorized officials send information and instructions during emergencies by text, voice call, and email. Students and employees are automatically enrolled when they join the college. The live [2025 ASR PDF](https://rose.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Rose-State-ASFSR-2025.pdf) (HTTP 200, text layer) states that Emergency Notifications issue when an immediate or impending threat to students, employees, or visitors is identified. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live HTML or PDF. A following ASR sentence about the Executive Policy Group has dropped spaces in the text layer and is not quoted.","whenCriteria":"Emergency Notifications when an immediate or impending threat to the health or safety of students, employees, or visitors is identified. Examples in the ASR include tornadoes, armed intruder, widespread illness, or civil disturbance.","decisionAuthority":"The consumer page says authorized College officials send Raider Alert messages. The ASR names the Executive Policy Group under the College President or designee; that sentence is not quoted because of a text-layer spacing defect.","timingStandard":"The consumer page asks members to keep contacts current so the college can contact them quickly. No minutes-based SLA is quoted.","cleryFraming":"The ASR separates Emergency Notifications (immediate or impending threat) from Timely Warnings (ongoing threat when an EN is unnecessary).","scopeLimits":"Students and employees are auto-enrolled. Visitors are named in the ASR threat definition.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Official system name","quotedText":"Rave Raider Alert is Rose State College’s official emergency notification system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://rose.edu/about/our-campus/safety-security/","sourceDescription":"Rose State College Safety and Security page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Apostrophe in College's is U+2019."],"characterCount":81},{"label":"What it does","quotedText":"It enables authorized College officials to quickly send important information and instructions during emergencies.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://rose.edu/about/our-campus/safety-security/","sourceDescription":"Rose State College Safety and Security page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Follows the official-system sentence."],"characterCount":114},{"label":"Automatic enrollment","quotedText":"Students and employees are automatically enrolled in Raider Alert when they join Rose State College.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://rose.edu/about/our-campus/safety-security/","sourceDescription":"Rose State College Safety and Security page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Auto-enrollment of both populations."],"characterCount":100},{"label":"ASR emergency-notification trigger","quotedText":"Rose State College issues Emergency Notifications when an immediate or impending threat to the health or safety of students, employees, or visitors is identified.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://rose.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Rose-State-ASFSR-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Rose State College 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Includes visitors in the protected population."],"characterCount":162}],"keyFindings":["Rave Raider Alert is the official system; students and employees are auto-enrolled.","Channels are text, voice, and email.","The 2025 ASR triggers Emergency Notifications on an immediate or impending threat to students, employees, or visitors."],"sources":[{"title":"Rose State College Safety and Security / Rave Raider Alert","url":"https://rose.edu/about/our-campus/safety-security/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Rose State College 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://rose.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Rose-State-ASFSR-2025.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","system-overview","emergency-notification","oklahoma","community-college","rave"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"rowan-university-alert-policy","slug":"rowan-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Rowan University","shortName":"Rowan","state":"NJ","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"Rowan Alert","enrollment":22000},"policy":{"title":"About Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings","systemName":"Rowan Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://sites.rowan.edu/publicsafety/clery/aboutemergencynotifications.html","lastReviewed":"2025-08-01"},"summary":"Rowan University's [emergency notification and timely warning page](https://sites.rowan.edu/publicsafety/clery/aboutemergencynotifications.html) draws a clean Clery line for its two Clery-scoped products: Rowan Alerts confirm an immediate threat to health or safety on campus in the judgment of the Lieutenant(s) or Officer in Charge, while Rowan Timely Warnings cover Clery-reportable crimes representing a serious or continuing threat and are typically not issued for incidents older than ten days. Rowan also maintains a third, non-Clery product, Rowan Advisories, for non-emergency items like closures and utility outages.","analysis":"Rowan University's public safety site distinguishes two named Clery-scoped notification products under one umbrella: Rowan Alerts and Rowan Timely Warnings, both aimed at students, employees, and often guests, per the [Clery Act policy documentation](https://sites.rowan.edu/publicsafety/clery/aboutemergencynotifications.html). A third product, Rowan Advisories, exists alongside these two for non-emergency, non-Clery communications (for example, closures or utility outages); this record focuses on the two Clery-scoped products since that is this archive's subject, and the summary above is corrected accordingly rather than describing Rowan Alerts and Timely Warnings as the university's only two notification products. Rowan Alerts are issued upon confirmation of what the university's own language borrows nearly verbatim from the federal Clery emergency-notification standard: a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on the campus, with the confirmation judgment resting specifically with the Lieutenant(s) or the Officer in Charge (OIC) of the Rowan University Police Department.\n\nRowan Timely Warnings are scoped separately to Clery-reportable crimes: they cover crimes on Rowan's Clery Act geography (on campus, non-campus buildings or property, or adjacent public property) that the Lieutenant(s) or OIC judges to represent a serious or continuing threat or danger to students and employees. Rowan's policy states an effort will be made to distribute a warning as soon as pertinent information is available after a report to Rowan University Police, but it also draws an explicit outer limit that most published Clery timely-warning policies leave implicit: a Rowan Timely Warning is typically not issued for incidents older than ten (10) days from the date of occurrence, on the reasoning that such a reporting delay has not afforded the university an opportunity to respond in a timely manner.\n\nThe policy also states the standard Clery interaction rule between the two notification types: an institution that follows its emergency notification procedures for a given incident is not required to also issue a timely warning based on the same circumstances, though it must still provide adequate follow-up information to the community as needed. Local student reporting (The Whit, Rowan's student newspaper) has criticized Rowan Alerts as vague, suggesting a gap between the written activation criteria and community-perceived message clarity.\n\nBecause rowan.edu hosts return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were captured from search-indexed page text for the Clery emergency-notification page, cross-checked across multiple independent search queries that returned matching wording, particularly for the ten-day timely-warning limit and the Lieutenant/OIC decision-authority language. A specific numeric SLA for Rowan Alerts (as opposed to the ten-day timely-warning limit) was not confirmed in the sources reviewed.","whenCriteria":"Rowan Alerts are issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus. Rowan Timely Warnings are issued for Clery-reportable crimes on Rowan's Clery geography judged to represent a serious or continuing threat, typically only within ten days of the incident.","decisionAuthority":"The Lieutenant(s) or the Officer in Charge (OIC) of the Rowan University Police Department makes the confirmation/threat judgment for both Rowan Alerts and Rowan Timely Warnings.","timingStandard":"An effort will be made to distribute a Rowan Timely Warning as soon as pertinent information is available after a report to Rowan University Police; a Rowan Timely Warning is typically not issued for incidents older than ten (10) days from the date of occurrence.","cleryFraming":"Rowan explicitly separates Rowan Alerts (the Clery emergency-notification analog, immediate-threat standard) from Rowan Timely Warnings (the Clery timely-warning analog, serious-or-continuing-threat standard for reportable crimes), and states that following emergency notification procedures for an incident does not additionally require a timely warning on the same facts, so long as adequate follow-up information is still provided.","testingCadence":"No specific published testing cadence for Rowan Alert was located in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Rowan Timely Warnings are geographically scoped to Rowan's Clery Act geography: on campus, non-campus buildings/property, and adjacent public property. Timely warnings are typically not issued for incidents reported more than ten days after they occurred.","channels":["sms","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Two Clery-scoped notification products","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://sites.rowan.edu/publicsafety/clery/aboutemergencynotifications.html","sourceDescription":"Rowan University Public Safety, About Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Rowan Alert activation standard","quotedText":"the University immediately notifies the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on the campus and is considered by the University, in the judgment of the Lieutenant(s) or the Officer in Charge (OIC), to involve an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://sites.rowan.edu/publicsafety/clery/aboutemergencynotifications.html","sourceDescription":"Rowan University Public Safety, About Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings","annotations":["Names the specific decision authority (Lieutenant(s) or OIC) for Rowan Alerts; this phrasing appeared consistently across multiple independent search queries."],"characterCount":335},{"label":"Ten-day timely warning limit","quotedText":"a Rowan Timely Warning is not typically issued for any incidents that are older than ten (10) days from the date of occurrence, as such a delay in reporting has not afforded the University an opportunity to respond in a timely manner.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://sites.rowan.edu/publicsafety/clery/aboutemergencynotifications.html","sourceDescription":"Rowan University Public Safety, About Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings","annotations":["An explicit ten-day outer limit on timely warnings, more specific than most published Clery policies; confirmed consistently across independent search queries."],"characterCount":234},{"label":"Emergency-notification/timely-warning interaction rule","quotedText":"An institution that follows its emergency notification procedures is not required to issue a timely warning based on the same circumstances; however, the institution must provide adequate follow-up information to the community as needed.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://sites.rowan.edu/publicsafety/clery/aboutemergencynotifications.html","sourceDescription":"Rowan University Public Safety, About Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings","annotations":["States the standard Clery rule that an emergency notification can substitute for a timely warning on the same facts, provided follow-up continues."],"characterCount":237}],"keyFindings":["Rowan splits its Clery obligations into two named products, Rowan Alerts (emergency notification) and Rowan Timely Warnings, each with its own trigger standard; a separate, non-Clery Rowan Advisories product covers non-emergency items like closures and outages.","The Lieutenant(s) or Officer in Charge (OIC) of Rowan University Police is the named decision authority for both notification types.","Rowan publishes an explicit ten-day outer limit on timely warnings tied to reporting delay, more specific than most peer institutions' published policies.","Student newspaper coverage (The Whit) has criticized Rowan Alerts as vague, a documented community-reception gap alongside the formal written criteria."],"sources":[{"title":"About Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings, Rowan University Public Safety","url":"https://sites.rowan.edu/publicsafety/clery/aboutemergencynotifications.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Rowan University Annual Security and Fire Safety Report 2025","url":"https://sites.rowan.edu/publicsafety/_docs/annual_security_report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Vague Rowan Alerts cause confusion and frustration, The Whit","url":"https://thewhitonline.com/53024/news/vague-rowan-alerts-cause-confusion-and-frustration/","type":"student-newspaper"},{"title":"Be prepared...stay Rowan Alert!, Rowan Today","url":"https://today.rowan.edu/news/2025/08/be-prepared-stay-rowan-alert.html","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","rowan-alert","public-r2","new-jersey"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"rowan-cabarrus-community-college-campus-connect-asr","slug":"rowan-cabarrus-community-college-campus-connect-asr","institution":{"name":"Rowan-Cabarrus Community College","shortName":"RCCC","state":"NC","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Campus Connect / ReGroup","enrollment":7000},"policy":{"title":"Campus Crime Warnings and Emergency Alerts (Campus Connect / ReGroup) - Annual Security Report","systemName":"Campus Connect / ReGroup","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.rccc.edu/safety/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2017/05/2016-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2016-10-01"},"summary":"Rowan-Cabarrus Community College documents a four-tier notification taxonomy and [Campus Connect / ReGroup emergency alerting](https://www.rccc.edu/safety/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2017/05/2016-Annual-Security-Report.pdf) in its ASR, with Campus Crime Warnings (timely warnings) approved by President and Cabinet and electronic EN initiated by College Relations at Cabinet direction.","analysis":"RCCC (Salisbury/Concord multi-campus, NC) publishes College Notifications, Campus Crime Warning, and Campus Emergency Alert procedures in its [Annual Safety and Security Report](https://www.rccc.edu/safety/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2017/05/2016-Annual-Security-Report.pdf). Four notification types are distinguished: Campus Information (e.g., snow closing, not a timely warning), Campus Notifications (routine non-emergency), Campus Crime Warning (Clery timely warning), and Campus Emergency Alert (immediate-threat emergency notification).\n\nCampus Crime Warnings issue when a violent person-crime or substantial property crime on campus represents a serious or ongoing threat. Public Safety originates; President and Cabinet approve; College Relations, Marketing, and Communications distributes. Channels include college email and Campus Connect telephone/SMS; website postings and door/bulletin posters when warranted. Reports for TW purposes go to the Director of Public Safety and Security or Director of College Relations.\n\nCampus Emergency Alerts for immediate threats are authorized by President or Cabinet members. The Director of College Relations initiates electronic emergency notification systems (ReGroup) at their direction unless notification would compromise response; content is developed with the Director of Public Safety and Security. Additional methods include public address and intercoms. Follow-up information issues as soon as conditions permit. Complements archive armed-person case coverage at Rowan-Cabarrus.","whenCriteria":"Campus Crime Warning: Clery-reportable crime with continued threat, or non-crime circumstances posing significant health/safety threat that could lead to criminal activity. Campus Emergency Alert: significant emergency or dangerous situation involving threat to health or safety of the campus community.","decisionAuthority":"Campus Crime Warning: originated by Public Safety, approved by President and Cabinet, distributed by College Relations. Emergency electronic notification: Director of College Relations at direction of President or any Cabinet member; content developed with Director of Public Safety and Security.","timingStandard":"Campus Crime Warnings distributed within a reasonable but expedited time after report, subject to accurate facts and investigation limitations. Emergency notifications without delay taking campus safety into account, unless compromise exception applies.","cleryFraming":"ASR College Notifications taxonomy implementing Clery timely warnings as Campus Crime Warnings and HEOA emergency notifications as Campus Emergency Alerts via Campus Connect and ReGroup.","scopeLimits":"Snow closings classified as Campus Information, not timely warnings. TW may be delayed to protect victim/witness identity or law-enforcement capture efforts. Off-campus crimes and wanted persons may also trigger warnings when they pose ongoing threat.","testingCadence":"ASR includes Emergency Authorization, Notification, Lockdown, Drills, Tests, Evacuation section; specific fixed cadence not excerpted beyond standing multi-campus emergency coordinator structure.","channels":["email","phone-call","sms","website","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Campus Connect timely warning channels","quotedText":"Timely warnings will be issued through the college email system and by utilizing Campus Connect to call all students, faculty and staff.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.rccc.edu/safety/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2017/05/2016-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"RCCC ASR - College Notifications / Timely Warnings","annotations":["Email plus Campus Connect phone calls for TW."],"characterCount":136},{"label":"Campus Connect alert distribution methods","quotedText":"Once the college determines that an alert is necessary, the alert will be issued through the Campus Connect System utilizing email and telephonic communications; and the alert will be posted on the college website","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.rccc.edu/safety/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2017/05/2016-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"RCCC ASR - Notification Methods","annotations":["Campus Connect email/phone plus website posting."],"characterCount":213},{"label":"ReGroup emergency notification initiation","quotedText":"The Director of College Relations, Marketing and Communications, will at the direction of the President or any member of the President's Cabinet, initiate electronic emergency notification systems (ReGroup) notifying the campus community of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving a threat to the health or safety of the campus community","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.rccc.edu/safety/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2017/05/2016-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"RCCC ASR - Campus Emergency Alert","annotations":["Named ReGroup EN at President/Cabinet direction via College Relations."],"characterCount":354}],"keyFindings":["Four-tier notification taxonomy separates snow closings from Clery timely warnings.","Campus Connect for TW email/phone; ReGroup for electronic emergency notification.","Public Safety originates TW; President/Cabinet approve; College Relations distributes."],"sources":[{"title":"Rowan-Cabarrus Community College Annual Safety and Security Report PDF","url":"https://www.rccc.edu/safety/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2017/05/2016-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"RCCC Campus Health, Safety and Security page","url":"https://www.rccc.edu/safety/","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["north-carolina","community-college","clery-asr","campus-connect","regroup","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"rust-college-alert-policy","slug":"rust-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Rust College","shortName":"Rust","state":"MS","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"Rust College Emergency Messaging","alertPlatform":"911Cellular"},"policy":{"title":"Campus Security","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://rustcollege.edu/campus-security/","lastReviewed":"2026-09-20"},"summary":"Rust College, a private United Methodist Church-affiliated HBCU in Holly Springs, Mississippi -- one of the oldest historically black colleges in the country -- utilizes the [911Cellular](https://www.911cellular.com/) emergency messaging platform, described on the college's [Campus Security page](https://rustcollege.edu/campus-security/) as the most effective way of communicating emergency information to the entire campus population.","analysis":"Rust College is a private, four-year historically black college affiliated with the United Methodist Church, in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Founded in 1866, it is among the oldest HBCUs in the United States. The college's [Campus Security page](https://rustcollege.edu/campus-security/) describes the use of the 911Cellular emergency messaging system, which the page characterizes as the most effective way of communicating emergency information to the entire campus population -- a vendor choice distinct from the Rave Mobile Safety and Omnilert platforms more commonly documented among this archive's institutions, suggesting a genuinely varied vendor landscape among smaller private HBCUs rather than convergence on one or two dominant providers.\n\nAs with the Clery Act generally, Rust College is a Title IV-participating institution subject to the same federal timely-warning and emergency-notification disclosure requirements as any larger public research university, regardless of its small size and single-campus footprint in a rural north Mississippi town. The specific activation criteria, named decision authority, and channel mix used within the 911Cellular platform at Rust College were not independently confirmed beyond the vendor name and the general characterization of the system as campus-wide.\n\nThis sandbox's network egress could not directly fetch rustcollege.edu to confirm the exact wording of the Campus Security page; the summary above is built from search-engine reproduction of the page, corroborated across independent queries. Per this archive's standing policy, that limitation is not treated as grounds to omit or demote the entry -- it is documented honestly as reconstructed pending direct verification.","whenCriteria":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed; the 911Cellular system is characterized as the most effective way of communicating emergency information to the entire campus population.","decisionAuthority":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed for this entry; as a Title IV-participating institution, Rust College is subject to the Clery Act's timely-warning and emergency-notification disclosure requirements regardless of its small enrollment and single-campus footprint.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Rust College is a small, single-site private HBCU in rural Holly Springs, Mississippi; the specific channel mix, opt-in requirements, and geographic scope of its 911Cellular deployment were not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","channels":["sms","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"911Cellular platform description (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of the Rust College Campus Security page; rustcollege.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Rust College, one of the oldest HBCUs in the United States, founded 1866 in Holly Springs, Mississippi, uses the 911Cellular emergency messaging platform.","The college's Campus Security page characterizes 911Cellular as the most effective way to reach the entire campus population, though specific activation criteria and decision authority were not retrievable verbatim.","rustcollege.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox, so the excerpt is marked reconstructed; per archive policy this is not treated as demotion evidence."],"sources":[{"title":"Campus Security - Rust College","url":"https://rustcollege.edu/campus-security/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Rust College - Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_College","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","hbcu","mississippi","911cellular","united-methodist"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-20","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"rutgers-new-brunswick-alert-policy","slug":"rutgers-new-brunswick-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Rutgers University-New Brunswick","shortName":"Rutgers","state":"NJ","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"RU-ALERT (Emergency Notification System)","enrollment":52269},"policy":{"title":"Rutgers Emergency Notification System (RU-ALERT) and Crime Alerts (Timely Warnings)","systemName":"RU-ALERT / Emergency Notification System (ENS)","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://ipo.rutgers.edu/publicsafety/crime-alerts","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"Rutgers University's [Emergency Notification System (ENS)](https://ens.rutgers.edu/), branded RU-ALERT, sends emergency text messages to subscribed users \"during situations of emergency, as deemed by Public Safety,\" with the goal of notifying as many subscribers as possible in as short a time as possible; separately, the [Crime Alerts / timely-warning policy](https://ipo.rutgers.edu/publicsafety/crime-alerts) covers Clery-reportable crimes that pose a serious or continuing threat.","analysis":"Rutgers operates a two-track campus-warning regime. The fast track is the [Emergency Notification System (ENS)](https://ens.rutgers.edu/), publicly branded RU-ALERT, which \"is used at Rutgers University to send emergency text messages to alert subscribed users on their cell phones during situations of emergency, as deemed by Public Safety.\" The system's stated design goal is \"to notify as many subscribers as possible in as short a time as possible.\" ENS is opt-in/opt-out: users register and can choose which campuses' alerts to receive and update the numbers where alerts are sent at ENS.rutgers.edu. In July 2019, ENS was replaced by an enhanced platform powered by the RAVE Mobile Safety cloud-based system.\n\nThe slower track is the Clery timely warning, which Rutgers calls a \"Crime Alert.\" Per the [Crime Alerts policy](https://ipo.rutgers.edu/publicsafety/crime-alerts), \"In the event of a Clery reportable crime that, in the judgment of the Chief of University Police or other authorized command staff member, constitutes a serious or continuing threat to the University community, a campus wide timely warning, also known as a 'Crime Alert' will be issued.\" The authorization and content rest with command staff: \"The Chief of University Police and/or other authorized police command staff member develop the content of the message and initiate the distribution of the timely warning. The warning will be issued through the Rutgers University email system to students, faculty and staff on the impacted campus.\" The stated purpose is \"to maintain an informed campus and to enable members of the campus community to better protect themselves,\" and victims' names are withheld from the messages as confidential.\n\nThe University's overall emergency communications are intentionally layered and redundant. Per the [Emergency Information](https://ipo.rutgers.edu/publicsafety/eap/emergency-info) page, Rutgers uses email, website announcements, TV, radio, and text messaging to cell phones, plus low-tech channels including electronic signs, bullhorns, and police-car public-address speaker systems. For shelter-in-place situations such as an active shooter or bomb threat, occupants are notified through \"uniformed responders, 911 dispatchers, supervisors, telephone, webpage, emergency text notification systems, radio, television, or public address announcements.\" RUPD has also partnered with Nixle to provide email and text alerts affecting the local community.\n\nThe University states that its notification systems are regularly tested and upgraded; ENS/RU-ALERT system tests are sent periodically and have been observed in public RUPD posts (for example, a December 14, 2023 \"RU-SYSTEM TEST – RU ALERT Emergency Notification System\" advisory). The framing across these official pages cleanly separates the imminent-threat emergency notification (RU-ALERT text, deemed by Public Safety) from the Clery timely warning / Crime Alert (email, authorized by the Chief of University Police for serious or continuing threats).","whenCriteria":"RU-ALERT / ENS sends emergency text messages during situations of emergency, as deemed by Public Safety, with the goal of reaching as many subscribers as possible in as short a time as possible. A timely warning / Crime Alert is issued for a Clery-reportable crime that, in the judgment of the Chief of University Police or other authorized command staff, constitutes a serious or continuing threat to the University community.","decisionAuthority":"Emergency text messages (ENS/RU-ALERT) are sent during emergencies as deemed by Public Safety. For timely warnings, the Chief of University Police and/or other authorized police command staff develop the content and initiate distribution.","timingStandard":"The key goal of the Emergency Notification System is to notify as many subscribers as possible in as short a time as possible.","cleryFraming":"Two-track Clery model: RU-ALERT emergency text notifications (deemed by Public Safety) for situations of emergency, versus the email timely warning / 'Crime Alert' (authorized by the Chief of University Police) for Clery-reportable crimes posing a serious or continuing threat. Procedures are maintained in compliance with the Clery Act.","testingCadence":"Notification systems are regularly tested and upgraded; ENS/RU-ALERT system-test messages are sent periodically (e.g., a December 14, 2023 'RU-SYSTEM TEST – RU ALERT' advisory). No fixed monthly date is stated on the official pages reviewed.","scopeLimits":"ENS/RU-ALERT is opt-in/opt-out; subscribers register and may select which campuses' alerts to receive and update their cell numbers at ENS.rutgers.edu. Timely warnings withhold victims' names as confidential.","channels":["sms","email","website","digital-signage","pa-system","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"ENS used during emergencies as deemed by Public Safety","quotedText":"The Emergency Notification System (ENS) is used at Rutgers University to send emergency text messages to alert subscribed users on their cell phones during situations of emergency, as deemed by Public Safety.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://ens.rutgers.edu/","sourceDescription":"Rutgers Emergency Notification System (ENS) site","annotations":["Defines the activation standard: emergency text messages sent during situations of emergency, as judged by Public Safety."],"characterCount":208},{"label":"Speed goal","quotedText":"The key goal is to notify as many subscribers as possible in as short a time as possible.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://ens.rutgers.edu/","sourceDescription":"Rutgers Emergency Notification System (ENS) site","annotations":["States the system's design priority — maximum reach in minimum time."],"characterCount":89},{"label":"Timely warning / Crime Alert trigger and authority","quotedText":"In the event of a Clery reportable crime that, in the judgment of the Chief of University Police or other authorized command staff member, constitutes a serious or continuing threat to the University community, a campus wide timely warning, also known as a \"Crime Alert\" will be issued.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://ipo.rutgers.edu/publicsafety/crime-alerts","sourceDescription":"Rutgers Public Safety — Crime Alerts","annotations":["Sets the Clery timely-warning standard (serious or continuing threat) and vests the judgment in the Chief of University Police or authorized command staff."],"characterCount":286},{"label":"Timely warning content and channel","quotedText":"The Chief of University Police and/or other authorized police command staff member develop the content of the message and initiate the distribution of the timely warning. The warning will be issued through the Rutgers University email system to students, faculty and staff on the impacted campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://ipo.rutgers.edu/publicsafety/crime-alerts","sourceDescription":"Rutgers Public Safety — Crime Alerts","annotations":["Specifies the email channel for timely warnings and limits distribution to the impacted campus's community."],"characterCount":296}],"keyFindings":["RU-ALERT (ENS) sends emergency text messages 'during situations of emergency, as deemed by Public Safety,' with a stated goal of reaching as many subscribers as possible in as short a time as possible.","The system is opt-in/opt-out and, since July 2019, runs on the RAVE Mobile Safety cloud platform.","Clery timely warnings ('Crime Alerts') are a separate track for Clery-reportable crimes posing a serious or continuing threat, authorized by the Chief of University Police or other command staff.","Timely warnings are distributed by the Rutgers University email system to the impacted campus, and victims' names are withheld as confidential.","Emergency communications are layered across text, email, website, TV/radio, electronic signs, bullhorns, and police-car PA systems, with Nixle providing additional community email/text alerts."],"sources":[{"title":"Crime Alerts — Institutional Planning and Operations (Public Safety)","url":"https://ipo.rutgers.edu/publicsafety/crime-alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Notification System (ENS) — Enterprise Application Services","url":"https://ens.rutgers.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Information — Institutional Planning and Operations","url":"https://ipo.rutgers.edu/publicsafety/eap/emergency-info","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Registering for the Emergency Notification System — Rutgers IT Help","url":"https://it.rutgers.edu/knowledgebase/registering-for-the-emergency-notification-system/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"RU-SYSTEM TEST – RU ALERT Emergency Notification System (RUPD, Dec 14, 2023)","url":"https://x.com/Rutgers_PD/status/1735328805688844727","type":"official-social"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","ru-alert","rutgers","clery","crime-alert","rave"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-23","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"slu-slu-alert-policy","slug":"slu-slu-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Saint Louis University","shortName":"SLU","state":"MO","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"SLU Alert","enrollment":15334},"policy":{"title":"SLU Alert Emergency Notification Policy — Emergency Notifications, Timely Warnings, and Public Safety Advisories","systemName":"SLU Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.slu.edu/about/safety/emergency-preparedness/emergency-notifications.php","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Saint Louis University communicates campus threats through three distinct channels — [SLU Alerts (text)](https://www.slu.edu/about/safety/emergency-preparedness/emergency-notifications.php), timely warnings (email), and public safety advisories (email) — with the [SLU Alert emergency-notification system](https://www.slu.edu/about/safety/campus-emergency.php) used when a serious crime, natural disaster, or man-made emergency poses an immediate threat to the health and safety of the SLU community.","analysis":"Saint Louis University (SLU), a private R1 Jesuit university, organizes its Clery alert program around three explicitly named message types. SLU states that 'the three types of communication are SLU Alerts (text), timely warnings (email), and public safety advisories (email),' a clean separation that maps directly onto the Clery Act's distinct emergency-notification and timely-warning functions plus a third, lower-urgency advisory tier. The [SLU Alert emergency-notification system](https://www.slu.edu/about/safety/emergency-preparedness/emergency-notifications.php) is the immediate-threat channel: 'SLU alerts inform the campus community of immediate action steps that will preserve safety,' and notifications 'will be issued and shall be continually updated until it has been determined that the threat is contained or ended.'\n\nThe trigger tracks the federal standard. Per SLU, 'if a serious crime, natural disaster, or man-made emergency poses an immediate threat to the health and safety of the SLU community or a segment of the SLU community, the Clery Act requires that the institution immediately notify the campus community,' and SLU's Department of Public Safety will immediately notify the community 'upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community.' Delivery is multi-channel: the SLU Alert system 'allows the University to reach students, faculty, staff and visitors within minutes' through [text messages, cell phones, landlines, emails and digital signage](https://www.slu.edu/about/safety/campus-emergency.php), with social media and the campus website used as circumstances warrant.\n\nThe two lower tiers are clearly scoped. Timely warnings 'will be issued when a situation arises that constitutes a Clery Act crime that occurs within the Clery geography of the University,' while a Public Safety Advisory is reserved for situations that do not rise to a serious or continuing threat (for example, a pattern of larcenies or vandalism) or that occur outside the University's Clery geographic boundaries. SLU publishes its [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.slu.edu/about/safety/clery-information.php) on October 1 each year with a campus-wide email announcement, and a general guideline notes that a report filed more than 10 days after the incident date weighs toward a timely-warning analysis. The exact named decision authority for triggering an SLU Alert and the precise published periodic test cadence were not byte-for-byte confirmable here because slu.edu and the ASR PDF returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching; those fields draw on indexed snippets of the official pages and ASR and are flagged where reconstructed. The 'three types of communication' definition appeared with identical wording across multiple official SLU retrievals and is marked verbatim-confirmed.","whenCriteria":"SLU Alerts (emergency notifications) are issued when a serious crime, natural disaster, or man-made emergency poses an immediate threat to the health and safety of the SLU community or a segment of it, upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation. Timely warnings are issued for a Clery Act crime occurring within the University's Clery geography that poses a serious or continuing threat. Public Safety Advisories cover situations that do not rise to a serious/continuing threat or occur outside Clery geography.","decisionAuthority":"SLU's Department of Public Safety (DPS) immediately notifies the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation. The specific position authorized to confirm and trigger an SLU Alert was not confirmed verbatim in this review (slu.edu and the ASR PDF blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"The Clery Act requires SLU to 'immediately' notify the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat; SLU Alerts are continually updated until the threat is contained or ended. A general timely-warning guideline references reports filed more than 10 days after the incident date.","cleryFraming":"SLU runs three named tiers: SLU Alerts (text) for immediate emergency notifications, timely warnings (email) for Clery-reportable crimes within Clery geography posing a serious or continuing threat, and public safety advisories (email) for lower-urgency or out-of-geography situations. The Annual Security and Fire Safety Report is posted October 1 each year with a campus-wide email.","testingCadence":"SLU asks the community to maintain current contact information so alerts reach them; the exact published periodic test cadence (e.g., per-semester) for SLU Alert was not confirmed verbatim in this review (official hosts blocked automated fetching).","scopeLimits":"SLU Alert can reach students, faculty, staff and visitors within minutes via text, cell, landline, email and digital signage, with social media and the website used as needed. Notifications may target a segment of the community rather than the whole campus when the threat is localized. Public Safety Advisories explicitly cover incidents outside the University's Clery geographic boundaries.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","digital-signage","website","twitter-x","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Three named communication types","quotedText":"The three types of communication are SLU Alerts (text), timely warnings (email), and public safety advisories (email).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.slu.edu/about/safety/emergency-preparedness/emergency-notifications.php","sourceDescription":"SLU — Emergency Notification page","annotations":["Establishes SLU's clean three-tier alert taxonomy. Identical wording appeared across multiple official SLU emergency-preparedness retrievals."],"characterCount":118},{"label":"SLU Alert continual-update standard","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.slu.edu/about/safety/emergency-preparedness/emergency-notifications.php","sourceDescription":"SLU — Emergency Notification page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Immediate-threat Clery trigger","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.slu.edu/about/safety/campus-emergency.php","sourceDescription":"SLU — Emergency Information page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Multi-channel SLU Alert reach","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.slu.edu/about/safety/campus-emergency.php","sourceDescription":"SLU — Emergency Information page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["SLU organizes campus safety messaging into three named types: SLU Alerts (text), timely warnings (email), and public safety advisories (email).","SLU Alerts are the immediate-threat channel, issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency and continually updated until the threat is contained or ended.","Timely warnings cover Clery Act crimes within the University's Clery geography; public safety advisories cover lower-urgency or out-of-geography situations (e.g., larceny/vandalism patterns).","Delivery reaches students, faculty, staff and visitors within minutes via text, cell, landline, email and digital signage; the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report posts October 1 each year.","The named SLU Alert decision authority and exact test cadence could not be confirmed verbatim (slu.edu and ASR blocked automated fetching); the 'three types of communication' definition was confirmed verbatim across multiple official-page retrievals."],"sources":[{"title":"SLU — Emergency Notification","url":"https://www.slu.edu/about/safety/emergency-preparedness/emergency-notifications.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"SLU — Emergency Information","url":"https://www.slu.edu/about/safety/campus-emergency.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"SLU — Jeanne Clery Campus Security Act Information","url":"https://www.slu.edu/about/safety/clery-information.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"SLU — 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.slu.edu/about/safety/-pdf/main-clery-report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"SLU — Campus Emergency Procedures","url":"https://www.slu.edu/about/safety/emergency-preparedness/campus-emergency-procedures.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"SLU — Fast Facts / Key Facts (enrollment)","url":"https://www.slu.edu/about/key-facts/index.php","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","public-safety-advisory","private-r1","missouri","slu-alert","clery"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"salish-kootenai-college-alert-policy","slug":"salish-kootenai-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Salish Kootenai College","shortName":"SKC","state":"MT","type":"tribal-college","alertSystemName":"Rave Alert","enrollment":671},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification System (Rave) / Campus Security","systemName":"Rave Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.skc.edu/campus-security/rave-alert/","lastReviewed":"2024-01-01"},"summary":"Salish Kootenai College — the tribal college of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes in Pablo, Montana — delivers campus emergency notifications through [Rave Alert](https://www.skc.edu/campus-security/rave-alert/), a Rave Mobile Safety mass-notification platform that sends text, voice, and email messages to an automatically enrolled campus community, layered over the college's [Emergency Response Plan](https://www.skc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Emergency-Response-Plan-2020.pdf) and the Clery procedures described on its [Campus Security](https://www.skc.edu/campus-security/) pages.","analysis":"Salish Kootenai College (SKC) is the federally chartered tribal college of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, located on the Flathead Reservation in Pablo, Montana. For mass emergency communication the college has [partnered with Rave Mobile Safety](https://skc.smartcatalogiq.com/en/2023-2024/catalog/campus-safety-and-security/emergency-notification-system-rave) to operate [Rave Alert](https://www.skc.edu/campus-security/rave-alert/), the same FedRAMP-authorized platform used by hundreds of U.S. campuses. Unlike the opt-in keyword model some tribal colleges use, SKC enrolls students automatically: the college states that 'Students are automatically enrolled in Rave Alert,' and recipients may leave the system by texting 'Stop' to the short code 67283 (messages originate from short codes 67283 or 226787). The automatic-enrollment design materially improves coverage versus opt-in keyword systems.\n\nThe platform is multi-channel. SKC describes Rave Alert as capable of sending users 'text, voice, and email messages,' and college material also references alerting across email, text message, voice message, social media, and digital signage. The system is reserved for emergency communication — the college says it will only send messages related to emergencies and that recipient information is never provided to advertisers — while also permitting targeted non-emergency messages such as class cancellations or severe-weather closures to registered cell phones.\n\nOperationally, SKC says it 'will use the RAVE alert system to notify the campus about potential threats and what actions should be taken.' The college's lockdown procedures are tied to the alert tool: SKC Administration may invoke lockdown to safeguard employees, students, and visitors against threats such as armed intruders or hazardous-materials spills, and the Rave Alert message specifies the type of lockdown and any additional instructions. These response procedures sit within the college's incident-command-based [Emergency Response Plan](https://www.skc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Emergency-Response-Plan-2020.pdf).\n\nFor Clery purposes, SKC prepares an annual report on campus crimes and incidents and asks that crimes be reported to SKC Campus Security both to include them in annual statistics and to aid in providing timely-warning notices to the community when appropriate; incidents are recorded by SKC security and criminal activity is reported to the tribal police or the county sheriff's department for investigation. The specific verbatim decision criteria, named decision authority, the federal 'immediately, upon confirmation' timeliness language, and a published test cadence for Rave Alert were not retrievable in this review because skc.edu and the SKC online catalog host (skc.smartcatalogiq.com) blocked automated fetching; those fields below are paraphrased from indexed snippets and the Clery framework, and are honestly flagged as reconstructed.","whenCriteria":"SKC states it 'will use the RAVE alert system to notify the campus about potential threats and what actions should be taken.' Lockdown procedures (with Rave Alert specifying the lockdown type) may be invoked for threats such as armed intruders or hazardous-materials spills. As a Clery-covered institution SKC issues timely-warning notices for Clery-reportable crimes that represent a continuing threat 'when appropriate.' (Exact criteria language not retrievable in this review; framing reconstructed from indexed snippets and the Clery standard.)","decisionAuthority":"SKC Administration may invoke lockdown procedures, and campus safety officials use Rave Alert to send notifications. The specific position authorized to issue an emergency notification or timely warning was not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed (skc.edu and the SKC online catalog blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed; as a Clery-covered tribal college SKC is bound by the federal 'immediately, upon confirmation' standard for emergency notifications and the 'timely' standard for warnings. SKC describes incidents as being 'immediately recorded' by campus security.","cleryFraming":"SKC prepares an annual report on campus crimes/incidents and asks that crimes be reported to Campus Security to aid in providing timely-warning notices 'when appropriate'; standard timely-warning vs emergency-notification distinction applies. Criminal activity is referred to tribal police or the county sheriff for investigation.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed; secondary descriptions note SKC 'routinely' uses and tests the Rave system, but a published periodic test cadence (e.g., annual or per-term) for Rave Alert was not confirmed.","scopeLimits":"Rave Alert is reserved for emergency communication (no advertisements; recipient data not shared). Students are automatically enrolled, but recipients can opt out by texting 'Stop' to 67283; opting out removes them from emergency texts. On the rural Flathead Reservation footprint, cellular coverage gaps are an inherent limitation for SMS/voice delivery.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","twitter-x","facebook","website","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Automatic enrollment","quotedText":"Students are automatically enrolled in Rave Alert.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.skc.edu/campus-security/rave-alert/","sourceDescription":"Salish Kootenai College — Rave Alert page","annotations":["Automatic enrollment (rather than opt-in keyword subscription) maximizes coverage of the campus community. This exact wording appeared identically across multiple SKC-attributed retrievals."],"characterCount":50},{"label":"Opt-out instruction","quotedText":"You can opt out of the system by texting \"Stop\" to 67283.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.skc.edu/campus-security/rave-alert/","sourceDescription":"Salish Kootenai College — Rave Alert page","annotations":["67283 spells 'OPTIN' on a phone keypad and is Rave Mobile Safety's standard opt-in/out short code; messages also originate from 226787. Opting out removes the recipient from emergency texts."],"characterCount":57},{"label":"Platform capability (paraphrased from indexed description)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://skc.smartcatalogiq.com/en/2023-2024/catalog/campus-safety-and-security/emergency-notification-system-rave","sourceDescription":"SKC online catalog — Emergency Notification System (Rave) (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["SKC runs emergency notifications on Rave Alert (Rave Mobile Safety), with students automatically enrolled rather than opt-in.","The system is multi-channel — text, voice, and email at minimum, with college material also citing social media and digital signage — and is reserved for emergency/operational messaging only.","Lockdown procedures are tied to Rave Alert: SKC Administration may invoke lockdown and the alert specifies the lockdown type and instructions.","Clery framing: SKC publishes an annual report and issues timely-warning notices 'when appropriate'; criminal activity is referred to tribal police or the county sheriff.","Verbatim decision criteria, named authority, timeliness language, and a published test cadence could not be retrieved (skc.edu and the SKC catalog host blocked automated fetching), so those fields are reconstructed and flagged."],"sources":[{"title":"Salish Kootenai College — Rave Alert","url":"https://www.skc.edu/campus-security/rave-alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Salish Kootenai College — Campus Security","url":"https://www.skc.edu/campus-security/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"SKC Online Catalog — Emergency Notification System (Rave)","url":"https://skc.smartcatalogiq.com/en/2023-2024/catalog/campus-safety-and-security/emergency-notification-system-rave","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Salish Kootenai College — Emergency Response Plan (2020 PDF)","url":"https://www.skc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Emergency-Response-Plan-2020.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Salish Kootenai College — Safe Campus","url":"https://www.skc.edu/campus-security/safe-campus/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","tribal-college","rave-alert","montana","flathead-reservation"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"salt-lake-community-college-alert-policy","slug":"salt-lake-community-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Salt Lake Community College","shortName":"SLCC","state":"UT","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"SLCC Emergency Alert System","enrollment":31473},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning and Clery Act","systemName":"SLCC Emergency Alert System (EAS)","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.slcc.edu/policies/policies/finance_and_administration/2.5.040.aspx","policyNumber":"2.5.040"},"summary":"Salt Lake Community College runs an [Emergency Alert System (EAS)](https://www.slcc.edu/_announcements/emergency-alert-signup.aspx) that delivers real-time safety directions such as 'evacuate' or 'secure in place'; its [Timely Warning and Clery Act policy 2.5.040](https://www.slcc.edu/policies/policies/finance_and_administration/2.5.040.aspx) separately governs Clery timely warnings for crimes that present a serious and continuing threat, issued by the executive director of Public Safety or designee.","analysis":"Salt Lake Community College — Utah's largest two-year college, spread across campuses and centers in the Salt Lake Valley — distinguishes two instruments in formal policy. Its [Timely Warning and Clery Act policy, number 2.5.040](https://www.slcc.edu/policies/policies/finance_and_administration/2.5.040.aspx), defines a Timely Warning as 'an alert triggered when the college determines a Clery crime has been committed and presents a serious and continuing threat,' which the college then issues to the college community. Separately, an Emergency Notification is described as an announcement triggered by a significant emergency event or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the college community at a Clery-reportable location — the standard Clery split between crime-driven timely warnings and immediate-threat emergency notifications.\n\nThe **decision authority and process** for timely warnings is unusually well documented for a community college. All Campus Security Authorities (CSAs) and local law enforcement agencies are directed to immediately report Clery Act crimes to the [SLCC Department of Public Safety](https://www.slcc.edu/police/index.aspx); if the timely-warning criteria are met, a notice is drafted using crime-specific templates and issued 'by the executive director of Public Safety or designee as soon as pertinent information is available.' The policy also notes the broader decision to issue a timely warning is determined by one or more college officials pre-identified in the college's Annual Security Report (ASR). SLCC's Department of Public Safety works closely with College administration to disseminate public-safety alerts to faculty, staff, and students.\n\n**The delivery system and channels.** The [SLCC Emergency Alert System](https://i.slcc.edu/emergency-prepare/emergency-alert-notification-instructions.aspx) delivers real-time information about campus emergencies, with alerts that include safety directions such as 'evacuate' or 'secure in place.' Members of the community automatically receive emergency alerts via BruinMail (the College's official student email on Microsoft 365), Outlook, and SLCC work phone numbers; to add text-message delivery, users sign up in MySLCC and can enter additional contact information to receive alerts on all of their communication devices. All students are added to the College's emergency alert system, and a student who chooses not to receive messages can opt out via the Opt Out link under the SLCC Emergency Alert System icon in MySLCC. Timely warnings themselves are 'generally issued via email but may also be distributed through press releases, text messages, posters, desktop alerts, and messages on SLCC's website when appropriate.'\n\n**Clery basis and scope.** SLCC frames the program around the Clery Act's requirement that institutions provide timely warnings of reported crimes that represent a threat to the safety of students or employees, and to collect, report, and disseminate crime data. The College's [Annual Security Report](https://www.slcc.edu/police/clery.aspx) and the companion [Emergency Management policy 2.5.020](https://www.slcc.edu/policies/policies/finance_and_administration/2.5.020.aspx) carry the broader procedural detail, including testing and the full list of pre-identified decision-makers. Because slcc.edu 403-blocks direct fetch in this environment, the quotes below were captured from repeated search-snippet renderings of the official policy and EAS pages and cross-checked across multiple independent retrievals before being flagged.","whenCriteria":"A Timely Warning is triggered when the college determines a Clery crime has been committed and presents a serious and continuing threat. An Emergency Notification is triggered by a significant emergency event or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the college community at a Clery-reportable location.","decisionAuthority":"CSAs and local law enforcement immediately report Clery crimes to the SLCC Department of Public Safety; if criteria are met, a notice is drafted from crime-specific templates and issued by the executive director of Public Safety or designee. The broader decision is made by one or more college officials pre-identified in the Annual Security Report.","timingStandard":"A timely-warning notice is issued 'as soon as pertinent information is available' once the criteria are met. Emergency notifications are sent to quickly contact the college community in an emergency.","cleryFraming":"Policy 2.5.040 explicitly distinguishes Timely Warnings (Clery crime presenting a serious and continuing threat) from Emergency Notifications (significant emergency / dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety at a Clery-reportable location), grounded in the Clery Act's timely-warning and crime-disclosure mandates.","scopeLimits":"Timely warnings are generally issued via email but may also go out by press release, text message, posters, desktop alerts, and the SLCC website when appropriate. The EAS auto-delivers via BruinMail, Outlook, and SLCC work phones; text delivery requires MySLCC sign-up, and students may opt out.","channels":["email","sms","website","desktop-popup","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely Warning definition","quotedText":"A Timely Warning is an alert triggered when the college determines a Clery crime has been committed and presents a serious and continuing threat.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.slcc.edu/policies/policies/finance_and_administration/2.5.040.aspx","sourceDescription":"SLCC Timely Warning and Clery Act policy 2.5.040","annotations":["Sets SLCC's timely-warning trigger: a determined Clery crime presenting a serious and continuing threat. 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Reproduced consistently across retrievals; slcc.edu 403-blocks direct fetch."],"characterCount":74}],"keyFindings":["SLCC policy 2.5.040 separates Timely Warnings (determined Clery crime presenting a serious and continuing threat) from Emergency Notifications (immediate threat to health or safety at a Clery-reportable location).","Timely warnings are issued by the executive director of Public Safety or designee 'as soon as pertinent information is available,' using crime-specific templates; broader decision-makers are pre-identified in the Annual Security Report.","CSAs and local law enforcement are directed to immediately report Clery crimes to the SLCC Department of Public Safety so timely-warning consideration can begin.","The Emergency Alert System auto-delivers via BruinMail, Outlook, and SLCC work phones, carries directions like 'evacuate' or 'secure in place,' and adds text delivery through MySLCC sign-up; students may opt out.","Timely warnings default to email but may also go out by press release, text, posters, desktop alerts, and the SLCC website when appropriate."],"sources":[{"title":"Timely Warning and Clery Act (Policy 2.5.040)","url":"https://www.slcc.edu/policies/policies/finance_and_administration/2.5.040.aspx","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Alert System Sign-Up Info","url":"https://www.slcc.edu/_announcements/emergency-alert-signup.aspx","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Alert System - Staff (notification instructions)","url":"https://i.slcc.edu/emergency-prepare/emergency-alert-notification-instructions.aspx","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual Security Report (Clery)","url":"https://www.slcc.edu/police/clery.aspx","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Emergency Management (Policy 2.5.020)","url":"https://www.slcc.edu/policies/policies/finance_and_administration/2.5.020.aspx","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"SLCC Sees Highest Enrollment Since Pre-Pandemic (Fall 2025: 31,473 students)","url":"https://www.slcc.edu/newsroom/2025/10/slcc-sees-highest-enrollment-since-pre-pandemic.html","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","community-college","slcc","utah"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"san-diego-state-university-alert-policy","slug":"san-diego-state-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"San Diego State University","shortName":"SDSU","state":"CA","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"SDSU Alert","enrollment":41184},"policy":{"title":"SDSU Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Policy (2025 Annual Security Report)","systemName":"SDSU Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://police.sdsu.edu/_resources/files/2025-annual-security-report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"[SDSU Alert](https://urgent.sdsu.edu/sdsu-alert-platform) is San Diego State University's emergency-notification platform, sending SMS text, @sdsu.edu email, and SDSU Safe app push notifications only when there is an imminent threat to people or infrastructure; the criteria, decision authority, and testing cadence are governed by the SDSU University Police [2025 Annual Security Report](https://police.sdsu.edu/public-information/clery-act-compliance/2025-annual-security-report) under the Clery Act.","analysis":"San Diego State University delivers Clery emergency notifications through [SDSU Alert](https://urgent.sdsu.edu/sdsu-alert-platform), described on the university's urgent-information site as a system used 'only when there is an imminent threat to people or infrastructure, to include the sending of Clery notices or a change in university operations.' Notifications are sent automatically: students receive them at their @sdsu.edu email address and, if a mobile number is on file, by text message, while the free [SDSU Safe app](https://www.sdsu.edu/news/2022/08/sdsu-introduces-mobile-safety-app) (Apple/Android) provides instant push notifications. The system is jointly operated by the university's communications team and the SDSU University Police Department.\n\nThe Clery framework behind the system is laid out in the SDSU University Police [2025 Annual Security Report](https://police.sdsu.edu/_resources/files/2025-annual-security-report.pdf). SDSU follows the standard Clery emergency-notification trigger — confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students and/or employees occurring on the campus. The decision authority and timeliness obligation rest with the Chief of Police and/or the Clery Director (or their management designee), who 'will, without delay and considering the safety of the community, transmit the emergency notification, unless doing so would delay the ability to mitigate and/or contain the emergency.' This preserves the Clery exception that allows notification to be withheld when it would compromise efforts to contain the emergency or provide immediate, life-saving measures.\n\nSDSU keeps emergency notifications distinct from Clery timely warnings (issued as Timely Warning Crime Bulletins). Per the ASR, a [timely warning](https://police.sdsu.edu/public-information/clery-act-compliance/timely-warning-crime-bulletins) is issued only when a campus-security-authority report includes all three elements — a Clery crime, on Clery geography, and a discernible serious or ongoing threat; in the absence of any of the three, no timely warning is issued. The Chief of Police (or management designee) holds ultimate authority over whether to issue a timely warning, with the Clery Director completing and documenting the case-by-case analysis and conferring with the Chief on the most appropriate method(s) of distribution.\n\nFor testing, SDSU diverges from the generic CSU template language: the ASR states that the SDSU Emergency Communications System is tested in the first month of the fall and spring academic semesters, giving the campus a predictable twice-yearly verification cadence rather than a single annual drill. Because SDSU's official .edu and urgent.sdsu.edu hosts return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from official SDSU page and ASR text as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries; remaining detail is paraphrased.","whenCriteria":"SDSU Alert is used only when there is an imminent threat to people or infrastructure, including the sending of Clery notices or a change in university operations. Under the Clery Act, an emergency notification is issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students and/or employees occurring on the campus. A separate Timely Warning Crime Bulletin is issued only when a CSA report includes a Clery crime, on Clery geography, with a discernible serious or ongoing threat.","decisionAuthority":"Emergency notifications: the Chief of Police and/or the Clery Director (or their management designee). Timely warnings: the Chief of Police (or management designee) holds ultimate authority over whether to issue; the Clery Director completes and documents the case-by-case analysis and confers with the Chief on distribution method.","timingStandard":"The Chief of Police and/or Clery Director (or management designee) will, without delay and considering the safety of the community, transmit the emergency notification, unless doing so would delay the ability to mitigate and/or contain the emergency.","cleryFraming":"Emergency notifications (SDSU Alert) and timely warnings (Timely Warning Crime Bulletins) are handled as distinct Clery obligations. A timely warning requires all three elements — a Clery crime, on Clery geography, and a discernible serious or ongoing threat; absent any one, none is issued.","testingCadence":"The SDSU Emergency Communications System is tested in the first month of the fall and spring academic semesters (twice per year).","scopeLimits":"Notification may be withheld if transmitting it would delay the ability to mitigate and/or contain the emergency, including the ability to provide immediate, life-saving measures. Text notifications require a current cell phone number on file; SDSU Safe push notifications require installing the app. Timely warnings are limited to Clery crimes on Clery geography that pose a serious or ongoing threat.","channels":["sms","email","push-notification","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"When SDSU Alert is used","quotedText":"Generally, notifications are sent only when there is an imminent threat to people or infrastructure, to include the sending of Clery notices or a change in university operations.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://urgent.sdsu.edu/sdsu-alert-platform","sourceDescription":"SDSU Alert Notifications and SDSU Safe App — Urgent Campus Information","annotations":["Sets a high bar ('imminent threat to people or infrastructure') and ties the channel to both Clery notices and operational-status changes."],"characterCount":178},{"label":"Emergency-notification confirmation standard","quotedText":"SDSU has procedures to immediately notify the campus community upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students and/or employees occurring on the campus, as required by the Clery Act.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.sdsu.edu/_resources/files/2025-annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"SDSU 2025 Annual Security Report","annotations":["Tracks the federal Clery emergency-notification language verbatim ('confirmation', 'significant emergency or dangerous situation', 'immediate threat')."],"characterCount":272},{"label":"Decision authority transmits without delay","quotedText":"Once the notification is prepared, the Chief of Police and/or the Clery Director (or their management designee) will, without delay and considering the safety of the community, transmit the emergency notification, unless doing so would delay the ability to mitigate and/or contain the emergency – including the ability to provide immediate, life-saving measures.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.sdsu.edu/_resources/files/2025-annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"SDSU 2025 Annual Security Report","annotations":["Names the decision authority (Chief of Police and/or Clery Director) and embeds the standard Clery 'without delay' obligation plus the containment exception."],"characterCount":362},{"label":"Twice-yearly testing cadence","quotedText":"The SDSU Emergency Communications System is tested in the first month of the fall and spring academic semesters.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.sdsu.edu/_resources/files/2025-annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"SDSU 2025 Annual Security Report","annotations":["More frequent than the generic 'at least once annually' minimum — SDSU tests at the start of both fall and spring terms."],"characterCount":112}],"keyFindings":["SDSU Alert is sent only on an imminent threat to people or infrastructure, including Clery notices and operational-status changes; it reaches the campus by @sdsu.edu email, SMS text, and SDSU Safe app push notifications, with students automatically enrolled.","The emergency-notification trigger follows the Clery standard — confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation with an immediate threat to health or safety on campus.","Decision authority and the 'without delay' timeliness obligation rest with the Chief of Police and/or the Clery Director (or management designee), subject to the containment/life-saving exception.","Timely warnings (Timely Warning Crime Bulletins) are a separate Clery track requiring all three elements — a Clery crime, on Clery geography, with a discernible serious or ongoing threat; the Chief of Police holds ultimate authority and the Clery Director documents the analysis.","SDSU tests its Emergency Communications System twice a year — in the first month of both the fall and spring semesters — exceeding the generic annual-testing minimum."],"sources":[{"title":"SDSU Alert Notifications and SDSU Safe App — Urgent Campus Information","url":"https://urgent.sdsu.edu/sdsu-alert-platform","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"SDSU 2025 Annual Security Report (PDF)","url":"https://police.sdsu.edu/_resources/files/2025-annual-security-report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"2025 Annual Security Report — SDSU University Police","url":"https://police.sdsu.edu/public-information/clery-act-compliance/2025-annual-security-report","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Timely Warning Crime Bulletins — SDSU University Police","url":"https://police.sdsu.edu/public-information/clery-act-compliance/timely-warning-crime-bulletins","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"SDSU Introduces Mobile Safety App — SDSU News","url":"https://www.sdsu.edu/news/2022/08/sdsu-introduces-mobile-safety-app","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","sdsu-alert","public-r1","california","csu"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"sf-state-alert-policy","slug":"sf-state-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"San Francisco State University","shortName":"SF State","state":"CA","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"SF State Alert","enrollment":20700},"policy":{"title":"SF State Emergency Notification System (SF State Alert) and Timely Warning Policy (2025 Annual Security Report)","systemName":"SF State Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://upd.sfsu.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2025_Annual_Security_Report_Final.pdf","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"[SF State Alert](https://oes.sfsu.edu/get-prepared/emergency-notification-system) is San Francisco State University's emergency-notification system, run through the University Police Department and Office of Emergency Services, that rapidly disseminates emergency information; it is mandatory for all SFSU email holders, and its Clery criteria, decision authority, 'without delay' timing, and at-least-annual testing are documented in the SF State [2025 Annual Security Report](https://upd.sfsu.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2025_Annual_Security_Report_Final.pdf).","analysis":"San Francisco State University delivers Clery emergency notifications through [SF State Alert](https://oes.sfsu.edu/get-prepared/emergency-notification-system), described in the [2025 Annual Security Report](https://upd.sfsu.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2025_Annual_Security_Report_Final.pdf) as a communications tool designed to rapidly disseminate emergency information and instructions in an emergency that threatens the lives and/or property of the campus community. The system is administered by the University Police Department in conjunction with the Office of Emergency Services. Enrollment is effectively automatic: per the Office of Emergency Services, it is mandatory for all SFSU email holders to receive emails and notifications from the university in the event of any emergency, and any phone number linked to a person's campus email will also receive SF State Alert messages (the OES page therefore cautions community members to use a phone number they do not mind receiving notifications on).\n\nThe ASR vests both content preparation and the timeliness obligation in named roles. Per the report, the Chief of Police and/or Clery Director (or management designee) will prepare the content of the notification and determine which members of the campus community are threatened and need to be notified, developing the message based on a careful but swift analysis of the most critical facts. The transmission standard mirrors the CSU systemwide framing: once the notification is prepared, the Chief of Police and/or the Clery Director (or their management designees) will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, transmit the emergency notification unless doing so would delay the ability to mitigate and/or contain the emergency, including the ability to provide immediate, life-saving measures. The ASR also describes segmentation — the Chief of Police (or management designee) evaluates which persons are likely to be at risk based on the circumstances and notifies those persons, but segmentation is not considered if making that determination would delay issuing the emergency notification.\n\nSF State keeps emergency notifications and Clery timely warnings as distinct obligations. The Clery Director and Chief of Police (or management designee) confer to analyze the known pertinent facts and determine whether they constitute a serious or ongoing threat to the campus community, with the ASR noting that the unavailability of the Clery Director shall not unduly delay the issuance of a Timely Warning. The report also states that the Chief of Police and/or Clery Director (or management designees) will provide updates to the emergency notification with pertinent updates or direction for safety as new information becomes available, at regular intervals until the emergency has been mitigated or no longer poses an imminent threat. For testing, the ASR states that testing of the Emergency Notification System and evacuation will be done at least once annually, and that tests may be announced or unannounced so new students, faculty, and staff can become familiar with the process.\n\nBecause SF State's official .edu hosts return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from official SF State ASR and Office of Emergency Services page text as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries; remaining detail is paraphrased.","whenCriteria":"SF State Alert is activated for an emergency that threatens the lives and/or property of the campus community (e.g., natural disasters, safety threats, or campus closures). Under the Clery Act, an emergency notification is issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety; a separate Timely Warning is issued where facts constitute a serious or ongoing threat to the campus community.","decisionAuthority":"The Chief of Police and/or Clery Director (or management designee) prepares the content of the notification, determines which members of the campus community are threatened and need to be notified, and transmits the emergency notification. The Chief of Police (or management designee) decides segmentation. For timely warnings, the Clery Director and Chief of Police confer; the Clery Director's unavailability shall not unduly delay issuance.","timingStandard":"Once the notification is prepared, the Chief of Police and/or the Clery Director (or their management designees) will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, transmit the emergency notification unless doing so would delay the ability to mitigate and/or contain the emergency, including the ability to provide immediate, life saving measures. Segmentation is not considered if making that determination would delay issuing the notification.","cleryFraming":"Emergency notifications (SF State Alert) and Timely Warnings are distinct Clery obligations. Both are documented in the Clery Act-mandated Annual Security Report; the Clery Director and Chief of Police confer to determine whether facts constitute a serious or ongoing threat, and the Clery Director's unavailability shall not unduly delay a Timely Warning.","testingCadence":"Testing of the Emergency Notification System and evacuation will be done at least once annually; tests may be announced or unannounced to give new students, faculty, and staff the opportunity to become familiar with the process.","scopeLimits":"Notification may be withheld if transmitting it would delay the ability to mitigate and/or contain the emergency, including providing immediate, life-saving measures. The Chief of Police segments notifications to the at-risk community when doing so does not delay issuance. Enrollment is mandatory for all SFSU email holders, and any phone number linked to a campus email also receives alerts.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"SF State Alert purpose","quotedText":"The San Francisco State University Emergency Notification System, also known as SF State Alert, is a communications tool designed to rapidly disseminate emergency information and instructions in an emergency that threatens the lives and/or property of the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://upd.sfsu.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2025_Annual_Security_Report_Final.pdf","sourceDescription":"SF State 2025 Annual Security Report","annotations":["Defines SF State Alert and states the triggering condition (an emergency that threatens the lives and/or property of the campus community)."],"characterCount":273},{"label":"Decision authority transmits without delay","quotedText":"Once the notification is prepared, the Chief of Police and/or the Clery Director (or their management designees) will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, transmit the emergency notification unless doing so would delay the ability to mitigate and/or contain the emergency, including the ability to provide immediate, life saving measures.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://upd.sfsu.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2025_Annual_Security_Report_Final.pdf","sourceDescription":"SF State 2025 Annual Security Report","annotations":["Names the decision authority (Chief of Police and/or Clery Director) and embeds the Clery 'without delay' obligation plus the containment/life-saving exception."],"characterCount":369},{"label":"Segmentation must not delay issuance","quotedText":"Segmentation of notifications will be considered by the Chief of Police (or management designee) by evaluating which persons are likely to be at risk based on the circumstances at the time and notifying those persons. Segmentation should not be considered if making this determination would delay issuing the emergency notification.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://upd.sfsu.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2025_Annual_Security_Report_Final.pdf","sourceDescription":"SF State 2025 Annual Security Report","annotations":["Explains how the at-risk segment is identified and that targeting cannot be allowed to delay the notification."],"characterCount":332},{"label":"Mandatory enrollment for email holders","quotedText":"It is mandatory for all SFSU email holders to receive emails and notifications from the university in the event of any emergency. Additionally, any phone number linked to your campus email will also receive alerts from SF State Alert.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://oes.sfsu.edu/get-prepared/emergency-notification-system","sourceDescription":"SF State Office of Emergency Services — Emergency Notification System","annotations":["Confirms mandatory (effectively opt-out) enrollment for all SFSU email holders and that phone numbers linked to a campus email also receive SF State Alert messages."],"characterCount":234},{"label":"At-least-annual testing requirement","quotedText":"Testing of the Emergency Notification System and evacuation will be done at least once annually. The tests may be announced or unannounced to ensure that new students, faculty, and staff will have the opportunity to become familiar with the process and fully participate.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://upd.sfsu.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2025_Annual_Security_Report_Final.pdf","sourceDescription":"SF State 2025 Annual Security Report","annotations":["States the minimum testing cadence (at least once annually) and the announced/unannounced testing rationale."],"characterCount":271}],"keyFindings":["SF State Alert is the university's emergency-notification system, run through the University Police Department and Office of Emergency Services to rapidly disseminate emergency information that threatens the lives and/or property of the campus community.","Enrollment is mandatory for all SFSU email holders, and any phone number linked to a person's campus email also receives SF State Alert messages.","The Chief of Police and/or Clery Director (or designee) prepares content, identifies the threatened segment, and transmits the notification 'without delay' subject to the containment/life-saving exception; segmentation may not delay issuance.","Emergency notifications and Timely Warnings are distinct Clery obligations; the Clery Director's unavailability shall not unduly delay a Timely Warning, and updates continue at regular intervals until the emergency is mitigated.","The Emergency Notification System and evacuation are tested at least once annually, with tests announced or unannounced, per the 2025 Annual Security Report."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notification System (SF State Alert) — SF State Office of Emergency Services","url":"https://oes.sfsu.edu/get-prepared/emergency-notification-system","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"San Francisco State University 2025 Annual Security Report (PDF)","url":"https://upd.sfsu.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2025_Annual_Security_Report_Final.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Timely Warnings — SF State University Police Department","url":"https://upd.sfsu.edu/timely-warnings-0","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"San Francisco State University 2023 Annual Security Report (PDF)","url":"https://upd.sfsu.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2023_Annual_Security_Report_Final.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","sf-state-alert","public-r2","california","csu"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-31","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"san-jacinto-college-sjc-alertme-policy","slug":"san-jacinto-college-sjc-alertme-policy","institution":{"name":"San Jacinto College","shortName":"San Jac","state":"TX","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"SJC AlertMe","enrollment":30000},"policy":{"title":"SJC AlertMe Emergency Notification System","systemName":"SJC AlertMe","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.sanjac.edu/student-life/campus-safety/alerts/index.php","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"San Jacinto College's [SJC AlertMe page](https://www.sanjac.edu/student-life/campus-safety/alerts/index.php) brands AlertMe for multi-channel emergency notifications (email, voice, text, app push, desktop/screen takeovers, digital signage, and overhead speakers), with student/employee signup through My San Jac portal and campus-selection preferences.","analysis":"San Jacinto College is a multi-campus Texas community college. Its [SJC AlertMe overview](https://www.sanjac.edu/student-life/campus-safety/alerts/index.php) is institution-specific on brand and delivery stack: email, voice, text, app push notifications, desktop and screen takeovers, digital signage, and overhead speakers. Students and employees sign up via My San Jac → Personal Info & Settings → SJC AlertMe, update phones/emails, and set Opt-In Lists including campus selection. An iOS SJC AlertMe app is linked. Deeper Clery Timely Warning decision authority is not on this system-overview page.","whenCriteria":"SJC AlertMe is used to send emergency notifications; full Clery Timely Warning criteria are not restated on this page.","decisionAuthority":"Not detailed on the SJC AlertMe signup overview page.","timingStandard":"Not stated as a numeric without-delay clause on this page.","cleryFraming":"System-overview page for branded emergency notification; not a full ASR Timely Warning section.","scopeLimits":"Students and employees via My San Jac; community members directed to separate signup directions; campus-level opt-in preferences available.","testingCadence":"Not stated on the SJC AlertMe overview page.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","desktop-popup","pa-system","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"SJC AlertMe multi-channel brand","quotedText":"Stay informed and enjoy peace of mind with SJC AlertMe. San Jac uses AlertMe to send emergency notifications via email, voice, text messages, app push notifications, desktop and screen takeovers, digital signage, and overhead speakers.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sanjac.edu/student-life/campus-safety/alerts/index.php","sourceDescription":"San Jacinto College SJC AlertMe page","annotations":["Branded SJC AlertMe with desktop takeover and overhead speakers."],"characterCount":235},{"label":"My San Jac portal signup path","quotedText":"If you are a San Jac student or employee, follow the steps below to sign up for SJC AlertMe. Community members should follow these directions. Go to the My San Jac Student Portal dashboard. Click on \"Personal Info & Settings\" located in \"Tools\" Click on \"SJC AlertMe\" Update your preferred contact phone numbers and emails. Visit the Opt-In Lists tab to set your preferences for alerts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sanjac.edu/student-life/campus-safety/alerts/index.php","sourceDescription":"San Jacinto College SJC AlertMe signup steps","annotations":["Local My San Jac portal path and Opt-In Lists for campus preferences."],"characterCount":386}],"keyFindings":["SJC AlertMe is the branded multi-channel emergency notification system.","Delivery includes desktop/screen takeovers, digital signage, and overhead speakers.","Students and employees manage preferences in My San Jac under SJC AlertMe."],"sources":[{"title":"SJC AlertMe - San Jacinto College","url":"https://www.sanjac.edu/student-life/campus-safety/alerts/index.php","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","community-college","emergency-notification","texas","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"san-jose-state-university-alert-policy","slug":"san-jose-state-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"San José State University","shortName":"SJSU","state":"CA","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"Alert SJSU","enrollment":37661},"policy":{"title":"SJSU Emergency Notification (Alert SJSU) and Timely Warning Policy (2025 Annual Security Report)","systemName":"Alert SJSU","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.sjsu.edu/clery/docs/SJSU-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"[Alert SJSU](https://www.sjsu.edu/police/emergency-preparedness/alert-sjsu.php) is San José State University's University Police-run emergency-notification system, an opt-out program that reaches all enrolled students and active employees by email, text message, and indoor speaker phones; its Clery criteria, decision authority, and testing cadence are set out in the SJSU [2025 Annual Security Report](https://www.sjsu.edu/clery/docs/SJSU-Annual-Security-Report.pdf).","analysis":"San José State University delivers Clery emergency notifications through [Alert SJSU](https://www.sjsu.edu/police/emergency-preparedness/alert-sjsu.php), a program administered by the University Police Department to quickly disseminate emergency information to the campus community during critical incidents. Alert SJSU is an opt-out program for all currently-enrolled students and active employees, meaning everyone is automatically enrolled based on the phone number and email address maintained in OneSJSU/PeopleSoft. The system reaches the community primarily through email, text messages, and indoor speaker phones; SJSU's indoor public-address system uses speaker telephones in offices and instructional spaces, parking garages, and the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library.\n\nThe Clery framework behind Alert SJSU is laid out in the SJSU [2025 Annual Security Report](https://www.sjsu.edu/clery/docs/SJSU-Annual-Security-Report.pdf). SJSU follows the standard Clery emergency-notification trigger — confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees on campus. Per the ASR, 'the Chief of Police and/or the Clery Director (or their management designees) will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, transmit the emergency notification unless doing so would delay the ability to mitigate and/or contain the emergency, including the ability to provide immediate, life saving measures.' This vests both content preparation and the timeliness obligation in named roles while preserving the Clery containment exception.\n\nSJSU keeps emergency notifications distinct from Clery timely warnings, the latter issued for Clery crimes posing a serious or continuing threat to the campus community. Both obligations are documented in the Annual Security Report, which the university describes as the Clery Act-mandated report outlining crime-reporting, safety, and security policies.\n\nFor testing, the ASR is explicit and detailed: 'Testing of the Emergency Notification System and evacuation will be done at least once annually. The tests may be announced or unannounced.' It further specifies that tests must be scheduled, contain drills, exercises, and appropriate follow-through activities, be designed for assessment and evaluation of emergency plans and capabilities, and be documented with a description, date, start/end times, and whether the test was announced or unannounced. Because SJSU's official .edu host returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from official SJSU page and ASR text as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries; remaining detail is paraphrased.","whenCriteria":"Alert SJSU notifies students, staff, and faculty of emergency events or conditions that threaten the health and safety of the campus community. Under the Clery Act, an emergency notification is issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees on campus; a separate timely warning is issued for Clery crimes posing a serious or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"The Chief of Police and/or the Clery Director (or their management designees) prepare the content of the notification, determine which members of the campus community are threatened and need to be notified, and transmit the emergency notification.","timingStandard":"The Chief of Police and/or the Clery Director (or their management designees) will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, transmit the emergency notification unless doing so would delay the ability to mitigate and/or contain the emergency, including the ability to provide immediate, life saving measures.","cleryFraming":"Emergency notifications (Alert SJSU) and timely warnings (serious or continuing threat from Clery crimes) are handled as distinct Clery obligations, both documented in the Clery Act-mandated Annual Security Report.","testingCadence":"Testing of the Emergency Notification System and evacuation is done at least once annually; tests may be announced or unannounced, must contain drills/exercises and follow-through, and each test is documented (description, date, start/end times, announced or unannounced).","scopeLimits":"Notification may be withheld if transmitting it would delay the ability to mitigate and/or contain the emergency, including providing immediate, life-saving measures. The Chief of Police/Clery Director determine which segment of the community is threatened and needs to be notified rather than always notifying everyone. Enrollment is automatic (opt-out) for currently-enrolled students and active employees based on contact data in OneSJSU.","channels":["email","sms","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Decision authority transmits without delay","quotedText":"The Chief of Police and/or the Clery Director (or their management designees) will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, transmit the emergency notification unless doing so would delay the ability to mitigate and/or contain the emergency, including the ability to provide immediate, life saving measures.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sjsu.edu/clery/docs/SJSU-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"SJSU 2025 Annual Security Report","annotations":["Names the decision authority (Chief of Police and/or Clery Director) and embeds the Clery 'without delay' obligation plus the containment/life-saving exception."],"characterCount":334},{"label":"At-least-annual testing requirement","quotedText":"Testing of the Emergency Notification System and evacuation will be done at least once annually. The tests may be announced or unannounced.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sjsu.edu/clery/docs/SJSU-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"SJSU 2025 Annual Security Report","annotations":["States the minimum testing cadence (at least once annually) and that tests may be announced or unannounced."],"characterCount":139},{"label":"Test documentation requirements","quotedText":"Each test will be documented to include a description of the exercise, the date of the test, the start and end times of the test, and whether the test was announced or unannounced.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sjsu.edu/clery/docs/SJSU-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"SJSU 2025 Annual Security Report","annotations":["Mirrors the Clery test-documentation requirement (description, date, times, announced/unannounced) verbatim."],"characterCount":180},{"label":"Opt-out enrollment","quotedText":"Alert SJSU is an \"opt out\" program for all currently-enrolled students and active employees, meaning all students and employees are automatically enrolled.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sjsu.edu/police/emergency-preparedness/alert-sjsu.php","sourceDescription":"Alert SJSU Notification System — University Police","annotations":["Confirms automatic (opt-out) enrollment of all currently-enrolled students and active employees."],"characterCount":155}],"keyFindings":["Alert SJSU is run by the SJSU University Police Department and reaches students, staff, and faculty primarily by email, text message, and indoor speaker phones (a campus-wide public-address system).","Enrollment is opt-out: all currently-enrolled students and active employees are automatically enrolled based on the contact data in OneSJSU/PeopleSoft.","The Chief of Police and/or the Clery Director (or designees) prepare the content, determine the threatened segment of the community, and transmit the notification 'without delay' subject to the containment/life-saving exception.","Emergency notifications and timely warnings are distinct Clery obligations, both documented in the Clery Act-mandated Annual Security Report.","Testing of the Emergency Notification System and evacuation is done at least once annually (announced or unannounced), with each test documented by description, date, start/end times, and announced/unannounced status."],"sources":[{"title":"Alert SJSU Notification System — University Police","url":"https://www.sjsu.edu/police/emergency-preparedness/alert-sjsu.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"San José State University 2025 Annual Security Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.sjsu.edu/clery/docs/SJSU-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Emergency Notification Methods — SJSU Emergency Information","url":"https://www.sjsu.edu/emergency/emergency-notification-methods.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"SJSU Emergency Alert System — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library","url":"https://library.sjsu.edu/about/sjsu-emergency-alert-system","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","alert-sjsu","public-r2","california","csu"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"sandhills-community-college-sccalert-asr","slug":"sandhills-community-college-sccalert-asr","institution":{"name":"Sandhills Community College","shortName":"Sandhills","state":"NC","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"SCCAlert / Regroup","enrollment":4500},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning Notices and SCCAlert Emergency Notification - Annual Security Report","systemName":"SCCAlert / Regroup","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.sandhills.edu/_resources/document/2025-10-01-security-fire-safety-report-fall-2025.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Sandhills Community College documents [Timely Warning Notices and the Regroup-based SCCAlert mass-notification system](https://www.sandhills.edu/_resources/document/2025-10-01-security-fire-safety-report-fall-2025.pdf) in its Fall 2025 security and fire safety report, with a dedicated SCCAlert self-service page for enrollment and profile updates.","analysis":"Sandhills Community College (Pinehurst/Hoke, NC) publishes timely-warning and emergency-notification policy in its Fall 2025 [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.sandhills.edu/_resources/document/2025-10-01-security-fire-safety-report-fall-2025.pdf). Timely Warning Notices address Clery crimes that have occurred and pose an ongoing threat; distribution paths include the college website and the campus Regroup notification system. The ASR adopts the Regroup Emergency Alert and Mass Notification System as part of the Emergency Notification Plan, allowing Public Safety personnel to reach students and staff quickly.\n\nThe public [SCCAlert page](https://www.sandhills.edu/safety-security/scc-alert.html) brands the system as SCCAlert: students and employees automatically receive messages via college-issued email, and must update their SCCAlert profile to add phone, text, or other preferred methods. Parents and community members may register separately. Emergency preparedness pages instruct the community to stay alert to SCCAlert for timely instructions during emergencies. Complements institution case coverage for weather closures and threat evacuations.","whenCriteria":"Timely Warning Notices for Clery crimes that have occurred and pose an ongoing threat to the campus community. Emergency/SCCAlert notifications for emergencies or inclement weather requiring critical information distribution.","decisionAuthority":"Public Safety personnel initiate Regroup/SCCAlert emergency notifications; Campus Police assess crimes for timely warning distribution via website and Regroup.","timingStandard":"ASR frames timely warnings as notices of crimes that have occurred and pose an ongoing threat; emergency notifications described as rapid mass notification via Regroup/SCCAlert. No fixed minutes standard stated.","cleryFraming":"ASR sections on Timely Warning Notices and Emergency Notification Plan, with Regroup/SCCAlert as the institution-named mass-notification system.","scopeLimits":"Email auto-enrollment for students and employees; phone/text require profile update. Community members may opt in separately via REGISTER FOR SCCAlerts.","testingCadence":"Not specified as a fixed cadence in the ASR excerpts reviewed; system is described as part of the standing Emergency Notification Plan.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Regroup system adoption","quotedText":"Sandhills Community College has adopted the Regroup Emergency Alert and Mass Notification System as part of its Emergency Notification Plan.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sandhills.edu/_resources/document/2025-10-01-security-fire-safety-report-fall-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Sandhills Fall 2025 ASR - Regroup Emergency Notification","annotations":["Official ASR adoption of Regroup for emergency mass notification."],"characterCount":140},{"label":"SCCAlert official system description","quotedText":"SCCAlert is the official emergency notification system used by Sandhills Community College to communicate critical information during emergencies or inclement weather.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sandhills.edu/safety-security/scc-alert.html","sourceDescription":"Sandhills SCCAlert public system page","annotations":["Public brand name SCCAlert for emergencies and weather."],"characterCount":167}],"keyFindings":["Regroup platform branded publicly as SCCAlert.","Auto email enrollment; opt-in profile for phone/text.","Timely warnings via website and Regroup; EN covers emergencies and inclement weather."],"sources":[{"title":"Sandhills Community College Security and Fire Safety Report Fall 2025 PDF","url":"https://www.sandhills.edu/_resources/document/2025-10-01-security-fire-safety-report-fall-2025.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Sandhills SCCAlert emergency notification system page","url":"https://www.sandhills.edu/safety-security/scc-alert.html","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["north-carolina","community-college","clery-asr","sccalert","regroup","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"santa-clara-university-scu-bronco-alert-policy","slug":"santa-clara-university-scu-bronco-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Santa Clara University","shortName":"SCU","state":"CA","type":"private-r2","alertSystemName":"SCU Bronco Alert","enrollment":9728},"policy":{"title":"SCU Bronco Alert / Clery Act Compliance — Emergency Notifications & Timely Warnings","systemName":"SCU Bronco Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.scu.edu/campus-safety/scu-bronco-alert/","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"Santa Clara University's emergency notification platform is branded [SCU Bronco Alert](https://www.scu.edu/campus-safety/scu-bronco-alert/), which carries Clery emergency notifications, timely warnings, and other safety messaging over SMS, voice call, email, and — in certain situations — social media; under the [Clery Act](https://www.scu.edu/campus-safety/clery-act-compliance/) Campus Safety Services immediately notifies the community of any crimes posing an ongoing threat via phone, SMS, email, and/or an outdoor emergency speaker system.","analysis":"Santa Clara, a Jesuit university in Silicon Valley, runs its emergency alerting under the brand [SCU Bronco Alert](https://www.scu.edu/campus-safety/scu-bronco-alert/). The university describes the system as the primary method to accomplish rapid emergency notifications, and is explicit that the channel carries more than one kind of message: SCU Bronco Alerts 'will consist of Emergency Notifications, Timely Warnings and other types of safety messaging,' and can be issued via SMS text message, voice calls, email, and in certain situations social media. Enrollment is automatic — all active students, staff, and faculty are enrolled by default and may opt out at any time — which maximizes reach but means the opt-out is the individual's responsibility.\n\nDelivery is multi-layered. Beyond SMS/voice/email, SCU lists the [Rave Guardian](https://www.scu.edu/campus-safety/scu-bronco-alert/scu-rave-guardian/) safety app (the platform vendor is Rave Mobile Safety, with Campus Safety Services configured as a primary Guardian), an Emergency Blue Phone outdoor speaker system, the SCU website, and — in certain situations — campus television screens as Bronco Alert distribution paths. The presence of Rave Guardian strongly indicates the underlying mass-notification platform is Rave (Motorola Solutions); SCU states it has 'purchased a license for constituents to utilize Rave Guardian with Campus Safety Services as a primary Guardian.'\n\nOn Clery framing, SCU keeps emergency notifications and timely warnings conceptually distinct but routed through the same Bronco Alert pipe. The university says the decision to issue a 'timely warning' or an 'emergency notification' is made 'on a case-by-case basis in compliance with the Clery Act and after consideration of available facts,' with timely-warning issuance depending on the nature of the crime, the continuing danger to the campus community, and the possible risk of compromising law enforcement efforts. Authority is named: the [Director of Campus Safety Services](https://www.scu.edu/campus-safety/clery-act-compliance/) or designee is responsible for preparing and distributing timely warning reports, which in most instances are issued through SCU Bronco Alert to all students, faculty, and staff.\n\nTesting is described for the outdoor component: at least once per quarter the Emergency Blue Phone speakers are tested across campus with the script 'THIS IS A TEST OF SCU BRONCO ALERT OUTDOOR EMERGENCY BLUE PHONE SPEAKER SYSTEM.' Because the official scu.edu pages return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from the official SCU Bronco Alert, Clery Act Compliance, and Emergency Blue Phones pages as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries; remaining detail is paraphrased.","whenCriteria":"SCU Bronco Alert carries emergency notifications for any significant emergency or dangerous situation (e.g., natural disaster, environmental hazard, armed intruder), as well as Clery timely warnings. The decision to issue a timely warning or emergency notification is made case-by-case after consideration of available facts; under the Clery Act Campus Safety Services immediately notifies the community of any crimes that pose an ongoing threat.","decisionAuthority":"The Director of Campus Safety Services or designee is responsible for preparing and distributing timely warning reports, in most instances issued through SCU Bronco Alert to all students, faculty, and staff.","timingStandard":"Under the Clery Act, Campus Safety Services will immediately notify the campus community about any crimes which pose an ongoing threat. Timely-warning issuance is decided case-by-case and may be tempered by the risk of compromising law enforcement efforts.","cleryFraming":"SCU Bronco Alert is a single pipeline carrying both Clery emergency notifications (significant emergency or dangerous situation) and Clery timely warnings (crimes posing a serious or ongoing threat), with the issuance decision made on a case-by-case basis in compliance with the Clery Act.","testingCadence":"At least once per quarter the Emergency Blue Phone outdoor speakers are tested campus-wide with the announced script 'THIS IS A TEST OF SCU BRONCO ALERT OUTDOOR EMERGENCY BLUE PHONE SPEAKER SYSTEM.'","scopeLimits":"Bronco Alert reaches only the registered community (all active students, staff, and faculty are auto-enrolled but may opt out at any time), so opted-out individuals are not reached by SMS/voice/email. Social media and campus television screens are used only 'in certain situations.' Timely-warning issuance is discretionary and may be limited by the risk of compromising law enforcement efforts.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","twitter-x","facebook","website","pa-system","digital-signage","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Bronco Alert message types and channels","quotedText":"SCU Bronco Alerts will consist of Emergency Notifications, Timely Warnings and other types of safety messaging, and can be issued to the Campus Community via SMS text message, voice calls, email, and in certain situations, social media.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.scu.edu/campus-safety/scu-bronco-alert/","sourceDescription":"Santa Clara University — SCU Bronco Alert page","annotations":["Confirms Bronco Alert is a single channel carrying both Clery emergency notifications and timely warnings, with social media reserved for 'certain situations.'"],"characterCount":236},{"label":"Automatic enrollment and opt-out","quotedText":"All active students, staff, and faculty at SCU are automatically enrolled in SCU Bronco Alerts. You may opt out of the alert system at any time.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.scu.edu/campus-safety/scu-bronco-alert/","sourceDescription":"Santa Clara University — SCU Bronco Alert page","annotations":["Opt-out (rather than opt-in) model maximizes reach but puts the burden of unsubscribing on the individual."],"characterCount":144},{"label":"Clery immediate-notification commitment","quotedText":"Under the Clery Act, Campus Safety Services will immediately notify the campus community about any crimes which pose an ongoing threat to the community via phone, sms text, e-mail and/or an outdoor emergency speaker system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.scu.edu/campus-safety/clery-act-compliance/","sourceDescription":"Santa Clara University — Clery Act Compliance page","annotations":["Names the outdoor emergency speaker system (Emergency Blue Phones) as a Clery notification channel alongside phone, SMS, and email."],"characterCount":223},{"label":"Quarterly outdoor-speaker test script","quotedText":"THIS IS A TEST OF SCU BRONCO ALERT OUTDOOR EMERGENCY BLUE PHONE SPEAKER SYSTEM.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.scu.edu/emergencyplanning/emergency-planning-projects/emergency-blue-phones/","sourceDescription":"Santa Clara University — Emergency Blue Phones page","annotations":["The announced quarterly test script, recited at least once per quarter across campus to verify the outdoor Blue Phone speaker system."],"characterCount":79}],"keyFindings":["SCU Bronco Alert is a single pipeline carrying Clery emergency notifications, timely warnings, and other safety messaging over SMS, voice, email, Rave Guardian, the outdoor Blue Phone speakers, the website, and (in certain situations) social media and campus TV screens.","All active students, staff, and faculty are automatically enrolled and may opt out at any time — an opt-out (not opt-in) model.","The Director of Campus Safety Services or designee prepares and distributes timely warning reports, with the issue/no-issue decision made case-by-case in compliance with the Clery Act.","Under the Clery Act, Campus Safety Services commits to immediately notify the community of any crimes posing an ongoing threat via phone, SMS, email, and/or the outdoor emergency speaker system.","The outdoor Emergency Blue Phone speaker system is tested at least once per quarter with an announced, scripted test message; the platform vendor is indicated to be Rave (Rave Guardian / Rave Mobile Safety)."],"sources":[{"title":"SCU Bronco Alert — Santa Clara University","url":"https://www.scu.edu/campus-safety/scu-bronco-alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Act Compliance — Santa Clara University","url":"https://www.scu.edu/campus-safety/clery-act-compliance/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"SCU Rave Guardian — Santa Clara University","url":"https://www.scu.edu/campus-safety/scu-bronco-alert/scu-rave-guardian/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Blue Phones — Santa Clara University","url":"https://www.scu.edu/emergencyplanning/emergency-planning-projects/emergency-blue-phones/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"2025 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report — Main Campus","url":"https://www.scu.edu/media/offices/university-operations/campus-safety/campus-safety/annual-clery-pdfs/2025-Annual-Security-&-Fire-Safety-Report---Main-Campus.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Enrollment - Fall - Santa Clara University (Institutional Research)","url":"https://www.scu.edu/institutional-research/ipeds/enrollment---fall/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","scu-bronco-alert","rave-guardian","outdoor-speakers","private-r2","california"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-02","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"santa-fe-college-campus-notification-system-policy","slug":"santa-fe-college-campus-notification-system-policy","institution":{"name":"Santa Fe College","shortName":"Santa Fe","state":"FL","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Campus Notification System / SF Alert","enrollment":14000},"policy":{"title":"Campus Notification System (SFPD Alert)","systemName":"Campus Notification System / SF Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.sfcollege.edu/pd/emergency-preparedness/alert.html","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Santa Fe College documents its [Campus Notification System](https://www.sfcollege.edu/pd/emergency-preparedness/alert.html) as an emergency notification service with automatic enrollment for students and employees with a valid email on file, used for immediate-attention hazards such as active threats, bomb threats, and hazmat situations.","analysis":"Santa Fe College, a Florida College System institution in Gainesville, publishes a public system-overview page for its Campus Notification System (also referenced as SF Alert / SFPD Alert). Source: [Campus Notification System page](https://www.sfcollege.edu/pd/emergency-preparedness/alert.html). The page states the system delivers instant notifications for emergencies affecting campus operations and that students and employees with a valid email on file are automatically enrolled without separate registration. Users can manage preferences and add additional mobile numbers and email addresses for themselves or family members, and are recommended to send a test message to confirm delivery.\n\nAlert types listed for immediate attention include active threat or hostile intruder incidents and bomb threats or hazardous material situations. Separate news archives document periodic Emergency Notification System tests, indicating an operational test practice even though a fixed annual cadence is not stated on the overview page.","whenCriteria":"Emergencies affecting campus operations requiring immediate attention, including active threat or hostile intruder incidents and bomb threats or hazardous material situations.","decisionAuthority":"Not named as a specific role on the system-overview page; messages are issued as Campus Notification System / SF Alert communications under Santa Fe College Police Department emergency-preparedness pages.","timingStandard":"Instant notifications language for emergencies; no fixed minutes standard stated on the overview page.","cleryFraming":"Public system overview for the Campus Notification System used for emergency mass messaging; ASR separately frames emergency notification and timely warning (not fully verified in this record).","scopeLimits":"Automatic enrollment depends on valid email on file; additional mobile and family contacts require user preference management.","testingCadence":"Periodic ENS tests documented in college news archives; fixed cadence not stated on the overview page.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Automatic enrollment","quotedText":"You don't need to register—all students and employees with a valid email on file are automatically enrolled in the Campus Notification System.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sfcollege.edu/pd/emergency-preparedness/alert.html","sourceDescription":"Santa Fe Campus Notification System page","annotations":["Automatic enrollment for students and employees with valid email."],"characterCount":142},{"label":"Purpose and instant delivery","quotedText":"Campus Notification System is an emergency notification service provided by Santa Fe College to ensure the safety of students, faculty and staff. This system delivers instant notifications in the event of an emergency affecting campus operations","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sfcollege.edu/pd/emergency-preparedness/alert.html","sourceDescription":"Santa Fe Campus Notification System page","annotations":["Defines ENS purpose and instant delivery claim."],"characterCount":245},{"label":"Immediate-attention alert types","quotedText":"Active threat or hostile intruder incidents Bomb threats or hazardous material situations","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sfcollege.edu/pd/emergency-preparedness/alert.html","sourceDescription":"Santa Fe Campus Notification System page alert types","annotations":["Examples of immediate-attention alert categories."],"characterCount":89}],"keyFindings":["Automatic enrollment for students and employees with valid email on file.","Used for immediate-attention hazards including active threat, bomb threat, and hazmat.","Users can add family mobile and email contacts and send test messages."],"sources":[{"title":"Santa Fe Campus Notification System / SFPD Alert","url":"https://www.sfcollege.edu/pd/emergency-preparedness/alert.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"SF ENS test news archive example","url":"https://www.sfcollege.edu/news/archive/2023/04/03/sf-to-conduct-test-of-emergency-notification-system.html","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["florida","community-college","system-overview","sf-alert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"santa-fe-college-timely-warning-emergency-notification-asr","slug":"santa-fe-college-timely-warning-emergency-notification-asr","institution":{"name":"Santa Fe College","shortName":"Santa Fe","state":"FL","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"SF Alerts / SF Alert ENS","enrollment":14000},"policy":{"title":"SF Alerts Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications (ASR)","systemName":"SF Alerts / SF Alert ENS","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.sfcollege.edu/pd/safety-information/annual-security-report.html","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Santa Fe College documents [SF Alerts for Clery timely warnings and SF Alert emergency notifications](https://www.sfcollege.edu/pd/safety-information/annual-security-report.html) on its ASR page, with SF Police Department responsible for timely warnings and multi-role confirmation for without-delay Emergency Notification System activation.","analysis":"Santa Fe College publishes Clery notification practice on its public [Annual Security Report](https://www.sfcollege.edu/pd/safety-information/annual-security-report.html) page, complementary to the Campus Notification System overview. SF Alerts inform the college community of certain crimes and emergencies under Clery timely-warning and emergency-notification provisions, with headings used when appropriate to briefly define the type of warning or emergency.\n\nThe SF Police Department is responsible for issuing timely warnings (most commonly when an imminent threat exists, an emergency notification may be issued instead). Emergency notifications are most commonly titled SF Alert and may include a descriptor in the heading. Upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat, the college determines content and initiates the Emergency Notification System immediately unless notification would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Confirmation and content decisions may involve the SF Police Department, various college vice-presidents, and a crisis management team using Incident Command. Faculty and staff sign up through eStaff; students through eSantaFe emergency notification settings.","whenCriteria":"Timely warnings for Clery-related crime alerts; emergency notifications upon confirmation of significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat (examples include active threat, bomb threat, hazmat, weather, and other campus emergencies).","decisionAuthority":"SF Police Department responsible for timely warnings. SF Police Department, college vice-presidents, and/or crisis management team involved in confirming emergencies, determining content and audience, and initiating the notification system.","timingStandard":"Emergency Notification System initiated immediately upon confirmation unless professional judgment finds compromise of victim assistance or mitigation. Timely warnings aim to provide prompt notification.","cleryFraming":"ASR page separates Timely Warnings (SFPD responsibility) from Emergency Response Notification (ENS titled SF Alert), both under SF Alerts branding.","scopeLimits":"Notification content may be limited or expanded as information develops; segments of campus may be targeted; eStaff/eSantaFe signup for full multi-channel reach.","testingCadence":"Periodic ENS tests documented in college news archives; fixed cadence not stated on the ASR page.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"SF Alerts purpose","quotedText":"Clery Act provisions for timely warnings and emergency notifications, Santa Fe College issues 'SF Alerts' to inform the college community of certain crimes and emergencies.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sfcollege.edu/pd/safety-information/annual-security-report.html","sourceDescription":"Santa Fe ASR SF Alerts section","annotations":["SF Alerts brand for TW and EN."],"characterCount":172},{"label":"SFPD timely warning responsibility","quotedText":"The SF Police Department is responsible for issuing 'timely warnings', most commonly","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sfcollege.edu/pd/safety-information/annual-security-report.html","sourceDescription":"Santa Fe ASR Timely Warnings","annotations":["SFPD owns timely warning issuance."],"characterCount":84},{"label":"SF Alert emergency notification title","quotedText":"An emergency notification is most commonly titled 'SF Alert' and may include a descriptor in the heading to help identify the type of emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sfcollege.edu/pd/safety-information/annual-security-report.html","sourceDescription":"Santa Fe ASR Emergency Response Notification","annotations":["SF Alert title convention with optional emergency-type descriptor."],"characterCount":144}],"keyFindings":["SF Alerts covers both Clery timely warnings and emergency notifications.","SF Police Department issues timely warnings; multi-role confirmation for ENS.","ENS titled SF Alert may include emergency-type descriptors in headings."],"sources":[{"title":"Santa Fe Annual Security Report page","url":"https://www.sfcollege.edu/pd/safety-information/annual-security-report.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Santa Fe Campus Notification System page","url":"https://www.sfcollege.edu/pd/emergency-preparedness/alert.html","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["florida","community-college","clery-asr","sf-alerts","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"santa-monica-college-corsair-alert-policy","slug":"santa-monica-college-corsair-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Santa Monica College","shortName":"SMC","state":"CA","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Corsair Alert"},"policy":{"title":"SMC Emergency Notification / Corsair Alert","systemName":"Corsair Alert (LiveSafe app) + Rave / BlackBoard Connect mass notification","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://admin.smc.edu/administration/police/documents/2025annualsecurityreport.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Santa Monica College's emergency-notification program is delivered through the [Corsair Alert](https://admin.smc.edu/administration/police/corsair-alert.php) safety app — the official SMC Police-partnered LiveSafe app that pushes 'real-time emergency alerts' — alongside a mass-notification backend (historically [BlackBoard Connect](https://admin.smc.edu/administration/police/documents/2025annualsecurityreport.pdf), recently migrated to Rave) that disseminates emergency messages via email, text, and phone. The formal Clery-Act distinction between timely warnings and emergency notifications, the 'without delay' standard, and annual testing are documented in SMC's [2025 Annual Security Report](https://admin.smc.edu/administration/police/documents/2025annualsecurityreport.pdf).","analysis":"Santa Monica College — one of California's largest community colleges and a top transfer feeder to the UC and CSU systems — does not currently brand a single consumer-facing 'SMC Alert' system; instead its emergency-notification capability is delivered through two layers. The public-facing layer is [Corsair Alert](https://smc.edu/livesafe), 'the official safety app of Santa Monica College,' built on the LiveSafe platform (CutCom/AppArmor) and developed in collaboration with the SMC Police Department. SMC describes Corsair Alert as delivering 'real-time safety alerts' and 'instant access to critical campus safety resources,' with features such as a Police Call Box, live chat with SMC Police, an 'I'm OK' location share, and tip reporting. The behind-the-scenes mass-notification layer broadcasts emergency messages via email, text, and phone; SMC's documentation and reporting reflect that BlackBoard Connect was the district's central emergency-notification platform, with Rave noted as having replaced it as the central system in a recent migration.\n\nThe Clery framing is documented in the [2025 Annual Security Report](https://admin.smc.edu/administration/police/documents/2025annualsecurityreport.pdf) produced by the SMC Police Department. The ASR draws the standard two-instrument distinction: a Timely Warning indicates the department does not believe there to be an immediate threat to campus safety, as opposed to an Emergency Notification, which would indicate there is believed to be an immediate threat to campus safety. The report tracks the federal Clery standard that the institution will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system — unless issuing a notification would, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency. Timely warnings are issued for Clery-Act crimes on Clery geography reported to campus security authorities or local police that are considered to represent a serious or continuing threat.\n\nSMC documents a testing cadence: all emergency communication methods are tested at least annually, and evacuation drills are conducted regularly. The SMC Police Department (emergency line 310-434-4300) is the operational hub; archived [Crime Alerts and Bulletins](https://admin.smc.edu/administration/police/transparency-and-public-documents/crime-alerts-and-bulletins.php) show SMC issuing dated Timely Warning crime alerts (for example, on-campus sexual battery and assault cases), confirming the two-instrument practice in the field.\n\nImportant honesty note on naming: this case was requested under the working title 'SMC Alert,' but no current system is publicly branded exactly that — the live brand is Corsair Alert (app) plus the district mass-notification backend, so the file is filed under the Corsair Alert brand to avoid implying a brand that SMC does not use. Because the smc.edu / admin.smc.edu hosts (and the ASR PDF) 403-block direct fetch in this environment, the policy-language passages below were captured from repeated search-snippet renderings of the official ASR and pages and paraphrased where exact wording could not be confirmed verbatim across multiple identical retrievals; only externally reproduced consumer-facing app copy is flagged verbatim.","whenCriteria":"An Emergency Notification is issued when the SMC Police Department believes there is an immediate threat to campus safety; a Timely Warning is issued when there is no immediate threat but a reported Clery-Act crime represents a serious or continuing threat to the community.","decisionAuthority":"The SMC Police Department (emergency line 310-434-4300) determines whether an incident represents an immediate threat (Emergency Notification) or a serious/continuing threat (Timely Warning) and initiates the notification system; the specific named officials and designees are identified in the SMC Annual Security Report.","timingStandard":"Per the Clery standard reflected in the SMC ASR, the College will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system — unless issuing it would, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","cleryFraming":"The SMC ASR explicitly separates the two instruments: a Timely Warning indicates the department does not believe there is an immediate threat to campus safety, whereas an Emergency Notification indicates a believed immediate threat. Timely warnings are issued for Clery-Act crimes on Clery geography that represent a serious or continuing threat.","testingCadence":"SMC documents that all emergency communication methods are tested at least annually, and that evacuation drills are conducted regularly.","scopeLimits":"Notifications reach the SMC community via the Corsair Alert app (push/real-time alerts) and the district mass-notification backend (email, text, phone). The backend has migrated from BlackBoard Connect toward Rave as the central emergency-notification system; the app is downloaded voluntarily from the Apple App Store or Google Play.","channels":["push-notification","sms","email","phone-call","twitter-x","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"What Corsair Alert is","quotedText":"Corsair Alert is the official safety app of Santa Monica College—designed to keep students, faculty, and staff informed, connected, and protected.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://x.com/SMC_edu/status/1957859442499653688","sourceDescription":"Santa Monica College official X account","annotations":["Identifies Corsair Alert as the official SMC safety app (built on the LiveSafe / CutCom AppArmor platform), developed with the SMC Police Department. Reproduced identically on the SMC official X post and the smc.edu/livesafe page."],"characterCount":146},{"label":"Timely Warning vs Emergency Notification","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://admin.smc.edu/administration/police/documents/2025annualsecurityreport.pdf","sourceDescription":"SMC Police Department 2025 Annual Security Report","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Annual testing of communication methods","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://admin.smc.edu/administration/police/documents/2025annualsecurityreport.pdf","sourceDescription":"SMC Police Department 2025 Annual Security Report","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["SMC's emergency-notification program is delivered through the Corsair Alert app (official LiveSafe / AppArmor safety app, built with SMC Police) plus a district mass-notification backend.","The mass-notification backend was BlackBoard Connect (email/text/phone) and has recently migrated toward Rave as the district's central emergency-notification system.","The 2025 Annual Security Report separates the two Clery instruments: an Emergency Notification = believed immediate threat; a Timely Warning = serious or continuing threat without an immediate threat.","SMC documents that all emergency communication methods are tested at least annually, with regular evacuation drills — an explicit testing cadence many community colleges omit publicly.","No current system is publicly branded exactly 'SMC Alert'; the live brand is Corsair Alert, so the case is filed under that name to avoid implying a brand SMC does not use."],"sources":[{"title":"Corsair Alert - Santa Monica College Police","url":"https://admin.smc.edu/administration/police/corsair-alert.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Corsair Alert (LiveSafe) - Santa Monica College","url":"https://smc.edu/livesafe","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"SMC Police Department 2025 Annual Security Report","url":"https://admin.smc.edu/administration/police/documents/2025annualsecurityreport.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Crime Alerts and Bulletins - SMC Police","url":"https://admin.smc.edu/administration/police/transparency-and-public-documents/crime-alerts-and-bulletins.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"SMC Emergency Preparedness","url":"https://admin.smc.edu/administration/emergency-preparedness/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Santa Monica College official X (Corsair Alert announcement)","url":"https://x.com/SMC_edu/status/1957859442499653688","type":"official-social"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","community-college","corsair-alert","livesafe","california"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"savannah-college-of-art-and-design-alert-policy","slug":"savannah-college-of-art-and-design-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Savannah College of Art and Design","shortName":"SCAD","state":"GA","type":"private-masters","alertSystemName":"SCAD Alert","enrollment":18550},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications","systemName":"SCAD Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.scad.edu/life/safety-and-security/emergency-preparedness/emergency-notifications","lastReviewed":"2026-07-20"},"summary":"SCAD, a Carnegie-classified Master's College and University spanning Savannah, Atlanta, Lacoste, and Hong Kong locations, pushes emergency communication through [SCAD Alert](https://www.scad.edu/life/safety-and-security/emergency-preparedness/emergency-notifications) to email, phone, and text without delay, with students, faculty, and staff enrolled and updated through the MySCAD portal.","analysis":"SCAD is unusual among art-and-design schools in this archive for its scale and academic breadth: roughly 18,550 total students across undergraduate and graduate programs, with [Carnegie classifying it a Master's College and University](https://carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/institution/savannah-college-of-art-and-design/) on the strength of nearly 3,000 graduate students and 29 graduate-level programs, alongside its BFA-heavy undergraduate population. SCAD's [Emergency Notifications page](https://www.scad.edu/life/safety-and-security/emergency-preparedness/emergency-notifications) describes SCAD Alert as the university's branded system, delivering notifications via text, email and automated phone call to administrative office phone lines, email accounts and registered cellphones, a design that deliberately reaches office landlines as well as personal devices.\n\nSCAD frames its multi-campus emergency-notification standard around speed: the university's [closures-and-evacuation-procedures page](https://www.scad.edu/life/safety-and-security/emergency-preparedness/closures-and-evacuation-procedures) commits that all SCAD students, faculty, and staff will be notified via SCAD Alert by email, phone, and text message in the event of a closure or evacuation, and separately that a warning will be issued via the SCAD Alert System to students, faculty and staff without delay via email, phone and text message, language that tracks the Clery Act's own \"without delay\" emergency-notification standard rather than the more discretionary \"timely\" standard used for Clery timely warnings.\n\nRegistration runs through the university's own student information system rather than a separate opt-in portal: students, faculty and staff are encouraged to enroll in the SCAD Alert Emergency Contact System via MySCAD, and the university explicitly asks students to update their personal contact info in MySCAD at the beginning of each academic year, as well as after any mid-year change of address or phone number, to ensure timely notification in the event of an emergency, a maintenance-driven approach that puts the update burden on individuals but ties it to an existing account the university already requires them to use.\n\nSCAD's [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.scad.edu/sites/default/files/PDF/security-annual-report-2024.pdf), issued October 1, 2025, situates SCAD Alert within the university's broader Clery Act compliance, including a Timely Warning commitment for Clery-reportable crimes that SCAD considers a serious or continuing threat to students and employees.","whenCriteria":"SCAD Alert is used for closures, evacuations, and other campus emergencies; the university commits to notification without delay via email, phone, and text message once a warning decision is made.","decisionAuthority":"A specific named decision-making office or official was not confirmed from the public sources reviewed; SCAD Alert is administered as a university-wide system through the MySCAD portal.","timingStandard":"SCAD states that warnings are issued via the SCAD Alert System without delay via email, phone and text message, language that mirrors the Clery Act's \"without delay\" emergency-notification standard.","cleryFraming":"SCAD's Annual Security and Fire Safety Report situates SCAD Alert within its Clery Act obligations, including a Timely Warning commitment for Clery-reportable crimes considered a serious or continuing threat to students and employees.","testingCadence":"A stated testing cadence was not found in the public sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"SCAD Alert reaches registered cellphones, personal email accounts, and administrative office phone lines; students are asked to refresh their MySCAD contact information at the start of each academic year and after any address or phone change.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"SCAD Alert channels","quotedText":"SCAD uses the SCAD Alert system to send notifications via text, email and automated phone calls to administrative office phone lines, email accounts and registered cellphones.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.scad.edu/life/safety-and-security/emergency-preparedness/emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"SCAD - Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Documents SCAD Alert's reach into administrative office landlines in addition to personal cellphones and email."],"characterCount":175},{"label":"Closure/evacuation notification commitment","quotedText":"All SCAD students, faculty, and staff will be notified via SCAD Alert by email, phone, and text message in the event of a closure or evacuation.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.scad.edu/life/safety-and-security/emergency-preparedness/closures-and-evacuation-procedures","sourceDescription":"SCAD - Closures and evacuation procedures","annotations":["States a universal-coverage commitment (all students, faculty, and staff) across three channels for closures and evacuations specifically."],"characterCount":144},{"label":"\"Without delay\" warning standard","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.scad.edu/life/safety-and-security/emergency-preparedness/emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"SCAD emergency-preparedness materials (reconstructed from search-result summary; exact original wording not independently confirmed)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["SCAD Alert reaches administrative office landlines in addition to personal cellphones and email, an unusual design choice among this archive's policies.","SCAD's stated standard for closures/evacuations uses \"without delay\" language, tracking the Clery Act's emergency-notification (not timely-warning) standard.","Registration and updates run through MySCAD, the university's existing student/employee portal, rather than a separate opt-in system.","As a Carnegie Master's College and University with nearly 3,000 graduate students, SCAD fills a genuine gap in this archive's private-masters institution coverage."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency notifications - SCAD","url":"https://www.scad.edu/life/safety-and-security/emergency-preparedness/emergency-notifications","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Closures and evacuation procedures - SCAD","url":"https://www.scad.edu/life/safety-and-security/emergency-preparedness/closures-and-evacuation-procedures","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"SCAD Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, Issued Oct. 1, 2025","url":"https://www.scad.edu/sites/default/files/PDF/security-annual-report-2024.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Savannah College of Art and Design - Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education","url":"https://carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/institution/savannah-college-of-art-and-design/","type":"other"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","private-masters","georgia","art-and-design","scad-alert"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-20","lastUpdated":"2026-07-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"savannah-state-university-everbridge-alert-policy","slug":"savannah-state-university-everbridge-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Savannah State University","shortName":"SSU","state":"GA","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"SSU Alerts (Everbridge)","alertPlatform":"Everbridge","enrollment":3169},"policy":{"title":"Everbridge Emergency Notifications (Campus Public Safety)","systemName":"SSU Alerts","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://savannahstate.edu/public-safety/everbridge/"},"summary":"Savannah State University's [Everbridge page](https://savannahstate.edu/public-safety/everbridge/) describes emergency notifications delivered through the Everbridge platform and smartphone app for urgent situations such as campus closings, severe weather, evacuation routes, and security incidents, with university email addresses automatically provided as the primary delivery method and additional channels available by registration.","analysis":"Savannah State University, Georgia's oldest public HBCU with an [unofficial Fall 2025 enrollment of 3,169](https://savannahstate.edu/irp/facts-figures/enrollment/), runs its emergency notifications on the Everbridge mass notification platform, documented on the Campus Public Safety division's [Everbridge page](https://savannahstate.edu/public-safety/everbridge/). The page describes the system's purpose as letting campus administrators quickly communicate with students, faculty, and staff in urgent situations on campus, naming campus closings, severe weather, evacuation routes, and security incidents as the use cases. Enrollment architecture is hybrid: employee and student university email addresses are automatically provided to Everbridge and serve as the primary method of delivering alerts, while reaching a cell phone by SMS text or voice, or a personal email address, requires registering online or downloading the Everbridge smartphone app, which all students and employees are encouraged to do. The broader [Emergency Preparedness](https://savannahstate.edu/public-safety/emergency/) section situates the system inside the university's preparedness program, and campus police have publicly urged opt-in, telling [WSAV](https://www.wsav.com/news/local-news/savannah/savannah-state-university-police-talk-campus-safety/) that students, staff, and faculty should join Everbridge so they have more information on anything that may occur on campus. This archive's eleven Savannah State cases, from the 2015 and 2022 shootings to the 2024 hurricane closures and the January 2026 HBCU email threat, document the system's output across weather, security, and infrastructure genres. The savannahstate.edu host is egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language below is carried from search-index retrievals of the official pages and marked unconfirmed pending a direct character-for-character read.","whenCriteria":"Urgent situations on campus, with campus closings, severe weather, evacuation routes, and security incidents named as the use cases.","decisionAuthority":"Campus administrators send Everbridge notifications; the page sits under the Campus Public Safety division. Specific activation titles were not readable from this sandbox (savannahstate.edu egress-blocked).","timingStandard":"The system is described as enabling quick communication with students, faculty, and staff in urgent situations; a precise without-delay sentence was not confirmable from this sandbox.","cleryFraming":"The Everbridge page is an emergency-notification system overview rather than a Clery criteria page; formal timely warning policy statements would live in the Annual Security Report, which was not reachable from this sandbox.","testingCadence":"Not confirmable from this sandbox; no published test schedule surfaced in indexed retrievals.","scopeLimits":"University email addresses are auto-provided and primary; SMS, voice, and personal email delivery require registration or the Everbridge app, so mobile reach depends on opt-in uptake.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"System purpose and use cases","quotedText":"Campus administrators can quickly communicate with students, faculty and staff in the event of an urgent situation on campus, such as campus closings, severe weather, evacuation routes or security incidents.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://savannahstate.edu/public-safety/everbridge/","sourceDescription":"Savannah State University, Everbridge page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":["Names the four use-case genres, which map cleanly onto the weather, security, and closure cases preserved for SSU in this archive. Marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false because savannahstate.edu is egress-blocked from this research environment and the sentence could not be read character-for-character at the source."],"characterCount":207},{"label":"Auto-provided email as primary channel","quotedText":"Employee and student university email addresses are automatically provided to Everbridge and will be the primary method of delivering alerts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://savannahstate.edu/public-safety/everbridge/","sourceDescription":"Savannah State University, Everbridge page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":["The hybrid enrollment model's guaranteed floor: email reaches everyone automatically, while faster channels are opt-in. Unconfirmed pending a direct read."],"characterCount":141},{"label":"Opt-in path for additional channels","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://savannahstate.edu/public-safety/everbridge/","sourceDescription":"Savannah State University, Everbridge page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Savannah State delivers emergency notifications on the Everbridge platform under the Campus Public Safety division, with the smartphone app as a first-class channel.","Enrollment is hybrid: university email is auto-provided and primary, while SMS, voice, and personal email require registration or the app.","Named use cases are campus closings, severe weather, evacuation routes, and security incidents, matching the genres in this archive's eleven SSU cases.","Campus police have publicly urged opt-in to the system in local media, an acknowledgment that mobile reach depends on voluntary registration.","No excerpt is verbatim-confirmed: savannahstate.edu is egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language is carried from search-index retrievals and flagged for direct verification."],"sources":[{"title":"Savannah State University, Everbridge (Campus Public Safety)","url":"https://savannahstate.edu/public-safety/everbridge/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Savannah State University, Emergency Preparedness","url":"https://savannahstate.edu/public-safety/emergency/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"WSAV-TV, Savannah State University police talk campus safety","url":"https://www.wsav.com/news/local-news/savannah/savannah-state-university-police-talk-campus-safety/","type":"local-media"},{"title":"Savannah State University, Institutional Research enrollment figures","url":"https://savannahstate.edu/irp/facts-figures/enrollment/","type":"official-archive"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["savannah-state-university-shooting-2015-08-27","savannah-state-university-shooting-2022-04-23","savannah-state-university-hurricane-helene-2024-09-26","savannah-state-university-hbcu-email-threat-2026-01-22"],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","hbcu","georgia","everbridge","opt-in"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-23","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"seattle-pacific-university-alert-policy","slug":"seattle-pacific-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Seattle Pacific University","shortName":"SPU","state":"WA","type":"private-masters","alertSystemName":"SPU-Alert","enrollment":4000},"policy":{"title":"SPU-Alert Emergency Notification System","systemName":"SPU-Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://emergency.spu.edu/spu-alert-emergency-notification-system/"},"summary":"Seattle Pacific University's [SPU-Alert Emergency Notification System](https://emergency.spu.edu/spu-alert-emergency-notification-system/) pushes emergency notifications and timely warnings and is echoed on electronic reader boards, the outdoor public address system, and by trained Building Emergency Coordinators; incidents are reported to the [Office of Safety and Security at 206-281-2911](https://emergency.spu.edu/reporting-threats-crimes-and-emergencies/) (or x2911 from a campus phone), and SPU's [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://spu.edu/-/media/2025-ASFSR-for-Data-Collected-in-2022-2023-2024-Final.ashx) is published each year by October 1 under the Clery Act.","analysis":"SPU's [Office of Safety and Security (OSS)](https://emergency.spu.edu/reporting-threats-crimes-and-emergencies/) staffs a dispatcher at all times to receive crime reports and emergency calls at 206-281-2911 or extension 2911 from any campus phone, framing that reporting channel as the trigger point for the University's decision to send an emergency notification or a timely-warning message. The [SPU-Alert Emergency Notification System page](https://emergency.spu.edu/spu-alert-emergency-notification-system/) describes multi-channel redundancy beyond the alert platform itself: notifications are displayed on electronic reader boards, announced over an outdoor public address system, and relayed in person by trained Building Emergency Coordinators, a layered approach aimed at reaching people who may not have a phone on them or reception at the moment of an incident.\n\nSPU explicitly ties its testing practice to live exercises rather than a stand-alone technical check: the University conducts tests of the SPU-Alert system in connection with drills, meaning the notification platform and the University's broader [Emergency and Crisis Management Plan (ECMP)](https://emergency.spu.edu/) are exercised together rather than validated in isolation. SPU's [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (ASFSR)](https://spu.edu/-/media/2025-ASFSR-for-Data-Collected-in-2022-2023-2024-Final.ashx) is published every year by October 1 in accordance with the Clery Act, and SPU's public materials frame OSS incident reporting as directly protective, stating that reporting can help the University take action that may prevent harm to the reporting individual and other members of the community by sending emergency notifications or timely-warning messages.\n\nBecause spu.edu and emergency.spu.edu return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were reconstructed from official SPU Emergency Preparedness page text as reproduced in search-engine indexing and corroborated across multiple independent queries, and are marked accordingly.","whenCriteria":"SPU frames OSS incident reports (crimes, threats, emergencies) as the trigger for a decision to send an emergency notification or a timely-warning message; a further itemized activation-criteria list was not found in the public sources reviewed.","decisionAuthority":"The Office of Safety and Security, staffed by an on-duty dispatcher at all times, is the operational hub that receives reports and can initiate emergency notifications or timely warnings; a single named final-approval official was not identified in the public sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"A specific minutes-based timeliness standard was not found in the public sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"SPU's public materials pair 'emergency notifications' and 'timely warning messages' as the two outcomes OSS incident reporting can trigger, and SPU publishes a Clery Act Annual Security and Fire Safety Report each year by October 1.","testingCadence":"SPU states it conducts tests of the SPU-Alert system in connection with drills, i.e., exercised alongside live emergency-response drills rather than on a separate stand-alone technical testing schedule.","scopeLimits":"SPU-Alert notifications are echoed on electronic reader boards, an outdoor public address system, and by Building Emergency Coordinators, extending reach beyond registered phones/email to anyone physically on the Queen Anne campus at the time of an alert.","channels":["sms","email","digital-signage","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Multi-channel notification redundancy","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.spu.edu/spu-alert-emergency-notification-system/","sourceDescription":"SPU Emergency Preparedness, SPU-Alert Emergency Notification System page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Reporting channel","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.spu.edu/reporting-threats-crimes-and-emergencies/","sourceDescription":"SPU Emergency Preparedness, Reporting Threats, Crimes, and Emergencies page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Testing tied to drills","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.spu.edu/spu-alert-emergency-notification-system/","sourceDescription":"SPU Emergency Preparedness, SPU-Alert Emergency Notification System page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Reporting protects the community","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.spu.edu/reporting-threats-crimes-and-emergencies/","sourceDescription":"SPU Emergency Preparedness, Reporting Threats, Crimes, and Emergencies page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["SPU-Alert notifications are echoed across four channels beyond the core alert platform: electronic reader boards, an outdoor public address system, and in-person relay by trained Building Emergency Coordinators.","The Office of Safety and Security dispatch line (206-281-2911 / x2911) is staffed at all times and functions as SPU's single intake point for both crime reports and emergency calls.","SPU explicitly links OSS incident reporting to the University's ability to issue emergency notifications or timely-warning messages, and tests SPU-Alert in connection with live drills rather than in isolation.","SPU's Annual Security and Fire Safety Report is published each year by October 1 under the Clery Act."],"sources":[{"title":"SPU-Alert Emergency Notification System, SPU Emergency Preparedness","url":"https://emergency.spu.edu/spu-alert-emergency-notification-system/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Reporting Threats, Crimes, and Emergencies, SPU Emergency Preparedness","url":"https://emergency.spu.edu/reporting-threats-crimes-and-emergencies/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, Seattle Pacific University","url":"https://spu.edu/-/media/2025-ASFSR-for-Data-Collected-in-2022-2023-2024-Final.ashx","type":"clery-asr"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["seattle-pacific-university-shooting-2014-06-05","seattle-pacific-university-crane-collapse-2019-04-27"],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","private-masters","seattle-pacific-university","spu-alert","washington"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"seminole-state-college-emergency-notifications-procedure-8-0400","slug":"seminole-state-college-emergency-notifications-procedure-8-0400","institution":{"name":"Seminole State College of Florida","shortName":"Seminole State","state":"FL","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Seminole State Alert","enrollment":15390},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications (Procedure 8.0400)","systemName":"Seminole State Alert","documentType":"sop","url":"https://www.seminolestate.edu/policies-procedures/procedures/security/8.0400"},"summary":"Seminole State College of Florida publishes [Emergency Notifications (Procedure 8.0400)](https://www.seminolestate.edu/policies-procedures/procedures/security/8.0400) as a numbered procedure in its safety and security procedure series, committing the college to immediate notification upon confirmation of an immediate threat, an unannounced test of the notification system at least once every term, and a channel stack that runs from email and text to IP phones, speakers, and digital signage.","analysis":"Seminole State College of Florida, a multi-campus Florida College System institution based in [Sanford, Florida](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seminole_State_College_of_Florida) serving roughly 15,000 students, files its Clery emergency-notification practice as [Procedure 8.0400](https://www.seminolestate.edu/policies-procedures/procedures/security/8.0400) in the numbered security-procedure series it publishes alongside [Timely Warnings (Procedure 8.0300)](https://www.seminolestate.edu/policies-procedures/procedures/security/8.0300). Like Lake-Sumter State College's PRO 7-13 elsewhere in this archive, it is a standalone operating procedure rather than a policy statement buried in an Annual Security Report, which makes the college's activation mechanics unusually easy for a reader to check.\n\nThe procedure separates the emergency-notification trigger (a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health and safety) from the timely-warning trigger handled in 8.0300, lists example incident classes that can start an activation (an armed intruder, an outbreak of a serious illness, an approaching tornado or hurricane, fire, gas leak, explosion, chemical or hazardous waste spill), and carries the standard Clery carve-out allowing notification to be withheld only where issuing it would compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.\n\nDissemination is notably layered for a state college: the college pushes Emergency Notices to IP devices (phones, speakers, monitors) on its campuses and to the wider community through its mass notification system, including email, [Seminole State Alert](https://www.seminolestate.edu/alert), social media, text messaging, automated phone calls, push notifications, digital signage, and a recorded Emergency Hotline. The testing commitment is concrete: an unannounced test of the Emergency Notification System at least once each term (fall, spring, and summer), with emergency response and evacuation procedures publicized annually in connection with those tests.\n\nBecause seminolestate.edu is not reachable from this research environment (automated fetches are blocked), the passages quoted below are reconstructed from search-engine-indexed extracts of the procedure page rather than a firsthand line-by-line read, so every excerpt is marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false and confidence is held at medium even though the extracts present as close quotations.","whenCriteria":"An Emergency Notification is issued upon determination that a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on campus poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty, or staff; example triggers listed include an armed intruder, a serious illness outbreak, approaching extreme weather, fire, gas leak, explosion, and chemical or hazardous waste spills.","decisionAuthority":"College officials working through the Office of Safety and Security determine that an immediate threat is confirmed; the companion Timely Warnings procedure (8.0300) names the Executive Director of the Office of Safety and Security, in consultation with the Emergency Response Team Chair, as the deciding role for the college's Clery communications.","timingStandard":"Notification follows confirmation of the emergency, with the standard Clery exception that notice may be withheld if issuing it would compromise efforts to assist the victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","cleryFraming":"Emergency notifications (immediate threats, Procedure 8.0400) and timely warnings (reported Clery crimes posing a serious or continuing threat, Procedure 8.0300) are kept in two separate numbered procedures within the same security series.","testingCadence":"The Emergency Notification System is tested unannounced at least once each term (fall, spring, and summer), and the college publicizes its emergency response and evacuation procedures annually in connection with the tests.","scopeLimits":"Covers students, faculty, staff, and the larger community across the college's campuses; on-campus IP devices (phones, speakers, monitors) are a distinct internal layer from the public mass-notification channels.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","push-notification","digital-signage","pa-system","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Activation trigger","quotedText":"In the event of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on the campus that involves an immediate threat to the health and safety of the students, faculty, and staff an Emergency Notification will be issued.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.seminolestate.edu/policies-procedures/procedures/security/8.0400","sourceDescription":"Seminole State College, Emergency Notifications (Procedure 8.0400); captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":["States the immediate-threat trigger in the procedure's own words, covering students, faculty, and staff rather than the federal minimum of students and employees."],"characterCount":223},{"label":"Confirmation standard and withholding carve-out","quotedText":"An Emergency Notification will be issued when it is determined that a significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees, unless notification will compromise efforts to assist the victim, or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.seminolestate.edu/policies-procedures/procedures/security/8.0400","sourceDescription":"Seminole State College, Emergency Notifications (Procedure 8.0400); 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Every reported Clery Act crime within the college's Clery geography is evaluated for whether it represents a serious or continuing threat to the campus community, and the warning decision itself belongs to the Executive Director of the Office of Safety and Security or a designee, who may consult the chair of the college's Emergency Response Team and local law enforcement. The weighing factors are the familiar Clery triad: the nature of the crime, the continuing danger to the campus community, and the risk of compromising law enforcement efforts to investigate the crime or apprehend suspects.\n\nContent requirements are also stated concretely: a timely warning includes the date, location, and nature of the incident, prevention tips, and how to report a similar occurrence, and it can travel over the same channel stack the college uses for emergency notifications, including email, [Seminole State Alert](https://www.seminolestate.edu/alert) text messages, social media, automated phone calls, and push notifications.\n\nBecause seminolestate.edu is not reachable from this research environment (automated fetches are blocked), the passages quoted below are reconstructed from search-engine-indexed extracts of the procedure page rather than a firsthand line-by-line read, so every excerpt is marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false and confidence is held at medium even though the extracts present as close quotations.","whenCriteria":"All reported Clery Act crimes within the college's Clery geography are evaluated for whether they represent a serious or continuing threat to members of the campus community; the issuance decision is made case by case in light of the nature of the crime, the continuing danger, and the risk of compromising law enforcement efforts.","decisionAuthority":"The Executive Director of the Office of Safety and Security, or designee, decides whether to issue a Timely Warning, and may consult with the Emergency Response Team Chair and local law enforcement in making that determination.","timingStandard":"No fixed minutes-based standard was reproduced in the sources reviewed; issuance is governed by the case-by-case evaluation of continuing threat.","cleryFraming":"Timely warnings for reported Clery crimes (8.0300) are procedurally separate from emergency notifications for immediate threats (8.0400), with both procedures published in the same numbered security series.","scopeLimits":"Applies to Clery Act crimes within the college's Clery geography across its campuses; warnings are distributed community-wide through the college's notification channels.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Decision roles and consultation","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.seminolestate.edu/policies-procedures/procedures/security/8.0300","sourceDescription":"Seminole State College, Timely Warnings (Procedure 8.0300); captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Case-by-case weighing factors","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.seminolestate.edu/policies-procedures/procedures/security/8.0300","sourceDescription":"Seminole State College, Timely Warnings (Procedure 8.0300); captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Threat evaluation of reported Clery crimes","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.seminolestate.edu/policies-procedures/procedures/security/8.0300","sourceDescription":"Seminole State College, Timely Warnings (Procedure 8.0300); captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["The timely-warning decision is owned by a named role, the Executive Director of the Office of Safety and Security, with consultation from the Emergency Response Team Chair and local law enforcement.","Every reported Clery Act crime within Clery geography is evaluated for continuing threat, a blanket evaluation commitment.","Warning content is specified concretely: date, location, nature of the incident, prevention tips, and how to report a similar occurrence.","The procedure is published as part of a numbered public security-procedure series, paired with Emergency Notifications (8.0400)."],"sources":[{"title":"Timely Warnings (Procedure 8.0300), Seminole State College of Florida","url":"https://www.seminolestate.edu/policies-procedures/procedures/security/8.0300","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Notifications (Procedure 8.0400), Seminole State College of Florida","url":"https://www.seminolestate.edu/policies-procedures/procedures/security/8.0400","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Seminole State Alert","url":"https://www.seminolestate.edu/alert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Seminole State College of Florida, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seminole_State_College_of_Florida","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","sop","timely-warning","clery-act","florida","community-college","numbered-procedure"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-23","lastUpdated":"2026-08-23","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"seton-hall-university-piratealert-policy","slug":"seton-hall-university-piratealert-policy","institution":{"name":"Seton Hall University","shortName":"SHU","state":"NJ","type":"private-r2","alertSystemName":"PirateAlert","alertPlatform":"Rave Mobile Safety"},"policy":{"title":"PirateAlert: Emergency Notification Service","systemName":"PirateAlert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.shu.edu/public-safety/student-affairs-pirate-alert.html","lastReviewed":"2026-09-20"},"summary":"Seton Hall University, a private Catholic university in South Orange, New Jersey, operates [PirateAlert](https://www.shu.edu/public-safety/student-affairs-pirate-alert.html), a Rave Mobile Safety-powered emergency notification system, alongside a separate campus [Emergency Siren System](https://www.shu.edu/public-safety/emergency-siren-system.html) and a non-Clery advisory category for hazards that fall outside the statute's scope.","analysis":"Seton Hall University is a private Catholic research university in South Orange, New Jersey. Its Department of Public Safety maintains a cluster of related pages -- [PirateAlert](https://www.shu.edu/public-safety/student-affairs-pirate-alert.html), the [Emergency Siren System](https://www.shu.edu/public-safety/emergency-siren-system.html), [Campus Security Act](https://www.shu.edu/public-safety/campus-security-act.html), and [Students' Right to Know](https://www.shu.edu/public-safety/students-right-to-know.html) -- that collectively document the university's Clery Act compliance and notification infrastructure.\n\nPer the university's description, PirateAlert is Seton Hall's primary emergency notification system, provided by Rave Mobile Safety, used to alert the campus community of a public safety emergency that could impact campus -- the university's own examples include an active shooter/hostile intruder situation, severe weather conditions, and hazardous material release -- and to provide protective action instructions. PirateAlert is also stated to be used to notify the community of serious crimes on campus, in off-campus areas contiguous to campus, and in nearby areas frequented by community members, plus emergency campus closings; delivery channels listed include cellular phone calls, text messages, e-mail, and landline telephones.\n\nNotably, Seton Hall documents a category of PirateAlert message explicitly outside Clery Act scope: the system 'may also be used to alert the community to hazards that are beyond the scope of crimes and locations specified by the Campus Security Act,' with these notices -- termed 'PirateAlert advisories' -- explicitly not counted as Timely Warnings or Emergency Notifications under the Clery Act, since they do not meet the statute's standards. This is one of the clearer institutional acknowledgments in this archive that a university's branded alert system can send messages the institution itself does not consider Clery-covered, a useful data point for readers trying to understand where an alert system's practical scope diverges from its narrower federal legal obligation.\n\nThis sandbox's network egress could not directly fetch shu.edu to confirm the exact byte-for-byte wording of these pages; the summary above is built from search-engine reproduction of the PirateAlert page, corroborated across independent queries. Per this archive's standing policy, that limitation is not treated as grounds to omit or demote the entry -- it is documented honestly as reconstructed pending direct verification.","whenCriteria":"Per the university's description, PirateAlert is used to alert the community of a public safety emergency that could impact campus (examples given: active shooter/hostile intruder, severe weather, hazardous material release) and to notify of serious crimes on or near campus and emergency campus closings.","decisionAuthority":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"Seton Hall explicitly distinguishes Clery-covered Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications from non-Clery 'PirateAlert advisories,' which the university states are sent for hazards beyond the scope of crimes and locations specified by the Campus Security Act and are not sent per Clery Act requirements.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"PirateAlert reach covers on-campus locations, off-campus areas contiguous to campus, and nearby areas frequented by community members; the university documents a distinct non-Clery 'PirateAlert advisory' category for hazards outside the statute's scope.","channels":["phone-call","sms","email","siren"],"excerpts":[{"label":"PirateAlert purpose and examples (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of the Seton Hall University PirateAlert page; shu.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Non-Clery advisory carve-out (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of the Seton Hall University PirateAlert page; shu.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Seton Hall University's PirateAlert (Rave Mobile Safety) covers on-campus and contiguous off-campus areas via phone call, text, email, and landline for emergencies, serious crimes, and closings.","Seton Hall explicitly distinguishes Clery-covered Timely Warnings/Emergency Notifications from non-Clery 'PirateAlert advisories' sent for hazards outside the Campus Security Act's scope.","The university also maintains a separate Emergency Siren System page alongside PirateAlert.","shu.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox, so the excerpts are marked reconstructed; per archive policy this is not treated as demotion evidence."],"sources":[{"title":"PirateAlert: Emergency Notification Service - Seton Hall University","url":"https://www.shu.edu/public-safety/student-affairs-pirate-alert.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Siren System - Seton Hall University","url":"https://www.shu.edu/public-safety/emergency-siren-system.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Campus Security Act - Seton Hall University","url":"https://www.shu.edu/public-safety/campus-security-act.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Seton Hall University - Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seton_Hall_University","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","private-r2","new-jersey","piratealert","rave-mobile-safety"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-20","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"shaw-university-2024-asr-alert-policy","slug":"shaw-university-2024-asr-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Shaw University","shortName":"Shaw","state":"NC","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"BearsALERT","alertPlatform":"Regroup"},"policy":{"title":"2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - Emergency Notification and Evacuation","systemName":"BearsALERT","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.shawu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2024-ShawU-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2024"},"summary":"Shaw University's [2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.shawu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2024-ShawU-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Report.pdf) issues emergency notifications without delay upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation posing an immediate threat on campus, using the website and the Regroup campus mass-notification system (telephone, text, email) branded BearsALERT.","analysis":"Shaw (Raleigh HBCU, six filed cases, no prior policy file) posts a live [2024 ASR PDF](https://www.shawu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2024-ShawU-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Report.pdf) (HTTP 200, text layer). Emergency Notifications are issued without delay, considering campus-community safety, upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation that poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus. Channels listed include the Shaw website and Regroup (telephone, text, email) plus social media and local TV. A separate Regroup login page describes preregistration of current faculty, staff, and students; that HTML was not required for these ASR excerpts. Every excerpt was character-checked against the PDF text layer.","whenCriteria":"Confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation that poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus.","decisionAuthority":"The ASR's emergency-notification section states issuance without delay upon confirmation. Named chief-of-police drafting language in an older edition is not quoted from this 2024 PDF.","timingStandard":"Without delay, considering the safety of the campus community.","cleryFraming":"The 2024 ASR treats Emergency Notification and Evacuation as a dedicated section, with timely warnings mentioned separately as an ongoing-threat product.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","twitter-x","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Without-delay emergency notifications","quotedText":"Emergency Notifications are issued without delay, considering the safety of the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.shawu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2024-ShawU-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Shaw University 2024 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Opening sentence of the Emergency Notifications subsection."],"characterCount":97},{"label":"Confirmation trigger","quotedText":"Notifications are sent upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation that poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.shawu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2024-ShawU-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Shaw University 2024 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["On-campus immediate-threat confirmation standard."],"characterCount":191}],"keyFindings":["Shaw issues emergency notifications without delay upon confirmation of an on-campus immediate threat.","Regroup (BearsALERT) carries telephone, text, and email; the website and local media are additional channels."],"sources":[{"title":"Shaw University 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.shawu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2024-ShawU-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Shaw University Regroup Mass Notification / BearsALERT","url":"https://www.shawu.edu/campus-police-security/regroup-mass-notification/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","hbcu","north-carolina","regroup"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"shawnee-state-university-ssu-alert-policy","slug":"shawnee-state-university-ssu-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Shawnee State University","shortName":"SSU","state":"OH","type":"public-bachelors","alertSystemName":"SSU Alert"},"policy":{"title":"2025 Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report - SSU Alert","systemName":"SSU Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.shawnee.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2025-Campus-Security-Report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Shawnee State University's [2025 Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.shawnee.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2025-Campus-Security-Report.pdf) issues a Campus Alert timely warning when a crime constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat, and initiates SSU Alert without delay unless issuing the notification would compromise victim assistance or mitigation.","analysis":"Shawnee State University (public-bachelors, Ohio, three filed cases, no prior policy file) is distinct from Shaw University, which already has an ASR file on this branch. The live [2025 ASR PDF](https://www.shawnee.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2025-Campus-Security-Report.pdf) (HTTP 200) names Campus Crime Alerts as the timely-warning product and SSU Alert as the emergency-notification system (text-to-voice/phone, email, text, indoor PA, outdoor siren). Live timely-warning wording is an ongoing or continuing a threat. The Director of DPS or designee decides whether the incident represents an ongoing or continuing threat. Consumer SSU Alert HTML this pass is a resource directory, not a policy body, so excerpts are from the ASR PDF only. Every excerpt was character-checked against that PDF.","whenCriteria":"Campus Alert timely warning when a crime constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat to health and safety. SSU Alert emergency notification when an emergency situation warrants activation of one or more alert systems.","decisionAuthority":"Director of DPS or designee for whether a timely warning is warranted. SSU DPS, Director of Risk Management and Safety, or Director of Communications may issue a timely warning. The Director of Communications, Director of Public Safety, Director of Risk Management, and DPS are authorized to activate SSU Alert.","timingStandard":"Emergency notification without delay unless issuing the notification would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Timely warning as soon as pertinent information is available.","cleryFraming":"Campus Crime Alert / Campus Alert is the timely-warning product. SSU Alert is the emergency-notification product.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system","siren","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"SSU Alert without delay","quotedText":"SSU will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system, unless issuing the notification will compromise efforts to assist a victim or contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.shawnee.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2025-Campus-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Shawnee State University 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Standard HEOA without-delay sentence."],"characterCount":292},{"label":"Campus Alert timely warning trigger","quotedText":"When a crime that constitutes an ongoing or continuing a threat to the health and safety of the members of the University community is reported to the SSU DPS, local law enforcement or a campus security authority, a timely warning will be issued in the form of a Campus Alert.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.shawnee.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2025-Campus-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Shawnee State University 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Live wording is continuing a threat."],"characterCount":276},{"label":"Campus Crime Alert purpose","quotedText":"A Campus Crime Alert is designed to inform the University community in a timely fashion of crimes committed on campus and to heighten safety awareness as well as to request information that will assist the SSU Department of Public Safety (SSU DPS) and the local law enforcement in arresting and convicting the perpetrator when crimes have been committed against persons or property.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.shawnee.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2025-Campus-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Shawnee State University 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Timely-warning product also asks the community for investigative help."],"characterCount":382}],"keyFindings":["Campus Alert / Campus Crime Alert is the timely-warning product.","SSU Alert is the emergency-notification product, issued without delay.","Live timely-warning trigger wording is an ongoing or continuing a threat."],"sources":[{"title":"Shawnee State University 2025 Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.shawnee.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2025-Campus-Security-Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","ohio","public-bachelors"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"shelton-state-community-college-sscc-alert-asr","slug":"shelton-state-community-college-sscc-alert-asr","institution":{"name":"Shelton State Community College","shortName":"Shelton State","state":"AL","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"SSCC Alert!","enrollment":4500},"policy":{"title":"Clery Timely Warning Notices and Emergency Notifications (SSCC Alert!) — 2025 ASR","systemName":"SSCC Alert!","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.sheltonstate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-Report-06-25-25.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-07-01"},"summary":"Shelton State Community College documents [Clery Crime Alerts and life-threatening emergency notifications via SSCC Alert!](https://www.sheltonstate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-Report-06-25-25.pdf) in its 2025 ASR, with Chief of Police decision authority for Crime Alerts and designated personnel for urgent emergency notifications.","analysis":"Shelton State Community College, a multi-campus Alabama Community College System institution with Martin and C.A. Fredd campuses, publishes a clear two-track notification framework in its [2025 Annual Security Report](https://www.sheltonstate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-Report-06-25-25.pdf). Clery Timely Warning Notices (Crime Alerts) address reported serious crimes that may be repeated so community members can protect themselves or property. The Chief of Police or designee decides issuance, at times after consulting the President, and Public Information Officers may issue the Alert. Distribution can use SSCC Alert!, official email, advisory posters, and social media, and may be limited to certain campus areas when campus-wide threat is negligible.\n\nEmergency Notifications for potentially life-threatening emergencies such as tornado warning or active shooter use SSCC Alert! via text and email, with Facebook and Twitter integration. Designated personnel send emergency notifications when deemed appropriate. The ASR notes that several minutes can elapse while facts are gathered before an alert is issued, and that follow-up alerts may include continue-shelter or all-clear directives. For active shooter, the ASR explicitly says not to wait on an alert.","whenCriteria":"Crime Alerts for Clery crimes reported to CSAs or police on Clery geography believed to pose continuing threat, case by case. Emergency notifications for potentially life-threatening emergencies such as tornado warning or active shooter.","decisionAuthority":"Chief of Police or designee decides Crime Alert issuance, at times after consulting the President; Crime Alerts may be issued by Public Information Officers. Emergency notifications sent by designated personnel when deemed appropriate.","timingStandard":"Crime Alerts as soon as pertinent information is available. Emergency alerts as quickly as possible; ASR notes possible multi-minute delay while facts are gathered.","cleryFraming":"ASR separates Clery Timely Warning Notices (Crime Alerts) from Emergency Notifications for life-threatening events, both using SSCC Alert! among other channels.","scopeLimits":"Crime Alerts may be isolated to certain campus areas; subscriber preferences control how individuals receive SSCC Alert! messages; law-enforcement compromise can limit content.","testingCadence":"Not specified as a fixed cadence in the notification sections reviewed.","channels":["sms","email","facebook","twitter-x","website","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Chief of Police Crime Alert decision","quotedText":"The decision to issue a Crime Alert is made by the Chief of Police or his designee, at times after consulting with The President. The Crime Alert may be issued by any of the Public Information Officers.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sheltonstate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-Report-06-25-25.pdf","sourceDescription":"SSCC 2025 ASR Crime Alert decision authority","annotations":["Names Chief of Police and PIOs for Crime Alerts."],"characterCount":202},{"label":"As soon as pertinent information available","quotedText":"The Clery Act does not define timely. However, the warning should be issued as soon as pertinent information is available because the intent of a Clery timely warning is to alert the campus community of a criminal event and any continuing threats that are believed to exist.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sheltonstate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-Report-06-25-25.pdf","sourceDescription":"SSCC 2025 ASR Crime Alert timing","annotations":["As-soon-as-pertinent-information timing standard."],"characterCount":274},{"label":"SSCC Alert life-threatening emergency use","quotedText":"If a potentially life-threatening emergency exists that necessitates an urgent notification to the campus community, such as a tornado warning or active shooter, the Institution’s SSCC Alert! Emergency Notification System will be used. This message will be promulgated through text messages and emails.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sheltonstate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-Report-06-25-25.pdf","sourceDescription":"SSCC 2025 ASR Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Names SSCC Alert! for life-threatening emergencies with text and email."],"characterCount":302}],"keyFindings":["Chief of Police decides Clery Crime Alerts; PIOs may issue them.","SSCC Alert! handles life-threatening emergency notifications via text and email with social integration.","Crime Alerts can be limited to certain campus areas when full-campus threat is negligible."],"sources":[{"title":"Shelton State 2025 Annual Security Report PDF","url":"https://www.sheltonstate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-Report-06-25-25.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["alabama","community-college","clery-asr","sscc-alert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"sheridan-college-alert-me-policy","slug":"sheridan-college-alert-me-policy","institution":{"name":"Sheridan College","shortName":"Sheridan College","state":"WY","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Alert Me","alertPlatform":"Regroup","enrollment":4559},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications","systemName":"Alert Me","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.sheridan.edu/student-life/campus-safety/emergency-notifications/","lastReviewed":"2026-07-03"},"summary":"Sheridan College, part of the Northern Wyoming Community College District (NWCCD), publishes an [Emergency Notifications policy](https://www.sheridan.edu/student-life/campus-safety/emergency-notifications/) describing its Regroup-powered \"Alert Me\" system, which automatically emails every college-issued address and lets students and employees opt in to text and voice alerts, backed by radio, an on-campus audible alert system, the college website, social media, and digital signage.","analysis":"Sheridan College, operating under the [Northern Wyoming Community College District](https://catalog.sheridan.edu/content.php?catoid=24&navoid=719) alongside Gillette College, publishes a standalone [Emergency Notifications](https://www.sheridan.edu/student-life/campus-safety/emergency-notifications/) page describing a layered emergency-communication approach. The page indicates that, in an emergency, college officials will use multiple channels at once rather than a single mass-text blast: radio, an on-campus audible alert system, the official college website, social media outlets, and on-campus digital signage, in addition to the branded \"Alert Me\" notification system.\n\nAlert Me runs on the [Regroup](https://www.regroup.com/industries/education/higher-ed/) mass-notification platform. Every college-issued email address is enrolled automatically, which guarantees a baseline reach across the student and employee population without any signup step; students and employees who additionally want text and voice alerts must separately register a cell number in their Alert Me profile. NWCCD also operates a companion mobile app (in place since the 2016 spring semester per the [Sheridan Press](https://thesheridanpress.com/93488/alert-app-part-of-proactive-safety-at-sheridan-college/)) with an emergency-dial shortcut to campus police, an anonymous tip-reporting feature (iReport), and a Safety Escort request feature, layered on top of, rather than replacing, the Alert Me notification channel.\n\nThis environment's outbound network returns HTTP 403 for direct fetches of sheridan.edu, so the material above comes from official page text as reproduced in search-engine indexing rather than a byte-level page fetch. Repeated queries converged on consistent substance (the Regroup-based Alert Me name, the automatic email enrollment, the named channel list) but not on identical sentence-level wording between separate queries, so the excerpts below are reported as reconstructed rather than independently verbatim-confirmed. No decision-authority language, minutes-based timing standard, testing cadence, or Clery emergency-notification-versus-timely-warning framing specific to Sheridan College could be confirmed from the sources available in this session.","whenCriteria":"The policy describes activation \"in the event of an emergency,\" using multiple simultaneous channels to alert students, employees, and the public; a specific itemized trigger list was not confirmed.","decisionAuthority":"Not confirmed in the sources reviewed; the Campus Safety office administers the page, but no single named approving official was reproduced.","timingStandard":"No specific minutes-based standard was confirmed; the page frames the response as using \"all appropriate methods\" concurrently rather than a sequenced escalation.","cleryFraming":"Not explicitly confirmed for Sheridan College specifically in the material available; the college separately references a Clery-required Annual Security and Fire Safety Report through its Consumer Information disclosures.","testingCadence":"No confirmed recurring testing cadence was found in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Automatic email enrollment covers all college-issued addresses; text and voice reach depends on a student or employee separately registering a cell number in the Alert Me profile.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","siren","website","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Multi-channel activation","quotedText":"In the event of an emergency, college officials will use all appropriate methods to alert students, employees and the public, including, radio, on-campus audible alert system, official college website, social media outlets and on-campus digital signage.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sheridan.edu/student-life/campus-safety/emergency-notifications/","sourceDescription":"Emergency Notifications - Sheridan College","annotations":["Reconstructed from search-engine indexing of the Emergency Notifications page; substance was consistent across queries but exact sentence wording was not independently byte-verified due to a 403 block on direct fetches of sheridan.edu."],"characterCount":253},{"label":"Alert Me automatic email enrollment","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sheridan.edu/student-life/campus-safety/emergency-notifications/","sourceDescription":"Emergency Notifications - Sheridan College","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"NWCCD Alert app features","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://thesheridanpress.com/93488/alert-app-part-of-proactive-safety-at-sheridan-college/","sourceDescription":"Alert app part of proactive safety at Sheridan College - The Sheridan Press","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Sheridan College (NWCCD) uses a Regroup-powered system branded \"Alert Me,\" with automatic enrollment of every college-issued email address.","Text and voice alerts require separate opt-in registration of a cell number in the Alert Me profile; email is the only channel with guaranteed automatic reach.","The policy describes concurrent use of radio, an on-campus audible alert system, the college website, social media, and digital signage alongside Alert Me during an emergency.","A companion NWCCD Alert mobile app (since spring 2016) adds a police-dial shortcut, anonymous tip reporting (iReport), and a Safety Escort request feature.","No decision-authority language, timing standard, testing cadence, or Clery framing specific to Sheridan College could be confirmed from the sources available."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notifications - Sheridan College","url":"https://www.sheridan.edu/student-life/campus-safety/emergency-notifications/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"NWCCD General Information - Northern Wyoming Community College District","url":"https://catalog.sheridan.edu/content.php?catoid=24&navoid=719","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Alert app part of proactive safety at Sheridan College - The Sheridan Press","url":"https://thesheridanpress.com/93488/alert-app-part-of-proactive-safety-at-sheridan-college/","type":"local-media"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","alert-me","regroup","nwccd","clery-act","community-college","wyoming"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"sinclair-community-college-alert-policy","slug":"sinclair-community-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Sinclair Community College","shortName":"Sinclair","state":"OH","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Nixle text alerts + campus 1500-speaker PA + Emergency Messaging Tool"},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification, Timely Warning and Crime Alert Policy (Annual Security Report)","systemName":"Nixle / campus PA / Emergency Messaging Tool","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.sinclair.edu/services/conduct-safety/public-safety/annual-security-reports/"},"summary":"Sinclair Community College in Dayton communicates emergencies through a layered system — [Nixle text alerts](https://www.sinclair.edu/services/conduct-safety/public-safety/planning-for-emergencies/), a campus-wide 1,500-speaker outdoor PA system, and an in-house [Emergency Messaging Tool](https://alert.sinclair.edu/) — and issues Clery [timely warnings and crime alerts](https://www.sinclair.edu/services/conduct-safety/public-safety/education-and-awareness/timely-warnings-crime-alerts/) through Sinclair Police.","analysis":"Sinclair Community College, a large Dayton, Ohio community college, is notable in this archive for not using a single named SMS brand (such as Rave or Everbridge). Instead, per its [planning-for-emergencies](https://www.sinclair.edu/services/conduct-safety/public-safety/planning-for-emergencies/) page, the college pairs a free, opt-in text service with a heavy hardware layer. For in-progress significant emergencies or dangerous incidents that pose an immediate threat to the Sinclair community, the Dayton campus relies on 'a campus-wide 1500 speaker sound system that is used for lockdowns or other emergency announcements,' which the college says covers the exterior of all campus buildings and the parking garages — an outdoor PA layer larger than most universities operate. Sinclair also runs an in-house [Emergency Messaging Tool](https://alert.sinclair.edu/) at alert.sinclair.edu and utilizes Nixle as an emergency text-message alert.\n\nFor Clery crime alerts, Sinclair Police make [timely-warning reports](https://www.sinclair.edu/services/conduct-safety/public-safety/education-and-awareness/timely-warnings-crime-alerts/) to the campus community 'of serious crimes, such as murder, manslaughter, robbery, arson, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft, rape and hate crime.' These Crime Alert bulletins go out through Nixle — a free, text-based system available to anyone who subscribes — as well as electronic mail, the Clarion student newspaper, bulletin boards throughout campus, and the Sinclair website, giving the warnings several redundant distribution paths.\n\nSinclair's policy is explicit about who can authorize an alert and how widely the criteria reach. Alerts 'are issued at the discretion of the College President, the Chief of Staff, the Director of Public Safety, any Vice President or the Director of Public Relations,' with consultation expected among the available authorizing authorities if time permits — a notably broad, multi-officer authority structure. Sinclair also extends its alert criteria beyond strict Clery crimes: alerts may be issued for crimes other than Clery Act crimes that pose a serious or continuing threat, and for non-criminal emergencies that pose a significant or continuing threat, including weather-related emergencies and environmental health and safety issues.\n\nSinclair's .edu host returned HTTP 403 to direct automated fetching, so the excerpts below were captured from indexed search snippets of the college's official Public Safety and ASR pages. The 1,500-speaker description, the Nixle crime-alert list, and the discretionary-authority sentence appeared consistently across multiple retrievals but, absent a byte-for-byte live fetch, are marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false; the in-house alert.sinclair.edu Emergency Messaging Tool is independently confirmed as a live official endpoint, supporting medium overall confidence. The published periodic test cadence was not confirmable in this review.","whenCriteria":"Sinclair issues alerts for in-progress significant emergencies or dangerous incidents that pose an immediate threat to the community, and for Clery crimes representing a serious or continuing threat. Notably, the policy also covers crimes other than Clery Act crimes that pose a serious or continuing threat, and non-criminal emergencies (including weather-related emergencies and environmental health and safety issues) that pose a significant or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"Alerts are issued at the discretion of the College President, the Chief of Staff, the Director of Public Safety, any Vice President, or the Director of Public Relations, with consultation among the available authorizing authorities expected if time permits. Sinclair Police make the timely-warning crime-alert reports.","timingStandard":"Sinclair communicates information quickly when there is an in-progress significant emergency or dangerous incident posing an immediate threat, using the campus PA, Nixle and other channels; if time permits, the authorizing officials are expected to consult before issuing. A specific 'without delay / upon confirmation' Clery clause was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","cleryFraming":"Sinclair separates emergency notifications (campus 1,500-speaker PA, Nixle, Emergency Messaging Tool, website) from Clery timely warnings / Crime Alert bulletins issued by Sinclair Police for serious crimes (murder, manslaughter, robbery, arson, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft, rape, hate crime), and explicitly extends criteria to non-Clery crimes and non-criminal emergencies posing a serious/continuing threat.","testingCadence":"Nixle is a free, opt-in subscription, and Sinclair maintains the campus PA and in-house Emergency Messaging Tool; the exact published periodic test cadence for these systems was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","scopeLimits":"Nixle text alerts are free and opt-in, so SMS reach depends on individuals subscribing; the campus-wide 1,500-speaker outdoor PA covers the exterior of all Dayton-campus buildings and parking garages regardless of subscription, and email, the Clarion newspaper, campus bulletin boards and the Sinclair website provide additional redundant paths.","channels":["sms","pa-system","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Campus 1,500-speaker PA system","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sinclair.edu/services/conduct-safety/public-safety/planning-for-emergencies/","sourceDescription":"Sinclair — Planning for Emergencies (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Nixle crime-alert distribution and crime list","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sinclair.edu/services/conduct-safety/public-safety/education-and-awareness/timely-warnings-crime-alerts/","sourceDescription":"Sinclair — Timely Warnings & Crime Alerts (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Discretionary authorizing authority","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sinclair.edu/services/conduct-safety/public-safety/annual-security-reports/","sourceDescription":"Sinclair — Annual Security Report / Clery Notifications (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Sinclair does not use a single named SMS brand; it layers Nixle text alerts, an in-house Emergency Messaging Tool at alert.sinclair.edu, and a campus-wide 1,500-speaker outdoor PA system.","The Dayton-campus PA covers the exterior of all buildings and parking garages and is used for lockdowns — a larger outdoor PA footprint than most institutions operate.","Sinclair Police issue Clery timely warnings / Crime Alert bulletins for serious crimes via Nixle, email, the Clarion newspaper, campus bulletin boards and the website.","Authority to issue alerts is unusually broad — the College President, Chief of Staff, Director of Public Safety, any Vice President, or the Director of Public Relations — and criteria extend to non-Clery crimes and non-criminal emergencies posing a serious/continuing threat.","sinclair.edu blocked automated fetching, so excerpts are from indexed snippets and marked reconstructed; the live in-house alert.sinclair.edu Emergency Messaging Tool corroborates the system, supporting medium confidence."],"sources":[{"title":"Sinclair — Planning for Emergencies","url":"https://www.sinclair.edu/services/conduct-safety/public-safety/planning-for-emergencies/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Sinclair — Timely Warnings & Crime Alerts (Clery)","url":"https://www.sinclair.edu/services/conduct-safety/public-safety/education-and-awareness/timely-warnings-crime-alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Sinclair — Annual Security Report / Jeanne Clery Act Notifications","url":"https://www.sinclair.edu/services/conduct-safety/public-safety/annual-security-reports/","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Sinclair — Emergency Messaging Tool (alert.sinclair.edu)","url":"https://alert.sinclair.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Messages from Sinclair Community College (Nixle)","url":"https://local.nixle.com/sinclair-community-college","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","community-college","ohio","dayton","nixle","pa-system","clery"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"sinte-gleska-university-clery-security-policy","slug":"sinte-gleska-university-clery-security-policy","institution":{"name":"Sinte Gleska University","shortName":"SGU","state":"SD","type":"tribal-college","alertSystemName":"Not branded / no dedicated mobile alert system identified"},"policy":{"title":"Campus Safety & Security Management Plan / Annual Security Report (Clery)","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.sintegleska.edu/security"},"summary":"Sinte Gleska University — the tribal university chartered by the Sicangu Lakota (Rosebud Sioux) in Mission, South Dakota ([SGU Security page](https://www.sintegleska.edu/security)) — publishes Clery-required campus-safety documents (a Campus Safety & Security Management Plan, an Annual Security Report, and a 2025 [Campus Safety and Security Survey](https://www.sintegleska.edu/uploads/1/4/7/3/147383858/sgu_campus_safety_and_security_survey_2025_final.pdf)) and distributes a notice of availability each October 1, but no dedicated branded mobile emergency-alert / mass-notification system could be corroborated.","analysis":"Sinte Gleska University (SGU) is a four-year tribal university in Mission, South Dakota, on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, chartered by the Sicangu Lakota ([SGU](https://www.sintegleska.edu/)). It is among the thinnest-documentation institutions in this archive for alert-and-warning policy: SGU does meet the Clery Act's disclosure obligations, but it does not appear to operate a named, opt-in campus mass-notification platform of the kind common at larger institutions.\n\nWhat is corroborated is the Clery paperwork. SGU's [Security page](https://www.sintegleska.edu/security) lists a Campus Safety & Security (C.S. & S.) Management Plan, an Annual Security Report, a Survey Addendum, a Tornado Plan, and an Official Incident Report Form, and a [2025 Campus Safety and Security Survey PDF](https://www.sintegleska.edu/uploads/1/4/7/3/147383858/sgu_campus_safety_and_security_survey_2025_final.pdf) is published. SGU states that 'in accordance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, Sinte Gleska University provides policies and procedures implemented for the safety and security of the campus community,' and that it 'encourages accurate and prompt reporting of all crimes to campus security and appropriate police agencies.'\n\nThe one concrete, recurring notification mechanism SGU documents is the annual Clery notice of availability: 'On October 1st of every year, each member of the campus community is sent a notice of availability of institutional information, reports, and financial aid by electronic mail along with a brief description of its contents.' That establishes email as the confirmed distribution channel for required disclosures. It is an annual-disclosure mechanism, however — not a real-time emergency-notification or timely-warning delivery system.\n\nThe most important honesty note: independent enrollment/profile data (e.g., [U.S. News student-life data](https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/sinte-gleska-university-21437/student-life)) reports that SGU 'does not currently have a mobile campus emergency alert system,' lacks 24-hour security patrols and campus emergency phones, and offers 24-hour escort safety rides. So while SGU clearly complies with Clery disclosure and has a security director and guards, no branded emergency mass-notification system (SMS/voice/app) could be corroborated. Because of that, this record documents SGU's Clery-disclosure posture rather than a real-time alert brand, the alertSystemName is recorded as none-identified, and confidence is low. SGU hosts blocked automated fetching, so excerpts were captured from indexed search snippets; none could be confirmed identically across two independent retrievals from an official-attributed source, so all are marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false.","whenCriteria":"SGU publishes Clery policies and procedures and encourages prompt reporting of crimes to campus security and police, but no published written threshold for issuing real-time emergency notifications or timely warnings could be corroborated. The recurring documented notification is the annual October 1 Clery notice of availability.","decisionAuthority":"SGU has a Facilities Management/Security director and security staff, and a designated security contact on the Security page. The specific position authorized to issue an emergency notification or timely warning was not published on an official-attributed source and is not stated here.","cleryFraming":"SGU frames its safety disclosures around the Jeanne Clery Act, publishing a Campus Safety & Security Management Plan, an Annual Security Report, and an annual Campus Safety and Security Survey, and sends an October 1 notice of availability to the campus community by email.","scopeLimits":"Independent profile data indicates SGU does not currently operate a mobile campus emergency-alert system and lacks campus emergency phones; it offers 24-hour escort safety rides. The confirmed notification channel is email (annual Clery notice of availability); no opt-in SMS/voice mass-notification platform could be corroborated.","channels":["email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Clery compliance statement","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sintegleska.edu/security","sourceDescription":"SGU — Security page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Annual October 1 notice of availability","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sintegleska.edu/student-right-to-know.html","sourceDescription":"SGU — Student Right To Know page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Prompt crime-reporting encouragement","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sintegleska.edu/security","sourceDescription":"SGU — Security page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["SGU is a Sicangu Lakota tribal university (Mission, SD) that complies with Clery disclosure but does not appear to operate a branded real-time emergency mass-notification system.","Published Clery documents include a Campus Safety & Security Management Plan, an Annual Security Report, and a 2025 Campus Safety and Security Survey.","The confirmed recurring notification is the annual October 1 Clery notice of availability, sent by email — an annual disclosure, not a real-time emergency notifier.","Independent profile data states SGU 'does not currently have a mobile campus emergency alert system' and lacks campus emergency phones; it offers 24-hour escort safety rides.","No verbatim text could be confirmed across two independent official retrievals (sintegleska.edu blocked automated fetching), so every excerpt is isVerbatimConfirmed:false and overall confidence is low."],"sources":[{"title":"Sinte Gleska University — Security","url":"https://www.sintegleska.edu/security","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Sinte Gleska University — Student Right To Know","url":"https://www.sintegleska.edu/student-right-to-know.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Sinte Gleska University — Campus Safety and Security Survey 2025 (PDF)","url":"https://www.sintegleska.edu/uploads/1/4/7/3/147383858/sgu_campus_safety_and_security_survey_2025_final.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Sinte Gleska University — Student Life (U.S. News, campus-services data)","url":"https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/sinte-gleska-university-21437/student-life","type":"other"}],"confidence":"low","tags":["policy","clery","tribal-college","south-dakota","thin-documentation","no-mass-notification-system","negative-space"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"sitting-bull-college-alert-policy","slug":"sitting-bull-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Sitting Bull College","shortName":"SBC","state":"ND","type":"tribal-college","alertSystemName":"SBC Alert / MySBC Alert","enrollment":263},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings (Annual Security and Fire Safety Report) / Emergency Action Guide","systemName":"SBC Alert / MySBC Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://sittingbull.edu/uploads/35/asr-2025-final.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-01-01"},"summary":"Sitting Bull College — the tribal college of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in Fort Yates, North Dakota — documents its emergency-notification and timely-warning procedures in its [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://sittingbull.edu/uploads/35/asr-2025-final.pdf) and reaches the campus through SBC Alert / MySBC Alert messages and a PA system, with the college's [Emergency Action Guide](https://sittingbull.edu/uploads/35/emergency-action-guide-sbc-january-25.pdf) building its active-threat response around the ALICE model administered by 24/7 [SBC Campus Security](https://sittingbull.edu/students/campus-security/).","analysis":"Sitting Bull College (SBC) is the federally chartered tribal college of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, headquartered in Fort Yates, North Dakota, along the North Dakota–South Dakota border. As a Clery-covered institution it publishes an [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://sittingbull.edu/uploads/35/asr-2025-final.pdf); the 2025 report contains dedicated sections titled 'Issuing Emergency Notifications,' 'TIMELY WARNINGS,' 'Timely Warnings Policy and Procedures,' and 'Decision to Issue a Timely Warning,' so the college keeps the two federal Clery functions formally distinct, and it states it conducts a functional assessment to determine the need for either an Emergency Notification or a Timely Warning.\n\nThe campus alert channel is branded SBC Alert (also rendered as MySBC Alert, after the college's My SBC student/staff portal). The college's [Emergency Action Guide](https://sittingbull.edu/uploads/35/emergency-action-guide-sbc-january-25.pdf) instructs the community that the standing emergency action is to 'Check college email and SBC Alert for official message,' and the guide notes that drills and alerts are communicated via MySBC or the PA System. Students who wish to receive emergency notifications can sign up to be reached by email or phone, which makes SBC's reach partly opt-in rather than fully automatic — a coverage limitation typical of small tribal colleges.\n\nSBC has built its active-threat response around the [ALICE](https://www.alicetraining.com/) model: its Emergency Action Guide lays out Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate, and describes the initial Alert as something that 'may be gunshot, PA Announcement, MySBC Alert, etc.' The college runs shelter-in-place drills roughly twice a semester, often coordinated with lockdown drills at the co-located Standing Rock schools. Campus Security is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and emergencies and crimes in progress are reported by dialing 911, which connects to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Police Department; non-emergency campus reports go to SBC Security.\n\nBecause the official sittingbull.edu host and its ASR / Emergency Action Guide PDFs return HTTP 403 to automated fetching, the precise verbatim wording of the 'Issuing Emergency Notifications' threshold (e.g., the federal 'without delay, upon confirmation' standard), the named decision authority, and any published periodic test cadence for SBC Alert could not be byte-for-byte confirmed in this review. Those fields below are reconstructed from indexed snippets of the official documents and from the Clery framework, and are flagged honestly; the excerpts that appeared with identical wording across multiple SBC-attributed retrievals (the ALICE/SBC Alert action language) are marked verbatim-confirmed, while the rest are marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false. Confidence is set to medium.","whenCriteria":"SBC's ASR documents separate Clery functions: 'Issuing Emergency Notifications' for significant emergencies or dangerous situations and 'Timely Warnings' (with a 'Decision to Issue a Timely Warning' section) for Clery-reportable crimes representing a continuing threat; the college performs a functional assessment to decide which to issue. For active threats, the Emergency Action Guide applies the ALICE model, with the initial Alert potentially a gunshot, PA Announcement, or MySBC Alert. (Exact threshold wording not byte-for-byte confirmable — host returned HTTP 403; framing reconstructed from indexed snippets and the Clery standard.)","decisionAuthority":"SBC Campus Security (available 24/7/365), working with college administration and surrounding law-enforcement and emergency-response agencies, coordinates emergency notifications and timely warnings; 911 calls connect to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Police Department. The specific position authorized to confirm and trigger an SBC Alert was not confirmed verbatim in this review (sittingbull.edu blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed; the college states it 'will respond to any emergency situation in a safe, effective, and timely manner,' and as a Clery-covered tribal college SBC is bound by the federal 'immediately, upon confirmation' emergency-notification standard and the 'timely' standard for warnings.","cleryFraming":"SBC's Annual Security and Fire Safety Report keeps emergency notifications and timely warnings distinct, with named sections 'Issuing Emergency Notifications,' 'TIMELY WARNINGS,' 'Timely Warnings Policy and Procedures,' and 'Decision to Issue a Timely Warning.' The college conducts a functional assessment to determine which is needed and maintains cooperative relationships with surrounding law enforcement and emergency-response agencies.","testingCadence":"SBC runs shelter-in-place drills approximately twice per semester (often coordinated with lockdown drills at the co-located Standing Rock schools); a published periodic test cadence specifically for the SBC Alert messaging channel was not confirmed in this review (host blocked automated fetching).","scopeLimits":"Emergency-notification reach is partly opt-in: students who wish to receive notifications sign up to be reached by email or phone, so coverage depends on enrollment and current contact information. The PA system and MySBC portal supplement messaging on the physical campus. SBC's rural Standing Rock Reservation footprint, spanning the ND–SD border, makes cellular and broadcast coverage gaps an inherent delivery limitation.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system","website","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Standing emergency action (check SBC Alert)","quotedText":"Check college email and SBC Alert for official message.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://sittingbull.edu/uploads/35/emergency-action-guide-sbc-january-25.pdf","sourceDescription":"Sitting Bull College — Emergency Action Guide 2024-2025","annotations":["Establishes SBC Alert (alongside college email) as the official emergency-messaging channel. This wording appeared identically across multiple SBC-attributed retrievals of the Emergency Action Guide."],"characterCount":55},{"label":"ALICE — initial Alert sources","quotedText":"Initial Alert may be gunshot, PA Announcement, MySBC Alert, etc.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://sittingbull.edu/uploads/35/emergency-action-guide-sbc-january-25.pdf","sourceDescription":"Sitting Bull College — Emergency Action Guide 2024-2025 (ALICE plan)","annotations":["From the 'A — Alert' step of SBC's adopted ALICE active-threat plan; names MySBC Alert and the PA system as alert sources. Wording corroborated across multiple SBC-attributed retrievals."],"characterCount":64},{"label":"ASR Clery-section structure (reconstructed from index)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://sittingbull.edu/uploads/35/asr-2025-final.pdf","sourceDescription":"Sitting Bull College — 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (host blocked automated fetch; section titles from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Emergency-notification sign-up (paraphrased from index)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://sittingbull.edu/students/campus-security/","sourceDescription":"Sitting Bull College — Campus Safety / Emergency Action Guide (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["SBC reaches the campus through SBC Alert / MySBC Alert messages plus a PA system; the official emergency action is to 'Check college email and SBC Alert for official message.'","SBC's active-threat response is built on the ALICE model, with the initial Alert potentially a gunshot, PA Announcement, or MySBC Alert.","Its 2025 ASR keeps Clery functions distinct with sections for 'Issuing Emergency Notifications' and 'Timely Warnings,' deciding between them via a functional assessment.","Emergency-notification reach is partly opt-in (students sign up by email or phone); Campus Security operates 24/7/365 and 911 connects to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Police Department.","Exact threshold/timeliness wording, named decision authority, and a published SBC Alert test cadence could not be confirmed verbatim (sittingbull.edu and its ASR PDFs returned HTTP 403), so those fields are reconstructed and flagged; confidence is medium."],"sources":[{"title":"Sitting Bull College — 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://sittingbull.edu/uploads/35/asr-2025-final.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Sitting Bull College — 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://sittingbull.edu/uploads/35/campus-crime-report-sbc-2024.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Sitting Bull College — Emergency Action Guide 2024-2025 (PDF)","url":"https://sittingbull.edu/uploads/35/emergency-action-guide-sbc-january-25.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Sitting Bull College — Emergency Action Guide 2023-2024 (PDF)","url":"https://sittingbull.edu/uploads/35/emergency-action-guide-sbc-revised-2023docx.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Sitting Bull College — Campus Safety / Campus Security","url":"https://sittingbull.edu/students/campus-security/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","tribal-college","north-dakota","standing-rock","alice","sbc-alert"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"skagit-valley-college-rave-alert-policy","slug":"skagit-valley-college-rave-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Skagit Valley College","shortName":"SVC","state":"WA","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"SVC Rave Alert","alertPlatform":"Rave","enrollment":4028},"policy":{"title":"Rave Alert System (Security Services)","systemName":"SVC Rave Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.skagit.edu/security-services/rave.html"},"summary":"Skagit Valley College's [Rave Alert System page](https://www.skagit.edu/security-services/rave.html) describes the college's official emergency notification system, which automatically subscribes SVC and MySVC email addresses, sends email and text notifications for college emergencies and weather-related delays or closures, and lets users add mobile numbers, voicemail, and family-member emails through getrave.com.","analysis":"Skagit Valley College, a Washington community college district with a [2024-25 enrollment of 4,028](https://www.univstats.com/colleges/skagit-valley-college/student-population/) across its Mount Vernon and Whidbey Island campuses and centers, documents its notification system under Security Services on a dedicated [Rave Alert System page](https://www.skagit.edu/security-services/rave.html) with a companion [Emergency Communications page](https://www.skagit.edu/security-services/emergency-communications.html). The Rave Alert system is used to communicate with students and employees in the event of a college emergency or a weather-related delay or closure, sending email and text notifications directly to mobile phones. Enrollment is automatic at the email layer: SVC and MySVC addresses are subscribed by default, but anyone who has never entered a mobile number will not receive texts, so the college highly encourages adding a mobile phone through the getrave.com profile portal, where users can also extend delivery to voicemail, personal emails, or family-member emails at no cost. The communications page is candid that the most common use of Rave Alert is weather operations, and it publishes concrete decision deadlines: in an emergency delay or closure, every effort will be made to announce a decision prior to 6 a.m., and evening activity closures by 3 p.m., with announcements also carried by local radio and television; the college's separate [Suspended Operations policy 1130](https://www.skagit.edu/policies/1130.html) governs those closures. That weather-first, deadline-anchored posture matches this archive's sixteen SVC cases, which run from winter closures and power outages to the 2022 systemwide lockdown and the 2024 Mount Vernon shots-fired lockdown. The skagit.edu host is egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language below is carried from search-index retrievals of the official pages and marked unconfirmed pending a direct character-for-character read.","whenCriteria":"A college emergency or a weather-related delay or closure, with weather operations described as the most common use.","decisionAuthority":"The system sits under SVC Security Services, with closure decisions governed by the college's Suspended Operations policy; specific activation titles were not readable from this sandbox (skagit.edu egress-blocked).","timingStandard":"For emergency delays or closures, every effort will be made to announce a decision prior to 6 a.m., and to announce evening activity closures by 3 p.m.","cleryFraming":"The public pages are system overviews oriented to emergency and weather notification rather than Clery criteria; formal timely warning statements would live in the Annual Security Report, which was not reachable from this sandbox.","testingCadence":"Not confirmable from this sandbox; no published test schedule surfaced in indexed retrievals.","scopeLimits":"SVC and MySVC email addresses are auto-subscribed; text delivery requires entering a mobile number in the getrave.com profile, and delivery can be extended to voicemail, personal emails, and family members for free.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"System purpose","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.skagit.edu/security-services/rave.html","sourceDescription":"Skagit Valley College, Rave Alert System page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Auto-subscription and the mobile gap","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.skagit.edu/security-services/rave.html","sourceDescription":"Skagit Valley College, Rave Alert System page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Closure decision deadlines","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.skagit.edu/security-services/emergency-communications.html","sourceDescription":"Skagit Valley College, Emergency Communications page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["SVC runs its official emergency notification on the Rave platform under Security Services, auto-subscribing college email addresses.","Text delivery requires the user to add a mobile number at getrave.com, where delivery can extend to voicemail, personal emails, and family members for free.","The college publishes concrete weather-decision deadlines: closure or delay decisions before 6 a.m. and evening cancellations by 3 p.m., with radio and television as parallel channels.","Weather operations are described as the most common use, matching the archive's sixteen SVC cases, though the record also includes two armed-threat lockdowns.","No excerpt is verbatim-confirmed: skagit.edu is egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language is carried from search-index retrievals and flagged for direct verification."],"sources":[{"title":"Skagit Valley College, Rave Alert System","url":"https://www.skagit.edu/security-services/rave.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Skagit Valley College, Emergency Communications (Security Services)","url":"https://www.skagit.edu/security-services/emergency-communications.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Skagit Valley College, Policy 1130 Suspended Operations","url":"https://www.skagit.edu/policies/1130.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Skagit Valley College student population 2024-25 (Univstats)","url":"https://www.univstats.com/colleges/skagit-valley-college/student-population/","type":"reference"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["skagit-valley-college-email-threat-systemwide-lockdown-2022-05-09","skagit-valley-college-mount-vernon-shots-fired-lockdown-2024-09-30","skagit-valley-college-atmospheric-river-flooding-2025-12-10","skagit-valley-college-canvas-security-incident-outage-2026-05-07"],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","community-college","washington","rave","weather-closure","decision-deadline"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-23","lastUpdated":"2026-08-23","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"smith-college-emergency-notification-policy","slug":"smith-college-emergency-notification-policy","institution":{"name":"Smith College","shortName":"Smith","state":"MA","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"Smith College Emergency Mass Notification System","enrollment":2857},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Information / Emergency Mass Notification System","systemName":"Smith College Emergency Mass Notification System","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.smith.edu/discover-smith/governance/emergency-information","lastReviewed":"2026-06-22"},"summary":"Smith College — a private women's liberal-arts college in Northampton, Massachusetts — runs an [emergency mass notification system](https://www.smith.edu/about-smith/campus-police/safety-emergency-preparedness) that alerts faculty, staff, and students via text, voice, and email when there is an immediate threat, supplemented by the recorded [INFO line at 413-585-4636](https://www.smith.edu/discover-smith/governance/emergency-information), and issues separate Clery timely warnings through its Department of Campus Safety.","analysis":"Smith College is a private women's liberal-arts college in Northampton, Massachusetts, and one of the Five College Consortium. Smith does not market a catchy brand name for its alerting platform; it refers plainly to an 'emergency mass notification system.' The college states that it 'will alert faculty, staff and students of threats or emergencies via email, text and phone messages, circumstances permitting,' and that the [emergency mass notification system](https://www.smith.edu/about-smith/campus-police/safety-emergency-preparedness) 'is activated when there is an immediate threat to the campus community,' with notifications sent via text message, voice message, and email.\n\nA notable supplementary channel is a recorded information line. Smith directs the community that '[notices will also be posted on the INFO line, 413-585-4636](https://www.smith.edu/discover-smith/governance/emergency-information).' A dedicated phone line that anyone can dial for the latest status is a low-tech but resilient fallback — it works when a person's contact data is stale, when push channels are saturated, or for parents and visitors not enrolled in the alert system.\n\nThe activation threshold is the broad Clery emergency-notification standard: an 'immediate threat to the campus community.' Smith's [Department of Campus Safety](https://www.smith.edu/about-smith/campus-safety) (which the college has rebranded from Campus Police, and which staffs sworn officers 24 hours a day, 365 days a year) administers the system; the dispatch center is reachable at 413-585-2490. Smith reports that full-scale tests of the system are conducted and publicized at least annually.\n\nSmith documents its Clery obligations through its [crime and fire safety records and reports](https://www.smith.edu/about-smith/campus-safety/records-reports), maintaining a Clery Crime Log and a Fire Log updated within two business days of receiving a report and publishing an Annual Security Report prepared in accordance with the Jeanne Clery Act. Because smith.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were captured from multiple independent WebSearch retrievals of the official pages; the 'will alert faculty, staff and students' sentence and the INFO-line instruction each appeared with identical wording across separate retrievals and are marked verbatim-confirmed, while the activation-threshold sentence (a close paraphrase across retrievals) is marked reconstructed.","whenCriteria":"The emergency mass notification system 'is activated when there is an immediate threat to the campus community.' Smith will alert faculty, staff, and students of threats or emergencies via email, text, and phone messages, circumstances permitting. Timely warnings are issued for Clery-reportable crimes that present a serious or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"Smith's Department of Campus Safety (formerly Campus Police), staffed by sworn officers 24/7, administers the emergency mass notification system and Clery reporting; the dispatch center is reachable at 413-585-2490. The specific named position authorized to trigger an alert was not confirmable verbatim (smith.edu blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"Smith activates the system 'when there is an immediate threat to the campus community,' consistent with the Clery requirement to notify immediately upon confirmation of a significant emergency. The precise timely-warning timing language was not confirmed byte-for-byte in this review.","cleryFraming":"Smith maintains both Clery functions — emergency notifications for an immediate threat to the campus community and timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes posing a serious or continuing threat — keeps a Clery Crime Log and Fire Log updated within two business days, and publishes an Annual Security Report prepared in accordance with the Jeanne Clery Act.","testingCadence":"Smith reports that full-scale tests of the emergency mass notification system are conducted and publicized at least annually.","scopeLimits":"Reach for text and voice depends on accurate community contact information; the recorded INFO line (413-585-4636) provides an open fallback that anyone — including parents and visitors not enrolled in the alert system — can dial for the latest status.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Alert delivery to faculty, staff, and students","quotedText":"Smith College will alert faculty, staff and students of threats or emergencies via email, text and phone messages, circumstances permitting.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.smith.edu/discover-smith/governance/emergency-information","sourceDescription":"Smith College — Emergency Information","annotations":["Identifies the three core delivery channels and the honest qualifier 'circumstances permitting.' Identical wording appeared across multiple independent WebSearch retrievals of the official Emergency Information page."],"characterCount":140},{"label":"Recorded INFO line fallback","quotedText":"Notices will also be posted on the INFO line, 413-585-4636.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.smith.edu/discover-smith/governance/emergency-information","sourceDescription":"Smith College — Emergency Information","annotations":["A dial-in recorded line as a resilient low-tech fallback for anyone, including those not enrolled in the alert system. Identical wording appeared across two separate WebSearch retrievals of the official page."],"characterCount":59},{"label":"Activation threshold (immediate threat)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.smith.edu/about-smith/campus-police/safety-emergency-preparedness","sourceDescription":"Smith College — Safety & Emergency Preparedness (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Smith runs an unbranded 'emergency mass notification system' that alerts faculty, staff, and students via text, voice, and email.","The system is activated when there is an immediate threat to the campus community — the broad Clery emergency-notification standard.","A recorded INFO line (413-585-4636) serves as a resilient dial-in fallback open to anyone, including people not enrolled in the alert system.","Smith's Department of Campus Safety (formerly Campus Police), staffed 24/7 by sworn officers, administers the system; full-scale tests are conducted and publicized at least annually.","Smith keeps a Clery Crime Log and Fire Log updated within two business days and publishes an Annual Security Report under the Jeanne Clery Act.","Two excerpts were confirmed verbatim across independent retrievals; the activation-threshold sentence is a close paraphrase marked reconstructed because smith.edu blocked automated fetching."],"sources":[{"title":"Smith College — Emergency Information","url":"https://www.smith.edu/discover-smith/governance/emergency-information","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Smith College — Safety & Emergency Preparedness at Smith","url":"https://www.smith.edu/about-smith/campus-police/safety-emergency-preparedness","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Smith College — Campus Safety","url":"https://www.smith.edu/about-smith/campus-safety","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Smith College — Crime and Fire Safety Records and Reports","url":"https://www.smith.edu/about-smith/campus-safety/records-reports","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","private-liberal-arts","womens-college","massachusetts","info-line","five-college-consortium"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"sc-state-rave-guardian-alert-policy","slug":"sc-state-rave-guardian-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"South Carolina State University","shortName":"SC State","state":"SC","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"SC State Alert (Rave Guardian)","enrollment":3424},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification & Timely Warning Policy (Annual Security and Fire Safety Report)","systemName":"Rave Guardian Campus Emergency Notification System","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://scsu.edu/_resources/pdfs/2025%20SC%20State%20Annual%20Security%20and%20Fire%20Safety%20Report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-01-01"},"summary":"South Carolina State University, the state's only public HBCU, alerts its campus through the [Rave Guardian text-alert system](https://scsu.edu/news/2024_news_get_rave_02_07_24.php) (promoted as SC State Alert) and, per its [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://scsu.edu/_resources/pdfs/2025%20SC%20State%20Annual%20Security%20and%20Fire%20Safety%20Report.pdf), notifies the community of an immediate threat 'without delay' over email, text, audible siren, loudspeaker, and campus telephone lines, while the SC State Department of Public Safety separately issues campus-wide Clery 'timely warning' notices for serious or continuing threats.","analysis":"South Carolina State University (SC State), in Orangeburg, is South Carolina's only public, state-supported HBCU. Its emergency-notification platform is the [Rave Guardian text-alert system](https://scsu.edu/news/2024_news_get_rave_02_07_24.php), which the university markets to students under the SC State Alert banner. SC State's official sign-up notice describes it plainly: the university 'uses the Rave Guardian text alert system to inform students and employees of emergencies on and near campus, including lockdowns,' and directs members to register with their scsu.edu email address, add up to three mobile numbers for SMS, and optionally enable email delivery — wording that appeared identically across repeated retrievals of the official page and is marked verbatim here.\n\nSC State's [2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://scsu.edu/_resources/pdfs/2025%20SC%20State%20Annual%20Security%20and%20Fire%20Safety%20Report.pdf) supplies the procedural backbone. For immediate threats, the ASR provides that such threats 'shall be reported to the Chief of Police to confirm and determine the magnitude of the threat,' and that notification to the community 'shall be given in collaboration with the Office of External Affairs and Communications and the UCITS department without delay,' using 'e-mail, text, audible siren, loudspeaker, campus telecommunication lines, and the Rave Guardian app Campus Emergency Notification System.' This is an unusually broad channel set for a small campus — notably the audible siren and loudspeaker layers — and the named decision authority (the Chief of Police) is stated explicitly.\n\nSC State keeps the two Clery functions distinct. The [2023 ASR](https://www.scsu.edu/accreditation_compliance/2023-SC-State-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-Jason.word-Copy-Copy3-Copy.pdf) frames timely warnings around 'a serious or continuing threat,' for which SC State DPS issues a campus-wide 'timely warning' notice that is forwarded to the Public Relations Director and disseminated via the DPS website, campus IT, postings on bulletin boards and the exterior doors of campus buildings and residence halls, and notification of the student newspaper and/or local media. The report also states that if the university determines a perpetrator 'poses a serious and immediate threat to the campus community, a designated Campus Security Authority under the Clery Act may be called upon to issue a timely warning.'\n\nBecause scsu.edu hosts and the ASR PDFs returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, the ASR sentences above were captured from search-index snippets of the official documents and corroborated across the 2023 and 2025 reports; they are accurate in substance but are marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false because a byte-for-byte live fetch was not possible. Only the official sign-up page's system definition, which repeated identically across retrievals, is marked verbatim. This case carries real-world weight: SC State was placed on lockdown after a February 2026 shooting report, an event for which the Rave-driven alerting was used.","whenCriteria":"Per the ASR, immediate threats to campus 'shall be reported to the Chief of Police to confirm and determine the magnitude of the threat,' triggering an emergency notification without delay. Separately, when there is a serious or continuing threat to students and employees, SC State DPS issues a campus-wide 'timely warning.' (ASR sentences from search-index snippets; scsu.edu hosts blocked automated fetch.)","decisionAuthority":"SC State's ASR names the Chief of Police as the confirming authority for immediate threats, with community notification given 'in collaboration with the Office of External Affairs and Communications and the UCITS department.' Timely warnings are issued by the Department of Public Safety and forwarded to the Public Relations Director for dissemination.","timingStandard":"The ASR states community notification of an immediate threat 'shall be given ... without delay,' consistent with the federal Clery standard; timely warnings are issued when a serious or continuing threat is identified. (Captured from search-index snippets of the official ASR; scsu.edu blocked direct fetch.)","cleryFraming":"SC State separates the two Clery functions: Rave Guardian / SC State Alert emergency notifications for immediate threats, and campus-wide 'timely warning' notices issued by the Department of Public Safety for serious or continuing threats, with a designated Campus Security Authority able to issue a timely warning when a perpetrator poses a serious and immediate threat. The university publishes an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.","testingCadence":"A precise published periodic test cadence for SC State Alert / Rave Guardian was not confirmed verbatim in this review (scsu.edu and the ASR PDFs blocked automated fetching).","scopeLimits":"Members register Rave Guardian with their scsu.edu email and may add up to three mobile numbers for SMS (email delivery optional), so SMS/voice reach depends on self-registration and current contact data; the ASR's added siren and loudspeaker channels provide on-campus reach independent of opt-in. The university repeatedly urges students to keep contact information current.","channels":["sms","email","siren","pa-system","phone-call","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"SC State Alert / Rave Guardian system definition","quotedText":"South Carolina State University uses the Rave Guardian text alert system to inform students and employees of emergencies on and near campus, including lockdowns.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://scsu.edu/news/2024_news_get_rave_02_07_24.php","sourceDescription":"South Carolina State University — How to sign up for SC State alerts","annotations":["Names the platform (Rave Guardian) and its purpose, including lockdowns. Identical wording surfaced across repeated retrievals of the official SC State sign-up page, so it is marked isVerbatimConfirmed:true even though scsu.edu returned HTTP 403 to direct automated fetching."],"characterCount":161},{"label":"Immediate-threat confirmation and channels (ASR)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://scsu.edu/_resources/pdfs/2025%20SC%20State%20Annual%20Security%20and%20Fire%20Safety%20Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"SC State — 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF; host blocked automated fetch, text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Timely-warning dissemination (ASR)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.scsu.edu/accreditation_compliance/2023-SC-State-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-Jason.word-Copy-Copy3-Copy.pdf","sourceDescription":"SC State — 2023 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF; host blocked automated fetch, text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["SC State, the state's only public HBCU, runs emergency notifications on the Rave Guardian text-alert system, promoted to students as SC State Alert.","The ASR names the Chief of Police as the immediate-threat confirming authority and requires notification 'without delay' in collaboration with External Affairs/Communications and UCITS.","The channel set is unusually broad for a small campus: email, text, audible siren, loudspeaker, campus telephone lines, and the Rave Guardian app.","Clery functions are kept distinct: DPS issues campus-wide 'timely warning' notices for serious or continuing threats, disseminated through the PR Director, postings, and student/local media.","ASR sentences were captured from search-index snippets because scsu.edu and the ASR PDFs blocked automated fetching; only the official sign-up page's system definition is marked verbatim."],"sources":[{"title":"SC State — How to sign up for SC State alerts (Rave Guardian)","url":"https://scsu.edu/news/2024_news_get_rave_02_07_24.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"SC State — 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://scsu.edu/_resources/pdfs/2025%20SC%20State%20Annual%20Security%20and%20Fire%20Safety%20Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"SC State — 2023 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.scsu.edu/accreditation_compliance/2023-SC-State-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-Jason.word-Copy-Copy3-Copy.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"SC State — Public Safety","url":"https://scsu.edu/public_safety/index.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"SC State — SC State Alert (Rave) flyer (PDF)","url":"https://www2.scsu.edu/files/SCStateAlert.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","hbcu","south-carolina","rave-guardian","siren","loudspeaker"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"south-dakota-state-university-campus-alert-policy","slug":"south-dakota-state-university-campus-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"South Dakota State University","shortName":"SDSU","state":"SD","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"Campus Alert System (Everbridge)","enrollment":12139},"policy":{"title":"Policy 10:3 — Community Notification of Potential, Imminent or Active Threat to the University","systemName":"Campus Alert System (Everbridge) / Alertus Desktop Notifications","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.sdstate.edu/university-policies-procedures/policy-103-community-notification-potential-imminent-or-active","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"South Dakota State University, the land-grant flagship in Brookings, runs a [Campus Alert System through Everbridge Emergency Communications](https://www.sdstate.edu/emergency-management-preparedness/emergency-management/campus-alert-system) — branded as the 'Campus Alert System,' not 'SDSU Alert' (which is San Diego State) — and governs its activation through [Policy 10:3](https://www.sdstate.edu/university-policies-procedures/policy-103-community-notification-potential-imminent-or-active), which assigns the Chair of the Emergency Management Team responsibility for issuing Clery Timely Warnings, Emergency Notifications, and Other Notifications.","analysis":"South Dakota State University (SDSU) is a public land-grant research university in Brookings governed by the South Dakota Board of Regents. It is currently Carnegie R2 and openly pursuing R1 through its 'R1 Our Way' initiative, and it enrolled 12,139 students in fall 2025, its largest headcount since 2017. A naming caution is essential: 'SDSU' is most often San Diego State, and the 'SDSU Alert' brand belongs to San Diego, while South Dakota State brands its system the [Campus Alert System](https://www.sdstate.edu/emergency-management-preparedness/emergency-management/campus-alert-system). The underlying vendor is Everbridge (not Rave): SDSU states it 'maintains a Campus Alert System through Everbridge Emergency Communications for the purpose of issuing immediate notification to keep the SDSU community informed and safe during an emergency situation,' supplemented by [Alertus Desktop Notifications](https://www.sdstate.edu/safety-security/emergency-management/sdsu-alertus-desktop-notifications) for on-screen alerts.\n\nSDSU draws a clean Clery two-track distinction in [Policy 10:3](https://www.sdstate.edu/university-policies-procedures/policy-103-community-notification-potential-imminent-or-active). Emergency Notifications are 'notifications to the University community that alert the University community to a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on the University campus,' while Timely Warnings are 'notifications to the University community that provide information on Clery Act crimes that occur on University Clery geography, are reported to campus security authorities, the University Police Department (“UPD”), or local law enforcement, and pose a serious or continuing threat to students and employees.' The policy also recognizes a third 'Other Notifications' category and frames a three-level threat model — potential, imminent, and active.\n\nDecision authority is explicit and centralized. Policy 10:3 provides that 'In situations where an imminent or active threat to the University has been confirmed, the Chair of the Emergency Management Team, or designee, upon consultation with designated units as appropriate, will issue an Emergency Notification to the University community without delay,' and that the EMT Chair 'or designee … is responsible for initiating Timely Warnings, Emergency Notifications, and Other Notifications to the campus community.' The 'without delay' timing language maps onto the federal Clery standard. Channels are multi-modal: the [Everbridge system](https://www.sdstate.edu/safety-security/emergency-management/section-5-communications-warnings) delivers 'email, text and cellular and hardwired telephone notification of emergencies on campus,' with Alertus pushing messages 'directly to user's computer screens'; students and employees are automatically enrolled through their campus-assigned email address.\n\nTwo honesty caveats apply. First, every sdstate.edu page and the Annual Security & Fire Safety Report PDF returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so the excerpts below were captured from search-index reproductions of the official policy and emergency-management pages and corroborated across multiple independent queries (the Everbridge system sentence, the Emergency-Notification and Timely-Warning definitions, the decision-authority sentence, and the channel list each surfaced identically across two-or-more independent retrievals). Second, the specific test cadence is only loosely fixed: SDSU states system components 'are regularly tested' and announces routine tests beforehand (a documented test ran Friday, Sept. 5, 2025 at 2 p.m.), but a fixed calendar cadence and the policy's internal approval-date history were single-source and are not asserted as verbatim. Sirens are not claimed because no SDSU-specific source tied outdoor sirens to the Campus Alert System.","whenCriteria":"Per Policy 10:3, an Emergency Notification alerts the community to 'a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on the University campus,' and is issued when 'an imminent or active threat to the University has been confirmed.' A Timely Warning is issued for Clery Act crimes on University Clery geography that 'pose a serious or continuing threat to students and employees.' The policy frames threats at three levels: potential, imminent, and active.","decisionAuthority":"The Chair of the Emergency Management Team, or designee, in consultation with appropriate members of the Emergency Management Team and other University units, 'is responsible for initiating Timely Warnings, Emergency Notifications, and Other Notifications to the campus community.' The SDSU Police Department (UPD) and other entities feed information into that determination. Supporting detail that the VP and General Counsel serves as EMT Chair was single-source and is not asserted as verbatim.","timingStandard":"Policy 10:3 provides that once an imminent or active threat 'has been confirmed,' the EMT Chair or designee 'will issue an Emergency Notification to the University community without delay,' consistent with the federal Clery standard. SDSU does not use the precise phrase 'immediately upon confirmation'; its construction is 'has been confirmed … will issue … without delay.'","cleryFraming":"SDSU keeps the two Clery functions distinct and explicitly named in Policy 10:3: 'Emergency Notifications' for significant emergencies/dangerous situations posing an immediate threat to health or safety, and 'Timely Warnings' for Clery Act crimes on University Clery geography that pose a serious or continuing threat, plus a third 'Other Notifications' category. SDSU produces an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.","testingCadence":"SDSU states system components 'are regularly tested to ensure proper functionality' and that users 'will receive notifications for routine tests of the South Dakota State University Emergency Communications System,' announced before the test is conducted (a documented test ran Friday, Sept. 5, 2025 at 2 p.m.). A fixed calendar cadence (e.g., per-semester) was not confirmed verbatim and is not asserted.","scopeLimits":"Students and employees are automatically enrolled through their campus-assigned email address; full text/voice reach depends on registered cell or landline numbers in the system. Alertus desktop notifications add an on-screen channel for campus computers. Outdoor sirens were not tied to the Campus Alert System by any SDSU-specific source and are not claimed.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","desktop-popup","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Campus Alert System definition / vendor","quotedText":"South Dakota State University maintains a Campus Alert System through Everbridge Emergency Communications for the purpose of issuing immediate notification to keep the SDSU community informed and safe during an emergency situation.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sdstate.edu/emergency-management-preparedness/emergency-management/campus-alert-system","sourceDescription":"SDSU — Campus Alert System page","annotations":["Confirms the brand ('Campus Alert System') and the vendor (Everbridge), distinguishing this South Dakota State system from San Diego State's 'SDSU Alert.' Identical wording surfaced across roughly six independent search retrievals."],"characterCount":231},{"label":"Emergency Notification definition (Clery)","quotedText":"Emergency Notifications are notifications to the University community that alert the University community to a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on the University campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sdstate.edu/university-policies-procedures/policy-103-community-notification-potential-imminent-or-active","sourceDescription":"SDSU — Policy 10:3 (Community Notification of Potential, Imminent or Active Threat)","annotations":["Tracks the Clery emergency-notification standard for significant emergencies and dangerous situations. Identical wording surfaced across four-plus independent retrievals of Policy 10:3."],"characterCount":270},{"label":"Timely Warning definition (Clery)","quotedText":"Timely Warnings are notifications to the University community that provide information on Clery Act crimes that occur on University Clery geography, are reported to campus security authorities, the University Police Department (“UPD”), or local law enforcement, and pose a serious or continuing threat to students and employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sdstate.edu/university-policies-procedures/policy-103-community-notification-potential-imminent-or-active","sourceDescription":"SDSU — Policy 10:3 (Community Notification of Potential, Imminent or Active Threat)","annotations":["Separately defines the Clery timely-warning function around 'serious or continuing threat' from Clery-geography crimes reported to CSAs, UPD, or local law enforcement. Identical wording surfaced across three-plus independent retrievals."],"characterCount":328},{"label":"Decision authority and 'without delay' timing","quotedText":"In situations where an imminent or active threat to the University has been confirmed, the Chair of the Emergency Management Team, or designee, upon consultation with designated units as appropriate, will issue an Emergency Notification to the University community without delay.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sdstate.edu/university-policies-procedures/policy-103-community-notification-potential-imminent-or-active","sourceDescription":"SDSU — Policy 10:3 (Community Notification of Potential, Imminent or Active Threat)","annotations":["Assigns the issuance decision to the EMT Chair (or designee) and sets the 'without delay' timing once a threat 'has been confirmed.' The core sentence surfaced identically across three independent retrievals; the trailing 'without delay' was corroborated in two."],"characterCount":279},{"label":"Multi-channel delivery (Everbridge + Alertus)","quotedText":"Emergency communication tools, such as the Everbridge communications system, allow university students and staff to receive email, text and cellular and hardwired telephone notification of emergencies on campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sdstate.edu/safety-security/emergency-management/section-5-communications-warnings","sourceDescription":"SDSU — Emergency Management Plan, Section 5: Communications and Warnings","annotations":["Documents the Everbridge channel mix: email, SMS/text, cellular voice, and hardwired (landline) telephone. SDSU separately notes Alertus desktop notifications push messages to computer screens. Identical wording surfaced across three-plus independent retrievals."],"characterCount":211}],"keyFindings":["SDSU brands its system the 'Campus Alert System' (powered by Everbridge), NOT 'SDSU Alert' — the latter is San Diego State; the vendor is Everbridge plus Alertus desktop notifications, not Rave.","Policy 10:3 defines distinct Clery functions: Emergency Notifications (significant emergency/dangerous situation, immediate threat to health/safety) and Timely Warnings (Clery-geography crimes posing a serious or continuing threat), plus 'Other Notifications.'","The Chair of the Emergency Management Team, or designee, is responsible for initiating Timely Warnings, Emergency Notifications, and Other Notifications, and issues an Emergency Notification 'without delay' once an imminent or active threat 'has been confirmed.'","Channels span email, SMS/text, cellular and hardwired telephone (via Everbridge), and Alertus desktop pop-ups; students and employees are automatically enrolled through their campus-assigned email address.","SDSU is a public R2 land-grant university (12,139 students, fall 2025) pursuing R1; the system is 'regularly tested' with announced routine tests (e.g., Sept. 5, 2025 at 2 p.m.), though a fixed calendar cadence was not confirmed verbatim."],"sources":[{"title":"SDSU — Campus Alert System (Emergency Management & Preparedness)","url":"https://www.sdstate.edu/emergency-management-preparedness/emergency-management/campus-alert-system","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"SDSU — Policy 10:3, Community Notification of Potential, Imminent or Active Threat","url":"https://www.sdstate.edu/university-policies-procedures/policy-103-community-notification-potential-imminent-or-active","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"SDSU — Emergency Management Plan, Section 5: Communications and Warnings","url":"https://www.sdstate.edu/safety-security/emergency-management/section-5-communications-warnings","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"SDSU — Alertus Desktop Notifications","url":"https://www.sdstate.edu/safety-security/emergency-management/sdsu-alertus-desktop-notifications","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"SDSU — Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (Clery ASR) landing","url":"https://www.sdstate.edu/emergency-management-preparedness/annual-security-fire-safety-report","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"South Dakota Board of Regents — Campus Alert System (system-wide)","url":"https://sdbor.edu/campus-alert-system/","type":"government"},{"title":"SDSU enrollment increase driven by in-state students, large freshman class, record retention (fall 2025: 12,139)","url":"https://www.sdstate.edu/news/2025/09/south-dakota-state-university-enrollment-increase-driven-state-students-large-freshman","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","campus-alert-system","everbridge","alertus","public-r2","south-dakota"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-31","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"south-florida-state-college-procedure-7061","slug":"south-florida-state-college-procedure-7061","institution":{"name":"South Florida State College","shortName":"SFSC","state":"FL","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"SFSC emergency messaging system"},"policy":{"title":"Administrative Procedure 7061 Emergency and Timely Warning Notifications","documentType":"sop","url":"https://www.southflorida.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/7061-Emergency-and-Timely-Warning-Notifications.pdf","effectiveDate":"2020-12-08","policyNumber":"7061"},"summary":"South Florida State College [Procedure 7061](https://www.southflorida.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/7061-Emergency-and-Timely-Warning-Notifications.pdf) (adopted 8 December 2020, based on Policy 7.06) is the college's public emergency-notification and timely-warning SOP: confirmation by an official representative, without-delay issuance, annual tests that may be announced or unannounced, auto-enrollment of current participating students and employees in SMS, and a named list of officials authorized to initiate immediate notifications.","analysis":"SFSC lists Procedure 7061, Emergency and Timely Warning Notifications, on its public [procedures index](https://www.southflorida.edu/procedures) as a PDF. The live four-page SOP is based on Policy 7.06 (National Disasters and Civil Disorders), with primary responsibility in the Vice President for Administrative Services / Risk Management.\n\nThe emergency-notification track follows the federal confirmation-and-without-delay template, including the mitigation exception. Confirmation is defined: an official representative has verified that a legitimate emergency or dangerous situation exists, and confirmation does not require that all pertinent details are known. Official representatives include the Title IX Coordinator and all members of the Emergency Response Team. The college will defer to public safety authorities when the threat extends beyond campus geography.\n\nThe timely-warning track is discretionary (\"may issue\") for Clery Act crimes within campus, center, or College-controlled property, case-by-case on nature of the crime, continuing danger, and risk of compromising law enforcement, with content that would promote safety and aid prevention of similar crimes.\n\nChannel inventory is unusually long for an SOP: SMS (current and participating students and employees enrolled), IP-phone / voice, email, social media, webpage and Panther Central portal, electronic signage, radio, printed materials, building fire alarms, PA systems, and media via Community Relations and Marketing. Authorized initiators of immediate notifications are named: director of safety and risk management; director of institutional communications; executive director of institutional effectiveness, planning, and technology; Title IX and deputy coordinators; and the College president and/or designee.\n\nEvery excerpt was read twice against the live PDF text layer. The purpose clause cites 34 CFR 688.46(b)(13), a live typo for 668.46, and is not quoted here because the PDF does not place a period at the end of that sentence.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notification upon confirmation of a significant or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety on campus. Timely warnings may be issued for Clery Act crimes within campus, center, or College-controlled property that the college considers a serious or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"Official representatives (Title IX Coordinator and Emergency Response Team members) confirm. Immediate notifications may be initiated by the director of safety and risk management; director of institutional communications; executive director of institutional effectiveness, planning, and technology; Title IX and deputy coordinators; and the College president and/or designee.","timingStandard":"Without delay, taking into account the safety of the community, unless issuing a notification would compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency. Timely warnings may be issued as soon as pertinent information is available.","cleryFraming":"The SOP splits emergency notification (immediate threat, confirmation, without delay) from timely warnings (Clery crimes, serious or continuing threat, case-by-case).","testingCadence":"Annual tests of the emergency notification system, announced or unannounced, with dates publicized in the Annual Security Report.","scopeLimits":"SMS enrollment is 'current and participating students and employees.' Timely warnings are limited to Clery geography of campus, center, or College-controlled property. The college defers to public safety authorities when the threat extends beyond those bounds.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","facebook","twitter-x","website","digital-signage","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency notification upon confirmation","quotedText":"The College will immediately notify the campus community upon the confirmation of a significant or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on the campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.southflorida.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/7061-Emergency-and-Timely-Warning-Notifications.pdf","sourceDescription":"SFSC Administrative Procedure 7061 (PDF, adopted 2020-12-08)","annotations":["Section II.A opening sentence."],"characterCount":222},{"label":"What confirmation means","quotedText":"For the purpose of this procedure, confirmation means an official representative of the College has verified that a legitimate emergency or dangerous situation exists.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.southflorida.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/7061-Emergency-and-Timely-Warning-Notifications.pdf","sourceDescription":"SFSC Administrative Procedure 7061 (PDF, adopted 2020-12-08)","annotations":["Followed by a sentence that confirmation does not require all pertinent details."],"characterCount":167},{"label":"Without-delay clause","quotedText":"The College will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.southflorida.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/7061-Emergency-and-Timely-Warning-Notifications.pdf","sourceDescription":"SFSC Administrative Procedure 7061 (PDF, adopted 2020-12-08)","annotations":["II.A.1.d. The mitigation exception follows in the next sentence."],"characterCount":165},{"label":"Annual tests","quotedText":"The College will conduct annual tests of its emergency notification system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.southflorida.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/7061-Emergency-and-Timely-Warning-Notifications.pdf","sourceDescription":"SFSC Administrative Procedure 7061 (PDF, adopted 2020-12-08)","annotations":["II.A.4. Next line: tests may be announced or unannounced."],"characterCount":75},{"label":"Timely warning geography","quotedText":"The College may issue a timely warning for Clery Act crimes that occur within the geographic boundaries of the campus, center, or College-controlled property.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.southflorida.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/7061-Emergency-and-Timely-Warning-Notifications.pdf","sourceDescription":"SFSC Administrative Procedure 7061 (PDF, adopted 2020-12-08)","annotations":["Section II.B opening. 'May' is the live verb."],"characterCount":158},{"label":"SMS auto-enrollment","quotedText":"All current and participating students and employees are enrolled in this service.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.southflorida.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/7061-Emergency-and-Timely-Warning-Notifications.pdf","sourceDescription":"SFSC Administrative Procedure 7061 (PDF, adopted 2020-12-08)","annotations":["II.C.1, the SMS channel."],"characterCount":82},{"label":"Who may initiate immediate notifications","quotedText":"The director, safety and risk management; director, institutional communications; executive director, institutional effectiveness, planning, and technology; Title IX and deputy coordinators; and the College president and/or designee are authorized to initiate immediate notifications.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.southflorida.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/7061-Emergency-and-Timely-Warning-Notifications.pdf","sourceDescription":"SFSC Administrative Procedure 7061 (PDF, adopted 2020-12-08)","annotations":["Closing authorization sentence of section II.D."],"characterCount":284}],"keyFindings":["Procedure 7061 is a public four-page SOP covering both emergency notifications and timely warnings, adopted 2020-12-08.","Confirmation is defined as verification by an official representative (Title IX Coordinator or ERT member) and does not require complete details.","SMS auto-enrolls current and participating students and employees; eleven other channels are listed.","Immediate-notification authority is named down to specific director titles plus the president and/or designee."],"sources":[{"title":"SFSC Administrative Procedure 7061 Emergency and Timely Warning Notifications (PDF)","url":"https://www.southflorida.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/7061-Emergency-and-Timely-Warning-Notifications.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"SFSC Procedures index","url":"https://www.southflorida.edu/procedures","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","sop","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","florida","community-college"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"south-university-my-campus-alert-policy","slug":"south-university-my-campus-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"South University","shortName":"South U","state":"GA","type":"for-profit","alertSystemName":"My Campus Alert"},"policy":{"title":"Health and Safety","systemName":"My Campus Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://catalog.southuniversity.edu/health-and-safety","lastReviewed":"2026-09-20"},"summary":"South University, a for-profit multi-campus institution headquartered in Savannah, Georgia, encourages students to subscribe to [My Campus Alert](https://catalog.southuniversity.edu/health-and-safety), its electronic emergency-notification system, as documented in the 'Health and Safety' section of the university's shared academic catalog.","analysis":"South University is a for-profit institution with its founding campus in Savannah, Georgia, and additional locations across the southeastern and midwestern United States. Its Clery Act and campus-safety disclosures are published not as a standalone security-office web page but as the [Health and Safety section](https://catalog.southuniversity.edu/health-and-safety) of the university's shared academic catalog -- a structural choice that places emergency-notification policy alongside academic-program and enrollment content rather than in a dedicated public-safety portal, which several of this archive's other multi-campus and for-profit institutions also follow.\n\nPer the catalog section, students are strongly encouraged to subscribe to South University's electronic emergency notification system, branded My Campus Alert. The catalog also documents the university's Annual Security Report practice in standard Clery terms: the report is published each year by October 1, contains crime statistics for the three most recent calendar years, is provided to all current students and employees, and a copy of the most recent report may be obtained from the Dean of Student Affairs during regular business hours. The university additionally maintains a crime log recording all reported crimes, available for public inspection during regular business hours upon request through the Department of Student Affairs -- the crime-log disclosure obligation runs alongside, but is legally distinct from, the university's timely-warning and emergency-notification duties under the Clery Act.\n\nThis sandbox's network egress could not directly fetch catalog.southuniversity.edu to confirm the exact wording of the Health and Safety section; the summary above is built from search-engine reproduction of the catalog page, corroborated across independent queries. Per this archive's standing policy, that limitation is not treated as grounds to omit or demote the entry -- it is documented honestly as reconstructed pending direct verification.","whenCriteria":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed; the catalog states students are strongly encouraged to subscribe to My Campus Alert, the university's electronic emergency notification system.","decisionAuthority":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed; the Dean of Student Affairs and the Department of Student Affairs are named as points of contact for the Annual Security Report and crime log respectively.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"The catalog documents standard Clery ASR structure (published by October 1 each year, covering the three most recent calendar years) alongside a separately maintained crime log available for public inspection; specific timely-warning-versus-emergency-notification language for My Campus Alert was not retrievable verbatim in this review.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"South University is a multi-campus for-profit institution whose safety disclosures are published within its shared academic catalog rather than a dedicated campus-safety site; subscription to My Campus Alert is opt-in ('strongly encouraged') rather than automatic per the sources reviewed.","channels":["email","sms","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"My Campus Alert subscription (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of the South University academic catalog's Health and Safety section; catalog.southuniversity.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Annual Security Report cadence (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of the South University academic catalog's Health and Safety section; catalog.southuniversity.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["South University encourages subscription to My Campus Alert, its electronic emergency-notification system, as documented in its shared academic catalog's Health and Safety section.","The university publishes its Annual Security Report by October 1 each year and separately maintains a public-inspection crime log through the Department of Student Affairs.","catalog.southuniversity.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox, so the excerpts are marked reconstructed; per archive policy this is not treated as demotion evidence."],"sources":[{"title":"Health and Safety - South University Academic Catalog","url":"https://catalog.southuniversity.edu/health-and-safety","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"South University - Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_University","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","for-profit","multi-campus","georgia","my-campus-alert"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-20","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"southeast-technical-college-stc-alert-policy","slug":"southeast-technical-college-stc-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Southeast Technical College","shortName":"Southeast Tech","state":"SD","type":"technical-college","alertSystemName":"STC Alert System (Everbridge)","enrollment":2500},"policy":{"title":"STC Alert System / Timely Warning and Emergency Notification (2025 ASR)","systemName":"STC Alert System (Everbridge Platform)","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.southeasttech.edu/_resources/docs/campus-security/annual-security-report_2025.pdf","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Southeast Technical College's [2025 Annual Security Report](https://www.southeasttech.edu/_resources/docs/campus-security/annual-security-report_2025.pdf) brands the Everbridge-based STC Alert System, names a multi-officer Timely Warning authorizer list (President through Campus Security), documents building-specific Active Shooter templates and Midwest Alarm panic buttons, and assigns emergency notification to the STC President or designee with annual EAS testing.","analysis":"Southeast Technical College (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) is a technical college. Its [2025 ASR](https://www.southeasttech.edu/_resources/docs/campus-security/annual-security-report_2025.pdf) is highly institution-specific: Timely Warning capability is shared by the President, VP of Academic Affairs, VP of Enrollment Management and Student Affairs, VP of Finance, Vice President of Technology and Operations, Compliance Officer/Title IX Coordinator, and Campus Security. Delivery is Everbridge STC Alert (phone, text, email) with a long list of IT pre-recorded templates including Active Shooter variants for named buildings (Ed Wood, Health Center, Tech Center, Mickelson, Scarbrough, HUB). Twenty-four silent panic buttons are monitored by Midwest Alarm with SFPD notification. Building Emergency Response Team (BERT) members provide in-person/phone notification. Emergency notifications are made by the STC President or designee and/or Administration; the system is tested annually alongside evacuation and weather drills.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning on a case-by-case basis when a Clery or non-Clery crime reported to Campus Security, a CSA, or law enforcement poses a serious or continuing threat to students, employees, or campus property, considering risk of compromising law enforcement. Emergency response/evacuation notification when STC determines emergency response or evacuation is necessary.","decisionAuthority":"Timely Warning issuers: President of STC; VP of Academic Affairs; VP of Enrollment Management and Student Affairs; VP of Finance; Vice President of Technology and Operations; Compliance Officer/Title IX Coordinator; Campus Security. Emergency notification: STC President or their designee and/or Administration. BERT members may deliver verbal notification in person or by phone.","timingStandard":"Timely warnings unless issuing could compromise investigation. Emergency procedures evaluated at least once every calendar year with other emergency agencies. STC annually tests evacuations, fire drills, severe weather drills, and the STC Emergency Alert System at the main campus.","cleryFraming":"ASR states emergency notification and timely warning processes are consistent with federal Clery Act legislation and separates Timely Warning criteria from emergency response/evacuation activation.","scopeLimits":"STC Alert reaches employees and students (phone, text if cell disclosed, email). Panic buttons notify Midwest Alarm, Sioux Falls Police, and STC security officers.","testingCadence":"Annual tests of evacuations, fire drills, severe weather drills, and STC Emergency Alert System at main campus; Scarbrough Child Care Center conducts fire and evacuation drills four times a year documented with the Fire Prevention Bureau.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Named multi-officer Timely Warning capability list","quotedText":"The President of STC, VP of Academic Affairs, VP of Enrollment Management and Student Affairs, VP of Finance, and Vice President of Technology and Operations, Compliance Officer/Title IX Coordinator, and Campus Security all have the capability to issue the timely warning to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.southeasttech.edu/_resources/docs/campus-security/annual-security-report_2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"STC 2025 ASR Timely Warning authorizers","annotations":["Institution-specific multi-VP and Campus Security TW issuer list."],"characterCount":296},{"label":"Everbridge STC Alert brand and multi-channel delivery","quotedText":"Should an event or situation arise, either on or off campus, that STC believes warrants a timely warning to STC employees, students, and other members of the campus community, STC will use the Everbridge Platform for its STC Alert System to reach the campus community. Employees and students will receive a phone call, text (if a cell phone number is disclosed), and an email alerting them of the situation.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.southeasttech.edu/_resources/docs/campus-security/annual-security-report_2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"STC 2025 ASR STC Alert / Everbridge","annotations":["Branded STC Alert on Everbridge with phone/text/email."],"characterCount":407},{"label":"Building-specific Active Shooter templates","quotedText":"STC has created multiple pre-recorded templates within our IT department to send out to all students and employees in the event of an emergency. The templates can easily be modified to reflect whatever the situation might be that warrants a campus-wide notification. The following are the templates that have been created: • Active Shooter (Ed Wood, Health Center, Tech Center, Mickelson, Scarbrough, and HUB buildings)","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.southeasttech.edu/_resources/docs/campus-security/annual-security-report_2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"STC 2025 ASR pre-recorded templates","annotations":["Named campus buildings in Active Shooter template set - not boilerplate."],"characterCount":419},{"label":"Midwest Alarm panic buttons and SFPD notification","quotedText":"STC has 24 silent panic buttons throughout all the buildings on the main campus in the event of an immediate threat where an employee is in fear of their safety, the employee can push the panic button discreetly which Midwest Alarm monitors and will contact the Sioux Falls Police Department as well as STC's security officers.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.southeasttech.edu/_resources/docs/campus-security/annual-security-report_2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"STC 2025 ASR panic button system","annotations":["Local count (24), Midwest Alarm vendor, and SFPD integration."],"characterCount":327},{"label":"President/designee emergency notification and annual testing","quotedText":"Notification of an emergency will be made by STC President or their designee and/or Administration. STC annually tests and practice evacuations, fire drills, severe weather drills, and the STC Emergency Alert System at the main campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.southeasttech.edu/_resources/docs/campus-security/annual-security-report_2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"STC 2025 ASR emergency notification authority and testing","annotations":["Named President/designee EN authority with annual EAS testing."],"characterCount":235}],"keyFindings":["STC Alert System runs on Everbridge with phone, text, and email.","Seven named roles can issue Timely Warnings including President and multiple VPs.","Active Shooter templates name specific main-campus buildings.","24 Midwest Alarm panic buttons notify SFPD and STC security."],"sources":[{"title":"2025 Annual Security Report - Southeast Technical College","url":"https://www.southeasttech.edu/_resources/docs/campus-security/annual-security-report_2025.pdf","type":"clery-asr","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","technical-college","timely-warning","emergency-notification","everbridge","south-dakota","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"southeastern-louisiana-university-lion-alert-policy","slug":"southeastern-louisiana-university-lion-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Southeastern Louisiana University","shortName":"Southeastern","state":"LA","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"LION ALERT"},"policy":{"title":"Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - Campus Safety Alerts and Emergency Mass Notification","systemName":"LION ALERT","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.southeastern.edu/wp-content/uploads/police/2024ASFR-maincampus-oct2025.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Southeastern Louisiana University's [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.southeastern.edu/wp-content/uploads/police/2024ASFR-maincampus-oct2025.pdf) sends a Campus Safety Alert (timely warning notice) as soon as pertinent information is available when a criminal situation may pose a serious or continuing threat. The emergency mass notification system is designed to immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation on or near campus involving an immediate threat. The [Safe Campus page](http://www.southeastern.edu/about/safe_campus/index.html) activates LION ALERT in a campus emergency.","analysis":"Southeastern (Louisiana public-masters, five filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [ASFR PDF](https://www.southeastern.edu/wp-content/uploads/police/2024ASFR-maincampus-oct2025.pdf) (HTTP 200, published September 30, 2025). A Campus Safety Alert (timely warning notice) is sent to all students and employees on campus as soon as pertinent information is available when a criminal situation may pose a serious or continuing threat. The immediate notification capability of the emergency mass notification system is designed to assist the University in immediately notifying the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on or near the campus that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees. The live [Safe Campus](http://www.southeastern.edu/about/safe_campus/index.html) page (HTTP 200) states that in the event of a campus emergency the University will activate the LION ALERT Emergency Notification System to provide critical information. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF or HTML.","whenCriteria":"Campus Safety Alert for a criminal situation that may pose a serious or continuing threat. Emergency mass notification upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation on or near campus involving an immediate threat.","decisionAuthority":"Not named in the quoted sentences. Follow-up may come from the Director, University Police or Vice-President for Student Affairs.","timingStandard":"As soon as pertinent information is available for timely warnings. Immediately upon confirmation for emergency notification.","cleryFraming":"The ASR keeps Campus Safety Alerts (timely warning notices) distinct from Immediate or Emergency Notification via the emergency mass notification system.","channels":["sms","email","push-notification","digital-signage","siren","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Campus Safety Alert timely warning","quotedText":"In an effort to provide timely notice to the Southeastern community in the event of a criminal situation that may pose a serious or continuing threat to members of the campus community, a Campus Safety Alert (timely warning notice) to aid in the prevention of similar crimes is sent to all students and employees on campus as soon as pertinent information is available.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.southeastern.edu/wp-content/uploads/police/2024ASFR-maincampus-oct2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Southeastern Louisiana University ASFR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Campus Safety Alert is the timely-warning product."],"characterCount":369},{"label":"Emergency mass notification upon confirmation","quotedText":"The immediate notification capability of the emergency mass notification system is designed to assist the University in immediately notifying the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on or near the campus that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.southeastern.edu/wp-content/uploads/police/2024ASFR-maincampus-oct2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Southeastern Louisiana University ASFR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["On or near campus."],"characterCount":346},{"label":"LION ALERT activation","quotedText":"In the event of a campus emergency, Southeastern Louisiana University will activate the LION ALERT Emergency Notification System to provide critical information.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"http://www.southeastern.edu/about/safe_campus/index.html","sourceDescription":"Southeastern Louisiana University Safe Campus page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Consumer product name."],"characterCount":161}],"keyFindings":["Campus Safety Alerts are timely warning notices sent as soon as pertinent information is available.","The emergency mass notification system notifies immediately upon confirmation of an immediate threat on or near campus.","LION ALERT is the consumer emergency-notification product."],"sources":[{"title":"Southeastern Louisiana University Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.southeastern.edu/wp-content/uploads/police/2024ASFR-maincampus-oct2025.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Southeastern Louisiana University Safe Campus","url":"http://www.southeastern.edu/about/safe_campus/index.html","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","louisiana","public-masters"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"southeastern-technical-college-alert-policy","slug":"southeastern-technical-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Southeastern Technical College","shortName":"STC","state":"GA","type":"technical-college","alertSystemName":"STC Emergency Notification"},"policy":{"title":"College Catalog - Campus Security","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://catalog.southeasterntech.edu/college-catalog/current/campus-security","lastReviewed":"2026-09-20"},"summary":"Southeastern Technical College, a public two-year technical college in Vidalia, Georgia, part of the Technical College System of Georgia, documents its emergency-communication and closure procedures in the Campus Security section of its [college catalog](https://catalog.southeasterntech.edu/college-catalog/current/campus-security), naming the college's Director of Safety and Security as the designated Clery Act contact.","analysis":"Southeastern Technical College (STC) is a public two-year technical college based in Vidalia, Georgia, with additional instructional sites, part of the state's Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG). Like several other technical colleges in this archive, STC publishes its Clery Act and campus-safety information as a section of its [college catalog](https://catalog.southeasterntech.edu/college-catalog/current/campus-security) rather than through a standalone security-office web presence, reflecting the shared catalog infrastructure common among TCSG's technical colleges.\n\nPer the catalog's Emergency Preparedness content, the President or designee may alter business and class hours if conditions exist that may threaten the health, safety, or welfare of students and personnel. Should the college be forced to close due to inclement weather or other circumstances, the catalog states that notifications will be posted on the STC website, the STC Facebook page, and the STC Twitter (X) page -- a social-media-and-website-centered closure-notification model rather than a dedicated SMS/voice mass-notification platform, at least as documented in the sources reviewed. The college names Barry Dotson, Vice President for Student Affairs, as its Director of Safety and Security, with a listed office at 3001 E First Street, Vidalia, GA 30474, Office 158A, and a direct line at (912) 538-3141 -- naming a specific individual official is comparatively unusual among this archive's catalog-embedded policy pages and offers a concrete point of institutional accountability.\n\nThis sandbox's network egress could not directly fetch catalog.southeasterntech.edu or southeasterntech.edu to confirm the exact wording of the Campus Security catalog section; the summary above is built from search-engine reproduction of the catalog content, corroborated across independent queries. Per this archive's standing policy, that limitation is not treated as grounds to omit or demote the entry -- it is documented honestly as reconstructed pending direct verification.","whenCriteria":"Per the catalog, the President or designee may alter business and class hours if conditions exist that may threaten the health, safety, or welfare of students and personnel; the specific Clery Act emergency-notification activation criteria beyond weather/closure decisions were not retrievable verbatim from this sandbox.","decisionAuthority":"The catalog names Barry Dotson, Vice President for Student Affairs, as the college's Director of Safety and Security; broader emergency closure authority is vested in the President or designee per the catalog's Emergency Preparedness language.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"Southeastern Technical College is required under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act to disclose, on an annual basis, data on campus crimes and campus safety policies and procedures to all current and prospective students and employees; the catalog's specific timely-warning-versus-emergency-notification distinction was not retrievable verbatim in this review.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"STC's documented closure-notification model relies on the college website, Facebook page, and Twitter/X page rather than a named SMS/voice mass-notification vendor platform, at least in the sources reviewed for this entry.","channels":["website","facebook","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Class-hours alteration authority (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of the Southeastern Technical College catalog's Emergency Preparedness content; catalog.southeasterntech.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Closure notification channels (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of the Southeastern Technical College catalog's Emergency Preparedness content; catalog.southeasterntech.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Southeastern Technical College, a Technical College System of Georgia institution in Vidalia, publishes its Clery Act and emergency-notification content within its shared college catalog.","Closure and emergency notifications are stated to be posted on the STC website, Facebook page, and Twitter/X page; the President or designee holds authority to alter business and class hours for safety.","The catalog names Barry Dotson, Vice President for Student Affairs, as the college's Director of Safety and Security.","catalog.southeasterntech.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox, so the excerpts are marked reconstructed; per archive policy this is not treated as demotion evidence."],"sources":[{"title":"College Catalog - Campus Security - Southeastern Technical College","url":"https://catalog.southeasterntech.edu/college-catalog/current/campus-security","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Preparedness - Southeastern Technical College","url":"http://www.southeasterntech.edu/student-affairs/emergency-preparedness.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Southeastern Technical College - Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeastern_Technical_College","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","technical-college","georgia","tcsg"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-20","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"southern-maine-community-college-2025-asr-alert-policy","slug":"southern-maine-community-college-2025-asr-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Southern Maine Community College","shortName":"SMCC","state":"ME","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Rave Emergency Notification System","alertPlatform":"Rave"},"policy":{"title":"2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - Campus Alerts and Timely Warnings","systemName":"Rave Emergency Notification System","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.smccme.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/SMCC-Clery-Annual-Report-2025-Updated.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Southern Maine Community College's [2025 Annual Security Report](https://www.smccme.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/SMCC-Clery-Annual-Report-2025-Updated.pdf) provides a timely warning (Campus Alert) for any serious and continuing threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus, and initiates the Rave Emergency Notification System without delay unless issuing would compromise victim assistance or mitigation.","analysis":"SMCC (Maine community college, seven filed cases, no prior policy file; ME is a thin-state gap) publishes a live [2025 ASR PDF](https://www.smccme.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/SMCC-Clery-Annual-Report-2025-Updated.pdf) (HTTP 200, text layer). A Campus Alert is the college's timely-warning product for a serious and continuing on-campus threat. SMCC determines content and initiates Rave without delay, taking community safety into account, unless issuing would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Students or employees can sign up for Rave Alert Emergency Notifications and the Rave Guardian App on the portal. Distinct from the University of Southern Maine USM Alert file. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning (Campus Alert) for any serious and continuing threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus. Rave is initiated without delay for that notification duty.","decisionAuthority":"President, executive staff, Associate Dean of Administration, Director of Facilities, Critical Incident Management Team, and Security evaluate situations and initiate notifications. Dissemination is by the President, the Dean of Students, or the Associate Dean of Administration; that longer sentence contains a curly apostrophe and is not quoted.","timingStandard":"Without delay, taking into account the safety of the community.","cleryFraming":"The ASR titles the section Campus Alerts and Timely Warnings and uses Campus Alert as the timely-warning product.","scopeLimits":"Students or employees sign up for Rave Alert Emergency Notifications and the Rave Guardian App on the SMCC portal.","channels":["sms","email","website","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Campus Alert timely warning","quotedText":"In compliance with the Clery Act, the College will provide a timely warning (Campus Alert) to the College community of any serious and continuing threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.smccme.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/SMCC-Clery-Annual-Report-2025-Updated.pdf","sourceDescription":"Southern Maine Community College 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Campus Alert is parenthetical after timely warning in the live PDF."],"characterCount":222},{"label":"Rave initiation without delay","quotedText":"SMCC will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the Rave Emergency Notification System, unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate an emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.smccme.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/SMCC-Clery-Annual-Report-2025-Updated.pdf","sourceDescription":"Southern Maine Community College 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Rave is the named initiation system."],"characterCount":367},{"label":"Rave signup on the portal","quotedText":"Students or employees can sign up for Rave Alert Emergency Notifications and the Rave Guardian App® on the SMCC website located on the portal.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.smccme.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/SMCC-Clery-Annual-Report-2025-Updated.pdf","sourceDescription":"Southern Maine Community College 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Registered-trademark sign after App is live."],"characterCount":142}],"keyFindings":["Campus Alert is SMCC's timely-warning product for a serious and continuing on-campus threat.","Rave is initiated without delay unless issuing would compromise victim assistance or mitigation.","Students and employees sign up for Rave Alert and Rave Guardian on the portal."],"sources":[{"title":"Southern Maine Community College 2025 Annual Security Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.smccme.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/SMCC-Clery-Annual-Report-2025-Updated.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","maine","community-college","rave"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"southern-new-hampshire-university-alert-policy","slug":"southern-new-hampshire-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Southern New Hampshire University","shortName":"SNHU","state":"NH","type":"private-masters","alertSystemName":"SNHU Alerts","alertPlatform":"Omnilert","enrollment":2615},"policy":{"title":"SNHU Alerts / Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","systemName":"SNHU Alerts","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.snhu.edu/-/media/files/pdfs/annual-security-reports/annual-security-report-2025.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-09-01"},"summary":"Southern New Hampshire University's roughly 300-acre Manchester campus runs emergency communications through [SNHU Alerts](https://www.snhu.edu/about-us/newsroom/emergency-alerts), an optional Omnilert-powered text and email service layered on top of the university's Crisis Management Team and its [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.snhu.edu/-/media/files/pdfs/annual-security-reports/annual-security-report-2025.pdf) Clery disclosures, which name the Director of Public Safety as the designated Clery Officer who reviews incoming reports and assesses the need to issue a timely warning.","analysis":"Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) is best known nationally for its large online population, but its roughly 300-acre residential campus along the Merrimack River in Manchester, New Hampshire, maintains its own Clery-covered emergency notification apparatus. The university's public safety pages describe [SNHU Alerts](https://www.snhu.edu/about-us/newsroom/emergency-alerts) as an optional emergency alert text messaging service for students, faculty and staff, used to send alerts about crisis situations affecting the SNHU community as well as closings, cancellations, or delays of office hours or classes. Registration and delivery run through Omnilert, third-party software SNHU uses to provide and manage text and email alert messages; a subscriber can register for SNHU Alerts to have text messages sent to up to two cell phone numbers and two email addresses, through the university's Omnilert-hosted subscriber portal.\n\nSNHU's [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.snhu.edu/-/media/files/pdfs/annual-security-reports/annual-security-report-2025.pdf) lays out the Clery decision chain: the Director of Public Safety is the designated Clery Officer within Public Safety who reviews reports as they come in and assesses the need to issue a timely warning, and the notification process will be implemented at the sole direction of the V.P. of Student Affairs, the Assistant Vice President Student Affairs and Public Safety, or the Assistant Vice President Student Affairs and Public Safety's designee to include a Public Safety Supervisor or Senior Officer. That report also describes the university's broader crisis apparatus: in an emergency on or near campus that may affect the safety or well-being of the university community, timely and pertinent information will be provided to the group concerned, released by special 'Security Alerts,' voice mail, or in meetings depending on the situation, and a Crisis Management Team, whose policy group is led by the Dean of Students and includes representatives from Public Safety, Facilities, Residence Life, and Marketing/Communications, assesses extraordinary events immediately to determine whether to activate the team.\n\nBecause snhu.edu hosts return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the language above was captured from SNHU's public safety and Annual Security Report pages as reproduced consistently across multiple independent search queries, and is treated as verbatim on that basis; a specific published system-wide testing calendar (e.g., a fixed per-semester test date) was not found in the material reviewed and is left unstated rather than invented.","whenCriteria":"SNHU Alerts is used to send alerts about crisis situations affecting the SNHU community as well as closings, cancellations, or delays of office hours or classes. Separately, under Clery, a timely warning is assessed whenever a report comes in that the Director of Public Safety, as designated Clery Officer, determines may represent a serious or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"The Director of Public Safety is the designated Clery Officer within Public Safety who reviews reports and assesses the need to issue a timely warning; the notification process is implemented at the sole direction of the V.P. of Student Affairs, the Assistant Vice President Student Affairs and Public Safety, or that AVP's designee (a Public Safety Supervisor or Senior Officer). A separate Crisis Management Team, whose policy group is led by the Dean of Students, assesses whether to activate for extraordinary events.","timingStandard":"In an emergency on or near campus that may affect the safety or well-being of the university community, timely and pertinent information will be provided to the group concerned. A specific numeric minutes-based standard was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"SNHU's Annual Security and Fire Safety Report names the Director of Public Safety as the designated Clery Officer responsible for timely-warning determinations, distinct from the optional SNHU Alerts subscription product used for day-to-day crisis and closure messaging.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed; SNHU Alerts is described as an optional subscription service rather than a system with a published fixed test calendar.","scopeLimits":"SNHU Alerts is opt-in (each subscriber registers up to two cell numbers and two email addresses through Omnilert); the on-campus program itself is comparatively small (roughly 2,600 undergraduates living or studying on the Manchester campus) relative to SNHU's much larger online enrollment, which is not the subject of this campus-based alerting system.","channels":["sms","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"What SNHU Alerts is","quotedText":"SNHU Alerts is an optional emergency alert text messaging service for students, faculty and staff.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.snhu.edu/about-us/newsroom/emergency-alerts","sourceDescription":"SNHU - Emergency Alerts","annotations":["Defines SNHU Alerts as an opt-in text messaging product, distinct from the mandatory Clery timely-warning process."],"characterCount":98},{"label":"Clery Officer designation","quotedText":"The Director of Public Safety is the designated Clery Officer within Public Safety who reviews reports as they come in and assesses the need to issue a timely warning.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.snhu.edu/-/media/files/pdfs/annual-crime-statistics-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"SNHU - Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (2022)","annotations":["Names the specific decision-authority role (Director of Public Safety, as Clery Officer) for timely-warning determinations."],"characterCount":167},{"label":"Notification implementation authority","quotedText":"The notification process will be implemented at the sole direction of the V.P. of Student Affairs, the Assistant Vice President Student Affairs and Public Safety, or the Assistant Vice President Student Affairs and Public Safety's designee to include a Public Safety Supervisor or Senior Officer.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.snhu.edu/-/media/files/pdfs/annual-crime-statistics-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"SNHU - Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (2022)","annotations":["Establishes a three-deep chain of command (VP of Student Affairs down to a Public Safety Supervisor/Senior Officer designee) authorized to trigger notification."],"characterCount":296}],"keyFindings":["SNHU Alerts is an optional Omnilert-powered text/email service layered on top of SNHU's mandatory Clery notification process.","The Director of Public Safety is the designated Clery Officer who reviews reports and decides on timely warnings.","Notification implementation runs through a named chain: VP of Student Affairs, then the Assistant VP Student Affairs and Public Safety, then that AVP's designee.","A separate Crisis Management Team, led by the Dean of Students' policy group, assesses whether to activate for extraordinary disastrous events.","SNHU's residential Manchester campus (roughly 2,600 undergraduates) is far smaller than its online population, and this alert system is scoped to the physical campus."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Alerts - SNHU","url":"https://www.snhu.edu/about-us/newsroom/emergency-alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Public Safety and Security - SNHU on Campus","url":"https://campus.snhu.edu/student-life/campus-safety/public-safety-and-security","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, September 2025 - SNHU","url":"https://www.snhu.edu/-/media/files/pdfs/annual-security-reports/annual-security-report-2025.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, September 2022 - SNHU","url":"https://www.snhu.edu/-/media/files/pdfs/annual-crime-statistics-report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"SNHU Alerts Subscriber Portal (Omnilert)","url":"https://snhu.omnilert.net/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","snhu-alerts","omnilert","private-masters","new-hampshire"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-20","lastUpdated":"2026-07-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"southern-state-community-college-sscc-alerts-asr","slug":"southern-state-community-college-sscc-alerts-asr","institution":{"name":"Southern State Community College","shortName":"Southern State","state":"OH","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"SSCC Alerts","enrollment":2500},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warnings and SSCC Alerts Crisis Communication - Annual Campus Security Report","systemName":"SSCC Alerts","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.sscc.edu/about/assets/annual-campus-security-report-2025.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-08-26"},"summary":"Southern State Community College documents [VP Academic and Student Affairs timely warnings via SSCC Alerts](https://www.sscc.edu/about/assets/annual-campus-security-report-2025.pdf) for email, text, and voice messaging covering emergencies, closures, delays, and outages.","analysis":"Southern State Community College (Hillsboro multi-campus, OH) publishes Crisis Communication Protocols in its [2025 Jeanne Clery Annual Campus Security Report](https://www.sscc.edu/about/assets/annual-campus-security-report-2025.pdf). The college makes every attempt to distribute timely warnings when a situation arises on or off campus that, in the judgment of the Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs, constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat to the campus community. Timely warnings are distributed through SSCC Alerts, a comprehensive system for broadcasting campus emergencies, closures, delays, cancellations, outages, and more via email, text, and voice message. Posts are also made to the SSCC website, Canvas LMS, and social media.\n\nSSCC Alerts preferences can be managed at the students/alerts page. Lockdown guidance instructs community members registered with SSCC Alerts to check mobile devices for notifications and updates. Complements Ohio multi-campus CC coverage with Owens, Columbus State, and Tri-C.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning when a situation arises on or off campus that in the judgment of the Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat. SSCC Alerts also used for emergencies, closures, delays, cancellations, and outages.","decisionAuthority":"Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs judges ongoing or continuing threat for timely warnings.","timingStandard":"Every attempt to distribute timely warnings for ongoing/continuing threats. Fixed minutes standard not stated.","cleryFraming":"ASR Crisis Communication Protocols / Timely Warnings and SSCC Alerts sections implementing Clery timely warning and emergency mass notification capacity.","scopeLimits":"On- and off-campus situations may trigger warnings. Multi-channel stack includes Canvas and social media beyond SSCC Alerts core email/text/voice.","testingCadence":"Not specified as a fixed cadence in the Crisis Communication Protocols section reviewed.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","website","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"SSCC Alerts timely warning distribution","quotedText":"Timely warnings are distributed through SSCC ALERTS, a comprehensive alert notification system that Southern State uses for broadcasting important information such as campus emergencies, closures, delays, cancellations, outages, and more via email, text, and voice message.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sscc.edu/about/assets/annual-campus-security-report-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Southern State 2025 ASR - Crisis Communication Protocols","annotations":["Named SSCC Alerts for TW and operational notifications."],"characterCount":273},{"label":"VP Academic and Student Affairs TW judgment","quotedText":"Warnings will be issued in the event that a situation arises, either on or off campus that, in the judgment of the Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs, constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sscc.edu/about/assets/annual-campus-security-report-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Southern State 2025 ASR - timely warning trigger","annotations":["VP Academic and Student Affairs owns TW threat judgment."],"characterCount":231}],"keyFindings":["SSCC Alerts email/text/voice for TW and operational campus messaging.","VP Academic and Student Affairs decides ongoing/continuing threat warnings.","Website, Canvas, and social media supplement SSCC Alerts."],"sources":[{"title":"Southern State Community College 2025 Jeanne Clery Annual Campus Security Report PDF","url":"https://www.sscc.edu/about/assets/annual-campus-security-report-2025.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Southern State Campus Security page","url":"https://www.sscc.edu/students/campus-security.shtml","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["ohio","community-college","clery-asr","sscc-alerts","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"southern-university-am-college-alert-policy","slug":"southern-university-am-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Southern University and A&M College","shortName":"SUBR","state":"LA","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"Jags Safe","enrollment":7660},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Response Plan & Annual Security Report — Emergency Notification (Jags Safe)","systemName":"Jags Safe","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://www.subr.edu/page/375","lastReviewed":"2024"},"summary":"Southern University and A&M College — the flagship of the [Southern University System](https://www.sus.edu/) and the nation's largest public [HBCU](https://www.subr.edu/supd) campus in Baton Rouge, Louisiana — delivers emergency notifications through campus email and the **Jags Safe** app, with the [Southern University Police Department](https://www.subr.edu/supd) confirming the emergency before disseminating messages \"to the University community without delay\" per its [Annual Security Report](https://www.subr.edu/page/697). Southern was the [first HBCU to partner with 911 Cellular](https://www.wafb.com/story/29790664/jags-safe-app-aims-to-keep-southern-university-students-safe/) for the Jags Safe mobile safety platform.","analysis":"Southern University and A&M College centers its emergency communications on **campus email and the Jags Safe app**. Per the University, \"more updates will be made via campus email and the Jags Safe app available on Apple and Android platforms,\" and the [Jags Safe app](https://www.subr.edu/page/1968) component delivers notifications by text and email to registered users while adding interactive safety tools such as Friend Watch (a timer-based check-in that texts an emergency contact a location link if not deactivated), Bus Tracker, and one-touch reporting and police-escort requests.\n\n**Platform / vendor.** Southern partnered with **911 Cellular** for the Jags Safe app — [WAFB reported](https://www.wafb.com/story/29790664/jags-safe-app-aims-to-keep-southern-university-students-safe/) Southern was the first HBCU to team up with the company, whose platform \"lets students report crimes at the push of a button\" and provides shuttle location, police-escort requests, and panic-button capability. The vendor's [higher-education platform](https://911cellular.com/industries/higher-education) provides mass notification and critical-incident management used by the campus alongside the consumer-facing Jags Safe app.\n\n**Decision authority and timing.** Southern's [Annual Security Report](https://www.subr.edu/page/697) sets out a confirm-then-notify chain: \"The SU Police Department will notify the senior administrative officer available beginning with the Chancellor, the Executive Vice Chancellor, the Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration and other such administrative personnel as is appropriate to confirm that there is a significant emergency.\" Once confirmed, \"Messages will be disseminated to the University community without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system, unless the notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist victims or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.\" This adopts the Clery 668.46(g) immediate-threat trigger with the standard mitigation exception.\n\n**Testing.** Consistent with Clery, the University tests its emergency response and evacuation procedures at least annually per calendar year and documents a description of the exercise, the date and time, and whether it was announced or unannounced. Southern maintains the standard Clery two-track structure — emergency notifications for immediate/imminent threats alongside timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes that pose a serious or ongoing threat — as reflected in its [Annual Security Report](https://www.subr.edu/page/697) and [Emergency Response Plan](https://www.subr.edu/page/375).","whenCriteria":"An emergency notification is initiated upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community; messages are disseminated to the University community without delay, unless doing so would, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist victims or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","decisionAuthority":"The SU Police Department notifies the senior administrative officer available — beginning with the Chancellor, then the Executive Vice Chancellor, the Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration, and other appropriate administrative personnel — to confirm that there is a significant emergency before disseminating notification.","timingStandard":"Messages are disseminated to the University community 'without delay,' taking into account the safety of the community, subject to the Clery mitigation exception.","cleryFraming":"Standard Clery two-track structure: emergency notifications for confirmed immediate/imminent threats (delivered via campus email and the Jags Safe app), and timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes posing a serious or ongoing threat.","testingCadence":"The University tests emergency response and evacuation procedures on at least an annual basis per calendar year, documenting a description of the exercise, the date and time, and whether it was announced or unannounced.","scopeLimits":"Emergency notifications can be limited to the segment of the community for whom the notification is relevant rather than the entire campus. Primary channels are campus email and the Jags Safe app (text and email to registered users); the Jags Safe app also provides reporting, escort-request, Friend Watch, and bus-tracking features.","channels":["email","sms","push-notification","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Confirmation chain of authority","quotedText":"The SU Police Department will notify the senior administrative officer available beginning with the Chancellor, the Executive Vice Chancellor, the Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration and other such administrative personnel as is appropriate to confirm that there is a significant emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.subr.edu/page/697","sourceDescription":"Southern University and A&M College Annual Security Report","annotations":["Establishes the confirm-then-notify chain of decision authority running from the SU Police Department up through the Chancellor's office; reproduced from the Annual Security Report."],"characterCount":301},{"label":"Without-delay dissemination and mitigation exception","quotedText":"Messages will be disseminated to the University community without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system, unless the notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist victims or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.subr.edu/page/697","sourceDescription":"Southern University and A&M College Annual Security Report","annotations":["Reproduces the Clery 668.46(g) 'without delay' trigger and the standard mitigation exception; quoted from the Annual Security Report."],"characterCount":392},{"label":"Primary notification channels","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.subr.edu/news/campus-alert-baton-rouge-landmass-receives-security-threat","sourceDescription":"Southern University and A&M College campus alert notice","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Southern University and A&M College delivers emergency notifications via campus email and the Jags Safe mobile app.","Southern was the first HBCU to partner with 911 Cellular, the vendor behind the Jags Safe app's text/email notifications, reporting, escort requests, Friend Watch, and bus-tracking features.","The SU Police Department confirms a significant emergency by notifying the senior administrative officer available (Chancellor, then Executive Vice Chancellor, then Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration) before disseminating notification.","Messages are disseminated to the University community 'without delay,' subject to the standard Clery mitigation exception.","The University tests its emergency response and evacuation procedures at least annually per calendar year, documenting the exercise description, date/time, and whether it was announced or unannounced."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Response Plan — Southern University and A&M College","url":"https://www.subr.edu/page/375","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual Security Report — Southern University and A&M College","url":"https://www.subr.edu/page/697","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Jags Safe App — Southern University and A&M College","url":"https://www.subr.edu/page/1968","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Southern University Police Department — Southern University and A&M College","url":"https://www.subr.edu/supd","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"'Jags Safe' app aims to keep Southern University students safe — WAFB","url":"https://www.wafb.com/story/29790664/jags-safe-app-aims-to-keep-southern-university-students-safe/","type":"local-media"},{"title":"Higher Education Campus Safety Solutions — 911Cellular","url":"https://911cellular.com/industries/higher-education","type":"other"},{"title":"Enrollment continues upward trend across Southern University System (fall 2025 preliminary: 7,660 at SUBR)","url":"https://www.subr.edu/news/7676","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","hbcu","louisiana","jags-safe"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"spartanburg-community-college-timely-warning-emergency-notification-asr","slug":"spartanburg-community-college-timely-warning-emergency-notification-asr","institution":{"name":"Spartanburg Community College","shortName":"SCC","state":"SC","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"SCC Emergency Alerts","enrollment":6000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning Notices and Emergency Notification - Annual Safety Security Report","systemName":"SCC Emergency Alerts","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.sccsc.edu/media/spartanburgcc/content-assets/documents/student-engagement-amp-support/safety-and-security/CleryReport-Template_Accessible.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Spartanburg Community College documents [timely warning notices and weekly-tested emergency notification systems](https://www.sccsc.edu/media/spartanburgcc/content-assets/documents/student-engagement-amp-support/safety-and-security/CleryReport-Template_Accessible.pdf) in its Clery safety report, with Campus Police as the reporting path and email/text as primary timely-warning channels.","analysis":"Spartanburg Community College (Spartanburg, SC) publishes Clery timely-warning and emergency-response framing in its official [Campus Safety and Security Statistics / Clery report PDF](https://www.sccsc.edu/media/spartanburgcc/content-assets/documents/student-engagement-amp-support/safety-and-security/CleryReport-Template_Accessible.pdf). Crimes should be reported to Campus Police so incidents can be included in annual statistics and so timely warning notices can be provided when appropriate. When a potentially dangerous threat to the college community arises, timely reports or warnings are issued through email announcements, text alerts, or other appropriate means.\n\nThe report also states that the college tests emergency notification systems on campus weekly as exercises designed to assess and evaluate emergency plans and capabilities. Public safety pages describe a college-wide notification system using contact information students, faculty, and staff provide in their accounts (email, text, and/or voice). Student planner materials restate emergency alert preferences and the myscc.info/updatecontact update path. Complements archive cases including the Tyger River lockdown and winter weather remote operations shared with Greenville Tech regional patterns.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning when a potentially dangerous threat to the college community arises or when a reported crime warrants community notice under Clery. Emergency notifications for campus emergencies per Emergency Response Plans and weekly-tested systems.","decisionAuthority":"Campus Police receive reports, investigate when appropriate, and provide timely warning notices to the community when appropriate; emergency response framed under college Emergency Response Plans and Information Manual.","timingStandard":"Timely warnings described as issued when a potentially dangerous threat arises; no fixed minutes standard. Emergency notification systems tested weekly.","cleryFraming":"ASR/Clery report language on timely warning notices, confidential reporting caveats, and emergency notification system testing.","scopeLimits":"No separate confidential disclosure maintenance of campus crime statistics. Pastoral/counseling disclosures encouraged for reporting to Campus Police; imminent-danger disclosure exceptions apply.","testingCadence":"Emergency notification systems on campus tested weekly.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely warning via email and text","quotedText":"When a potentially dangerous threat to the college community arises, timely reports or warnings will be issued through email announcements, text alerts, or other appropriate means.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sccsc.edu/media/spartanburgcc/content-assets/documents/student-engagement-amp-support/safety-and-security/CleryReport-Template_Accessible.pdf","sourceDescription":"Spartanburg CC Clery safety report - timely warnings","annotations":["Email and text as primary timely warning channels."],"characterCount":180},{"label":"Report to Campus Police for timely warnings","quotedText":"Crimes should be reported to Campus Police to ensure inclusion in the annual crime statistics and to provide timely warning notices to the community when appropriate.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sccsc.edu/media/spartanburgcc/content-assets/documents/student-engagement-amp-support/safety-and-security/CleryReport-Template_Accessible.pdf","sourceDescription":"Spartanburg CC Clery safety report - crime reporting","annotations":["Campus Police dual role: statistics and timely warnings."],"characterCount":166}],"keyFindings":["Email announcements and text alerts for potentially dangerous community threats.","Weekly emergency notification system testing stated in Clery report.","Campus Police is the primary Clery reporting and timely-warning path."],"sources":[{"title":"Spartanburg Community College Clery Safety Security Report PDF","url":"https://www.sccsc.edu/media/spartanburgcc/content-assets/documents/student-engagement-amp-support/safety-and-security/CleryReport-Template_Accessible.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"SCC Safety and Security page","url":"https://www.sccsc.edu/students/safety/","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["south-carolina","community-college","clery-asr","timely-warning","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"spelman-college-alert-policy","slug":"spelman-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Spelman College","shortName":"Spelman","state":"GA","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"Spelman ALERT","enrollment":2712},"policy":{"title":"Spelman ALERT Emergency Notification / 2025 Annual Campus Security and Fire Report","systemName":"Spelman ALERT","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.spelman.edu/student-life/public-safety/spelman-annual-security-report-2025.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Spelman College — a private women's [HBCU](https://www.spelman.edu/student-life/public-safety/) in Atlanta — runs emergency notifications through **Spelman ALERT**, a multi-channel system that delivers \"time-sensitive emergency messages in the form of e-mail, voice and text messages\" to the campus community, administered by the Spelman College Public Safety Department. The College commits in its [2025 Annual Campus Security and Fire Report](https://www.spelman.edu/student-life/public-safety/spelman-annual-security-report-2025.pdf) to issue notification \"without delay\" on confirmation of an immediate or imminent threat, and to test all emergency notification and evacuation systems at least annually.","analysis":"Spelman College's emergency-alert program centers on **Spelman ALERT**, described on the College's [Public Safety](https://www.spelman.edu/student-life/public-safety/) pages as \"the emergency communications system for the College\" that \"allows students, faculty and staff to receive time-sensitive emergency messages in the form of e-mail, voice and text messages.\" Email is automatic — \"Everyone who has a Spelman College e-mail address will receive emergency alerts to their campus e-mail address\" — while text and voice delivery require members of the community to supply phone contact information, with enrollment in text and voice messaging strongly encouraged. The College states the information supplied is confidential, is not shared, and that community members \"will only be contacted through the system in the event of an emergency.\"\n\n**When notifications activate and the timing standard.** The [2025 Annual Campus Security and Fire Report](https://www.spelman.edu/student-life/public-safety/spelman-annual-security-report-2025.pdf) adopts the federal Clery 668.46(g) standard verbatim in substance: \"Spelman College is required to issue without delay notification of incidents involving immediate or imminent threats to health or safety, unless doing so would compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.\" This is the standard \"without delay\" / immediate-threat trigger, with the recognized exception that allows withholding notice when it would compromise response or victim assistance. The [Spelman College Public Safety Department](https://www.spelman.edu/student-life/public-safety/contact-public-safety.html) is certified by the State of Georgia as a Police Agency, with personnel holding Peace Officer status, and confirms and responds to emergencies on campus.\n\n**Clery two-track framing.** The Annual Security Report maintains the standard Clery separation: a section on **Timely Warnings**, under which \"every attempt possible will be made to issue warnings within time frames that would permit members of the Spelman community to take actions that would minimize the likelihood of them being affected by criminal acts,\" sits alongside the emergency-notification obligation for significant or dangerous situations involving an immediate threat. Timely warnings target Clery-reportable crimes that pose a serious or ongoing threat, while Spelman ALERT emergency notifications cover the broader category of immediate threats (active shooter, severe weather, hazardous conditions).\n\n**Testing and evacuation.** Per the Report, \"All campus emergency notification and evacuation systems are tested at least annually. Tests may be announced or unannounced, and the test description, date, time, type of test, and results will be shared\" — satisfying the Clery Act's at-least-annual testing-and-publicizing requirement. The College also ties physical evacuation to the system: \"Evacuation of campus facilities shall be undertaken whenever a facility fire alarm is activated, upon instruction of Public Safety staff, Atlanta Fire Department, or when any of the College Emergency Notification Systems issues instructions for evacuation.\"","whenCriteria":"Spelman College issues notification without delay of incidents involving immediate or imminent threats to health or safety, unless doing so would compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency. Spelman ALERT delivers time-sensitive emergency messages to the campus community.","decisionAuthority":"The Spelman College Public Safety Department — a Georgia-certified Police Agency with Peace Officer status personnel — confirms and responds to emergencies and activates Spelman ALERT / the College Emergency Notification Systems.","timingStandard":"Notification is issued 'without delay' upon confirmation of an immediate or imminent threat to health or safety, subject to the Clery exception where notice would compromise response or victim assistance.","cleryFraming":"Two distinct Clery tracks: (1) emergency notifications via Spelman ALERT on confirmation of a significant/dangerous situation involving an immediate threat; (2) timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes, issued within time frames that let the community take protective action.","testingCadence":"All campus emergency notification and evacuation systems are tested at least annually; tests may be announced or unannounced, and the test description, date, time, type of test, and results are shared.","scopeLimits":"Spelman ALERT covers immediate-threat emergencies (e.g., active shooter, severe weather, hazardous conditions) and inclement-weather messaging; email reaches all Spelman College email-address holders automatically, while text and voice require opt-in phone contact information. The system is used only in the event of an emergency, and the contact information supplied is confidential.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Spelman ALERT definition and channels","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.spelman.edu/student-life/public-safety/public-safety-frequently-asked-questions.html","sourceDescription":"Spelman College Public Safety FAQ / Public Safety pages","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Automatic email enrollment","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.spelman.edu/student-life/public-safety/public-safety-frequently-asked-questions.html","sourceDescription":"Spelman College Public Safety FAQ","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Without-delay notification standard (2025 ASR)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.spelman.edu/student-life/public-safety/spelman-annual-security-report-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Spelman College 2025 Annual Campus Security and Fire Report","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Annual testing of notification and evacuation systems","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.spelman.edu/student-life/public-safety/spelman-annual-security-report-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Spelman College 2025 Annual Campus Security and Fire Report","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Spelman ALERT is the College's emergency communications system, delivering time-sensitive messages by email, voice, and text; email is automatic for all Spelman email-address holders, while text and voice require opt-in phone information.","Emergency notifications are issued 'without delay' upon confirmation of an immediate or imminent threat to health or safety, subject to the standard Clery mitigation exception.","The Spelman College Public Safety Department — a Georgia-certified Police Agency with Peace Officer status — confirms emergencies and activates the notification systems.","The College maintains the Clery two-track structure: a Timely Warnings section (issued in time frames that let the community take protective action) alongside emergency notifications for immediate threats.","All campus emergency notification and evacuation systems are tested at least annually, with announced or unannounced tests and documented, shared results."],"sources":[{"title":"Public Safety Overview — Spelman College","url":"https://www.spelman.edu/student-life/public-safety/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Public Safety Frequently Asked Questions — Spelman College","url":"https://www.spelman.edu/student-life/public-safety/public-safety-frequently-asked-questions.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Spelman College 2025 Annual Campus Security and Fire Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.spelman.edu/student-life/public-safety/spelman-annual-security-report-2025.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Alerts Center — Spelman College","url":"https://www.spelman.edu/alerts/index.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Contact Public Safety — Spelman College","url":"https://www.spelman.edu/student-life/public-safety/contact-public-safety.html","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","hbcu","georgia"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"st-marys-college-of-maryland-seahawk-alert-policy","slug":"st-marys-college-of-maryland-seahawk-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"St. Mary's College of Maryland","shortName":"SMCM","state":"MD","type":"public-bachelors","alertSystemName":"SEAHAWK ALERT"},"policy":{"title":"2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - SEAHAWK ALERT and Timely Warning Policy","systemName":"SEAHAWK ALERT","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.smcm.edu/app/uploads/sites/219/2026/01/2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-1.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"St. Mary's College of Maryland's [2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.smcm.edu/app/uploads/sites/219/2026/01/2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-1.pdf) may issue a Timely Warning when a Clery-reportable crime, hazing, or other serious crime presents a serious or ongoing threat, and uses SEAHAWK ALERT to immediately notify the campus upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat on campus.","analysis":"St. Mary's College of Maryland (public-bachelors, Maryland, four filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [2025 ASR PDF](https://www.smcm.edu/app/uploads/sites/219/2026/01/2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-1.pdf) (HTTP 200). Distinct from St. Mary's University in Texas, which already has a timely-warning SOP in this archive. The Director of Public Safety or designee writes and distributes Timely Warning Notices without requiring other-department approval, as soon as pertinent information is available and within a reasonable amount of time. SEAHAWK ALERT is the emergency-notification product for a confirmed immediate threat on campus, with a professional-judgment exception. Consumer Seahawk Alerts HTML this pass returned the generic Public Safety chrome, not the policy body, so excerpts are from the ASR PDF text layer only. Every excerpt was character-checked against that PDF (whitespace-only wrap).","whenCriteria":"Timely Warning for a Clery-reportable crime, hazing, or other serious crime that presents a serious or ongoing threat. SEAHAWK ALERT upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to students and/or employees on campus.","decisionAuthority":"Director of Public Safety or designee writes and distributes Timely Warning Notices. The Director may confer with the Vice President for Student Affairs on the notified segment and with Integrated Marketing on notification content.","timingStandard":"Timely Warning as soon as pertinent information is available and within a reasonable amount of time. SEAHAWK ALERT immediately upon confirmation.","cleryFraming":"The ASR keeps Timely Warning Notices distinct from SEAHAWK ALERT immediate notification. If an emergency notification is sent, a timely warning may not be issued.","channels":["sms","email","website","twitter-x","siren","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely Warning trigger","quotedText":"St. Mary's College of Maryland may issue a Timely Warning to the College community whenever a report of a Clery reportable crime, Hazing, or other serious crime is reported to the Office of Public Safety, a Campus Security Authority or the local police if the incident presents a serious or ongoing threat.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.smcm.edu/app/uploads/sites/219/2026/01/2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-1.pdf","sourceDescription":"St. Mary's College of Maryland 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Hazing is named alongside Clery-reportable crime as a Timely Warning trigger."],"characterCount":306},{"label":"Timely Warning timing","quotedText":"A Timely Warning will be issued as soon as pertinent information is available and within a reasonable amount of time.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.smcm.edu/app/uploads/sites/219/2026/01/2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-1.pdf","sourceDescription":"St. Mary's College of Maryland 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Pairs 'as soon as pertinent information is available' with 'within a reasonable amount of time'."],"characterCount":117},{"label":"SEAHAWK ALERT immediate notification","quotedText":"St. Mary’s College of Maryland will utilize the SEAHAWK ALERT emergency notification system to immediately notify the campus community upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students and/or employees occurring on the campus unless the notification will, based on professional judgment, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.smcm.edu/app/uploads/sites/219/2026/01/2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-1.pdf","sourceDescription":"St. Mary's College of Maryland 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Live PDF uses a curly apostrophe in St. Mary’s in this sentence; the Timely Warning trigger sentence uses a straight apostrophe."],"characterCount":476}],"keyFindings":["SEAHAWK ALERT is the emergency-notification product for a confirmed immediate threat on campus.","Timely Warnings cover Clery-reportable crime, hazing, or other serious crime presenting a serious or ongoing threat.","The Director of Public Safety or designee issues Timely Warning Notices without other-department approval."],"sources":[{"title":"St. Mary's College of Maryland 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.smcm.edu/app/uploads/sites/219/2026/01/2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-1.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","maryland","public-bachelors"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"st-marys-university-tx-timely-warning-sop","slug":"st-marys-university-tx-timely-warning-sop","institution":{"name":"St. Mary's University","shortName":"St. Mary's","state":"TX","type":"private-masters","alertSystemName":"StMU Alerts","enrollment":3758},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning Notifications (Clery Act)","systemName":"StMU Alerts","documentType":"sop","url":"https://www.stmarytx.edu/policies/university-police/timely-warning-notifications-clery-act/"},"summary":"St. Mary's University Police Department maintains two paired, standalone Policy Library entries, [Timely Warning Notifications (Clery Act)](https://www.stmarytx.edu/policies/university-police/timely-warning-notifications-clery-act/) and [Immediate (Emergency) Notifications (Clery Act)](https://www.stmarytx.edu/policies/university-police/immediate-emergency-notifications-clery-act/), that spell out a draft-review-send workflow routing every proposed timely warning through the Office of Communications before University Police sends it as a Crime Alert.","analysis":"St. Mary's University, a Marianist Catholic institution in San Antonio, Texas founded in 1852, publishes its Clery notification procedures as two separate, numbered entries in its official [Policy Library](https://www.stmarytx.edu/policies/university-police/) rather than folding them into the Annual Security Report or a general emergency plan: [Timely Warning Notifications (Clery Act)](https://www.stmarytx.edu/policies/university-police/timely-warning-notifications-clery-act/) and [Immediate (Emergency) Notifications (Clery Act)](https://www.stmarytx.edu/policies/university-police/immediate-emergency-notifications-clery-act/).\n\nThe Timely Warning document, styled internally as a Crime Alert, sets out a specific production pipeline rather than just a criteria statement: University Police will draft an email containing the proposed timely warning notification and forward it to the Office of Communications, which will review and suggest revisions, then send it back to the University Police Department for a final review before the notification goes out to all current students and employees. St. Mary's University Police Department and/or University Communications hold the authority to develop and distribute the notice.\n\nThe companion Immediate (Emergency) Notifications document uses a distinct evidentiary standard for confirming a threat: University Police will confirm that there is an emergency or dangerous situation using the determination of 'more likely than not,' language more specific than the vague 'confirmed' standard many institutions' pages use without defining it. Once confirmed, the notice goes to the community by email and a StMU Alert text message. The Timely Warning document separately singles out sexual assault as a case where the usual production pipeline often cannot produce a genuinely timely notice, because such cases are frequently reported long after the incident occurred, leaving no ability to distribute a warning that is actually timely, even though the case is still assessed for issuance.\n\nBecause stmarytx.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the passages above are reconstructed from search-engine-indexed extracts of the two Policy Library pages rather than a firsthand line-by-line read, so every excerpt below is marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false out of caution even though the underlying search results present them as close quotations. Confidence is set to medium on that basis.","whenCriteria":"A Timely Warning (Crime Alert) is considered whenever a Clery-reportable crime against a person occurs within the university's Clery geography and is determined to pose an ongoing or serious threat. An Immediate (Emergency) Notification is issued once University Police confirms, using a 'more likely than not' standard, that an emergency or dangerous situation poses an immediate threat to health or safety.","decisionAuthority":"St. Mary's University Police Department and/or University Communications hold authority to develop and distribute a Timely Warning. University Police drafts the notice; the Office of Communications reviews and suggests revisions; University Police performs a final review before sending. University Police alone makes the 'more likely than not' confirmation for Immediate (Emergency) Notifications.","timingStandard":"A fixed minutes-based standard was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed. The Timely Warning document acknowledges its own limit directly: sexual assault cases are often reported long after the incident occurred, so there is no ability to distribute a warning that is actually 'timely' in those cases, even though the university still assesses them for issuance.","cleryFraming":"The two documents split the federal two-track requirement into two separate Policy Library entries with different decision standards: Timely Warning Notifications runs a draft-review-send pipeline through Communications, while Immediate (Emergency) Notifications relies on University Police's own 'more likely than not' confirmation and is sent directly by email and StMU Alert text.","scopeLimits":"Timely Warning distribution covers all current St. Mary's students and employees; geography follows the Clery definition of on-campus property, public property within or immediately adjacent to campus, and non-campus property the university owns or controls. Sexual assault cases are explicitly flagged as a category where the timeliness goal is frequently unattainable given typical reporting delays.","channels":["email","sms","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Draft-review-send production pipeline","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.stmarytx.edu/policies/university-police/timely-warning-notifications-clery-act/","sourceDescription":"St. Mary's University Policy Library, Timely Warning Notifications (Clery Act) (captured via search-engine reproduction; host 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Sexual assault and the limits of timeliness","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.stmarytx.edu/policies/university-police/timely-warning-notifications-clery-act/","sourceDescription":"St. Mary's University Policy Library, Timely Warning Notifications (Clery Act) (captured via search-engine reproduction; host 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"More likely than not confirmation standard","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.stmarytx.edu/policies/university-police/immediate-emergency-notifications-clery-act/","sourceDescription":"St. Mary's University Policy Library, Immediate (Emergency) Notifications (Clery Act) (captured via search-engine reproduction; host 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["St. Mary's splits its Clery notification duties into two separate, numbered Policy Library entries rather than one combined document, each with its own decision standard.","Timely Warnings pass through a documented three-step pipeline: University Police drafts, the Office of Communications reviews and suggests revisions, and University Police performs a final review before sending.","Immediate (Emergency) Notifications use a named evidentiary standard, 'more likely than not,' for University Police's confirmation decision, more specific than most institutions' undefined 'confirmed' language.","The Timely Warning document explicitly acknowledges that sexual assault cases are frequently reported long after the fact, undermining true timeliness, while still committing every such case to individual assessment."],"sources":[{"title":"Timely Warning Notifications (Clery Act), St. Mary's University Policy Library","url":"https://www.stmarytx.edu/policies/university-police/timely-warning-notifications-clery-act/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Immediate (Emergency) Notifications (Clery Act), St. Mary's University Policy Library","url":"https://www.stmarytx.edu/policies/university-police/immediate-emergency-notifications-clery-act/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","sop","timely-warning","emergency-notification","clery-act","stmu-alerts","private-masters","texas"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"stanford-alertsu-alert-policy","slug":"stanford-alertsu-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Stanford University","shortName":"Stanford","state":"CA","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"AlertSU","enrollment":18625},"policy":{"title":"AlertSU — Stanford Emergency Notification System (AlertSU FAQs / Clery Act)","systemName":"AlertSU","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://police.stanford.edu/alertsu-faq.html","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"Stanford's [AlertSU](https://police.stanford.edu/alertsu-faq.html) is activated when there is a clear and present life-safety threat to the campus community requiring immediate action, pushing messages over a mass-notification system (SMS, email, phone/VoIP) and, in extreme cases, seven outdoor warning sirens; separate [Clery timely warnings](http://police.stanford.edu/clery_act.html) are issued by the Chief of Police or a designated senior official.","analysis":"Stanford's [AlertSU](https://police.stanford.edu/alertsu-faq.html) is described as the university's emergency-notification strategy for communicating time-sensitive information during an emergency event affecting campus. The activation threshold is narrow and explicit: the system is used 'when there is a clear and present life safety threat to the campus community that requires immediate action by all campus community members.' That phrasing sets a higher bar than a generic 'serious threat' and is paired with the expectation of immediate, all-community action.\n\nAlertSU is layered. The mass-notification system sends alerts to all registered students, faculty, and staff via SMS text message, email, and phone (including VoIP speaker phones); the [Outdoor Warning System](https://police.stanford.edu/alertsu-faq.html) is a separate, escalatory layer composed of seven sirens positioned throughout main campus that emit alert tones and verbal instruction intended to reach people who are outdoors. If outside, a person should expect an audible tone for approximately 30 seconds followed by a verbal message from each of the seven sirens. Recipients are expected to keep their contact information current in Axess (students) or StanfordYou (staff/faculty), with up to 24 hours for changes to propagate.\n\nOn Clery framing, Stanford keeps emergency notifications (AlertSU) conceptually distinct from timely warnings. The [Clery Act guidance](http://police.stanford.edu/clery_act.html) explains that a federal law requires the university to issue timely warnings whenever Clery-specified crimes occur on campus or in a surrounding area and 'the Chief of Police or her designee or other senior level University official has determined that the situation poses an immediate or ongoing threat to the community.' Stanford is candid that 'There is no specific time frame that determines how recent an incident must be to warrant a Timely Warning, or how quickly the resulting AlertSU message must be sent,' and that the most common cause of delay is a crime not being reported promptly to DPS. For sex offenses, the decision is explicitly case-by-case, weighing the level of force/violence used, the potential use of a drug to commit the crime, and the existence of multiple similar crimes occurring in close proximity in time or location.\n\nAuthority to activate is held by a defined roster of senior officials — including the President and Provost (or designee), the General Counsel, the Chief of the Department of Public Safety (or the on-scene SUDPS Incident Commander or designee), the Associate Vice Provost for Environmental Health & Safety, the Vice President for Public Affairs, the university Emergency Manager, the Vice President of University Communications (or designee), the Executive Director of UIT Services, and the Vice Provost for Institutional Equity, Access and Community. Testing is conducted as a campus-wide AlertSU test at least once each academic year (recent tests have run around noon in February and October), during which a message goes to every community member by SMS, email, and phone, and the outdoor warning system may be activated to verify functionality and audio clarity. Because the official police.stanford.edu pages return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from the official AlertSU FAQ and Clery Act page text as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries; remaining detail is paraphrased.","whenCriteria":"AlertSU is activated when there is a clear and present life-safety threat to the campus community that requires immediate action by all campus community members. A separate Clery timely warning is issued when Clery-specified crimes occur on or near campus and a senior official determines the situation poses an immediate or ongoing threat.","decisionAuthority":"A defined roster of authorized senior officials, including the President and Provost (or designee), General Counsel, the Chief of the Department of Public Safety (or on-scene SUDPS Incident Commander/designee), the AVP for Environmental Health & Safety, VP for Public Affairs, the university Emergency Manager, the VP of University Communications (or designee), the Executive Director of UIT Services, and the Vice Provost for Institutional Equity, Access and Community. For Clery timely warnings, the Chief of Police or her designee or other senior University official.","timingStandard":"AlertSU is for situations 'that require immediate action'; for timely warnings, Stanford states there is no specific time frame for how recent an incident must be or how quickly the AlertSU message must be sent, with delays most commonly caused by late reporting to DPS.","cleryFraming":"Distinguishes emergency notifications (AlertSU, for an immediate clear-and-present life-safety threat) from Clery timely warnings (for Clery-specified crimes posing an immediate or ongoing threat); sex-offense timely warnings are decided case-by-case on force/violence, possible drug use, and clustering of similar crimes.","testingCadence":"A campus-wide AlertSU test is conducted at least once each academic year (recent tests held around noon in February and October), sending SMS, email, and phone messages and optionally activating the outdoor warning sirens.","scopeLimits":"The outdoor sirens are reserved for extreme instances and are intended to reach people outdoors (≈30-second tone plus a verbal message from each of seven sirens). The mass-notification system reaches only registered community members whose contact info is current in Axess/StanfordYou (allow up to 24 hours for changes). Timely-warning issuance is discretionary and gated on a senior-official threat determination.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","siren","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"AlertSU activation threshold","quotedText":"This system is used when there is a clear and present life safety threat to the campus community that requires immediate action by all campus community members.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.stanford.edu/alertsu-faq.html","sourceDescription":"Stanford SUDPS — AlertSU FAQs","annotations":["Sets a high, action-oriented bar ('clear and present life safety threat ... immediate action by all') distinct from the lower Clery timely-warning standard."],"characterCount":160},{"label":"Outdoor Warning System — seven sirens","quotedText":"If you are outside, you should expect to hear an audible tone for approximately 30 seconds, followed by a verbal message from each of the 7 sirens at various campus locations.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.stanford.edu/alertsu-faq.html","sourceDescription":"Stanford SUDPS — AlertSU FAQs","annotations":["Specifies the siren behavior (≈30-second tone then voice) and confirms the seven-siren count; the sirens target people outdoors as an escalatory layer beyond SMS/email/phone."],"characterCount":175},{"label":"No fixed timely-warning clock","quotedText":"There is no specific time frame that determines how recent an incident must be to warrant a Timely Warning, or how quickly the resulting AlertSU message must be sent.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"http://police.stanford.edu/clery_act.html","sourceDescription":"Stanford SUDPS — Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act","annotations":["Stanford explicitly declines to set a numeric deadline for timely warnings, instead tying issuance to a senior-official threat judgment."],"characterCount":166},{"label":"Sex-offense timely-warning factors","quotedText":"Factors that will be considered when making this decision include: the level of force and violence used to commit the crime; the potential use of a drug to commit the crime; and the existence of multiple crimes of a similar nature occurring in close proximity, either in time or location.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"http://police.stanford.edu/clery_act.html","sourceDescription":"Stanford SUDPS — Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act","annotations":["Spells out the case-by-case test for sex-offense timely warnings (force/violence, drug-facilitation, clustering), a sensitive Clery sub-category."],"characterCount":288}],"keyFindings":["AlertSU's activation bar is a 'clear and present life safety threat to the campus community that requires immediate action by all campus community members' — narrower than a generic serious-threat standard.","Delivery is layered: a mass-notification system (SMS, email, phone/VoIP to all registered community members) plus an escalatory Outdoor Warning System of seven main-campus sirens (≈30-second tone then a verbal message).","Authority to activate is vested in a broad named roster of senior officials; Clery timely warnings are issued by the Chief of Police or her designee or another senior University official.","Stanford explicitly states there is no fixed time frame for how recent an incident must be or how fast an AlertSU timely-warning message must go out; late reporting to DPS is the most common cause of delay.","AlertSU is tested campus-wide at least once each academic year (recent tests around noon in February and October), exercising SMS/email/phone and optionally the sirens."],"sources":[{"title":"AlertSU FAQs — Stanford Department of Public Safety","url":"https://police.stanford.edu/alertsu-faq.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act — Stanford SUDPS","url":"http://police.stanford.edu/clery_act.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Stay Informed — CardinalReady, Stanford University","url":"https://cardinalready.stanford.edu/stay-informed/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"AlertSU System Test — Wednesday, February 12, 2025 — Stanford Emergency Information","url":"https://emergency.stanford.edu/2025/02/03/alertsu-system-test-wednesday-february-12-2025/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Stanford to conduct test of campus emergency notification system — Palo Alto Online","url":"https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2016/10/10/stanford-to-conduct-test-of-campus-emergency-notification-system","type":"local-media"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","alertsu","sirens","private-r1","california"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-31","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"stanly-community-college-timely-warning-emergency-notification","slug":"stanly-community-college-timely-warning-emergency-notification","institution":{"name":"Stanly Community College","shortName":"Stanly CC","state":"NC","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"SCC Campus Alerts","enrollment":3000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning and Emergency Response Notification - Campus Crime Report","systemName":"SCC Campus Alerts","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.stanly.edu/about/campus-safety/campus-crime-report.html","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Stanly Community College publishes [President-authorized timely warning criteria and multi-channel emergency response notification procedures](https://www.stanly.edu/about/campus-safety/campus-crime-report.html) on its Campus Crime Report page, with PA, phone tree, campus email, and website as primary emergency channels.","analysis":"Stanly Community College (Albemarle, NC) documents Clery timely-warning and emergency-notification practice on its official [Campus Crime Report](https://www.stanly.edu/about/campus-safety/campus-crime-report.html) safety page. The College President or designee is responsible for issuing timely warnings in compliance with the Clery Act. Anyone with warranting information should report to the switchboard operator or campus law enforcement. Timely warning decisions are case-by-case considering available facts, whether the crime is a serious or continuing threat to students or employees, and possible compromise of law enforcement efforts.\n\nUpon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat to health or safety of students, employees, and visitors on or off campus, the campus community is to be immediately notified unless notification would compromise efforts to contain the emergency. The President or designee informs the community by immediately placing a message on the public address system, phone tree, campus-wide email, and/or posting on the campus website. The page also references the SCC Critical Incident Plan for fire, weather, emergencies, and violence, with evacuation routes and safe areas posted campus-wide. Complements archive cases for weather closures and remote operations.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning: situation warranting Clery-compliant community warning for serious or continuing threat. Emergency notification: confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat to health or safety of students, employees, and visitors on or off campus.","decisionAuthority":"College President or designee issues timely warnings and emergency response announcements. Reports warranting warnings go to switchboard operator or campus law enforcement.","timingStandard":"Immediate notification upon confirmation of significant emergency unless notification would compromise containment efforts. Timely warnings case-by-case under Clery.","cleryFraming":"Campus Crime Report page sections on Timely Warning and Emergency Response and Evacuation Procedures implementing Clery Act timely warning and emergency notification duties.","scopeLimits":"Notification may be withheld if it would compromise emergency containment. Channels are PA, phone tree, email, and/or website rather than a single branded SMS-only system on this page.","testingCadence":"Not specified as a fixed cadence on the Campus Crime Report page; Critical Incident Plan referenced for operational procedures.","channels":["pa-system","phone-call","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"President timely warning authority","quotedText":"The Stanly Community College President or his/her designee is responsible for issuing timely warnings in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Act.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.stanly.edu/about/campus-safety/campus-crime-report.html","sourceDescription":"Stanly CC Campus Crime Report - Timely Warning","annotations":["President or designee owns Clery timely warnings."],"characterCount":142},{"label":"Multi-channel emergency announcement methods","quotedText":"When a determination has been made confirming a significant emergency or dangerous situation, the College President or his/her designee will inform the campus community by immediately placing a message on the public address system, phone tree, campus-wide email, and/or have an announcement posted on the campus website ( www.stanly.edu ).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.stanly.edu/about/campus-safety/campus-crime-report.html","sourceDescription":"Stanly CC Campus Crime Report - Emergency Response","annotations":["PA, phone tree, email, and website as EN stack."],"characterCount":339}],"keyFindings":["President or designee owns both timely warnings and emergency announcements.","EN channels: public address, phone tree, campus-wide email, website.","Case-by-case TW considering threat seriousness and law-enforcement compromise risk."],"sources":[{"title":"Stanly Community College Campus Crime Report (Timely Warning and Emergency Response)","url":"https://www.stanly.edu/about/campus-safety/campus-crime-report.html","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["north-carolina","community-college","criteria-page","timely-warning","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"stark-state-college-ssc-alert-rave-asr","slug":"stark-state-college-ssc-alert-rave-asr","institution":{"name":"Stark State College","shortName":"Stark State","state":"OH","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"SSC Alert / RAVE","enrollment":10000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning Policy and Emergency Notification (SSC Alert / RAVE) - Annual Security Report","systemName":"SSC Alert / RAVE","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.starkstate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2025-MAIN-Annual-Security-Report-For-Calendar-Year-2024.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Stark State College documents [Campus Safety Alerts and SSC Alert RAVE text messaging](https://www.starkstate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2025-MAIN-Annual-Security-Report-For-Calendar-Year-2024.pdf) for Clery timely warnings and emergency response, with Chief of Security issuance authority.","analysis":"Stark State College (North Canton multi-site, OH) publishes Timely Warning Policy/Procedure and Emergency Response procedures in its [2025 Main Campus Annual Security Report](https://www.starkstate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2025-MAIN-Annual-Security-Report-For-Calendar-Year-2024.pdf). Campus Safety Alerts notify students, faculty, and staff of Clery Act crimes representing a serious or ongoing threat and heighten safety awareness; they may also solicit information leading to arrest. The Chief of Security and/or Assistant Director of Security issue Safety Alerts, subject to accurate facts availability.\n\nSafety Alerts go instantly via college email and the Security web page; additional tools include mystarkstate portal Emergency Notifications, SSC ALERT text messaging (RAVE), public address system, college information monitors, and a recorded emergency info line. Emergency response without delay determines severity and notification content for immediate threats; highest Administrative Official or Chief of Security may delay if notification would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. SSC Alert (RAVE) is an opt-in tool for emergencies, closings, and other notifications via mystarkstate Rave Mobile Safety section. Complements Ohio multi-campus CC coverage.","whenCriteria":"Campus Safety Alert / Timely Warning when a violent crime against a person or substantial property crime on campus represents a serious or ongoing threat. Emergency notification for significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat to health or safety of students, employees, or community.","decisionAuthority":"Chief of Security and/or Assistant Director of Security issue Campus Safety Alerts. EN content and severity determination by Campus Security; highest Administrative Official on campus or Chief of Security may delay for compromise exception. Communications coordinated by Chief of Security, Assistant Director, and/or Security Support Staff.","timingStandard":"Every attempt to issue Safety Alert timely upon report subject to accurate facts. EN without delay unless notification would compromise response. Re-entry only with highest Administrative Official approval.","cleryFraming":"ASR Timely Warning Policy/Procedure and Emergency Response and Evacuation Procedures with named SSC Alert / RAVE system.","scopeLimits":"Safety Alerts issued by Campus Security only. SSC Alert is opt-in. Multi-campus SSC Alerts cover main and satellite centers per ERP.","testingCadence":"Not specified as a fixed cadence in the Main Campus ASR Timely Warning / Emergency Response sections reviewed; ERP references RAVE for closings and emergencies.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","pa-system","website","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Chief of Security issues Safety Alerts","quotedText":"The Chief of Security and/or Assistant Director of Security are responsible for issuing Campus Safety Alerts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.starkstate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2025-MAIN-Annual-Security-Report-For-Calendar-Year-2024.pdf","sourceDescription":"Stark State Main Campus 2025 ASR - Timely Warning Policy","annotations":["Chief/Assistant Director of Security own Safety Alert issuance."],"characterCount":109},{"label":"SSC ALERT RAVE text channel","quotedText":"SSC ALERT Text messaging system (RAVE)","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.starkstate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2025-MAIN-Annual-Security-Report-For-Calendar-Year-2024.pdf","sourceDescription":"Stark State Main Campus 2025 ASR - communication tools","annotations":["Named SSC ALERT / RAVE text messaging channel."],"characterCount":38},{"label":"SSC Alert RAVE opt-in system","quotedText":"The college provides students with an opt-in notification system called SSC Alert (RAVE) as one important communication tool.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.starkstate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2025-MAIN-Annual-Security-Report-For-Calendar-Year-2024.pdf","sourceDescription":"Stark State Main Campus 2025 ASR - emergency notification","annotations":["Opt-in SSC Alert / RAVE for emergencies and closings."],"characterCount":125}],"keyFindings":["Campus Safety Alerts for Clery serious/ongoing threats via email, RAVE text, PA, monitors.","Chief of Security and Assistant Director issue Safety Alerts.","SSC Alert (RAVE) opt-in for emergencies, closings, and multi-campus notifications."],"sources":[{"title":"Stark State College Main Campus 2025 Annual Security Report PDF","url":"https://www.starkstate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2025-MAIN-Annual-Security-Report-For-Calendar-Year-2024.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Stark State Emergency Response Plan PDF","url":"https://www.starkstate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Emergency-Response-Plan.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["ohio","community-college","clery-asr","ssc-alert","rave","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"stillman-college-emergency-alert-policy","slug":"stillman-college-emergency-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Stillman College","shortName":"Stillman","state":"AL","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"Stillman Emergency Alert","enrollment":731},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Alert System (Campus Police/Safety)","systemName":"Stillman Emergency Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://stillman.edu/student-life/campus-police-safety/"},"summary":"Stillman College's [Campus Police/Safety page](https://stillman.edu/student-life/campus-police-safety/) describes an Emergency Alert system that notifies students, staff, and faculty of impending emergencies with all campus personnel and students automatically enrolled, and the college's [Weather Emergency page](https://stillman.edu/student-life/weather-emergency/) documents an outdoor emergency siren system with designated indoor safe areas for tornado warnings.","analysis":"Stillman College is a small Presbyterian HBCU in Tuscaloosa, Alabama with a [2024-25 enrollment of 731](https://www.univstats.com/colleges/stillman-college/student-population/), sitting in one of the most tornado-prone college towns in the country; its campus took damage in the April 27, 2011 Tuscaloosa EF4. The college publishes no standalone notification policy document that surfaced in this review, but two official pages together outline the apparatus. The [Campus Police/Safety page](https://stillman.edu/student-life/campus-police-safety/) states that the college offers an Emergency Alert system to notify students, staff, and faculty of any impending emergencies, that all campus personnel and students are automatically enrolled in the program, and that the system serves as a primary means to provide information to the entire campus; the Stillman College Police Department, based at the Hay College Center, is the contact for alert preferences and text-alert enrollment. The [Weather Emergency page](https://stillman.edu/student-life/weather-emergency/) adds the siren layer: when the emergency siren system sounds, all students are directed to go indoors to designated safe areas, with tornado-warning shelter guidance naming the lowest levels of brick classroom, administrative, and residence buildings. The genre mix in this archive's nine Stillman cases, dominated by tornado watches, severe-weather closures, and shelter-prep messages delivered over email and social channels, matches that weather-first posture. Granular procedural details, the vendor platform, activation authority, and any test cadence did not surface in indexed retrievals, and stillman.edu is egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so the quoted language below is carried from search-index retrievals and marked unconfirmed; confidence is set to low accordingly.","whenCriteria":"Impending emergencies affecting the campus, with severe weather the documented primary genre; the siren system signals the campus to go indoors to designated safe areas.","decisionAuthority":"The Stillman College Police Department administers campus safety and is the published contact for the alert program; specific activation titles are not published on the pages that surfaced.","timingStandard":"Not published on the pages that surfaced in this review.","cleryFraming":"The public pages are informal system overviews; no published separation of Clery emergency notification versus timely warning functions surfaced in this review.","testingCadence":"Not published on the pages that surfaced in this review.","scopeLimits":"All campus personnel and students are automatically enrolled; the siren layer covers the outdoor campus with designated indoor safe areas. The vendor platform and opt-out mechanics are not published.","channels":["siren","sms","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency Alert system and automatic enrollment","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://stillman.edu/student-life/campus-police-safety/","sourceDescription":"Stillman College, Campus Police/Safety page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Siren response instruction","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://stillman.edu/student-life/weather-emergency/","sourceDescription":"Stillman College, Weather Emergency page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Stillman documents an automatically-enrolled Emergency Alert program for students, staff, and faculty, administered through the Stillman College Police Department.","An outdoor emergency siren system with designated indoor safe areas anchors the college's tornado posture, a live concern in Tuscaloosa since the April 27, 2011 EF4.","No standalone notification policy, vendor platform name, activation authority, or test cadence surfaced in this review, so this file is a thin system overview held at low confidence.","No excerpt is verbatim-confirmed: stillman.edu is egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language is carried from search-index retrievals and flagged for direct verification."],"sources":[{"title":"Stillman College, Campus Police/Safety","url":"https://stillman.edu/student-life/campus-police-safety/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Stillman College, Weather Emergency","url":"https://stillman.edu/student-life/weather-emergency/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Stillman College student population 2024-25 (Univstats)","url":"https://www.univstats.com/colleges/stillman-college/student-population/","type":"reference"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["stillman-college-tuscaloosa-tornado-2011-04-27","stillman-college-fatal-shooting-2020-03-09","stillman-college-tornado-watch-shelter-prep-2025-04-06"],"confidence":"low","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","hbcu","alabama","siren","tornado","small-college"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-23","lastUpdated":"2026-08-23","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"stockton-university-advisory-alert-policy","slug":"stockton-university-advisory-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Stockton University","shortName":"Stockton","state":"NJ","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"Stockton ADVISORY / Stockton ALERT","enrollment":9000},"policy":{"title":"Stockton ADVISORY and ALERT Emergency Notification Policy","systemName":"Stockton ADVISORY / Stockton ALERT","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://stockton.edu/emergency-management/response.html","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Stockton University's [Emergency Management Response page](https://stockton.edu/emergency-management/response.html) states that Public Safety issues emergency notifications as either a Stockton ADVISORY (informational, no immediate action) or a Stockton ALERT (requires immediate action), with category playbooks for fire, evacuation, severe weather, shelter-in-place, and active-intruder, plus presidential emergency-declaration authority via the Emergency Management Coordinator.","analysis":"Stockton University is a public master's university in New Jersey. Its institution-specific [response policy page](https://stockton.edu/emergency-management/response.html) brands community notifications as Stockton ADVISORY versus Stockton ALERT, defining when each prefix is used and listing ALERT categories with protective actions (FIRE/EVACUATE, EVACUATION, SEVERE WEATHER, SHELTER IN PLACE, ACTIVE INTRUDER RUN-HIDE-FIGHT). Declaration of a University Emergency or Disaster is recommended by the University Emergency Management Coordinator to the President or designee, with life-threatening exception authority for the Coordinator.","whenCriteria":"Public Safety issues notifications when necessary to quickly and clearly notify the campus community of hazards that could potentially affect them; ADVISORY for informational messages without immediate action; ALERT when immediate action is required.","decisionAuthority":"University Emergency Management Coordinator recommends emergency/disaster declaration to the University President or designee; Coordinator may declare if immediate life-threatening situation leaves no time for recommendation.","timingStandard":"Notifications issued when necessary to quickly and clearly notify the community (no numeric SLA stated on this page).","cleryFraming":"Page frames Public Safety emergency notifications with ADVISORY/ALERT product language; separate Clery timely-warning criteria are not enumerated on this response page.","scopeLimits":"Campus community potentially affected by the hazard; category-specific protective actions for buildings and outdoor populations.","testingCadence":"Not stated on this response page.","channels":["unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"When emergency notifications are issued","quotedText":"Stockton Public Safety will issue emergency notifications when it is necessary to quickly and clearly notify the campus community of hazards which could potentially affect them. Notifications will be either an ADVISORY or an ALERT.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://stockton.edu/emergency-management/response.html","sourceDescription":"Stockton University Emergency Management Response page","annotations":["Named Public Safety issuer and ADVISORY/ALERT bifurcation."],"characterCount":231},{"label":"ADVISORY definition","quotedText":"Stockton ADVISORY - Advisory will precede a message that is informational in nature, where immediate action is not needed.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://stockton.edu/emergency-management/response.html","sourceDescription":"Stockton University Emergency Management Response page","annotations":["Institution-specific ADVISORY brand for informational messages."],"characterCount":122},{"label":"ALERT definition","quotedText":"Stockton ALERT - Alert will precede a message that requires immediate action be taken.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://stockton.edu/emergency-management/response.html","sourceDescription":"Stockton University Emergency Management Response page","annotations":["Institution-specific ALERT brand for immediate-action messages."],"characterCount":86},{"label":"FIRE category first action","quotedText":"When a fire alarm sounds, EVACUATE Gather your personal belongings, if time permits (coats, keys purse, etc.), and exit the building Do NOT use elevators","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://stockton.edu/emergency-management/response.html","sourceDescription":"Stockton University Emergency Management Response page","annotations":["Category-specific protective action under ALERT taxonomy."],"characterCount":153},{"label":"Emergency declaration authority","quotedText":"The University Emergency Management Coordinator will recommend a course of action to the University President or the President’s designee.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://stockton.edu/emergency-management/response.html","sourceDescription":"Stockton University Emergency Management Response page","annotations":["EM Coordinator recommends; President/designee decides."],"characterCount":138}],"keyFindings":["Stockton brands messages as ADVISORY (informational) vs ALERT (immediate action).","ALERT categories include fire, evacuation, severe weather, shelter-in-place, and active-intruder.","Emergency declaration authority is defined for EM Coordinator and President/designee."],"sources":[{"title":"Response - Emergency Management - Stockton University","url":"https://stockton.edu/emergency-management/response.html","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["public-masters","new-jersey","stockton-alert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"stony-brook-university-alert-policy","slug":"stony-brook-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Stony Brook University (SUNY)","shortName":"SBU","state":"NY","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"SB Alert","enrollment":26689},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Communications — SB Alert","systemName":"SB Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/emergency/alerts/index","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"Stony Brook University's emergency notification system, [SB Alert](https://it.stonybrook.edu/services/sb-alert), is \"used to alert the campus community of major emergencies, immediate threats or impending situations that could pose harm, disrupt classes, impact facilities, activities, or other operations,\" delivering messages by email or text; it is distinguished from the lower-urgency [SB Advisory](https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/emergency/alerts/advisories.php) channel used for weather and other non-emergency information.","analysis":"Stony Brook University operates a tiered campus-communications model led by the branded [SB Alert](https://it.stonybrook.edu/services/sb-alert) emergency notification system. The university describes SB Alert as \"a comprehensive emergency notification system used to notify members of the campus community about major emergencies, immediate threats or impending situations,\" and more specifically as \"the University's emergency notification system used to alert the campus community of major emergencies, immediate threats or impending situations that could pose harm, disrupt classes, impact facilities, activities, or other operations.\" The activation standard is thus framed around major emergencies and immediate threats rather than routine information.\n\nSB Alert is paired with a separate, lower-urgency channel: [SB Advisory](https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/emergency/alerts/advisories.php), used for weather-related information, school closings and other non-emergency updates. The university directs community members to \"monitor the SB Advisory and SB Alert pages\" for weather and closing information, with SB Alert reserved for true emergencies and impending situations and SB Advisory serving the informational tier. This two-tier split keeps the emergency system uncluttered so that an SB Alert reliably signals an immediate threat.\n\nSB Alert reaches community members \"via email or text such as weather related disruptions and safety updates,\" and the system \"can send a message to any device you select.\" Registration is handled through the university's [SOLAR](https://it.stonybrook.edu/services/sb-alert) student/employee portal; students are strongly recommended to sign up to receive alerts on a mobile phone or email, and every student and employee is encouraged to enroll. Stony Brook supplements SB Alert with companion delivery tools including SB Alertus desktop pop-up alerts and the SB Guardian mobile safety app, broadening reach across devices during an emergency.\n\nThe official emergency-management pages reviewed describe SB Alert primarily as a system overview rather than reproducing a formal Clery decision-authority or testing-cadence statement; the university's [Emergency Management](https://www.stonybrook.edu/emergency/) office maintains the Emergency Management Plan, an Emergency Operations Center and an Emergency Management Team trained to evaluate and respond to major emergencies using the Incident Command System, and senior leadership (including the Chief Security Officer) has signed public alert communications. Because the public pages do not reproduce verbatim Clery emergency-notification-versus-timely-warning criteria, a fixed timing standard, named authorizing official, or a stated testing schedule, those elements are paraphrased here rather than quoted, and confidence is set accordingly.","whenCriteria":"SB Alert is used to alert the campus community of major emergencies, immediate threats or impending situations that could pose harm, disrupt classes, impact facilities, activities, or other operations. The lower-urgency SB Advisory channel is used for weather-related information, school closings and other non-emergency updates.","decisionAuthority":"Not reproduced verbatim on the public pages reviewed. Stony Brook's Emergency Management office maintains the Emergency Management Plan and an Emergency Management Team (using the Incident Command System), and senior leadership including the Chief Security Officer has signed public alert messages.","timingStandard":"No verbatim timing standard (e.g., 'immediately' or 'without delay') is reproduced on the public SB Alert pages reviewed; SB Alert is described as the system for major emergencies, immediate threats and impending situations.","cleryFraming":"SB Alert functions as the Clery emergency notification system for immediate threats; a separate SB Advisory tier handles non-emergency/weather information. The public pages reviewed do not reproduce explicit verbatim Clery 'timely warning vs. emergency notification' definitions.","testingCadence":"No verbatim testing-cadence statement was found on the public pages reviewed.","scopeLimits":"SB Alert can send to any device a user selects; community members register/enroll through the SOLAR portal, and every student and employee is encouraged to sign up. SB Advisory is the parallel non-emergency informational channel.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","desktop-popup","push-notification","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"SB Alert definition and activation scope","quotedText":"SB Alert is the University's emergency notification system used to alert the campus community of major emergencies, immediate threats or impending situations that could pose harm, disrupt classes, impact facilities, activities, or other operations.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://it.stonybrook.edu/services/sb-alert","sourceDescription":"Stony Brook Division of Information Technology — SB Alert","annotations":["Defines SB Alert and its activation scope: major emergencies, immediate threats, and impending situations affecting safety and operations."],"characterCount":248},{"label":"Comprehensive system framing","quotedText":"SB Alert is a comprehensive emergency notification system used to notify members of the campus community about major emergencies, immediate threats or impending situations.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/emergency/alerts/index","sourceDescription":"Stony Brook Emergency Management — Emergency Communications","annotations":["Reinforces the system's purpose for major emergencies and immediate threats on the Emergency Management communications page."],"characterCount":172},{"label":"Delivery channels (email or text)","quotedText":"SB Alert notifies you about emergencies and impending situations via email or text such as weather related disruptions and safety updates.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/emergency/alerts/advisories.php","sourceDescription":"Stony Brook Emergency Management","annotations":["Identifies email and text as SB Alert delivery channels, including weather disruptions and safety updates."],"characterCount":138}],"keyFindings":["SB Alert is Stony Brook's emergency notification system for 'major emergencies, immediate threats or impending situations that could pose harm, disrupt classes, impact facilities, activities, or other operations.'","SB Alert is delivered via email or text and 'can send a message to any device you select'; community members enroll through the SOLAR portal.","A separate, lower-urgency SB Advisory channel handles weather information, closings and other non-emergency updates.","Companion tools — SB Alertus desktop pop-ups and the SB Guardian app — extend SB Alert's reach across devices.","The public pages reviewed do not reproduce verbatim Clery decision-authority, timing-standard, or testing-cadence language, so those items are paraphrased rather than quoted."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Communications — Stony Brook Emergency Management","url":"https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/emergency/alerts/index","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"SB Alert — Stony Brook Division of Information Technology","url":"https://it.stonybrook.edu/services/sb-alert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"SB Advisories — Stony Brook Emergency Management","url":"https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/emergency/alerts/advisories.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Management — Stony Brook University","url":"https://www.stonybrook.edu/emergency/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"SB Alertus Desktop — Stony Brook Emergency Management","url":"https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/emergency/alerts/SB_Alertus","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","sb-alert","stony-brook","suny","clery"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"strayer-university-alert-policy","slug":"strayer-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Strayer University","shortName":"Strayer","state":"DC","type":"for-profit","alertSystemName":"StrayerALERT","enrollment":37090},"policy":{"title":"StrayerALERT Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Policy (Annual Security Report)","systemName":"StrayerALERT","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.strayer.edu/student-consumer-information/campus-safety/","lastReviewed":"2024-12-31"},"summary":"Strayer University, a for-profit university headquartered in Washington, D.C. with leased campuses across more than a dozen states, runs [StrayerALERT](https://www.strayer.edu/student-consumer-information/campus-safety/), an email-and-text emergency-notification system activated by a Crisis Response Team and documented in its [Annual Security Reports](https://www.strayer.edu/content/dam/strayer/pdf/2024_SU_ASR.pdf).","analysis":"Strayer University is a [for-profit institution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strayer_University) owned by Strategic Education, Inc. (which also owns Capella University). Despite a heavily online model, Strayer maintains a substantive, multi-year published emergency-notification policy — branded **StrayerALERT** — across its [campus-safety page](https://www.strayer.edu/student-consumer-information/campus-safety/) and Annual Security Reports from 2017 through 2024.\n\nStrayer describes StrayerALERT as a system that 'will use email and text messaging to quickly inform students of a campus emergency.' Activation is governed by a **Crisis Response Team**: per Strayer's ASRs, if it is determined that an emergency notification should be sent, a member of the Crisis Response Team sends it through the University's third-party notification provider and the iCampus portal, with certain messages pre-formulated to speed delivery. An employee aware of an emergency is instructed to call 9-1-1 first and then alert the Crisis Response Team. The covered scenarios are broad — medical and weather emergencies, fire, explosions, workplace/campus violence, active shooter, and suspicious persons or packages.\n\nThe vendor behind StrayerALERT has changed over time: older materials point to [Rave Mobile Safety](https://www.getrave.com/login/strayer) (the getrave.com registration portal), while the 2024 ASR states Strayer 'has an emergency alert system, Everbridge,' with an Everbridge member portal — indicating a migration from Rave to Everbridge. For the Clery duties, Strayer issues timely warnings of reportable Clery crimes that constitute a threat, and follows the standard 'without delay … confirm the existence of a significant emergency or dangerous situation' framing; it states the notification system and evacuation procedures are tested at least annually, with the General Counsel advised of each test's date, time, and result. Every strayer.edu page and ASR PDF returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so all wording below was captured from search-index reproductions and could not be byte-for-byte confirmed against the source documents; accordingly the excerpts are marked reconstructed and the entry carries medium confidence.","whenCriteria":"StrayerALERT covers a broad set of campus emergencies — medical, weather, fire, explosions, workplace/campus violence, active shooter, and suspicious persons/packages. Following the Clery standard, the University acts 'without delay' to confirm the existence of a significant emergency or dangerous situation before notifying.","decisionAuthority":"A member of the Crisis Response Team (Crisis Response Management Team) decides whether to send an emergency notification and issues it through the University's third-party notification provider and the iCampus portal. An employee aware of an emergency calls 9-1-1 first, then the Crisis Response Team.","timingStandard":"Strayer follows the federal Clery standard — acting 'without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community' to confirm a significant emergency or dangerous situation. No Strayer-specific minute target was found.","cleryFraming":"Strayer distinguishes emergency notifications (significant emergency / dangerous situation, via StrayerALERT) from timely warnings of reportable Clery crimes that constitute a threat; if an emergency notification stems from a Clery crime, a timely warning is also issued. Three years of crime statistics are published in the ASR.","testingCadence":"Strayer states the notification system and evacuation procedures are tested at least annually, with the General Counsel advised of the date, time, and result of the annual test.","scopeLimits":"Notifications are campus-specific — subscribers select the campus(es) they want to hear from. Students are auto-registered with a valid Strayer email but must supply a mobile number to receive texts. Channels are limited to email and SMS (no siren/PA/social documented), consistent with leased physical campuses.","channels":["email","sms"],"excerpts":[{"label":"StrayerALERT channels / purpose","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.strayer.edu/student-consumer-information/campus-safety/","sourceDescription":"Strayer University — Campus Safety / StrayerALERT page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Decision authority (Crisis Response Team)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.strayer.edu/content/dam/strayer/pdf/2024_SU_ASR.pdf","sourceDescription":"Strayer University 2024 Annual Security Report (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Activation call procedure","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.strayer.edu/student-consumer-information/campus-safety/","sourceDescription":"Strayer University — Campus Safety page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Strayer (a D.C.-headquartered for-profit) runs StrayerALERT, an email + text emergency-notification system documented in ASRs from 2017 to 2024.","Activation rests with a Crisis Response Team, which sends pre-formulated messages via a third-party provider and the iCampus portal after 9-1-1.","The vendor migrated from Rave Mobile Safety (getrave.com portal) to Everbridge by the 2024 ASR.","The system and evacuation procedures are tested at least annually, with results reported to the General Counsel.","All strayer.edu sources blocked automated fetching, so every excerpt is snippet-derived and marked reconstructed; confidence is medium."],"sources":[{"title":"Strayer University — Campus Safety / StrayerALERT","url":"https://www.strayer.edu/student-consumer-information/campus-safety/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Strayer University — 2024 Annual Security Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.strayer.edu/content/dam/strayer/pdf/2024_SU_ASR.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Strayer University — 2022 Annual Campus Security Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.strayer.edu/content/dam/strayer/pdf/2022_Annual_Campus_Security_Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Strayer University — Wikipedia (for-profit status, parent company)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strayer_University","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","for-profit","washington-dc","strayeralert","everbridge","rave","crisis-response-team"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"suny-broome-community-college-rave-alert-asr","slug":"suny-broome-community-college-rave-alert-asr","institution":{"name":"SUNY Broome Community College","shortName":"SUNY Broome","state":"NY","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"RAVE","enrollment":6000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warnings (RAVE) - Annual Safety and Security Report","systemName":"RAVE","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://sunybroome.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/clery_report_2025.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-09-01"},"summary":"SUNY Broome Community College documents [Chief of Public Safety Timely Warnings via RAVE](https://sunybroome.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/clery_report_2025.pdf) for ongoing or continuing threats, with student registration data uploaded to RAVE and electronic bulletin board supplements.","analysis":"SUNY Broome (Binghamton/Dickinson, NY) publishes Timely Warnings policy in its [2025 Clery Report](https://sunybroome.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/clery_report_2025.pdf). When a situation arises on or off campus that, in the judgment of the Chief of Public Safety, constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat, a campus-wide timely warning is issued through SUNY Broome's RAVE system to students, faculty, staff, and other guests who have signed up. For circumstances posing immediate threat, the Office of Public Safety may also post on the campus-wide electronic bulletin board at sunybroome.edu for more immediate notification, accessible via computer to all faculty, staff, and students.\n\nStudent registration information is uploaded to RAVE; orientation, student activities day, and parents' day remind students to keep contact numbers current. RAVE is also used for temporary schedule changes (holidays, power outages, inclement weather) along with radio/TV, switchboard, website, social media, campus email, and entrance postings. Complements SUNY community-college coverage with HVCC and Schenectady.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning when a situation on or off campus constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat in the judgment of the Chief of Public Safety. RAVE also used for temporary campus schedule adjustments including weather.","decisionAuthority":"Chief of Public Safety judges ongoing or continuing threat. Office of Public Safety may post electronic bulletin board notices for immediate-threat circumstances.","timingStandard":"Campus-wide RAVE timely warning for ongoing/continuing threats. Electronic bulletin board for more immediate notification when circumstances pose immediate threat.","cleryFraming":"ASR Timely Warnings section with named RAVE system and student registration upload practice.","scopeLimits":"RAVE reaches students/faculty/staff/guests who have signed up. Student registration data auto-uploaded; users must keep contacts current. Reports warranting warnings to Public Safety at 607-778-5083.","testingCadence":"Not specified as a fixed cadence in the Timely Warnings ASR section reviewed.","channels":["sms","email","website","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Chief of Public Safety RAVE timely warning","quotedText":"In the event that a situation arises, either on or off campus, that, in the judgment of the Chief of Public Safety, constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat, a campus wide \"timely warning\" will be issued. The warning will be issued through SUNY BROOME's RAVE system to students, faculty, staff and other guests who have signed up for the program.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://sunybroome.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/clery_report_2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"SUNY Broome 2025 Clery Report - Timely Warnings","annotations":["Chief of Public Safety TW via RAVE for signed-up community members."],"characterCount":349},{"label":"Student registration uploaded to RAVE","quotedText":"Information provided by students when they register is uploaded to RAVE.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://sunybroome.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/clery_report_2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"SUNY Broome 2025 Clery Report - RAVE enrollment","annotations":["Registration data auto-uploaded to RAVE."],"characterCount":72}],"keyFindings":["RAVE for campus-wide Timely Warnings of ongoing/continuing threats.","Chief of Public Safety decides TW issuance.","Student registration data uploaded to RAVE; orientation reminders to update contacts."],"sources":[{"title":"SUNY Broome Community College 2025 Clery Report PDF","url":"https://sunybroome.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/clery_report_2025.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"SUNY Broome Campus Emergency Alert System - Rave Alert page","url":"https://sunybroome.edu/safety/rave-alert/","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["new-york","community-college","clery-asr","rave","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"suny-schenectady-county-community-college-e2campus-everbridge-asr","slug":"suny-schenectady-county-community-college-e2campus-everbridge-asr","institution":{"name":"SUNY Schenectady County Community College","shortName":"SUNY Schenectady","state":"NY","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"e2Campus / Everbridge","enrollment":5000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning and Emergency Response (e2Campus / Everbridge) - Annual Security Report","systemName":"e2Campus / Everbridge","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://sunysccc.edu/PDF/Campus%20Safety/clery2023.pdf","lastReviewed":"2023-10-01"},"summary":"SUNY Schenectady County Community College documents [Director of Campus Safety Timely Warnings via e2Campus and Everbridge Mass Notification for emergency notifications](https://sunysccc.edu/PDF/Campus%20Safety/clery2023.pdf) with President/Director authorization and one-touch response scenarios.","analysis":"SUNY Schenectady (Schenectady, NY) publishes Timely Warning and Emergency Response procedures in its [Jeanne Clery Act Annual Security Report](https://sunysccc.edu/PDF/Campus%20Safety/clery2023.pdf). If the Director of Campus Safety deems allegations a potential risk, timely warnings issue for criminal offenses (homicide, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, MVT, arson), hate crimes, VAWA offenses, and weapons/alcohol/drug arrests/referrals. Timely warnings of potential or continuing threats go through the e2Campus system to the entire college community.\n\nFor significant emergencies or dangerous situations, the College President and/or Director of Campus Safety authorize immediate Emergency Notification to affected sections unless notification would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. SUNY Schenectady employs Everbridge for electronic audio notices to monitors, desk phones, and cell phones. Associate VP of Campus Safety and PIO created one-touch response scenarios for smartphone app plus desktop/laptop/tablet dissemination. Critical Incident Management Plan and College Response Team guide response. Complements SUNY community-college coverage with HVCC SUNY New York Alert.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning: allegations of listed Clery/VAWA/hate crimes deemed by Director of Campus Safety to constitute potential risk. Emergency notification: significant emergency or dangerous situation authorized by President and/or Director of Campus Safety.","decisionAuthority":"TW: Director of Campus Safety. EN: College President and/or Director of Campus Safety authorize; Everbridge scenarios supported by Associate VP Campus Safety and PIO.","timingStandard":"EN immediately upon authorization unless compromise exception. TW through e2Campus for potential or continuing threats.","cleryFraming":"ASR Timely Warning and Emergency Response sections with named e2Campus and Everbridge Mass Notification systems.","scopeLimits":"EN may target section(s) of the College affected rather than entire community. Everbridge endpoints include monitors, desk phones, and cell phones.","testingCadence":"Table Top Exercises at least once annually; fire drills and emergency evacuation training referenced in ASR.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","desktop-popup","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"e2Campus timely warning distribution","quotedText":"Timely warnings of potential or continuing threats will be issued through the e2Campus system (see below for more information on the system) to the entire college community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://sunysccc.edu/PDF/Campus%20Safety/clery2023.pdf","sourceDescription":"SUNY Schenectady ASR - Timely Warning","annotations":["Named e2Campus for entire-community TW."],"characterCount":173},{"label":"Everbridge multi-endpoint EN","quotedText":"SUNY Schenectady employs a product called Everbridge which electronically sends audio notices to a number of different end points, including all monitors, desk phones, and cell phones.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://sunysccc.edu/PDF/Campus%20Safety/clery2023.pdf","sourceDescription":"SUNY Schenectady ASR - Emergency Response / Everbridge","annotations":["Named Everbridge for monitors, desk phones, and cell phones."],"characterCount":184}],"keyFindings":["e2Campus for campus-wide Timely Warnings of potential/continuing threats.","Everbridge Mass Notification with one-touch scenarios for EN.","President and/or Director of Campus Safety authorize Emergency Notifications."],"sources":[{"title":"SUNY Schenectady County Community College Jeanne Clery Act Annual Security Report PDF","url":"https://sunysccc.edu/PDF/Campus%20Safety/clery2023.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"SUNY Schenectady Clery Act Campus Safety page","url":"https://sunysccc.edu/About-Us/Campus-Safety/Clery-Act.html","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["new-york","community-college","clery-asr","e2campus","everbridge","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"surry-community-college-connect-surry-scc-alert-asr","slug":"surry-community-college-connect-surry-scc-alert-asr","institution":{"name":"Surry Community College","shortName":"Surry CC","state":"NC","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Connect Surry / SCC Alert","enrollment":3500},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warnings and SCC Alert (Connect Surry) - Campus Security Report","systemName":"Connect Surry / SCC Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://surry.edu/uploads/docs/Campus-Security-Report-2020.pdf","lastReviewed":"2020-10-01"},"summary":"Surry Community College documents [Chief-of-Police timely warnings via Connect Surry and campus email](https://surry.edu/uploads/docs/Campus-Security-Report-2020.pdf), with SCC Alert mass notification spanning phones, email, text, public address, and website crime-alert postings across multi-site campuses.","analysis":"Surry Community College (Dobson/Mount Airy/Yadkin/Elkin/Pilot Mountain, NC) publishes Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications language in its [Campus Security Report](https://surry.edu/uploads/docs/Campus-Security-Report-2020.pdf) and related [Clery Act emergency response materials](https://surry.edu/uploads/docs/clery_act.pdf). When the Chief of Campus Police judges an ongoing or continuing threat (on or off campus), a campus-wide Timely Warning is issued through the Connect Surry alert system and the campus email system covering students, faculty, and staff. For circumstances posing immediate threat, SCCPD also posts notices on the Consumer Information / Campus Police web pages and bulletin boards in each building.\n\nSCC Alert / Connect Surry sends messages to phone numbers and email addresses students list at registration; components include campus PA, website current-alerts postings, and mass notification via home/work/cell phones, email, and text. The Chief of the SCC Police Department determines notification content and initiates the system without delay taking community safety into account, unless notification would compromise victim assistance or emergency mitigation. Complements Piedmont Triad / northwest NC community-college policy coverage.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning: situation on or off campus constituting ongoing or continuing threat in judgment of Chief of Campus Police. Immediate-threat situations also receive website and building bulletin postings.","decisionAuthority":"Chief of Campus Police judges TW need, determines EN content, and initiates the notification system. Reports warranting warnings go to SCC Police Department (336-386-3453) or in person at A building.","timingStandard":"Without delay for emergency notification initiation, taking community safety into account, unless professional judgment holds notification would compromise victim assistance or mitigation.","cleryFraming":"Campus Security Report Timely Warnings / Emergency Notifications sections with named Connect Surry / SCC Alert system.","scopeLimits":"Multi-site presence (Dobson, Mount Airy Center for Public Safety, Yadkin, Elkin, Pilot Mountain). Website and bulletin-board postings supplement Connect Surry/email for immediate-threat circumstances.","testingCadence":"Not specified as a fixed cadence in the Timely Warnings section reviewed.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Connect Surry timely warning path","quotedText":"In the event that a situation arises, either on or off campus, that, in the judgment of the Chief of Campus Police, constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat, a campus wide \"Timely Warning\" will be issued. The warning will be issued through the Connect Surry alert system and the campus e-mail system that includes students, faculty and staff.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://surry.edu/uploads/docs/Campus-Security-Report-2020.pdf","sourceDescription":"Surry CC Campus Security Report - Timely Warnings","annotations":["Chief of Campus Police TW judgment via Connect Surry and email."],"characterCount":345},{"label":"SCC Alert registration-time contacts","quotedText":"SCC Alert is used to send messages to phone numbers and e-mail addresses the student lists at registration time.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://surry.edu/uploads/docs/Campus-Security-Report-2020.pdf","sourceDescription":"Surry CC Campus Security Report - SCC Alert","annotations":["SCC Alert uses registration contact data for phone and email."],"characterCount":112}],"keyFindings":["Connect Surry / SCC Alert brand for TW and mass notification.","Chief of Campus Police owns TW judgment and EN initiation.","PA, website crime alerts, and building bulletin boards supplement Connect Surry/email."],"sources":[{"title":"Surry Community College Campus Security Report 2020 PDF","url":"https://surry.edu/uploads/docs/Campus-Security-Report-2020.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Surry Community College Clery Act emergency response PDF","url":"https://surry.edu/uploads/docs/clery_act.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["north-carolina","community-college","clery-asr","scc-alert","connect-surry","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"swarthmore-college-alert-policy","slug":"swarthmore-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Swarthmore College","shortName":"Swarthmore","state":"PA","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"Swarthmore College Public Safety emergency notification system (SwatSafe app + InformaCast/Cisco IP-phone and voicemail/email blast)","enrollment":1700},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning Notices and Emergency Notification (Department of Public Safety)","systemName":"SwatSafe / InformaCast emergency notification","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.swarthmore.edu/public-safety/timely-warning-notices","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"Swarthmore College, a small private liberal-arts college near Philadelphia, issues Clery [Timely Warning Notices](https://www.swarthmore.edu/public-safety/timely-warning-notices) and emergency notifications through its Department of Public Safety, using a multi-tool system — the [SwatSafe safety app](https://www.swarthmore.edu/public-safety), an InformaCast/Cisco IP-phone and campus-voicemail blast, email, and an externally hosted [emergency website](https://emergency.swarthmore.edu/) — and reserves Timely Warning Notices for Clery-reportable crimes judged to represent a continuing threat to the campus community.","analysis":"Swarthmore College is a roughly 1,700-student private liberal-arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, just outside Philadelphia. Its Clery alert-and-warning functions are run by the Department of Public Safety (DPS), which publishes a public [Timely Warning Notices](https://www.swarthmore.edu/public-safety/timely-warning-notices) page and maintains an [Emergency Response Guide](https://www.swarthmore.edu/public-safety/emergency-response-guide) describing how emergency notifications are delivered.\n\nOn the timely-warning side, Swarthmore tracks the Clery standard precisely. DPS states that the federal Clery Act requires the College to report to the campus community crimes that fall into certain categories and that are 'considered by the institution to represent a continuing threat to the campus community,' and is careful to add that 'not every instance of a Clery crime represents a continuing threat to the community and therefore Timely Warning Notifications are not issued in every instance of a Clery crime on or near the campus.' That judgment-based framing — issue only on a continuing threat — is the heart of the timely-warning regime, and Swarthmore states it explicitly. Both [Emergency Notifications and Timely Warning Notices are issued through the Public Safety Department](https://www.swarthmore.edu/public-safety/timely-warning-notices).\n\nThe emergency-notification toolset is unusually phone-system-centric for a small college. Per the College's [Emergency Response Guide](https://www.swarthmore.edu/public-safety/emergency-response-guide), the voicemail system can send a single voicemail to all students, all faculty and staff, or the full community and will activate the message light on all campus Cisco phones; email is used to send alerts; text messages preceded by an alert tone can be pushed to and displayed on IP phone screens; and the InformaCast system can rapidly push notifications (e.g., severe-weather information) through the Cisco IP-phone system. The College also runs an externally hosted [emergency.swarthmore.edu](https://emergency.swarthmore.edu/) site that is always live and updatable during an incident, plus the [SwatSafe](https://www.swarthmore.edu/public-safety) mobile app, described as the official safety app and the only app that integrates with the College's safety and security systems, which both pushes safety alerts and lets users report concerns to DPS. Historically, vendor-endorsement materials associate the e2Campus/Omnilert keyword-SMS product with this generation of campus systems, but this review could not corroborate from an official Swarthmore source that a discrete brand called 'Swarthmore Alert' or a live Omnilert/e2Campus deployment is the current system; the College's own pages describe the InformaCast/Cisco-and-SwatSafe toolset instead. That brand question is flagged honestly rather than asserted. The exact named decision authority and a specific periodic test cadence were not confirmable verbatim (swarthmore.edu pages were reachable only via the search index, not a byte-for-byte fetch); the continuing-threat timely-warning language was corroborated across multiple official-page retrievals and is marked verbatim-confirmed.","whenCriteria":"Timely Warning Notices are issued for Clery-reportable crimes that the institution considers to represent a continuing threat to the campus community; they are explicitly NOT issued for every Clery crime. Emergency notifications are issued for immediate dangers to the community. Both functions are issued through the Department of Public Safety.","decisionAuthority":"The Department of Public Safety issues both Emergency Notifications and Timely Warning Notices and decides on the proper method and timing of notification. A Clery Act Compliance Committee (students, faculty, staff) oversees reporting, policy and procedure development. The specific named individual/title authorized to trigger an emergency notification was not confirmable verbatim in this review and is described generically.","timingStandard":"Swarthmore frames timely warnings around the Clery 'continuing threat' standard and states warnings are issued when appropriate; emergency notifications go out when DPS becomes aware of an immediate danger. A specific numeric or 'without delay' timing phrase from an official Swarthmore source was not corroborated verbatim in this review, so the timing standard is described qualitatively.","cleryFraming":"Swarthmore separates the two Clery functions and states the standard verbatim: Timely Warning Notices cover Clery-category crimes representing a continuing threat, and are not issued for every Clery crime. A Clery Act Compliance Committee oversees the College's compliance and updates the Annual Fire Safety and Security Report.","testingCadence":"The College's published materials describe the notification tools but did not, in the indexed snippets available to this review, state a specific periodic test cadence; that field is left unstated rather than reconstructed.","scopeLimits":"The emergency-notification toolset is phone-system-centric: the campus voicemail/Cisco IP-phone and InformaCast channels reach community members on campus phones, while email, the SwatSafe app and the externally hosted emergency website extend reach off the phone system. Full mobile/SMS reach depends on community members installing SwatSafe and keeping contact information current. The current platform is described by the College as SwatSafe + InformaCast/Cisco rather than a single externally branded SMS product.","channels":["phone-call","email","sms","push-notification","website","desktop-popup"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely warning standard — continuing threat","quotedText":"The Federal Clery Act requires colleges to report to the campus community crimes that fall into certain categories and that are considered by the institution to represent a continuing threat to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.swarthmore.edu/public-safety/timely-warning-notices","sourceDescription":"Swarthmore College — Public Safety, Timely Warning Notices","annotations":["States the Clery timely-warning trigger as the 'continuing threat' standard. Identical wording appeared across multiple retrievals of the official Public Safety Timely Warning Notices page."],"characterCount":215},{"label":"Timely warnings not issued for every Clery crime","quotedText":"Not every instance of a Clery crime represents a continuing threat to the community and therefore Timely Warning Notifications are not issued in every instance of a Clery crime on or near the campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.swarthmore.edu/public-safety/timely-warning-notices","sourceDescription":"Swarthmore College — Public Safety, Timely Warning Notices","annotations":["The judgment-based limit that distinguishes a timely warning from a crime-log entry: a continuing threat is required, not merely a reportable crime. Corroborated across multiple official-page retrievals."],"characterCount":199},{"label":"SwatSafe official safety app","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.swarthmore.edu/public-safety","sourceDescription":"Swarthmore College — Public Safety (host reachable only via search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Phone-system emergency notification tools","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.swarthmore.edu/public-safety/emergency-response-guide","sourceDescription":"Swarthmore College — Public Safety, Emergency Response Guide (host reachable only via search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Externally hosted emergency website","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.swarthmore.edu/public-safety/emergency-response-guide","sourceDescription":"Swarthmore College — Public Safety, Emergency Response Guide (host reachable only via search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Swarthmore's Clery alert-and-warning functions are run by the Department of Public Safety, which publishes a public Timely Warning Notices page.","DPS states the Clery standard verbatim: Timely Warning Notices cover crimes representing a continuing threat and are NOT issued for every Clery crime.","The emergency-notification toolset is phone-system-centric — campus voicemail/Cisco IP-phone blast, alert-tone IP-phone text, InformaCast, email — plus the SwatSafe app and an externally hosted always-live emergency website.","A discrete current brand called 'Swarthmore Alert' or a live Omnilert/e2Campus deployment could NOT be corroborated from an official Swarthmore source; the College describes the SwatSafe + InformaCast/Cisco toolset instead, so the brand is flagged rather than asserted.","The named emergency-notification decision authority and a specific test cadence were not confirmable verbatim (swarthmore.edu reachable only via search index); the continuing-threat timely-warning language was confirmed verbatim across multiple official-page retrievals."],"sources":[{"title":"Swarthmore College — Public Safety, Timely Warning Notices","url":"https://www.swarthmore.edu/public-safety/timely-warning-notices","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Swarthmore College — Public Safety, Emergency Response Guide","url":"https://www.swarthmore.edu/public-safety/emergency-response-guide","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Swarthmore College — Public Safety (home / SwatSafe)","url":"https://www.swarthmore.edu/public-safety","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Swarthmore College — Emergency Information (externally hosted)","url":"https://emergency.swarthmore.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Swarthmore College — Public Safety, Reporting an Incident","url":"https://www.swarthmore.edu/public-safety/reporting-incident","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","timely-warning","emergency-notification","private-liberal-arts","pennsylvania","swatsafe","informacast","department-of-public-safety"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"syracuse-university-orange-alert-policy","slug":"syracuse-university-orange-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Syracuse University","shortName":"SU","state":"NY","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"Orange Alert","enrollment":22589},"policy":{"title":"Orange Alert / Alerts and Timely Warnings","systemName":"Orange Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://dps.syr.edu/public-information/orange-alert/"},"summary":"Orange Alert is Syracuse University's crisis notification system, providing rapid notification and instruction to SU students, faculty and staff and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) students in the event of a crisis in progress — an instance with immediate threat of physical harm to the campus community — using email, text, push notifications from the Orange Safe app, social media, and cell/landline phone calls ([Syracuse DPS](https://dps.syr.edu/public-information/orange-alert/)); the Department of Public Safety separately issues Clery [timely warnings](https://dps.syr.edu/public-information/the-jeanne-clery-act/alerts-timely-warnings/) as Public Safety Notices, Updates, and Information bulletins.","analysis":"[Orange Alert](https://dps.syr.edu/public-information/orange-alert/) is Syracuse University's crisis notification system, run by the [Department of Public Safety (DPS)](https://dps.syr.edu/). It is designed to provide rapid notification and instruction to SU students, faculty and staff, and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) students in the event of a crisis in progress — an instance in which there is immediate threat of physical harm to members of the campus community. When activated, Orange Alert uses e-mail, text messaging, push notifications from the Orange Safe app, social media networks, and cell/landline phone calls to send a brief notice about the situation and instructions for what to do. SU also operates an outdoor siren as part of Orange Alert.\n\nSeparately, Syracuse handles its Clery obligation through [alerts and timely warnings](https://dps.syr.edu/public-information/the-jeanne-clery-act/alerts-timely-warnings/). The Jeanne Clery Act mandates that schools issue timely warnings about Clery-defined crimes that pose a serious or ongoing threat to students and employees. DPS issues three labeled message types: a Public Safety Notice designates a timely warning related to an ongoing concern for violence; a Public Safety Information designates a warning related to an ongoing property-crime problem or general safety information; and a Public Safety Update provides information regarding a threat that has passed or an update to a previously issued Public Safety Notice. The Department of Public Safety emails these timely warnings to all current students and employees, posts them on the DPS website, prints them for posting in residence halls and other campus buildings, and adds them to the Department's social-media feeds including Facebook and Twitter.\n\nOn testing, the Orange Alert outdoor siren runs a Test mode consisting of a seven-second single alarm every Saturday at 1 p.m., and DPS conducts full Orange Alert system tests each semester (with the campus notified in advance). The distinction in SU's framing is clear: Orange Alert is reserved for an in-progress crisis with an immediate threat of physical harm, while Public Safety Notices/Updates/Information serve the Clery timely-warning function for serious or ongoing — but not necessarily immediate, in-progress — threats. (The official dps.syr.edu pages return HTTP 403 when fetched directly in this environment; the quoted language below is reproduced consistently from search-engine renderings of those official DPS pages and Syracuse University News.)","whenCriteria":"Orange Alert is activated in the event of a crisis in progress — an instance in which there is immediate threat of physical harm to members of the campus community. Timely warnings (Public Safety Notices/Information) are issued for Clery-defined crimes that pose a serious or ongoing threat; a Public Safety Update covers a threat that has passed or updates a prior Notice.","decisionAuthority":"Orange Alert is operated by the Syracuse University Department of Public Safety (DPS), which activates the crisis notification system and issues the Clery timely warnings (Public Safety Notices, Updates, and Information).","timingStandard":"Orange Alert provides 'rapid notification and instruction' for a crisis in progress. Timely warnings are issued under the Clery 'timely' standard for serious or ongoing threats. No fixed minute-based standard is published.","cleryFraming":"SU separates Orange Alert (crisis-in-progress emergency notification, immediate threat of physical harm) from Clery timely warnings, which DPS issues in three labeled forms: Public Safety Notice (ongoing concern for violence), Public Safety Information (ongoing property-crime problem or general safety information), and Public Safety Update (threat passed or update to a prior Notice).","testingCadence":"The Orange Alert outdoor siren runs a Test mode — a seven-second single alarm — every Saturday at 1 p.m. DPS conducts full Orange Alert system tests each semester, with the campus notified in advance.","scopeLimits":"Orange Alert reaches SU students, faculty and staff, and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) students. Channels include e-mail, text messaging, Orange Safe app push notifications, social media, and cell/landline phone calls, plus an outdoor siren. Timely warnings are emailed to all current students and employees, posted on the DPS website and in residence halls and other buildings, and added to DPS social-media feeds (Facebook and Twitter).","channels":["email","sms","push-notification","phone-call","twitter-x","facebook","website","siren"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Orange Alert definition and trigger","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://dps.syr.edu/public-information/orange-alert/","sourceDescription":"Syracuse University DPS - Orange Alert (reproduced via search; official page HTTP 403)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Orange Alert channels","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://dps.syr.edu/public-information/orange-alert/","sourceDescription":"Syracuse University DPS - Orange Alert (reproduced via search; official page HTTP 403)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Timely warning message types","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://dps.syr.edu/public-information/the-jeanne-clery-act/alerts-timely-warnings/","sourceDescription":"Syracuse University DPS - Alerts and Timely Warnings (reproduced via search; official page HTTP 403)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Siren test cadence","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://news.syr.edu/blog/2009/08/28/sireninstructions/","sourceDescription":"Syracuse University News - Orange Alert siren instructions (reproduced via search)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Orange Alert is Syracuse University's crisis notification system, activated for a crisis in progress involving an immediate threat of physical harm to the campus community.","Its audience explicitly includes SU students, faculty and staff plus SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) students.","Orange Alert delivers via e-mail, text, Orange Safe app push notifications, social media, and cell/landline phone calls, plus an outdoor siren.","DPS separates Orange Alert from Clery timely warnings, which it issues as Public Safety Notices (ongoing concern for violence), Public Safety Information (property-crime/general safety), and Public Safety Updates (threat passed or update to a prior Notice), emailed to all students and employees and posted on the DPS website, in residence halls, and on social media.","The Orange Alert siren runs a weekly seven-second test every Saturday at 1 p.m., with full Orange Alert system tests conducted each semester."],"sources":[{"title":"Orange Alert - Department of Public Safety – Syracuse University","url":"https://dps.syr.edu/public-information/orange-alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Alerts and Timely Warnings - Department of Public Safety – Syracuse University","url":"https://dps.syr.edu/public-information/the-jeanne-clery-act/alerts-timely-warnings/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"DPS Communications - Department of Public Safety – Syracuse University","url":"https://dps.syr.edu/public-information/dps-communications/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"DPS to Conduct Test of Orange Alert System on Thursday, March 19 | Syracuse University Today","url":"https://news.syr.edu/2026/03/13/dps-to-conduct-test-of-orange-alert-system-on-thursday-march-19/","type":"official-social"},{"title":"SU 'Orange Alert': What to do when you hear the siren — Syracuse University News","url":"https://news.syr.edu/blog/2009/08/28/sireninstructions/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","syracuse-university","orange-alert","clery"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"tarleton-state-university-sap-34-07-01-t0-02","slug":"tarleton-state-university-sap-34-07-01-t0-02","institution":{"name":"Tarleton State University","shortName":"Tarleton","state":"TX","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"Texan Alert"},"policy":{"title":"SAP 34.07.01.T0.02 Emergency Notification Protocol","systemName":"Texan Alert","documentType":"sop","url":"https://www.tarleton.edu/policy/wp-content/uploads/sites/142/2022/12/34_07_01_T0_02.pdf","effectiveDate":"2008-01-01","lastReviewed":"2025-03-05","policyNumber":"34.07.01.T0.02"},"summary":"Tarleton State University's [SAP 34.07.01.T0.02 Emergency Notification Protocol](https://www.tarleton.edu/policy/wp-content/uploads/sites/142/2022/12/34_07_01_T0_02.pdf) (revised 5 March 2025) is the live standard administrative procedure for the campus notification system: automatic enrollment of students, faculty and staff with opt-out, named content-and-issuance designees, a closed activation list, and a university-wide test on the last Friday of each month. The Emergency Management Plan still cites the prior number 34.07.01.T1.02; the live SAP on the policy site is T0.02.","analysis":"Tarleton, a Texas A&M University System public-r2 campus, publishes its alerting rules as a two-page [standard administrative procedure](https://www.tarleton.edu/policy/wp-content/uploads/sites/142/2022/12/34_07_01_T0_02.pdf) rather than only as ASR prose. The live document is numbered SAP 34.07.01.T0.02, last revised 5 March 2025, next review 5 March 2030. An older Emergency Management Plan still names 34.07.01.T1.02; this file records the live SAP, not the superseded number.\n\nThe procedure summary states that the emergency notification system gives the university the ability to communicate health and safety emergency information quickly through various modes of technology, that students, faculty and staff are automatically enrolled, and that individuals can opt-out at any time. It cites Texas Education Code 51.218, the Clery Act, and System Regulation 34.07.01.\n\nIssuance is delegated to three named roles (director of risk management and safety or designee; emergency management coordinator or designee; university police chief or designee), with the Emergency Management Council owning administration. Activation is limited to incidents in the Emergency Operations Plan appendices, weather-related closures on the Inclement Weather webpage, and authorization by the university president or designee(s). Testing is unusually specific: a university-wide test including all students, faculty, and staff at all campuses on the last Friday of each month, plus a test within 24 hours of a mass-notification software or process update, postponable for severe weather or active threats.\n\nConsumer-facing pages brand the stack Texan Alert / Code Purple / SafeZone; those brands do not appear in this SAP's body, so they are not quoted here. Every excerpt below was read twice against the live PDF text layer.","whenCriteria":"The notification system is activated only for incidents described in the Emergency Operations Plan appendices, weather-related closures as provided on Tarleton's Inclement Weather webpage, or as authorized by the university president or designee(s).","decisionAuthority":"Content and subsequent alerts may be developed and issued by the director of risk management and safety or designee, the emergency management coordinator or designee, or the university police chief or designee. The Emergency Management Council evaluates implementation, controls, administration, and advertisement. The president or designee(s) may also authorize activation.","timingStandard":"The SAP does not state a minutes-based issuance clock. It does require regular testing, including a university-wide test on the last Friday of each month.","cleryFraming":"The SAP is adopted in accordance with the Clery Act (cited as CFR 668.46) alongside Texas Education Code 51.218 and System Regulation 34.07.01. It does not separately define a timely-warning instrument in this two-page procedure.","testingCadence":"A university-wide notification system test, including all students, faculty, and staff at all campuses, on the last Friday of each month; an additional test within 24 hours of an update of mass notification system software or processes; tests may be postponed if extenuating circumstances (e.g. severe weather or active threats) exist during the scheduled test.","scopeLimits":"Activation is limited to the three listed categories. Students, faculty and staff are auto-enrolled and may opt out. The SAP does not describe public or visitor enrollment.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"What the notification system is","quotedText":"Tarleton State University’s (Tarleton) emergency notification system (notification system) gives the university the ability to communicate health and safety emergency information quickly through various modes of technology.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tarleton.edu/policy/wp-content/uploads/sites/142/2022/12/34_07_01_T0_02.pdf","sourceDescription":"Tarleton SAP 34.07.01.T0.02 Emergency Notification Protocol (PDF, revised 2025-03-05)","annotations":["Opening sentence of Procedure Summary. Apostrophe in University's is U+2019 as in the PDF text layer."],"characterCount":223},{"label":"Automatic enrollment","quotedText":"Students, faculty and staff are automatically enrolled into the notification system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tarleton.edu/policy/wp-content/uploads/sites/142/2022/12/34_07_01_T0_02.pdf","sourceDescription":"Tarleton SAP 34.07.01.T0.02 Emergency Notification Protocol (PDF, revised 2025-03-05)","annotations":["Auto-enrollment of the three campus populations."],"characterCount":84},{"label":"Opt-out","quotedText":"Individuals within the notification system can opt-out at any time.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tarleton.edu/policy/wp-content/uploads/sites/142/2022/12/34_07_01_T0_02.pdf","sourceDescription":"Tarleton SAP 34.07.01.T0.02 Emergency Notification Protocol (PDF, revised 2025-03-05)","annotations":["Opt-out is available at any time; the SAP does not describe how."],"characterCount":67},{"label":"Named issuers","quotedText":"The following individuals have been delegated to develop the content contained within each emergency message and issue any subsequent alerts:","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tarleton.edu/policy/wp-content/uploads/sites/142/2022/12/34_07_01_T0_02.pdf","sourceDescription":"Tarleton SAP 34.07.01.T0.02 Emergency Notification Protocol (PDF, revised 2025-03-05)","annotations":["Introduces 1.2.1-1.2.3: risk management director, emergency management coordinator, university police chief, each or designee."],"characterCount":141},{"label":"Monthly university-wide test","quotedText":"A university-wide notification system test, including all students, faculty, and staff at all campuses, will be conducted on the last Friday of each month.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tarleton.edu/policy/wp-content/uploads/sites/142/2022/12/34_07_01_T0_02.pdf","sourceDescription":"Tarleton SAP 34.07.01.T0.02 Emergency Notification Protocol (PDF, revised 2025-03-05)","annotations":["1.4.1. Unusually specific calendar cadence."],"characterCount":155},{"label":"Presidential authorization path","quotedText":"As authorized by the university president or designee(s).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tarleton.edu/policy/wp-content/uploads/sites/142/2022/12/34_07_01_T0_02.pdf","sourceDescription":"Tarleton SAP 34.07.01.T0.02 Emergency Notification Protocol (PDF, revised 2025-03-05)","annotations":["Activation category 1.3.3."],"characterCount":57}],"keyFindings":["Live SAP number is 34.07.01.T0.02 (revised 2025-03-05); the EMP's T1.02 citation is the prior number.","Students, faculty and staff are automatically enrolled and may opt out at any time.","Three named roles may write and issue alerts; the president or designee(s) is a separate activation path.","University-wide tests run the last Friday of each month, plus within 24 hours of a software or process update."],"sources":[{"title":"Tarleton SAP 34.07.01.T0.02 Emergency Notification Protocol (PDF)","url":"https://www.tarleton.edu/policy/wp-content/uploads/sites/142/2022/12/34_07_01_T0_02.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Texan Alert - About","url":"https://www.tarleton.edu/texanalert/about/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","sop","emergency-notification","clery-act","texas","texan-alert","monthly-test"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"tarrant-county-college-alert-policy","slug":"tarrant-county-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Tarrant County College District","shortName":"TCC","state":"TX","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"myTCC Alerts (AlertAware) / Alertus","enrollment":49393},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification & Timely Warning Procedures — 2025 Annual Security Report","systemName":"myTCC Alerts","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.tccd.edu/documents/services/police-department/clery-act-statistics/2025-annual-security-report.pdf","policyNumber":null},"summary":"[Tarrant County College District](https://www.tccd.edu/about/emergency-information/my-tcc-alerts/) — the multi-campus community-college district serving Fort Worth and Tarrant County, Texas — runs two tiered systems: [myTCC Alerts (powered by AlertAware)](https://www.tccd.edu/about/emergency-information/my-tcc-alerts/) for large-scale, campus- or district-wide emergencies and [Alertus](https://www.tccd.edu/about/emergency-information/alertus/) for single-campus incidents, with timely-warning and emergency-notification authority under the Chief of Police per the [2025 Annual Security Report](https://www.tccd.edu/documents/services/police-department/clery-act-statistics/2025-annual-security-report.pdf).","analysis":"The Tarrant County College District (TCC) operates six campuses across Fort Worth and Tarrant County, Texas. Its emergency-communications architecture is explicitly tiered. [myTCC Alerts](https://www.tccd.edu/about/emergency-information/my-tcc-alerts/) — powered by AlertAware through a partnership with TCC's Department of Emergency & Risk Management — is the system used for large-scale incidents affecting a whole campus or the entire District. [Alertus](https://www.tccd.edu/about/emergency-information/alertus/) is the application used to notify students, faculty, and staff of an incident that affects a single TCC campus, pushing alerts to networked computer desktops, VoIP desk phones, alert beacons, and digital signage as well as a free mobile app.\n\nEnrollment in myTCC Alerts is automatic but channel-tiered. When a student joins TCC, they are automatically enrolled to receive myTCC alerts by phone call using the number provided on the admission application; students and employees are also automatically enrolled for voice and email notifications. To receive text-message alerts, however, a person must log in to their myTCC alerts account and opt in — a deliberate split that keeps voice/email universal while making SMS consent-based. New students, faculty, and staff receive an email with a username and password to update their myTCC alert profile, and the AlertAware mobile app is available in the Apple and Google Play stores.\n\nThe activation standard mirrors the Clery Act: TCC will immediately notify the campus community upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on the campus involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees. A Decision Team communicates and/or convenes without delay to implement the notification process; in an extreme emergency, the notification process is implemented at the sole direction of the Chief of Police, the Assistant Chief of Police or designee, the Director of Emergency & Risk Management, or the Manager of Emergency & Risk Management or designee. The District's Emergency Operations Plan is built on the National Incident Management System (NIMS) per Homeland Security Presidential Directive HSPD-5.\n\nOn Clery framing, TCC defines a timely warning as a notice that alerts the campus community of a Clery Act crime occurring within the District's Clery-reportable geography that, in the judgment of the Chief of Police or designee, constitutes a serious or continuing threat to students, employees, and campus visitors. Timely Warning Notices are distributed community-wide as soon as pertinent information is available, withhold victims' names as confidential, and are typically written by the administrative captain and/or the police compliance program specialist (or, in their absence, a command-level Police Department staff member). TCC tests the program through drills conducted across its campuses and ancillary facilities every semester. Full procedural detail appears in the [TCC 2025 Annual Security Report](https://www.tccd.edu/annualsecurityreport).","whenCriteria":"Emergency notification: immediate notification upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on the campus involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees. Timely warning: a Clery Act crime within the District's Clery geography that, in the judgment of the Chief of Police or designee, constitutes a serious or continuing threat to students, employees, and campus visitors.","decisionAuthority":"A Decision Team convenes without delay; in an extreme emergency the notification process is implemented at the sole direction of the Chief of Police, the Assistant Chief of Police or designee, the Director of Emergency & Risk Management, or the Manager of Emergency & Risk Management or designee. Timely Warning Notices are typically written by the administrative captain and/or the police compliance program specialist.","timingStandard":"TCC will immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation of an emergency; the Decision Team communicates and/or convenes without delay to implement the notification process; Timely Warning Notices are distributed community-wide as soon as pertinent information is available.","cleryFraming":"Separates emergency notifications (confirmed significant emergency / immediate threat to health or safety, immediate notification) from timely warnings (Clery Act crime in Clery geography posing a serious or continuing threat to students, employees, and visitors), with victim names withheld as confidential.","testingCadence":"Emergency drills are conducted across TCC's campuses and ancillary facilities every semester to test the operational effectiveness of the systems and coordinate rapid police response.","scopeLimits":"Tiered by scope: myTCC Alerts (AlertAware) for whole-campus or district-wide large-scale incidents; Alertus for single-campus incidents (desktops, VoIP phones, beacons, digital signage). Voice and email enrollment is automatic; SMS requires opt-in.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","push-notification","desktop-popup","digital-signage","pa-system","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency notification trigger","quotedText":"Tarrant County College will immediately notify the campus community upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on the campus involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tccd.edu/documents/services/police-department/clery-act-statistics/2025-annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"TCC District 2025 Annual Security Report","annotations":["Restates the Clery Act emergency-notification standard nearly verbatim, with 'immediately' as the timing commitment."],"characterCount":243},{"label":"Decision authority in an extreme emergency","quotedText":"In an extreme emergency, the notification process will be implemented at the sole direction of the Chief of Police, the Assistant Chief of Police or designee, the Director of Emergency & Risk Management or the Manager of Emergency & Risk Management or designee.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tccd.edu/documents/services/police-department/clery-act-statistics/2025-annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"TCC District 2025 Annual Security Report","annotations":["Names a specific line of authority for fast-moving incidents, bypassing the broader Decision Team when speed is required."],"characterCount":261},{"label":"Timely warning definition","quotedText":"A Timely Warning Notice alerts the campus community of a Clery Act crime occurring within the Tarrant County College District's Clery reportable geography that in the judgment of the chief of police or his designee, constitutes a serious or continuing threat to students, employees, and campus visitors.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tccd.edu/documents/services/police-department/clery-act-statistics/2025-annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"TCC District 2025 Annual Security Report","annotations":["Ties the timely-warning trigger to Clery geography and the chief of police's judgment of a serious or continuing threat, extended to campus visitors."],"characterCount":303},{"label":"myTCC Alerts scope and SMS opt-in","quotedText":"myTCC alerts is the emergency alert system used for large-scale incidents affecting a whole campus or the entire District.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tccd.edu/about/emergency-information/my-tcc-alerts/","sourceDescription":"TCC — myTCC Alerts Powered by AlertAware","annotations":["Defines myTCC Alerts as the wide-scope tier; voice/email enrollment is automatic while text-message alerts require logging in to opt in."],"characterCount":122}],"keyFindings":["TCC runs a tiered architecture: myTCC Alerts (powered by AlertAware) for whole-campus or district-wide incidents, and Alertus for single-campus incidents via desktops, VoIP phones, beacons, and digital signage.","Voice and email enrollment in myTCC Alerts is automatic (phone call uses the admission-application number); text-message alerts require the user to log in and opt in.","Emergency notifications go out immediately upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety.","In an extreme emergency, the notification process is implemented at the sole direction of the Chief of Police, Assistant Chief or designee, or the Director/Manager of Emergency & Risk Management; otherwise a Decision Team convenes without delay.","Timely Warning Notices cover Clery-geography crimes posing a serious or continuing threat to students, employees, and visitors, withhold victim names, and are typically drafted by the administrative captain or police compliance program specialist; drills run every semester."],"sources":[{"title":"myTCC Alerts Powered by AlertAware","url":"https://www.tccd.edu/about/emergency-information/my-tcc-alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Alertus (single-campus notifications)","url":"https://www.tccd.edu/about/emergency-information/alertus/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"TCC District 2025 Annual Security Report","url":"https://www.tccd.edu/documents/services/police-department/clery-act-statistics/2025-annual-security-report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Emergency Information (TCC)","url":"https://www.tccd.edu/about/emergency-information/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","community-college","mytcc-alerts","alertaware","alertus","texas"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-23","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"technical-college-of-the-lowcountry-alert-policy","slug":"technical-college-of-the-lowcountry-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Technical College of the Lowcountry","shortName":"TCL","state":"SC","type":"technical-college","alertSystemName":"TCL Text Alerts","alertPlatform":"Regroup"},"policy":{"title":"Text Alert","systemName":"TCL Text Alerts","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.tcl.edu/campus-life/campus-security/text-alert/","lastReviewed":"2026-07-20"},"summary":"Technical College of the Lowcountry, a public two-year college serving Beaufort, Jasper, and Hampton counties in South Carolina's Lowcountry region, publishes its emergency-messaging practices across two pages, [Text Alert](https://www.tcl.edu/campus-life/campus-security/text-alert/) and [Emergency Info](https://www.tcl.edu/campus-life/campus-security/emergency/), describing a Regroup-based text system that all students are automatically opted into.","analysis":"TCL's Text Alert page frames the system around speed and default enrollment: [with TCL's Text Alerts system, you receive immediate notification of emergency events via text messaging on your cell phone](https://www.tcl.edu/campus-life/campus-security/text-alert/), and [all students are automatically opted in, based on the information we have on file for you](https://www.tcl.edu/campus-life/campus-security/text-alert/). That auto-opt-in model, keyed to whatever phone number is already on file in student records, puts TCL closer to the auto-fed pattern than to a self-registration portal, though the college still directs students to a Regroup login (tcl.app.regroup.com) to verify or update the number the system will use.\n\nThe college's separate Emergency Info page documents a multi-surface redundancy strategy layered on top of the text channel: TCL Emergency Updates are posted to the college's own website and its Facebook page, and are also shared with local media outlets, extending reach to community members who are not TCL students or employees at all, plus a personalized layer, communications sent to a student's TCL email address and to the phone number(s) associated with their student account.\n\nBecause tcl.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were captured from TCL's own Text Alert and Emergency Info pages as reproduced in search-engine results and corroborated across multiple independent queries. No named single approving official, minutes-based timing standard, or fixed testing cadence was reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed, and enrollment figures for TCL vary considerably by counting method across public sources (roughly 2,300 to 8,500 depending on whether continuing education and non-credit students are included), so no single enrollment figure is asserted here.","whenCriteria":"TCL Text Alerts are used to provide immediate notification of emergency events to students via text messaging.","decisionAuthority":"A single named approving official or office was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"TCL describes Text Alerts as providing 'immediate notification' of emergency events; no minutes-based or hours-based SLA was reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"TCL's published pages describe the Text Alerts system in general emergency-notification terms without separately distinguishing a Clery timely-warning process by name in the sources reviewed.","testingCadence":"A specific testing cadence for TCL Text Alerts was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Students are automatically opted into text alerts using the phone number on file with the college, verifiable/updatable through a Regroup login; emergency updates are additionally posted publicly to the college website and Facebook page and shared with local media, extending reach beyond enrolled students and staff.","channels":["sms","email","website","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"What TCL Text Alerts is","quotedText":"With TCL's Text Alerts system, you receive immediate notification of emergency events via text messaging on your cell phone.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tcl.edu/campus-life/campus-security/text-alert/","sourceDescription":"Technical College of the Lowcountry - Text Alert","annotations":["Frames the system around immediate text notification of emergency events."],"characterCount":124},{"label":"Automatic opt-in","quotedText":"All students are automatically opted in, based on the information we have on file for you.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tcl.edu/campus-life/campus-security/text-alert/","sourceDescription":"Technical College of the Lowcountry - Text Alert","annotations":["Establishes an automatic-enrollment model keyed to the phone number already on file, verifiable/updatable via a Regroup login."],"characterCount":90},{"label":"Public and media distribution","quotedText":"TCL Emergency Updates will be posted to www.tcl.edu and www.facebook.com/goTCL and shared with local media outlets.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tcl.edu/campus-life/campus-security/emergency/","sourceDescription":"Technical College of the Lowcountry - Emergency Info","annotations":["Extends reach beyond enrolled students and staff via the public website, Facebook page, and local media outlets."],"characterCount":115},{"label":"Personalized channel","quotedText":"Communications will be sent to your TCL email address and your phone number(s) associated with your student account.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tcl.edu/campus-life/campus-security/emergency/","sourceDescription":"Technical College of the Lowcountry - Emergency Info","annotations":["Documents the personalized email-plus-phone layer alongside the public-facing website/Facebook/media layer."],"characterCount":116}],"keyFindings":["TCL Text Alerts automatically opts in all students using the phone number already on file, rather than requiring self-registration.","The system runs on the Regroup platform (tcl.app.regroup.com), where students verify or update their contact number.","TCL layers public distribution (website, Facebook, local media) on top of personalized email and phone-based alerts.","No named single approving official, minutes-based timing standard, or fixed testing cadence was reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","Public enrollment figures for TCL vary widely (roughly 2,300 to 8,500) depending on whether continuing education and non-credit students are counted."],"sources":[{"title":"Text Alert - Technical College of the Lowcountry","url":"https://www.tcl.edu/campus-life/campus-security/text-alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Info - Technical College of the Lowcountry","url":"https://www.tcl.edu/campus-life/campus-security/emergency/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Technical College of the Lowcountry Annual Security Report 2021-2022","url":"https://www.tcl.edu/wp-content/uploads/TCL-Annual-Security-Report-2021-2022-Crime-Data-2020-08102021.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","technical-college","south-carolina","regroup","text-alert"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-20","lastUpdated":"2026-07-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"temple-university-tualert-policy","slug":"temple-university-tualert-policy","institution":{"name":"Temple University","shortName":"Temple","state":"PA","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"TUalert","enrollment":30005},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Communications and Timely Warnings Policy (TUalert)","systemName":"TUalert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://safety.temple.edu/tusafe/tualert/emergency-communication-faq"},"summary":"TUalert is Temple University's emergency notification system; messages are sent in accordance with the [Temple University Emergency Communications and Timely Warnings Policy](https://safety.temple.edu/tusafe/tualert/emergency-communication-faq) immediately following confirmation of a dangerous situation or emergency posing an immediate threat or hazard to the university community on campus or within the university patrol zone, with Temple stating its emergency communication compliance exceeds U.S. Department of Education and Clery Act guidelines ([Temple Public Safety](https://safety.temple.edu/tusafe/tualert)).","analysis":"[TUalert](https://safety.temple.edu/tusafe/tualert) is the emergency notification system operated by Temple University's Department of Public Safety. According to Temple, TUalerts are sent in accordance with the Temple University Emergency Communications and Timely Warnings Policy, and the University states that its emergency communication compliance exceeds U.S. Department of Education and Clery Act guidelines. The operative trigger is confirmation of a dangerous situation or emergency: immediately following confirmation of a dangerous situation or emergency that poses an immediate threat or hazard to the university community on campus or within the university patrol zone, Temple University will initiate the campus notification process.\n\nThe [Emergency Communications and Timely Warnings policy](https://safety.temple.edu/tusafe/tualert/emergency-communication-faq) frames the emergency-notification threshold in Clery terms — there must be an emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees requiring immediate action on the part of the campus community for a TUalert to be sent. Authority to send is distributed: notifications may be sent by the Temple University Police Department (TUPD), the Office of Emergency Management, Facilities Management, or another authorized user depending on the situation. Temple distinguishes emergency notifications from [timely warnings](https://safety.temple.edu/tualert/types-communication): timely warnings communicate information about events that show a pattern suggesting an ongoing threat to the community — events that in isolation may seem innocuous but taken together indicate a need for increased vigilance or safety precautions — and that information is sent via email to the Temple community with additional details and potential actions.\n\nOn channels, TUalerts are sent via text message and email, and the community can also follow @TempleAlert on Twitter/X for updates. Temple operates a separate outdoor component, TUsiren — an outdoor warning siren system used to alert the campus community about an imminent threat or hazard on campus or within the university patrol zone that may require sheltering in place or lockdown. All temple.edu email accounts are automatically registered to receive TUalerts, and all mobile numbers registered on TUportal receive text messages unless the user opts out. (The official safety.temple.edu pages return HTTP 403 when fetched directly in this environment; the quoted language below is reproduced consistently from search-engine renderings of those official pages and corroborated by The Temple News reporting on how TUalert decisions are made.)","whenCriteria":"Immediately following confirmation of a dangerous situation or emergency that poses an immediate threat or hazard to the university community on campus or within the university patrol zone, Temple initiates the campus notification process. Per the policy there must be an emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees requiring immediate action on the part of the campus community for a TUalert to be sent.","decisionAuthority":"Notifications may be sent by the Temple University Police Department (TUPD), the Office of Emergency Management, Facilities Management, or another authorized user, depending on the situation.","timingStandard":"TUalerts are initiated 'immediately following confirmation' of a dangerous situation or emergency posing an immediate threat or hazard. Temple states its emergency communication compliance exceeds U.S. Department of Education and Clery Act guidelines. No fixed minute-based standard is published.","cleryFraming":"TUalerts are sent in accordance with the Temple University Emergency Communications and Timely Warnings Policy. Emergency notifications use the Clery confirmation/immediate-threat standard; timely warnings communicate patterns of events suggesting an ongoing threat and are sent via email. Temple states its compliance exceeds U.S. Department of Education and Clery Act guidelines.","testingCadence":"Temple's public TUalert FAQ describes the system, registration, and opt-out but did not, in the materials reproducible in this environment, state a specific recurring test cadence; not confirmed.","scopeLimits":"All temple.edu email accounts are automatically registered to receive TUalerts, and all mobile numbers registered on TUportal receive text messages unless the user opts out. Coverage extends to the campus and the university patrol zone. TUsiren provides outdoor warning for imminent threats requiring shelter-in-place or lockdown.","channels":["sms","email","twitter-x","siren"],"excerpts":[{"label":"TUalert policy basis","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.temple.edu/tusafe/tualert/emergency-communication-faq","sourceDescription":"Temple Public Safety - Emergency Communication FAQ (reproduced via search; official page HTTP 403)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Emergency notification trigger","quotedText":"Immediately following confirmation of a dangerous situation or emergency that poses an immediate threat or hazard to the university community on campus or within the university patrol zone, Temple University will initiate the campus notification process.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.temple.edu/tusafe/tualert/emergency-communication-faq","sourceDescription":"Temple Public Safety - Emergency Communication FAQ (reproduced via search; official page HTTP 403)","annotations":["States the confirmation + immediate-threat trigger and the geographic scope (campus or university patrol zone). Reproduced consistently across searches; not verbatim-confirmed because the official page could not be fetched directly."],"characterCount":254},{"label":"Who can send TUalerts","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.temple.edu/tusafe/tualert/emergency-communication-faq","sourceDescription":"Temple Public Safety - Emergency Communication FAQ (reproduced via search; official page HTTP 403)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Timely warning definition","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.temple.edu/tualert/types-communication","sourceDescription":"Temple Public Safety - Types of Safety Communication (reproduced via search; official page HTTP 403)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["TUalert is Temple's emergency notification system, with messages sent in accordance with the Temple University Emergency Communications and Timely Warnings Policy; Temple states its compliance exceeds U.S. Department of Education and Clery Act guidelines.","TUalerts are initiated immediately following confirmation of a dangerous situation or emergency posing an immediate threat or hazard on campus or within the university patrol zone.","Send authority is distributed across the Temple University Police Department, the Office of Emergency Management, Facilities Management, and other authorized users depending on the situation.","Temple separates emergency notifications (immediate threat) from timely warnings (patterns of events suggesting an ongoing threat, sent via email); TUsiren provides an outdoor warning for imminent threats requiring shelter-in-place or lockdown.","TUalerts are sent via text and email (with @TempleAlert on Twitter/X for updates); all temple.edu email accounts are auto-registered and TUportal mobile numbers receive texts unless the user opts out."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Communication FAQ | Public Safety - Temple University","url":"https://safety.temple.edu/tusafe/tualert/emergency-communication-faq","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"TUalert | Public Safety - Temple University","url":"https://safety.temple.edu/tusafe/tualert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"TUaware: Types of Safety Communication | Public Safety - Temple University","url":"https://safety.temple.edu/tualert/types-communication","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Compliance | Public Safety - Temple University","url":"https://safety.temple.edu/reports-logs/clery-compliance","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"How Temple's Department of Public Safety decides which incidents get TUalerts | The Temple News","url":"https://temple-news.com/how-temples-department-of-public-safety-decides-which-incidents-get-tualerts/","type":"student-newspaper"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","temple-university","tualert","clery"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-10-12","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"tennessee-state-university-alert-policy","slug":"tennessee-state-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Tennessee State University","shortName":"TSU","state":"TN","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"Tiger Alert","enrollment":7615},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification System (Tiger Alert)","systemName":"Tiger Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.tnstate.edu/emergency/ens.aspx","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Tennessee State University — Nashville's public land-grant [HBCU](https://www.tnstate.edu/emergency/) — runs its emergency notifications through **Tiger Alert**, the University's [Emergency Notification System](https://www.tnstate.edu/emergency/ens.aspx), which sends phone calls, emails, and text messages to all registered Tiger Alert accounts during an emergency. The [TSU Police Department and the Office of Emergency Management](https://www.tnstate.edu/emergency/) share activation control, and emergency information is also posted on the TSU homepage and through the University's Facebook and Twitter channels.","analysis":"Tennessee State University's emergency-alert program is branded **Tiger Alert** (the assignment's working name \"TSU Alert\" corresponds to this branded system). Per the University's [Emergency Notification System](https://www.tnstate.edu/emergency/ens.aspx) and [Emergency Notifications](https://www.tnstate.edu/pr/notifications.aspx) pages, \"Phone calls, emails and text are sent to all Tennessee State University Tiger Alert accounts during an emergency,\" and \"Tiger ALERTS can send a text message, email, and phone call delivering critical information during a campus emergency situation.\" Registration is account-based: community members sign up, keep their information accurate, and indicate how they want to be notified in case of a campus emergency. Parents are encouraged to follow the University's social media and sign up for Tiger Alerts as well.\n\n**When alerts activate.** The University identifies the conditions that may trigger an alert: \"There are a number of conditions that may necessitate alerting the University community, which could include occurrences of certain crimes, tornado warnings, evacuations, acts of violence, and searches for wanted or missing people.\" This list spans both the Clery emergency-notification category (immediate threats such as acts of violence and severe weather) and timely-warning territory (certain crimes), consistent with the federal framework that an emergency notification follows confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety.\n\n**Decision authority.** Activation is shared: the [TSU Police Department and the Office of Emergency Management (TSU OEM)](https://www.tnstate.edu/emergency/) have dual activation control over the notification system. The TSU OEM is empowered by the University and other local and state agencies to protect the campus community from disasters and emergencies, and coordinates and plans alongside other local, state, and federal emergency managers and responders. Emergency notifications are issued by TSU's Department of Public Safety to inform the campus community about significant emergencies or dangerous situations involving an immediate threat to health or safety.\n\n**Channels and scope.** During an emergency the University disperses messages through multiple channels — Tiger Alert text, email, and phone call; the [TSU homepage](https://www.tnstate.edu/emergency/); and Facebook and Twitter subscriptions. The Clery framing distinguishes the broader emergency-notification category from timely warnings; specific verbatim timing language (\"without delay\") and a published Tiger Alert testing cadence were not reproduced on the public pages reachable in this environment, so those elements are paraphrased rather than quoted.","whenCriteria":"There are a number of conditions that may necessitate alerting the University community, which could include occurrences of certain crimes, tornado warnings, evacuations, acts of violence, and searches for wanted or missing people. Emergency notifications are issued upon a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community.","decisionAuthority":"The TSU Police Department and the Office of Emergency Management (TSU OEM) hold dual activation control over Tiger Alert; emergency notifications are issued by TSU's Department of Public Safety.","timingStandard":"Notifications follow confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety (the federal Clery immediate-threat standard); a verbatim TSU 'without delay' timing clause was not reproduced on the reachable public pages.","cleryFraming":"TSU distinguishes the two Clery categories: emergency notifications (broader; significant emergencies / immediate threats) versus timely warnings (certain Clery-reportable crimes that pose an ongoing threat), with Tiger Alert serving the emergency-notification function.","testingCadence":"Not reproduced verbatim on the reachable public pages; the University conducts emergency drills, but a specific Tiger Alert annual-test cadence was not surfaced (Clery requires at-least-annual testing of emergency-notification procedures).","scopeLimits":"Tiger Alert is account-based and sends text, email, and phone-call notifications to registered accounts during emergencies; conditions include certain crimes, tornado warnings, evacuations, acts of violence, and searches for wanted or missing people. Backup/secondary channels include the TSU homepage and Facebook and Twitter subscriptions.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","facebook","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Tiger Alert delivery channels","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tnstate.edu/emergency/ens.aspx","sourceDescription":"Tennessee State University Emergency Notification System page","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Tiger Alert critical-information capability","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tnstate.edu/pr/notifications.aspx","sourceDescription":"Tennessee State University Emergency Notifications page","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Conditions that necessitate an alert","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tnstate.edu/emergency/ens.aspx","sourceDescription":"Tennessee State University Emergency Notification System / Emergency Management pages","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Tiger Alert is Tennessee State University's branded emergency notification system (the assignment's 'TSU Alert'), sending phone calls, emails, and text messages to all registered accounts during an emergency.","Activation control is shared between the TSU Police Department and the Office of Emergency Management (TSU OEM); emergency notifications are issued by TSU's Department of Public Safety.","Documented alert conditions include certain crimes, tornado warnings, evacuations, acts of violence, and searches for wanted or missing people.","Secondary/backup channels include the TSU homepage and the University's Facebook and Twitter subscriptions.","TSU distinguishes emergency notifications (broader immediate-threat category) from Clery timely warnings, though a verbatim 'without delay' timing clause and a Tiger Alert annual-test cadence were not reproduced on the reachable public pages."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notification System — Tennessee State University","url":"https://www.tnstate.edu/emergency/ens.aspx","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Notifications — Tennessee State University","url":"https://www.tnstate.edu/pr/notifications.aspx","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Management — Tennessee State University","url":"https://www.tnstate.edu/emergency/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Management FAQ — Tennessee State University","url":"https://tnstate.edu/emergency/faq.aspx","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Safety & Security — Tennessee State University","url":"https://www.tnstate.edu/campus_life/safety.aspx","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","hbcu","tennessee"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"terra-state-community-college-terra-alert-asr","slug":"terra-state-community-college-terra-alert-asr","institution":{"name":"Terra State Community College","shortName":"Terra State","state":"OH","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Terra Alert (WENS)","enrollment":2500},"policy":{"title":"Terra Alert WENS and Timely Warning Policy and Procedure (2025 ASR)","systemName":"Terra Alert (WENS)","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.terra.edu/life_at_terra_state/student_services/campus_safety_and_security/_uploadedfiles/2025_annual_clery_report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-01-01"},"summary":"Terra State Community College documents [Terra Alert Wireless Emergency Notification System and Timely Warning procedures](https://www.terra.edu/life_at_terra_state/student_services/campus_safety_and_security/_uploadedfiles/2025_annual_clery_report.pdf) in its 2025 ASR, with Sandusky County WENS partnership for weather/emergency alerts and Director of Campus Safety preparing sequentially numbered Timely Warnings.","analysis":"Terra State Community College, an Ohio community college in Fremont, publishes Terra Alert and Timely Warning procedures in its [2025 Annual Campus Safety, Security, and Fire Safety Report](https://www.terra.edu/life_at_terra_state/student_services/campus_safety_and_security/_uploadedfiles/2025_annual_clery_report.pdf). Terra Alert uses Sandusky County's Wireless Emergency Notification System (WENS) for weather-related and unscheduled closings, campus emergency alerts, and severe weather such as tornado and winter storm warnings. Students, faculty, and staff are strongly encouraged to register free; alerts also post online, social media, and news stations.\n\nTimely Warnings for serious or continuing threats are prepared by College Administrators, with the Director of Campus Safety and Security or designee drafting warnings for violent person crimes or particularly threatening property crimes. Warnings are sequentially numbered from January 1 each year and typically include crime details, suspect description if known, investigation contact, and prevention tips. Case-by-case review covers nature of crime, facts known, and continuing threat, including known-party violent crimes.","whenCriteria":"Terra Alert: weather-related and unscheduled closings, campus emergencies, tornado and winter storm warnings. Timely Warning: Clery geography crimes presenting serious or continuing threat, including arson, criminal homicide, robbery; aggravated assault and sex offenses case by case.","decisionAuthority":"College Administrators prepare Timely Warnings; Director of Campus Safety and Security or designee prepares Timely Warnings for violent person crimes or threatening property crimes and may distribute for other crimes as necessary.","timingStandard":"Distribute as soon as possible after determination that crime represents continuing threat; withhold victim names; aid prevention of similar occurrences.","cleryFraming":"ASR includes Terra Alert WENS weather/emergency system overview plus detailed Timely Warning Policy and Procedure with sequential numbering.","scopeLimits":"WENS free registration required for full personal device reach; website/social/news also carry alerts; pastoral/professional counselor reports may affect TW obligations as under Clery generally.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the Terra Alert section reviewed; ASR references annual emergency training topics elsewhere.","channels":["sms","email","website","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Terra Alert WENS weather and emergency uses","quotedText":"In conjunction with Sandusky County, Terra State offers The Wireless Emergency Notification System (WENS) for students and staff to receive emergency alert notifications. These notifications will include weather related and other unscheduled college closings, campus emergency alerts, and severe weather situations such as tornado and winter storm warnings.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.terra.edu/life_at_terra_state/student_services/campus_safety_and_security/_uploadedfiles/2025_annual_clery_report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Terra State 2025 ASR Terra Alert section","annotations":["County WENS partnership for weather, closings, and emergencies."],"characterCount":357},{"label":"Director prepares Timely Warning","quotedText":"The Director of Campus Safety & Security, Terra State Community College Campus Safety and Security office, or their designee will prepare a Timely Warning when a report is received of a violent crime against a person or a particularly threatening crime against property that represents a continuing threat to the safety of students, faculty and staff.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.terra.edu/life_at_terra_state/student_services/campus_safety_and_security/_uploadedfiles/2025_annual_clery_report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Terra State 2025 ASR Timely Warning Procedure","annotations":["Director of Campus Safety prepares TW for violent person or threatening property crimes."],"characterCount":351},{"label":"Sequential numbering from January 1","quotedText":"Timely Warnings are sequentially numbered, beginning January 1 of each year, and provide details of the crime, a description of the suspect if known, information on whom to contact about the investigation, and often, crime prevention tips.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.terra.edu/life_at_terra_state/student_services/campus_safety_and_security/_uploadedfiles/2025_annual_clery_report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Terra State 2025 ASR Timely Warning Procedure","annotations":["Institution-specific sequential TW numbering practice."],"characterCount":239}],"keyFindings":["Terra Alert uses Sandusky County WENS for weather, closings, and campus emergencies.","Director of Campus Safety prepares Timely Warnings for violent person or threatening property crimes.","Timely Warnings are sequentially numbered from January 1 each year."],"sources":[{"title":"Terra State 2025 Annual Campus Safety, Security, and Fire Safety Report PDF","url":"https://www.terra.edu/life_at_terra_state/student_services/campus_safety_and_security/_uploadedfiles/2025_annual_clery_report.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Terra Alert signup page","url":"https://www.terra.edu/life_at_terra_state/student_services/campus_safety_and_security/alert_notification_system.php","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["ohio","community-college","clery-asr","terra-alert","wens","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"texas-am-university-alert-policy","slug":"texas-am-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Texas A&M University","shortName":"TAMU","state":"TX","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"Code Maroon","enrollment":74829},"policy":{"title":"Code Maroon Emergency Notification System","systemName":"Code Maroon","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://codemaroon.tamu.edu/About.aspx","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"[Code Maroon](https://codemaroon.tamu.edu/) is Texas A&M University's mass [emergency notification system](https://www.tamu.edu/emergency/communications/codeMaroon.html), used only to provide official notification of critical emergencies that pose an imminent, physical threat to the campus community, delivered across more than a dozen channels in a single coordinated push.","analysis":"Code Maroon is the branded mass-notification platform Texas A&M uses to push health and safety information during emergencies. Per the [official program page](https://codemaroon.tamu.edu/About.aspx), the university \"will use the system only to provide official notification of critical emergencies (i.e. situations that pose an imminent, physical threat to the community),\" which is squarely the Clery Act \"emergency notification\" trigger of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety. In practice the system is reserved for potentially life-threatening situations on or around campus and is commonly activated for gas leaks, severe weather, accidents, and active-threat events.\n\nThe system is built for breadth and speed. Code Maroon \"uses multiple notification methods in a best effort to reach campus members in an emergency,\" delivering the same message by SMS text, the mobile app, Texas A&M email, KAMU-FM radio and the campus cable television system, Emergency Alert System radios, computer/desktop alerts, classroom and building fire-alarm speakers, X (formerly Twitter), RSS, and digital signage. A strict ZERO SPAM policy limits use of registered contact information to delivering health and safety emergency information only.\n\nActivation is a confirmed-facts process: once an incident is reported, officials confirm the facts with the appropriate authorities before the system is activated, and a Code Maroon message can be sent within moments by the University Police Department or other public-safety personnel. The platform is exercised on a fixed cadence — Code Maroon is [tested monthly](https://codemaroon.tamu.edu/Faqs.aspx), on the last Monday of each month at 1:00 p.m. (dates and times may shift for summer and holidays), and every test message clearly states that it is only a test so recipients are not alarmed.\n\nThe framing on the program's pages emphasizes emergency notification (imminent physical threat) rather than the slower Clery \"timely warning\" issued for Clery-reportable crimes that pose a serious or continuing threat. Texas A&M's broader [emergency-management communications guidance](https://www.tamu.edu/emergency/communications/codeMaroon.html) positions Code Maroon as the primary rapid channel for the former. The redundant multi-channel design — sirens-equivalent fire-alarm speakers, EAS radios, signage, and personal devices — is intended to reach people indoors, outdoors, and offline simultaneously.","whenCriteria":"Used only to provide official notification of critical emergencies — situations that pose an imminent, physical threat to the campus community (e.g., gas leaks, severe weather, accidents, active threats). Reserved for potentially life-threatening situations on or around campus.","decisionAuthority":"Once an incident is reported, officials confirm the facts with the appropriate authorities before activation; a Code Maroon message can be sent within moments by the University Police Department or other public-safety personnel.","timingStandard":"Designed to be sent within moments of confirmation; multiple notification methods deployed in a 'best effort' to reach campus members quickly.","cleryFraming":"Functions as the Clery Act emergency notification for significant emergencies/dangerous situations involving an immediate threat; distinct from the slower timely warning issued for Clery-reportable crimes posing a serious or continuing threat.","testingCadence":"Tested monthly on the last Monday of each month at 1:00 p.m.; dates/times may change during summer and holidays; test messages clearly state it is only a test.","scopeLimits":"Used only for official notification of critical emergencies; registered contact information used only for delivering health and safety emergency information under a strictly enforced ZERO SPAM policy.","channels":["sms","push-notification","email","twitter-x","website","siren","pa-system","digital-signage","desktop-popup"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Use limited to critical emergencies","quotedText":"Texas A&M will use the system only to provide official notification of critical emergencies (i.e. situations that pose an imminent, physical threat to the community).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://codemaroon.tamu.edu/About.aspx","sourceDescription":"Code Maroon official program page (About)","annotations":["States the activation trigger as an imminent, physical threat — the Clery emergency-notification standard rather than the broader timely-warning standard."],"characterCount":166},{"label":"Multi-channel best-effort delivery","quotedText":"Code Maroon uses multiple notification methods in a best effort to reach campus members in an emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://codemaroon.tamu.edu/About.aspx","sourceDescription":"Code Maroon official program page (About)","annotations":["The 'best effort' qualifier acknowledges no single channel is guaranteed to reach every recipient, so redundancy is the strategy."],"characterCount":104},{"label":"ZERO SPAM contact-data limit","quotedText":"contact information provided on the Code Maroon website will only be used for delivering health and safety emergency information, with a ZERO SPAM policy strictly enforced that prohibits unsolicited messages and the selling of contact information to third-party marketers.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://codemaroon.tamu.edu/About.aspx","sourceDescription":"Code Maroon official program page (About)","annotations":["Defines the scope limit on registrant data — emergency use only, no marketing or resale."],"characterCount":272},{"label":"Monthly test cadence","quotedText":"Code Maroon tests are conducted monthly on the last Monday of each month at 1:00 p.m. Test dates and times may change during the summer and on holidays.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://codemaroon.tamu.edu/Faqs.aspx","sourceDescription":"Code Maroon FAQ page","annotations":["Fixed monthly test schedule; corroborated across the official FAQ and notification-methods pages."],"characterCount":152}],"keyFindings":["Code Maroon is reserved 'only' for critical emergencies posing an imminent, physical threat — explicit emergency-notification (not timely-warning) framing.","Activation requires officials to confirm the facts with the appropriate authorities first; messages can then be sent within moments by University Police or public-safety personnel.","Delivery is intentionally redundant: SMS, mobile app, email, KAMU-FM/cable TV, EAS radios, computer alerts, fire-alarm speakers, X, RSS, and digital signage on a 'best effort' basis.","Tested monthly on the last Monday at 1:00 p.m., with test messages clearly marked as tests.","A strictly enforced ZERO SPAM policy limits registrant contact data to emergency use only."],"sources":[{"title":"Code Maroon Emergency Notification System (About)","url":"https://codemaroon.tamu.edu/About.aspx","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Code Maroon FAQ","url":"https://codemaroon.tamu.edu/Faqs.aspx","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Code Maroon — Notification Methods","url":"https://codemaroon.tamu.edu/NotificationMethods.aspx","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Communications — Texas A&M Emergency Management","url":"https://www.tamu.edu/emergency/communications/codeMaroon.html","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","code-maroon","texas-am","mass-notification"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-23","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"texas-am-university-galveston-sea-aggie-alert-policy","slug":"texas-am-university-galveston-sea-aggie-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Texas A&M University at Galveston","shortName":"TAMUG","state":"TX","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"Sea Aggie Alert"},"policy":{"title":"Sea Aggie Alert (Emergency Communications)","systemName":"Sea Aggie Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.tamug.edu/emergency/Sea%20Aggie%20Alert.html"},"summary":"Texas A&M University at Galveston, the Texas A&M University System's branch campus in Galveston, Texas, notifies its campus community of emergencies by sending out a [Sea Aggie Alert](https://www.tamug.edu/emergency/Sea%20Aggie%20Alert.html), the Galveston campus's own emergency notification identity, described on the campus's [Emergency Communications page](https://www.tamug.edu/emergency/Communications/EmergencyCommunication.html) and delivered through the Texas A&M System's [Code Maroon](https://em.tamu.edu/emergency-communications/index.html) platform.","analysis":"Texas A&M University at Galveston publishes its own emergency notification pages under the campus's Emergency section: a dedicated [Sea Aggie Alert page](https://www.tamug.edu/emergency/Sea%20Aggie%20Alert.html) and an [Emergency Communications page](https://www.tamug.edu/emergency/Communications/EmergencyCommunication.html). The one sentence recovered from the Emergency Communications page states the arrangement plainly: Texas A&M University at Galveston notifies its campus community of emergencies by sending out a Sea Aggie Alert. That sentence establishes that the Galveston campus carries a notification identity of its own, named for the campus community it serves, rather than presenting itself to its students and employees under the College Station campus's alert name.\n\nThe delivery platform behind that identity is the Texas A&M System's [Code Maroon](https://em.tamu.edu/emergency-communications/index.html) emergency notification platform, administered at the system level by Texas A&M's Emergency Management office. This record does not carry Code Maroon's own activation standard or channel list as Galveston policy, because those statements describe the system-level platform and were not read on the Galveston campus's pages; readers who need the platform's own language should consult the em.tamu.edu page directly. Likewise, the Galveston pages' own channel list, enrollment rules, activation criteria, and testing cadence were not read in this environment and are not asserted here.\n\nBecause tamug.edu and em.tamu.edu returned blocked connections to automated fetching in this environment, the single excerpt below is reconstructed from a search engine indexed extract of the official Galveston page rather than a firsthand character by character read, and it is not treated as a confirmed exact quotation. With only one recovered sentence and no independent secondary source describing the Galveston campus's procedures, this record is scored at low confidence; it documents that the campus maintains its own named alert and where its official pages live, and nothing more.","whenCriteria":"The Galveston campus's Emergency Communications page states that Texas A&M University at Galveston notifies its campus community of emergencies by sending out a Sea Aggie Alert; a specific activation standard for the Galveston campus was not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed.","decisionAuthority":"Not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed. The Sea Aggie Alert and Emergency Communications pages sit under the Galveston campus's own Emergency section; the Code Maroon platform the alert is delivered through is administered by the Texas A&M System's Emergency Management office.","timingStandard":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"Not specified in the sources reviewed; the recovered Galveston sentence describes emergency notification only, and a Galveston-specific timely warning procedure was not identified.","scopeLimits":"Sea Aggie Alert is scoped to the Texas A&M University at Galveston campus community; the Galveston pages' own channel list and enrollment rules were not read in this environment.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","excerpts":[{"label":"Galveston's own alert identity","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tamug.edu/emergency/Communications/EmergencyCommunication.html","sourceDescription":"Texas A&M University at Galveston, Emergency Communications (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Texas A&M University at Galveston notifies its campus community of emergencies by sending out a Sea Aggie Alert, the Galveston campus's own named emergency notification.","The campus publishes a dedicated Sea Aggie Alert page and an Emergency Communications page under its own Emergency section on tamug.edu; the alert is delivered through the Texas A&M System's Code Maroon platform.","Tamug.edu and em.tamu.edu could not be directly loaded in this environment, so this record rests on one reconstructed sentence, is scored at low confidence, and asserts no activation standard, channel list, or testing cadence for the Galveston campus."],"sources":[{"title":"Sea Aggie Alert, Texas A&M University at Galveston (Galveston campus Emergency section)","url":"https://www.tamug.edu/emergency/Sea%20Aggie%20Alert.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Communications, Texas A&M University at Galveston (Galveston campus Emergency section)","url":"https://www.tamug.edu/emergency/Communications/EmergencyCommunication.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Communications (Code Maroon), Texas A&M University Emergency Management (system-level platform)","url":"https://em.tamu.edu/emergency-communications/index.html","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"low","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","sea-aggie-alert","code-maroon","public-r1","texas","branch-campus"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-27","lastUpdated":"2026-09-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"texas-christian-university-tcu-alert-policy","slug":"texas-christian-university-tcu-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Texas Christian University","shortName":"TCU","state":"TX","type":"private-r2","alertSystemName":"TCU Alert"},"policy":{"title":"2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - TCU Alert","systemName":"TCU Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://publicsafety.tcu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Texas Christian University's [2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://publicsafety.tcu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf) issues TCU Alert without delay for a confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus, and the [TCU Alerts page](https://publicsafety.tcu.edu/tcu-alerts/) describes TCU Alert as a mass communication program of phone, text, email, loudspeakers, and emergency lighting.","analysis":"Texas Christian University (private-r2, Fort Worth, four filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [2025 ASR PDF](https://publicsafety.tcu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf) (HTTP 200) plus a live [TCU Alerts](https://publicsafety.tcu.edu/tcu-alerts/) consumer page (HTTP 200). If TCU issues an emergency notification, it will not issue a timely warning. TCU Alert rides the Rave Alert mass-notification infrastructure. A live HTML sentence that posts the same information on tcu.edu contains NBSPs around the hostname and is not quoted. Every quoted excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF or HTML.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notification for any significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on campus involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees. Timely warning for a Clery Act crime in Clery geography that represents a serious or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"TCUPD duty supervisor reviews crime reports for timely warnings. DPS / TCUPD dispatchers activate TCU Alert for Lockdown, Evacuate, or Seek Shelter after authorization.","timingStandard":"Timely warning as soon as pertinent information is available. TCU Alert without delay unless issuing the notification would compromise victim assistance or mitigation.","cleryFraming":"If TCU issues an emergency notification, it will not issue a timely warning. TCU Alert is the emergency-notification product; timely warnings go by TCU email.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system","siren","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"TCU Alert consumer definition","quotedText":"The University utilizes the TCU Alert System to notify the Horned Frog community of an emergency, weather-related closure or delay.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://publicsafety.tcu.edu/tcu-alerts/","sourceDescription":"TCU Alerts page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Weather-related closure or delay is in the consumer trigger class alongside emergency."],"characterCount":131},{"label":"TCU Alert channels","quotedText":"TCU Alert is a mass communication program that includes phone, text and email communication, as well as indoor and outdoor loudspeakers, and emergency lighting on campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://publicsafety.tcu.edu/tcu-alerts/","sourceDescription":"TCU Alerts page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Indoor and outdoor loudspeakers plus emergency lighting sit alongside phone, text, and email."],"characterCount":170},{"label":"Without-delay emergency notification","quotedText":"TCU will issue these alerts without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://publicsafety.tcu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"TCU 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Standard HEOA professional-judgment exception."],"characterCount":290},{"label":"Emergency notification precludes timely warning","quotedText":"If the TCU issues an emergency notification, it will not issue a TW.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://publicsafety.tcu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"TCU 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Live wording is 'the TCU' and abbreviates timely warning as TW."],"characterCount":68}],"keyFindings":["TCU Alert is the emergency-notification product for emergencies and weather-related closures or delays.","Alerts go out without delay unless a professional-judgment exception applies.","An emergency notification means TCU will not also issue a timely warning."],"sources":[{"title":"Texas Christian University 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://publicsafety.tcu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2025-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"TCU Alerts","url":"https://publicsafety.tcu.edu/tcu-alerts/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","texas","private-r2","rave"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"texas-southern-university-alert-policy","slug":"texas-southern-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Texas Southern University","shortName":"TSU","state":"TX","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"Tiger Alert / LiveSafe","enrollment":8704},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings (Department of Public Safety / Annual Security Report)","systemName":"Tiger Alert (LiveSafe app)","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://tsu.edu/safety-and-wellness/public-safety/emergency.php","lastReviewed":"2025-10-14"},"summary":"Texas Southern University, a public HBCU in Houston, issues two distinct Clery notifications through its Department of Public Safety: broad [emergency notifications](https://tsu.edu/safety-and-wellness/public-safety/emergency.php) for significant emergencies or dangerous situations involving an immediate threat to health or safety, and narrower [timely warnings](https://tsu.edu/safety-and-wellness/public-safety/crime-awareness.php) (branded 'Tiger Alert') for Clery Act crimes that pose a serious or ongoing threat. Both are delivered primarily through the [LiveSafe mobile app](https://police.tsu.edu/index.php/2016/07/28/livesafe-tsu/), which campus members must download and on which they must select Texas Southern University to receive alerts.","analysis":"Texas Southern University (TSU) is one of the largest historically Black universities in Texas, located in Houston's Third Ward. Its emergency-communication program is run by the [TSU Department of Public Safety](https://tsu.edu/safety-and-wellness/public-safety/index.php) and is organized around the Clery Act's two-track model: emergency notifications and timely warnings. TSU explains that 'Emergency notifications are alerts issued by the Department of Public Safety to inform the campus community about significant emergencies or dangerous situations involving an immediate threat to their health or safety,' and that these notifications are deliberately broader than timely warnings because they 'can encompass a wide range of threats beyond Clery Act crimes.'\n\nThe distinguishing feature of TSU's model is that the primary delivery channel is an app rather than an auto-enrolled mass-notification database. TSU's [Emergency Preparedness page](https://tsu.edu/safety-and-wellness/public-safety/emergency.php) states that 'Students, parents, employees, and community members must download the LiveSafe app and select Texas Southern University as your institution to receive emergency notifications issued by TSU Department of Public Safety.' This is a notable scope limit: unlike systems that automatically enroll every student and employee, TSU's reach depends on individuals actively installing [LiveSafe](https://police.tsu.edu/index.php/2016/07/28/livesafe-tsu/) and choosing TSU. LiveSafe doubles as a reporting and two-way-communication tool (incident reporting, real-time location, direct contact with campus police), and TSU supplements it with blue-light emergency phones placed across campus that provide a 'direct and immediate line to University Police.' The historical 'Tiger Alert' brand appears on TSU Police timely-warning and campus-update messaging.\n\nFor timely warnings, TSU's [Crime Awareness page](https://tsu.edu/safety-and-wellness/public-safety/crime-awareness.php) states that 'Timely warnings are notifications issued at the discretion of the TSU Department of Public Safety to alert the campus community about Clery Act crimes that have occurred and pose a serious or ongoing threat to students and employees.' TSU lays out the standard Clery geography and reporting criteria (the crime must occur within Clery geography, be reported to a campus security authority or police, and be judged a serious or continuing threat) and specifies the content a warning should carry — nature of the crime; date, time and location; a suspect description if available; and protective actions — while noting that 'Timely Warnings and Campus Crime Alerts will not include the name of the victim(s).' TSU also publishes a 2025 [Annual Security Report](https://tsu.edu/safety-and-wellness/public-safety/pdf/Annual%20Security%20Report.TSU.2025.pdf) documenting these procedures and reminding the community of its annual obligation to report dangerous situations to DPS.\n\nThe exact named decision authority (specific position authorized to confirm and trigger an emergency notification) and any precise published periodic test cadence were not byte-for-byte confirmable here because tsu.edu hosts and the ASR PDF return HTTP 403 to automated fetching; those fields draw on indexed snippets of the official pages and ASR and are flagged where reconstructed. The two core definitions (emergency notification and timely warning) and the LiveSafe-enrollment sentence appeared with identical wording across multiple independent retrievals from official TSU pages and are marked verbatim-confirmed.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notifications are issued for significant emergencies or dangerous situations involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community — broader than Clery crimes. Timely warnings (Tiger Alert) are issued, at the discretion of TSU DPS, for Clery Act crimes occurring within Clery geography that pose a serious or ongoing threat to students and employees.","decisionAuthority":"The TSU Department of Public Safety (DPS) issues both emergency notifications and timely warnings; timely warnings are described as issued 'at the discretion of the TSU Department of Public Safety.' The specific position authorized to confirm and trigger an emergency notification was not confirmed verbatim in this review (tsu.edu and the ASR PDF blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"TSU frames emergency notifications around the Clery standard of prompt notification upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation so individuals can take protective action; timely warnings are issued to aid prevention of similar crimes. The exact 'without delay / upon confirmation' wording in TSU's ASR was not byte-for-byte confirmable here.","cleryFraming":"TSU explicitly separates the two Clery functions: emergency notifications (broad — any immediate threat to health or safety, not limited to Clery crimes) and timely warnings / campus crime alerts (limited to Clery Act crimes representing a serious or ongoing threat). TSU publishes an Annual Security Report and notes timely warnings will not include the victim's name.","testingCadence":"Not confirmed verbatim in this review. TSU documents emergency-preparedness drills (including active-shooter/active-attack exercises) through TSU Police, but the precise published periodic test cadence for the LiveSafe/Tiger Alert notification system was not confirmable (tsu.edu and ASR PDF blocked automated fetching).","scopeLimits":"Reach depends on individuals downloading the LiveSafe app and selecting Texas Southern University as their institution — there is no described automatic-enrollment guarantee, making coverage opt-in. Blue-light emergency phones across campus provide a supplemental, location-fixed channel to reach University Police.","channels":["push-notification","sms","email","twitter-x","facebook","website","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency notification definition","quotedText":"Emergency notifications are alerts issued by the Department of Public Safety to inform the campus community about significant emergencies or dangerous situations involving an immediate threat to their health or safety.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://tsu.edu/safety-and-wellness/public-safety/emergency.php","sourceDescription":"TSU — Emergency Preparedness (Public Safety) page","annotations":["Sets the emergency-notification threshold at an 'immediate threat to health or safety.' Identical wording appeared across multiple official TSU-page retrievals (the Emergency Preparedness page and Public Safety index)."],"characterCount":218},{"label":"Timely warning definition (Tiger Alert)","quotedText":"Timely warnings are notifications issued at the discretion of the TSU Department of Public Safety to alert the campus community about Clery Act crimes that have occurred and pose a serious or ongoing threat to students and employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://tsu.edu/safety-and-wellness/public-safety/crime-awareness.php","sourceDescription":"TSU — Crime Awareness (Public Safety) page","annotations":["Limits timely warnings to Clery Act crimes posing a serious or ongoing threat and makes issuance discretionary to DPS. Identical wording surfaced across the Crime Awareness page and its mirrored copies; TSU lists a most-recent update of October 14, 2025."],"characterCount":233},{"label":"LiveSafe app enrollment requirement","quotedText":"Students, parents, employees, and community members must download the LiveSafe app and select Texas Southern University as your institution to receive emergency notifications issued by TSU Department of Public Safety.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://tsu.edu/safety-and-wellness/public-safety/emergency.php","sourceDescription":"TSU — Emergency Preparedness (Public Safety) page","annotations":["Establishes that TSU's emergency-notification reach is opt-in via the LiveSafe app rather than automatic enrollment — a meaningful coverage limitation. Identical wording appeared across multiple official TSU retrievals."],"characterCount":217},{"label":"Timely warnings exclude the victim's name","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://tsu.edu/safety-and-wellness/public-safety/pdf/Annual%20Security%20Report.TSU.2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"TSU — 2025 Annual Security Report (PDF; host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Blue-light emergency phones supplement","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://tsu.edu/safety-and-wellness/public-safety/index.php","sourceDescription":"TSU — Public Safety page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["TSU's confirmed alert brand is 'Tiger Alert,' but emergency notifications are delivered primarily through the LiveSafe mobile app (the prompt's guessed 'TSU Alert' is not the actual brand).","Reach is opt-in: community members 'must download the LiveSafe app and select Texas Southern University' — there is no described automatic-enrollment guarantee, unlike most mass-notification systems.","TSU keeps Clery functions distinct: broad emergency notifications (any immediate threat to health/safety) vs. timely warnings/campus crime alerts (limited to Clery Act crimes posing a serious or ongoing threat).","Blue-light emergency phones across campus provide a supplemental, location-fixed line to University Police.","The named decision authority and exact test cadence could not be confirmed verbatim (tsu.edu and ASR PDF blocked automated fetching); three excerpts were confirmed verbatim across multiple official-page retrievals."],"sources":[{"title":"TSU — Emergency Preparedness (Public Safety)","url":"https://tsu.edu/safety-and-wellness/public-safety/emergency.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"TSU — Crime Awareness (Public Safety)","url":"https://tsu.edu/safety-and-wellness/public-safety/crime-awareness.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"TSU — Public Safety (index)","url":"https://tsu.edu/safety-and-wellness/public-safety/index.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"TSU Police — LiveSafe TSU","url":"https://police.tsu.edu/index.php/2016/07/28/livesafe-tsu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"TSU — 2025 Annual Security Report (PDF)","url":"https://tsu.edu/safety-and-wellness/public-safety/pdf/Annual%20Security%20Report.TSU.2025.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"TSU — 2024 Annual Security Report (PDF)","url":"https://tsu.edu/safety-and-wellness/public-safety/pdf/2024%20Annual%20Security%20Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","hbcu","texas","tiger-alert","livesafe","opt-in"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"texas-state-technical-college-alert-policy","slug":"texas-state-technical-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Texas State Technical College","shortName":"TSTC","state":"TX","type":"technical-college","alertSystemName":"Emergency Notification System (ENS)","enrollment":12077},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification System (Everbridge) and Clery Policy (Annual Security & Fire Safety Report)","systemName":"Emergency Notification System (ENS)","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.tstc.edu/student-life/safety-and-security/emergency-notification/","lastReviewed":"2023-09-01"},"summary":"Texas State Technical College, the statewide public technical college system of Texas, runs an [Emergency Notification System (ENS)](https://www.tstc.edu/student-life/safety-and-security/emergency-notification/) powered by Everbridge that reaches participating community members by text, cell, landline, and email, with the [TSTC Police Department](https://www.tstc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Clery-Report-2021-Final.pdf) preparing its Clery report.","analysis":"Texas State Technical College (TSTC) is a statewide public technical college with multiple campuses across Texas. Its emergency-notification program is described generically as the **Emergency Notification System (ENS)** — there is no marketed brand like 'TSTC Alert' (that name belongs to other schools) — and it runs on the **Everbridge** mass-notification platform. TSTC's [Emergency Notification page](https://www.tstc.edu/student-life/safety-and-security/emergency-notification/) states that it 'has partnered with Everbridge to offer an emergency notification system (ENS) to the TSTC community,' and that the ENS 'will send emergency messages to participating TSTC community members via text, cellphones, landlines or email.'\n\nThe reference to 'participating' community members indicates a self-registration / opt-in model through the Everbridge member portal, consistent with how Everbridge deployments typically work; TSTC's public materials do not explicitly state auto-enrollment, so that is not asserted here. The named channels are limited to SMS, voice (cell and landline), and email — no siren, social, app-push, or WEA/IPAWS surfaced in TSTC sources.\n\nFor Clery, TSTC maintains a dedicated TSTC Police Department and publishes an [Annual Security & Fire Safety Report](https://www.tstc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Clery-Report-2023_BOTX_0622_43623.pdf). The ASR states that 'the TSTC Police Department prepares the report to comply with the Clery Act in cooperation with local law enforcement agencies in the area, Housing and Enrollment Management, additional security authorities and other departments,' and specifies that a crime-log entry or disposition change 'must be recorded within two business days of the reporting of the information to the TSTC Police Department or Security Department.' The standard Clery activation-threshold language ('significant emergency or dangerous situation,' 'without delay') appears to be generic boilerplate that could not be isolated as TSTC-specific wording, and no test cadence or named triggering official surfaced, so those are not asserted. Every tstc.edu host and ASR PDF returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so excerpts were captured from search-index reproductions and corroborated across 2+ independent retrievals.","whenCriteria":"The ENS sends emergency messages to participating TSTC community members. TSTC's ASR follows standard Clery requirements for emergency notifications and timely warnings, but the institution-specific activation-threshold wording could not be isolated from generic Clery boilerplate and is not asserted here.","decisionAuthority":"The TSTC Police Department prepares the Clery report and is the named security authority, working in cooperation with local law enforcement, Housing and Enrollment Management, and other departments. A specific triggering official/position for emergency notifications was not isolated in TSTC sources.","timingStandard":"TSTC's ASR reflects standard Clery requirements; an institution-specific 'without delay' / timing commitment could not be confirmed as TSTC's own wording and is not asserted.","cleryFraming":"TSTC publishes an Annual Security & Fire Safety Report and maintains a crime log (entries recorded within two business days), with the TSTC Police Department as the Clery-reporting authority.","testingCadence":"No TSTC-specific ENS testing cadence was found and none is asserted.","scopeLimits":"The ENS reaches 'participating' community members — implying opt-in/self-registration via the Everbridge portal — by text, cell, landline, and email. No siren/PA, social, app-push, or WEA/IPAWS channels were documented in TSTC sources.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"ENS / Everbridge + channels","quotedText":"TSTC has partnered with Everbridge to offer an emergency notification system (ENS) to the TSTC community. The ENS will send emergency messages to participating TSTC community members via text, cellphones, landlines or email.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tstc.edu/student-life/safety-and-security/emergency-notification/","sourceDescription":"TSTC — Emergency Notification page","annotations":["Confirms the Everbridge vendor and the channel set (text, cell, landline, email). Appeared identically across 3+ independent retrievals (tstc.edu host blocked automated fetch)."],"characterCount":224},{"label":"Crime-log recording window","quotedText":"An entry, an addition to an entry or a change in the disposition of a complaint must be recorded within two business days of the reporting of the information to the TSTC Police Department or Security Department.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tstc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Clery-Report-2023_BOTX_0622_43623.pdf","sourceDescription":"TSTC Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (Clery ASR)","annotations":["Documents the two-business-day crime-log standard. Consistent across the 2021 and 2023 ASR retrievals."],"characterCount":211},{"label":"Clery report authorship","quotedText":"The TSTC Police Department prepares the report to comply with the Clery Act in cooperation with local law enforcement agencies in the area, Housing and Enrollment Management, additional security authorities and other departments that may have information necessary to comply with the Clery Act.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tstc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Clery-Report-2021-Final.pdf","sourceDescription":"TSTC Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (Clery ASR)","annotations":["Names the TSTC Police Department as the Clery-reporting authority. Seen across 2 independent retrievals."],"characterCount":294}],"keyFindings":["TSTC's emergency-notification system (ENS) runs on Everbridge — there is no marketed 'TSTC Alert' brand.","The ENS reaches participating community members by text, cell, landline, and email.","'Participating' indicates an opt-in / self-registration model via the Everbridge portal (auto-enrollment is not claimed).","The TSTC Police Department prepares the Clery ASR and maintains a crime log with a two-business-day recording window.","Institution-specific activation/timing wording and a test cadence could not be isolated (403-blocked hosts), so they are not asserted; confidence high on the corroborated facts."],"sources":[{"title":"TSTC — Emergency Notification (Everbridge ENS)","url":"https://www.tstc.edu/student-life/safety-and-security/emergency-notification/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"TSTC — 2023 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.tstc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Clery-Report-2023_BOTX_0622_43623.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"TSTC — 2021 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.tstc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Clery-Report-2021-Final.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"TSTC — Clery Act Information","url":"https://www.tstc.edu/student-life/student-policies/clery-act-information/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","technical-college","texas","everbridge","ens","statewide-system"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"texas-state-university-txstate-alert-policy","slug":"texas-state-university-txstate-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Texas State University","shortName":"TXST","state":"TX","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"TXState Alert","enrollment":40000},"policy":{"title":"TXState Alerts","systemName":"TXState Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.police.txst.edu/campus-safety/sign-up-for-txstate-alerts.html","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Texas State University's [TXState Alerts signup page](https://www.police.txst.edu/campus-safety/sign-up-for-txstate-alerts.html) describes the UPD-managed multi-channel emergency notification system using email and opt-in text, plus website, social, Alertus, sirens, and related methods.","analysis":"Texas State University is a public R2 university in San Marcos, Texas. Its [Sign Up for TXState Alerts](https://www.police.txst.edu/campus-safety/sign-up-for-txstate-alerts.html) page is institution-specific: TXState Alert is managed by UPD and notifies the community of emergencies including hazardous weather; email and text are primary channels with automatic @txstate.edu email enrollment and opt-in SMS via Rave; messages also may use the Safety site, homepage, UPD social accounts, Alertus desktop, OEM email, news hotline, campus voicemail, local media, weather sirens, emergency sign boards, and reverse 911; alerts cover potentially hazardous situations on or near campus with instructions; federal law requires notification as soon as possible after report to police or officials; tests run each semester. This record documents the system overview rather than a full Clery ASR rewrite.","whenCriteria":"Emergency situations including hazardous weather; potentially dangerous situations; flooding, building fires, gas leaks, bomb threats, violent crime, and similar events.","decisionAuthority":"Office of Emergency Management and University Police Department decide notice type and scope; campus-wide notices are not always required.","timingStandard":"Federal law requires notification of an emergency as soon as possible after it is reported to police or other officials.","cleryFraming":"TXState Alert is the operational emergency notification system supporting Clery emergency notification and related multi-channel campus safety communications.","testingCadence":"System is tested each semester to verify that it is working properly; tests produce start and end messages only.","scopeLimits":"Text requires opt-in; not all methods are used for every emergency; Office of Emergency Management and UPD decide scope.","channels":["email","sms","website","twitter-x","facebook","desktop-popup","phone-call","pa-system","siren","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"TXState Alert purpose","quotedText":"The TXState Alert system, managed by UPD, notifies members of the university community about emergency situations, including hazardous weather.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.police.txst.edu/campus-safety/sign-up-for-txstate-alerts.html","characterCount":143},{"label":"Email and text definition","quotedText":"The TXState Alert system is an emergency notification system that uses email and text messages to notify the university community about potentially dangerous situations.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.police.txst.edu/campus-safety/sign-up-for-txstate-alerts.html","characterCount":169},{"label":"As soon as possible legal timing","quotedText":"Federal law requires the university to notify the community of an emergency as soon as possible after it is reported to the police or other officials.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.police.txst.edu/campus-safety/sign-up-for-txstate-alerts.html","characterCount":150}],"sources":[{"title":"Sign Up for TXState Alerts","url":"https://www.police.txst.edu/campus-safety/sign-up-for-txstate-alerts.html","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["public-r2","texas","emergency-notification","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"texas-tech-university-alert-policy","slug":"texas-tech-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Texas Tech University","shortName":"TTU","state":"TX","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"TechAlert!","enrollment":45812},"policy":{"title":"TechAlert! Emergency Notification System (Annual Security Report — Emergency Notifications)","systemName":"TechAlert!","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.depts.ttu.edu/clery/annual-security-report/timely-warnings-emergency-notifications/emergency-notifications/","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"[TechAlert!](https://www.ttu.edu/techalert/) is Texas Tech University's emergency notification system, which the [Clery Annual Security Report](https://www.depts.ttu.edu/clery/annual-security-report/timely-warnings-emergency-notifications/emergency-notifications/) commits to using to \"immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation of significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on the campus that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees.\" Notifications are authorized by the [TTPD Police Chief, or designee](https://www.depts.ttu.edu/clery/annual-security-report/emergency-response-evacuation-procedures/) and distributed across phone, text, email, digital signage, mobile app, and social media.","analysis":"TechAlert! is the externally hosted mass-notification platform Texas Tech University uses to push critical information across its Lubbock campus. Per Texas Tech's [Clery Annual Security Report](https://www.depts.ttu.edu/clery/annual-security-report/timely-warnings-emergency-notifications/emergency-notifications/), the university \"will immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation of significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on the campus that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees\" — verbatim adoption of the Clery Act emergency-notification trigger. The ASR also reproduces the statutory timing and judgment standard: the university \"will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system to the appropriate segment or segments of the campus community, unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise manage the emergency.\"\n\nThe decision authority is concrete. Per the [Emergency Response and Evacuation Procedures](https://www.depts.ttu.edu/clery/annual-security-report/emergency-response-evacuation-procedures/), when the Texas Tech Police Department or an officer becomes aware of a situation that may warrant immediate notification, the TTPD Police Chief, or designee, is notified immediately; officers \"confirm (through response, investigation, or collaboration with emergency responders) that there is a significant emergency and immediately report information back to the TTPD Police Chief, or designee, who quickly evaluates the situation to determine if an alert is warranted.\" The TTPD Police Chief, or designee, then develops the content of the message, determines the appropriate segment(s) of the campus community to receive it, and sends the notification. This places confirmation, authorization, content, and audience-scoping in TTPD command.\n\nDelivery is multi-channel. The [Communication and Notifications page](https://www.depts.ttu.edu/clery/Notifications.php) states that \"Emergency notifications, called TechAlert notifications, are distributed via phone calls, text message, email, digital signage, mobile app and social media,\" and describes TechAlert! as \"an externally hosted service through which critical information is sent via phone call, text, email, social media, websites, and digital signage across the Texas Tech campus in Lubbock.\" The system accommodates multiple contact numbers per registrant, with options for SMS and TDD/TTY accessibility for the deaf and hard of hearing.\n\nTesting is doubly defined. For routine validation, \"the University tests its Emergency Notification system once a semester, by sending a test message to the University community via TechAlert,\" with tests \"evaluated for timeliness of message distribution\" and used so the community can verify their contact information. Separately, to satisfy statute, the [Emergency Response and Evacuation Procedures](https://www.depts.ttu.edu/clery/annual-security-report/emergency-response-evacuation-procedures/) commit that, in accordance with Texas Education Code Section 51.217 and U.S. Public Law 110-315 Title IV (the Higher Education Opportunity Act / Clery), the Texas Tech University Emergency Management Director \"schedules and executes at least one test of Texas Tech University's emergency response and evacuation procedures annually\" on the Lubbock campus; that test \"may be announced or unannounced\" and is designed for assessment and evaluation of emergency plans and capabilities. In Clery framing, TechAlert! is the emergency-notification channel for immediate threats, distinct from the university's separately documented timely warnings issued for Clery-reportable crimes posing a serious or continuing threat.","whenCriteria":"The university will immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on the campus that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees.","decisionAuthority":"When TTPD or an officer becomes aware of a situation that may warrant immediate notification, the TTPD Police Chief, or designee, is notified immediately; officers confirm a significant emergency and report back to the TTPD Police Chief, or designee, who evaluates whether an alert is warranted, develops the content, determines the appropriate segment(s) of the community, and sends the notification.","timingStandard":"Without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system to the appropriate segment(s) of the campus community — unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise manage the emergency.","cleryFraming":"TechAlert! is the Clery emergency notification for confirmed significant emergencies / immediate threats; the university separately issues timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes that represent a serious or continuing threat. Routine system tests are evaluated for timeliness of message distribution.","testingCadence":"The University tests its Emergency Notification system once a semester via a TechAlert test message (evaluated for timeliness of distribution). Separately, per Texas Education Code Section 51.217 and U.S. Public Law 110-315 Title IV, the Emergency Management Director schedules and executes at least one test of emergency response and evacuation procedures annually on the Lubbock campus; that test may be announced or unannounced.","scopeLimits":"Reserved for confirmed significant emergencies or dangerous situations involving an immediate threat to health or safety; an externally hosted service used to send critical information across the Texas Tech Lubbock campus. The system accommodates multiple contact numbers with SMS and TDD/TTY options for the deaf and hard of hearing.","channels":["phone-call","sms","email","digital-signage","push-notification","twitter-x","facebook","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency-notification trigger","quotedText":"Texas Tech University will immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation of significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on the campus that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.depts.ttu.edu/clery/annual-security-report/timely-warnings-emergency-notifications/emergency-notifications/","sourceDescription":"TTU Clery ASR — Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Adopts the Clery emergency-notification standard verbatim — confirmation of a significant emergency posing an immediate threat to health or safety."],"characterCount":240},{"label":"Without-delay timing and judgment exception","quotedText":"the university will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system to the appropriate segment or segments of the campus community, unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise manage the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.depts.ttu.edu/clery/annual-security-report/timely-warnings-emergency-notifications/emergency-notifications/","sourceDescription":"TTU Clery ASR — Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Reproduces the Clery 'without delay' standard plus the professional-judgment exception for not compromising victim assistance or emergency management."],"characterCount":424},{"label":"Decision authority and confirmation","quotedText":"Officers confirm (through response, investigation, or collaboration with emergency responders) that there is a significant emergency and immediately report information back to the TTPD Police Chief, or designee, who quickly evaluates the situation to determine if an alert is warranted.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.depts.ttu.edu/clery/annual-security-report/emergency-response-evacuation-procedures/","sourceDescription":"TTU Clery ASR — Emergency Response and Evacuation Procedures","annotations":["Places confirmation in responding officers and the activation decision in the TTPD Police Chief or designee."],"characterCount":286},{"label":"Distribution channels","quotedText":"Emergency notifications, called TechAlert notifications, are distributed via phone calls, text message, email, digital signage, mobile app and social media.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.depts.ttu.edu/clery/Notifications.php","sourceDescription":"TTU Clery — Communication and Notifications","annotations":["Lists the multi-channel delivery paths for TechAlert notifications."],"characterCount":156},{"label":"Semester test cadence","quotedText":"The University tests its Emergency Notification system once a semester, by sending a test message to the University community via TechAlert. These tests are evaluated for timeliness of message distribution and allow the campus community to make sure their information in the system is accurate.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.depts.ttu.edu/clery/annual-security-report/emergency-response-evacuation-procedures/","sourceDescription":"TTU Clery ASR — Emergency Response and Evacuation Procedures","annotations":["Routine semester test evaluated specifically for timeliness of distribution, and used to keep contact data current."],"characterCount":294}],"keyFindings":["TechAlert! adopts the Clery emergency-notification trigger verbatim — immediate notification upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety.","The ASR reproduces the full Clery 'without delay' timing standard plus the professional-judgment exception (do not compromise victim assistance or emergency management).","Authority is concrete: responding officers confirm the emergency, then the TTPD Police Chief or designee evaluates, drafts content, scopes the audience, and sends the alert.","Distribution is multi-channel — phone calls, text, email, digital signage, mobile app, websites, and social media — via an externally hosted service, with TDD/TTY accessibility.","Two-layer testing: a once-per-semester TechAlert test evaluated for timeliness, plus at least one annual emergency-response/evacuation test (announced or unannounced) per Texas Education Code 51.217 and Public Law 110-315 Title IV, scheduled by the Emergency Management Director."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notifications — TTU Clery Annual Security Report","url":"https://www.depts.ttu.edu/clery/annual-security-report/timely-warnings-emergency-notifications/emergency-notifications/","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Emergency Response and Evacuation Procedures — TTU Clery ASR","url":"https://www.depts.ttu.edu/clery/annual-security-report/emergency-response-evacuation-procedures/","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Communication and Notifications — TTU Clery Compliance","url":"https://www.depts.ttu.edu/clery/Notifications.php","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"TechAlert — Texas Tech University","url":"https://www.ttu.edu/techalert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"OP 10.03: Severe Weather, Energy Curtailment, or Other Emergency Situations — TTU Operating Policies","url":"https://www.depts.ttu.edu/opmanual/OP10.03.php","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","techalert","texas-tech","clery-asr","mass-notification"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-31","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"catholic-university-of-america-cualert-policy","slug":"catholic-university-of-america-cualert-policy","institution":{"name":"The Catholic University of America","shortName":"CUA","state":"DC","type":"private-r2","alertSystemName":"CUAlert"},"policy":{"title":"2025 Annual Security Report - Emergency Notification Plan and Timely Warning","systemName":"CUAlert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://public-safety.catholic.edu/about/annual-security-report-2025.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"The Catholic University of America's [2025 Annual Security Report](https://public-safety.catholic.edu/about/annual-security-report-2025.pdf) activates the Emergency Notification Plan, including CUAlert via Rave Mobile Safety, when the campus requires an immediate response, and issues a timely warning when the associate vice president of public safety and emergency management judges a serious or continuing threat on or off campus.","analysis":"The Catholic University of America (private-r2, District of Columbia, three filed cases, no prior policy file) is distinct from the University of the District of Columbia, which already has a 2025 ASR file on this branch. The live [2025 ASR PDF](https://public-safety.catholic.edu/about/annual-security-report-2025.pdf) (HTTP 200) names CUAlert (Rave) and the All-Campus Alert public-address system. Consumer CUAlert and managing-emergencies HTML returned HTTP 403 this pass, so excerpts are from the ASR PDF only. Every excerpt was character-checked against that PDF.","whenCriteria":"Emergency Notification Plan when the campus requires an immediate response. Timely warning when a situation on or off campus represents a serious or continuing threat in the judgment of the associate vice president of public safety and emergency management or designee.","decisionAuthority":"Associate vice president of public safety and emergency management or designee for timely warnings. DPS deploys All-Campus Alert and CUAlert; University Communications sends CUAlert text, email, and voicemail.","timingStandard":"Timely warning is used to communicate in a manner that is prompt and will aid in the prevention of similar crimes. Emergency Notification Plan is activated when the campus requires an immediate response.","cleryFraming":"The ASR keeps the Emergency Notification Plan (CUAlert / All-Campus Alert) distinct from timely warning. Timely warning may be used for on- or off-campus situations.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency Notification Plan activation","quotedText":"In an emergency situation where the campus requires an immediate response, the Catholic University Emergency Notification Plan will be activated.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://public-safety.catholic.edu/about/annual-security-report-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Catholic University 2025 Annual Security Report (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Immediate-response gate for the Emergency Notification Plan."],"characterCount":145},{"label":"Timely warning purpose","quotedText":"Timely warning is used to communicate in a manner that is prompt and will aid in the prevention of similar crimes occurring in the designated reporting area required by the Clery Act.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://public-safety.catholic.edu/about/annual-security-report-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Catholic University 2025 Annual Security Report (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Prevention-of-similar-crimes purpose statement."],"characterCount":183},{"label":"Timely warning serious or continuing threat","quotedText":"Timely warning will be issued in the event that a situation arises, either on or off campus, that in the judgment of the associate vice president of public safety and emergency management, or his/her designee, represents a serious or continuing threat to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://public-safety.catholic.edu/about/annual-security-report-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Catholic University 2025 Annual Security Report (PDF text layer)","annotations":["On or off campus. Named decision-maker is the associate vice president of public safety and emergency management."],"characterCount":276}],"keyFindings":["CUAlert via Rave is part of the Emergency Notification Plan for an immediate campus response.","Timely warnings cover on- or off-campus situations judged a serious or continuing threat.","Consumer CUAlert HTML was HTTP 403 this pass; ASR PDF was used."],"sources":[{"title":"The Catholic University of America 2025 Annual Security Report (PDF)","url":"https://public-safety.catholic.edu/about/annual-security-report-2025.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","district-of-columbia","private-r2","rave"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"the-citadel-bulldog-alert-policy","slug":"the-citadel-bulldog-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina","shortName":"The Citadel","state":"SC","type":"military","alertSystemName":"Bulldog Alert","enrollment":3700},"policy":{"title":"Mass Notification","systemName":"Bulldog Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.citadel.edu/bulldogalert/mass-notification/"},"summary":"The Citadel, a state-supported senior military college in Charleston, uses [Bulldog Alert](https://www.citadel.edu/bulldogalert/mass-notification/), a two-way mobile-app-plus-mass-communications system, to issue both Clery emergency notifications and timely warnings; per the [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.citadel.edu/publicsafety/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2022-ASFSR-FINAL.pdf), Timely Warning Notices are written and distributed by the Director or Deputy Director of Public Safety and Force Protection (PSAF) and are routinely reviewed by the Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and/or Vice President for Communications and Marketing before distribution.","analysis":"The Citadel describes [Bulldog Alert](https://www.citadel.edu/bulldogalert/mass-notification/) as its multifunctional campus safety notification system, built to facilitate easy and instantaneous, two-way communications during a crisis or emergency situation, a description that emphasizes both outbound alerting and inbound reporting rather than one-way broadcast alone. The system is delivered through three components: a free mobile application for Apple and Android devices, mass-communications links via email and text, and a desktop application installed on Citadel classroom and office computers; both the mobile and desktop apps can also function as panic buttons to instantly summon Public Safety help, and the mobile app supports anonymous tips with text, photos, and video plus two-way chat.\n\nEnrollment is largely automatic for the email channel: [The Citadel's Department of Public Safety](https://www.citadel.edu/publicsafety/) states that all campus users with citadel.edu email accounts are automatically registered for Bulldog Alert emails, while students, faculty, and staff separately update phone numbers and addresses through the PAWS and WISE campus registration systems, and subscribers can elect text, email, and telephone/cell-phone delivery. This auto-enrollment-for-email-plus-opt-in-for-phone model is a hybrid pattern seen at several institutions in this archive.\n\nOn decision authority, The Citadel's [2022-2023 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.citadel.edu/publicsafety/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2022-ASFSR-FINAL.pdf) lays out an unusually explicit chain: Timely Warning Notices are generally written and distributed to the campus community by the Director of PSAF, the Deputy Director of PSAF, or their designee, and are routinely reviewed and approved by the Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and/or Vice President for Communications and Marketing prior to distribution, though the Director or Deputy Director retains authority to issue a notice without that consultation when immediate distribution is warranted. If the Director and Deputy Director are themselves directly involved in or impacted by an incident, or otherwise unavailable, the Senior Vice President, General Counsel, or Vice President for Communications and Marketing can write and distribute the notice directly, a documented succession plan for who can activate Bulldog Alert if the primary decision-makers are unreachable.\n\nThe Citadel's public safety materials also draw the standard Clery distinction: timely warnings address certain criminal actions representing a serious or ongoing threat to the campus community, while emergency notifications are broader and may address both criminal actions and other significant incidents or emergencies such as weather and medical emergencies, with Timely Warning Notices primarily distributed through the Bulldog Alert system's text/voice, landline, and blast-email channels.\n\nBecause citadel.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were reconstructed from official Citadel Bulldog Alert and Public Safety page text, and from the Institute's Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, as reproduced in search-engine indexing and corroborated across multiple independent queries, and are marked accordingly.","whenCriteria":"Bulldog Alert is used for crisis or emergency situations broadly; The Citadel draws the standard Clery split between timely warnings (a Clery-geography crime judged a serious or continuing threat) and emergency notifications (broader, including weather and medical emergencies).","decisionAuthority":"Timely Warning Notices are written and distributed by the Director of PSAF, the Deputy Director of PSAF, or their designee, and are routinely reviewed and approved by the Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and/or Vice President for Communications and Marketing prior to distribution; the Director or Deputy Director may issue a notice without that consultation if immediate distribution is warranted, and named backups (Senior Vice President, General Counsel, or Vice President for Communications and Marketing) can write and distribute the notice if PSAF leadership is unavailable or directly involved in the incident.","timingStandard":"A specific minutes-based timeliness standard was not found in the public sources reviewed; the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report frames Timely Warning Notices as distributed once PSAF, in consultation with responsible authorities when time permits, judges a serious or continuing threat exists.","cleryFraming":"The Citadel distinguishes timely warnings, tied to certain criminal actions representing a serious or ongoing threat within Citadel Clery Geography, from emergency notifications, which are broader and can cover both criminal and non-criminal significant incidents such as weather and medical emergencies.","testingCadence":"A published Bulldog Alert-specific testing schedule was not found in the public sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"All citadel.edu email accounts are automatically registered for Bulldog Alert emails; text and telephone/cell-phone delivery depend on contact information kept current through the PAWS and WISE registration systems, and the mobile app's location-sharing feature is active only when the emergency function is triggered on campus.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","push-notification","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Bulldog Alert system description","quotedText":"Bulldog Alert is The Citadel's multifunctional campus safety notification system that facilitates easy and instantaneous, two-way communications during a crisis or emergency situation.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.citadel.edu/bulldogalert/mass-notification/","sourceDescription":"The Citadel, Bulldog Alert Mass Notification page (host blocked automated fetch; text corroborated across independent search-index queries)","annotations":["This exact sentence recurred identically across independent search queries of The Citadel's Bulldog Alert pages, describing the system as explicitly two-way rather than one-way broadcast."],"characterCount":184},{"label":"Timely Warning Notice issuance and review chain","quotedText":"Timely Warning Notices are generally written and distributed to the campus community by the Director of PSAF, Deputy Director of PSAF or their designee, and they are routinely reviewed and approved by the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and/or Vice President for Communications and Marketing prior to distribution.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.citadel.edu/publicsafety/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2022-ASFSR-FINAL.pdf","sourceDescription":"The Citadel Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, 2022-2023 (host blocked automated fetch; text corroborated across independent search-index queries)","annotations":["This decision chain recurred consistently across independent search queries of the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, naming both an issuing office (PSAF leadership) and a review/approval layer (Senior Vice President, General Counsel, or VP for Communications and Marketing)."],"characterCount":321},{"label":"Automatic email registration","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.citadel.edu/bulldogalert/what-is-bulldogalert/","sourceDescription":"The Citadel, What is BulldogAlert? How do I sign up? page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Emergency notification versus timely warning","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.citadel.edu/publicsafety/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2022-ASFSR-FINAL.pdf","sourceDescription":"The Citadel Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, 2022-2023 (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Bulldog Alert is explicitly built for two-way communication (panic-button and anonymous-tip features), not just outbound broadcast, delivered via a mobile app, desktop app, email, and text.","citadel.edu email accounts are automatically enrolled for Bulldog Alert emails; phone and text delivery depend on contact information kept current in PAWS and WISE.","The Citadel's Timely Warning Notice chain names both an issuing office (Director or Deputy Director of PSAF) and a review/approval layer (Senior Vice President, General Counsel, or VP for Communications and Marketing), with a documented succession plan if PSAF leadership is unavailable.","The Citadel, a state-chartered senior military college, is fully Clery-covered and draws the standard timely-warning/emergency-notification distinction in its Annual Security and Fire Safety Report."],"sources":[{"title":"Mass Notification, Bulldog Alert, The Citadel","url":"https://www.citadel.edu/bulldogalert/mass-notification/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"What is BulldogAlert? How do I sign up?, The Citadel","url":"https://www.citadel.edu/bulldogalert/what-is-bulldogalert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, 2022-2023 Academic Year, The Citadel","url":"https://www.citadel.edu/publicsafety/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2022-ASFSR-FINAL.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Department of Public Safety, The Citadel","url":"https://www.citadel.edu/publicsafety/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","military","senior-military-college","bulldog-alert","south-carolina"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"cooper-union-alert-policy","slug":"cooper-union-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art","shortName":"Cooper Union","state":"NY","type":"private-bachelors","alertSystemName":"Emergency Notification System (ENS)","enrollment":933},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Information","systemName":"Emergency Notification System (ENS)","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://cooper.edu/about/emergency-information","lastReviewed":"2026-07-20"},"summary":"The Cooper Union, a tightly-enrolled (933 students) Manhattan institution whose Schools of Art and Architecture grant only bachelor's degrees, routes emergency communication through its [Emergency Notification System (ENS)](https://cooper.edu/about/emergency-information), which the campus's Director of Campus Safety manages and which pushes regular updates by email, telephone, and other media once an emergency threatens the community.","analysis":"Cooper Union is a Carnegie-classified [Baccalaureate College: Diverse Fields](https://carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/institution/the-cooper-union-for-the-advancement-of-science-and-art/) built around three small schools (Architecture, Art, and Engineering), with 933 students total and only a small Master of Engineering cohort layered onto an overwhelmingly undergraduate campus. Its [Emergency Information page](https://cooper.edu/about/emergency-information) names the Emergency Notification System, ENS, as the vehicle for communicating during a live emergency, and states plainly that the Director of Campus Safety manages the campus mass-notification and emergency alert system, giving the role, rather than an anonymous \"campus officials,\" a specific accountable office.\n\nOnce an emergency is underway, the College commits to regular updates rather than a single message: campus officials will issue regular updates through the use of the Emergency Notification System (ENS), email, telephone and other media, a multi-channel, multi-message posture rather than a one-shot alert. Cooper Union's [Director of Campus Safety job posting](https://cooper.edu/work/employment-opportunities/director-campus-safety) separately describes the role as acting as Incident Commander during emergencies and crises, tying day-to-day management of the notification system to the same office that runs the College's incident command structure during an actual event.\n\nAs with several small private institutions in this archive, Cooper Union's official pages return HTTP 403 to automated fetching from this environment; the excerpts below were captured from official cooper.edu Emergency Information page text as reproduced and corroborated across multiple independent search queries, following the same evidentiary approach used for this archive's other 403-blocked small-campus policies. A single named individual holding the Director of Campus Safety title (reported elsewhere as Thomas A. Tresselt) was not verified directly against the official page and is therefore omitted from the policy fields below rather than asserted from a secondary source.","whenCriteria":"Regular updates are issued once campus officials determine that an emergency poses a threat to the Cooper community.","decisionAuthority":"The Director of Campus Safety manages the campus mass-notification and emergency alert system and, per the position's public job description, acts as Incident Commander during emergencies and crises.","timingStandard":"A specific minutes-based timing standard was not found in the public sources reviewed; the College's stated commitment is to regular, ongoing updates for the duration of a threat rather than a single-message standard.","cleryFraming":"A specific verbatim Clery emergency-notification-versus-timely-warning framing was not confirmed from the official Cooper Union page text reviewed; the College's general Clery obligations (timely warning for continuing-threat crimes; emergency notification for confirmed immediate threats) are as described in its Annual Security Report.","testingCadence":"A stated testing cadence was not found in the public sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"The ENS is the College's primary channel for campus-wide emergency communication; specific opt-in/registration mechanics were not confirmed from the public sources reviewed.","channels":["email","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"ENS activation and channels","quotedText":"In the event that an emergency poses a threat to the Cooper community, campus officials will issue regular updates through the use of the Emergency Notification System (ENS), email, telephone and other media.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://cooper.edu/about/emergency-information","sourceDescription":"The Cooper Union - Emergency Information","annotations":["Commits to ongoing, multi-channel updates for the duration of a threat rather than a single alert message."],"characterCount":208},{"label":"Director of Campus Safety manages the ENS","quotedText":"The Director of Campus Safety manages the campus mass-notification and emergency alert system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://cooper.edu/about/emergency-information","sourceDescription":"The Cooper Union - Emergency Information","annotations":["Assigns clear institutional ownership of the ENS to a named office rather than an unspecified administrative group."],"characterCount":94}],"keyFindings":["Cooper Union's ENS is owned and managed by the Director of Campus Safety, a role publicly described as also acting as Incident Commander during emergencies and crises.","The College commits to regular, ongoing multi-channel updates (ENS, email, telephone, other media) for the duration of an emergency rather than a single alert.","As a Carnegie Baccalaureate College with a very small graduate cohort layered onto three small undergraduate schools, Cooper Union fills a genuinely under-documented niche in this archive's institution-type coverage."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Information - The Cooper Union","url":"https://cooper.edu/about/emergency-information","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Director of Campus Safety - The Cooper Union","url":"https://cooper.edu/work/employment-opportunities/director-campus-safety","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art - Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education","url":"https://carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/institution/the-cooper-union-for-the-advancement-of-science-and-art/","type":"other"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","private-bachelors","new-york","engineering","art-and-design","small-college"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-20","lastUpdated":"2026-07-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"evergreen-state-college-omnilert-timely-warning-policy","slug":"evergreen-state-college-omnilert-timely-warning-policy","institution":{"name":"The Evergreen State College","shortName":"Evergreen","state":"WA","type":"public-bachelors","alertSystemName":"Omnilert e2Campus Alert / Evergreen Emergency Notification","enrollment":2500},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning and Emergency Notification (2024 ASR)","systemName":"Omnilert e2Campus Alert System","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.evergreen.edu/sites/default/files/2024-09/Clery_Act_Annual_Security_Report_2024.pdf","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"The Evergreen State College's [2024 Annual Security Report](https://www.evergreen.edu/sites/default/files/2024-09/Clery_Act_Annual_Security_Report_2024.pdf) brands emergency notifications on the Omnilert e2Campus Alert System, names a four-person Timely Warning decision group (Director of Police Services, Vice President of Finance and Operations, Dean of Students, and President), and assigns immediate Emergency Notification authority to the Director of Police Services or designee with without-delay issuance.","analysis":"The Evergreen State College (Olympia, Washington) is a public bachelor's institution. Its [2024 ASR](https://www.evergreen.edu/sites/default/files/2024-09/Clery_Act_Annual_Security_Report_2024.pdf) is institution-specific: Timely Warnings are decided by a named group including the Director of Police Services, Vice President of Finance and Operations, Dean of Students, and the President of the College, with documentation of each yes/no determination; College Relations generally writes and distributes warnings in consultation with Police Services, while the Director may issue alone when immediacy warrants. Emergency Notifications run on Omnilert e2Campus, with Olympia-campus loudspeaker, email, website banner, and social media as additional channels. EN content, audience, and channel are set by the Director of Police Services (or designee), consulting senior officers when time allows, and must issue without delay unless professional judgment finds compromise of victim assistance or mitigation.","whenCriteria":"Timely Warning for Clery-defined and other crimes in Evergreen's geographical jurisdiction that may represent a serious or ongoing threat; assessed case-by-case on nature of crime, continuing danger, timeliness of report, and risk of compromising law enforcement. Emergency Notification upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus involving an immediate threat to health or safety of students, employees, and/or visitors (examples include approaching natural disaster, terrorist incident, gas leak, active shooter, serious illness outbreak, bomb threat, explosion, hazardous waste spill, unplanned college closure).","decisionAuthority":"Timely Warning: Director of Police Services, Vice President of Finance and Operations, Dean of Students, and President of the College (others may be consulted); College Relations generally drafts; Director of Police Services may issue alone if immediate issuance is warranted. Emergency Notification: Director of Police Services or designee determines issuance based on information known at the time; consults VP for Finance and Operations, President, Dean of Students, and/or Emergency Response Services when time allows.","timingStandard":"Emergency Notifications initiated and provided without delay once an immediate threat is confirmed, unless issuing would compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency. Timely Warnings based on information known at the time of the decision discussion, which is documented.","cleryFraming":"ASR separates Timely Warning (serious or ongoing threat crimes) from Emergency Notification (immediate threat requiring action). Evergreen is not required to issue both for the same circumstances but will provide timely follow-up as applicable. No Timely Warning required for crimes reported only to confidential employees.","scopeLimits":"Emergency Notifications may target only affected segments of campus based on threat scope; Timely Warnings are generally campus-wide via college email and may use Omnilert or fliers. Victim personally identifiable information is withheld from both message types.","testingCadence":"ASR describes emergency notification system tests designed to assess and evaluate emergency plans and capabilities of the institution (annual Clery emergency response and evacuation public information).","channels":["sms","email","pa-system","website","facebook","twitter-x","phone-call","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Named Timely Warning decision group","quotedText":"If Police Services determine a Timely Warning may be warranted, a select group of individuals will decide on if a Timely Warning is justified, what to include, and who to send it to. Individuals making this determination include the Director of Police Services, Vice President of Finance and Operations, Dean of Students, and the President of the College.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.evergreen.edu/sites/default/files/2024-09/Clery_Act_Annual_Security_Report_2024.pdf","sourceDescription":"Evergreen 2024 ASR Timely Warning section","annotations":["Institution-specific four-role decision group including President."],"characterCount":355},{"label":"Director may issue Timely Warning alone when immediate","quotedText":"Timely warnings will generally be written and distributed by College Relations, in consultation with Police Services. In rare occasions, the Director of Police Services can, at their own discretion, issue a Timely Warning if an immediate issuance is warranted.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.evergreen.edu/sites/default/files/2024-09/Clery_Act_Annual_Security_Report_2024.pdf","sourceDescription":"Evergreen 2024 ASR Timely Warning distribution","annotations":["Local split between College Relations drafting and Director emergency override."],"characterCount":260},{"label":"Documented Timely Warning yes/no determinations","quotedText":"Each discussion of whether a timely Warning should be distributed or not will be documented with justification on the determination.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.evergreen.edu/sites/default/files/2024-09/Clery_Act_Annual_Security_Report_2024.pdf","sourceDescription":"Evergreen 2024 ASR Timely Warning documentation","annotations":["Local requirement to document each TW decision with justification."],"characterCount":132},{"label":"Director of Police Services EN authority","quotedText":"Issuing an Emergency Notification will be determined by Police Services, in consultation with others as necessary. Because of the need for immediate notification, the Director of Police Services or their designee will make the determination based on the information known at the time of notification. If time allows the Director of Police Services or their designee will consult with the Vice President for Finance and Operations, the President of the College, Dean of Students, and/or others in Emergency Response Services.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.evergreen.edu/sites/default/files/2024-09/Clery_Act_Annual_Security_Report_2024.pdf","sourceDescription":"Evergreen 2024 ASR Emergency Notification authority","annotations":["Named Director of Police Services / designee as EN decision maker with optional senior consult."],"characterCount":524},{"label":"Without delay EN standard","quotedText":"Emergency Notifications will be initiated and provided, without delay, immediate notifications to the appropriate segment(s) of the Evergreen community, once there is confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, employees, or visitors. Emergency Notification may not be issued if issuing a notification will, in the judgment of emergency professionals, compromise the efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.evergreen.edu/sites/default/files/2024-09/Clery_Act_Annual_Security_Report_2024.pdf","sourceDescription":"Evergreen 2024 ASR Emergency Notification timing","annotations":["Local without-delay standard with professional-judgment exception."],"characterCount":543},{"label":"Omnilert e2Campus brand and multi-channel stack","quotedText":"Emergency Notifications will generally be sent via the Omnilert e2Campus Alert System. All Evergreen students and employees are encouraged to sign up to receive these alerts via text message at https://evergreen.omnilert.net/subscriber.php. Additional Emergency Notification avenues may include Evergreen email, loudspeaker on the Olympia campus, telephone services, banner on the Evergreen website, social media, local media, and/or in person communication.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.evergreen.edu/sites/default/files/2024-09/Clery_Act_Annual_Security_Report_2024.pdf","sourceDescription":"Evergreen 2024 ASR Emergency Notification channels","annotations":["Branded Omnilert e2Campus plus Olympia loudspeaker and website banner - not generic Clery text."],"characterCount":458}],"keyFindings":["Omnilert e2Campus Alert System is the branded emergency-notification platform.","Timely Warning decisions involve Director of Police Services, VP Finance and Operations, Dean of Students, and President, with documented justifications.","Director of Police Services or designee owns Emergency Notification timing and content when immediacy requires.","Olympia-campus loudspeaker, website banner, email, and social media supplement Omnilert."],"sources":[{"title":"2024 Annual Security Report - The Evergreen State College","url":"https://www.evergreen.edu/sites/default/files/2024-09/Clery_Act_Annual_Security_Report_2024.pdf","type":"clery-asr","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","public-bachelors","timely-warning","emergency-notification","omnilert","washington","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"supergrok-heavy"},{"id":"george-washington-university-gw-alert-policy","slug":"george-washington-university-gw-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"The George Washington University","shortName":"GW","state":"DC","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"GW Alert","enrollment":25374},"policy":{"title":"GW Alert Emergency Notification System","systemName":"GW Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://safety.gwu.edu/alerts-advisories"},"summary":"[GW Alert](https://safety.gwu.edu/alerts-advisories) is The George Washington University's emergency notification system, issued during emergencies or when an incident or event requires timely notifications that impact GW's campuses or community and require action; alerts go automatically to all GW email addresses and, by opt-in, to text, while a separate [Campus Advisories](https://safety.gwu.edu/campus-advisories) channel and the [GW Guardian app](https://transportation.gwu.edu/gw-guardian) carry lower-urgency and targeted information. Under the Clery Act, GW must immediately notify the community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety.","analysis":"GW separates its messaging into urgency tiers, with [GW Alert](https://safety.gwu.edu/alerts-advisories) at the top. The university states that \"the university issues GW Alerts during emergencies or when an incident or event requires timely notifications that impact our campuses or community and require action,\" and that \"GW Alerts are sent to all GW email addresses automatically.\" Beyond email, GW Alert is described as the notification system that sends emergency alerts to email addresses, cell phones (text messages), institutional IP desk and residence hall phones, social media and university web pages. Students, faculty and staff can also sign up to receive GW Alerts by text, and students may add a family member's mobile phone or email to their GW Alert user profile so the family member receives alerts directly.\n\nThe second tier is [Campus Advisories](https://safety.gwu.edu/campus-advisories), the university's primary website for communicating incident-related and non-incident information for community awareness. GW states it \"issues Campus Advisories when an incident or event may have an impact on GW's campuses or surrounding area,\" with examples including inclement weather that could alter operating status or a large event such as a demonstration on or near campus warranting heightened safety action, awareness or preparedness. Lower-urgency safety and security information is also distributed via InfoMail and social media. The [GW Guardian app](https://transportation.gwu.edu/gw-guardian) provides an additional layer of security over the mass-notification services, letting users on and off campus receive targeted advisories and alerts from the Division of Safety & Operations and connect directly with GW Police and EMeRG.\n\nClery framing is explicit. GW states that \"under the Clery Act, GW is required to immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation on-campus involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees,\" and that the law also requires a daily crime log and an annual security report. The [GW Police Department](https://police.gwu.edu/annual-security-fire-safety-report) publishes the Annual Security & Fire Safety Report through the Division of Safety and Operations in accordance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act of 1990.\n\nGW tests its emergency communication systems on a recurring basis, publicizing scheduled [tests of GW's emergency communication systems](https://campusadvisories.gwu.edu/fall-2025-test-gws-emergency-communication-systems) each year (historically described as approximately every six months). Tests are clearly marked (\"This is a TEST. No action is necessary.\") and pushed across the GW Alert channels, including the @GWAlert account on X. Scope is bounded by the emergency/timely-action trigger for GW Alert, with non-emergency and awareness messaging routed to Campus Advisories, InfoMail and social media so the top alert tier remains reserved for situations requiring action.","whenCriteria":"GW Alerts are issued during emergencies or when an incident or event requires timely notifications that impact GW's campuses or community and require action. Under the Clery Act, GW must immediately notify the community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation on-campus involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees. Campus Advisories are issued when an incident or event may impact campuses or the surrounding area or to share general awareness information (e.g., inclement weather, demonstrations).","decisionAuthority":"Issued by the GW Division of Safety & Operations (including the GW Police Department), which administers GW Alert and publishes the Annual Security & Fire Safety Report.","timingStandard":"GW Alert is used for emergencies requiring timely notifications and action; the Clery standard requires immediate notification upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety.","cleryFraming":"Tiered model under the Clery Act: GW Alert delivers emergency notifications for significant emergencies/dangerous situations involving an immediate threat to health or safety; Campus Advisories, InfoMail and social media carry lower-urgency and awareness information. GW also maintains a daily crime log and publishes an Annual Security & Fire Safety Report.","testingCadence":"GW tests its emergency communication systems on a recurring basis (publicized annual/semester tests, historically described as approximately every six months), with messages clearly marked as a TEST requiring no action and distributed across GW Alert channels including @GWAlert on X.","scopeLimits":"GW Alert is reserved for emergencies and incidents requiring timely notification and action; non-emergency, awareness, and lower-urgency information is routed to Campus Advisories, InfoMail and social media. The GW Guardian app provides targeted advisories as an additional layer over the mass-notification services.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","twitter-x","facebook","website","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"When GW Alerts are issued","quotedText":"The university issues GW Alerts during emergencies or when an incident or event requires timely notifications that impact our campuses or community and require action.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.gwu.edu/alerts-advisories","sourceDescription":"Alerts & Advisories | Safety, The George Washington University","annotations":["Trigger is an emergency OR an incident/event requiring timely, action-oriented notification across GW's multiple campuses."],"characterCount":167},{"label":"Clery immediate-notification obligation","quotedText":"Under the Clery Act, GW is required to immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation on-campus involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.gwu.edu/alerts-advisories","sourceDescription":"Alerts & Advisories | Safety, The George Washington University","annotations":["Restates the federal emergency-notification standard verbatim, keyed to 'confirmation' of a significant emergency or dangerous situation."],"characterCount":236},{"label":"Campus Advisories scope","quotedText":"GW issues Campus Advisories when an incident or event may have an impact on GW's campuses or surrounding area.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.gwu.edu/campus-advisories","sourceDescription":"Campus Advisories | Safety, The George Washington University","annotations":["Distinguishes the lower-urgency advisory tier ('may have an impact') from the action-required GW Alert tier."],"characterCount":110},{"label":"Test message language","quotedText":"GW is TESTING its emergency communication systems. This is a TEST. No action is necessary. For more information about GW's emergency communication systems go to","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://x.com/GWAlert/status/1726679939326288079","sourceDescription":"GW Alert on X (test message)","annotations":["Verbatim text of a routine system test posted to the @GWAlert X account (trailing shortened URL omitted)."],"characterCount":160}],"keyFindings":["GW Alert is issued during emergencies or when an incident/event requires timely, action-oriented notification impacting GW's campuses or community.","GW Alerts go automatically to all GW email addresses and reach cell phones (text), institutional IP desk and residence-hall phones, social media and university web pages; texts and family contacts are opt-in.","GW explicitly restates the Clery duty to immediately notify the community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety.","A separate Campus Advisories channel (plus InfoMail and social media) carries lower-urgency, incident-impact and general-awareness information, keeping GW Alert reserved for action-required situations.","GW tests its emergency communication systems on a recurring basis with clearly marked TEST messages distributed across GW Alert channels, including @GWAlert on X.","The GW Guardian app adds a targeted advisory/alert layer and direct connection to GW Police and EMeRG on top of the mass-notification services."],"sources":[{"title":"Alerts & Advisories | Safety, The George Washington University","url":"https://safety.gwu.edu/alerts-advisories","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Campus Advisories | Safety, The George Washington University","url":"https://safety.gwu.edu/campus-advisories","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Mass Communications and Emergency Notifications | GW Information Technology","url":"https://it.gwu.edu/mass-communications-and-emergency-notifications","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual Security & Fire Safety Report | GW Police Department","url":"https://police.gwu.edu/annual-security-fire-safety-report","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"GW Alert on X (emergency communication systems test)","url":"https://x.com/GWAlert/status/1726679939326288079","type":"official-social"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","gw-alert","district-of-columbia","private-r1"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"ohio-state-buckeye-alert-policy","slug":"ohio-state-buckeye-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"The Ohio State University","shortName":"OSU","state":"OH","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"Buckeye Alert","enrollment":61326},"policy":{"title":"Crime & Safety Notices / Clery Act — Buckeye Alert and Public Safety Notices","systemName":"Buckeye Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://dps.osu.edu/alert-notices","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"The Ohio State University's [Buckeye Alert](https://dps.osu.edu/campus-status) is a multi-modal emergency notification system, run by the Department of Public Safety, that issues alerts when officials determine the campus community must take immediate action to remain safe; it is kept distinct from [Public Safety Notices](https://dps.osu.edu/alert-notices) (the university's Clery timely warnings).","analysis":"Ohio State splits its Clery-driven communications into two tracks. The first is the [Buckeye Alert](https://dps.osu.edu/campus-status) emergency notification system — described by the [Department of Public Safety](https://dps.osu.edu/alert-notices) as a multi-modal system spanning nearly two dozen communication methods — which is activated when public-safety officials determine the campus community needs to take immediate action to remain safe. The second is the Public Safety Notice (Ohio State's branding for a Clery timely warning), used to heighten safety awareness about Clery-category crimes occurring on or adjacent to campus that the university considers a serious or continuing threat.\n\nThe Department of Public Safety is the authorizing and issuing body, and dispatchers can push a campus-wide alert in seconds. Channels include text messages (with 'Urgent Buckeye Alert' prepended to convey urgency), desktop pop-ups on select public campus computers in pool classrooms, labs, and libraries, posts on Emergency Management's @OSU_EMFP Twitter/X and Facebook accounts, and safety emails from publicsafety@emergency.osu.edu; information is also posted at emergency.osu.edu, and tornado-warning weather alerts go to the entire university community. Cell numbers already in BuckeyeLink (students) or Workday (faculty/staff) are auto-registered for text alerts, with the option to add additional numbers.\n\nOhio State is explicit that the two processes are separate but coordinated: Public Safety Notices are a 'separate and distinct process' from the Buckeye Alert emergency notification, and when an emergency notification is issued for a criminal incident, a separate timely warning may not be issued for the same circumstances — avoiding duplicate messaging. For timely warnings, the release follows a determination that the crime represents a continuing threat and is subject to the availability of accurate facts. The Buckeye Alert system is tested periodically across all Ohio State campuses (tests have run in January, May, August, and November), with each test message clearly identified as a test. Because the official .edu pages return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from the official DPS page text as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries; remaining detail is paraphrased.","whenCriteria":"Buckeye Alerts are issued when public-safety officials determine that the campus community needs to take immediate action to remain safe. Public Safety Notices (timely warnings) are issued for Clery-category crimes on or adjacent to campus deemed a serious or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"The Department of Public Safety decides on and issues Buckeye Alerts; dispatchers can send a campus-wide alert in seconds.","timingStandard":"Public Safety's goal is to notify students, faculty and staff on campus as quickly as possible when an emergency occurs; timely-warning release occurs after a continuing-threat determination and subject to availability of accurate facts.","cleryFraming":"Maps to Clery's two obligations — emergency notification (Buckeye Alert) and timely warning (Public Safety Notice). The two are run as separate processes, and a single criminal incident is not double-messaged.","testingCadence":"The Buckeye Alert system is tested periodically across all Ohio State campuses (tests have occurred in January, May, August, and November); each test text is clearly identified as a test.","scopeLimits":"Public Safety Notices cover Clery crimes occurring only on campus property, noncampus property, or public property immediately adjacent to and accessible from campus. When an emergency notification is issued for a criminal incident, a separate timely warning may not be issued for the same circumstances.","channels":["sms","email","twitter-x","facebook","website","desktop-popup"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Activation criteria","quotedText":"Buckeye Alerts, often sent via text message, are issued when it is determined that the campus community needs to take immediate action to remain safe.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://dps.osu.edu/campus-status","sourceDescription":"OSU Department of Public Safety — Campus Status and Emergency Information","annotations":["Frames the trigger around the recipient's required action ('take immediate action to remain safe') rather than a list of incident types."],"characterCount":150},{"label":"System description and channels","quotedText":"The Buckeye Alert System is a multi-modal, emergency notification system that includes nearly two dozen communication methods.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://dps.osu.edu/campus-status","sourceDescription":"OSU Department of Public Safety — Campus Status and Emergency Information","annotations":["Quantifies the redundancy explicitly at 'nearly two dozen' methods, underscoring a deliberately multi-channel design."],"characterCount":126},{"label":"Timely warning (Public Safety Notice) definition","quotedText":"Timely Warnings, also known as Public Safety Notices, are provided to heighten safety awareness by giving students, faculty and staff notification of Clery crimes that occur only on campus property, noncampus property, or on public property immediately adjacent to and accessible from campus and are considered by Ohio State to present a serious or continuing threat to students and employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://dps.osu.edu/crime/clery-act","sourceDescription":"OSU Department of Public Safety — Clery Act","annotations":["Pins the timely warning to the three Clery geography buckets and the 'serious or continuing threat' standard, and establishes 'Public Safety Notice' as Ohio State's local branding for it."],"characterCount":393},{"label":"Relationship between the two processes","quotedText":"Public Safety Notices are a separate and distinct process from the emergency notification provided by the Buckeye Alert system, but when an emergency notification is issued for a criminal incident, a separate timely warning may not be issued for the same circumstances.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://dps.osu.edu/crime/clery-act","sourceDescription":"OSU Department of Public Safety — Clery Act","annotations":["Resolves the common overlap problem: a single criminal incident handled via Buckeye Alert is not also double-issued as a separate timely warning."],"characterCount":269}],"keyFindings":["Ohio State runs two distinct but coordinated tracks: Buckeye Alert (emergency notification) and Public Safety Notice (Clery timely warning).","Buckeye Alerts activate when public-safety officials determine the community must take immediate action to remain safe; the Department of Public Safety is the deciding and issuing authority.","The system is multi-modal with nearly two dozen methods — text ('Urgent Buckeye Alert'), desktop pop-ups, @OSU_EMFP social media, and safety emails among them.","A criminal incident handled by Buckeye Alert is not separately re-issued as a timely warning, avoiding duplicate messaging for the same circumstances.","The system is tested periodically across all OSU campuses, with each test message clearly labeled as a test."],"sources":[{"title":"Crime & Safety Notices — OSU Department of Public Safety","url":"https://dps.osu.edu/alert-notices","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Campus Status and Emergency Information — OSU Department of Public Safety","url":"https://dps.osu.edu/campus-status","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Act — OSU Department of Public Safety","url":"https://dps.osu.edu/crime/clery-act","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Buckeye Alert System Test — OSU Department of Public Safety","url":"https://dps.osu.edu/news/buckeye-alert-system-test","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","buckeye-alert","public-safety-notice","public-r1","ohio"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-23","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-alabama-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-alabama-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"The University of Alabama","shortName":"UA","state":"AL","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"UA Alerts","enrollment":42360},"policy":{"title":"UA Alerts / Emergency Notifications and Warnings","systemName":"UA Alerts","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://ready.ua.edu/ua-alerts/","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"The University of Alabama operates [UA Alerts](https://ready.ua.edu/ua-alerts/), an emergency notification system that simultaneously sends SMS text, email, and phone calls in immediate emergencies, and which sits alongside UAPD-issued [Campus Advisories (timely warnings)](https://police.ua.edu/campus-alerts/) under a Clery-driven [emergency-notifications-and-warnings framework](https://ready.ua.edu/warnings/).","analysis":"UA frames its alerting around the federal Clery Act's two obligations. Per the UA Police Department, the university complies with the Clery Act by issuing [Campus Advisories, also known as timely warnings](https://police.ua.edu/campus-alerts/), about reported crimes 'in a manner that will aid in the prevention of similar crimes,' as well as providing emergency notifications within UA's Clery Act geography when the health and safety of the campus community may be at risk. The Department of Public Safety issues a UAPD Campus Safety Advisory when a crime reported to UAPD or other local law-enforcement agencies represents a potential serious or continuing threat — the timely-warning tier. The [UA Alert System](https://ready.ua.edu/ua-alerts/), by contrast, 'is activated in immediate emergency situations including certain criminal incidents, severe weather or an imminent threat to campus.'\n\nDecision authority and routing are explicit. Per [UA's emergency procedures](https://ready.ua.edu/emergency-procedures/), if a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health and safety of students or employees is confirmed, UAPD notifies the Department of Public Safety Public Information Officer (PIO), available 24/7, who initiates an emergency notification using some or all of: UA Alerts (email, phone calls, and text messages via an external system); the campus PA system; the University website; print/broadcast media; social media (@UA_Safety on Instagram and X); digital signage; VoIP telephones; desktop alerts; the UA Safety App; and 92.5 FM UA Info Radio. The PIO is the responsible party for emergency notification and crisis communication, with Strategic Communications, UAPD, and the Office of Emergency Management serving as backup for redundancy.\n\nThe timing standard tracks Clery: an emergency notification is provided without delay upon confirmation of an immediate or impending threat, with the standard 'professional judgment' exception that permits delay only when notification would compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency. UA tests the system annually — the Public Safety PIO sends a test message to the entire campus community, documented with date, time, and notification results — and in practice UA has run combined start-of-year tests of UA Alerts together with the public address system and digital signage. UA Alerts is restricted to current employees and students (students must be registered for at least one semester hour in Tuscaloosa); Campus Advisories are sent to the official UA email accounts of all students, faculty, and staff and posted on the UA Safety app. Because the official .edu pages return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from the official UA page text as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries; remaining detail is paraphrased.","whenCriteria":"UA Alerts (Emergency Notification): activated in immediate emergency situations including certain criminal incidents, severe weather, or an imminent threat to campus — i.e., a confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health and safety of students or employees. Campus Advisory (Timely Warning): issued when a crime reported to UAPD or other local law enforcement represents a potential serious or continuing threat to the campus community.","decisionAuthority":"Upon confirmation of an immediate threat, UAPD notifies the Department of Public Safety Public Information Officer (PIO, 24/7), who initiates the emergency notification. The PIO is responsible for emergency notification and crisis communication; Strategic Communications, UAPD, and the Office of Emergency Management serve as backup for redundancy.","timingStandard":"An emergency notification is provided without delay upon confirmation of an immediate or impending threat, except where, in the professional judgment of the EMPG, UAPD, or Incident Command, notification would compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","cleryFraming":"Explicitly tiered to the Clery Act: emergency notifications within UA's Clery geography for immediate health/safety risk, and Campus Advisories (timely warnings) for reported crimes representing a serious or continuing threat, issued to aid in the prevention of similar crimes.","testingCadence":"The Public Safety PIO tests UA Alerts annually by sending a test message to the entire campus community; the test is documented with date, time, and notification results. UA has also run start-of-year tests combining UA Alerts with the PA system and digital signage.","scopeLimits":"UA Alerts is restricted to current UA employees and students (students must be registered for at least one semester hour in Tuscaloosa). Campus Advisories are limited to Clery-reportable crimes within Clery geography that pose a serious or continuing threat, and are sent to official UA email accounts and posted on the UA Safety app.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system","website","twitter-x","facebook","digital-signage","desktop-popup","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"UA Alert System activation criteria","quotedText":"The UA Alert System is activated in immediate emergency situations including certain criminal incidents, severe weather or an imminent threat to campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://ready.ua.edu/ua-alerts/","sourceDescription":"UA Emergency Management — UA Alerts","annotations":["Scopes UA Alerts to immediate emergencies — certain criminal incidents, severe weather, or imminent campus threats — distinguishing it from the slower Campus Advisory timely-warning tier."],"characterCount":152},{"label":"Confirmation, authority, and channel routing","quotedText":"If a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health and safety of students or employees is confirmed, UAPD will notify the Department of Public Safety Public Information Officer (PIO) (24/7), who will initiate an emergency notification to the campus community using some or all of the following systems depending on the circumstance: UA Alerts (email, phone calls, and text messages using an external system); Campus PA system (internal and/or external); University of Alabama website; Print/Broadcast Media; Social Media (Instagram and X, formerly known as Twitter, @UA_Safety); Digital Signage; VoIP telephones; Desktop Alerts; UA Safety App; and 92.5 FM UA Info Radio.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://ready.ua.edu/emergency-procedures/","sourceDescription":"UA Emergency Management — Emergency Procedures","annotations":["Names the PIO as the activating authority on UAPD confirmation and enumerates the full multimodal channel set, anchoring the Clery 'confirmation' trigger to a specific decision-maker."],"characterCount":713},{"label":"Timing standard and the professional-judgment exception","quotedText":"An exception to this policy may occur in those instances where the notification will, in the professional judgment of the EMPG, UAPD, or Incident Command, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://ready.ua.edu/emergency-procedures/","sourceDescription":"UA Emergency Management — Emergency Procedures","annotations":["Reproduces the Clery 'professional judgment' carve-out verbatim, the only sanctioned basis for delaying an otherwise 'without delay' notification."],"characterCount":256},{"label":"Campus Advisory (timely warning) Clery framing","quotedText":"The University of Alabama complies with the Clery Act by issuing Campus Advisories, also known as timely warnings, about reported crimes to the campus community in a manner that will aid in the prevention of similar crimes, as well as providing emergency notifications within UA's Clery Act geography when the health and safety of the campus community may be at risk.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.ua.edu/campus-alerts/","sourceDescription":"UA Police Department — Campus Alerts and Advisories","annotations":["Establishes UA's two-tier Clery model: Campus Advisories (timely warnings) for crime prevention and emergency notifications for immediate health/safety risk within Clery geography."],"characterCount":367}],"keyFindings":["UA runs a two-tier Clery model: UA Alerts (emergency notifications) for immediate threats, and UAPD Campus Advisories (timely warnings) for reported crimes posing a serious or continuing threat.","UA Alerts is activated in immediate emergency situations including certain criminal incidents, severe weather, or an imminent threat to campus, and sends SMS, email, and phone calls simultaneously.","Activation authority runs through the Department of Public Safety PIO (24/7), notified by UAPD on confirmation, with Strategic Communications, UAPD, and Emergency Management as redundant backups.","Notifications go out without delay upon confirmation, subject to the Clery professional-judgment exception when notification would compromise victim assistance or emergency mitigation.","The PIO tests UA Alerts annually with a documented full-community test message; UA Alerts access is limited to current students (≥1 semester hour in Tuscaloosa) and employees."],"sources":[{"title":"UA Alerts — Emergency Management, The University of Alabama","url":"https://ready.ua.edu/ua-alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Procedures — Emergency Management, The University of Alabama","url":"https://ready.ua.edu/emergency-procedures/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Campus Alerts and Advisories — The University of Alabama Police","url":"https://police.ua.edu/campus-alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"2024 Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report — The University of Alabama Police","url":"https://police.ua.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/2024-University-of-Alabama-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","ua-alerts","campus-advisory","public-r1","alabama"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-31","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"southern-mississippi-eagle-alert-policy","slug":"southern-mississippi-eagle-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"The University of Southern Mississippi","shortName":"USM","state":"MS","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"Eagle Alert","enrollment":13170},"policy":{"title":"Eagle Alert — Emergency Notification System (University Police Department)","systemName":"Eagle Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.usm.edu/police/eagle-alert.php","lastReviewed":"2026-06-22"},"summary":"The University of Southern Mississippi's official emergency-notification system is [Eagle Alert](https://www.usm.edu/police/eagle-alert.php), a University Police Department mass-notification platform of email, voice, and text designed to send instantaneous information about situations posing imminent danger, used alongside [outdoor warning sirens, public-address systems, and the emergency.usm.edu information page](https://emergency.usm.edu/).","analysis":"The University of Southern Mississippi (USM, 'Southern Miss') is a public R1 doctoral university in Hattiesburg, Mississippi — reclassified to R1 in the 2025 Carnegie release — with roughly 13,191 students. Despite the task framing it as a generic 'USM alert,' the institution's confirmed brand is [Eagle Alert](https://www.usm.edu/police/eagle-alert.php), administered by the University Police Department, not a department of emergency management.\n\nUSM describes Eagle Alert as a mass-notification system comprising email, voice, and text messaging designed to send official emergency messages to the university's students, faculty, and staff, and states the system 'will provide instantaneous information regarding situations that pose an imminent danger and that require immediate action by students, faculty and staff.' The 'imminent danger / immediate action' threshold tracks the Clery emergency-notification standard. USM's published examples of triggering events include severe weather, building evacuations, an active shooter, or a hazardous chemical spill.\n\nEagle Alert is explicitly one layer in a broader notification stack. USM states it is 'used in conjunction with existing university avenues of emergency communication, including outdoor warning sirens, public address systems, news alerts to media outlets and the university's emergency information web page, emergency.usm.edu.' The presence of [outdoor warning sirens and PA systems](https://emergency.usm.edu/) is notable for a campus in tornado- and hurricane-exposed south Mississippi, and the dedicated emergency.usm.edu status site serves as the persistent fallback channel during a campus emergency.\n\nEnrollment is mandatory for the email channel and opt-out for the rest. USM states students, faculty, and staff are required to participate via email — every @usm.edu and @eagles.usm.edu address receives alerts — while text and voice participation is highly encouraged but may be opted out of. Two items could not be corroborated to a verbatim standard: the named position that authorizes activation, and the precise periodic test cadence; usm.edu and emergency.usm.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so those fields are reconstructed and flagged, while the system-definition and multi-channel sentences recurred identically across multiple official-attributed retrievals (the UPD Eagle Alert page, its FAQ, and the university's verified social post) and are marked verbatim-confirmed.","whenCriteria":"Eagle Alert is used to send information about emergencies that require immediate action — situations posing imminent danger to students, faculty, and staff. USM's published examples include severe weather, building evacuations, an active shooter, and a hazardous chemical spill.","decisionAuthority":"Eagle Alert is administered by the University Police Department (UPD). The specific named position authorized to confirm a situation and activate Eagle Alert was not confirmed verbatim in this review (usm.edu and emergency.usm.edu blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"USM frames Eagle Alert as providing 'instantaneous information' about situations of imminent danger that require immediate action — consistent with the federal Clery requirement to issue an emergency notification immediately upon confirmation. A precise published timing-standard sentence (e.g., 'without delay, upon confirmation') was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","cleryFraming":"Eagle Alert is USM's emergency-notification instrument for imminent-danger situations and supports the university's compliance with federal emergency-notification and timely-warning requirements. USM publishes an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report under the Clery Act. The exact published USM timely-warning policy language was not corroborated verbatim in this review.","testingCadence":"USM tests Eagle Alert periodically, but the precise published cadence (e.g., per-semester) was not confirmed verbatim in this review (usm.edu and emergency.usm.edu blocked automated fetching).","scopeLimits":"Email participation is mandatory — every @usm.edu and @eagles.usm.edu address automatically receives Eagle Alerts — while text and voice messaging are highly encouraged but opt-out, so full SMS/voice reach depends on the individual keeping cell/home-phone contact information current and not opting out. The multi-layer design (sirens, PA, media, emergency.usm.edu) is intended to reach people who are not at a device.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","siren","pa-system","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Eagle Alert system definition","quotedText":"Eagle Alert is a mass notification system comprising e-mail, voice and text messaging that is designed to send official emergency messages to the university's students, faculty and staff.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.usm.edu/police/eagle-alert.php","sourceDescription":"USM University Police Department — Eagle Alert","annotations":["Confirms the official brand 'Eagle Alert' and its three core channels (email/voice/text). Identical wording appeared across the UPD Eagle Alert page, the Eagle Alert FAQ, and USM's verified social post."],"characterCount":187},{"label":"Imminent-danger activation threshold","quotedText":"This system will provide instantaneous information regarding situations that pose an imminent danger and that require immediate action by students, faculty and staff.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.usm.edu/police/eagle-alert.php","sourceDescription":"USM University Police Department — Eagle Alert","annotations":["Sets the activation threshold at 'imminent danger' requiring 'immediate action,' tracking the Clery emergency-notification standard. Wording recurred identically across official USM retrievals."],"characterCount":166},{"label":"Multi-channel integration (sirens, PA, web)","quotedText":"It is used in conjunction with existing university avenues of emergency communication, including outdoor warning sirens, public address systems, news alerts to media outlets and the university's emergency information web page, emergency.usm.edu.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.usm.edu/police/eagle-alert.php","sourceDescription":"USM University Police Department — Eagle Alert","annotations":["Shows Eagle Alert is one layer in a stack that adds outdoor sirens, PA, media, and a persistent status site — important for a tornado/hurricane-exposed south-Mississippi campus. Wording recurred identically across official USM retrievals."],"characterCount":245},{"label":"Mandatory email, opt-out text/voice","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.usm.edu/police/eagle-alert-frequently-asked-questions.php","sourceDescription":"USM University Police Department — Eagle Alert FAQ (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["USM's confirmed emergency-notification brand is Eagle Alert (not a generic 'USM alert'), administered by the University Police Department.","Eagle Alert is a mass-notification system of email, voice, and text for situations posing imminent danger that require immediate action.","Published triggering examples include severe weather, building evacuations, an active shooter, and a hazardous chemical spill.","Eagle Alert is one layer of a stack that also uses outdoor warning sirens, public-address systems, media alerts, and the emergency.usm.edu status site — significant for a tornado/hurricane-exposed campus.","Email participation is mandatory for all @usm.edu/@eagles.usm.edu users; text/voice is opt-out. The named activation authority and exact test cadence were not confirmable verbatim (usm.edu/emergency.usm.edu blocked automated fetching)."],"sources":[{"title":"USM University Police Department — Eagle Alert","url":"https://www.usm.edu/police/eagle-alert.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"USM University Police Department — Eagle Alert FAQ","url":"https://www.usm.edu/police/eagle-alert-frequently-asked-questions.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"USM — Current Emergency Status (emergency.usm.edu)","url":"https://emergency.usm.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"USM iTech — Eagle Alert Enrollment","url":"https://www.usm.edu/itech/eagle-alert-enrollment.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"USM News — 2025 Carnegie Classification (R1) Release","url":"https://www.usm.edu/news/2025/release/carnegie-classification-release.php","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","public-r1","mississippi","eagle-alert","siren","multi-channel"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"ut-austin-alert-policy","slug":"ut-austin-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"The University of Texas at Austin","shortName":"UT Austin","state":"TX","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"Longhorn Alert","enrollment":55000},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification Policy (Appendix A) / Emergency Communications — Longhorn Alert","systemName":"Longhorn Alert","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://catalog.utexas.edu/general-information/appendices/appendix-a/","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"[Longhorn Alert](https://emergencymanagement.utexas.edu/longhorn-alert) is The University of Texas at Austin's official emergency notification system, used to push warnings to current students, faculty, and staff via text, email, and the LiveSafe app, with outdoor sirens activated directly by UTPD for life-safety emergencies. Per the university's [Emergency Communications](https://emergencymanagement.utexas.edu/safety/emergency-communications) guidance, \"an emergency notification is a notification of any confirmed, significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on campus involving an immediate and credible threat to the health or safety of students or employees,\" while the authority for the underlying [Emergency Notification Policy](https://catalog.utexas.edu/general-information/appendices/appendix-a/) rests with the vice president for student affairs.","analysis":"Longhorn Alert is The University of Texas at Austin's branded mass-notification system. Per the university's [Emergency Communications](https://emergencymanagement.utexas.edu/safety/emergency-communications) page, the trigger adopts the Clery emergency-notification standard: \"an emergency notification is a notification of any confirmed, significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on campus involving an immediate and credible threat to the health or safety of students or employees.\" The university enumerates representative triggering incidents — active shooter, bomb threat, weather emergency, ice/snow emergency, building fire, hazmat release, health emergency (pandemic), utility disruption of 10-plus buildings, hostage incident, and civil disturbance or riot — and notes these may include Clery Act crimes.\n\nDecision authority is layered. The Office of Emergency Management and UTPD typically deliver emergency information to university administration, which then develops the messages and activates campus-wide communications; the [Appendix A Emergency Notification Policy](https://catalog.utexas.edu/general-information/appendices/appendix-a/) states that the authoritative source of the policy and responsibility for its implementation rests with the vice president for student affairs, with university emergency protocols managed by the associate vice president for University operations. The one documented exception is the [outdoor siren system](https://emergencymanagement.utexas.edu/safety/sirens), which is activated directly by UTPD in extremely urgent situations where immediate action is required — sirens signal that it is unsafe to be outdoors (most often severe weather, but possibly an environmental hazard or armed individual) and that recipients should seek immediate shelter.\n\nDelivery is multi-channel: emergency notifications are issued broadly and may be received via text, email, and the LiveSafe app, and are also posted to UTPD social media accounts (Facebook, Instagram, and X at @UTAustinPolice) and the [Longhorn Alert website](https://longhornalert.utexas.edu/). The text-messaging service is restricted in scope — available only to current university students, faculty, and staff; individuals who do not meet that criterion are not eligible.\n\nIn Clery framing, UT Austin distinguishes the broadly-issued Emergency Notification (confirmed significant emergency / immediate threat) from a Timely Warning, which provides relevant information about certain crimes that have already occurred and represent an ongoing threat, issued as soon as pertinent information is available following a qualifying crime (criminal homicide, sexual offenses, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft, arson, stalking, domestic violence, dating violence, or hate crimes). On testing cadence, the [outdoor sirens are tested](https://emergencymanagement.utexas.edu/safety/sirens) around 11:50 a.m. on the first Wednesday of every month for about one minute, and the broader emergency-communications process is exercised monthly, including a campus-wide email containing emergency communication, response, evacuation, and shelter resources.","whenCriteria":"An emergency notification is a notification of any confirmed, significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on campus involving an immediate and credible threat to the health or safety of students or employees. Representative triggers include active shooter, bomb threat, weather/ice/snow emergency, building fire, hazmat release, health emergency (pandemic), utility disruption of 10+ buildings, hostage incident, and civil disturbance or riot.","decisionAuthority":"The Office of Emergency Management and UTPD typically deliver emergency information to administration, which develops the messages and activates campus-wide communications. Responsibility for the Emergency Notification Policy rests with the vice president for student affairs; emergency protocols are managed by the associate vice president for University operations. The outdoor siren system is activated directly by UTPD in extremely urgent situations where immediate action is required.","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications are issued broadly to provide critical, time-sensitive information to help students, faculty, and staff take protective action; in extremely urgent situations requiring immediate action, UTPD activates the outdoor sirens directly.","cleryFraming":"An Emergency Notification (confirmed significant emergency / immediate and credible threat) is distinct from a Timely Warning, which provides relevant information about certain crimes that have already occurred and represent an ongoing threat, issued as soon as pertinent information is available following a qualifying Clery crime.","testingCadence":"Outdoor sirens are tested around 11:50 a.m. on the first Wednesday of every month for about one minute. The broader emergency-communications process is tested monthly, with each test including a campus-wide email containing emergency communication, response, evacuation, and shelter resources.","scopeLimits":"The Longhorn Alert text-messaging system is available only for current university students, faculty, and staff; individuals who do not meet these criteria are not eligible. Outdoor sirens indicate it is unsafe to be outdoors and to seek immediate shelter (most likely severe weather; possibly an environmental hazard or armed individual).","channels":["sms","email","push-notification","siren","twitter-x","facebook","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency-notification definition","quotedText":"An emergency notification is a notification of any confirmed, significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on campus involving an immediate and credible threat to the health or safety of students or employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergencymanagement.utexas.edu/safety/emergency-communications","sourceDescription":"UT Austin Security and Emergency Management — Emergency Communications","annotations":["Tracks the Clery emergency-notification standard, with UT Austin's gloss of an 'immediate and credible' threat to health or safety."],"characterCount":219},{"label":"Channels for emergency notifications","quotedText":"Emergency Notifications are issued broadly and may be received via text, email, and the LiveSafe app.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergencymanagement.utexas.edu/safety/emergency-communications","sourceDescription":"UT Austin Security and Emergency Management — Emergency Communications","annotations":["Names the LiveSafe app alongside text and email; alerts are also posted to UTPD social media and the Longhorn Alert website."],"characterCount":101},{"label":"Outdoor siren activation by UTPD","quotedText":"The outdoor siren system is activated directly by UTPD in extremely urgent situations where immediate action is required.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergencymanagement.utexas.edu/safety/sirens","sourceDescription":"UT Austin Security and Emergency Management — Sirens","annotations":["The siren is the one channel UTPD fires directly, bypassing the usual administration-developed message path."],"characterCount":121}],"keyFindings":["Longhorn Alert is UT Austin's branded emergency notification system, delivering alerts via text, email, and the LiveSafe app, plus UTPD social media and the Longhorn Alert website.","The trigger is a confirmed, significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate and credible threat to the health or safety of students or employees — adopting the Clery emergency-notification standard.","OEM and UTPD feed information to administration, which develops and sends messages; policy authority rests with the vice president for student affairs and protocols are managed by the associate vice president for University operations.","The outdoor siren system is activated directly by UTPD in extremely urgent life-safety situations and signals to seek immediate shelter.","Outdoor sirens are tested around 11:50 a.m. on the first Wednesday of each month; the broader emergency-communications process is tested monthly with a campus-wide email."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Communications | Security and Emergency Management — UT Austin","url":"https://emergencymanagement.utexas.edu/safety/emergency-communications","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Appendix A: Emergency Notification Policy — The University of Texas at Austin (Catalog)","url":"https://catalog.utexas.edu/general-information/appendices/appendix-a/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Longhorn Alert | Security and Emergency Management — UT Austin","url":"https://emergencymanagement.utexas.edu/longhorn-alert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Sirens — UT Emergency Management","url":"https://emergencymanagement.utexas.edu/safety/sirens","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Longhorn Alert — The University of Texas at Austin","url":"https://longhornalert.utexas.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"2024 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report — University Risk and Compliance Services","url":"https://compliance.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2024%20Annual%20Security%20&%20Fire%20Safety%20Report_0.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","longhorn-alert","livesafe","siren"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-23","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-tulsa-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-tulsa-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"The University of Tulsa","shortName":"TU","state":"OK","type":"private-r2","alertSystemName":"UTulsaAlert"},"policy":{"title":"Notifications & Resources","systemName":"UTulsaAlert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://utulsa.edu/about/offices/utulsa-security/notifications-and-resources/","lastReviewed":"2026-07-20"},"summary":"The University of Tulsa, a Carnegie R2 private research university, publishes its emergency-notification and timely-warning practices on [UTulsa Security's Notifications & Resources page](https://utulsa.edu/about/offices/utulsa-security/notifications-and-resources/), centered on the **UTulsaAlert** text/email/push/social-media system and the campus-specific [Safe UTulsa app](https://apps.apple.com/bw/app/safe-utulsa/id6529523966).","analysis":"The University of Tulsa frames UTulsaAlert as a multi-platform emergency-messaging tool: [UTulsaAlert is designed to communicate time-sensitive emergency messages across several platforms](https://utulsa.edu/about/offices/utulsa-security/notifications-and-resources/) to alert students, faculty, staff, contractors/vendors, visitors and other guests of potentially dangerous situations. That community-of-recipients list, naming contractors, vendors, and visitors alongside students and employees, is broader than the Clery Act's minimum student/employee scope and signals an intent to reach the whole campus population physically present at a given moment, not just enrolled or employed community members.\n\nDelivery is explicitly multi-channel: the university states it will issue emergency notifications and/or timely warnings \"via text, email, social media and video message boards,\" combining a personal-device channel with public-facing campus screens. Enrollment in the text channel runs through a short code (texting UTulsaAlert to 67283) layered on top of the standalone [Safe UTulsa](https://tucollegian.org/safe-utulsa-app-updated/) app, which integrates push notifications with the university's broader safety and security systems (including an on-demand security-escort/monitoring feature), giving TU a second, app-based delivery path independent of a subscriber's carrier or SMS settings.\n\nDecision authority is vested in a named campus office rather than a title-less \"administration\": the director of UTulsa Security makes the timely-warning call, in consultation with other university officials. The triggering standard mirrors the Clery Act's timely-warning language closely, tying the warning obligation to incidents posing \"a substantial risk to the physical safety of other members of the campus community\" or that the university determines to be an \"on-going threat.\"\n\nBecause utulsa.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were captured from official UTulsa Security page text as reproduced in search-engine results and corroborated across multiple independent queries, consistent with how other 403-blocked institutions are documented in this archive. No specific system-wide testing cadence or a minutes-based response-time standard was reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","whenCriteria":"UTulsaAlert messages are issued for time-sensitive emergencies; timely warnings specifically are issued when there is a substantial risk to the physical safety of other members of the campus community because of a crime, or when the university determines an incident represents an on-going threat to the campus community.","decisionAuthority":"The director of UTulsa Security generally makes the determination of whether a timely warning is required, in consultation with other university officials.","timingStandard":"UTulsaAlert is described as reaching the community \"in a matter of minutes\" via text/SMS, email, push notification, web, and social media; no minutes-based or hours-based response-time SLA for issuing a notification was reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"The university states it will issue emergency notifications and/or timely warnings regarding criminal activity or safety issues \"as required by law,\" tracking the Clery Act's separate emergency-notification and timely-warning obligations under a single UTulsaAlert umbrella.","testingCadence":"A specific testing cadence for UTulsaAlert was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"UTulsaAlert is aimed at students, faculty, staff, contractors/vendors, visitors and other guests physically at risk from a potentially dangerous situation; text delivery depends on a registered university-record cell number or opt-in via the 67283 short code, supplemented by the standalone Safe UTulsa app for push notifications.","channels":["sms","email","push-notification","website","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"What UTulsaAlert is","quotedText":"UTulsaAlert is designed to communicate time-sensitive emergency messages across several platforms to alert students, faculty, staff, contractors/vendors, visitors and other guests of potentially dangerous situations.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://utulsa.edu/about/offices/utulsa-security/notifications-and-resources/","sourceDescription":"The University of Tulsa, UTulsa Security - Notifications & Resources","annotations":["Defines the recipient list broadly (students, faculty, staff, contractors/vendors, visitors, other guests) rather than only students and employees."],"characterCount":216},{"label":"Multi-channel legal-compliance statement","quotedText":"The University will issue emergency notifications, and/or timely warnings regarding criminal activity or safety issues concerning campus as required by law via text, email, social media and video message boards.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://utulsa.edu/about/offices/utulsa-security/notifications-and-resources/","sourceDescription":"The University of Tulsa, UTulsa Security - Notifications & Resources","annotations":["Ties both Clery obligations, emergency notification and timely warning, to the same channel list, including on-campus video message boards."],"characterCount":211},{"label":"Timely-warning decision authority","quotedText":"The director of UTulsa Security will generally make the determination, in consultation with other university officials, if a timely warning is required.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://utulsa.edu/about/offices/utulsa-security/notifications-and-resources/","sourceDescription":"The University of Tulsa, UTulsa Security - Notifications & Resources","annotations":["Names a specific office (director of UTulsa Security) as the primary decision-maker rather than an unnamed administrative body."],"characterCount":152},{"label":"Timely-warning trigger standard","quotedText":"The university will issue timely warnings when there is a substantial risk to the physical safety of other members of the campus community because of the crime, or when the university determines that the incident represents an on-going threat to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://utulsa.edu/about/offices/utulsa-security/notifications-and-resources/","sourceDescription":"The University of Tulsa, UTulsa Security - Notifications & Resources","annotations":["States the substantive trigger for a timely warning in terms closely tracking the Clery Act's own standard."],"characterCount":267}],"keyFindings":["UTulsaAlert explicitly targets contractors/vendors and visitors alongside students, faculty, and staff, broader than Clery's minimum student/employee scope.","Delivery is multi-channel: text/SMS (via a 67283 short code), email, push notification through the standalone Safe UTulsa app, social media, and campus video message boards.","The director of UTulsa Security is the named decision-maker for timely warnings, in consultation with other university officials.","The timely-warning trigger tracks Clery's substantial-risk / on-going-threat standard rather than a locally invented threshold.","No minutes-based response-time standard or fixed testing cadence was reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed."],"sources":[{"title":"Notifications & Resources - The University of Tulsa","url":"https://utulsa.edu/about/offices/utulsa-security/notifications-and-resources/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Campus Safety - The University of Tulsa","url":"https://utulsa.edu/about/offices/university-compliance-risk-management/campus-safety/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Preparedness - The University of Tulsa","url":"https://utulsa.edu/about/offices/utulsa-security/emergency-preparedness/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Safe UTulsa App Updated - The Collegian","url":"https://tucollegian.org/safe-utulsa-app-updated/","type":"student-newspaper"},{"title":"University of Tulsa - Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education","url":"https://carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/institution/university-of-tulsa/","type":"other"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","private-r2","oklahoma","utulsaalert"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-20","lastUpdated":"2026-07-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"thomas-aquinas-college-alert-policy","slug":"thomas-aquinas-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Thomas Aquinas College","shortName":"TAC","state":"CA","type":"private-bachelors","alertSystemName":"Safety Alert System","enrollment":400},"policy":{"title":"Campus Safety Procedures - Safety Alert System","systemName":"Safety Alert System","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.thomasaquinas.edu/campus-safety-procedures","lastReviewed":"2026-07-20"},"summary":"Thomas Aquinas College, a small Great Books liberal-arts college that grants only a single bachelor's degree, reserves its [Safety Alert System](https://www.thomasaquinas.edu/campus-safety-procedures) mass-text messages for rare campus-wide danger requiring immediate action, and layers that with a distinctly analog backup: ringing the campus chapel bells for at least three minutes to signal an evacuation assembly at St. Joseph Commons.","analysis":"Thomas Aquinas College's California campus, capped near 400 students, publishes its emergency communication procedures on a dedicated [Campus Safety Procedures](https://www.thomasaquinas.edu/campus-safety-procedures) page rather than a standalone policy document, and the page is candid about the system's narrow scope: it is intended for use only in the rare occurrence of a danger to the community as a whole, or some other event requiring immediate action, and in that event a mass text message is sent to spread the alert as quickly as possible among the on-campus community.\n\nEnrollment in the alert system is automatic rather than opt-in: students are automatically enrolled using the cell phone number they provided during registration, removing the usual failure point of students never signing up. But the College also documents a real gap in that design and closes it deliberately: because students are not permitted to have cell phones in classrooms and other campus buildings, a text-only system would miss anyone inside at the moment of an alert. The College's answer is a redundant, low-tech channel: designated staff members will communicate the alert directly to campus buildings where students are not permitted to have cell phones, ensuring the alert reaches people who are, by rule, off their phones.\n\nThe College's evacuation procedure layers a third, even lower-tech channel on top of text and staff notification. Authority sits with the Dean and Assistant Dean, who will order an evacuation if advised to do so by a civil authority and may also issue a shelter-in-place order in some campus emergencies; when the Dean and Assistant Dean do order an evacuation, the campus's chapel bells will ring for at least three minutes as the signal for the community to assemble at St. Joseph Commons. That combination, a text/call alert plus staff floor-walks plus an audible bell signal timed to a minimum duration, reads as a policy built for a campus where cell phones are deliberately restricted in academic spaces, not assumed to be in every pocket at all times, an unusually explicit design choice this archive has not otherwise documented at this granularity.\n\nThe California campus's Annual Security and Fire Safety Report situates this alert system within the College's [broader Clery framework](https://www.thomasaquinas.edu/about/ca-campus-security-and-fire-safety-report); the College also operates a New England campus in Northfield, Massachusetts with its [own separate Clery report](https://www.thomasaquinas.edu/about/ne-campus-security-and-fire-safety-report), reflecting the two-campus structure under one accreditation.","whenCriteria":"The Safety Alert System is intended for use only in the rare occurrence of a danger to the community as a whole, or some other event that requires immediate action.","decisionAuthority":"The Dean and the Assistant Dean will order an evacuation if advised to do so by a civil authority, and may issue a shelter-in-place order in some campus emergencies; a separate, unnamed administrative process governs activation of the mass-text Safety Alert System itself.","timingStandard":"A specific minutes-based timing standard for issuing an alert was not found in the public sources reviewed; the College instead documents redundant simultaneous channels (text, in-person staff notification, and bell signal) intended to reach the community quickly by multiple routes at once.","cleryFraming":"The College's California and New England campuses each publish their own Annual Security and Fire Safety Report under the Clery Act, reflecting the two-campus structure operating under a single accreditation.","testingCadence":"A stated testing cadence for the Safety Alert System was not found in the public sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Students are automatically enrolled using the cell phone number provided at registration rather than opting in separately. Because students are not permitted to have cell phones in classrooms and other campus buildings, the College explicitly supplements the text alert with in-person notification by designated staff and, for evacuations ordered by the Dean and Assistant Dean, a chapel-bell signal.","channels":["sms","siren"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Scope of the Safety Alert System","quotedText":"The College has a safety alert system which is intended for use only in the rare occurrence of a danger to the community as a whole or some other event that requires immediate action. In such an event this system will be used to send out a mass text message to help spread the safety alert as quickly as possible among the on-campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.thomasaquinas.edu/campus-safety-procedures","sourceDescription":"Thomas Aquinas College - Campus Safety Procedures","annotations":["Explicitly limits the mass-text alert to rare, campus-wide, immediate-action situations rather than routine crime notice."],"characterCount":343},{"label":"Automatic enrollment from registration data","quotedText":"Students are automatically enrolled in the safety alert system using the cell phone number they provided during registration.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.thomasaquinas.edu/campus-safety-procedures","sourceDescription":"Thomas Aquinas College - Campus Safety Procedures","annotations":["Removes the opt-in failure point common to other institutions' registration-based systems."],"characterCount":125},{"label":"Reaching students without cell phones on them","quotedText":"In emergency situations, students will receive an emergency alert on their cell phones. Additionally, designated staff members will communicate the alert to campus buildings where students are not permitted to have cell phones.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.thomasaquinas.edu/campus-safety-procedures","sourceDescription":"Thomas Aquinas College - Campus Safety Procedures","annotations":["Documents a deliberate redundant channel for the College's no-cell-phones-in-class policy, closing the coverage gap a text-only alert would leave."],"characterCount":227},{"label":"Evacuation authority and the chapel-bell signal","quotedText":"The Dean and the Assistant Dean will order an evacuation if advised to do so by a civil authority.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.thomasaquinas.edu/campus-safety-procedures","sourceDescription":"Thomas Aquinas College - Campus Safety Procedures (reconstructed from search-result summary; exact original wording not independently confirmed)","annotations":["Names the Dean and Assistant Dean as the evacuation-order authority, contingent on advice from a civil authority; if the Dean/Assistant Dean order an evacuation the campus chapel bells ring for at least three minutes to signal assembly at St. Joseph Commons."],"characterCount":98}],"keyFindings":["TAC's Safety Alert System is deliberately narrow: reserved for rare, campus-wide danger requiring immediate action, not routine crime notice.","Enrollment is automatic from registration data, not opt-in, closing a common failure point at other institutions.","Because students are barred from having cell phones in classrooms and other campus buildings, the College explicitly layers in-person staff notification and a chapel-bell signal (rung at least three minutes) as redundant channels alongside the mass text.","The Dean and Assistant Dean hold evacuation- and shelter-in-place-order authority, typically acting on the advice of a civil authority."],"sources":[{"title":"Campus Safety Procedures - Thomas Aquinas College","url":"https://www.thomasaquinas.edu/campus-safety-procedures","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"California Campus Security and Fire Safety Report - Thomas Aquinas College","url":"https://www.thomasaquinas.edu/about/ca-campus-security-and-fire-safety-report","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"New England Campus Security and Fire Safety Report - Thomas Aquinas College","url":"https://www.thomasaquinas.edu/about/ne-campus-security-and-fire-safety-report","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","private-bachelors","california","great-books","small-college"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-20","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"tidewater-community-college-tcc-alerts-policy","slug":"tidewater-community-college-tcc-alerts-policy","institution":{"name":"Tidewater Community College","shortName":"TCC","state":"VA","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"TCC Alerts (Rave / Everbridge)","enrollment":16884},"policy":{"title":"TCC Alerts Emergency Notification Policy (Annual Security Report)","systemName":"TCC Alerts (Rave / Everbridge)","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.tcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/TCC-ANNUAL-SECURITY-REPORT-2025-for-2024-DRAFTV2-pdf.pdf"},"summary":"Tidewater Community College delivers emergency notifications through [TCC Alerts](https://www.tcc.edu/about-tcc/safety-security/tcc-alerts/), described in its Annual Security Report as a closed, opt-out emergency-notification service for faculty, staff and students that can send messages within minutes, with sign-up handled through the college's [Everbridge portal](https://member.everbridge.net/index/453003085614995).","analysis":"Tidewater Community College (TCC), one of Virginia's largest community colleges, serving the South Hampton Roads region across multiple campuses, runs its emergency-notification function under the brand [TCC Alerts](https://www.tcc.edu/about-tcc/safety-security/tcc-alerts/). The underlying platform is the Rave/Everbridge emergency-notification system: TCC's public sign-up routes through an [Everbridge member portal](https://member.everbridge.net/index/453003085614995), and the platform — historically marketed as Rave Mobile Safety — is now an Everbridge product, so college materials referring to both 'RAVE' and 'Everbridge' describe the same vendor.\n\nTCC's [2024 Annual Security Report](https://www.tcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/TCC-ANNUAL-SECURITY-REPORT-2025-for-2024-DRAFTV2-pdf.pdf) frames TCC Alerts as a 'closed, opt-out' service available to faculty, staff and students that 'can be used to send emergency messages within minutes of the occurrence of an incident.' The closed/opt-out design means the college population is enrolled by default and members must affirmatively unsubscribe, which closes the coverage gap created by purely opt-in keyword systems. TCC instructs members to keep contact information current in the Student Information System (SIS) so messages reach the right phone numbers and email addresses.\n\nThe channel set is unusually broad for a community college. TCC officials can send notifications to subscribed phone numbers, email addresses, assigned college office phones, and college monitors (digital signage) that are turned on, and the college operates a companion TCC Safe app through which crime and suspicious activity can be reported. The alerts are positioned as recipients' 'personal connection to real-time updates, instructions on where to go, what to do, or what not to do, who to contact and other important information' for situations including fires, bomb threats, severe weather and college closures.\n\nTCC's .edu host returned HTTP 403 to direct automated fetching and the ASR is a large PDF, so the excerpts below were captured from indexed search snippets of the official TCC Alerts page and the 2024 ASR. The 'closed, opt-out' / 'within minutes' ASR language and the multi-channel delivery description appeared consistently across multiple retrievals but, absent a byte-for-byte live fetch, are marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false; confidence is set to medium. The exact named decision authority and the published periodic test cadence were not confirmable in this review, and because two official descriptions label the platform both 'RAVE' and 'Everbridge,' the alert-system name is recorded as Rave/Everbridge.","whenCriteria":"TCC sends TCC Alerts for emergencies, severe weather events, or other time-sensitive situations impacting the college community — including fires, bomb threats, severe weather and college closures — within minutes of an incident. The exact published Clery activation-threshold wording was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","decisionAuthority":"TCC officials in the Department of Public Safety send TCC Alerts notifications. The specific position authorized to confirm and trigger an alert was not confirmed verbatim in this review (tcc.edu blocked automated fetching and the ASR is a large PDF).","timingStandard":"TCC's Annual Security Report states TCC Alerts can be used to send emergency messages within minutes of the occurrence of an incident — consistent with the Clery expectation of prompt notification. A specific 'without delay / upon confirmation' clause was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","cleryFraming":"TCC documents TCC Alerts as its emergency-notification service in its Annual Security Report, with timely-warning crime alerts handled as part of the college's broader Clery program by the Department of Public Safety; the precise published timely-warning criteria text was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","testingCadence":"TCC instructs members to keep contact information current in the Student Information System (SIS) so notifications reach them; the exact published periodic test cadence for TCC Alerts was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","scopeLimits":"TCC Alerts is a closed, opt-out system — faculty, staff and students are enrolled by default and must affirmatively unsubscribe — so coverage is broad, but reach to specific phones/emails depends on contact data kept current in SIS. The system also reaches assigned office phones and powered-on college monitors (digital signage), and parents/family members may sign up via the public portal.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","digital-signage","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"ASR 'closed, opt-out' definition and timing","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/TCC-ANNUAL-SECURITY-REPORT-2025-for-2024-DRAFTV2-pdf.pdf","sourceDescription":"TCC — 2024 Annual Security Report (large PDF; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Multi-channel delivery list","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tcc.edu/about-tcc/safety-security/tcc-alerts/","sourceDescription":"TCC — TCC Alerts page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Purpose / instruction framing","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tcc.edu/about-tcc/safety-security/tcc-alerts/","sourceDescription":"TCC — TCC Alerts page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["TCC's emergency-notification system is TCC Alerts, built on the Rave/Everbridge platform (Rave is now an Everbridge product), with public sign-up through an everbridge.net portal.","The ASR describes TCC Alerts as a closed, opt-out service for faculty, staff and students that can send messages within minutes of an incident.","The channel set is broad for a community college — subscribed phones, email, assigned office phones and powered-on college monitors (digital signage), plus a companion TCC Safe reporting app.","Members must keep contact information current in the Student Information System (SIS); parents and family members may also sign up.","tcc.edu blocked automated fetching and the ASR is a large PDF, so excerpts are from indexed snippets and marked reconstructed; the platform is labeled both 'RAVE' and 'Everbridge' in official materials, so the brand is recorded as Rave/Everbridge and confidence is medium."],"sources":[{"title":"TCC — TCC Alerts","url":"https://www.tcc.edu/about-tcc/safety-security/tcc-alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"TCC — Safety and Security","url":"https://www.tcc.edu/about-tcc/safety-security/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"TCC — 2024 Annual Security Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.tcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/TCC-ANNUAL-SECURITY-REPORT-2025-for-2024-DRAFTV2-pdf.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"TCC — Sign up for TCC Alerts (Everbridge portal)","url":"https://member.everbridge.net/index/453003085614995","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"TCC — Emergency Preparedness","url":"https://www.tcc.edu/about-tcc/safety-security/emergency-preparedness/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","community-college","virginia","everbridge","rave","clery"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"tohono-oodham-community-college-tocc-alerts-policy","slug":"tohono-oodham-community-college-tocc-alerts-policy","institution":{"name":"Tohono O'odham Community College","shortName":"TOCC","state":"AZ","type":"tribal-college","alertSystemName":"TOCC Alerts","enrollment":1165},"policy":{"title":"Campus Security — Campus Security Policies and Procedures / TOCC Alerts","systemName":"TOCC Alerts","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.tocc.edu/campus-safety-security"},"summary":"Tohono O'odham Community College — the tribal college chartered by the Tohono O'odham Nation in Sells, Arizona ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tohono_O%CA%BCodham_Community_College)) — offers an opt-in [TOCC Alerts](https://www.tocc.edu/campus-safety-security) notification system for campus emergencies and discloses its Campus Security Policies and Procedures and crime statistics under the Jeanne Clery Act, coordinating with the Tohono O'odham Nation Police Department.","analysis":"Tohono O'odham Community College (TOCC) is a tribal community college in Sells, Arizona, on the Tohono O'odham Nation, serving roughly 1,100-1,200 students ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tohono_O%CA%BCodham_Community_College)). Its emergency-notification function is branded [TOCC Alerts](https://www.tocc.edu/campus-safety-security): the college invites students and employees to enroll to 'receive important safety notifications in the event of a campus emergency.' As with most thin-resource tribal colleges, the system is presented as an opt-in subscription rather than an automatically-enrolled, multi-channel platform with published governance.\n\nTOCC's Clery posture is the better-documented half of its policy. The college states it 'provides to all prospective students and employees the Campus Security Policies and Procedures and the most recent campus crime statistics' as required under the Student Right-to-Know and Jeanne Clery Act, and it publishes annual [Campus Safety and Security Surveys](https://www.tocc.edu/campussecurity/) of its crime statistics. A [Campus Safety Handbook PDF](https://tocc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Campus-Safety-Handbook.pdf) is also published on the college site, consolidating safety guidance for the community.\n\nA defining feature of TOCC's safety model is its reliance on tribal law enforcement. Rather than a stand-alone campus police department, TOCC directs the community to call [TOCC Security at (520) 993-9061](https://www.tocc.edu/campus-safety-security) and, for crimes or suspicious circumstances, the Tohono O'odham Nation Police Department at (520) 383-3276. This jurisdictional arrangement — campus security coordinating with the Nation's police — is characteristic of colleges located on sovereign tribal land and shapes who actually responds to and investigates incidents.\n\nWhat could not be corroborated from an official-attributed source: the named decision authority empowered to trigger a TOCC Alert, the delivery channels TOCC Alerts actually uses (SMS/email/voice — the system name implies notifications but the specific channels were not stated on retrievable pages), a written timing standard, or a published test cadence. tocc.edu blocked automated fetching, so excerpts were captured from indexed search snippets and could not be confirmed identically across two independent official retrievals; all are therefore marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false and overall confidence is medium. The channels array is intentionally left as a single conservative entry reflecting that TOCC Alerts is a notification subscription, without over-claiming specific delivery methods.","whenCriteria":"TOCC Alerts is described as the system to receive 'important safety notifications in the event of a campus emergency.' No published written threshold further defining which incidents trigger an alert, or a separate timely-warning standard, could be corroborated from an official-attributed source.","decisionAuthority":"TOCC Security ((520) 993-9061) handles campus safety, coordinating with the Tohono O'odham Nation Police Department ((520) 383-3276) for crimes and suspicious circumstances. The specific position authorized to issue a TOCC Alert was not published on an official-attributed source and is not stated here.","cleryFraming":"TOCC provides its Campus Security Policies and Procedures and most recent campus crime statistics to all prospective students and employees under the Student Right-to-Know and Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, and publishes annual Campus Safety and Security Surveys.","scopeLimits":"TOCC Alerts is presented as an opt-in subscription, so reach depends on individual enrollment. TOCC relies on the Tohono O'odham Nation Police Department for law-enforcement response rather than a stand-alone campus police force, reflecting its location on sovereign tribal land. The specific delivery channels of TOCC Alerts were not published on retrievable pages.","channels":["unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"TOCC Alerts purpose","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tocc.edu/campus-safety-security","sourceDescription":"TOCC — Campus Security page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Clery disclosure of policies and statistics","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tocc.edu/campus-safety-security","sourceDescription":"TOCC — Campus Security page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Reliance on Tohono O'odham Nation Police","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tocc.edu/campus-safety-security","sourceDescription":"TOCC — Campus Security page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["TOCC's emergency-notification system is the opt-in 'TOCC Alerts' subscription for campus-emergency safety notifications.","TOCC discloses its Campus Security Policies and Procedures and crime statistics under the Student Right-to-Know and Jeanne Clery Act, and publishes annual Campus Safety and Security Surveys plus a Campus Safety Handbook.","TOCC relies on the Tohono O'odham Nation Police Department (520-383-3276) for law-enforcement response — a jurisdictional model typical of colleges on sovereign tribal land.","TOCC Alerts is opt-in, so reach depends on individual enrollment; its specific delivery channels (SMS/email/voice) were not published on retrievable pages.","Named decision authority, timing standard, and test cadence were not corroborated (tocc.edu blocked automated fetching); all excerpts are isVerbatimConfirmed:false and confidence is medium."],"sources":[{"title":"Tohono O'odham Community College — Campus Security","url":"https://www.tocc.edu/campus-safety-security","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Tohono O'odham Community College — Campus Security (legacy page)","url":"https://tocc.edu/campussecurity/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Tohono O'odham Community College — Campus Safety Handbook (PDF)","url":"https://tocc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Campus-Safety-Handbook.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Tohono O'odham Community College — Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tohono_O%CA%BCodham_Community_College","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","tribal-college","arizona","tocc-alerts","tribal-police-jurisdiction"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"tougaloo-college-emergency-alert-policy","slug":"tougaloo-college-emergency-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Tougaloo College","shortName":"Tougaloo","state":"MS","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"Tougaloo College Campus-Wide Emergency Notification System (Campus Safety Alert)","enrollment":1301},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Procedures and Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (Emergency Notification / Campus Safety Alert)","systemName":"Campus Safety Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.tougaloo.edu/sites/default/files/2023-10/2023%20for%202022%20Annual%20Security%20and%20%20Fire%20Safety.pdf","lastReviewed":"2023-10-01"},"summary":"Tougaloo College, a private HBCU near Jackson, Mississippi, runs a campus-wide emergency notification system and issues a [Campus Safety Alert](https://www.tougaloo.edu/student-life/public-safety/jeanne-clery-act) when warranted, with policy and procedures documented in its [Annual Security & Fire Safety newsletter/report](https://www.tougaloo.edu/sites/default/files/2023-10/2023%20for%202022%20Annual%20Security%20and%20%20Fire%20Safety.pdf) and on its [emergency-procedures pages](https://www.tougaloo.edu/student-life/public-safety/emergency-procedures), administered by the Department of Public Safety.","analysis":"Tougaloo College is a private historically Black college in Tougaloo, Mississippi (near Jackson). Its emergency-notification framework is documented in two places: the [Department of Public Safety's Annual Security & Fire Safety newsletter/report](https://www.tougaloo.edu/sites/default/files/2023-10/2023%20for%202022%20Annual%20Security%20and%20%20Fire%20Safety.pdf) produced under the Jeanne Clery Act, and a set of public [emergency-procedures pages](https://www.tougaloo.edu/student-life/public-safety/emergency-procedures) covering fire, severe weather, bomb threat/suspicious package, lockdown, evacuation, utility failure, and controlling violence.\n\nTougaloo does not appear to market a vendor-style brand name for its alerts. The College describes a campus-wide emergency notification system that sends alerts to students, faculty, and staff in an emergency, and its [Clery materials](https://www.tougaloo.edu/student-life/public-safety/jeanne-clery-act) refer to issuing a 'Campus Safety Alert' when warranted. The 24/7 Department of Public Safety (601-977-7857; cell 601-813-5869) is the operational owner of incident response and notification.\n\nThe College's published channel mix is deliberately layered for a small residential campus. Its [evacuation procedures](https://www.tougaloo.edu/student-life/public-safety/emergency-procedures/evacuation-procedures) state that fire alarms, verbal notice, email or telephone contact will usually be used to sound an evacuation, and a network of building captains assists with in-person dissemination and headcounts. For broader threats, Public Safety supplements those channels with campus-wide notification to reach students, faculty, and staff. The emergency-procedures guide frames the program's purpose plainly: to help staff, faculty, and students respond to emergencies that can occur at any time and without warning, but whose effects can be minimized if proper procedures are followed.\n\nBecause the tougaloo.edu host and its ASR PDFs returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the exact wording was captured from indexed search snippets and corroborated across multiple independent retrievals rather than from a byte-for-byte live fetch. The evacuation-channel sentence ('Fire alarms, verbal notice, email or telephone contact will usually be used to sound the evacuation') appeared consistently across retrievals and is marked verbatim-confirmed. The precise emergency-notification trigger language, the formal decision authority, and any test cadence could not be confirmed word-for-word, and the alert program carries no confirmed vendor brand; confidence is set to medium-low (medium) accordingly.","whenCriteria":"Tougaloo issues a Campus Safety Alert / activates its campus-wide emergency notification system when an emergency threatens the safety of students, faculty, or staff. For building-level events, fire alarms, verbal notice, and email/telephone contact are used to direct evacuation. The exact Clery 'significant emergency or dangerous situation' trigger sentence was not confirmable verbatim in this review.","decisionAuthority":"The Department of Public Safety (24/7; 601-977-7857) is the operational owner of incident response and notification. The specific position authorized to confirm and issue a Campus Safety Alert was not confirmed verbatim in this review (tougaloo.edu host blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"The emergency-procedures guidance emphasizes that emergencies can occur at any time and without warning and that effects are minimized by prompt response; the precise Clery 'without delay / immediately upon confirmation' timing language for the emergency notification was not confirmable verbatim in this review.","cleryFraming":"Tougaloo's Department of Public Safety publishes an Annual Security & Fire Safety newsletter/report under the Jeanne Clery Act with four years of crime/incident statistics and policy statements, and refers to issuing a 'Campus Safety Alert' when warranted.","testingCadence":"Tougaloo documents emergency procedures, evacuation drills, and a building-captain program; the exact published periodic test cadence for the campus-wide emergency notification system was not confirmable verbatim in this review (tougaloo.edu host blocked automated fetching).","scopeLimits":"Reach depends on current contact information and on layered channels (fire alarms, verbal notice, email, telephone, building captains) appropriate to a small (~1,300-student) residential campus; no auto-enrollment or vendor platform was confirmed.","channels":["email","phone-call","sms","pa-system","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Evacuation channel mix","quotedText":"Fire alarms, verbal notice, email or telephone contact will usually be used to sound the evacuation.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tougaloo.edu/student-life/public-safety/emergency-procedures/evacuation-procedures","sourceDescription":"Tougaloo College — Evacuation Procedures (host blocked automated fetch; identical wording across multiple official-page retrievals)","annotations":["Lists the layered channels Tougaloo uses to direct a building evacuation. The same sentence appeared identically across multiple official tougaloo.edu emergency-procedures retrievals via the search index; the host returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching."],"characterCount":100},{"label":"Purpose of the emergency-procedures program","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tougaloo.edu/student-life/public-safety/emergency-procedures","sourceDescription":"Tougaloo College — Emergency Procedures (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Tougaloo runs a campus-wide emergency notification system and issues a 'Campus Safety Alert' when warranted; it markets no confirmed vendor brand name.","Policy and procedures are documented in the Department of Public Safety's Clery Annual Security & Fire Safety newsletter/report and on public emergency-procedures pages.","Building-level evacuations are directed via a layered channel mix — fire alarms, verbal notice, email, telephone — supported by a building-captain program.","The 24/7 Department of Public Safety (601-977-7857) owns incident response and notification.","The exact emergency-notification trigger sentence, decision authority, and test cadence could not be confirmed verbatim (tougaloo.edu blocked automated fetching); confidence is medium with one verbatim-confirmed excerpt."],"sources":[{"title":"Tougaloo College — Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (2022 stats, PDF)","url":"https://www.tougaloo.edu/sites/default/files/2023-10/2023%20for%202022%20Annual%20Security%20and%20%20Fire%20Safety.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Tougaloo College — Annual Security & Fire Safety Newsletter 2020-2021 (PDF)","url":"https://www.tougaloo.edu/sites/default/files/Annual%20Security%20Fire%20Safety%20%20Newsletter%202020-2021.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Tougaloo College — Jeanne Clery Act","url":"https://www.tougaloo.edu/student-life/public-safety/jeanne-clery-act","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Tougaloo College — Emergency Procedures","url":"https://www.tougaloo.edu/student-life/public-safety/emergency-procedures","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Tougaloo College — Evacuation Procedures","url":"https://www.tougaloo.edu/student-life/public-safety/emergency-procedures/evacuation-procedures","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Tougaloo College — Department of Public Safety","url":"https://www.tougaloo.edu/department-public-safety","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","hbcu","mississippi","clery-asr","campus-safety-alert","small-college"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"towson-university-tu-alert-policy","slug":"towson-university-tu-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Towson University","shortName":"TU","state":"MD","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"TU emergency alerts","enrollment":19677},"policy":{"title":"Towson University Emergency Communications: Clery Emergency Notifications, Safety Advisories, and Timely Warnings","systemName":"TU emergency alerts","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.towson.edu/public-safety/police/emergency/","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"Towson University delivers [emergency text and email alerts](https://www.towson.edu/public-safety/police/emergency/text-alerts.html) through its Office of Public Safety, automatically enrolling all students, faculty, and staff and sorting messages into Clery Emergency Notifications, TU safety advisories, and Clery Timely Warning Notices; the university's [Police Communications Center](https://www.towson.edu/public-safety/police/emergency/) sends the messages following an emergency communications matrix and uses sirens, building speakers, desktop pop-ups, digital signage, and social media in addition to text and email.","analysis":"Towson University — a University System of Maryland member that is the second-largest university in the state — does not market a single trademarked alert brand; instead, its [Office of Public Safety](https://www.towson.edu/public-safety/police/emergency/) organizes campus messaging by Clery message type. The university distinguishes Clery Emergency Notifications, TU safety advisories, and Clery Timely Warning Notices, and its [Emergency Text Alerts page](https://www.towson.edu/public-safety/police/emergency/text-alerts.html) states that students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled to receive all emergency text alerts, with anyone holding a @towson.edu address automatically receiving alerts by email.\n\nThe activation threshold for an emergency notification is explicit: Clery Emergency Notifications (text and email) inform the campus community of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on campus involving an immediate, imminent or impending threat to the health and safety of the campus community. Decisions about what to send and how are governed by the university's emergency communications matrix, which plans for when and how messages will be sent based on the level of threat, proximity of threat, and potential impact to the campus community; TU's Police Communications Center is the unit responsible for sending the safety messages. A separate decision chain — the Senior Vice President for Campus Operations consulting Public Safety and Facilities Management — governs weather and closure decisions rather than active-threat alerts.\n\nTowson keeps the Clery categories cleanly separated. Clery Timely Warning Notices, sent by email, notify the campus community whenever there is an on-campus Clery Act crime that represents a serious or continuing threat, and 'the warning will be issued as soon as pertinent information is available, because the intent of a Clery timely warning is to alert the campus community of continuing threats.' Below the emergency-notification threshold sit TU safety advisories, which the university describes as informational messages about incidents that are not known to be immediate threats. The university documents all of this in its [Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.towson.edu/public-safety/police/crime/reports.html) and reports that it conducts annual emergency preparedness exercises, drills, and training sessions to test and strengthen response systems.\n\nThe delivery stack is unusually broad. Towson's reports and Public Safety pages describe alerts going out by text, email, telephone, Facebook, Twitter/X, internal and external speakers, electronic signage, and website postings, with the phone and desktop layers carried by InformaCast (university phones) and NetNotify (network computers). Two limits should be stated honestly: Towson's .edu hosts and ASR PDFs returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so the quoted wording below was captured from search-index snippets and corroborated across multiple independent retrievals rather than read from a rendered page (the seven marked-verbatim excerpts each appeared word-for-word across two or more retrievals); and Towson's own verbatim restatement of the federal 'without delay, upon confirmation' standard for emergency notifications, a fixed outdoor-siren test schedule, and any WEA/IPAWS or dedicated mobile-app push were not corroborated. The institution is also mid-transition in Carnegie status — it holds the 2025 'Research Colleges and Universities' designation and is publicly targeting [R2 by roughly 2027](https://www.towson.edu/academics/research/r2-status.html) — so this record classifies it as public-masters rather than asserting an R2 status it has not yet reached.","whenCriteria":"Clery Emergency Notifications (text and email) inform the campus community of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on campus involving an immediate, imminent or impending threat to the health and safety of the campus community. Clery Timely Warning Notices (email) are issued for on-campus Clery Act crimes that represent a serious or continuing threat. TU safety advisories cover incidents not known to be immediate threats.","decisionAuthority":"TU's Police Communications Center is responsible for sending the emergency safety messages whenever there are urgent safety concerns on or near campus, following the university's emergency communications matrix; the Office of Public Safety (which houses the Towson University Police Department) owns the program. A separate chain — the Senior Vice President for Campus Operations consulting Public Safety and Facilities Management, recommending to the Provost — governs weather/closure decisions rather than active-threat alerts.","timingStandard":"Timely Warning Notices are issued 'as soon as pertinent information is available, because the intent of a Clery timely warning is to alert the campus community of continuing threats.' Emergency notifications are governed by the emergency communications matrix (based on level, proximity, and impact of the threat); Towson's own verbatim restatement of the federal 'without delay, upon confirmation' standard for emergency notifications was not corroborated in this review.","cleryFraming":"Towson sorts campus messages into three Clery-aligned categories: Clery Emergency Notifications (text and email) for immediate/imminent/impending threats, Clery Timely Warning Notices (email) for on-campus Clery crimes that pose a serious or continuing threat, and TU safety advisories for incidents not known to be immediate threats. The university publishes an Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report.","testingCadence":"Towson University conducts annual emergency preparedness exercises, drills, and training sessions to test and strengthen response systems and practices, and policies are publicized on an annual basis. A fixed published cadence for outdoor-siren tests specifically was not corroborated (only one-off test dates surfaced).","scopeLimits":"All TU students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled to receive all emergency text alerts, and anyone with a @towson.edu address automatically receives alerts by email; parents, community members, and others may opt in via the Emergency Text Alert sign-up form and stay subscribed for four years or until they reply STOP. WEA/IPAWS and a dedicated mobile-app push were not corroborated as channels.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","siren","pa-system","desktop-popup","digital-signage","twitter-x","facebook","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Activation threshold (Clery Emergency Notification)","quotedText":"Clery Emergency Notifications (text and email) inform the campus community of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on campus involving an immediate, imminent or impending threat to the health and safety of the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.towson.edu/public-safety/police/emergency/","sourceDescription":"TU Office of Public Safety — Emergency Communications","annotations":["Defines the emergency-notification trigger using the distinctive 'immediate, imminent or impending threat' phrasing. Identical wording appeared across 3+ independent official-attributed retrievals; the .edu host 403-blocked direct fetch."],"characterCount":247},{"label":"Timely Warning definition","quotedText":"Clery Timely Warning Notices (via email only) notify the campus community whenever there is an on-campus Clery Act crime that represents a serious or continuing threat to the safety of students or employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.towson.edu/public-safety/police/emergency/","sourceDescription":"TU Office of Public Safety — Emergency Communications","annotations":["Establishes that Timely Warning Notices are email-only and cover on-campus Clery crimes posing a serious or continuing threat, distinct from emergency notifications. Identical wording appeared across 2+ independent official-attributed retrievals."],"characterCount":207},{"label":"Timely Warning timing","quotedText":"the warning will be issued as soon as pertinent information is available, because the intent of a Clery timely warning is to alert the campus community of continuing threats","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.towson.edu/public-safety/police/emergency/","sourceDescription":"TU Office of Public Safety — Emergency Communications","annotations":["States the timing standard for timely warnings — issued as soon as pertinent information is available. Identical wording appeared across 2 independent official-attributed retrievals."],"characterCount":173},{"label":"Safety advisory definition","quotedText":"TU safety advisories are safety and informational messages about incidents that are not known to be immediate threats to individuals on TU's campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.towson.edu/public-safety/police/emergency/","sourceDescription":"TU Office of Public Safety — Emergency Communications","annotations":["Defines the below-threshold 'safety advisory' category for incidents not known to be immediate threats. Identical wording appeared across 2 independent official-attributed retrievals."],"characterCount":148},{"label":"Channel list (ASR)","quotedText":"text, email, telephone, Facebook, twitter, internal and external speakers, electronic signage, and website postings","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.towson.edu/public-safety/police/crime/documents/asr.maincampus.2023.final.pdf","sourceDescription":"TU Annual Campus Security & Fire Safety Report (2023)","annotations":["Enumerates the full delivery stack — text, email, telephone, Facebook, Twitter, internal/external speakers, electronic signage, and website. Identical wording appeared across 2 independent official-attributed retrievals."],"characterCount":115},{"label":"Testing cadence","quotedText":"Towson University conducts annual emergency preparedness exercises, drills and training sessions to test and strengthen response systems and practices.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.towson.edu/public-safety/emergencies/","sourceDescription":"TU Office of Public Safety — Emergencies","annotations":["States the annual exercise/drill/training cadence for response systems. Identical wording appeared across 2 independent official-attributed retrievals."],"characterCount":151},{"label":"Automatic enrollment","quotedText":"TU students, faculty and staff are automatically enrolled to receive all emergency text alerts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.towson.edu/public-safety/police/emergency/text-alerts.html","sourceDescription":"TU Emergency Text Alerts page","annotations":["Confirms automatic enrollment of students, faculty, and staff for emergency text alerts (email is automatic for @towson.edu addresses). Identical wording appeared across 2 independent official-attributed retrievals."],"characterCount":95}],"keyFindings":["Towson does not use a single trademarked alert brand; it organizes messaging by Clery type — Clery Emergency Notifications, TU safety advisories, and Clery Timely Warning Notices — run by the Office of Public Safety.","Emergency Notifications (text and email) are triggered by a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate, imminent or impending threat to the health and safety of the campus community.","TU's Police Communications Center sends the messages following an emergency communications matrix based on the level, proximity, and potential impact of the threat.","The delivery stack is broad: text, email, telephone (InformaCast), internal/external speakers and sirens, desktop pop-ups (NetNotify), digital signage, Facebook, Twitter/X, and website postings; WEA/IPAWS and an app push were not corroborated.","Students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled; the university conducts annual preparedness exercises and publishes an Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report. Carnegie status is mid-transition ('Research Colleges and Universities,' R2 targeted ~2027), so this record classifies Towson as public-masters; all quoted wording was corroborated via search-index snippets because the .edu hosts 403-blocked automated fetching."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Communications — TU Office of Public Safety","url":"https://www.towson.edu/public-safety/police/emergency/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Text Alerts — TU Office of Public Safety","url":"https://www.towson.edu/public-safety/police/emergency/text-alerts.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergencies — TU Office of Public Safety","url":"https://www.towson.edu/public-safety/emergencies/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"TU alerts: How they work — Towson University News","url":"https://www.towson.edu/news/2021/alerts-text-email-safety.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report 2023 (PDF)","url":"https://www.towson.edu/public-safety/police/crime/documents/asr.maincampus.2023.final.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Annual Security Reports landing — TU Police","url":"https://www.towson.edu/public-safety/police/crime/reports.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Towson University R2 status page","url":"https://www.towson.edu/academics/research/r2-status.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Behind TU's emergency alerts — The Towerlight","url":"https://thetowerlight.com/behind-tus-emergency-alerts/","type":"student-newspaper"},{"title":"Fall 2025 Fact Sheet, Office of Institutional Research, Towson University","url":"https://www.towson.edu/ir/documents/fall2025_factsheet_final.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","tu-alert","public-masters","maryland","usm","multi-channel"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-02","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"triton-college-timely-warning-rave-alert-policy","slug":"triton-college-timely-warning-rave-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Triton College","shortName":"Triton","state":"IL","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Rave Alert / Connect Ed / Thor Guard","enrollment":9000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning Reports and Rave Alert emergency notification","systemName":"Rave Alert / Connect Ed","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.triton.edu/campus/campus-safety/clery-act.html","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Triton College Police Department documents [timely warning practice and Rave Alert auto-enrollment](https://www.triton.edu/campus/campus-safety/clery-act.html) on its Clery Act page, including Connect Ed opt-in-by-enrollment messaging, campus PA, and Thor Guard lightning sirens.","analysis":"Source: [Triton Clery Act page](https://www.triton.edu/campus/campus-safety/clery-act.html). Triton College, an Illinois community college in River Grove, publishes a public Clery Act criteria page rather than only an embedded ASR excerpt for its notification systems. The Timely Warning Reports section states that the Triton College Police Department issues timely warnings to students and staff for severe weather warnings and closures and other crises via the Connect Ed system that everyone has opted into by being a student or staff member, and may also broadcast via building PA systems.\n\nSeparately, the campus safety pages describe Triton’s Rave Alert emergency notification system for email, phone, and text, with automatic placement of all staff and students into the system and self-service portal profile maintenance. The college also operates a Thor Guard lightning detection system with a long siren for lightning risk and three short sirens for all-clear.","whenCriteria":"Timely warnings for severe weather warnings and closures and other crises. Rave Alert for emergency situations requiring instant multi-channel notification.","decisionAuthority":"Triton College Police Department issues timely warnings and PA broadcasts. Rave Alert is the college emergency mass-notification system with automatic enrollment.","timingStandard":"Not quantified beyond instant notifications language for Rave Alert and timely warnings for weather and other crises.","cleryFraming":"Public Clery Act page Timely Warning Reports section plus Rave Alert auto-enrollment system overview; weather-inclusive warning practice broader than crime-only TW language at many institutions.","scopeLimits":"Connect Ed/Rave reach depends on portal contact data; Thor Guard covers lightning within about a 25-mile radius of campus.","testingCadence":"Not specified on the Clery Act page reviewed.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely warnings via Connect Ed and PA","quotedText":"The Triton College Police Department will put out timely warnings to students and staff for severe weather warnings and closures and other crises. The Department will issue notifications via the Connect Ed system that everyone has opted in by being a student or staff member at Triton College. Other times the Police Department will broadcast warnings via the PA System that has installed throughout every building on campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.triton.edu/campus/campus-safety/clery-act.html","sourceDescription":"Triton Clery Act page Timely Warning Reports","annotations":["Weather-inclusive TW practice and Connect Ed auto opt-in."],"characterCount":425},{"label":"Rave Alert auto enrollment","quotedText":"Triton’s Rave Alert emergency notification system will allow you to receive instant notifications by email, phone, and text message in the event of an emergency. You will not need to take steps for sign up as all staff and students are automatically placed into the system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.triton.edu/campus/campus-safety/index.html","sourceDescription":"Triton Police and Campus Safety Rave Alert section","annotations":["Automatic enrollment for all staff and students."],"characterCount":273},{"label":"Thor Guard lightning sirens","quotedText":"Also, Triton College has the Thor Guard System. This system alerts the College of pending lightning activity within a 25 mile radius of the campus. If you hear a long siren sound, that means the air is conducive to lightning. Go inside a building or your vehicle for your protection. If you hear three short siren sounds then an 'all-clear' has been presented to you by the Thor Guard System.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.triton.edu/campus/campus-safety/clery-act.html","sourceDescription":"Triton Clery Act page Thor Guard","annotations":["Institution-specific lightning detection and siren code."],"characterCount":392}],"keyFindings":["Police Department timely warnings cover severe weather and other crises via Connect Ed auto opt-in and building PA.","Rave Alert auto-enrolls all staff and students for email, phone, and text.","Thor Guard lightning sirens: long tone hazard, three short tones all-clear."],"sources":[{"title":"Triton Clery Act page","url":"https://www.triton.edu/campus/campus-safety/clery-act.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Triton Police and Campus Safety","url":"https://www.triton.edu/campus/campus-safety/index.html","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["illinois","community-college","rave-alert","thor-guard","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"truckee-meadows-community-college-e2campus-policy","slug":"truckee-meadows-community-college-e2campus-policy","institution":{"name":"Truckee Meadows Community College","shortName":"TMCC","state":"NV","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"TMCC Emergency Alert System","alertPlatform":"e2Campus"},"policy":{"title":"Jeanne Clery Campus Security Act","systemName":"TMCC Emergency Alert System (e2Campus)","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.tmcc.edu/police/jeanne-clery-campus-security-act"},"summary":"Truckee Meadows Community College, served by a University Police Services substation in Reno, Nevada, will without delay issue a [Timely Warning](https://www.tmcc.edu/police/jeanne-clery-campus-security-act) to the entire campus community whenever a Clery Act crime poses a serious or continuing threat to the main campus and surrounding properties, with the Assistant Vice President and Director of University Police Services or a designee making the final determination, and issues Emergency Notifications through its named [e2Campus](https://www.tmcc.edu/police/emergency-alerts) text, voice, and email alert system for true emergencies such as an active shooter, chemical spill, earthquake, or building evacuation.","analysis":"TMCC's [Jeanne Clery Campus Security Act page](https://www.tmcc.edu/police/jeanne-clery-campus-security-act), maintained by its University Police Services substation, states that TMCC will issue an Emergency Notification when a significant emergency or dangerous situation poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty, or staff, and will without delay issue a Timely Warning to the entire campus community whenever a crime covered by the Clery Act poses a serious or continuing threat to the main campus and surrounding properties. TMCC names a specific decision maker for the timely warning call: the Assistant Vice President and Director of University Police Services, or that official's designee, makes the final determination if a Timely Warning is necessary, a level of specificity many community colleges do not publish on a public facing page.\n\nOperationally, TMCC launched its named [e2Campus](https://www.tmcc.edu/police/emergency-alerts) emergency notification system to provide text and email alert notifications, describing the platform as reserved for true emergencies such as an active shooter, chemical spill, earthquake, or an actual fire when a building might need to be evacuated, an explicit statement that the channel is not used for routine campus business. Enrollment is automatic rather than opt in: current students and full-time and part-time faculty and staff of TMCC are automatically added to receive alerts, with student contact information pulled from the MyTMCC portal that individuals are responsible for keeping updated, and TMCC sends emergency alert messages via text message, voice message, and email together.\n\nBecause tmcc.edu returned blocked connections to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below are reconstructed from search engine indexed extracts of the official pages rather than a firsthand character by character read, and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation; this record is scored at medium confidence on that basis.","whenCriteria":"TMCC issues an Emergency Notification when a significant emergency or dangerous situation poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty, or staff, and issues a Timely Warning without delay whenever a Clery Act crime poses a serious or continuing threat to the main campus and surrounding properties. The e2Campus system specifically is reserved for true emergencies such as an active shooter, chemical spill, earthquake, or a fire requiring building evacuation.","decisionAuthority":"The Assistant Vice President and Director of University Police Services, or their designee, makes the final determination whether a Timely Warning is necessary.","timingStandard":"TMCC states it will issue a Timely Warning without delay when a Clery Act crime poses a serious or continuing threat; a specific minutes based numeric standard was not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"TMCC's Jeanne Clery Campus Security Act page names both categories explicitly: Emergency Notification for a significant emergency or dangerous situation posing an immediate threat, and Timely Warning, issued without delay, for a Clery Act crime posing a serious or continuing threat to the main campus and surrounding properties.","scopeLimits":"Timely Warnings are scoped to the main campus and surrounding properties; e2Campus alerts are reserved for true emergencies such as active shooter, chemical spill, earthquake, or fire evacuation, not routine campus communications. Current students, full-time and part-time faculty, and staff are automatically added to receive alerts.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely Warning standard and decision authority","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tmcc.edu/police/jeanne-clery-campus-security-act","sourceDescription":"TMCC, Jeanne Clery Campus Security Act (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Named decision maker","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tmcc.edu/police/jeanne-clery-campus-security-act","sourceDescription":"TMCC, Jeanne Clery Campus Security Act (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"e2Campus scope","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tmcc.edu/police/emergency-alerts","sourceDescription":"TMCC, Emergency Alerts (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Automatic enrollment","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tmcc.edu/police/emergency-alerts","sourceDescription":"TMCC, Emergency Alerts (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["TMCC names a specific titled decision maker, the Assistant Vice President and Director of University Police Services, for its Timely Warning determination.","The e2Campus emergency alert system is explicitly reserved for true emergencies (active shooter, chemical spill, earthquake, fire evacuation), not routine communications.","Enrollment is automatic for current students and full-time and part-time faculty and staff, with contact data pulled from MyTMCC.","Tmcc.edu could not be directly loaded in this environment, so this record is scored at medium confidence and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation."],"sources":[{"title":"Jeanne Clery Campus Security Act, TMCC University Police Services","url":"https://www.tmcc.edu/police/jeanne-clery-campus-security-act","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"TMCC Emergency Alert System, University Police Department","url":"https://www.tmcc.edu/police/emergency-alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"TMCC Alerts for Closures and Emergencies","url":"https://www.tmcc.edu/police/staysafe/alert-procedures","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","e2campus","community-college","nevada"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-27","lastUpdated":"2026-09-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"truman-state-university-trualert-policy","slug":"truman-state-university-trualert-policy","institution":{"name":"Truman State University","shortName":"Truman","state":"MO","type":"public-bachelors","alertSystemName":"TruAlert"},"policy":{"title":"2025 Combined Annual Security Report and Fire Safety Report - Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications","systemName":"TruAlert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://police.truman.edu/files/2025/09/ASR2025.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Truman State University's [2025 Combined Annual Security Report](https://police.truman.edu/files/2025/09/ASR2025.pdf) issues a campus-wide timely warning when criminal activity on or off campus constitutes a serious or continuing threat, and the University Police Department initiates emergency notifications without delay. The [Timely Warning Policy](https://police.truman.edu/policies-reports/timely-warning-policy/) page uses the same ongoing or continuing threat standard. Faculty, staff, and students are enrolled automatically in TruAlert.","analysis":"Truman State University (public-bachelors, Missouri, two filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [2025 ASR PDF](https://police.truman.edu/files/2025/09/ASR2025.pdf) (HTTP 200) and a live [Timely Warning Policy](https://police.truman.edu/policies-reports/timely-warning-policy/) page (HTTP 200). TruAlert is the emergency-notification product (campus email, desktop, digital signage, outdoor warning, website, optional text via TruView). The 2007 ITS emergency-notification policy HTML this pass contains NBSPs in the President-authorization sentences and is not quoted. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF or HTML.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning for criminal activity on or off campus that constitutes a serious or continuing threat. Emergency notification without delay unless a professional-judgment exception applies.","decisionAuthority":"Director of Public Safety/Chief of Police or designee for timely warnings. University Police Department in collaboration with other appropriate personnel for emergency notifications.","timingStandard":"Emergency notification without delay unless issuing a notification would compromise victim assistance or mitigation.","cleryFraming":"The ASR keeps timely warnings distinct from emergency notifications. TruAlert is the mass-notification path. Faculty, staff, and students are auto-enrolled.","channels":["sms","email","desktop-popup","digital-signage","siren","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Campus-wide timely warning","quotedText":"In the event of criminal activity occurring either on campus or off campus that in the judgment of the Director of Public Safety/Chief of Police or his/her designee constitutes a serious or continuing threat to members of the campus community, a campus-wide “timely warning” will be issued.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.truman.edu/files/2025/09/ASR2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Truman State University 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["On or off campus. Named decision-maker is the Director of Public Safety/Chief of Police or designee."],"characterCount":290},{"label":"Without-delay emergency notification","quotedText":"The University Police Department in collaboration with other appropriate personnel, will determine who should be notified, and will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system, unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.truman.edu/files/2025/09/ASR2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Truman State University 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Standard HEOA without-delay sentence."],"characterCount":474},{"label":"TruAlert automatic enrollment","quotedText":"All faculty, staff, and students are enrolled automatically","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.truman.edu/files/2025/09/ASR2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Truman State University 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["ASR table cell for TruAlert Emergency Notifications."],"characterCount":59},{"label":"Timely Warning Policy ongoing threat","quotedText":"Timely warnings therefore, will be issued in response to reported crimes committed either on campus or, in some cases, off campus if, in the judgment of TSUPD, the situation constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat to students, staff and faculty of the University.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.truman.edu/policies-reports/timely-warning-policy/","sourceDescription":"Truman State University Timely Warning Policy page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Consumer policy page. TSUPD is the named judge."],"characterCount":267}],"keyFindings":["TruAlert auto-enrolls faculty, staff, and students.","Timely warnings cover on- or off-campus crimes that are a serious or continuing threat.","Emergency notifications go out without delay unless a professional-judgment exception applies."],"sources":[{"title":"Truman State University 2025 Combined Annual Security Report and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://police.truman.edu/files/2025/09/ASR2025.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Truman State University Timely Warning Policy","url":"https://police.truman.edu/policies-reports/timely-warning-policy/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","missouri","public-bachelors"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"tufts-university-alert-policy","slug":"tufts-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Tufts University","shortName":"Tufts","state":"MA","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"TuftsAlert","enrollment":13000},"policy":{"title":"TuftsAlert Emergency Notification System","systemName":"TuftsAlert (Rave Alert)","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://emergency.tufts.edu/alert-systems/tuftsalert"},"summary":"[TuftsAlert](https://emergency.tufts.edu/alert-systems/tuftsalert) is Tufts University's emergency notification system, built on the Rave Alert platform and run by the Office of Emergency Management within the Department of Public Safety; it sends text, voice, email, and desktop alerts during significant emergencies, with everyone holding a tufts.edu address [automatically subscribed](https://emergency.tufts.edu/alert-systems/tuftsalert).","analysis":"Tufts operates TuftsAlert as an opt-out, multi-channel mass-notification system. Per the Office of Emergency Management's [TuftsAlert page](https://emergency.tufts.edu/alert-systems/tuftsalert), \"TuftsAlert consists of the Rave Alert emergency notification system, capable of quickly sending text, voice and email messages to enrolled students, faculty, and staff.\" Activation is tied to the Clery emergency-notification standard: \"In the event of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the Tufts community, TuftsAlert sends text, voice, email, and desktop alerts with information that may be critical to your safety.\" The desktop channel is delivered through Alertus Desktop software, which Tufts notes can display an alert on a Mac or Windows computer screen faster than text, email, or phone.\n\nEnrollment is structured to maximize reach. \"All students, staff, or faculty of Tufts University with a tufts.edu email address are automatically subscribed,\" making TuftsAlert an opt-out system — community members who do not want emergency text messages can text STOP to 67283 to remove their cell number. External stakeholders are explicitly invited in: Tufts neighbors, parents, family members, vendors, and contractors can enroll to be notified directly by text, phone, and/or email about significant emergencies affecting the Tufts community. This pairs a captive internal audience (auto-subscribed by email identity) with a voluntary external audience.\n\nGovernance sits with the [Office of Emergency Management](https://emergency.tufts.edu/) and the broader [Department of Public Safety](https://publicsafety.tufts.edu/), which publishes Tufts' Clery [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://publicsafety.tufts.edu/asr/) each October; that report houses the detailed emergency-notification and evacuation procedures, activation authority, and Clery timely-warning policy. TuftsAlert is tested regularly: the Office of Emergency Management has run tests in both fall and spring (for example, a [test on Thursday, September 18, 2025](https://emergency.tufts.edu/news-events/news/tuftsalert-test-sept-18-2025) and a [test on Friday, March 14, 2025](https://emergency.tufts.edu/news-events/news/tuftsalert-test-march-14)), consistent with a roughly twice-yearly cadence. A separate opt-in weather-closing alert track exists alongside the emergency system. Because Tufts' official .edu pages returned HTTP 403 to this research environment, the excerpts below reproduce the exact wording surfaced from those official Tufts pages; anything not reproducible word-for-word is paraphrased in this analysis rather than quoted.","whenCriteria":"TuftsAlert is activated in the event of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the Tufts community, sending information that may be critical to recipients' safety.","decisionAuthority":"TuftsAlert is administered by the Office of Emergency Management within the Tufts Department of Public Safety; the specific activation authority is set out in the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report and is paraphrased rather than quoted here.","timingStandard":"TuftsAlert is designed to 'quickly' send text, voice, and email messages once a significant emergency or immediate threat to the Tufts community is identified, consistent with the Clery emergency-notification standard; the desktop (Alertus) channel is noted as potentially faster than text, email, or telephone.","cleryFraming":"Tufts ties TuftsAlert activation to the Clery emergency-notification trigger (a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety) and publishes its emergency-notification and timely-warning procedures in the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report under the Jeanne Clery Act.","testingCadence":"The Office of Emergency Management tests TuftsAlert in both fall and spring semesters (e.g., September 18, 2025 and March 14, 2025), consistent with a roughly twice-yearly testing schedule.","scopeLimits":"Internal community members with a tufts.edu email address are automatically subscribed (opt-out via STOP to 67283); external stakeholders (neighbors, parents, family, vendors, contractors) may opt in. Channels are text, voice, email, and Alertus desktop alerts, with a separate opt-in weather-closing alert track.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","desktop-popup"],"excerpts":[{"label":"TuftsAlert system and vendor","quotedText":"TuftsAlert consists of the Rave Alert emergency notification system, capable of quickly sending text, voice and email messages to enrolled students, faculty, and staff.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.tufts.edu/alert-systems/tuftsalert","sourceDescription":"TuftsAlert | Tufts Office of Emergency Management","annotations":["Names the vendor (Rave Alert) and core channels. Exact wording returned identically from the official Tufts OEM page across multiple searches; the page itself returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch in this environment."],"characterCount":168},{"label":"Activation criteria and channels","quotedText":"In the event of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the Tufts community, TuftsAlert sends text, voice, email, and desktop alerts with information that may be critical to your safety.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.tufts.edu/alert-systems/tuftsalert","sourceDescription":"TuftsAlert | Tufts Office of Emergency Management","annotations":["Mirrors the Clery emergency-notification trigger and adds the desktop (Alertus) channel to text/voice/email."],"characterCount":250},{"label":"Automatic subscription","quotedText":"All students, staff, or faculty of Tufts University with a tufts.edu email address are automatically subscribed.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.tufts.edu/alert-systems/tuftsalert","sourceDescription":"TuftsAlert | Tufts Office of Emergency Management","annotations":["Establishes TuftsAlert as an opt-out system keyed to tufts.edu email identity."],"characterCount":112},{"label":"Opt-out instructions","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.tufts.edu/alert/faq/","sourceDescription":"TuftsAlert Frequently Asked Questions | Tufts OEM","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["TuftsAlert is built on the Rave Alert platform and sends text, voice, email, and Alertus desktop alerts during significant emergencies involving an immediate threat to health or safety.","Activation language tracks the Clery emergency-notification trigger; detailed emergency-notification and timely-warning procedures live in the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report published each October.","Everyone with a tufts.edu email address is automatically subscribed (opt-out), while neighbors, parents, family, vendors, and contractors can opt in for text/phone/email alerts.","The Office of Emergency Management within the Department of Public Safety administers TuftsAlert and tests it in both fall and spring (e.g., Sept. 18, 2025 and March 14, 2025).","A separate opt-in weather-closing alert track runs alongside the emergency notification system; users can opt out of emergency texts by sending STOP to 67283."],"sources":[{"title":"TuftsAlert | Tufts Office of Emergency Management","url":"https://emergency.tufts.edu/alert-systems/tuftsalert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"TuftsAlert Frequently Asked Questions | Tufts OEM","url":"https://emergency.tufts.edu/alert-systems/tuftsalert/tuftsalert-faqs","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual Security Report | Tufts Department of Public Safety","url":"https://publicsafety.tufts.edu/asr/","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"TuftsAlert Test Sept. 18 2025 | Tufts Office of Emergency Management","url":"https://emergency.tufts.edu/news-events/news/tuftsalert-test-sept-18-2025","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","rave-alert","tuftsalert","massachusetts","private-r1"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"tulane-university-tu-alert-policy","slug":"tulane-university-tu-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Tulane University","shortName":"Tulane","state":"LA","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"TU Alert (Everbridge)","enrollment":13310},"policy":{"title":"TU Alerts","systemName":"TU Alert (Everbridge)","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://emergencyprep.tulane.edu/tu-alerts"},"summary":"[TU Alerts](https://emergencyprep.tulane.edu/tu-alerts) is Tulane University's emergency mass-notification system, delivered via Everbridge, which sends critical voice, email, and text messages to students, faculty, and staff in the event of an emergency or impending threat; the [Tulane University Police Department](https://publicsafety.tulane.edu/clery-act) separately issues Clery Timely Warnings (Crime Alerts) for Clery Act crimes posing a serious or continuing threat.","analysis":"[TU Alerts](https://emergencyprep.tulane.edu/tu-alerts) is Tulane's emergency notification system, built on the [Everbridge](https://news.tulane.edu/news/tulane-switches-new-emergency-mass-notification-system-everbridge) mass-communications platform that Tulane adopted in 2019. The trigger and channel set are stated plainly: \"In the event of an emergency or impending threat, Tulane will send critical voice, email and text messages to students, faculty and staff at on-file telephone numbers and email addresses.\" Enrollment is automatic — students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled as recipients of TU Alerts through Everbridge — and the University urges members to keep contact data current (students via Gibson) so that calls, emails, and texts reach the right numbers.\n\nBeyond the core voice/email/text channels, Tulane layers on the [Everbridge mobile app](https://emergencyprep.tulane.edu/everbridge-app), which delivers emergency push notifications and adds a campus-safety toolkit: a safe-walk \"check-in\" feature that dispatches the Tulane University Police Department to a student's last known location if a scheduled check-in is missed, and a panic button that sends an SOS request to TUPD. Tulane also deploys [ALERTUS desktop/laptop notifications](https://emergencyprep.tulane.edu/alertus-notifications) and outdoor warning sirens, broadening reach across the New Orleans campuses.\n\nOn the Clery side, Tulane's [Clery Act program](https://publicsafety.tulane.edu/clery-act) distinguishes emergency notifications from Timely Warnings. Per Tulane's Annual Security & Fire Safety Report, emergency notifications are used \"to notify the campus community when a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty, staff or visitors is occurring on or near any of our campuses,\" and may be delayed only where, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, issuing the notification would compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency — the standard Clery 'compromise efforts' exception. Timely Warnings (\"Crime Alerts\") are issued by the Chief of Police or designee for Clery Act crimes occurring on Clery geography that are reported to a campus security authority or law enforcement and considered to represent a serious or continuing threat, distributed as soon as pertinent information is available while withholding victims' names, and disseminated through email, SMS, and other media.\n\nThe University's [Office of Emergency Preparedness & Response](https://emergencyprep.tulane.edu/emergency-communications) tests the emergency-notification system, including the outdoor warning sirens, on a quarterly schedule in cooperation with TUPD, with advance email notice to the community and neighbors (typically one week and three days before each test). Scope is bounded by the immediate-threat trigger for emergency notifications and the serious-or-continuing-threat standard for Timely Warnings.","whenCriteria":"TU Alerts are sent in the event of an emergency or impending threat. Per Tulane's ASR, emergency notifications are used when a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty, staff, or visitors is occurring on or near any campus. Timely Warnings (Crime Alerts) are issued for Clery Act crimes posing a serious or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"Tulane (via the Office of Emergency Preparedness & Response and TUPD) sends TU Alerts through Everbridge; the Chief of Police or their designee issues Clery Timely Warnings / Crime Alerts.","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications are issued without undue delay; they may be delayed only where issuing the notification would, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency — and are then issued immediately once that situation is addressed. Timely Warnings are distributed as soon as pertinent information is available.","cleryFraming":"Two-track Clery framework: TU Alerts / emergency notifications for significant emergencies or dangerous situations posing an immediate threat, and separate Timely Warnings (Crime Alerts) for Clery Act crimes representing a serious or continuing threat.","testingCadence":"The emergency-notification system, including outdoor warning sirens, is tested university-wide quarterly by the Office of Emergency Preparedness & Response in cooperation with TUPD, with advance email notice to the community.","scopeLimits":"TU Alerts reach students, faculty, and staff at on-file telephone numbers and email addresses; recipients must keep contact data current (students via Gibson). The Everbridge app adds check-in and panic-button safety features tied to TUPD dispatch.","channels":["phone-call","email","sms","push-notification","desktop-popup","siren","website","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"TU Alert trigger and channels","quotedText":"In the event of an emergency or impending threat, Tulane will send critical voice, email and text messages to students, faculty and staff at on-file telephone numbers and email addresses.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergencyprep.tulane.edu/tu-alerts","sourceDescription":"TU Alerts | Tulane Emergency Preparedness & Response","annotations":["States the three core channels (voice, email, text) and ties delivery to on-file contact data."],"characterCount":187},{"label":"Automatic enrollment","quotedText":"Students, faculty and staff are automatically enrolled as a recipient of TU Alerts through Everbridge.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergencyprep.tulane.edu/tu-alerts","sourceDescription":"TU Alerts | Tulane Emergency Preparedness & Response","annotations":["Opt-out rather than opt-in model: the whole community is enrolled by default via the Everbridge platform."],"characterCount":102},{"label":"Emergency-notification definition (ASR)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://publicsafety.tulane.edu/sites/default/files/2024-10/ASR_Clery-2024_Final.pdf","sourceDescription":"Tulane 2023-2024 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["TU Alerts run on Everbridge (adopted 2019) and send critical voice, email, and text messages in the event of an emergency or impending threat.","Students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled through Everbridge; the free Everbridge app adds emergency push alerts plus check-in and panic-button features tied to TUPD dispatch.","Tulane also deploys ALERTUS desktop/laptop notifications and outdoor warning sirens to broaden reach.","Per the ASR, emergency notifications may be delayed only where issuing would compromise efforts to assist a victim or contain/mitigate the emergency — the standard Clery exception.","TUPD's Chief of Police or designee issues Timely Warnings (Crime Alerts) for Clery Act crimes posing a serious or continuing threat; the system, including sirens, is tested quarterly."],"sources":[{"title":"TU Alerts | Tulane Emergency Preparedness & Response","url":"https://emergencyprep.tulane.edu/tu-alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Communications | Tulane Emergency Preparedness & Response","url":"https://emergencyprep.tulane.edu/emergency-communications","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Everbridge App | Tulane Emergency Preparedness & Response","url":"https://emergencyprep.tulane.edu/everbridge-app","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Act | Tulane Public Safety","url":"https://publicsafety.tulane.edu/clery-act","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Tulane 2023-2024 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://publicsafety.tulane.edu/sites/default/files/2024-10/ASR_Clery-2024_Final.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Tulane switches to new emergency mass notification system, Everbridge","url":"https://news.tulane.edu/news/tulane-switches-new-emergency-mass-notification-system-everbridge","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","everbridge","louisiana","private-r1"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"turtle-mountain-community-college-alertnow-policy","slug":"turtle-mountain-community-college-alertnow-policy","institution":{"name":"Turtle Mountain Community College","shortName":"TMCC","state":"ND","type":"tribal-college","alertSystemName":"ALERTNOW","enrollment":872},"policy":{"title":"ALERTNOW Notification Service (IT Department)","systemName":"ALERTNOW","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.tm.edu/departments/it_department/alertnow/"},"summary":"Turtle Mountain Community College — the tribal land-grant college chartered by the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in Belcourt, North Dakota ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_Mountain_Community_College)) — operates an [ALERTNOW Notification Service](https://www.tm.edu/departments/it_department/alertnow/), administered by its IT Department, that sends telephone and email messages with information about school events, closures, and emergencies; an opt-in SMS option is available.","analysis":"Turtle Mountain Community College (TMCC) is a small tribal college (roughly 600 students) on the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Reservation in Belcourt, North Dakota ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_Mountain_Community_College)). Unlike large R1 campuses with dedicated police-run alert brands, TMCC's mass-notification function is run by its [IT Department](https://www.tm.edu/departments/it_department/alertnow/), reflecting the staffing reality of thin-resource tribal institutions where emergency communication and routine school-closure messaging share one platform.\n\nThe system is branded [ALERTNOW](https://www.tm.edu/departments/it_department/alertnow/) and is built on the Blackboard Connect (Connect 5) mass-notification platform, which delivers messages by automated phone call, email, and text. TMCC describes ALERTNOW as a service that 'will allow them to send a telephone or e-mail message providing important information about school events or emergencies,' and it is used both for weather delays/cancellations and for genuine emergencies. The most operationally distinctive published detail is the caller-ID convention: for routine announcements the call shows the school's number, but the caller ID 'will display 411 if the message is a dire emergency' — a simple, low-tech signal that lets recipients triage an inbound call as urgent before answering. This 411 phrasing appeared identically across multiple independent retrievals of the official IT page and is treated as verbatim-confirmed.\n\nTwo reach-related design choices stand out. First, voice messages are resilient to missed calls: ALERTNOW 'will leave a message on any answering machine or voicemail,' and if the message stops playing a recipient can press any key 1-9 to replay it from the beginning. Second, SMS is opt-in rather than automatic: TMCC states each person who wants text alerts 'must opt-in,' and must contact the [TMCC IT Department](https://www.tm.edu/it-department/) (phone 477-7984) to obtain the keyword/pin to register. That opt-in design is the most significant scope limit — text reach depends on individual self-enrollment, so phone/email are the guaranteed channels and SMS is supplemental.\n\nTMCC does publish Clery-required materials elsewhere (the college references campus-safety/security information through its IT and consumer-information pages), but the ALERTNOW page itself is a system-overview, not a formal standalone emergency-notification/timely-warning policy with named decision authority, a written timing standard, or a published periodic test cadence. Those governance fields could not be corroborated from an official-attributed source and are left empty rather than invented; tm.edu blocks automated fetching, so excerpts were captured from indexed search snippets and only the repeatedly-identical 411 caller-ID wording is marked verbatim-confirmed. Overall confidence is medium: the system's existence, branding, channels, and the 411 convention are well corroborated, but the formal Clery policy text and governance specifics are not on the public ALERTNOW page.","whenCriteria":"ALERTNOW is used for both routine school messaging (weather delays and cancellations, event reminders) and emergencies. The published page distinguishes a 'dire emergency' message — signaled by a 411 caller ID — from ordinary announcements, but does not publish a formal written threshold defining which incidents trigger an emergency-grade alert.","decisionAuthority":"ALERTNOW is administered by the TMCC IT Department, which also manages SMS opt-in enrollment. The specific position authorized to confirm and issue a 'dire emergency' alert was not published on an official-attributed source and is not stated here.","channels":["phone-call","email","sms"],"excerpts":[{"label":"ALERTNOW purpose / channels","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tm.edu/departments/it_department/alertnow/","sourceDescription":"TMCC — IT Department, ALERTNOW page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"411 caller-ID convention for emergencies","quotedText":"Caller ID will display 411 if the message is a dire emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tm.edu/departments/it_department/alertnow/","sourceDescription":"TMCC — IT Department, ALERTNOW page","annotations":["A low-tech triage signal: an inbound ALERTNOW call showing caller ID '411' tells recipients the message is urgent before they answer. This exact wording appeared identically across multiple independent retrievals of the official IT page, so it is marked isVerbatimConfirmed:true."],"characterCount":62},{"label":"Opt-in SMS enrollment","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tm.edu/departments/it_department/alertnow/","sourceDescription":"TMCC — IT Department, ALERTNOW page (paraphrase of indexed snippet)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["TMCC's mass-notification system is ALERTNOW, run by the IT Department (not a campus police force), reflecting thin-resource tribal-college staffing.","ALERTNOW is built on Blackboard Connect and delivers automated phone calls, email, and opt-in SMS for both routine closures and emergencies.","A distinctive published convention: caller ID shows '411' when the message is a 'dire emergency,' letting recipients triage urgency before answering (verbatim-confirmed across retrievals).","SMS is opt-in — recipients must self-register with the IT Department — so phone/email are the guaranteed channels and text is supplemental.","The ALERTNOW page is a system-overview, not a formal emergency-notification/timely-warning policy; named decision authority, written timing standard, and test cadence were not published and are not invented here (medium confidence)."],"sources":[{"title":"Turtle Mountain Community College — ALERTNOW (IT Department)","url":"https://www.tm.edu/departments/it_department/alertnow/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Turtle Mountain Community College — IT Department","url":"https://www.tm.edu/it-department/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Turtle Mountain Community College — About Us","url":"https://www.tm.edu/about-us/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Turtle Mountain Community College — Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_Mountain_Community_College","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","tribal-college","north-dakota","alertnow","blackboard-connect","thin-documentation"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"tuskegee-university-tiger-alert-policy","slug":"tuskegee-university-tiger-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Tuskegee University","shortName":"TU","state":"AL","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"Tiger Alert","enrollment":3121},"policy":{"title":"Tiger Alert Emergency Notification / Emergency Preparedness Plan & 2025 Crime, Fire and Safety Report","systemName":"Tiger Alert","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://www.tuskegee.edu/alert/index.html","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Tuskegee University — a private [HBCU](https://www.tuskegee.edu/police/) in Tuskegee, Alabama — runs emergency notifications through **Tiger Alert**, which the [Tuskegee University Police Department](https://www.tuskegee.edu/alert/index.html) operates on the Rave Mobile Safety platform to push \"mass e-mail, text and voicemail\" alerts to the campus community. The University [officially launched the Rave-powered system on April 7, 2025](https://www.wsfa.com/2025/04/15/tuskegee-university-officially-launches-campus-safety-alert-system/), urging all students, faculty, staff and campus personnel to sign up for notifications by email, voice message, or text by registering through TigerWeb and downloading the companion TU Secure app.","analysis":"Tuskegee University's emergency-alert program is branded **Tiger Alert (TigerAlert)** and is operated by the **Tuskegee University Police Department (TUPD)**. Per the University's emergency-preparedness materials, \"TigerAlert will notify you of any incidents via mass e-mail, text and voicemail,\" and the standard communications procedure is to push a Tiger Alert mass email and mass text \"to all students, faculty and staff as soon as possible\" and to post a Tiger Alert message on the Tuskegee University home page. The system is opt-in for the voice and text channels: \"All Tuskegee University students, faculty, staff and campus personnel are urged to sign up for emergency notifications by e-mail (campus e-mail account only), voice message or text messaging,\" with contact information maintained through TigerWeb.\n\n**Platform / vendor.** In 2025 Tuskegee migrated Tiger Alert onto **Rave Mobile Safety** (Rave Alert), a FedRAMP-authorized mass-notification platform, paired with the **TU Secure** mobile app (built on Rave Guardian). [Local coverage of the launch](https://www.wsfa.com/2025/04/15/tuskegee-university-officially-launches-campus-safety-alert-system/) describes the platform as providing \"instant notifications via text, email and voicemail in the event of emergencies, severe weather, campus closures and other urgent updates,\" and the [University's own announcement](https://www.tuskegee.edu/news/tuskegee-university-introduces-rave) notes TUPD uses the platform to notify the campus \"by sending alerts via text, email and an automated call to their phones with just one click.\" TU Secure additionally connects users with campus police during emergencies and adds location-sharing and campus-map features.\n\n**Decision authority and response.** The emergency-preparedness plan assigns the activation and follow-up coordination to TUPD working with a University Safety Officer: \"The Tuskegee University Police Department, in conjunction with the University Safety Officer will call the appropriate law enforcement, fire, or health agency to respond, assess the situation, and provide advice on when it is safe to resume normal activities.\" This reflects the Clery confirm-then-notify model, with TUPD confirming the emergency and initiating the Tiger Alert dissemination.\n\n**Clery two-track framing.** Tuskegee's [2025 Crime, Fire and Safety Report](https://www.tuskegee.edu/police/Clery_Report_Crime_and_Safety_Report_2025_2.pdf) and police-page policy keep the Clery separation between emergency notifications (immediate-threat events, delivered via Tiger Alert) and **Timely Warnings / Crime Alerts** (Clery-reportable crimes that pose an ongoing threat). Per the University's policy, timely warnings \"are issued to alert the University community to certain crimes in a manner that is timely and will aid in the prevention of similar crimes,\" with TUPD coordinating with law-enforcement partners to issue a Crime Alert when a reported crime presents an ongoing threat.","whenCriteria":"Tiger Alert is activated to notify the campus community of incidents and emergencies — including severe weather, campus closures, and other urgent threats — upon confirmation by TUPD. Separately, Timely Warnings / Crime Alerts are issued for Clery-reportable crimes that present an ongoing threat to the campus community.","decisionAuthority":"The Tuskegee University Police Department (TUPD), in conjunction with the University Safety Officer, confirms the situation, contacts the appropriate law enforcement/fire/health agency, and activates Tiger Alert; TUPD coordinates with law-enforcement partners on timely warnings / crime alerts.","timingStandard":"Tiger Alert mass email and mass text messages are sent to all students, faculty and staff 'as soon as possible,' and timely warnings are issued 'in a manner that is timely' to aid in the prevention of similar crimes, consistent with the Clery Act.","cleryFraming":"Two distinct Clery tracks: (1) Tiger Alert emergency notifications for incidents involving an immediate threat (active threats, severe weather, campus closures); (2) Timely Warnings / Crime Alerts for Clery-reportable crimes that present an ongoing threat to the community.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources captured; the University's Crime, Fire and Safety Report addresses Clery testing of emergency response and evacuation procedures, but the exact cadence was not reproduced in the material reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Tiger Alert covers emergencies, severe weather, campus closures, and other urgent updates. Email reaches campus email accounts; voice and text delivery require opt-in registration through TigerWeb, with the TU Secure app as the companion channel. Email delivery is limited to campus email accounts only.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","push-notification","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"TigerAlert channels and notification scope","quotedText":"TigerAlert will notify you of any incidents via mass e-mail, text and voicemail.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tuskegee.edu/Content/Uploads/Tuskegee/Files/TUPD/Student-Basic-Emergency-Preparedness-Plan.pdf","sourceDescription":"Tuskegee University Emergency Preparedness Plan (TUPD)","annotations":["Defines Tiger Alert's three delivery channels (email, text, voicemail); reproduced identically across multiple official search snippets from the TUPD Emergency Preparedness Plan."],"characterCount":80},{"label":"TUPD and University Safety Officer response role","quotedText":"The Tuskegee University Police Department, in conjunction with the University Safety Officer will call the appropriate law enforcement, fire, or health agency to respond, assess the situation, and provide advice on when it is safe to resume normal activities.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tuskegee.edu/Content/Uploads/Tuskegee/Files/TUPD/Student-Basic-Emergency-Preparedness-Plan.pdf","sourceDescription":"Tuskegee University Emergency Preparedness Plan (TUPD)","annotations":["Establishes the decision/confirmation authority (TUPD + University Safety Officer) and the response-coordination role; 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email delivery is limited to campus email accounts.","TUPD, in conjunction with the University Safety Officer, confirms the situation and activates Tiger Alert, coordinating with outside law-enforcement/fire/health agencies.","The University maintains the Clery two-track structure: Tiger Alert emergency notifications for immediate threats alongside Timely Warnings / Crime Alerts for Clery-reportable ongoing-threat crimes."],"sources":[{"title":"Tiger Alert — Tuskegee University","url":"https://www.tuskegee.edu/alert/index.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Tuskegee University Emergency Preparedness Plan (TUPD, PDF)","url":"https://www.tuskegee.edu/Content/Uploads/Tuskegee/Files/TUPD/Student-Basic-Emergency-Preparedness-Plan.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Tuskegee University 2025 Crime, Fire and Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.tuskegee.edu/police/Clery_Report_Crime_and_Safety_Report_2025_2.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Tuskegee University Introduces RAVE","url":"https://www.tuskegee.edu/news/tuskegee-university-introduces-rave","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Tuskegee University officially launches campus safety alert system — WSFA","url":"https://www.wsfa.com/2025/04/15/tuskegee-university-officially-launches-campus-safety-alert-system/","type":"local-media"},{"title":"Rave Alert — FedRAMP-Authorized Mass Notification System","url":"https://www.ravemobilesafety.com/products/rave-alert/","type":"other"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","hbcu","alabama","rave"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"union-college-ny-timely-warning-sop","slug":"union-college-ny-timely-warning-sop","institution":{"name":"Union College","shortName":"Union","state":"NY","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"Rave Emergency Alert System","enrollment":2065},"policy":{"title":"Policy: Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications","systemName":"Rave Emergency Alert System","documentType":"sop","url":"https://www.union.edu/campus-safety/policy-timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications"},"summary":"Union College Campus Safety publishes a standalone [Policy: Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications](https://www.union.edu/campus-safety/policy-timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications) that names the Director or Sergeant of Operations as the launch authority during business hours and passes that same authority to the on-duty Duty Supervisor overnight, so a notification is never waiting on a single unreachable person.","analysis":"Union College, a small private liberal arts college in Schenectady, New York, maintains a dedicated [Policy: Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications](https://www.union.edu/campus-safety/policy-timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications) document, kept separate from its general [Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications](https://www.union.edu/campus-safety/clery-act/timely-warnings-emergency-notification) Clery overview page and from its Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.\n\nThe policy defines its two Clery categories with explicit two-part tests. A timely warning is issued when both a Clery crime has been reported that occurred on Union's Clery geography (on-campus, adjacent public property, or non-campus buildings or property Union owns or controls) and the Director of Campus Safety or a designee has determined the crime poses a serious or continuing threat to the campus community. An emergency notification is issued without delay when there is a significant emergency or dangerous situation, with the policy listing concrete examples rather than only abstract language: a tornado warning, hazardous chemical spill, fire threatening campus buildings, active violence incident, natural gas leak, or terrorist incident.\n\nAuthority to launch a notification is explicitly time-shifted. During business hours, the Director or Sergeant of Operations will launch the timely warning or emergency notification. During non-business hours, the Duty Supervisor is vested with that same authority as the Director's designee, so the ability to send an alert does not depend on reaching a single named person after hours. Once launched, a timely warning must include all information that will promote safety and aid in the prevention of similar crimes, and must be sent as soon as pertinent information is available; the Clery Act does not mandate a specific distribution method, but Union's policy requires that the method used be likely to reach the entire campus community, which in practice runs through the college's Rave-based [Emergency Alert System](https://www.union.edu/sites/default/files/campus-safety/201807/rave-emergency-alert-system-login-and-faqs.pdf) to Union email, mobile numbers, and personal landlines.\n\nBecause union.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the passages above are reconstructed from search-engine-indexed extracts of the policy page rather than a firsthand line-by-line read, so every excerpt below is marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false out of caution even though the underlying search results present them as close quotations. Confidence is set to medium on that basis.","whenCriteria":"A timely warning requires both a reported Clery crime on Union's Clery geography and a Director of Campus Safety determination that it poses a serious or continuing threat. An emergency notification is issued without delay for a significant emergency or dangerous situation, with the policy naming tornado warnings, hazardous chemical spills, fires threatening campus buildings, active violence incidents, natural gas leaks, and terrorist incidents as examples.","decisionAuthority":"During business hours, the Director or Sergeant of Operations launches the timely warning or emergency notification. During non-business hours, the Duty Supervisor holds that same launch authority as the Director's designee, so authority does not lapse outside normal working hours.","timingStandard":"Timely warnings must be sent as soon as pertinent information is available; emergency notifications are issued without delay. The Clery Act does not mandate a specific distribution method, but Union's policy requires that whatever method is used be likely to reach the entire campus community.","cleryFraming":"The policy gives both timely warning and emergency notification explicit two-part definitional tests (a qualifying event plus a threat/emergency determination), rather than treating either as a matter of discretion alone, and assigns each launch decision to a named operational role rather than a committee.","scopeLimits":"Timely warning geography follows the Clery definition: on-campus property, public property within or immediately adjacent to campus, and non-campus buildings or property Union owns or controls. The requirement that distribution be 'likely to reach the entire campus community' leaves the specific channel mix to Campus Safety's judgment rather than fixing it in the policy text.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Business-hours and after-hours launch authority","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.union.edu/campus-safety/policy-timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"Union College, Policy: Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications (captured via search-engine reproduction; host 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Two-part timely warning test","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.union.edu/campus-safety/policy-timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"Union College, Policy: Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications (captured via search-engine reproduction; host 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Emergency notification examples","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.union.edu/campus-safety/policy-timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"Union College, Policy: Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications (captured via search-engine reproduction; host 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Distribution reach requirement","quotedText":"Although the Clery Act does not mandate the method of distribution of the warning, it must be likely to reach the entire campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.union.edu/campus-safety/policy-timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"Union College, Policy: Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications (captured via search-engine reproduction; host 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":["Sets a functional standard, full campus reach, for distribution rather than naming a fixed channel, leaving the specific method to Campus Safety's judgment."],"characterCount":138}],"keyFindings":["Union College's policy explicitly time-shifts notification launch authority from the Director or Sergeant of Operations during business hours to the on-duty Duty Supervisor overnight, rather than naming one person around the clock.","Both timely warning and emergency notification are defined as two-part conjunctive tests in the policy text, not left as a single discretionary standard.","The emergency notification definition lists concrete trigger examples (tornado warning, hazardous chemical spill, fire, active violence, gas leak, terrorist incident) rather than only abstract language.","Distribution is governed by a functional 'must be likely to reach the entire campus community' standard rather than a fixed list of required channels, run in practice through Union's Rave-based Emergency Alert System."],"sources":[{"title":"Policy: Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications, Union College Campus Safety","url":"https://www.union.edu/campus-safety/policy-timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Rave Emergency Alert System, Union College","url":"https://www.union.edu/sites/default/files/campus-safety/201807/rave-emergency-alert-system-login-and-faqs.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","sop","timely-warning","emergency-notification","clery-act","rave","private-liberal-arts","new-york"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"united-states-air-force-academy-alert-policy","slug":"united-states-air-force-academy-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"United States Air Force Academy","shortName":"USAFA","state":"CO","type":"military","alertSystemName":"AtHoc","enrollment":4000},"policy":{"title":"Alerts","systemName":"AtHoc","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.usafa.edu/alerts/"},"summary":"The U.S. Air Force Academy's [Alerts page](https://www.usafa.edu/alerts/) describes an [AtHoc-based emergency notification service](https://www.af.mil/about-us/fact-sheets/display/article/379467/athoc-emergency-notification-available-for-inclement-weather-information/) used only for health, safety and emergency information, such as extreme weather or base-level threats, delivered by text message and desktop alert, distinct from routine communications; as one of the five federal service academies, USAFA is [statutorily exempt from the Clery Act and Title IX](https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/08/12/forty-years-after-first-female-cadets-service-academies-still-exempt-title-ix) reporting regime that applies to civilian colleges, so it publishes no Annual Security Report.","analysis":"USAFA's [public Alerts page](https://www.usafa.edu/alerts/) is deliberately narrow in scope: it describes an emergency alert notification service that lets the Academy communicate health, safety or emergency information quickly using text messaging or desktop alerts, and states explicitly that the system is not used for regular communication, only for emergency notifications or information related to abnormal events such as extreme weather or base-level threats. That restraint mirrors the Air Force's broader description of [AtHoc](https://www.af.mil/about-us/fact-sheets/display/article/379467/athoc-emergency-notification-available-for-inclement-weather-information/), the Department of the Air Force's enterprise mass-notification platform deployed at installations Air Force-wide, of which USAFA is one instance rather than a custom campus build.\n\nFor an in-progress emergency, USAFA directs the community to call 911, or to reach installation security forces directly at (719) 333-2000 to report an emergency, crime or suspicious activity, a number that functions as USAFA's non-911 equivalent of a campus police dispatch line. Across the wider Air Force, AtHoc registration and management happens through a self-service portal reached via CAC login, and installation AtHoc administrators (not a Clery-style 'director of campus safety') hold activation authority; public sources reviewed did not identify a USAFA-specific named approving official distinct from that Air Force-wide administrative structure.\n\nUSAFA is one of the five federal service academies that Congress has left [outside the Clery Act's and Title IX's civilian campus-safety reporting mandates](https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/08/12/forty-years-after-first-female-cadets-service-academies-still-exempt-title-ix), an exemption that predates the admission of women to the academies. In practical terms, this means USAFA publishes no Annual Security and Fire Safety Report defining a 'without delay' emergency-notification standard or a separate timely-warning process the way a Title-IV-participating civilian university would; AtHoc's narrow health/safety/emergency mandate functions as the closest public analogue.\n\nBecause usafa.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were reconstructed from official USAFA Alerts-page text as reproduced in search-engine indexing and corroborated across multiple independent queries, and are marked accordingly.","whenCriteria":"AtHoc at USAFA is reserved for health, safety or emergency information, explicitly including extreme weather and base-level threats, and is not used for routine communication; a numbered or itemized activation-criteria list comparable to a civilian Clery policy was not found in public sources reviewed.","decisionAuthority":"Activation runs through installation AtHoc administrators as part of the Department of the Air Force's enterprise notification platform; a single named USAFA approving official was not identified in the public sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"No specific minutes-based timeliness standard for USAFA notifications was found in public sources; AtHoc is described Air Force-wide as delivering near-immediate push alerts by text and desktop pop-up once personnel are enrolled.","cleryFraming":"USAFA is one of the five federal service academies statutorily exempt from the Clery Act and Title IX, so it does not publish a Clery-style Annual Security Report and does not draw the civilian timely-warning/emergency-notification distinction found elsewhere in this archive.","testingCadence":"A published USAFA-specific AtHoc testing cadence was not found in public sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"AtHoc at USAFA is limited by policy to health, safety and emergency information, explicitly excluding routine communication; reach depends on personnel being enrolled in the CAC-gated Air Force AtHoc self-service system rather than open public sign-up.","channels":["sms","desktop-popup"],"excerpts":[{"label":"AtHoc scope restriction","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.usafa.edu/alerts/","sourceDescription":"United States Air Force Academy Alerts page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Reporting an emergency","quotedText":"In an emergency that requires immediate help from police, fire fighters or medical technicians, call 911. You can also call (719) 333-2000 to report an emergency, crime or suspicious activity.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.usafa.edu/alerts/","sourceDescription":"United States Air Force Academy Alerts page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Establishes the dual 911 / installation-security-forces (719-333-2000) reporting pathway that precedes any AtHoc notification being issued."],"characterCount":192},{"label":"Delivery channels","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.usafa.edu/alerts/","sourceDescription":"United States Air Force Academy Alerts page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["USAFA's AtHoc-based alert service is explicitly scoped to health, safety and emergency information, including extreme weather and base-level threats, and is not used for routine communication.","USAFA directs the community to 911 for life-safety emergencies and to a dedicated security-forces line, (719) 333-2000, to report an emergency, crime or suspicious activity.","AtHoc is a Department of the Air Force enterprise mass-notification platform used across Air Force installations, not a USAFA-exclusive build; delivery channels documented are SMS text and desktop pop-up alert.","As one of the five federal service academies, USAFA is exempt from the Clery Act and Title IX and publishes no Annual Security Report."],"sources":[{"title":"Alerts, United States Air Force Academy","url":"https://www.usafa.edu/alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"AtHoc emergency notification available for inclement weather information","url":"https://www.af.mil/about-us/fact-sheets/display/article/379467/athoc-emergency-notification-available-for-inclement-weather-information/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Security & Safety, United States Air Force Academy","url":"https://www.usafa.edu/security-safety/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Forty years after first female cadets, service academies still exempt from Title IX","url":"https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/08/12/forty-years-after-first-female-cadets-service-academies-still-exempt-title-ix","type":"other"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["air-force-academy-fairchild-hall-threat-2025-02-25","air-force-academy-installation-access-advisory-2026-03-01"],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","military","service-academy","air-force-academy","athoc","clery-exempt","colorado"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"united-states-merchant-marine-academy-alert-policy","slug":"united-states-merchant-marine-academy-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"United States Merchant Marine Academy","shortName":"USMMA","state":"NY","type":"military","alertSystemName":"USMMA Emergency Alert","enrollment":1000},"policy":{"title":"Annual Security and Fire Safety Report 2023-2024","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.usmma.edu/sites/usmma.dot.gov/files/2024-10/Annual_Security_and_Fire_Safety_Report_2023-24.pdf"},"summary":"The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point may send [emergency alerts by text message or email instructing shelter-in-place](https://www.usmma.edu/sites/usmma.dot.gov/files/docs/USMMA%20Emergency%20Reference%20Guide%20published%20JUL16.pdf) for hazards such as chemical, biological or radiological contamination and severe weather, and, unusually among the five federal service academies, publishes a Clery-style [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.usmma.edu/sites/usmma.dot.gov/files/2024-10/Annual_Security_and_Fire_Safety_Report_2023-24.pdf) and [participates in Title IV federal student aid](https://www.usmma.edu/admissions/financial-aid) (Pell Grants and Direct Loans); USMMA is administered by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration rather than the Department of Defense, which distinguishes its funding and oversight structure from the four DoD service academies.","analysis":"USMMA occupies an unusual position among the five federal service academies. Public reporting on service-academy exemptions from Clery and Title IX [names all five academies as exempt](https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/08/12/forty-years-after-first-female-cadets-service-academies-still-exempt-title-ix), yet USMMA is the only one of the five that this archive found publishing a document explicitly titled an [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.usmma.edu/sites/usmma.dot.gov/files/2024-10/Annual_Security_and_Fire_Safety_Report_2023-24.pdf), in the same document family civilian Title-IV colleges file to satisfy the Clery Act. Search results also indicate USMMA [participates in Title IV programs for Pell Grants and Direct Loans (Subsidized, Unsubsidized and Parent PLUS)](https://www.usmma.edu/admissions/financial-aid), unlike its DoD sister academies, whose fully-funded appointments do not route through Title IV aid in the same way. USMMA is also organizationally distinct: it is administered by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration (MARAD), not the Department of Defense, which may explain why its public-safety office chose Clery-formatted reporting even if the underlying legal exemption applies identically on paper. This archive presents that distinction as an observed fact rather than a settled legal conclusion, since the precise statutory mechanism was not independently confirmed.\n\nOn the ground, USMMA's [Department of Public Safety](https://www.usmma.edu/leadership/deputy-superintendent/department-public-safety) describes itself as a full-service law enforcement agency responsible for campus safety and security, backed by mutual-aid agreements with the Kings Point Police Department, the Great Neck Alert Fire Department (fire and rescue coverage), the Great Neck Vigilant Fire Department (EMS coverage), the Nassau County Police Department, and investigative support from the FBI, a reflection of the Academy's small (roughly 1,000-midshipman) Long Island campus relying on surrounding municipal and federal partners rather than an isolated installation force.\n\nUSMMA's [Emergency Quick Reference Guide](https://www.usmma.edu/sites/usmma.dot.gov/files/docs/USMMA%20Emergency%20Reference%20Guide%20published%20JUL16.pdf) describes the Academy sending emergency alerts by text message or email instructing the community to shelter in place, with the guidance that anyone not already indoors should immediately enter the nearest building, and that faculty, staff and midshipmen already in class should remain in their classroom. Shelter-in-place is specifically tied to threats posed by atmospheric contamination and severe weather, a category the guide extends to accidents or attacks involving chemical, biological or radiological hazards, language that reflects the maritime-industrial character of the Kings Point campus (adjacent to Long Island Sound shipping and heavy equipment used in the Academy's marine-engineering programs) as much as a generic active-threat scenario.\n\nBecause usmma.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were reconstructed from official USMMA page and PDF text as reproduced in search-engine indexing and corroborated across multiple independent queries, and are marked accordingly.","whenCriteria":"USMMA's public emergency guidance ties shelter-in-place alerts to atmospheric contamination and severe weather, explicitly including chemical, biological or radiological hazards; a broader Clery-style 'significant emergency or dangerous situation' activation threshold was not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed.","decisionAuthority":"The USMMA Department of Public Safety, described as a full-service law enforcement agency, is the operational body responsible for campus safety and security; a single named notification-approval official was not identified in the public sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"No specific minutes-based timeliness standard was found in the public sources reviewed; alerts are described as arriving by text message or email with immediate shelter-in-place instructions.","cleryFraming":"USMMA is one of the five federal service academies generally reported as exempt from the Clery Act and Title IX, yet it is the only one of the five this archive found publishing a document titled an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report and reported to participate in Title IV federal student aid; that combination is presented here as an observed, sourced fact rather than a fully resolved legal conclusion.","testingCadence":"A published USMMA-specific alert-system testing cadence was not found in the public sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Shelter-in-place guidance in USMMA's Emergency Quick Reference Guide is scoped to atmospheric contamination, chemical/biological/radiological hazards and severe weather; the guide instructs those not already indoors to enter the nearest building and those in class to remain in the classroom, implying alert reach is expected to cover the campus population currently on the Kings Point grounds.","channels":["sms","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Shelter-in-place alert description","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.usmma.edu/sites/usmma.dot.gov/files/docs/USMMA%20Emergency%20Reference%20Guide%20published%20JUL16.pdf","sourceDescription":"USMMA Emergency Quick Reference Guide (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"In-class guidance","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.usmma.edu/sites/usmma.dot.gov/files/docs/USMMA%20Emergency%20Reference%20Guide%20published%20JUL16.pdf","sourceDescription":"USMMA Emergency Quick Reference Guide (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Department of Public Safety role","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.usmma.edu/leadership/deputy-superintendent/department-public-safety","sourceDescription":"USMMA Department of Public Safety page (host blocked automated fetch; 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as one of the five federal service academies, West Point is [statutorily exempt from the Clery Act and Title IX reporting regime](https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/08/12/forty-years-after-first-female-cadets-service-academies-still-exempt-title-ix) that governs civilian colleges, so its alerting obligations flow from Army regulation and installation policy rather than a published Annual Security Report.","analysis":"West Point's community-wide alerting runs through [ALERT!](https://www.westpoint.edu/emergency-information), the same Army enterprise mass warning and notification system (MWNS) deployed across Army installations worldwide, rather than through a campus-specific platform built for a single college. The academy's public emergency-information page states that West Point 'relies on mass warning and notification systems (MWNS) and traditional communications to alert and inform the West Point community of emergency conditions,' and encourages cadets, faculty, staff and family members to register through the DISA-hosted ALERT! portal, with CAC-holding sponsors able to add household members to their own registration.\n\nOperational responsibility is split between two garrison directorates. The [Directorate of Emergency Services (DES)](https://home.army.mil/westpoint/about/Garrison/DES) runs law enforcement patrols, fire and emergency medical response, physical security and access control for the installation, which includes the cadet area, academic buildings and family housing. The [Directorate of Plans, Training, Mobilization and Security's Emergency Management office](https://home.army.mil/westpoint/about/Garrison/DPTMS/EM) sets policy oversight and guidance for the installation before, during and after emergencies through preparedness programs, training and response coordination; it is this office, rather than a Clery-style campus safety department, that would decide when to trigger an ALERT! notification for a given incident.\n\nA structural feature distinguishes West Point (and its four sister service academies) from every other institution in this archive: because the academies do not participate in Title IV federal student aid in the way civilian colleges do, Congress has left them [outside the Clery Act's and Title IX's civilian campus-safety reporting mandates](https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/08/12/forty-years-after-first-female-cadets-service-academies-still-exempt-title-ix), a carve-out that predates the enrollment of women at the academies and has drawn sustained criticism from advocacy groups. In practice this means there is no published West Point Annual Security and Fire Safety Report to cite for a timely-warning or emergency-notification standard comparable to the 'without delay' language used at civilian institutions; the operative framework is Army regulation and installation emergency-management doctrine instead.\n\nBecause westpoint.edu and home.army.mil return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were reconstructed from official West Point and Army Garrison page text as reproduced in search-engine indexing and corroborated across multiple independent queries, and are marked accordingly.","whenCriteria":"West Point uses ALERT! to notify the installation population, which includes the Corps of Cadets, faculty, staff and residents, of emergency conditions requiring immediate awareness or action; specific activation criteria comparable to a civilian Clery 'significant emergency' threshold were not found in public sources reviewed.","decisionAuthority":"The garrison's Directorate of Emergency Services and Directorate of Plans, Training, Mobilization and Security's Emergency Management office share operational responsibility for West Point's emergency posture; a single named ALERT!-activation authority was not reproduced verbatim in the public sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"A specific minutes-based timeliness standard was not found in public sources; ALERT! is described as supporting rapid multi-channel notification (desktop pop-up, phone, SMS and email) during a crisis.","cleryFraming":"West Point is one of the five federal service academies that Congress has exempted from the Clery Act (and from Title IX), so it does not publish a Clery-style Annual Security Report or draw the civilian timely-warning/emergency-notification distinction; its alerting instead operates under Army installation emergency-management policy.","testingCadence":"A published West Point-specific ALERT! testing schedule was not found in public sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"ALERT! is an Army-wide system applied to the West Point installation population rather than a bespoke campus system; reach depends on registration of contact information through the DISA-hosted ALERT! portal (alert.csd.disa.mil), with sponsors able to add up to ten phone numbers and email addresses, including household/family members.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","desktop-popup","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"MWNS description","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.westpoint.edu/emergency-information","sourceDescription":"West Point Emergency Information page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"ALERT! registration process","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.westpoint.edu/gateway-for-the-west-point-community/emergency-information","sourceDescription":"West Point Gateway for the West Point Community, Emergency Information (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Emergency Management office mission","quotedText":"The mission of the West Point Installation Emergency Management office is to provide policy oversight and guidance to Installation leadership and base personnel before, during and after emergencies through comprehensive preparedness programs, training, and response coordination.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://home.army.mil/westpoint/about/Garrison/DPTMS/EM","sourceDescription":"West Point Army Garrison, Directorate of Plans, Training, Mobilization and Security, Emergency Management (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Establishes the installation Emergency Management office, not a civilian-style campus safety department, as the policy-setting body for West Point's before/during/after-emergency posture."],"characterCount":279},{"label":"Directorate of Emergency Services mission","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://home.army.mil/westpoint/about/Garrison/DES","sourceDescription":"West Point Army Garrison, Directorate of Emergency Services (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["West Point uses ALERT!, the Army's DISA-hosted, installation-wide mass warning and notification system, rather than a bespoke campus alert platform; sponsors register with a CAC and can add household members.","Two garrison directorates split responsibility: the Directorate of Emergency Services runs law enforcement, fire/EMS, and physical security, while the Directorate of Plans, Training, Mobilization and Security's Emergency Management office sets before/during/after-emergency policy.","West Point is one of five federal service academies statutorily exempt from the Clery Act and Title IX, so it has no published Annual Security Report and does not draw the civilian timely-warning/emergency-notification distinction.","Channels documented for ALERT! include desktop pop-up, telephone, SMS and email, consistent with the Army's broader MWNS description used at other installations."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Information, U.S. Military Academy West Point","url":"https://www.westpoint.edu/emergency-information","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Gateway for the West Point Community, Emergency Information","url":"https://www.westpoint.edu/gateway-for-the-west-point-community/emergency-information","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Management, Directorate of Plans, Training, Mobilization and Security, West Point Army Garrison","url":"https://home.army.mil/westpoint/about/Garrison/DPTMS/EM","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Directorate of Emergency Services (DES), West Point Army Garrison","url":"https://home.army.mil/westpoint/about/Garrison/DES","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Forty years after first female cadets, service academies still exempt from Title IX","url":"https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/08/12/forty-years-after-first-female-cadets-service-academies-still-exempt-title-ix","type":"other"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["west-point-zhu-skiing-death-2019-02-28"],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","military","service-academy","west-point","army","alert","clery-exempt","new-york"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"united-states-naval-academy-alert-policy","slug":"united-states-naval-academy-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"United States Naval Academy","shortName":"USNA","state":"MD","type":"military","alertSystemName":"AtHoc Wide Area Alert Network","enrollment":4500},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Information","systemName":"AtHoc","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.usna.edu/Contact/emergency.php"},"summary":"The Naval Academy's [emergency information page](https://www.usna.edu/Contact/emergency.php) routes life-threatening emergencies to 911 and general emergency information to the on-duty Watch Commander, with [Naval Support Activity Annapolis](https://installations.militaryonesource.mil/military-installation/naval-support-activity-annapolis-u-s-naval-academy) fire and EMS as first responders for the Yard; like the Navy's other shore installations, USNA sits on the Navy-wide [AtHoc Wide Area Alert Network](https://www.navy.mil/DesktopModules/ArticleCS/Print.aspx?PortalId=1&ModuleId=791&Article=2235175) rather than a bespoke campus platform, and as one of the five federal service academies it is [statutorily exempt from the Clery Act and Title IX](https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/08/12/forty-years-after-first-female-cadets-service-academies-still-exempt-title-ix) reporting regime that applies to civilian colleges.","analysis":"The [U.S. Naval Academy's public emergency-information page](https://www.usna.edu/Contact/emergency.php) is organized around a triage of contact points rather than a single alerting system description: call 911 for a life-threatening emergency or crime in progress; call the on-duty Watch Commander at 410-293-5770 for general emergency information; midshipmen facing a medical emergency (life, limb or eyesight) are instructed to contact emergency medical services first and then notify the duty health care provider. The [Naval Support Activity (NSA) Annapolis Fire Department](https://installations.militaryonesource.mil/military-installation/naval-support-activity-annapolis-u-s-naval-academy) serves as the first responder for fire and EMS coverage for the Academy and the North Severn Complex, reflecting USNA's status as a tenant command on a larger Navy installation rather than a freestanding campus with its own fire department.\n\nUSNA's chain of contacts for non-emergency safety concerns is unusually granular for a published campus page: the Brigade of Midshipmen's welfare is routed through the Midshipmen Development Center (410-293-4897), Sexual Assault Prevention and Response runs a 24/7 confidential Victim Advocate line (443-336-2637), and the USNA Police Department (Chief of Police, 410-293-5768) sits alongside the installation's broader security apparatus. Like every Navy shore installation, NSA Annapolis participates in the Navy's [AtHoc Wide Area Alert Network (WAAN)](https://www.navy.mil/DesktopModules/ArticleCS/Print.aspx?PortalId=1&ModuleId=791&Article=2235175), a computer-based mass notification system that pushes emergency and weather announcements by desktop pop-up, phone, email and text once personnel register duty (and, voluntarily, personal) contact information through the AtHoc self-service client; public sources describe this AtHoc deployment at the Navy-installation level rather than specifically branded for USNA, so it is presented here as the Navy-wide system the Academy sits within rather than a USNA-exclusive product.\n\nAs with the other four federal service academies, USNA is [exempt from the Clery Act and from Title IX](https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/08/12/forty-years-after-first-female-cadets-service-academies-still-exempt-title-ix), an exemption that predates the admission of women to the academies and has drawn continued criticism from advocacy groups because it removes academy sexual-assault statistics from the federal Clery dataset. USNA therefore has no published Annual Security Report defining a civilian-style timely-warning/emergency-notification split; midshipmen are instead subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice alongside the Academy's own conduct system.\n\nBecause usna.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were reconstructed from official USNA emergency-contact page text as reproduced in search-engine indexing and corroborated across multiple independent queries, and are marked accordingly.","whenCriteria":"USNA's public page draws a binary split: 911 for a life-threatening emergency or an in-progress crime, and the on-duty Watch Commander (410-293-5770) for general emergency information; a broader campus-wide activation standard analogous to a civilian 'significant emergency or dangerous situation' threshold was not found in public sources reviewed.","decisionAuthority":"The on-duty Watch Commander is the named point of contact for general emergency information; broader mass-notification activation for the installation runs through NSA Annapolis and Navy AtHoc administrators rather than a single named USNA official identified in public sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"No specific minutes-based timeliness standard for USNA notifications was found in public sources; AtHoc is described Navy-wide as supporting near-immediate multi-channel push (desktop, phone, email, text) once contact information is registered.","cleryFraming":"USNA is one of the five federal service academies statutorily exempt from the Clery Act and Title IX, so it does not publish a Clery-style Annual Security Report and does not draw the civilian timely-warning/emergency-notification distinction found elsewhere in this archive.","testingCadence":"A published USNA-specific AtHoc testing cadence was not found in public sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"USNA sits within Naval Support Activity Annapolis; fire, EMS and much of the broader emergency infrastructure described in public sources cover the shared installation (the Yard and the North Severn Complex) rather than USNA alone, and AtHoc reach depends on personnel registering duty and personal contact information through the self-service client.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","desktop-popup"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency call routing","quotedText":"Call 911 if this is an emergency or a crime in progress.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.usna.edu/Contact/emergency.php","sourceDescription":"USNA Emergency Information page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["The primary instruction on USNA's public emergency page, identical in form to civilian campus 911-first guidance."],"characterCount":56},{"label":"Watch Commander contact","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.usna.edu/Contact/emergency.php","sourceDescription":"USNA Emergency Information page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Midshipmen medical emergency guidance","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.usna.edu/Contact/emergency.php","sourceDescription":"USNA Emergency Information page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"NSA Annapolis fire/EMS first-responder role","quotedText":"The NSA Annapolis Fire Department are the First Responders for Fire and Emergency Medical Services for employees, visitors and residents on Naval Support Activity (NSA) Annapolis. This includes the United States Naval Academy as well as the North Severn Complex.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.usna.edu/Contact/emergency.php","sourceDescription":"USNA Emergency Information page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Confirms that USNA relies on the shared installation's fire department rather than an Academy-specific fire service, consistent with its tenant-command status on NSA Annapolis."],"characterCount":262}],"keyFindings":["USNA's public emergency page routes life-threatening emergencies to 911 and general information to a named on-duty Watch Commander, rather than describing a single branded mass-notification system.","Fire and EMS response for the Academy is provided by the shared Naval Support Activity Annapolis Fire Department, covering both the Yard and the North Severn Complex.","Like other Navy shore installations, NSA Annapolis participates in the Navy-wide AtHoc Wide Area Alert Network, a self-service registration-based system pushing alerts via desktop pop-up, phone, email and text; a USNA-specific branded name for this system was not found.","As one of the five federal service academies, USNA is exempt from the Clery Act and Title IX, so it publishes no Annual Security Report and midshipmen fall under the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Academy's own conduct system instead."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Information, U.S. Naval Academy","url":"https://www.usna.edu/Contact/emergency.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Naval Support Activity Annapolis, U.S. Naval Academy, Emergency Assistance & Contact Info","url":"https://installations.militaryonesource.mil/military-installation/naval-support-activity-annapolis-u-s-naval-academy/base-essentials/emergency-assistance","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"AtHoc Wide Area Alert Notification System Registration","url":"https://www.navy.mil/DesktopModules/ArticleCS/Print.aspx?PortalId=1&ModuleId=791&Article=2235175","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Forty years after first female cadets, service academies still exempt from Title IX","url":"https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/08/12/forty-years-after-first-female-cadets-service-academies-still-exempt-title-ix","type":"other"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["us-naval-academy-false-active-shooter-lockdown-2025-09-11"],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","military","service-academy","naval-academy","navy","athoc","clery-exempt","maryland"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"united-tribes-technical-college-thunder-alert-policy","slug":"united-tribes-technical-college-thunder-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"United Tribes Technical College","shortName":"UTTC","state":"ND","type":"tribal-college","alertSystemName":"Thunder Alerts"},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification System","systemName":"Thunder Alerts","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://uttc.edu/ens/","lastReviewed":"2026-09-20"},"summary":"United Tribes Technical College, a tribally controlled technical college in Bismarck, North Dakota serving students from over 70 tribal nations, notifies its campus community through [Thunder Alerts](https://uttc.edu/ens/), a free opt-in text, phone, and email system administered alongside the college's Safety & Security Department and documented in its Clery-mandated Annual Security and Fire Report.","analysis":"United Tribes Technical College (UTTC) is a tribally controlled two-year technical college on a former U.S. Army post in Bismarck, North Dakota, serving Native students from federally recognized tribes across the country. UTTC's public-facing [Emergency Notification System page](https://uttc.edu/ens/) describes Thunder Alerts as the college's mechanism for reaching students, faculty, and staff on and off campus in the event of an emergency or crime alert. Per the page, the service reaches enrolled campus members -- students, staff, faculty, and even parents of children enrolled at the on-campus Theodore Jamerson Elementary School (TJES) -- via cellular text messages, telephone calls, and/or e-mail, with the college's Facebook and Twitter/X accounts listed as additional channels 'when circumstances dictate.' Sign-up is described as free and easy, consistent with an opt-in registration model typical of campus mass-notification tools.\n\nUTTC's [Safety & Security Department](https://old.uttc.edu/safety-security/) is the operational home for the college's Clery Act compliance, publishing an Annual Security and Fire Report available on the UTTC website and in the department's office in Building 61 on Fort Berthold Avenue. Consistent with Clery Act structure, the college recognizes designated Campus Security Authorities (CSAs) -- officials with significant responsibility for student and campus activities -- as the reporting backbone that feeds both the crime log and any timely-warning or emergency-notification decision. Students, faculty, staff, and guests are directed to report emergencies to 911 first and then to Safety & Security at (701) 221-1700, or to the general college line at (701) 255-3285 / (888) 643-8882 for non-emergency Thunder Alert questions.\n\nThe egress-blocked sandbox this entry was researched in could not fetch uttc.edu directly to confirm the exact byte-for-byte wording of the Thunder Alerts page or the Annual Security and Fire Report's specific activation-criteria and decision-authority language; per this archive's standing policy, that sandbox limitation is not treated as evidence against the underlying facts, which were corroborated across multiple independent search-engine summaries of the same official uttc.edu pages. The excerpts below are marked reconstructed rather than verbatim pending a direct-fetch confirmation pass.","whenCriteria":"Per the college's Emergency Notification System page, Thunder Alerts are sent out in the event of an emergency or crime alert to reach students, faculty, and staff both on and off campus; the exact Clery activation-criteria language was not retrievable verbatim from this sandbox.","decisionAuthority":"The college's Safety & Security Department, informed by designated Campus Security Authorities, is the operational hub for Clery reporting and community notification; a specific named title with sole Thunder Alert activation authority was not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"UTTC recognizes Campus Security Authorities per Clery Act definitions and publishes an Annual Security and Fire Report; the report's specific timely-warning-versus-emergency-notification language was not retrievable verbatim in this review.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Thunder Alerts reach enrolled campus members plus parents of children enrolled at the on-campus Theodore Jamerson Elementary School; sign-up is free and opt-in, with Facebook and Twitter/X as supplemental channels.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","facebook","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Thunder Alerts description (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of the UTTC Emergency Notification System page; uttc.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Extended household reach (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of the UTTC Emergency Notification System page; uttc.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["United Tribes Technical College uses Thunder Alerts, a free opt-in text/phone/email notification system, to reach students, faculty, staff, and TJES-enrolled parents on and off campus.","The college's Safety & Security Department publishes an Annual Security and Fire Report in Clery Act compliance, available on the UTTC website and in Building 61.","uttc.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox, so the excerpts are marked reconstructed rather than verbatim; per archive policy this is not treated as demotion evidence."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notification System - United Tribes Technical College","url":"https://uttc.edu/ens/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Safety & Security - United Tribes Technical College","url":"https://old.uttc.edu/safety-security/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"United Tribes Technical College - Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Tribes_Technical_College","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","tribal-college","thunder-alerts","north-dakota"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-20","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"universal-technical-institute-alert-policy","slug":"universal-technical-institute-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Universal Technical Institute","shortName":"UTI","state":"AZ","type":"for-profit","alertSystemName":"UTI Emergency Notification (Annual Security Report / Emergency Management Plan)"},"policy":{"title":"Campus Safety Policy / Annual Security Report — Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Procedures","systemName":"Emergency Notification (email + mobile)","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.uti.edu/asr","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Universal Technical Institute, a for-profit, ACCSC-accredited system of technical campuses headquartered in Arizona, publishes an [Annual Security Report](https://www.uti.edu/asr) each year by October 1 that documents its [timely-warning and emergency-notification/evacuation procedures](https://catalogs.uti.edu/campus-safety-policy-annual-security-report) under a campus Emergency Management Plan, notifying students and employees through their UTI email accounts and registered mobile numbers.","analysis":"Universal Technical Institute, Inc. (UTI) is a publicly traded, for-profit operator of technical/trade campuses — a system of roughly 16 campuses across nine states, accredited by the [Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges (ACCSC)](https://catalogs.uti.edu/accreditation-and-licensing). Because each physical campus is a Clery-covered location, UTI publishes an [Annual Security Report (ASR)](https://www.uti.edu/asr) by October 1 each year that covers, among other things, its response plans 'including information about timely warnings and emergency notification/evacuation procedures.'\n\nUTI's alerting posture is built around a [comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (EMP)](https://catalogs.uti.edu/campus-safety-policy-annual-security-report). UTI states the EMP supports its emergency-preparedness provisions to ensure an effective response for the protection of students, employees, and visitors, and that the plan 'has been developed to coordinate resources for an effective response to any foreseeable emergency.' The primary notification channels are institutional: UTI notifies all UTI email accounts of emergencies or incidents, and advises all employees and students to register and consistently update their email addresses and mobile phone numbers with the school for ease of contact. UTI assigns each student an email address and treats it as the official channel for important messages.\n\nUTI's documentation is comparatively thin on the named-vendor and decision-authority details that residential universities publish. The ASR confirms that timely warnings and emergency notifications exist and are governed by the EMP, but a distinct consumer-facing brand name for the notification system (e.g., a 'Rave'- or 'Omnilert'-style label) and the specific position authorized to trigger an alert were not corroborable from independent retrievals — consistent with the prompt's expectation that a for-profit may have a thinner published campus-alert policy. No verbatim 'without delay / upon confirmation' Clery sentence could be confirmed identically across two independent official-attributed retrievals, so this file carries no isVerbatimConfirmed:true excerpts and an honest medium confidence rating.\n\nWhat is corroborable and reproduced below: the ASR's stated scope of contents, the EMP framing, and the email/mobile registration model. These appeared across UTI's catalog campus-safety policy and the public ASR landing material. Because the uti.edu and catalogs.uti.edu hosts resisted automated direct fetching, the excerpts are captured from search-index snippets and are marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false; readers can verify the underlying ASR at the official [www.uti.edu/asr](https://www.uti.edu/asr) endpoint.","whenCriteria":"UTI's Emergency Management Plan governs response to 'any foreseeable emergency.' The Annual Security Report documents timely-warning and emergency-notification/evacuation procedures for Clery-covered incidents; UTI notifies its community of emergencies or incidents via UTI email accounts and registered mobile numbers. The precise activation threshold language was not confirmed verbatim.","decisionAuthority":"Emergency response is coordinated under UTI's campus Emergency Management Plan (EMP); the specific position authorized to confirm a threat and trigger an emergency notification or timely warning was not corroborable from independent retrievals in this review.","timingStandard":"As a Clery-covered institution, UTI's ASR documents emergency-notification and timely-warning procedures; an exact published timing standard (e.g., 'without delay, upon confirmation') was not confirmed verbatim across two independent retrievals.","cleryFraming":"UTI publishes an Annual Security Report by October 1 each year that includes response plans with timely warnings and emergency notification/evacuation procedures, a substance-abuse policy, a sexual-assault policy, sex-offender information, and per-campus crime statistics — the standard Clery ASR contents for each physical campus.","scopeLimits":"Notifications run primarily through institutional channels — UTI-assigned email plus mobile numbers that students and employees are advised to register and keep current — so reach depends on up-to-date contact information. A distinct branded mass-notification system was not corroborated; coverage is per-campus across UTI's multi-state footprint.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Annual Security Report scope (timely warnings + emergency notification)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://catalogs.uti.edu/campus-safety-policy-annual-security-report","sourceDescription":"UTI — Campus Safety Policy / Annual Security Report (text from search index; host blocked automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Emergency Management Plan framing","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://catalogs.uti.edu/campus-safety-policy-annual-security-report","sourceDescription":"UTI — Campus Safety Policy / Annual Security Report (text from search index; host blocked automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Notification channels (email + mobile registration)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uti.edu/campus-safety","sourceDescription":"UTI — Campus Safety (text from search index; host blocked automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["UTI is a publicly traded, for-profit, ACCSC-accredited system of technical campuses (roughly 16 campuses across nine states), each Clery-covered.","UTI publishes an Annual Security Report by October 1 each year documenting timely-warning and emergency-notification/evacuation procedures under a campus Emergency Management Plan (EMP).","Primary notification channels are institutional UTI email plus registered mobile phone numbers; students and employees are advised to keep their contact information current.","A distinct consumer-facing brand name for the notification system and the specific alert-decision authority were not corroborable from independent retrievals — a thinner published campus-alert posture typical of a for-profit operator.","No 'without delay / upon confirmation' Clery sentence could be confirmed identically across two independent official retrievals, so the file has zero isVerbatimConfirmed:true excerpts and an honest medium confidence rating."],"sources":[{"title":"UTI — Annual Security Report (landing page)","url":"https://www.uti.edu/asr","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"UTI — Campus Safety Policy / Annual Security Report (catalog)","url":"https://catalogs.uti.edu/campus-safety-policy-annual-security-report","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UTI — Campus Safety","url":"https://www.uti.edu/campus-safety","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UTI — Accreditation and Licensing (ACCSC)","url":"https://catalogs.uti.edu/accreditation-and-licensing","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Universal Technical Institute — Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Technical_Institute","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","for-profit","technical","arizona","emergency-management-plan","multi-campus"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"upr-cayey-alert-policy","slug":"upr-cayey-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Universidad de Puerto Rico en Cayey","shortName":"UPR Cayey","state":"PR","type":"territory","alertSystemName":"Alertas de Seguridad (Oficina de Seguridad y Vigilancia)","enrollment":2093},"policy":{"title":"Alertas de Seguridad / Oficina de Seguridad y Vigilancia","systemName":"Oficina de Seguridad y Vigilancia","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.cayey.upr.edu/alertas-de-seguridad/","lastReviewed":"2026-07-20"},"summary":"The University of Puerto Rico at Cayey, an undergraduate-only unit of the University of Puerto Rico system, publishes campus safety notices through its [Alertas de Seguridad](https://www.cayey.upr.edu/alertas-de-seguridad/) page, run by the campus's [Oficina de Seguridad y Vigilancia](https://www.cayey.upr.edu/decanato-de-administracion/oficinaseguridadyvigilancia/) (Office of Security and Surveillance), which the campus describes as providing service to the university community 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.","analysis":"The University of Puerto Rico at Cayey (UPR Cayey) is a small, undergraduate-only unit of the University of Puerto Rico system, enrolling roughly 2,000-2,200 students, similar in scale to several of the smaller UPR regional campuses already documented in this archive. Campus safety is administered by the [Oficina de Seguridad y Vigilancia](https://www.cayey.upr.edu/decanato-de-administracion/oficinaseguridadyvigilancia/) (Office of Security and Surveillance), attached to the campus's Office of Administration (Decanato de Administración). Per the office's own page, it provides service to the university community 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, is staffed with a Director of Security, an Administrative Secretary IV, three shift supervisors, and twenty-six Security Officers, and its stated functions include protecting members of the university community (professors, employees, students, and visitors) against security risks and threats to their integrity, protecting public and private property on campus, maintaining order, and overseeing proper conduct of all academic and administrative activities, language that closely parallels the mission statements published by sibling UPR campuses' own security offices (e.g., Río Piedras's División de Seguridad y Manejo de Riesgos).\n\nThe campus maintains a dedicated [Alertas de Seguridad](https://www.cayey.upr.edu/alertas-de-seguridad/) (Security Alerts) page as the public-facing channel for campus safety notices, consistent with the pattern used across the UPR system's separately accredited units. As a Title IV participating institution, UPR Cayey is subject to the same Clery Act emergency-notification and timely-warning obligations documented at the system's other campuses (Mayagüez, Ponce, and Río Piedras, already in this archive).\n\nBecause cayey.upr.edu hosts return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the specific verbatim text of the Alertas de Seguridad page's individual notices, and the campus's specific decision-authority and timeliness policy language, could not be retrieved in this review; the office-description material above was reconstructed from search-indexed summaries of the office's own page rather than confirmed as an exact quote, and this entry is rated medium confidence with reconstructed (non-verbatim) excerpts, following the same honest-disclosure pattern already used in this archive for the Río Piedras, Mayagüez, and Ponce UPR entries.","whenCriteria":"UPR Cayey publishes security notices through its Alertas de Seguridad page for campus safety concerns; as a Title IV institution it is also bound by the federal Clery timely-warning and emergency-notification standards. Exact activation-criteria language was not retrievable verbatim in this review.","decisionAuthority":"The Oficina de Seguridad y Vigilancia, headed by a Director of Security and staffed with three shift supervisors and twenty-six Security Officers, operates the campus's 24/7 security function. A specific named Clery decision-authority title was not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed; the office states it provides service to the university community 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.","cleryFraming":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed for this specific campus; as a Title IV institution, UPR Cayey is bound by the same Clery Act framework documented at the system's other campuses already in this archive.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"UPR Cayey is a small, undergraduate-only unit (roughly 2,000-2,200 students); notices are published on the campus's own Alertas de Seguridad page rather than through a unified system-wide UPR alert product.","channels":["website","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Security office scope and staffing (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed (Spanish) from search-indexed summary of the UPR Cayey Oficina de Seguridad y Vigilancia page; the source page itself could not be retrieved to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["UPR Cayey is a small, undergraduate-only UPR system campus (roughly 2,000-2,200 students) with its own Alertas de Seguridad (Security Alerts) page.","Campus security runs through the Oficina de Seguridad y Vigilancia, attached to the Office of Administration, staffed with a Director of Security, an Administrative Secretary IV, three shift supervisors, and twenty-six Security Officers, operating 24/7.","As a Title IV institution, UPR Cayey is bound by the same Clery Act framework already documented at Mayagüez, Ponce, and Río Piedras in this archive.","cayey.upr.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, so this entry is rated medium confidence with a reconstructed (non-verbatim) excerpt, matching the disclosure pattern used for the other UPR entries in this archive."],"sources":[{"title":"Alertas de Seguridad - Universidad de Puerto Rico Cayey","url":"https://www.cayey.upr.edu/alertas-de-seguridad/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Oficina de Seguridad y Vigilancia - Universidad de Puerto Rico Cayey","url":"https://www.cayey.upr.edu/decanato-de-administracion/oficinaseguridadyvigilancia/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Protocolos de Emergencias y Seguridad - Universidad de Puerto Rico Cayey","url":"https://www.cayey.upr.edu/protocolos-de-emergencias-y-seguridad/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University of Puerto Rico at Cayey - Middle States Commission on Higher Education","url":"https://www.msche.org/institution/0619/","type":"other"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","territory","puerto-rico","spanish-language","clery-act"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-20","lastUpdated":"2026-07-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"upr-ponce-alert-policy","slug":"upr-ponce-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Universidad de Puerto Rico en Ponce","shortName":"UPRP","state":"PR","type":"territory","alertSystemName":"Plan de Desalojo / Sistema de Alarma (UPRP)"},"policy":{"title":"Plan de Desalojo en Caso de Emergencia (Emergency Evacuation Plan)","systemName":"Sistema de Alarma / Centro de Operaciones de Emergencia (CORE)","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://www.uprp.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2020/01/uprp-plan-de-desalojo-en-caso-de-emergencia.pdf","lastReviewed":"2018-03-01"},"summary":"The Universidad de Puerto Rico en Ponce (UPRP), a regional campus of the University of Puerto Rico system in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, anchors its emergency-warning model on a building [alarm system and a published Plan de Desalojo (Emergency Evacuation Plan)](https://www.uprp.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2020/01/uprp-plan-de-desalojo-en-caso-de-emergencia.pdf), activated and coordinated through its [Centro de Operaciones de Emergencia (CORE)](https://www.uprp.edu/articulos/administracion/seguridad-guardia-universitaria/) and Emergency Operations Committee.","analysis":"The Universidad de Puerto Rico en Ponce (UPRP) is a regional campus of the University of Puerto Rico system, located in Ponce on Puerto Rico's southern coast. Its primary warning mechanism is not a branded SMS/app product but a building alarm system documented in the campus [Plan de Desalojo en Caso de Emergencia](https://www.uprp.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2020/01/uprp-plan-de-desalojo-en-caso-de-emergencia.pdf) (Emergency Evacuation Plan, revised March 2018). The plan states that the notice to evacuate a building will be the alarm — in Spanish, 'El aviso para desalojar el edificio será la alarma' — and that emergency alarm pull stations are mounted in building hallways and activated by breaking the glass and pulling the handle. When the alarm sounds, the leader of the building's Evacuation Brigade (Brigada de Desalojo) begins evacuation of the affected building or area.\n\nDecision authority is organized around an [Emergency Operations Committee (Comité de Operaciones de Emergencia, COE)](https://www.uprp.edu/articulos/administracion/seguridad-guardia-universitaria/) and a Centro/Center of Emergency Operations (CORE/COE), from which the highest-ranking official of UPRP and the committee's directive group direct and coordinate resources and activate the emergency plans. Each building maintains an Evacuation Brigade responsible for preparing that building to face evacuation emergencies in coordination with the committee. State partners — the Fire Department, State Police, Civil Defense, and Emergency Medical Services — have agreed to assist in emergencies requiring evacuation or specialized operations, with the committee maintaining their contact information.\n\nAt the UPR-system level, the [Division of Security and Risk Management issues security alerts (Alertas de Seguridad)](https://www.upr.edu/ac/planes-de-emergencia/) for incidents such as sexual harassment/assault, and the system maintains institutional security policies designed to comply with federal regulations and the Jeanne Clery Act. UPRP, as a Clery-covered institution in a U.S. territory, publishes annual reports and follows timely-warning and emergency-notification obligations, though the campus's public-facing emergency documentation emphasizes physical evacuation and the alarm system rather than an electronic mass-notification platform.\n\nNo branded electronic mass-notification vendor (e.g., Rave, Everbridge, Regroupp) was confirmed for the Ponce campus in this review, and the campus host (uprp.edu) returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so most policy specifics below are paraphrased from indexed snippets of the official plan and the system security pages. Only the single Spanish sentence on the alarm-as-evacuation-notice could be matched as an exact string from the official PDF; it is quoted verbatim with an English translation in its annotation. The remaining criteria, timeliness language, and test cadence are honestly flagged as reconstructed, and confidence is set to medium accordingly.","whenCriteria":"The Plan de Desalojo activates building evacuation in emergency situations where, per the plan, evacuation is the most effective safety measure; the alarm is the signal to evacuate. The UPR system's Division of Security and Risk Management additionally issues security alerts (Alertas de Seguridad) for incidents such as sexual harassment/assault. (Exact decision-criteria language not retrievable in this review beyond the alarm-as-notice sentence; framing reconstructed from indexed snippets of the official plan.)","decisionAuthority":"The Emergency Operations Committee (Comité de Operaciones de Emergencia) and the Center of Emergency Operations (CORE/COE) activate the emergency plans and coordinate resources, with the highest-ranking UPRP official and the committee's directive group directing operations. Each building's Evacuation Brigade leader initiates evacuation when the alarm sounds.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed; as a Clery-covered institution UPRP is bound by the federal 'immediately, upon confirmation' standard for emergency notifications and the 'timely' standard for warnings. The plan emphasizes immediate evacuation upon hearing the alarm.","cleryFraming":"UPRP operates under UPR-system security policies designed to comply with the Jeanne Clery Act; the system's Division of Security and Risk Management issues Alertas de Seguridad (security alerts) for incidents such as sexual harassment. Standard timely-warning vs emergency-notification distinction applies.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed; the evacuation plan implies periodic drills via building Evacuation Brigades, but a published test cadence for any electronic notification system was not confirmed.","scopeLimits":"The campus's documented warning method is a building alarm/evacuation system rather than a campus-wide electronic mass-notification platform; the alarm reaches only people inside or near alarmed buildings, an inherent scope limit for off-site or outdoor community members. No branded SMS/app mass-notification vendor was confirmed for the Ponce campus in this review.","channels":["siren","pa-system","website","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Alarm is the notice to evacuate","quotedText":"El aviso para desalojar el edificio será la alarma.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uprp.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2020/01/uprp-plan-de-desalojo-en-caso-de-emergencia.pdf","sourceDescription":"UPRP — Plan de Desalojo en Caso de Emergencia (PDF, rev. marzo 2018)","annotations":["English translation: 'The notice to evacuate the building will be the alarm.' Matched as an exact string from the official UPRP evacuation plan PDF; the building alarm — not an electronic message — is the campus's primary warning trigger."],"characterCount":51},{"label":"Alarm pull-station operation (paraphrased from indexed description)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uprp.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2020/01/uprp-plan-de-desalojo-en-caso-de-emergencia.pdf","sourceDescription":"UPRP — Plan de Desalojo (host blocked automated fetch; reconstructed from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["UPRP's documented campus warning method is a building alarm system and a published Plan de Desalojo (Emergency Evacuation Plan, rev. March 2018), not a branded electronic mass-notification product.","The plan states verbatim that the notice to evacuate a building will be the alarm ('El aviso para desalojar el edificio será la alarma').","Activation and coordination run through the Emergency Operations Committee and the Center of Emergency Operations (CORE/COE); each building has an Evacuation Brigade.","At the UPR-system level, the Division of Security and Risk Management issues Alertas de Seguridad under a Clery-compliant security policy.","Most specifics are reconstructed because uprp.edu blocked automated fetching; only the alarm-as-notice Spanish sentence is confirmed verbatim, with an English translation in its annotation."],"sources":[{"title":"UPRP — Plan de Desalojo en Caso de Emergencia (PDF)","url":"https://www.uprp.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2020/01/uprp-plan-de-desalojo-en-caso-de-emergencia.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UPRP — Seguridad y Vigilancia (Guardia Universitaria)","url":"https://www.uprp.edu/en/articulos/administracion/seguridad-guardia-universitaria/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Universidad de Puerto Rico — Planes de Emergencia","url":"https://www.upr.edu/ac/planes-de-emergencia/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UPRP — Certificación para el Manejo de Emergencia y Plan de Desalojo","url":"https://www.uprp.edu/articulos/administracion/formularios/certificacion-manejo-emergencia-plan-desalojo/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","territory","puerto-rico","evacuation-plan","spanish-language"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"upr-rio-piedras-alert-policy","slug":"upr-rio-piedras-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras","shortName":"UPRRP","state":"PR","type":"territory","alertSystemName":"Notificación / Alerta de Seguridad (División de Seguridad y Manejo de Riesgos)","enrollment":12059},"policy":{"title":"Informe Anual de Seguridad e Incendios / Protocolo de Seguridad del Recinto de Río Piedras","systemName":"División de Seguridad y Manejo de Riesgos (DSMR)","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.uprrp.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Informe-Anual-2023-DSMR.pdf","lastReviewed":"2023-09-01"},"summary":"The flagship campus of the University of Puerto Rico issues bilingual campus alerts — 'Notificación de Seguridad' and 'Alerta de Seguridad' — through its [División de Seguridad y Manejo de Riesgos (DSMR)](https://seguridad.uprrp.edu/), publishing them on the [campus website](https://www.uprrp.edu/) and documenting its Clery procedures in the [Informe Anual de Seguridad e Incendios](https://www.uprrp.edu/2023/10/publicacion-y-notificacion-de-disponibilidad-del-informe-anual-de-seguridad-e-incendios-ano-2023/).","analysis":"The University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus (UPRRP) is the system's flagship and the largest institution in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. Campus safety is run by the [División de Seguridad y Manejo de Riesgos (DSMR)](https://seguridad.uprrp.edu/) — the Security and Risk Management Division — which is attached to the Office of the Rector and operates twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. The DSMR's functions include protecting the university community from risks to their safety and integrity, protecting public and private property on campus, maintaining order, and overseeing the normal functioning of university activities.\n\nUPRRP's public-facing alert products are bilingual but primarily Spanish, published as web posts titled 'Notificación de Seguridad' (Security Notification) and 'Alerta de Seguridad' (Security Alert). These cover a range of incidents — missing persons, indecent exposure, scams, robberies, and other security concerns — and each typically combines a description of the incident with safety recommendations and instructions on how to report crimes. A recurring verbatim recommendation across these alerts urges the community to 'Manténgase alerta en todo momento y observe quién está a su alrededor' (Stay alert at all times and observe who is around you). According to the [DSMR](https://seguridad.uprrp.edu/), in emergencies the campus communicates immediately using bulk-email tools, electronic forms, Google applications, web pages, megaphones, door-to-door visits, and group text messages — a deliberately redundant mix suited to a large urban campus.\n\nThe campus documents its Clery Act compliance in the [Informe Anual de Seguridad e Incendios](https://www.uprrp.edu/2023/10/publicacion-y-notificacion-de-disponibilidad-del-informe-anual-de-seguridad-e-incendios-ano-2023/) (Annual Security and Fire Safety Report), published by the DSMR in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, with printed copies available from the DSMR office. The campus also maintains a network of 91 emergency telephones — 62 inside buildings (marked red) and 29 outdoor blue-light poles — that connect directly to the DSMR station, which immediately activates security protocols on each call.\n\nUPRRP's alerting reflects its bilingual, territorial context: official notifications are issued first in Spanish, which is the working language of the campus, with English material provided through the campus's English-language [security pages](https://www.uprrp.edu/english/students-services/security/). The exact verbatim policy text from the Spanish-language Annual Report (the formal decision-authority and timeliness language) could not be retrieved in this review because the uprrp.edu host blocked automated fetching of the PDF; those fields are therefore reconstructed from the publicly indexed DSMR pages and flagged. In an emergency the community is directed to contact the DSMR at (787) 764-0000, extensions 83131 and 83535.","whenCriteria":"The DSMR issues 'Notificación de Seguridad' / 'Alerta de Seguridad' web alerts to inform the university community about campus incidents — including missing persons, indecent exposure, scams, robberies, and similar security concerns — pairing an incident description with safety recommendations and reporting instructions. (As a Clery-covered institution UPRRP is also bound by the federal timely-warning and emergency-notification standards; exact criteria language not retrievable in this review.)","decisionAuthority":"The División de Seguridad y Manejo de Riesgos (DSMR), attached to the Office of the Rector and operating 24/7, issues the campus security notifications/alerts. Specific named decision-authority language was not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"In emergencies the campus communicates immediately with the community using bulk email, electronic forms, Google applications, web pages, megaphones, door-to-door visits, and group text messages; the 91 emergency phones connect directly to the DSMR station, which immediately activates security protocols. Exact Clery 'timely'/'immediate' policy wording not retrievable in this review.","cleryFraming":"The DSMR publishes an Informe Anual de Seguridad e Incendios (Annual Security and Fire Safety Report) in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act; alerts use the bilingual 'Notificación/Alerta de Seguridad' framing.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Alerts are issued primarily in Spanish (the working language of the campus), with English material on the dedicated English security pages; not all alert types are sent to every community member, consistent with the Clery distinction between campus-wide warnings and targeted notifications.","channels":["email","sms","website","pa-system","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Recurring safety recommendation (Spanish, verbatim)","quotedText":"Manténgase alerta en todo momento y observe quién está a su alrededor.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uprrp.edu/2025/03/alerta-de-seguridad-27-de-marzo-de-2025/","sourceDescription":"UPRRP — Alerta de Seguridad (DSMR), recurring recommendation across multiple alerts","annotations":["English translation: 'Stay alert at all times and observe who is around you.' This recommendation appears verbatim across multiple DSMR security alerts (e.g., 27 March 2025, 12 May 2025), confirming it as standardized boilerplate."],"characterCount":70},{"label":"Bilingual alert product names (Spanish, verbatim)","quotedText":"Notificación de Seguridad / Alerta de Seguridad","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://seguridad.uprrp.edu/","sourceDescription":"UPRRP DSMR — security alert post titles","annotations":["English translation: 'Security Notification / Security Alert.' These are the two standardized titles the DSMR uses for its published campus alerts."],"characterCount":47}],"keyFindings":["UPRRP is the flagship campus of the University of Puerto Rico and the largest institution in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico (~11,300 students).","Campus alerts are issued by the División de Seguridad y Manejo de Riesgos (DSMR), attached to the Office of the Rector, operating 24/7.","Public alerts are bilingual but primarily Spanish, titled 'Notificación de Seguridad' and 'Alerta de Seguridad', and published on the campus website.","Emergency communication uses a redundant mix: bulk email, electronic forms, Google apps, web pages, megaphones, door-to-door, group texts, and 91 emergency phones (red indoor / blue-light outdoor) wired to the DSMR.","Clery procedures are documented in the Spanish-language Informe Anual de Seguridad e Incendios; exact decision-authority/timeliness wording was not retrievable (uprrp.edu blocked automated fetching), so those fields are reconstructed and flagged."],"sources":[{"title":"UPRRP — División de Seguridad y Manejo de Riesgos (DSMR)","url":"https://seguridad.uprrp.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UPRRP — Publicación y notificación de disponibilidad del Informe Anual de Seguridad e Incendios, año 2023","url":"https://www.uprrp.edu/2023/10/publicacion-y-notificacion-de-disponibilidad-del-informe-anual-de-seguridad-e-incendios-ano-2023/","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"UPRRP — Alerta de Seguridad, 27 de marzo de 2025","url":"https://www.uprrp.edu/2025/03/alerta-de-seguridad-27-de-marzo-de-2025/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UPRRP — Security (English students-services page)","url":"https://www.uprrp.edu/english/students-services/security/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UPRRP — Protocolo de Seguridad","url":"https://seguridad.uprrp.edu/protocolo-de-seguridad/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UPRRP — Informe Anual de Seguridad 2023 (DSMR PDF)","url":"https://www.uprrp.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Informe-Anual-2023-DSMR.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","territory","puerto-rico","spanish-language","clery-asr"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"universidad-del-sagrado-corazon-alerta-seguridad-policy","slug":"universidad-del-sagrado-corazon-alerta-seguridad-policy","institution":{"name":"Universidad del Sagrado Corazón","shortName":"Sagrado","state":"PR","type":"territory","alertSystemName":"Alertas de Seguridad / Plan de Desastres y Emergencias Multirriesgo"},"policy":{"title":"Seguridad Integral y Manejo de Riesgos — Alertas de Seguridad (Clery) y Plan de Desastres y Emergencias Multirriesgo","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://www.sagrado.edu/seguridad-integral-y-manejo-de-riesgos/"},"summary":"Universidad del Sagrado Corazón (Sagrado) — a private Catholic university in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico — issues Clery-compliant security-alert bulletins through its [Oficina de Seguridad Integral y Manejo de Riesgos](https://www.sagrado.edu/seguridad-integral-y-manejo-de-riesgos/) and maintains a [Plan de Desastres y Emergencias Multirriesgo](https://politicas.sagrado.edu/wp-content/uploads/Plan-de-Desastres-y-Emergencias-Multiriesgos.pdf) prepared under the supervision of San Juan's municipal emergency-management office.","analysis":"Universidad del Sagrado Corazón (Sagrado) is a private, Catholic university in the Santurce district of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Its alert-and-warning function has two visible, well-documented halves: a Clery security-bulletin (timely-warning) practice run by the [Oficina de Seguridad Integral y Manejo de Riesgos (OSIMR)](https://www.sagrado.edu/seguridad-integral-y-manejo-de-riesgos/), and a hazard/emergency-operations plan, the [Plan de Desastres y Emergencias Multirriesgo](https://politicas.sagrado.edu/wp-content/uploads/Plan-de-Desastres-y-Emergencias-Multiriesgos.pdf). Among the five institutions in this batch, Sagrado is the best-documented because it actually publishes dated, public security alerts.\n\nOn the Clery side, Sagrado frames its bulletins around the federal statute, stating in Spanish that the 'Ley Jeanne Clery' requires institutions receiving federal financial-aid funds to inform the university community of criminal incidents that occur on campus, and that the institution must document complaints, notify the Puerto Rico Police as warranted, and comply with applicable law. Sagrado describes the content recipe for its bulletins — information that promotes community safety, information that lets people protect themselves, and the time, location, and type of crime — which maps directly onto a Clery timely-warning. These bulletins are published as dated 'Alerta de Seguridad' pages: corroborated examples include alerts dated August 14, 2025, December 6, 2025, and January 14, 2026, and one concrete documented case was a break-in in the early hours of Wednesday, August 13, 2025, at a property on Calle Sagrado Corazón 516 bordering the PG-2 parking lot, after which surveillance in the area was strengthened ([Alerta de Seguridad, Aug 14, 2025](https://www.sagrado.edu/en/alerta-de-seguridad-14-ago-2025/)).\n\nOn the emergency-operations side, the [Plan de Desastres y Emergencias Multirriesgo](https://politicas.sagrado.edu/wp-content/uploads/Plan-de-Desastres-y-Emergencias-Multiriesgos.pdf) was prepared under the supervision of San Juan's Oficina Municipal para el Manejo de Emergencias, following DHS/FEMA guidance and in coordination with Puerto Rico's state emergency-management agency. The university coordinates with the Puerto Rico Police, the San Juan Municipal Police, and federal agencies, and the residence halls maintain their own multirisk plan with detailed evacuation routes and meeting points. The OSIMR operates a 24/7 security office (787-728-1515 ext. 5555 and 939-969-1515; seguridad@sagrado.edu) with emergency phones distributed around campus.\n\nHonesty notes: the sagrado.edu and politicas.sagrado.edu hosts blocked automated fetching, so all excerpts were captured from indexed search snippets and translated; they are presented in Spanish (verbatim quote) with an English translation in each annotation. None could be reproduced byte-for-byte across two independent live official fetches, so every excerpt is marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution, even though the underlying facts are corroborated across multiple official Sagrado pages. The specific channels used to push an Alerta de Seguridad to individuals (vs. publishing it to the website) and a written timing standard could not be confirmed; the confirmed publication channel is the institution's website. Confidence is medium — strong corroboration of the bulletin practice, the multirisk plan, and the Clery framing, but no byte-for-byte verbatim confirmation and incomplete push-channel detail.","whenCriteria":"Sagrado issues security-alert bulletins when criminal incidents occur on or adjacent to campus, including content that promotes safety, helps people protect themselves, and states the time, location, and type of crime (a Clery timely-warning recipe). The Plan de Desastres y Emergencias Multirriesgo governs response to natural disasters and other hazards. No separate written numeric timing standard could be corroborated.","decisionAuthority":"The Oficina de Seguridad Integral y Manejo de Riesgos (OSIMR) issues security bulletins and runs the 24/7 security office; the Plan de Desastres y Emergencias Multirriesgo was developed under the supervision of San Juan's municipal emergency-management office. The specific position authorized to issue an Alerta de Seguridad was not published on an official-attributed source and is not stated here.","cleryFraming":"Sagrado explicitly frames its bulletins around the 'Ley Jeanne Clery,' which it states requires federally-funded institutions to inform the community of on-campus criminal incidents; its bulletin content (safety information, self-protection guidance, and the time/location/type of crime) corresponds to a Clery timely warning.","scopeLimits":"The confirmed publication channel for Alertas de Seguridad is the university website; the specific mechanisms used to push individual notifications (SMS/email/app) were not corroborated from an official-attributed source. The multirisk plan relies on coordination with Puerto Rico Police, San Juan Municipal Police, and federal agencies, with campus emergency phones and per-residence evacuation plans.","channels":["website","email","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Security-bulletin content recipe (Spanish)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sagrado.edu/seguridad-integral-y-manejo-de-riesgos/","sourceDescription":"Sagrado — Seguridad Integral y Manejo de Riesgos page; host blocked automated fetch, text from search index","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Jeanne Clery framing (Spanish)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sagrado.edu/seguridad-integral-y-manejo-de-riesgos/","sourceDescription":"Sagrado — Seguridad Integral y Manejo de Riesgos page; host blocked automated fetch, text from search index","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Multirisk plan supervised by San Juan municipal OMME (Spanish)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://politicas.sagrado.edu/wp-content/uploads/Plan-de-Desastres-y-Emergencias-Multiriesgos.pdf","sourceDescription":"Sagrado — Plan de Desastres y Emergencias Multirriesgo (PDF); host blocked automated fetch, text from search index","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Sagrado is the best-documented institution in this batch: it publishes dated public 'Alerta de Seguridad' bulletins (e.g., Aug 14 2025, Dec 6 2025, Jan 14 2026).","Bulletins follow a Clery timely-warning recipe — safety information, self-protection guidance, and the time/location/type of crime — and are explicitly framed by the 'Ley Jeanne Clery.'","A Plan de Desastres y Emergencias Multirriesgo, prepared under San Juan's municipal emergency-management office and per DHS/FEMA guidance, governs hazard response, with per-residence evacuation plans.","The OSIMR runs a 24/7 security office (787-728-1515 x5555 / 939-969-1515) with campus emergency phones, coordinating with Puerto Rico Police, San Juan Municipal Police, and federal agencies.","Spanish excerpts could not be confirmed byte-for-byte across two live official fetches (sagrado.edu hosts blocked automated access), so all are isVerbatimConfirmed:false with English translations; individual push channels are unconfirmed and confidence is medium."],"sources":[{"title":"Universidad del Sagrado Corazón — Seguridad Integral y Manejo de Riesgos","url":"https://www.sagrado.edu/seguridad-integral-y-manejo-de-riesgos/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Universidad del Sagrado Corazón — Alerta de Seguridad (14 de agosto de 2025)","url":"https://www.sagrado.edu/en/alerta-de-seguridad-14-ago-2025/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Universidad del Sagrado Corazón — Plan de Desastres y Emergencias Multirriesgo (PDF)","url":"https://politicas.sagrado.edu/wp-content/uploads/Plan-de-Desastres-y-Emergencias-Multiriesgos.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Universidad del Sagrado Corazón — Información para Casos de Emergencias","url":"https://www.sagrado.edu/emergencias/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","timely-warning","emergency-notification","territory","puerto-rico","clery","spanish-language","multirisk-plan","catholic"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-at-buffalo-alert-policy","slug":"university-at-buffalo-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University at Buffalo (SUNY)","shortName":"UB","state":"NY","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"UB Alert","enrollment":30558},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings","systemName":"UB Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.buffalo.edu/news/key-issues/emergency-notifications.html","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"The University at Buffalo's official emergency notification system, [UB Alert](https://emergency.buffalo.edu/), is used to notify students, faculty and staff of immediate threats; per the [Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings page](https://www.buffalo.edu/news/key-issues/emergency-notifications.html), \"A 'UB Alert' is immediately issued unless it is determined by the police that such immediate notification could compromise efforts to assist the victims or otherwise negatively impact the emergency.\" Separately, [University Police](https://www.buffalo.edu/police/reporting/see-a-report/annual-report.html) issue Clery timely warnings for crimes that pose a serious or continuing threat.","analysis":"The University at Buffalo runs a two-track Clery communications model anchored by the branded [UB Alert](https://emergency.buffalo.edu/) emergency notification system. On the emergency-notification track, UB's [Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings](https://www.buffalo.edu/news/key-issues/emergency-notifications.html) page states the activation standard plainly: \"A 'UB Alert' is immediately issued unless it is determined by the police that such immediate notification could compromise efforts to assist the victims or otherwise negatively impact the emergency.\" This mirrors the Clery Act's emergency-notification exception, vesting the judgment to delay in the police and otherwise defaulting to immediate issuance. UB Alert provides updates \"during emergencies, safety incidents, major utility interruptions and severe weather events that threaten public safety or impact the university's operations.\"\n\nUB delivers emergency notifications and timely warnings through a deliberately redundant set of channels. The university says it will use \"some or all\" of: messages to all students, faculty and staff through their buffalo.edu email account; messages to those who have registered an alternative email in the UB Alert service; and text messages to those who have registered cell phones in the UB Alert service. Emergency messaging is also pushed through official campus channels including the website (emergency.buffalo.edu), the campus-wide UB Alert listserv, UB's home page, the MyUB portal, UB Now, 716-645-NEWS, the UB Guardian app, the UB Alert X (formerly Twitter) feed and UB Facebook pages, with local television and radio stations contacted as needed.\n\nThe slower track is the Clery timely warning, issued by the [University Police Department](https://www.buffalo.edu/police/reporting/see-a-report/annual-report.html) \"to the university community of reported crimes that pose a serious or continuing threat to the university community, in order to enable individuals to take precautions to protect themselves and prevent similar crimes from occurring.\" UB describes the decision as case-by-case: \"The decision to issue a timely warning shall be decided on a case-by-case basis in compliance with the Act and considering all available facts,\" with timing \"based upon whether the crime is considered a serious or continuing threat to students.\" Timely warnings are \"issued as soon as possible\" and \"always withhold the names of victims and treat any identifying information about the victim as strictly confidential.\" UB frames all of this under its [Clery and Campus SaVE Act Compliance Policy](https://www.buffalo.edu/administrative-services/policy1/ub-policy-lib/clery-save-act.html).\n\nOn testing, UB commits to a per-semester cadence: \"Each semester, UB will test our messaging network to ensure proper operation and functionality in the event of an actual emergency or critical message broadcast.\" On scope, UB Alert reaches the registered campus community; while text/alternative-email registration is opt-in, the university maintains an [opt-out form](https://www.buffalo.edu/registrar/forms/ub-alert-opt-out-for-emergency-notifications.html) for the core email notifications, and the layered channels (listserv, website, social, app) extend reach beyond individually registered contacts.","whenCriteria":"A UB Alert is immediately issued unless police determine that immediate notification could compromise efforts to assist victims or otherwise negatively impact the emergency. UB Alert covers immediate threats, safety incidents, major utility interruptions, and severe weather events that threaten public safety or impact university operations. Clery timely warnings are issued for reported crimes that pose a serious or continuing threat to the university community.","decisionAuthority":"Police determine whether immediate UB Alert notification should be delayed (the only stated exception). For timely warnings, the University Police Department issues them on a case-by-case basis in compliance with the Clery Act and considering all available facts.","timingStandard":"A UB Alert is 'immediately issued' (subject to the police-judgment exception). Timely warnings are 'issued as soon as possible,' with timing based on whether the crime is a serious or continuing threat to students.","cleryFraming":"Two-track Clery model: UB Alert emergency notifications (immediate, for significant emergencies/dangerous situations) versus Clery timely warnings issued by University Police for crimes posing a serious or continuing threat. Governed by UB's Clery and Campus SaVE Act Compliance Policy.","testingCadence":"Each semester (twice a year): 'Each semester, UB will test our messaging network to ensure proper operation and functionality in the event of an actual emergency or critical message broadcast.'","scopeLimits":"Email notifications reach all students, faculty and staff via buffalo.edu accounts; text and alternative-email alerts require registration in the UB Alert service. An opt-out form exists for email emergency notifications. Timely warnings withhold victims' names and identifying information as strictly confidential.","channels":["sms","email","website","twitter-x","facebook","push-notification","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"UB Alert immediate-issuance standard and exception","quotedText":"A \"UB Alert\" is immediately issued unless it is determined by the police that such immediate notification could compromise efforts to assist the victims or otherwise negatively impact the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.buffalo.edu/news/key-issues/emergency-notifications.html","sourceDescription":"UB — Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings","annotations":["States the default-to-immediate activation rule and the sole exception, which is vested in the police, tracking the Clery emergency-notification standard."],"characterCount":198},{"label":"Emergency notification channels","quotedText":"The university will deliver emergency notifications and timely warnings using some or all of the following channels: Messages to all students, faculty and staff through their buffalo.edu email account. Messages to students, faculty and staff who have registered an alternative email address in the UB Alert service. Text messages to students, faculty and staff who have registered cell phones in the UB Alert service.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.buffalo.edu/news/key-issues/emergency-notifications.html","sourceDescription":"UB — Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings","annotations":["Specifies the primary channels: universal buffalo.edu email plus registered alternative email and registered cell phones."],"characterCount":417},{"label":"Timely warning trigger (serious or continuing threat)","quotedText":"The University Police Department issues timely warnings to the university community of reported crimes that pose a serious or continuing threat to the university community, in order to enable individuals to take precautions to protect themselves and prevent similar crimes from occurring.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.buffalo.edu/police/reporting/see-a-report/annual-report.html","sourceDescription":"UB University Police — Annual Report","annotations":["Sets the Clery timely-warning standard and vests issuance in the University Police Department."],"characterCount":288},{"label":"Semester testing commitment","quotedText":"Each semester, UB will test our messaging network to ensure proper operation and functionality in the event of an actual emergency or critical message broadcast.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.buffalo.edu/news/key-issues/emergency-notifications.html","sourceDescription":"UB — Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings","annotations":["Documents the per-semester testing cadence for the UB Alert messaging network."],"characterCount":161}],"keyFindings":["UB Alert is 'immediately issued unless it is determined by the police that such immediate notification could compromise efforts to assist the victims or otherwise negatively impact the emergency.'","Emergency notifications reach all students, faculty and staff via buffalo.edu email, plus registered alternative emails and registered cell phones, with additional push through the website, UB Alert listserv, MyUB, UB Now, 716-645-NEWS, the UB Guardian app, X and Facebook.","Clery timely warnings are issued by the University Police Department for crimes posing a serious or continuing threat, on a case-by-case basis and 'as soon as possible.'","Timely warnings always withhold victims' names and treat identifying information as strictly confidential.","UB tests its messaging network each semester to verify functionality."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings — University at Buffalo","url":"https://www.buffalo.edu/news/key-issues/emergency-notifications.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency — UB Alert Information and Resources","url":"https://emergency.buffalo.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual Reports — University Police, University at Buffalo","url":"https://www.buffalo.edu/police/reporting/see-a-report/annual-report.html","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Clery and Campus SaVE Act Compliance Policy — University at Buffalo","url":"https://www.buffalo.edu/administrative-services/policy1/ub-policy-lib/clery-save-act.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UB Alert — Opt Out for Emergency Notifications (Office of the Registrar)","url":"https://www.buffalo.edu/registrar/forms/ub-alert-opt-out-for-emergency-notifications.html","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","ub-alert","university-at-buffalo","suny","clery"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-akron-z-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-akron-z-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Akron","shortName":"UA","state":"OH","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"Z-Alert"},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Response Information","systemName":"Z-Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.uakron.edu/safety/annual-safety-report/notification.dot"},"summary":"The University of Akron's [emergency response notification policy](https://www.uakron.edu/safety/annual-safety-report/notification.dot) commits to activating its mass communication system, including indoor and outdoor warning systems and its free [Z-Alert](https://www.uakron.edu/safety/z-alert.dot) text messaging service, immediately upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community, with the University Police Department dispatch center initiating the response under the Chief of Police and notice to the president.","analysis":"The University of Akron's Annual Security Report notification page states that on confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community, [the university will implement its emergency mass communication notification system](https://www.uakron.edu/safety/annual-safety-report/notification.dot) to immediately notify the campus community, layering indoor and outdoor warning systems together with its Z-Alert text messaging service rather than relying on a single channel.\n\nActivation authority is described with unusual specificity for a public university notification page: the University of Akron Police Department Dispatch Center, acting under the direction of the Assistant Vice President of Campus Safety, who also serves as Chief of Police, or that official's designee, and with notice to the president, is responsible for initiating the emergency response by immediately contacting the university's Chief Communication Officer and Emergency Management Coordinator, who then coordinate distribution of the necessary notifications. That structure names both a law enforcement trigger point, the police dispatch center, and a communications trigger point, the Chief Communication Officer and Emergency Management Coordinator, operating in sequence rather than a single office owning the entire notification chain.\n\n[Z-Alert](https://www.uakron.edu/safety/z-alert.dot) itself is described as the university's free emergency text messaging service, with students automatically signed up but responsible for updating their own information if their mobile carrier or number changes, and the service is stated to be used for sending emergency text messages only rather than routine campus communications. Because uakron.edu returned blocked connections to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below are reconstructed from search engine indexed extracts of the official pages rather than a firsthand character by character read, and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation; this record is scored at medium confidence on that basis.","whenCriteria":"On confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community, the University of Akron implements its emergency mass communication notification system.","decisionAuthority":"The University of Akron Police Department Dispatch Center, under the direction of the Assistant Vice President of Campus Safety and Chief of Police (or designee) and with notice to the president, initiates the emergency response by contacting the university's Chief Communication Officer and Emergency Management Coordinator, who coordinate distribution of the notifications.","timingStandard":"The University states it will immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation of an emergency; a specific minutes based standard beyond immediate was not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"The reviewed page is the University of Akron's own Annual Security Report emergency response notification section, tying the mass communication system and Z-Alert directly to the university's Clery Act emergency notification obligation.","scopeLimits":"Z-Alert is described as used for sending emergency text messages only; students are automatically signed up but must update their own contact information if their mobile service changes, and the mass notification system additionally spans indoor and outdoor warning systems, email, the web, and phone.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","channels":["sms","email","website","phone-call","siren","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Activation trigger","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uakron.edu/safety/annual-safety-report/notification.dot","sourceDescription":"University of Akron, Emergency Response Information / Annual Security Report notification section (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Named activation chain","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uakron.edu/safety/annual-safety-report/notification.dot","sourceDescription":"University of Akron, Emergency Response Information / Annual Security Report notification section (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Z-Alert scope","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uakron.edu/safety/z-alert.dot","sourceDescription":"University of Akron, Z-Alert (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["The University of Akron activates a full mass communication system, indoor and outdoor warning systems plus Z-Alert text messaging, immediately upon confirmation of an immediate threat to health or safety.","Activation runs through a named two step chain: University Police Dispatch under the Chief of Police initiates, then the Chief Communication Officer and Emergency Management Coordinator coordinate distribution, with notice to the president.","Z-Alert is scoped explicitly to emergency text messages only, with automatic student enrollment.","Uakron.edu could not be directly loaded in this environment, so this record is scored at medium confidence and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Response Information, University of Akron","url":"https://www.uakron.edu/safety/annual-safety-report/notification.dot","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Z-Alert, UA's free emergency text-messaging service","url":"https://www.uakron.edu/safety/z-alert.dot","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency management at UA","url":"https://www.uakron.edu/safety/em/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","z-alert","public-r2","ohio"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-27","lastUpdated":"2026-09-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"uab-b-alert-policy","slug":"uab-b-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Alabama at Birmingham","shortName":"UAB","state":"AL","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"B-ALERT","enrollment":21000},"policy":{"title":"B-ALERT Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Policy","systemName":"B-ALERT","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.uab.edu/emergency/communications-and-information-management/uab-b-alert","lastReviewed":"2025-09-01"},"summary":"The University of Alabama at Birmingham, a public R1 with a major academic medical center, issues emergency notifications through [B-ALERT](https://www.uab.edu/emergency/communications-and-information-management/uab-b-alert), a multi-channel emergency-notification system that reaches the entire campus simultaneously by voice call, SMS, and email and integrates with Facebook and Twitter, and recognizes Clery [timely warnings](https://www.uab.edu/students/home/safety) alongside emergency notifications in its Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.","analysis":"The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is a large urban public R1 anchored by the UAB academic medical center in downtown Birmingham. Its emergency-notification system is branded [B-ALERT](https://www.uab.edu/emergency/communications-and-information-management/uab-b-alert) (also rendered 'B-Alert') — UAB's own system, distinct from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa ('UA Alerts') and Alabama State University ('ASU Alert'). Registration is at uab.edu/balert and is tied to the campus BlazerID single sign-on; text alerts arrive from short codes 23177/63079, voice calls from 205-975-8000, and emails from UABAlert@uab.edu.\n\nUAB defines the system plainly on its [Emergency Management](https://www.uab.edu/emergency/communications-and-information-management/uab-b-alert) page: 'B-ALERT is the University of Alabama at Birmingham's emergency notification system that communicates through voice calls, SMS text messages and e-mails to the entire campus all at the same time. B-ALERT also integrates with Facebook and Twitter.' The activation standard is publicly stated as 'If danger is imminent, UAB Emergency Management will issue a B-Alert emergency notification as quickly as possible' — UAB's public timing language is 'as quickly as possible' rather than the literal Clery phrase 'without delay,' which on confirmed UAB sources did not appear (that phrasing surfaced from UA-Tuscaloosa, not UAB). UAB also designates uab.edu/emergency as 'the official source of UAB information' during emergencies, from class cancellations to safety procedures, channeling the community to a single authoritative page.\n\nFor decision authority, UAB Emergency Management issues the B-ALERT itself, while the [UAB Police and Public Safety Department and UAB Marketing and Communications are the designated 'approved communicators'](https://www.uab.edu/reporter/in-the-know/in-case-of-an-emergency-how-uab-communicates-need-to-know-information) for public and media statements during an emergency; no single named triggering official was confirmable. On the Clery side, UAB's [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.uab.edu/students/home/safety) (accessible through the UAB Police Department, print copy via 205-934-4649) follows the Jeanne Clery Act and explicitly covers 'distribution of timely warnings' alongside 'emergency preparedness, response and evacuation procedures,' so UAB recognizes both Clery instruments.\n\nSeveral details could not be confirmed and are flagged honestly. The specific vendor behind B-ALERT itself is not stated on any retrievable official page — UAB demonstrably uses Rave Mobile Safety's Rave Guardian safety app (a dedicated [uab.edu/emergency/rave-guardian](https://www.uab.edu/emergency/rave-guardian) page exists), making Rave a reasonable inference for B-ALERT, but no official 'powered by' statement was found, so the vendor is not asserted. The B-ALERT test cadence is unknown (UAB does test the system, but no published frequency surfaced). UAB's host returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so excerpts were captured from indexed search snippets and corroborated across multiple independent queries; five appeared with identical wording across 2+ retrievals and are marked verbatim-confirmed. No evidence was found for a UAB-operated outdoor siren or campus PA (only a reference to the municipal/Jefferson County Civil Defense siren as a weather-warning channel), nor for desktop pop-ups or digital signage, so none of those are listed.","whenCriteria":"Per UAB Emergency Management, 'If danger is imminent, UAB Emergency Management will issue a B-Alert emergency notification as quickly as possible.' The system is used for immediate notification of emergencies including severe weather and crime. Clery timely warnings are recognized separately in the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report for reportable crimes; the precise UAB-authored Clery threshold sentence was not retrievable verbatim (uab.edu blocked automated fetching).","decisionAuthority":"UAB Emergency Management issues the B-ALERT emergency notification (messages send from UABAlert@uab.edu). The UAB Police and Public Safety Department and UAB Marketing and Communications are the designated 'approved communicators' for public and media statements during an emergency. No single named individual was confirmed as the triggering authority.","timingStandard":"UAB's publicly stated standard is to issue a B-ALERT 'as quickly as possible' when danger is imminent — consistent in spirit with the Clery 'immediately, upon confirmation' standard. The literal phrase 'without delay' was not found on a confirmed UAB source (it appeared from UA-Tuscaloosa's separate policy) and is therefore not attributed to UAB.","cleryFraming":"UAB's Annual Security and Fire Safety Report follows the Jeanne Clery Act and explicitly covers 'distribution of timely warnings' alongside 'emergency preparedness, response and evacuation procedures,' so UAB recognizes both Clery instruments — emergency notifications (B-ALERT, for imminent danger) and timely warnings (for Clery-reportable crimes). The report is accessible through the UAB Police Department (print copy via 205-934-4649). The precise UAB-authored definitions distinguishing the two were not retrievable verbatim.","testingCadence":"UAB does test B-ALERT (it has publicly announced scheduled tests of the system during business hours), but the published test cadence (annual, per-semester, etc.) could not be confirmed from a retrievable official source.","scopeLimits":"B-ALERT reaches the entire campus simultaneously; email reach is broad because B-ALERT auto-includes all BlazerID email addresses, while text and voice reach depend on the community supplying and maintaining current contact numbers at uab.edu/balert. UAB centralizes authoritative updates at uab.edu/emergency. No evidence was found for a UAB-operated outdoor siren/PA system (only the municipal Civil Defense siren is referenced as a weather-warning channel), nor for desktop pop-ups or digital signage, so those are not listed.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","facebook","twitter-x","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"B-ALERT system definition and core channels","quotedText":"B-ALERT is the University of Alabama at Birmingham's emergency notification system that communicates through voice calls, SMS text messages and e-mails to the entire campus all at the same time. B-ALERT also integrates with Facebook and Twitter.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uab.edu/emergency/communications-and-information-management/uab-b-alert","sourceDescription":"UAB Emergency Management — Emergency Notification at UAB (B-ALERT)","annotations":["Confirms the brand is B-ALERT and lists its core channels (voice, SMS, email, Facebook, Twitter). Near-identical wording appeared across five or more independent search retrievals, justifying verbatim confirmation."],"characterCount":245},{"label":"Activation threshold and timing standard","quotedText":"If danger is imminent, UAB Emergency Management will issue a B-Alert emergency notification as quickly as possible.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uab.edu/emergency/communications-and-information-management/uab-b-alert","sourceDescription":"UAB Emergency Management — Emergency Notification at UAB (B-ALERT)","annotations":["Sets the activation trigger ('danger is imminent') and the public timing standard ('as quickly as possible') — UAB does not publish the literal Clery phrase 'without delay' here. Identical wording appeared across multiple independent retrievals."],"characterCount":115},{"label":"Student sign-up and channel choice","quotedText":"For immediate notification of emergencies (severe weather, crime, etc.), all students should sign up with UAB's B-ALERT system, which is used to communicate to the entire campus at the same time. You can choose which method of communication suits you best—voice call, SMS text message, or e-mail—or use any combination of the three.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uab.edu/students/home/safety","sourceDescription":"UAB Students — Campus Safety and Security","annotations":["Defines the covered emergency types (severe weather, crime) and the opt-in channel choice (voice, SMS, email). Identical wording appeared across multiple independent retrievals."],"characterCount":332},{"label":"Single authoritative information source during events","quotedText":"During such events, uab.edu/emergency is the official source of UAB information from class cancellations to rescheduling of building hours to safety procedures.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uab.edu/students/home/safety","sourceDescription":"UAB Students — Campus Safety and Security / UAB Emergency Management","annotations":["Designates uab.edu/emergency as the single authoritative information page during emergencies. Stable wording appeared across multiple retrievals (with a minor lead-in variation)."],"characterCount":160},{"label":"Clery Annual Security & Fire Safety Report scope","quotedText":"distribution of timely warnings; emergency preparedness, response and evacuation procedures","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uab.edu/students/home/safety","sourceDescription":"UAB — Annual Security & Fire Safety Report scope (via UAB Students Safety / UAB HR)","annotations":["Shows UAB's Clery report covers both Clery instruments — timely warnings and emergency notification/preparedness procedures. This phrase appeared within the report's contents listing across multiple retrievals."],"characterCount":91},{"label":"Approved communicators / decision authority","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uab.edu/reporter/in-the-know/in-case-of-an-emergency-how-uab-communicates-need-to-know-information","sourceDescription":"UAB Reporter — In case of an emergency: How UAB communicates need-to-know information (single retrieval; host blocked automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["UAB's emergency-notification system is B-ALERT — UAB's own system, distinct from the University of Alabama's 'UA Alerts' and Alabama State University's 'ASU Alert.'","B-ALERT reaches the entire campus simultaneously by voice call, SMS, and email and integrates with Facebook (facebook.com/uabalert) and Twitter (@UABAlert); registration is at uab.edu/balert via BlazerID.","UAB's public activation/timing standard is to issue a B-ALERT 'as quickly as possible' when danger is imminent; the literal Clery phrase 'without delay' was not found on a confirmed UAB source.","UAB Emergency Management issues the alert; UAB Police and Public Safety and Marketing and Communications are the designated 'approved communicators' for public statements, and uab.edu/emergency is the single official information source.","UAB's Clery Annual Security and Fire Safety Report covers both timely warnings and emergency-notification procedures; the specific B-ALERT vendor, the test cadence, and any UAB-owned outdoor siren/PA could not be confirmed and are not asserted."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notification at UAB (B-ALERT) | UAB Emergency Management","url":"https://www.uab.edu/emergency/communications-and-information-management/uab-b-alert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Campus Safety and Security | UAB Students","url":"https://www.uab.edu/students/home/safety","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"In case of an emergency: How UAB communicates need-to-know information | UAB Reporter","url":"https://www.uab.edu/reporter/in-the-know/in-case-of-an-emergency-how-uab-communicates-need-to-know-information","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual Security & Fire Safety Report | UAB Human Resources","url":"https://www.uab.edu/humanresources/home/hr-updates/annual-security-and-fire-safety-report","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Rave Guardian | UAB Emergency Management","url":"https://www.uab.edu/emergency/rave-guardian","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University of Alabama at Birmingham — Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Alabama_at_Birmingham","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","public-r1","alabama","b-alert","academic-medical-center","multi-channel"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-alaska-anchorage-ua-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-alaska-anchorage-ua-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Alaska Anchorage","shortName":"UAA","state":"AK","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"UA Alert","enrollment":10686},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications / UA Alert and Timely Warning Policy (Annual Security and Fire Safety Report)","systemName":"UA Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/students/safety/index.cshtml","lastReviewed":"2025-09-01"},"summary":"The University of Alaska Anchorage issues emergency notifications through [UA Alert](https://uaalert.alaska.edu/home/faqs), the University of Alaska system-wide multi-modal notification platform built on Rave Mobile Safety, in which the UAA Police Department and/or Incident Management Team notify the campus 'without delay' upon confirming a significant emergency, while the [University Police Chief or designee](https://catalog.uaa.alaska.edu/handbook/campus-safety/annual-security-and-fire-safety-report/) decides whether a Clery timely-warning notice is warranted.","analysis":"The University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) is a public master's-level institution whose campus emergency-notification function runs on [UA Alert](https://uaalert.alaska.edu/home/faqs), a University of Alaska *system-wide* platform rather than a UAA-only brand. The same UA Alert system serves UAA, the University of Alaska Fairbanks ('UAF ON ALERT'), and the University of Alaska Southeast, and it is built on the Rave Mobile Safety platform. Because UA Alert is integrated with the UAOnline/Banner student-records system, faculty, staff, and registered students are enrolled automatically, closing the opt-in coverage gap that limits keyword-subscription systems.\n\nFor emergency notifications, UAA's [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/students/safety/index.cshtml) frames issuance around the federal Clery standard: 'Upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of some or all students or employees occurring on campus,' the UAA Police Department (UPD) and/or the Incident Management Team (IMT) 'will immediately notify the campus communities.' The ASR adds the 'without delay' decision clause — UPD and/or IMT determine the content and initiate the notification 'without delay and taking into account the safety of the community,' subject to the standard exception where notification would compromise efforts to assist victims or to contain or mitigate the emergency. UAA uses the qualitative Clery timing standard ('without delay,' 'immediately... upon confirmation') rather than a stated minute target.\n\nUA Alert is multi-modal. UAA's [UPD UA Alert page](https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/about/administrative-services/departments/university-police-department/ua-alerts.cshtml) and the [UA News Center emergency page](https://www.alaska.edu/news/emergency.php) describe a Rave-based system that delivers personal notifications by email, telephone, and text message, plus a warning siren, web-page postings, social media, Alertus desktop/beacon notifications, and digital signage. The system carries an unusually concrete published test cadence: per the [UA Alert FAQs](https://uaalert.alaska.edu/home/faqs), 'The warning siren system, text messaging, e-mail messages and web page is tested at the beginning of each semester (spring, summer, and fall)' — i.e., three advertised tests per year that are clearly marked as tests.\n\nUAA keeps the two Clery functions distinct. The emergency-notification trigger sits with UPD and/or the IMT, while [timely warnings](https://catalog.uaa.alaska.edu/handbook/campus-safety/annual-security-and-fire-safety-report/) are governed by the University Police Chief or designee, who reviews reports to determine whether a serious or continuing threat exists and whether distribution of a timely-warning notice is warranted. Two notes on verification: the institution's Carnegie classification is Master's-level (best mapped here to public-masters), not R1/R2 — the UA research flagship is UAF, not UAA; and because uaa.alaska.edu and the ASR PDF returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from search-index snippets and corroborated across multiple independent retrievals, with the channels list and the timely-warning sentence marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false where the exact phrasing varied by page.","whenCriteria":"UA Alert emergency notifications are issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus. Separately, timely-warning notices are issued for Clery-reportable crimes that the University Police Chief or designee determines represent a serious or continuing threat to the community.","decisionAuthority":"Emergency notifications: the UAA Police Department (UPD) and/or the Incident Management Team (IMT) confirm the situation and initiate the notification. Timely warnings: the University Police Chief or designee reviews reports and decides whether a timely-warning notice is warranted. UA Alert itself is administered system-wide by the University of Alaska on the Rave Mobile Safety platform.","timingStandard":"UAA's ASR states UPD and/or IMT will notify the campus 'immediately' upon confirmation and 'without delay and taking into account the safety of the community,' subject to the standard exception where notification would compromise efforts to assist victims or contain/respond to the emergency. UAA uses this qualitative Clery standard rather than a stated minute target.","cleryFraming":"UAA separates the two Clery obligations: UA Alert emergency notifications for immediate threats to health or safety (triggered by UPD and/or IMT), and timely-warning notices for Clery-reportable crimes representing a serious or continuing threat (decided by the University Police Chief or designee). UAA produces an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.","testingCadence":"Per the UA Alert FAQs, the warning siren system, text messaging, e-mail messages, and web page are tested at the beginning of each semester (spring, summer, and fall) — three advertised tests per year, each clearly marked as a test.","scopeLimits":"Faculty, staff, and registered students are enrolled automatically via UAOnline/Banner integration, but full reach (text/voice) depends on current contact information in the system. UA Alert is a University of Alaska system-wide platform shared across UAA, UAF, and UAS rather than a UAA-only system. No source confirmed UAA participation in WEA/IPAWS, so that channel is not asserted.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","siren","website","twitter-x","facebook","desktop-popup","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Activation trigger — confirmation of a significant emergency","quotedText":"Upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of some or all students or employees occurring on campus, UPD and/or IMT will immediately notify the campus communities or the appropriate segment of the communities.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/students/safety/index.cshtml","sourceDescription":"UAA Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (Clery ASR)","annotations":["Sets the activation threshold at an immediate threat to health or safety occurring on campus, with UPD and/or the Incident Management Team (IMT) as the notifying authorities. Standard Clery/HEOA language that recurred identically across multiple independent retrievals; the uaa.alaska.edu host returned HTTP 403 to direct fetching, so it was captured from the search index."],"characterCount":288},{"label":"Decision authority + 'without delay' clause","quotedText":"UPD and/or IMT will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification, and initiate the notification system, unless notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist victims or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/students/safety/index.cshtml","sourceDescription":"UAA Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (Clery ASR)","annotations":["Names UPD and/or the IMT as the deciders, applies the Clery 'without delay' standard, and preserves the federal exception for cases where notification would compromise mitigation. Recurred identically across two independent retrievals."],"characterCount":352},{"label":"Testing cadence — beginning of each semester","quotedText":"The warning siren system, text messaging, e-mail messages and web page is tested at the beginning of each semester (spring, summer, and fall). These tests are advertised in advance, and messages will indicate that they are indeed a test.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://uaalert.alaska.edu/home/faqs","sourceDescription":"UA Alert FAQs (University of Alaska system)","annotations":["Establishes a concrete, published test cadence of three advertised tests per year (spring, summer, fall) across siren, SMS, email, and web. The original subject-verb quirk 'system... is tested' is preserved verbatim. Same wording appeared across 2+ retrievals (UA Alert FAQs and the UA News Center emergency page)."],"characterCount":237},{"label":"Timely-warning decision authority","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://catalog.uaa.alaska.edu/handbook/campus-safety/annual-security-and-fire-safety-report/","sourceDescription":"UAA Academic Catalog — Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (Timely Warnings section)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Multi-modal channel set (Rave Mobile Safety)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/about/administrative-services/departments/university-police-department/ua-alerts.cshtml","sourceDescription":"UAA University Police Department — UA Alert page","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["UAA's emergency-notification system is UA Alert — a University of Alaska system-wide platform on Rave Mobile Safety, shared across UAA, UAF, and UAS, with automatic enrollment via UAOnline/Banner.","Emergency notifications are triggered by the UAA Police Department (UPD) and/or the Incident Management Team (IMT) upon confirmation of an immediate threat, issued 'without delay' per the Clery standard.","Timely-warning notices are governed by the University Police Chief or designee, who decides whether a serious or continuing threat warrants a notice.","UA Alert carries a concrete published test cadence: the siren, SMS, email, and web are tested at the beginning of each semester (spring, summer, fall), three advertised tests per year.","UAA's Carnegie classification is Master's-level (mapped to public-masters here), not R1/R2 — the UA research flagship is UAF. WEA/IPAWS participation was not confirmed and is not asserted. uaa.alaska.edu and the ASR PDF blocked automated fetching, so excerpts were captured from search-index snippets and corroborated across retrievals."],"sources":[{"title":"UAA Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (Clery ASR)","url":"https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/students/safety/index.cshtml","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"UAA Academic Catalog — Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","url":"https://catalog.uaa.alaska.edu/handbook/campus-safety/annual-security-and-fire-safety-report/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UAA University Police Department — UA Alert page","url":"https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/about/administrative-services/departments/university-police-department/ua-alerts.cshtml","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UA Alert FAQs (University of Alaska system)","url":"https://uaalert.alaska.edu/home/faqs","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University of Alaska News Center — Emergency Notifications","url":"https://www.alaska.edu/news/emergency.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UAA — How do I find out about emergencies?","url":"https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/emergency/how-do-i-find-out-about-emergencies.cshtml","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UAA Carnegie Classification (Office of Institutional Effectiveness)","url":"https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/academics/office-of-academic-affairs/institutional-effectiveness/carnegie-classification.cshtml","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University of Alaska Anchorage — Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Alaska_Anchorage","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","public-masters","alaska","ua-alert","rave-mobile-safety","system-wide","siren"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"uaf-ua-alert-policy","slug":"uaf-ua-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Alaska Fairbanks","shortName":"UAF","state":"AK","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"UA Alert (UAF on Alert)","enrollment":7486},"policy":{"title":"Campus Alerts — Timely Warnings & Emergency Notifications (UA Alert / UAF on Alert)","systemName":"UA Alert (UAF on Alert)","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://catalog.uaf.edu/handbook/campus-safety/","lastReviewed":"2025-09-01"},"summary":"The University of Alaska Fairbanks delivers emergency notifications and Clery timely warnings through the University of Alaska system's [UA Alert](https://uaalert.alaska.edu/home) platform, branded locally as [UAF on Alert](https://uafalert.alaska.edu/), an automatic-enrollment, multi-channel system (text, voice, email, desktop pop-ups, alert beacons, digital signage, loudspeakers and social media) reserved for immediate threats to health or safety, with separate Clery timely warnings for incidents posing a serious or continuing threat.","analysis":"The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) is a public R2 doctoral university and the flagship research campus of the University of Alaska System. Its emergency-notification platform is the system-wide [UA Alert](https://uaalert.alaska.edu/home) service, presented to the Fairbanks community under the local brand [UAF on Alert](https://uafalert.alaska.edu/). The UA Alert notification system integrates with the University's UAOnline/Banner records system, automatically enrolling all faculty, staff and registered students; unaffiliated members of the public can self-subscribe through the UA Alert community site, and the university states it will not charge for the service.\n\nUAF's [campus-safety policy in the academic catalog](https://catalog.uaf.edu/handbook/campus-safety/) keeps the two Clery functions distinct. For emergency notifications, the catalog states that should there be an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community, UAF will issue an alert through the campus Incident Management Team, and that notification 'may occur via text message, telephone, email, website updates and/or UAF social media.' For timely warnings, the catalog states that reports to Campus Security Authorities 'will be evaluated to determine if it is necessary to issue a timely warning to the campus if the incident or crime represents a serious or continuing threat to the campus community' — the standard Clery serious-or-continuing-threat trigger.\n\nUAF's UA Alert is exceptionally multi-channel for a sub-Arctic campus where extreme weather and winter darkness make redundancy critical. UAF describes a simultaneous fan-out across text messages to mobile phones, voice calls to mobile and landline phones, emails, pop-up messages on university computers, text messages on campus desk phones, the university's Facebook and Twitter feeds, messages on yellow [alert beacons](https://uafalert.alaska.edu/) inside buildings, digital signage, the UAF on Alert website and outdoor loudspeaker messages. The companion Rave Guardian app adds one-button 911 access and a safety timer, indicating the UA Alert backend is provided by Rave Mobile Safety.\n\nUAF distributes a combined [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.alaska.edu/studentservices/student-resources/clery-information/) through its Office of Rights, Compliance and Accountability (ORCA), which documents the campus-alert policies in full. Because alaska.edu, catalog.uaf.edu and the ASR PDFs return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from indexed search snippets and confirmed only where identical wording appeared across two or more official-attributed retrievals (the emergency-notification channel sentence and the timely-warning evaluation sentence both reproduced identically from catalog.uaf.edu). The exact named decision authority (beyond 'the campus Incident Management Team') and the precise published periodic test cadence were not byte-for-byte confirmable and are flagged as reconstructed.","whenCriteria":"An emergency notification (UA Alert / UAF on Alert) is issued upon confirmation of an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community. A Clery timely warning is evaluated and issued when an incident or crime reported to Campus Security Authorities represents a serious or continuing threat to the campus community.","decisionAuthority":"UAF states alerts are issued through the campus Incident Management Team; Campus Security Authority reports are evaluated for timely-warning issuance, and the Office of Rights, Compliance and Accountability administers Clery reporting. The specific position authorized to confirm and trigger a UA Alert was not confirmed verbatim in this review (alaska.edu / catalog.uaf.edu blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"UAF's catalog frames emergency notifications around an immediate threat to health or safety and the federal Clery 'immediately, upon confirmation' standard; the UA system ASR language echoes the requirement to 'immediately notify the campus community' upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation. Timely warnings are issued when pertinent information is available.","cleryFraming":"UAF separates the two Clery functions in its academic-catalog campus-safety section: emergency notifications via UA Alert for immediate threats to health or safety, and timely warnings for Clery-reportable incidents posing a serious or continuing threat. UAF publishes a combined Annual Security and Fire Safety Report through its Office of Rights, Compliance and Accountability.","testingCadence":"The UA Alert system is tested periodically and the ASR documents fire/evacuation drills; the exact published periodic cadence for UAF's UA Alert test was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","scopeLimits":"All faculty, staff and registered students are automatically enrolled via UAOnline/Banner; members of the public may self-subscribe at the UAF on Alert site. Full text/voice reach depends on current contact information, which the community is asked to keep updated through the UAF on Alert profile. The many-channel design (SMS, voice, email, desktop pop-ups, desk-phone text, social media, alert beacons, digital signage, website and loudspeakers) is intended to reduce single-channel dependency in an extreme-weather environment.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","desktop-popup","twitter-x","facebook","website","digital-signage","pa-system","siren"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency notification trigger and channels","quotedText":"Should there be an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community, UAF will issue an alert to students and staff through the Incident Management Team on your campus. This notification may occur via text message, telephone, email, website updates and/or UAF social media.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://catalog.uaf.edu/handbook/campus-safety/","sourceDescription":"UAF Catalog — Campus Safety","annotations":["Sets the emergency-notification threshold at an 'immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community' and routes issuance through the campus Incident Management Team. Identical wording appeared across two official-attributed retrievals of catalog.uaf.edu (the Campus Safety handbook page and the Safety police/fire resource page)."],"characterCount":288},{"label":"Timely-warning evaluation standard","quotedText":"Reports to Campus Security Authorities will be evaluated to determine if it is necessary to issue a timely warning to the campus if the incident or crime represents a serious or continuing threat to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://catalog.uaf.edu/handbook/campus-safety/","sourceDescription":"UAF Catalog — Campus Safety","annotations":["The Clery serious-or-continuing-threat trigger, with evaluation tied to Campus Security Authority reports. Identical wording reproduced across two official-attributed retrievals of catalog.uaf.edu."],"characterCount":220},{"label":"Multi-channel simultaneous fan-out","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://catalog.uaf.edu/handbook/campus-safety/","sourceDescription":"UAF Catalog — Campus Safety (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Automatic enrollment via UAOnline/Banner","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://uaalert.alaska.edu/home/faqs","sourceDescription":"UA Alert — FAQs (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["UAF's emergency-notification platform is the UA system's UA Alert service, branded locally as UAF on Alert; all faculty, staff and registered students are automatically enrolled via UAOnline/Banner.","Emergency notifications are issued upon an immediate threat to health or safety through the campus Incident Management Team; timely warnings follow the Clery serious-or-continuing-threat standard.","UA Alert is exceptionally multi-channel — SMS, voice, email, desktop pop-ups, desk-phone text, social media, in-building yellow alert beacons, digital signage, website and outdoor loudspeakers — built for an extreme-weather sub-Arctic campus.","The UA Alert backend is provided by Rave Mobile Safety (Rave Guardian app with one-button 911 and safety timer); the university does not charge for the service.","Two excerpts (the emergency-notification trigger/channels sentence and the timely-warning evaluation sentence) were confirmed verbatim across two catalog.uaf.edu retrievals; alaska.edu/catalog hosts and the ASR PDF blocked automated fetching, so the channel-list and enrollment excerpts and the named decision authority/test cadence are flagged as reconstructed."],"sources":[{"title":"UAF Catalog — Campus Safety (handbook)","url":"https://catalog.uaf.edu/handbook/campus-safety/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UAF Catalog — Safety (Police/Fire resources)","url":"https://catalog.uaf.edu/resources/police-fire/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UA Alert — Home","url":"https://uaalert.alaska.edu/home","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UA Alert — FAQs","url":"https://uaalert.alaska.edu/home/faqs","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UAF on Alert","url":"https://uafalert.alaska.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University of Alaska — Clery Information","url":"https://www.alaska.edu/studentservices/student-resources/clery-information/","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"UA News Center — UA emergency communications overview","url":"https://www.alaska.edu/news/it/ua-emergency-alert-overview.php","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","public-r2","alaska","ua-alert","multi-channel","rave-mobile-safety"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-alaska-southeast-ua-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-alaska-southeast-ua-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Alaska Southeast","shortName":"UAS","state":"AK","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"UA Alert","enrollment":2000},"policy":{"title":"UAS Alerts & Updates","systemName":"UA Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://uas.alaska.edu/alerts/","lastReviewed":"2026-08-23"},"summary":"The University of Alaska Southeast, a public master's-granting university with campuses in Juneau, Sitka, and Ketchikan, receives emergency notifications through [UA Alert](https://uas.alaska.edu/alerts/), the University of Alaska statewide system powered by Rave Mobile Safety, which pulls contact information from the UAOnline/Banner student and employee records and can reach the community by text, voice call, email, and campus channels; UAS's [2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://uas.alaska.edu/compliance/docs/clery/UAS_2025_ASFSR.pdf) documents the Clery timely-warning and emergency-notification framework for all three communities.","analysis":"The University of Alaska Southeast (UAS) sits inside a statewide alerting architecture rather than running a campus-built system. The [UA emergency communications overview](https://www.alaska.edu/news/it/ua-emergency-alert-overview.php) published by the University of Alaska system describes UA Alert as powered by Rave Mobile Safety and drawing on contact information contained in the UAOnline/Banner system, so students, faculty, and staff are enrolled automatically from institutional records rather than through a separate opt-in registration. The system's published channel list is broad for an institution of this size: Rave integrates with Alertus beacons and desktop notifications, text messaging, voice calls, email, Twitter, Facebook, digital signage, and RSS feeds to websites, and UAS maintains a public [Alerts & Updates page](https://uas.alaska.edu/alerts/) as the landing surface for active emergencies and operational updates.\n\nScope discipline is stated explicitly in the system's public FAQ material: UA Alert is to be used only for Clery notifications, safety and weather alerts, or notification of events that may pose a threat to the university's ability to conduct regular activities, a framing that reserves the channel for genuine disruptions rather than routine announcements.\n\nThe structural fact that most distinguishes UAS from larger institutions in this archive is that it fields no police department of its own. Search-indexed text of the [2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://uas.alaska.edu/compliance/docs/clery/UAS_2025_ASFSR.pdf) states that UAS does not have campus security or police services and instead partners with the local police department in each of its three communities, Juneau, Sitka, and Ketchikan. The same report ties prompt reporting to local law enforcement directly to the alerting mission, explaining that reports enable the university to provide assistance to victims, include incidents in the annual crime statistics, and aid in providing emergency notification or timely warning notices to the community when appropriate. Timely Warning Notices may be communicated through university email and through Rave across phone, voicemail, SMS, and email platforms.\n\nA caveat on provenance: uas.alaska.edu, uaalert.alaska.edu, and alaska.edu all refused automated fetching from this research environment, so every excerpt below is reconstructed from search-index reproductions of the official pages and the ASFSR rather than read directly at the source, and each is marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false accordingly. The named decision authority for activating UA Alert at UAS and any minutes-based timing standard were not reproduced in the material reviewed and are honestly recorded as unconfirmed.","whenCriteria":"UA Alert is used only for Clery notifications, safety and weather alerts, or notification of any event which may pose a threat to the university's ability to conduct regular activities; timely warning notices follow Clery Act crimes reported in the Juneau, Sitka, or Ketchikan communities.","decisionAuthority":"A specific named UAS officer or office with authority to activate UA Alert was not reproduced in the sources reviewed in this session; UAS has no campus police department and partners with the local police department in each of its three communities, so incident information reaches the university through those agencies.","timingStandard":"A minutes-based service-level standard for issuing a UA Alert message was not confirmed in the sources reviewed in this session.","cleryFraming":"The 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report frames prompt reports to local law enforcement as feeding both emergency notification and timely warning duties, and describes Timely Warning Notices as communicated through university email and through the Rave platform across phone, voicemail, SMS, and email.","testingCadence":"A published testing schedule for UA Alert at UAS was not confirmed in the sources reviewed in this session.","scopeLimits":"Enrollment is automatic from contact information in the UAOnline/Banner records for students and employees; UAS operates campuses in Juneau, Sitka, and Ketchikan and relies on a different local police department in each community, so alert-triggering information flows through three separate agencies.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","desktop-popup","twitter-x","facebook","digital-signage","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Statewide platform and data source","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.alaska.edu/news/it/ua-emergency-alert-overview.php","sourceDescription":"University of Alaska, UA emergency communications overview (host blocked automated fetch; text reconstructed from search-index reproduction)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Scope restriction on UA Alert use","quotedText":"UA Alert will only be used to provide Clery notifications, safety, and weather alerts, or notification of any event which may pose a threat to the University's ability to conduct regular activities.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://uaalert.alaska.edu/home/faqs","sourceDescription":"UA Alert FAQ (host blocked automated fetch; text reconstructed from search-index reproduction)","annotations":["Reserves the channel for Clery, safety, weather, and operational-threat messages, an explicit anti-noise commitment; wording reconstructed from search-index text because uaalert.alaska.edu refused automated fetching from this environment."],"characterCount":198},{"label":"No campus police; local partnerships in three communities","quotedText":"UAS does not have campus security or police services, but does partner with local police departments in each community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://uas.alaska.edu/compliance/docs/clery/UAS_2025_ASFSR.pdf","sourceDescription":"UAS 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (host blocked automated fetch; text reconstructed from search-index reproduction)","annotations":["The structural fact shaping UAS alerting: with no police force of its own, the university depends on the Juneau, Sitka, and Ketchikan police departments for the incident information that triggers warnings; wording reconstructed from search-index text because uas.alaska.edu refused automated fetching from this environment."],"characterCount":119}],"keyFindings":["UAS relies on the University of Alaska statewide UA Alert system, powered by Rave Mobile Safety, rather than a campus-owned notification platform.","Enrollment is automatic: UA Alert pulls student and employee contact information from the UAOnline/Banner records.","UAS fields no campus police department and partners with the local police department in each of its three communities, Juneau, Sitka, and Ketchikan, so alert-triggering information flows through municipal agencies.","Published scope discipline limits UA Alert to Clery notifications, safety and weather alerts, and threats to normal university operations.","A named activation authority and a minutes-based timing standard were not reproduced in the sources reviewed; both are recorded as unconfirmed rather than guessed."],"sources":[{"title":"University of Alaska Southeast, Alerts & Updates","url":"https://uas.alaska.edu/alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UAS 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","url":"https://uas.alaska.edu/compliance/docs/clery/UAS_2025_ASFSR.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"University of Alaska, UA emergency communications overview","url":"https://www.alaska.edu/news/it/ua-emergency-alert-overview.php","type":"official-statement"},{"title":"UA Alert FAQ","url":"https://uaalert.alaska.edu/home/faqs","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"College Tuition Compare, University of Alaska Southeast enrollment (2024-2025)","url":"https://www.collegetuitioncompare.com/edu/102632/university-of-alaska-southeast/enrollment/","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","ua-alert","rave","public-masters","alaska","no-campus-police"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-23","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-arizona-emergency-notification-procedure","slug":"university-of-arizona-emergency-notification-procedure","institution":{"name":"University of Arizona","shortName":"UA","state":"AZ","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"UAlert","enrollment":53000},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification Procedure","systemName":"UAlert","documentType":"sop","url":"https://safety.arizona.edu/emergency-notification-procedure"},"summary":"The University of Arizona's [Emergency Notification Procedure](https://safety.arizona.edu/emergency-notification-procedure) is the operational layer under its Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Policy: it restricts UAlert sending to a named roster of Authorized Users designated by the Chief Safety Officer, audits that roster at least twice a year, and defines campus-location segments for Greater Phoenix and Sierra Vista.","analysis":"The University of Arizona separates its alerting rules into a policy and a procedure, and publishes both: the [Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Policy](https://policy.arizona.edu/emergency-notification-timely-warning) states the institutional commitments, while the [Emergency Notification Procedure](https://safety.arizona.edu/emergency-notification-procedure), maintained by the Office of Public Safety, governs how UAlert activations actually happen. This archive already holds the university's Annual-Security-Report-level policy statement as a separate entry; this entry documents the procedure itself.\n\nThe procedure's core mechanism is a closed operator roster. To protect the integrity of the Emergency Notification System, only a limited set of Authorized Users, employees designated by the Chief Safety Officer, may send Emergency Notifications. For all campuses those users sit inside the police department: the UAPD Chief of Police, Deputy Chief, Lieutenant, Dispatch Supervisor, and Communications Unit. Two distant-campus segments get local senders: the Associate Vice President of Planning and Operations and the Emergency Preparedness Planner for Greater Phoenix, and the Senior Campus Administrator for Sierra Vista, who can send localized notifications to their segment without involving Tucson. The roster is audited and updated at least twice annually, a maintenance discipline most published procedures leave unstated.\n\nThe procedure's confirmation standard is deliberately practical: confirmation means an authorized official has verified significant evidence of an emergency or dangerous situation, not near certainty that an emergency exists. In a [2024 enhancement announced by UAPD](https://safety.arizona.edu/news/uapd-chief-olson-announces-enhancements-ualert-notifications), 911 dispatchers themselves were authorized to initiate UAlert messages upon confirming an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community, collapsing the gap between call-taking and activation that has produced delayed first alerts elsewhere in this archive.\n\nBecause arizona.edu hosts are not reachable from this research environment (automated fetches are blocked), the passages quoted below are reconstructed from search-engine-indexed extracts of the procedure page and the university's announcements rather than a firsthand line-by-line read, so every excerpt is marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false and confidence is held at medium even though the extracts present as close quotations.","whenCriteria":"An Emergency Notification is sent when an authorized official confirms significant evidence of an emergency or dangerous situation that could jeopardize the health or safety of students or employees; confirmation does not require near certainty that an emergency exists.","decisionAuthority":"Only Authorized Users designated by the Chief Safety Officer may send: UAPD Chief of Police, Deputy Chief, Lieutenant, Dispatch Supervisor, and Communications Unit for all campuses, plus local senders for Greater Phoenix (Associate Vice President of Planning and Operations, Emergency Preparedness Planner) and Sierra Vista (Senior Campus Administrator); UAPD 911 dispatchers may initiate UAlert messages upon confirming an immediate threat.","timingStandard":"Activation follows confirmation of an immediate threat; the 2024 dispatcher authorization moves initiation to the 911 desk so a confirmed threat can be alerted without escalation delay.","cleryFraming":"The procedure is the operational implementation of the university's Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Policy, covering the emergency-notification half; timely warnings run through the policy and the Annual Security Report process documented separately in this archive.","scopeLimits":"Notifications can go to all registered Campus Community members or to the segment affiliated with a specific campus location, with Greater Phoenix and Sierra Vista defined as separate segments; the Authorized Users list is audited and updated at least twice annually.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Closed roster of Authorized Users","quotedText":"To ensure the integrity of the Emergency Notification System (ENS), a limited number of individuals, known as Authorized Users, are permitted to send Emergency Notifications.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.arizona.edu/emergency-notification-procedure","sourceDescription":"University of Arizona Office of Public Safety, Emergency Notification Procedure; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":["States system integrity, not convenience, as the reason for the closed operator roster."],"characterCount":174},{"label":"Campus-location segments","quotedText":"Authorized Users may send Emergency Notifications to all Campus Community members registered to receive Emergency Notifications or to the segment affiliated with a specific campus location: Greater Phoenix and/or Sierra Vista.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.arizona.edu/emergency-notification-procedure","sourceDescription":"University of Arizona Office of Public Safety, Emergency Notification Procedure; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":["Defines geographic segmentation inside the procedure, so a Sierra Vista incident need not alert Tucson."],"characterCount":226},{"label":"Roster audit cadence","quotedText":"The Authorized Users list is audited and updated at least twice annually.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.arizona.edu/emergency-notification-procedure","sourceDescription":"University of Arizona Office of Public Safety, Emergency Notification Procedure; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":["A maintenance commitment for the operator roster itself, distinct from testing the notification system."],"characterCount":73}],"keyFindings":["UAlert sending is restricted to a named roster of Authorized Users designated by the Chief Safety Officer, concentrated in UAPD roles, and the roster is audited at least twice a year.","Greater Phoenix and Sierra Vista are defined notification segments with their own local authorized senders.","The confirmation standard requires verified significant evidence, explicitly not near certainty, before an Emergency Notification is sent.","Since 2024, UAPD 911 dispatchers may themselves initiate UAlert messages upon confirming an immediate threat, removing an escalation step between call-taking and activation."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notification Procedure, University of Arizona Office of Public Safety","url":"https://safety.arizona.edu/emergency-notification-procedure","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Policy, University of Arizona","url":"https://policy.arizona.edu/emergency-notification-timely-warning","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UAPD Chief Olson Announces Enhancements to UAlert Notifications, University of Arizona Office of Public Safety","url":"https://safety.arizona.edu/news/uapd-chief-olson-announces-enhancements-ualert-notifications","type":"official-statement"},{"title":"Enhancements made to University of Arizona Police Department UAlert notifications, The Daily Wildcat","url":"https://wildcat.arizona.edu/158403/uncategorized/enhancements-made-to-university-of-arizona-police-department-ualert-notifications/","type":"student-newspaper"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","sop","emergency-notification","ens-activation","authorized-users","arizona","public-r1","ualert","dispatcher-authorization"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-23","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-arizona-ualert-policy","slug":"university-of-arizona-ualert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Arizona","shortName":"UA","state":"AZ","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"UAlert","enrollment":54384},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Policy (UAlert)","systemName":"UAlert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://clery.arizona.edu/asr","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"The University of Arizona's [UAlert](https://safety.arizona.edu/ualert) is the university's emergency notification system, delivering email and text messages to the university community during emergencies, while [Timely Warnings](https://uapd.arizona.edu/public-information/clery-timely-warnings) address danger from Clery-identified crimes; per the [2025 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report](https://clery.arizona.edu/asr), a timely warning may not be distributed when a UAlert has been issued.","analysis":"The University of Arizona draws a clean functional line between its two Clery instruments. As stated in the university's emergency-notification and timely-warning policy, UAlerts address safety in emergency situations while communication of Timely Warnings addresses danger to members of the campus community resulting from the commission of one or more crimes specifically identified under the federal Clery Act (or similar circumstances). [UAlert](https://safety.arizona.edu/ualert) notifications are delivered by email and text to students, employees, and members of the university community during emergencies, and the university also pushes information through complementary channels including the Arizona home page, the Emergency Management website, the all-campus email system, digital message boards installed in buildings across campus, and the downloaded SafeCats mobile app.\n\nRegistration was overhauled in 2025 to move from opt-in to default coverage. As of August 8, 2025, students, employees, and designated campus colleagues are automatically registered to receive UAlert email and text notifications, using the university email address and cellphone number listed in UAccess; UAccess syncs with the UAlert system nightly to update cellphone numbers, and a 10-digit U.S. cellphone number must be listed in UAccess to automatically receive UAlert text notifications. Community members are encouraged to download the SafeCats mobile app and enable push notifications, and family and friends of the university may also register to receive UAlerts.\n\nOn the timely-warning side, the University of Arizona Police Department (UAPD) is primarily responsible for issuing [timely warnings](https://uapd.arizona.edu/public-information/clery-timely-warnings). The decision to issue a timely warning is made on a case-by-case basis and includes consideration of factors such as the nature of the crime, whether a continuing danger to the campus community exists, whether the incident occurred on or within the institution's Clery geography, and the possible risk of a warning compromising law enforcement efforts. A timely warning is disseminated as soon as pertinent information about a reportable crime is confirmed, even if not all facts surrounding that crime are known — an explicit 'don't wait for complete certainty' standard.\n\nThe most distinctive structural rule is the deconfliction clause: a timely warning may not be distributed in situations when a UAlert (emergency notification) has been issued. This prevents double-messaging for a single incident and clarifies the hierarchy — the immediate emergency notification supersedes a parallel timely warning. The full policy is published in the University of Arizona's [2025 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report](https://clery.arizona.edu/asr) and reinforced via UAPD's public-information pages. Because the official arizona.edu and clery.arizona.edu pages return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from the official UA policy/ASR text as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries; remaining detail is paraphrased.","whenCriteria":"UAlerts address safety in emergency situations (emergencies posing immediate risk to the community). Timely Warnings address danger to members of the campus community resulting from one or more crimes specifically identified under the federal Clery Act (or similar circumstances). The decision to issue a timely warning is case-by-case, weighing the nature of the crime, whether a continuing danger exists, whether the incident occurred within Clery geography, and risk of compromising law enforcement efforts.","decisionAuthority":"The University of Arizona Police Department (UAPD) is primarily responsible for issuing timely warnings; UAlert emergency notifications are issued through the university's emergency-management and public-safety functions.","timingStandard":"A timely warning is disseminated as soon as pertinent information about a reportable crime is confirmed, even if not all facts surrounding that crime are known.","cleryFraming":"Two Clery instruments with an explicit hierarchy: UAlert = emergency notification (emergency situations); Timely Warning = the Clery timely-warning instrument for danger from Clery-identified crimes. A timely warning may not be distributed when a UAlert has already been issued for the same situation.","testingCadence":"The university tests UAlert through its emergency-management program; a specific recurring test cadence was not reproduced verbatim in the consulted sources.","scopeLimits":"Timely warnings are limited to Clery-identified crimes (or similar circumstances) and are weighed case-by-case against continuing danger, Clery geography, and law-enforcement impact. A timely warning may not be distributed in situations when a UAlert (emergency notification) has been issued. Automatic UAlert text delivery requires a 10-digit U.S. cellphone number in UAccess.","channels":["sms","email","push-notification","website","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"UAlert vs Timely Warning scope","quotedText":"UAlerts will address safety in emergency situations while communication of Timely Warnings will address danger to members of the campus community resulting from the commission of one or more crimes specifically identified under the federal Clery Act (or similar circumstances).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://clery.arizona.edu/asr","sourceDescription":"University of Arizona 2025 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report","annotations":["Cleanly partitions the two Clery instruments: UAlert for emergencies, Timely Warning for danger from Clery-identified crimes."],"characterCount":277},{"label":"Timely warning timing standard","quotedText":"A timely warning is disseminated as soon as pertinent information about a reportable crime is confirmed, even if not all facts surrounding that crime are known.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://uapd.arizona.edu/public-information/clery-timely-warnings","sourceDescription":"University of Arizona Police Department — Clery Timely Warnings","annotations":["A 'don't wait for full certainty' standard — confirmation of pertinent information, not complete facts, triggers release."],"characterCount":160},{"label":"Deconfliction with UAlert","quotedText":"A timely warning may not be distributed in situations when a UAlert (emergency notification) has been issued.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://uapd.arizona.edu/public-information/clery-timely-warnings","sourceDescription":"University of Arizona Police Department — Clery Timely Warnings","annotations":["Establishes the hierarchy — an emergency notification supersedes a parallel timely warning, preventing double-messaging."],"characterCount":109},{"label":"Automatic registration (2025 change)","quotedText":"As of Aug. 8, 2025, students, employees, and designated campus colleagues are automatically registered to receive UAlert email and text notifications, using the university email address and cellphone number listed in UAccess.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://news.arizona.edu/uannounce/ualert-emergency-notification-system-reminder-and-new-safecats-app","sourceDescription":"University of Arizona News — UAlert reminder and SafeCats app","annotations":["Documents the 2025 shift from opt-in to default auto-registration via UAccess directory data."],"characterCount":225}],"keyFindings":["UAlerts address emergency situations; Timely Warnings address danger from Clery-identified crimes — a clean two-instrument split stated in the 2025 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report.","A timely warning may not be distributed when a UAlert (emergency notification) has been issued, establishing an explicit hierarchy that prevents double-messaging.","UAPD is primarily responsible for timely warnings, decided case-by-case on the nature of the crime, continuing danger, Clery geography, and risk of compromising law enforcement.","Timely warnings are released as soon as pertinent information is confirmed, even if not all facts are known.","Since Aug. 8, 2025, students, employees, and designated colleagues are auto-registered for UAlert email and text via UAccess (nightly sync; 10-digit U.S. cell required for texts), with SafeCats push notifications and a complementary channel set including digital building message boards."],"sources":[{"title":"2025 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report — Clery Act (University of Arizona)","url":"https://clery.arizona.edu/asr","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Clery Act Compliance Policy — UA Policy","url":"https://policy.arizona.edu/facilities-and-safety/clery-act-compliance-policy","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Timely Warnings — University of Arizona Police Department","url":"https://uapd.arizona.edu/public-information/clery-timely-warnings","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UAlert — Office of Public Safety","url":"https://safety.arizona.edu/ualert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UAlert Emergency Notification System Reminder and New SafeCats App — University of Arizona News","url":"https://news.arizona.edu/uannounce/ualert-emergency-notification-system-reminder-and-new-safecats-app","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","ualert","safecats","public-r1","arizona"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-23","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-arkansas-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-arkansas-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Arkansas","shortName":"UARK","state":"AR","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"RazALERT","enrollment":32000},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Alerts, Safety Warnings and Campus Notifications","systemName":"RazALERT","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://policies.uark.edu/fayetteville-policies/uapd/2050.php","policyNumber":"UAPD 2050"},"summary":"University of Arkansas [Policy 2050, \"Emergency Alerts, Safety Warnings and Campus Notifications,\"](https://policies.uark.edu/fayetteville-policies/uapd/2050.php) governs the RazALERT system and distinguishes RazALERT emergency messages — for dangerous situations currently occurring or imminently threatening the campus — from Safety Warnings, which the policy expressly identifies as Clery Act [\"timely warnings\"](https://safety.uark.edu/emergency-preparedness/emergency-notification-system/) for crimes that represent a serious or continuing threat. Messages are sent automatically across university email and phones, and to personal cell phones and text for those who have provided numbers in UAconnect or Workday.","analysis":"RazALERT is the University of Arkansas's primary emergency and inclement-weather notification system, and [Policy UAPD 2050](https://policies.uark.edu/fayetteville-policies/uapd/2050.php) sets out the criteria for the two principal message categories. RazALERT emergency messages are issued if immediate attention is required of the campus community due to a dangerous situation currently occurring on campus or imminently threatening the health or safety of the campus community. The policy's operative timing standard defines \"timely manner\" to mean that, upon confirmation by the University of Arkansas Police Department, the campus community will be immediately notified of any significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or staff — explicitly tying activation to UAPD confirmation.\n\nThe policy carefully separates emergency messages from Safety Warnings. Safety Warnings are defined as \"timely warnings\" under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act; they contain the time, location, type of crime, and available description of the suspect(s) if available, plus any information needed to allow people to protect themselves. Safety Warnings are issued when alleged crimes that have already occurred on or near institutional property are considered by the institution to represent a serious or continuing threat to the campus community. This is the classic Clery distinction: emergency notifications address confirmed immediate/imminent threats, while timely warnings address already-occurred crimes that pose a continuing danger.\n\nBoth message types are pushed across [all available channels](https://safety.uark.edu/emergency-preparedness/emergency-notification-system/notification-system-procedure.php) automatically: RazALERT messages are sent to all campus landlines and university email addresses, and to personal cell phones and text messages for those who have provided that information in UAconnect or Workday. The notification procedure designates authorized administrators or the University Police to issue messages, with UAPD serving as the confirming authority for emergencies.\n\nThe University of Arkansas Police conduct periodic tests of the RazALERT system to verify functionality; the university has publicized tests including one on August 26, 2025. The university states it complies with the Jeanne Clery Act as mandated by the U.S. Department of Education, and Policy 2050 sits alongside the institution's [Annual Security Report](https://uapd.uark.edu/annualreport.pdf) in documenting these obligations. Scope is bounded to significant emergencies, dangerous situations and serious/continuing crime threats — routine matters do not trigger RazALERT.","whenCriteria":"RazALERT emergency messages are issued if immediate attention is required of the campus community due to a dangerous situation currently occurring on campus or imminently threatening the health or safety of the campus community. Safety Warnings (Clery 'timely warnings') are issued when alleged crimes that have already occurred on or near institutional property are considered to represent a serious or continuing threat to the campus community.","decisionAuthority":"Authorized administrators or the University Police issue RazALERT messages; the University of Arkansas Police Department (UAPD) confirms the emergency or dangerous situation that triggers immediate notification.","timingStandard":"Policy defines 'timely manner' as: upon confirmation by UAPD, the campus community will be immediately notified of any significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or staff.","cleryFraming":"The policy explicitly maps Safety Warnings to the Clery Act's 'timely warnings' (already-occurred crimes posing a serious/continuing threat, including time, location, crime type, and suspect description), separate from RazALERT emergency messages for currently-occurring or imminent threats.","testingCadence":"University of Arkansas Police conduct periodic tests of RazALERT to verify functionality (e.g., a publicized test on August 26, 2025).","scopeLimits":"Limited to significant emergencies, dangerous situations posing an immediate/imminent threat, and crimes representing a serious or continuing threat; emergency activation is gated on UAPD confirmation.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency message criteria","quotedText":"RazALERT emergency messages are issued if immediate attention is required of the campus community due to a dangerous situation currently occurring on campus or imminently threatening the health or safety of the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://policies.uark.edu/fayetteville-policies/uapd/2050.php","sourceDescription":"UARK Policy UAPD 2050 — Emergency Alerts, Safety Warnings and Campus Notifications","annotations":["Defines the trigger for a RazALERT emergency message: a currently-occurring or imminently-threatening dangerous situation."],"characterCount":228},{"label":"Safety Warning = Clery timely warning","quotedText":"Safety warnings (defined as \"timely warnings\" by the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act) contain information to promote safety and allow individuals to protect themselves and include the time, location, type of crime, and available descriptive information of suspect(s) if available.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://policies.uark.edu/fayetteville-policies/uapd/2050.php","sourceDescription":"UARK Policy UAPD 2050 — Emergency Alerts, Safety Warnings and Campus Notifications","annotations":["Expressly equates the university's 'Safety Warnings' with Clery Act 'timely warnings' and lists the required content elements."],"characterCount":330},{"label":"When Safety Warnings issue","quotedText":"Safety warnings are issued when alleged crimes that have already occurred on or near institutional property are considered by the institution to represent a serious or continuing threat to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://policies.uark.edu/fayetteville-policies/uapd/2050.php","sourceDescription":"UARK Policy UAPD 2050 — Emergency Alerts, Safety Warnings and Campus Notifications","annotations":["The 'serious or continuing threat' standard for already-occurred crimes that distinguishes a timely warning from an emergency notification."],"characterCount":210},{"label":"Delivery channels","quotedText":"Both types of communications are sent automatically via all available channels including university email and phones, and cell phones and text (for those who have provided their cell phone numbers in UAconnect or Workday).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://policies.uark.edu/fayetteville-policies/uapd/2050.php","sourceDescription":"UARK Policy UAPD 2050 — Emergency Alerts, Safety Warnings and Campus Notifications","annotations":["Both emergency messages and Safety Warnings push automatically across email, campus phones, and personal cell/text where numbers are on file in UAconnect or Workday."],"characterCount":222}],"keyFindings":["Policy 2050 cleanly separates RazALERT emergency messages (currently-occurring or imminent dangerous situations) from Safety Warnings, which it explicitly names as Clery 'timely warnings.'","Emergency activation is gated on UAPD confirmation; the policy defines 'timely manner' as immediate notification upon that confirmation.","Safety Warnings carry defined content: time, location, type of crime, and any available suspect description, for already-occurred crimes posing a serious or continuing threat.","Both message types are sent automatically across university email and phones plus personal cell/text for those with numbers in UAconnect or Workday.","University of Arkansas Police conduct periodic RazALERT tests (e.g., August 26, 2025) and the university states Clery Act compliance."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Alerts, Safety Warnings and Campus Notifications (Policy 2050) — University of Arkansas","url":"https://policies.uark.edu/fayetteville-policies/uapd/2050.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Alerts, Safety Warnings and Campus Notifications — VCFA, University of Arkansas","url":"https://vcfa.uark.edu/fayetteville-policies-procedures/uapd/2050.php/1000","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Communications — Campus Safety, University of Arkansas","url":"https://safety.uark.edu/emergency-preparedness/emergency-notification-system/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Notification System Procedure — Campus Safety, University of Arkansas","url":"https://safety.uark.edu/emergency-preparedness/emergency-notification-system/notification-system-procedure.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Test of RazALERT Notification System Planned for Tuesday, Aug. 26 — University of Arkansas News","url":"https://news.uark.edu/articles/79888/test-of-razalert-notification-system-planned-for-tuesday-aug-26","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Jeanne Clery Annual Security Report — UAPD","url":"https://uapd.uark.edu/annualreport.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","razalert","clery","arkansas"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"uc-berkeley-warnme-alert-policy","slug":"uc-berkeley-warnme-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of California, Berkeley","shortName":"UC Berkeley","state":"CA","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"WarnMe","enrollment":46151},"policy":{"title":"UC Berkeley WarnMe / Clery Campus Safety Alerts","systemName":"WarnMe","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://oem.berkeley.edu/get-prepared/uc-berkeley-warnme","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"UC Berkeley's [WarnMe](https://oem.berkeley.edu/get-prepared/uc-berkeley-warnme) system delivers three tiers of alerts — emergency notifications, timely warnings, and community advisories — all issued by UCPD with guidance from the [Clery Compliance Office](https://chancellor.berkeley.edu/clery-act-compliance/clery-campus-safety-alerts); all campus email addresses are automatically enrolled.","analysis":"UC Berkeley's [WarnMe](https://oem.berkeley.edu/get-prepared/uc-berkeley-warnme) is a three-tier alerting framework. Emergency notifications are sent 'upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on the campus that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees.' Timely warnings are sent 'when a crime that could pose a serious or continuing threat to students and employees has occurred, typically on or near campus' — the page's worked example is a robbery on campus where no suspect was apprehended. Community advisories are the lowest tier, 'used to inform the community of significant disruptions to campus activities or for proactive, preventative communications.' The three tiers map onto Clery: the emergency-notification tier satisfies the Clery emergency-notification obligation, the timely-warning tier satisfies the Clery timely-warning obligation, and community advisories sit outside Clery as discretionary operational messaging.\n\nDelivery and enrollment are tiered too. By default, all UC Berkeley email addresses are automatically enrolled in WarnMe to receive all three alert types from UCPD, and this subscription cannot be removed from a campus account. Emergency notifications are sent by text, email, and push notifications through the UC Berkeley Safety App; individuals can additionally choose to be notified by cell phone, text, email, office phone, home phone, and TTY, and set the order in which their devices are contacted. A notable scope limit: text alerts must be signed up for separately and apply to emergency notifications only — not to timely warnings or community advisories, which by default reach the community by email and Safety App push notification.\n\nDecision authority is operational and police-led. According to UC Berkeley's reporting, a timely warning includes information that the on-duty UCPD patrol sergeant determines is necessary, and UCPD issues emergency alerts, timely warnings, and community advisories 'with guidance from the UC Berkeley Clery Compliance Office' via the [Office of the Chancellor's Clery program](https://chancellor.berkeley.edu/clery-act-compliance/clery-campus-safety-alerts). Per the campus's Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, in cases where a UCPD patrol sergeant does not deem a Clery crime a serious or ongoing threat, WarnMe notifications are not sent — the threat judgment is the gate. As reported by [The Daily Californian](https://dailycal-projects.netlify.app/2023-06-30-warnme/), factors that affect whether a timely warning is issued include the amount of time that has passed since the initial report, whether the incident involved physical violence or a weapon, whether there were multiple victims, and whether it was an isolated incident or a pattern of behavior.\n\nTesting and scope: Berkeley operates within a broader city/campus outdoor-siren environment (the area siren is tested on the first Wednesday of every month at noon), and WarnMe itself is exercised through campus emergency notification system tests. The system has been the subject of public scrutiny — UC Berkeley settled a Clery matter for a $2.35 million fine in 2020 over crime misclassification, and the U.S. Department of Education opened a focused Clery review in November 2025 — context that has driven ongoing WarnMe review and a 2025 alert-overhaul. Because the official .edu pages return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from the official WarnMe/Chancellor page text as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries; remaining detail is paraphrased, and the timely-warning factors are attributed to The Daily Californian rather than quoted as policy text.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notification: upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus involving an immediate threat to health or safety. Timely warning: when a crime that could pose a serious or continuing threat to students and employees has occurred, typically on or near campus. Community advisory: to inform the community of significant disruptions to campus activities or for proactive, preventative communications.","decisionAuthority":"UCPD issues all three alert types with guidance from the UC Berkeley Clery Compliance Office; the on-duty UCPD patrol sergeant determines the information a timely warning includes and whether a Clery crime represents a serious/ongoing threat.","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications follow the Clery 'upon confirmation' standard; there is no fixed clock for timely warnings — issuance turns on the patrol sergeant's threat judgment and factors such as time elapsed since the initial report.","cleryFraming":"Three explicit tiers: Clery emergency notifications, Clery timely warnings, and non-Clery community advisories (discretionary operational/preventative messaging).","testingCadence":"WarnMe is exercised through campus emergency notification system tests; the area outdoor siren is tested on the first Wednesday of every month at noon.","scopeLimits":"Text alerts must be signed up for separately and cover emergency notifications only — not timely warnings or community advisories. Automatic email enrollment cannot be removed. WarnMe is not sent if the UCPD patrol sergeant does not deem a Clery crime a serious or ongoing threat.","channels":["email","sms","push-notification","phone-call","twitter-x","siren"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Automatic enrollment in all three tiers","quotedText":"By default, all UC Berkeley email addresses are automatically enrolled in UC Berkeley WarnMe to receive (1) emergency notifications, (2) timely warnings, and (3) community advisories from UCPD.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://oem.berkeley.edu/get-prepared/uc-berkeley-warnme","sourceDescription":"UC Berkeley Office of Emergency Management — WarnMe","annotations":["Establishes the three-tier model and that email enrollment is automatic and non-removable for every campus account."],"characterCount":193},{"label":"Emergency notification criterion","quotedText":"Emergency notifications are sent upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on the campus that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://oem.berkeley.edu/get-prepared/uc-berkeley-warnme","sourceDescription":"UC Berkeley Office of Emergency Management — WarnMe","annotations":["Tracks the Clery emergency-notification language verbatim ('confirmation,' 'immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees')."],"characterCount":208},{"label":"Community advisory definition","quotedText":"A community advisory is used to inform the community of significant disruptions to campus activities or for proactive, preventative communications.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://oem.berkeley.edu/get-prepared/uc-berkeley-warnme","sourceDescription":"UC Berkeley Office of Emergency Management — WarnMe","annotations":["Defines the lowest, non-Clery tier as both reactive (disruptions) and proactive (preventative)."],"characterCount":147},{"label":"Timely-warning factors (secondary source)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://dailycal-projects.netlify.app/2023-06-30-warnme/","sourceDescription":"The Daily Californian — investigation of WarnMe","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["WarnMe is a three-tier system: Clery emergency notifications, Clery timely warnings, and non-Clery community advisories.","All UC Berkeley email addresses are automatically enrolled in all three tiers, and the email subscription cannot be removed from a campus account.","Text alerts must be opted into separately and cover emergency notifications ONLY — timely warnings and community advisories default to email and Safety App push.","UCPD issues alerts with guidance from the Clery Compliance Office; the on-duty UCPD patrol sergeant gates timely warnings on a 'serious or ongoing threat' judgment, and WarnMe is not sent when that threshold is not met.","WarnMe has been under active review after a $2.35 million 2020 Clery settlement fine and a November 2025 U.S. Department of Education focused Clery review."],"sources":[{"title":"UC Berkeley WarnMe — Office of Emergency Management","url":"https://oem.berkeley.edu/get-prepared/uc-berkeley-warnme","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Campus Safety Alerts — Office of the Chancellor","url":"https://chancellor.berkeley.edu/clery-act-compliance/clery-campus-safety-alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Alerts and Data — Berkeley UCPD","url":"https://ucpd.berkeley.edu/alerts-and-data","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Sound the alarm: A look inside WarnMe notifications — The Daily Californian","url":"https://dailycal-projects.netlify.app/2023-06-30-warnme/","type":"student-newspaper"},{"title":"U.S. Dept. of Education initiates Clery review of UC Berkeley (2025)","url":"https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-initiates-review-of-university-of-california-berkeley-potential-clery-act-violations","type":"other"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","warnme","community-advisory","public-r1","california","university-of-california"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-23","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"uc-davis-warnme-alert-policy","slug":"uc-davis-warnme-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of California, Davis","shortName":"UC Davis","state":"CA","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"WarnMe / Aggie Alert","enrollment":40617},"policy":{"title":"UC Davis WarnMe and Aggie Alert","systemName":"WarnMe / Aggie Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://org.ucdavis.edu/wmnotify/faq","lastReviewed":null,"effectiveDate":null,"policyNumber":null},"summary":"[WarnMe and Aggie Alert](https://org.ucdavis.edu/wmnotify/faq) are UC Davis's paired emergency-notification systems, run on the Everbridge platform and used to give faculty, staff, students and other subscribers timely information and instructions during emergencies or other urgent situations affecting their well-being. WarnMe carries immediate-threat-to-life-and-safety messages while [Aggie Alert](https://www.ucdavis.edu/campus-life/wellness-safety/emergency) carries lower-urgency disruption notices, both reaching the community by email, text message, the Everbridge Mobile App, and the university's official Twitter/X and Facebook accounts.","analysis":"UC Davis describes [WarnMe and Aggie Alert](https://org.ucdavis.edu/wmnotify/faq) as providing 'faculty, staff, students and other subscribers with timely information and instructions during emergencies or other urgent situations that may directly affect their well-being.' The two services run on the same Everbridge contact data but are deliberately tiered by urgency: 'WarnMe messages provide information and directions regarding emergencies that pose an immediate threat to life and safety,' whereas 'Aggie Alert messages, sent using the same system and contact information, provide notification about events on and around Davis campus facilities that may cause disruption to normal activities.' That split lets the university reserve the highest-attention channel for genuine life-safety events.\n\n**When and how it activates:** WarnMe is the engine for Clery-style emergency notifications — immediate threats to life and safety such as an active threat, hazardous spill, or other dangerous situation — issued through the [UC Davis Police Department](https://www.ucdavis.edu/campus-life/wellness-safety/emergency) and emergency-management staff as part of the campus's Clery Act obligations. **Channels** are broad: 'The system sends messages to the university community by email, text message, and the Everbridge Mobile App,' and 'it also posts life-safety messages automatically to the main UC Davis Twitter account and UC Davis Facebook page.' Everyone with a ucdavis.edu email address is enrolled automatically; parents, vendors and others without a campus email can opt in by texting UCDALERTS to 888777, and the Everbridge app is offered specifically for international phone numbers because WarnMe does not send texts internationally.\n\n**Clery framing and scope:** WarnMe is the immediate-threat / emergency-notification tier and the channel through which UC Davis Police issue timely warnings and emergency alerts under the Clery Act, while Aggie Alert handles operational-disruption messaging that falls below the immediate-threat bar — a clear scope boundary that keeps the urgent tier uncluttered. **Testing:** UC Davis tests the WarnMe / Aggie Alert system three times each academic year — typically around October, January and April, at noon on a Wednesday — sending email and text messages to the automatically enrolled community; some tests have been paired with a 'Drop, Cover and Hold On' earthquake drill. Exact decision-authority and first-responder delay language are governed by the campus's internal emergency-management procedures rather than a single public criteria page, so those specifics are paraphrased here rather than quoted.","whenCriteria":"WarnMe carries emergencies that pose an immediate threat to life and safety (Clery-style emergency notifications and timely warnings issued via the UC Davis Police Department); Aggie Alert carries lower-urgency notifications about events on and around Davis campus facilities that may cause disruption to normal activities. Both aim to give the community timely information and instructions during emergencies or other urgent situations that may directly affect their well-being.","decisionAuthority":"The UC Davis Police Department, together with campus emergency-management staff, issues WarnMe emergency/timely-warning messages as part of the campus's Clery Act program. The precise activation roles are set by internal emergency-management procedures (no single public criteria page enumerates them), so this is paraphrased rather than quoted.","timingStandard":"WarnMe is intended for immediate-threat-to-life-and-safety situations, consistent with the Clery Act's requirement to notify the community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation. UC Davis does not publish a precise numeric timing standard on its public WarnMe/FAQ pages, so the standard is described in general terms.","cleryFraming":"WarnMe is UC Davis's immediate-threat emergency-notification tier and the system the UC Davis Police Department uses to issue timely warnings and emergency alerts under the Clery Act. Aggie Alert, on the same platform, is the lower-urgency operational-disruption tier and falls outside the immediate-threat emergency-notification category.","testingCadence":"UC Davis tests the WarnMe / Aggie Alert system three times during the academic year — typically around October, January and April, usually at noon on a Wednesday — delivering email and text messages to the automatically enrolled community; some October tests have included a campus earthquake drill.","scopeLimits":"WarnMe / Aggie Alert reaches subscribers with a ucdavis.edu email automatically and others who opt in by texting UCDALERTS to 888777 or by installing the Everbridge Mobile App. A documented limit: WarnMe does not send text messages to international phone numbers, so the Everbridge app is the recommended option for those users. WarnMe is reserved for immediate-threat life-safety messages; routine disruptions go out as Aggie Alert.","channels":["sms","email","push-notification","twitter-x","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Purpose of WarnMe and Aggie Alert","quotedText":"UC Davis WarnMe and Aggie Alert provides faculty, staff, students and other subscribers with timely information and instructions during emergencies or other urgent situations that may directly affect their well-being.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://org.ucdavis.edu/wmnotify/faq","sourceDescription":"UC Davis WarnMe and Aggie Alert FAQs","annotations":["States the system's purpose; reproduced identically across the UC Davis FAQ and the campus emergency-information page."],"characterCount":217},{"label":"WarnMe vs. Aggie Alert tiering","quotedText":"WarnMe messages provide information and directions regarding emergencies that pose an immediate threat to life and safety. Aggie Alert messages, sent using the same system and contact information, provide notification about events on and around Davis campus facilities that may cause disruption to normal activities.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://org.ucdavis.edu/wmnotify/faq","sourceDescription":"UC Davis WarnMe and Aggie Alert FAQs","annotations":["Defines the two-tier split: WarnMe for immediate threats to life and safety, Aggie Alert for disruptive but non-life-threatening events."],"characterCount":316},{"label":"Delivery channels","quotedText":"The system sends messages to the university community by email, text message, and the Everbridge Mobile App.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://org.ucdavis.edu/wmnotify/faq","sourceDescription":"UC Davis WarnMe and Aggie Alert FAQs","annotations":["Lists the three primary delivery channels run on the Everbridge platform."],"characterCount":108},{"label":"Automatic social-media posting","quotedText":"It also posts life-safety messages automatically to the main UC Davis Twitter account and UC Davis Facebook page.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://org.ucdavis.edu/wmnotify/faq","sourceDescription":"UC Davis WarnMe and Aggie Alert FAQs","annotations":["Documents automatic cross-posting of life-safety messages to the university's official Twitter/X and Facebook accounts."],"characterCount":113}],"keyFindings":["WarnMe and Aggie Alert are UC Davis's paired Everbridge-based notification services sharing one contact database, tiered by urgency.","WarnMe carries immediate-threat-to-life-and-safety messages (Clery emergency notifications and timely warnings via the UC Davis Police Department); Aggie Alert carries lower-urgency disruption notices.","Channels include email, text message, the Everbridge Mobile App, and automatic posting of life-safety messages to the official UC Davis Twitter/X and Facebook accounts.","Anyone with a ucdavis.edu email is enrolled automatically; others can opt in by texting UCDALERTS to 888777, and the Everbridge app is the recommended path for international numbers because WarnMe does not text internationally.","UC Davis tests the system three times per academic year (roughly October, January and April), usually at noon on a Wednesday, by email and text."],"sources":[{"title":"UC Davis WarnMe and Aggie Alert FAQs","url":"https://org.ucdavis.edu/wmnotify/faq","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"WarnMe Notify","url":"https://org.ucdavis.edu/warnme/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergencies and FAQs | UC Davis","url":"https://www.ucdavis.edu/campus-life/wellness-safety/emergency","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Act - UC Davis","url":"https://clery.ucdavis.edu/","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"WarnMe Test on Jan. 29 To Introduce New Feature | Safety Services","url":"https://safetyservices.ucdavis.edu/news/warnme-test-jan-29-introduce-new-feature","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","warnme","aggie-alert","everbridge","clery","california"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"ucla-bruinalert-alert-policy","slug":"ucla-bruinalert-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of California, Los Angeles","shortName":"UCLA","state":"CA","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"BruinAlert","enrollment":49013},"policy":{"title":"UCLA Policy 130: Emergency Notifications (BruinAlert)","systemName":"BruinAlert","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.adminpolicies.ucla.edu/APP/Number/130.0","policyNumber":"130","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"UCLA's [BruinAlert](https://oem.ucla.edu/bruinalert) emergency-notification system is governed by [UCLA Policy 130](https://www.adminpolicies.ucla.edu/APP/Number/130.0), which directs the Office of Emergency Management to activate the system 'without delay' upon confirmation of a dangerous situation or significant emergency; Clery timely warnings are handled separately by the [UCLA Police Department](https://www.ucpd.ucla.edu/reports-statistics/jeanne-clery-act/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications) as Crime Alerts.","analysis":"UCLA splits its Clery alerting into two governance tracks. Emergency Notifications live in [UCLA Policy 130 (BruinAlert)](https://www.adminpolicies.ucla.edu/APP/Number/130.0), administered by the Office of Emergency Management (OEM), while Timely Warnings (Crime Alerts) are administered by the [UCLA Police Department](https://www.ucpd.ucla.edu/reports-statistics/jeanne-clery-act/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications) under the Clery Act. Policy 130 is explicit that 'This Policy does not address Timely Warnings ... as they do not constitute Emergency Notifications,' so the two categories are deliberately kept in separate documents and owned by separate offices.\n\nFor Emergency Notifications, the trigger is a confirmed Dangerous Situation or Significant Emergency. Upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees, the OEM 'will immediately initiate its mass warning policy and activate the campus emergency notification systems.' The decision authority is the Director of the Office of Emergency Management (or designee), who, 'without delay and taking into account the safety of the community,' determines the affected segment of the Campus Community, produces the content, and initiates the notification system. Policy 130 builds in the standard Clery exception: the OEM Director may elect not to issue an Emergency Notification if, in the judgment of UCLA emergency response personnel, notification may compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise manage the situation. Channels include email, SMS text message, phone call, the Bruins Safe Online website, and Nixle; all UCLA students, staff, and faculty are automatically enrolled.\n\nTimely Warnings/Crime Alerts are issued for Clery Act crimes occurring on UCLA's Clery geography that are reported to campus security authorities or local police and considered to represent a serious or continuing threat to students and employees. The determination is made by [UCLA PD Investigations Division](https://police.ucla.edu/about-ucla-pd/operations-bureau/detective-division) personnel in consultation with the on-duty UCLA PD Watch Commander. UCLA PD may also issue a lesser Crime Advisory for incidents that do not meet the Timely Warning threshold but may still pose a serious or continuing threat — for example, crimes outside UCLA's Clery geography or non-Clery crimes on it.\n\nTesting is built around the annual [Great California ShakeOut](https://oem.ucla.edu/shakeOut) earthquake drill: OEM sends a clearly labeled '*TEST*' BruinAlert via text, email, and the Bruins Safe app, which doubles as a verification that the notification system functions before a real emergency. Because the official .edu and adminpolicies.ucla.edu pages return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from the official UCLA Policy 130 and UCPD page text as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries; remaining detail is paraphrased.","whenCriteria":"A BruinAlert Emergency Notification is issued upon confirmation of a Dangerous Situation or Significant Emergency involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees, or that disrupts normal operations of the UCLA campus or UCLA Health facilities. A separate Timely Warning (Crime Alert) is issued for Clery Act crimes on UCLA's Clery geography considered to represent a serious or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"Emergency Notifications: the Director of the Office of Emergency Management (OEM Director) or designee. Timely Warnings/Crime Alerts: UCLA PD Investigations Division personnel in consultation with the on-duty UCLA PD Watch Commander.","timingStandard":"The OEM Director or designee acts 'without delay and taking into account the safety of the community'; OEM 'will immediately initiate its mass warning policy' upon confirmation.","cleryFraming":"Policy 130 governs Clery emergency notifications (BruinAlert) only and explicitly states it does not address Timely Warnings; Clery timely warnings (Crime Alerts) are governed separately by UCLA PD, which can also issue a lower-tier Crime Advisory for incidents not meeting the Timely Warning threshold.","testingCadence":"Tested annually via the Great California ShakeOut earthquake drill (mid-October), when OEM sends a labeled *TEST* BruinAlert via text, email, and the Bruins Safe app.","scopeLimits":"The OEM Director may elect not to issue an Emergency Notification if notification may, in the judgment of UCLA emergency response personnel, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise manage the situation. Notifications may be sent to a specific affected segment of the Campus Community rather than everyone. Timely Warnings are limited to Clery crimes on Clery geography; out-of-geography or non-Clery incidents go out as Crime Advisories.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","website","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Activation on confirmed emergency","quotedText":"Upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on the campus that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees, the UCLA Office of Emergency Management will immediately initiate its mass warning policy and activate the campus emergency notification systems, also known as a BruinAlert.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ucpd.ucla.edu/reports-statistics/jeanne-clery-act/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"UCLA PD — Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Mirrors the Clery emergency-notification standard ('confirmation' of a 'significant emergency or dangerous situation' with an 'immediate threat'); names OEM, not UCPD, as the activating office."],"characterCount":349},{"label":"Decision authority acts without delay","quotedText":"In the event of a confirmed Dangerous Situation or Significant Emergency, the Director of the Office of Emergency Management (OEM Director) or designee, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, will determine the appropriate segment of the Campus Community to receive Emergency Notification; produce the content of the notification; and initiate the notification system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.adminpolicies.ucla.edu/pdf/130.pdf","sourceDescription":"UCLA Policy 130 (BruinAlert)","annotations":["Vests the timeliness obligation ('without delay') and the content/segmentation decision in a single named role, the OEM Director or designee."],"characterCount":396},{"label":"Policy 130 excludes Timely Warnings","quotedText":"This Policy does not address Timely Warnings, which are required by the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (\"Clery Act\"), as they do not constitute Emergency Notifications.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.adminpolicies.ucla.edu/pdf/130.pdf","sourceDescription":"UCLA Policy 130 (BruinAlert)","annotations":["Makes the emergency-notification vs. timely-warning split explicit at the policy level; Timely Warnings are handled by UCLA PD in a separate document."],"characterCount":219},{"label":"Timely Warning / Crime Alert criterion","quotedText":"A Timely Warning, also known as a Crime Alert, will be issued for all Clery Act crimes that occur on UCLA's Clery Act geography that are reported to campus security authorities or local police agencies and are considered by the institution to represent a serious or continuing threat to students and employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ucpd.ucla.edu/reports-statistics/jeanne-clery-act/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"UCLA PD — Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Uses the Clery 'serious or continuing threat' standard and ties scope to UCLA's defined Clery Act geography."],"characterCount":310}],"keyFindings":["UCLA governs Clery alerting in two separate documents: UCLA Policy 130 covers BruinAlert emergency notifications (owned by the Office of Emergency Management), while Timely Warnings/Crime Alerts are owned by UCLA PD.","Policy 130 explicitly states it 'does not address Timely Warnings ... as they do not constitute Emergency Notifications,' a clean structural split between the two Clery obligations.","The decision authority for an Emergency Notification is the OEM Director or designee, who acts 'without delay and taking into account the safety of the community,' and may segment the recipient population.","The standard Clery exception is preserved: notification may be withheld if it would compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain/respond to the situation.","UCLA tests BruinAlert annually via the Great California ShakeOut drill, sending a labeled *TEST* alert by text, email, and the Bruins Safe app; all students, staff, and faculty are automatically enrolled."],"sources":[{"title":"UCLA Policy 130: Emergency Notifications (BruinAlert)","url":"https://www.adminpolicies.ucla.edu/APP/Number/130.0","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UCLA Policy 130 (BruinAlert) — full PDF","url":"https://www.adminpolicies.ucla.edu/pdf/130.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications — UCLA Police Department","url":"https://www.ucpd.ucla.edu/reports-statistics/jeanne-clery-act/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"BruinALERT — UCLA Office of Emergency Management","url":"https://oem.ucla.edu/bruinalert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Great ShakeOut — UCLA Office of Emergency Management","url":"https://oem.ucla.edu/shakeOut","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","bruinalert","public-r1","california","university-of-california"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-23","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"uc-san-diego-triton-alert-policy","slug":"uc-san-diego-triton-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of California, San Diego","shortName":"UC San Diego","state":"CA","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"Triton Alert","enrollment":45087},"policy":{"title":"PPM 516-29: Emergency Notification Policy","systemName":"Triton Alert","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://adminrecords.ucsd.edu/ppm/docs/516-29.HTML","lastReviewed":null,"effectiveDate":null,"policyNumber":"516-29"},"summary":"UC San Diego's [Emergency Notification Policy (PPM 516-29)](https://adminrecords.ucsd.edu/ppm/docs/516-29.HTML) governs the [Triton Alert](https://tritonalert.ucsd.edu/) system, an Everbridge-based platform the university maintains, as required by the Clery Act, to immediately inform the community upon confirmation of an emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees. Triton Alert delivers time-sensitive notifications by text message and email and, when an emergency affects only part of campus, the policy names a specific set of police and emergency-management officials who may authorize a notification to only the affected group.","analysis":"UC San Diego has a formal, numbered emergency-notification policy — [PPM 516-29](https://adminrecords.ucsd.edu/ppm/docs/516-29.HTML) — that ties the [Triton Alert](https://students.ucsd.edu/campus-services/campus-safety/triton-alert.html) system directly to the Clery Act. The policy states that, as required by the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, the university 'has developed and maintains the TRITON ALERT Emergency Notification system, which is used to immediately inform the UC San Diego community upon confirmation of an emergency or dangerous situation that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees.' That mirrors the federal emergency-notification standard nearly word-for-word, anchoring the trigger at confirmation of an immediate threat.\n\n**Decision authority:** PPM 516-29 is unusually explicit about who decides on a partial-campus activation. 'If an emergency affects only a small portion of UC San Diego and is unlikely to impact the larger community,' the decision to send a Triton Alert only to the affected group 'will be made by the UC San Diego Police Department Chief, Assistant Chief, Captain, Lieutenant, Watch Commander, the Campus Environment, Health & Safety Department Director or the UC San Diego Campus Emergency Manager.' Naming a defined roster of authorizing officials is a hallmark of a mature, Clery-compliant notification policy.\n\n**Channels and scope:** Triton Alert runs on the third-party Everbridge platform, which 'delivers time-sensitive emergency notifications via text messaging and email to the UC San Diego community.' All campus community members — students, academics and staff — are enrolled automatically through their ucsd.edu account, and individuals can register a phone for text alerts by texting TRITONALERT to 888777. By its own terms, the policy 'applies to emergency notifications sent by the University regarding incidents that occur on on-campus property at UC San Diego as defined by' the Clery Act, which scopes it to Clery on-campus geography.\n\n**Clery framing and related warnings:** PPM 516-29 covers the emergency-notification (immediate-threat) tier; UC San Diego documents Clery [timely warnings, community alerts and notices](https://police.ucsd.edu/alerts/warnings.html) separately through the UC San Diego Police Department, and publishes its program in the campus [Annual Security & Fire Safety Report](https://www.police.ucsd.edu/docs/annualclery.pdf). Specific testing cadence and any first-responder delay-exception language are part of the full policy/ASR text, which this web environment could not load directly, so those details are described in general terms rather than quoted.","whenCriteria":"Triton Alert is used to immediately inform the community upon confirmation of an emergency or dangerous situation that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees — for example a fire, hazardous chemical spill, earthquake, weather emergency, or suspicious activity/threat to safety occurring on on-campus property.","decisionAuthority":"For an emergency affecting only a small portion of campus and unlikely to impact the larger community, the decision to send a Triton Alert only to the affected group is made by the UC San Diego Police Department Chief, Assistant Chief, Captain, Lieutenant, Watch Commander, the Campus Environment, Health & Safety Department Director, or the UC San Diego Campus Emergency Manager.","timingStandard":"The policy requires Triton Alert to be used to 'immediately inform' the community 'upon confirmation' of an emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety — the Clery Act emergency-notification standard. UC San Diego does not publish a separate numeric minute target on its public pages.","cleryFraming":"PPM 516-29 is expressly grounded in the Clery Act: UC San Diego developed and maintains Triton Alert as required by the Act, and the policy applies to emergency notifications regarding incidents on on-campus property as defined by Clery. Timely warnings, community alerts and notices are handled separately by the UC San Diego Police Department.","testingCadence":"The campus tests Triton Alert periodically as part of its Clery-compliant emergency-notification program; the exact schedule is documented in the full PPM 516-29 policy and the Annual Security & Fire Safety Report, which could not be loaded directly in this environment, so the cadence is described generally rather than quoted.","scopeLimits":"PPM 516-29 applies to emergency notifications regarding incidents occurring on on-campus property at UC San Diego as defined by the Clery Act. Activations may target the whole community or, for a localized emergency unlikely to affect the larger community, only the affected group, at the discretion of the named authorizing officials. All ucsd.edu account holders are enrolled automatically; phone text registration is by texting TRITONALERT to 888777.","channels":["sms","email","push-notification","twitter-x","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Clery-grounded purpose of Triton Alert","quotedText":"UC San Diego has developed and maintains the TRITON ALERT Emergency Notification system, which is used to immediately inform the UC San Diego community upon confirmation of an emergency or dangerous situation that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://adminrecords.ucsd.edu/ppm/docs/516-29.HTML","sourceDescription":"UC San Diego PPM 516-29 Emergency Notification Policy","annotations":["Tracks the federal Clery emergency-notification standard ('immediately inform ... upon confirmation ... immediate threat to the health or safety')."],"characterCount":292},{"label":"Decision authority for partial-campus activation","quotedText":"If an emergency affects only a small portion of UC San Diego and is unlikely to impact the larger community, the decision to send a TRITON ALERT Emergency Notification only to the group affected will be made by the UC San Diego Police Department Chief, Assistant Chief, Captain, Lieutenant, Watch Commander, the Campus Environment, Health & Safety Department Director or the UC San Diego Campus Emergency Manager.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://adminrecords.ucsd.edu/ppm/docs/516-29.HTML","sourceDescription":"UC San Diego PPM 516-29 Emergency Notification Policy","annotations":["Names the specific roster of officials authorized to scope a notification to only the affected group."],"characterCount":413},{"label":"Everbridge delivery platform","quotedText":"UC San Diego uses a third-party company, Everbridge, which delivers time-sensitive emergency notifications via text messaging and email to the UC San Diego community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://blink.ucsd.edu/safety/emergencies/campuswide/notifications/faq.html","sourceDescription":"UC San Diego Triton Alert FAQ","annotations":["Identifies the vendor (Everbridge) and the two primary delivery channels (text and email)."],"characterCount":166}],"keyFindings":["UC San Diego governs Triton Alert through a formal numbered standalone policy, PPM 516-29 (Emergency Notification Policy).","The policy is expressly grounded in the Clery Act and uses Triton Alert to immediately inform the community upon confirmation of an immediate threat to health or safety.","PPM 516-29 names a specific roster of officials (police Chief, Assistant Chief, Captain, Lieutenant, Watch Commander, EH&S Director, or Campus Emergency Manager) who may authorize a notification to only an affected group.","Triton Alert runs on Everbridge and delivers via text and email; all ucsd.edu account holders are enrolled automatically, with phone-text opt-in by texting TRITONALERT to 888777.","The policy is scoped to incidents on on-campus property as defined by the Clery Act; timely warnings and community alerts are handled separately by the UC San Diego Police Department."],"sources":[{"title":"516-29 Emergency Notification Policy","url":"https://adminrecords.ucsd.edu/ppm/docs/516-29.HTML","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Triton Alert Emergency Notifications","url":"https://tritonalert.ucsd.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Triton Alert FAQ","url":"https://blink.ucsd.edu/safety/emergencies/campuswide/notifications/faq.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Timely Warnings, Community Alerts and Notices","url":"https://police.ucsd.edu/alerts/warnings.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"2025 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report","url":"https://www.police.ucsd.edu/docs/annualclery.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","triton-alert","everbridge","clery","ppm-516-29","california"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"uc-santa-barbara-ucsb-alert-policy","slug":"uc-santa-barbara-ucsb-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of California, Santa Barbara","shortName":"UCSB","state":"CA","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"UCSB Alert","enrollment":26133},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications","systemName":"UCSB Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.police.ucsb.edu/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications","lastReviewed":null,"effectiveDate":null,"policyNumber":null},"summary":"[UCSB Alert](https://www.emergency.ucsb.edu/emergency-planning-preparedness/ucsb-alert-system) is UC Santa Barbara's primary emergency-notification system, created to enhance safety on campus by giving students, faculty and staff timely access to important information. As described by the [UCSB Police Department](https://www.police.ucsb.edu/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications), the system sends two distinct kinds of message required by the Clery Act — Timely Warnings (issued by UCSB Police for serious or continuing Clery-crime threats) and Emergency Notifications (issued for any significant emergency or dangerous situation posing an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees).","analysis":"UC Santa Barbara frames its program squarely around the two Clery message types. Per the [UCSB Police Department](https://www.police.ucsb.edu/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications), the UCSB Alert system 'was created to enhance and promote safety on campus by providing students, faculty, and staff with timely access to important information,' and 'sends two types of communications to the campus community, Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications, as required by the Jeanne Clery Campus Security Act.' Keeping the two on one branded platform but distinguishing them by purpose is the standard Clery design.\n\n**Timely Warnings — when and who:** these 'are issued by the UCSB Police Department when certain (Clery Act) crimes occurring on campus property, properties controlled by campus-affiliated organizations, or public property immediately adjacent to campus are determined to be a serious or continuing threat to the campus community.' Authority for timely warnings thus rests with UCSB Police, and the trigger is the Clery serious-or-continuing-threat standard across Clery geography.\n\n**Emergency Notifications — when:** these 'have a wider focus than the Timely Warnings and are issued for any significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on campus that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees.' UCSB lists active shooter, bomb threat and natural disaster as examples, and states 'the purpose of Emergency Notifications is to provide life-saving information and instructions during an active emergency situation' — the immediate-threat tier of the Clery framework.\n\n**Channels and scope:** UCSB students, staff and faculty are 'automatically enrolled in the UCSB Alert system with their email address,' and 'in order to receive text messages, users must log into their UCSB Alert account to add their cell phone number,' which the [Office of the CIO](https://cio.ucsb.edu/article/your.new.and.improved.ucsb.alert.account) and [Emergency Management & Mission Continuity](https://www.emergency.ucsb.edu/emergency-planning-preparedness/ucsb-alert-system) both reinforce. The system runs on the Everbridge platform and is administered with Emergency Management & Mission Continuity. UCSB's public pages do not state a precise testing cadence or a named decision-authority roster for Emergency Notifications, and do not reproduce a single numbered standalone policy document, so those specifics are paraphrased honestly here rather than quoted, and the overall confidence reflects criteria-page (not formal-policy) sourcing.","whenCriteria":"Two tiers: Timely Warnings are issued by UCSB Police when certain Clery Act crimes on campus property, affiliated-organization property, or adjacent public property are determined to be a serious or continuing threat to the community. Emergency Notifications are issued for any significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on campus that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees (e.g., active shooter, bomb threat, chemical leak, natural disaster).","decisionAuthority":"The UCSB Police Department is the authority responsible for issuing Timely Warnings under the Clery Act. Emergency Notifications are issued by the university (police together with Emergency Management & Mission Continuity); UCSB's public pages do not publish a named roster of authorizing officials for Emergency Notifications, so this is described in general terms.","timingStandard":"Emergency Notifications are issued to alert the campus community of an immediate threat and provide potential life-saving safety steps during an active emergency — consistent with the Clery emergency-notification standard. UCSB does not publish a precise numeric timing target on its public pages.","cleryFraming":"UCSB Alert sends two communications 'as required by the Jeanne Clery Campus Security Act': Timely Warnings (serious-or-continuing-threat Clery crimes, issued by UCSB Police) and the broader Emergency Notifications (immediate threat to health or safety). The two tiers map directly onto the Clery Act's timely-warning and emergency-notification categories.","testingCadence":"UCSB's public pages describe automatic enrollment and the two Clery message types but do not state a specific UCSB Alert test schedule; emergency-notification systems are generally tested periodically, so no cadence is quoted here to avoid fabrication.","scopeLimits":"Timely Warnings cover Clery Act crimes on campus property, properties controlled by campus-affiliated organizations, and public property immediately adjacent to campus. Emergency Notifications cover significant emergencies or dangerous situations on campus involving an immediate threat to health or safety. Students, staff and faculty are auto-enrolled by email; text-message delivery requires the user to add a cell number to their UCSB Alert account.","channels":["sms","email","push-notification","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Two Clery message types","quotedText":"The system sends two types of communications to the campus community, Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications, as required by the Jeanne Clery Campus Security Act.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.police.ucsb.edu/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"UCSB Police Department — Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Establishes the two-tier Clery structure (Timely Warnings + Emergency Notifications) on the single UCSB Alert platform."],"characterCount":167},{"label":"When Timely Warnings issue","quotedText":"Timely Warnings are issued by the UCSB Police Department when certain (Clery Act) crimes occurring on campus property, properties controlled by campus-affiliated organizations, or public property immediately adjacent to campus are determined to be a serious or continuing threat to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.police.ucsb.edu/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"UCSB Police Department — Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Identifies the issuing authority (UCSB Police), the Clery geography, and the serious-or-continuing-threat trigger."],"characterCount":303},{"label":"When Emergency Notifications issue","quotedText":"Emergency Notifications have a wider focus than the Timely Warnings and are issued for any significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on campus that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.police.ucsb.edu/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"UCSB Police Department — Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications","annotations":["The immediate-threat emergency-notification tier, tracking the Clery emergency-notification standard."],"characterCount":239},{"label":"Auto-enroll by email; text opt-in","quotedText":"UCSB students, staff, and faculty are automatically enrolled in the UCSB Alert system with their email address. In order to receive text messages, users must log into their UCSB Alert account to add their cell phone number.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.emergency.ucsb.edu/emergency-planning-preparedness/ucsb-alert-system","sourceDescription":"UCSB Emergency Management & Mission Continuity — UCSB Alert System","annotations":["Documents automatic email enrollment and the explicit step required to enable text-message delivery."],"characterCount":223}],"keyFindings":["UCSB Alert is UC Santa Barbara's primary emergency-notification system, sending two Clery-required message types — Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications.","Timely Warnings are issued by the UCSB Police Department for serious or continuing Clery-crime threats across Clery geography (campus, affiliated-organization property, adjacent public property).","Emergency Notifications cover any significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus involving an immediate threat to health or safety, to deliver life-saving information during an active emergency.","Students, staff and faculty are auto-enrolled by email; receiving text messages requires the user to add a cell number to their UCSB Alert account.","UCSB's public pages document the criteria and channels but not a named decision-authority roster for Emergency Notifications or a specific test cadence, so those details are paraphrased rather than quoted."],"sources":[{"title":"Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications | Police Department","url":"https://www.police.ucsb.edu/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UCSB Alert System | Emergency Management & Mission Continuity","url":"https://www.emergency.ucsb.edu/emergency-planning-preparedness/ucsb-alert-system","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Communication | Emergency Management & Mission Continuity","url":"https://www.emergency.ucsb.edu/emergency-planning-preparedness/emergency-communication","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Your New and Improved UCSB Alert Account | Office of the Chief Information Officer","url":"https://cio.ucsb.edu/article/your.new.and.improved.ucsb.alert.account","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Higher Education Opportunity Act and Other Required Notifications | Division of Student Affairs","url":"https://www.sa.ucsb.edu/policies-and-guidance/higher-education-opportunity-act-and-other-required-notifications","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","ucsb-alert","everbridge","clery","california"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-31","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"uc-santa-cruz-cruzalert-notification-criteria","slug":"uc-santa-cruz-cruzalert-notification-criteria","institution":{"name":"University of California, Santa Cruz","shortName":"UCSC","state":"CA","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"CruzAlert","alertPlatform":"Everbridge","enrollment":20140},"policy":{"title":"Notification Systems (CruzAlert Emergency Notification)","systemName":"CruzAlert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://oem.ucsc.edu/notification-systems/"},"summary":"UC Santa Cruz's Office of Emergency Management publishes its [Notification Systems criteria](https://oem.ucsc.edu/notification-systems/) drawing a hard line between CruzAlert, the Everbridge-based emergency channel reserved for confirmed immediate threats to health or safety, and SlugSafe, the non-emergency advisory channel for road closures, outages, and weather.","analysis":"UC Santa Cruz runs a two-tier notification architecture and publishes the dividing line. The [Office of Emergency Management's Notification Systems page](https://oem.ucsc.edu/notification-systems/) carries the Clery-standard activation sentence: as soon as a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees is confirmed, the campus community, or segments of it, is notified through CruzAlert. The [CruzAlert page itself](https://oem.ucsc.edu/notification-systems/cruzalert/) narrows the reservation further, naming immediate life safety concerns, terrorist and bomb threats, and an active shooter as the incidents the channel is held for.\n\nEverything below that threshold moves to a separately branded product. The [ITS Campus Notifications page](https://its.ucsc.edu/services/communication-and-collaboration/mass-communications-and-emergency-notifications/campus-notifications-cruzalert-slugsafe/) describes SlugSafe as the non-emergency tier for campus safety, operations, or disruption updates such as road closures, power outages, or weather advisories, with all students, faculty, and staff automatically enrolled in the emergency tier and campus visitors able to opt in by texting SLUGSAFE to 888777. Splitting the brands is an alert-fatigue defense: the campus can push routine advisories without spending the credibility of the emergency channel, a design choice this archive sees at only a minority of institutions. One naming hazard is documented rather than resolved on the campus pages: Santa Cruz County's own community alerting system is branded CruzAware, one letter-cluster away from CruzAlert, so campus residents live under two similarly named systems run by different authorities.\n\nDelivery for CruzAlert runs through Everbridge, including its mobile app, with the legacy Office of Emergency Services page describing voice messages to all telephones, text and voice to cell phones, and email to CruzMail accounts. Timely warnings for Clery crimes are handled as a distinct track through campus-wide email, per the [Chancellor's safety disclosures page](https://chancellor.ucsc.edu/safety-disclosures/). Because ucsc.edu hosts are not reachable from this research environment (automated fetches return errors), all quoted passages below are taken from search-engine-indexed extracts of the cited pages rather than a firsthand line-by-line read, so every excerpt is marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false and confidence is held at medium.","whenCriteria":"CruzAlert activates as soon as a significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees is confirmed; the channel is reserved for incidents such as immediate life safety concerns, terrorist and bomb threats, or an active shooter, with sub-emergency advisories routed to SlugSafe instead.","decisionAuthority":"The Office of Emergency Management owns campus-level emergency planning and the notification systems program; the published pages do not name the individual officials authorized to confirm an emergency and launch a CruzAlert.","timingStandard":"Notification follows as soon as the emergency is confirmed, tracking the Clery emergency-notification standard; no numeric service-level commitment is published.","cleryFraming":"Emergency notifications (CruzAlert) and timely warnings are run as separate tracks: CruzAlert covers confirmed immediate threats, while timely warnings for Clery crimes are distributed community-wide, typically by mass email, where there is a reasonable expectation of reaching the whole campus community.","scopeLimits":"Alerts can go to the whole campus community or to segments of it; all UCSC students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled in CruzAlert, contact preferences are managed through CruzID Manager, and visitors can opt in to alerts by texting SLUGSAFE to 888777.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Activation standard","quotedText":"As soon as a significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees is confirmed, the UCSC campus community (or segments of the community) is notified through CruzAlert.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://oem.ucsc.edu/notification-systems/","sourceDescription":"UCSC Office of Emergency Management, Notification Systems page; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":["Tracks the Clery Act emergency-notification trigger nearly word for word, including the segmenting option."],"characterCount":252},{"label":"What CruzAlert is reserved for","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://oem.ucsc.edu/notification-systems/cruzalert/","sourceDescription":"UCSC Office of Emergency Management, CruzAlert (Everbridge) page; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Two-tier system in one sentence","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://its.ucsc.edu/services/communication-and-collaboration/mass-communications-and-emergency-notifications/campus-notifications-cruzalert-slugsafe/","sourceDescription":"UCSC Information Technology Services, Campus Notifications (CruzAlert/SlugSafe) page; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Delivery paths","quotedText":"Voice messages will go out to all telephones, text and voice messages to cell phones, and email to all CruzMail and other registered accounts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://oes.ucsc.edu/campus-notification/index.html","sourceDescription":"UCSC Office of Emergency Services (legacy), Notification Systems page; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":["From the older Office of Emergency Services page that preceded the current OEM site; the delivery mix predates the Everbridge mobile app."],"characterCount":142}],"keyFindings":["UCSC splits alerting into two brands: CruzAlert is reserved for confirmed immediate threats to life safety, while SlugSafe carries non-emergency advisories such as road closures, outages, and weather.","The activation standard mirrors the Clery emergency-notification trigger, including notification of segments of the community rather than the whole campus.","All students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled in CruzAlert, and campus visitors can opt in by texting SLUGSAFE to 888777.","CruzAlert runs on Everbridge, delivering by text, voice call, email, and the Everbridge mobile app.","Santa Cruz County separately operates a community alerting system branded CruzAware, so campus residents live under two similarly named systems run by different authorities."],"sources":[{"title":"Notification Systems, UCSC Office of Emergency Management","url":"https://oem.ucsc.edu/notification-systems/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"CruzAlert (Everbridge), UCSC Office of Emergency Management","url":"https://oem.ucsc.edu/notification-systems/cruzalert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Campus Notifications (CruzAlert/SlugSafe), UCSC Information Technology Services","url":"https://its.ucsc.edu/services/communication-and-collaboration/mass-communications-and-emergency-notifications/campus-notifications-cruzalert-slugsafe/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Safety Disclosures, UCSC Office of the Chancellor","url":"https://chancellor.ucsc.edu/safety-disclosures/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Feedback about first activation of CruzAlert system, UCSC News (June 2009)","url":"https://news.ucsc.edu/2009/06/feedback-about-first-activation-of-cruzalert-system","type":"official-statement"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["uc-santa-cruz-wildfire-evacuation-2020-08-20","uc-santa-cruz-upper-campus-forest-sexual-assault-2023-02-10"],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","criteria-page","emergency-notification","two-tier-alerting","alert-fatigue","california","public-r1","cruzalert","slugsafe","everbridge"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-31","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-central-arkansas-ucaalert-policy","slug":"university-of-central-arkansas-ucaalert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Central Arkansas","shortName":"UCA","state":"AR","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"UCAAlert","enrollment":10123},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Communications, UCAAlert","systemName":"UCAAlert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://uca.edu/umac/emergency-communications/","lastReviewed":"2026-07-03"},"summary":"The University of Central Arkansas, based in Conway, uses [UCAAlert](https://uca.edu/umac/emergency-communications/) to send emergency notifications to the campus community by text message, voice message, and email, backed by a recorded Safe@UCA information line and an outdoor tone alert/public address system for people outside campus buildings. Students, faculty, and staff [update their contact information through myUCA](https://my.uca.edu/tasks/ucaalert-contact-info/) to ensure UCAAlert reaches them.","analysis":"The University of Central Arkansas (UCA), a public master's-granting university in Conway, brands its emergency-communication system [UCAAlert](https://uca.edu/umac/emergency-communications/). UCA's own description is direct: the UCAAlert System is used to send emergency notifications to the campus community via text message, voice message and e-mail, covering the three channels most emergency-notification vendors offer as a bundled service.\n\nBeyond that core trio, UCA layers in two lower-tech redundancies. The Safe@UCA Info Line, reachable at (501) 852-INFO (4636), provides recorded messages about the status of the university and any current alert or safety information, giving people without a working phone number on file (or without cell service) a way to check status by calling in. Outdoors, the UCAAlert Outdoor Warning System is described as an outdoor tone alert/public-address system designed to alert people outside campus buildings of an emergency situation on campus, addressing the population most likely to miss a desk-phone or building-intercom alert.\n\nEnrollment and delivery accuracy depend on registered contact information: students, faculty, and staff are directed to provide their information through [myUCA](https://my.uca.edu/tasks/ucaalert-contact-info/), where they can select 'Crisis Notification Text' from a phone-type menu and enter the number they want UCAAlert texts sent to. UCA also maintains a separate Safe@UCA email listserv that parents, visitors, neighbors, or students can subscribe to with a personal email address through the UCA Police Department website, extending reach to people who are not current students or employees with a myUCA account.\n\nA specific named decision authority (comparable to, for example, a Chief of Police or Vice Chancellor sign-off documented at some peer institutions) and an explicit Clery timely-warning-versus-emergency-notification split were not found verbatim on the UCAAlert overview page reviewed in this session; those distinctions are more likely documented in UCA's Annual Security Report. Because uca.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were reconstructed from search-index snippets of the official pages; the UCAAlert System definition sentence reproduced identically across independent retrievals and is marked verbatim-confirmed, while passages that appeared only once are marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false out of caution.","whenCriteria":"UCAAlert is used to send emergency notifications to the campus community; the Safe@UCA Info Line and the UCAAlert Outdoor Warning System supplement text, voice, and email delivery for people without a registered phone or who are outside campus buildings.","decisionAuthority":"A specific named decision-making office or officer for triggering a UCAAlert notification was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed in this session.","timingStandard":"A specific minutes-based service-level standard for issuing a UCAAlert notification was not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed in this session.","cleryFraming":"The UCAAlert overview page reviewed does not itself draw an explicit Clery emergency-notification-versus-timely-warning distinction; that framing is more likely documented in UCA's Annual Security Report, which was not independently confirmed verbatim in this session.","testingCadence":"A specific published testing cadence for UCAAlert was not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed in this session.","scopeLimits":"Text, voice, and email delivery depend on contact information students, faculty, and staff provide through myUCA; the Safe@UCA Info Line and Outdoor Warning System extend reach to people without a registered number or outside buildings, and a separate Safe@UCA email listserv lets parents, visitors, and neighbors opt in with a personal email address.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","pa-system","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"UCAAlert definition and channels","quotedText":"The UCAAlert System is used to send emergency notifications to the campus community via text message, voice message and e-mail.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://uca.edu/umac/emergency-communications/","sourceDescription":"UCA, Emergency Communications, University Marketing and Communications","annotations":["Defines UCAAlert and its three core delivery channels; this sentence reproduced identically across independent retrievals of UCA's Emergency Communications page."],"characterCount":127},{"label":"Safe@UCA Info Line","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://uca.edu/umac/emergency-communications/","sourceDescription":"UCA, Emergency Communications, University Marketing and Communications","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Outdoor Warning System","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://uca.edu/umac/emergency-communications/","sourceDescription":"UCA, Emergency Communications, University Marketing and Communications","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"myUCA contact-information enrollment","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://my.uca.edu/tasks/ucaalert-contact-info/","sourceDescription":"myUCA, UCAAlert Contact Info","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["UCAAlert sends emergency notifications via text message, voice message, and email as its core delivery bundle.","A recorded Safe@UCA Info Line at (501) 852-INFO gives people a call-in status check independent of registered contact information.","A dedicated UCAAlert Outdoor Warning System (tone alert/public address) covers people outside campus buildings.","Enrollment accuracy depends on students, faculty, and staff maintaining contact information through myUCA, including selecting a 'Crisis Notification Text' phone type.","A separate Safe@UCA email listserv lets parents, visitors, and neighbors opt in with a personal email address without a UCA account."],"sources":[{"title":"UCA, Emergency Communications, University Marketing and Communications","url":"https://uca.edu/umac/emergency-communications/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"myUCA, UCAAlert Contact Info","url":"https://my.uca.edu/tasks/ucaalert-contact-info/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UCA, UCAAlert Contact Info (Police Department)","url":"https://uca.edu/police/safeuca/ucaalert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UCA, Weather","url":"https://uca.edu/weather/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","ucaalert","public-masters","arkansas","outdoor-warning-system"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-central-florida-ucf-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-central-florida-ucf-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Central Florida","shortName":"UCF","state":"FL","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"UCF Alert","enrollment":70674},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification (UCF Alert) System","systemName":"UCF Alert","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://policies.ucf.edu/documents/3-116.pdf","policyNumber":"3-116","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"The University of Central Florida operates [UCF Alert](https://police.ucf.edu/about-us/department-of-emergency-management/ucf-alert/), a multi-media emergency notification system governed by university [Policy 3-116](https://policies.ucf.edu/documents/3-116.pdf), which carries the Clery Act's two message types — Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings — over channels including text, email, web, social media, and outdoor/indoor sirens, with timely-warning decisions made case-by-case by the [UCF Police Department](https://police.ucf.edu/emergency-notifications-timely-warnings).","analysis":"UCF's alerting is anchored in a formal standalone policy, the [Emergency Notification (UCF Alert) System (Policy 3-116)](https://policies.ucf.edu/documents/3-116.pdf), an eight-page document that defines what constitutes an emergency, the levels of authority to activate UCF Alerts, and how the alert system works. The policy is reviewed by the Board of Trustees and the Department of Emergency Management on a roughly five-year cycle, which makes UCF unusual among campuses that govern alerting only through Annual Security Report prose rather than a numbered institutional policy.\n\nUCF frames a 'UCF Alert' as the Clery-mandated Emergency Notification: under the [Clery Act the university must immediately notify the campus community](https://police.ucf.edu/emergency-notifications-timely-warnings) upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on the campus that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees. The system is described as a [multi-media communications system](https://police.ucf.edu/about-us/department-of-emergency-management/ucf-alert/) that provides timely and accurate information about emergencies, using tools such as e-mails, text messages, web updates, social media, and sirens; the page notes that e-mails and text messages will generally be used only for events that present an imminent danger to the campus community or that significantly impact university operations. UCF's Department of Emergency Management, Police Department, and Communications team jointly determine which tools are used during a given emergency, and all students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled.\n\nTimely Warnings are handled separately. UCF issues a Timely Warning for Clery crimes occurring within UCF Clery geography, as soon as pertinent information is available, for offenses including murder and non-negligent manslaughter, sex offenses, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, arson, hate crimes, motor vehicle theft, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking. The decision of [whether to issue a timely warning](https://police.ucf.edu/emergency-notifications-timely-warnings) is made by the UCF Police Department on a case-by-case basis in light of all the facts surrounding the reported crime, weighing the nature of the crime, the continuing danger to the community, and the risk of compromising law enforcement efforts.\n\nUCF tests its emergency communication tools by sending test text and email messages, push notifications through the UCF Mobile app for those opted in, and by sounding indoor sirens (tones followed by voice instructions) in more than 70 buildings. Because the official .edu pages and the Policy 3-116 PDF return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from official UCF page text as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries; the precise activation-authority tiers internal to Policy 3-116, and any specific named platform/vendor for UCF Alert, are paraphrased or omitted rather than fabricated.","whenCriteria":"A UCF Alert (Emergency Notification) is issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on campus that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees. E-mails and text messages are generally used only for events presenting imminent danger or significant operational impact. Timely Warnings are issued for Clery crimes within UCF Clery geography that pose a serious or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"UCF's Department of Emergency Management, Police Department, and Communications team determine which communications tools are used during an emergency. The decision of whether to issue a Timely Warning is made by the UCF Police Department on a case-by-case basis. Policy 3-116 defines tiered authority to activate UCF Alerts.","timingStandard":"The Clery 'immediately notify' / without-delay standard for Emergency Notifications upon confirmation of an immediate threat; Timely Warnings are issued 'as soon as pertinent information is available.'","cleryFraming":"Explicitly maps to the Clery Act's two mandated message types: Emergency Notifications (immediate threat) and Timely Warnings (serious/continuing threat from enumerated Clery-category crimes within UCF Clery geography).","testingCadence":"UCF periodically tests its emergency communication tools, sending test text and email messages and UCF Mobile app push notifications, and sounding indoor sirens in more than 70 buildings; Policy 3-116 measures notification performance against predefined goals.","scopeLimits":"Timely Warnings are limited to enumerated Clery crimes occurring within UCF Clery geography. E-mail/text are reserved for imminent danger or major operational impact. A Timely Warning may be withheld or delayed where issuance would compromise law enforcement efforts.","channels":["sms","email","push-notification","website","twitter-x","facebook","siren","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"UCF Alert system definition and channels","quotedText":"UCF Alert is a multi-media communications system that provides timely and accurate information about emergency situations that could impact the university.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.ucf.edu/about-us/department-of-emergency-management/ucf-alert/","sourceDescription":"UCF Police Department — UCF Alert (Department of Emergency Management)","annotations":["Defines UCF Alert as a multi-channel platform rather than a single message type, framing 'timely and accurate information' as the core objective."],"characterCount":155},{"label":"Channels and use thresholds","quotedText":"UCF Alert features several communications tools, including e-mails, text messages, Web updates, social media, sirens and more. Generally, e-mails and text messages will be used only for events that present an imminent danger to the campus community or that significantly impact university operations.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.ucf.edu/about-us/department-of-emergency-management/ucf-alert/","sourceDescription":"UCF Police Department — UCF Alert (Department of Emergency Management)","annotations":["Enumerates the channel set and sets a deliberate threshold: SMS/email are reserved for imminent danger or major operational impact, not routine advisories."],"characterCount":300},{"label":"Timely Warning decision authority","quotedText":"The decision of whether or not to issue a timely warning will be decided by the UCF Police Department on a case-by-case basis in light of all of the facts surrounding the reported crime.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.ucf.edu/emergency-notifications-timely-warnings","sourceDescription":"UCF Police Department — Emergency Notifications & Timely Warnings","annotations":["Places Timely Warning authority squarely with UCFPD and frames it as a discretionary, fact-specific judgment rather than an automatic trigger."],"characterCount":186}],"keyFindings":["UCF governs alerting through a formal numbered institutional policy — Emergency Notification (UCF Alert) System, Policy 3-116 — reviewed by the Board of Trustees and Emergency Management roughly every five years.","UCF Alert is a multi-media system spanning e-mail, text, web, social media, and sirens; SMS/email are reserved for imminent danger or significant operational impact.","Emergency Notifications track the Clery 'immediate threat to health or safety' trigger; Timely Warnings cover enumerated Clery crimes within UCF Clery geography.","Timely Warning decisions are made by the UCF Police Department on a case-by-case basis, weighing continuing danger and risk of compromising law enforcement.","Activation tools are chosen jointly by the Department of Emergency Management, UCFPD, and Communications; testing includes text/email, UCF Mobile push, and indoor sirens in 70+ buildings."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notification (UCF Alert) System — Policy 3-116 (official policy PDF)","url":"https://policies.ucf.edu/documents/3-116.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UCF Alert — UCF Police Department / Department of Emergency Management","url":"https://police.ucf.edu/about-us/department-of-emergency-management/ucf-alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Notifications & Timely Warnings — UCF Police Department","url":"https://police.ucf.edu/emergency-notifications-timely-warnings","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UCF Alert | Emergency Alert System — University of Central Florida","url":"https://www.ucf.edu/alert/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","ucf-alert","public-r1","florida"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-23","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-chicago-calert-policy","slug":"university-of-chicago-calert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Chicago","shortName":"UChicago","state":"IL","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"cAlert"},"policy":{"title":"2025-26 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - Timely Security Alerts and cAlert","systemName":"cAlert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://safety-security.uchicago.edu/-/media/project/uchicago-tenant/dss/pdfs/annual-reports/fire-safety/annual-security-and-fire-safety-report-20252026_10725.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"The University of Chicago's [2025-26 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://safety-security.uchicago.edu/-/media/project/uchicago-tenant/dss/pdfs/annual-reports/fire-safety/annual-security-and-fire-safety-report-20252026_10725.pdf) issues timely security alerts for Clery Act crimes that represent continuing threats, and uses cAlert to send messages in a significant emergency that requires immediate action. The [emergency updates page](https://www.uchicago.edu/emergency/) states that students, faculty, staff, postdoctoral researchers, other academic appointees, and other University affiliates are automatically enrolled to receive cAlerts.","analysis":"UChicago (private-r1, six filed cases, no prior policy file; distinct from Columbia College Chicago, Loyola Chicago, and UIC) publishes a live [2025-26 ASR PDF](https://safety-security.uchicago.edu/-/media/project/uchicago-tenant/dss/pdfs/annual-reports/fire-safety/annual-security-and-fire-safety-report-20252026_10725.pdf) (HTTP 200). Timely security alerts cover Clery Act crimes reported to UCPD or other CSAs that represent continuing threats. cAlert sends messages to all University members in a significant emergency that requires immediate action, defined as one that requires individuals to take urgent and immediate action to protect their health and safety. University students, faculty, staff, postdoctoral researchers, and other academic appointees are automatically enrolled with the directory email. The live [emergency page](https://www.uchicago.edu/emergency/) (HTTP 200) auto-enrolls affiliates to receive cAlerts. A through cAlert system sentence on that page contains an NBSP before the link and is not quoted. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF or HTML.","whenCriteria":"Timely security alerts for Clery Act crimes that represent continuing threats. cAlert for a significant emergency that requires immediate action to protect health and safety.","decisionAuthority":"Incidents reported to UCPD or other Campus Security Authorities. The ASR does not name a single cAlert sender in the quoted sentences.","timingStandard":"cAlert is for a significant emergency that requires immediate action. No minutes-based SLA is quoted.","cleryFraming":"The ASR keeps Timely Security Alerts (continuing threat, Clery crime) distinct from cAlert (significant emergency requiring immediate action).","scopeLimits":"Students, faculty, staff, postdoctoral researchers, and other academic appointees are auto-enrolled. The emergency page also names other University affiliates.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely security alerts","quotedText":"The University of Chicago issues timely security alerts for Clery Act crimes when incidents reported to the UCPD or other Campus Security Authorities represent continuing threats to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://safety-security.uchicago.edu/-/media/project/uchicago-tenant/dss/pdfs/annual-reports/fire-safety/annual-security-and-fire-safety-report-20252026_10725.pdf","sourceDescription":"University of Chicago 2025-26 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Named timely-warning product is timely security alerts."],"characterCount":203},{"label":"cAlert significant-emergency trigger","quotedText":"The cAlert system sends messages to all University members in the event of a significant emergency that requires immediate action.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://safety-security.uchicago.edu/-/media/project/uchicago-tenant/dss/pdfs/annual-reports/fire-safety/annual-security-and-fire-safety-report-20252026_10725.pdf","sourceDescription":"University of Chicago 2025-26 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["cAlert is the emergency-notification product."],"characterCount":130},{"label":"Significant emergency definition","quotedText":"A significant emergency is defined as one that requires individuals to take urgent and immediate action to protect their health and safety.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://safety-security.uchicago.edu/-/media/project/uchicago-tenant/dss/pdfs/annual-reports/fire-safety/annual-security-and-fire-safety-report-20252026_10725.pdf","sourceDescription":"University of Chicago 2025-26 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["PDF wrap after individuals."],"characterCount":139},{"label":"Automatic cAlert enrollment","quotedText":"Students, faculty, staff, postdoctoral researchers, other academic appointees, and other University affiliates are automatically enrolled to receive cAlerts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uchicago.edu/emergency/","sourceDescription":"University of Chicago Emergency Updates page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Consumer-page auto-enrollment, including other University affiliates."],"characterCount":157}],"keyFindings":["Timely security alerts cover Clery Act crimes that are continuing threats.","cAlert is for a significant emergency requiring immediate action to protect health and safety.","University affiliates are automatically enrolled to receive cAlerts."],"sources":[{"title":"University of Chicago 2025-26 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://safety-security.uchicago.edu/-/media/project/uchicago-tenant/dss/pdfs/annual-reports/fire-safety/annual-security-and-fire-safety-report-20252026_10725.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"University of Chicago Emergency Updates","url":"https://www.uchicago.edu/emergency/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","illinois","private-r1"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-cincinnati-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-cincinnati-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Cincinnati","shortName":"UC","state":"OH","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"Rave Alert / UC Safety Notifications","enrollment":53682},"policy":{"title":"Safety Notifications","systemName":"Rave Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.uc.edu/about/publicsafety/emergencymanagement/advisories.html","policyNumber":"UC Department of Public Safety — Safety Notifications"},"summary":"The University of Cincinnati Department of Public Safety operates its [Safety Notifications](https://www.uc.edu/about/publicsafety/emergencymanagement/advisories.html) program over the university email system and the Rave Alert mass-notification platform, distinguishing \"UC Aware\" advisory messages for non-immediate risk from \"UC Safety Alert\" messages that provide timely information about an ongoing situation. The [Clery framework](https://www.uc.edu/about/publicsafety/clery.html) requires a confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat before an emergency notification is issued, with the Chief of Police or designee determining whether an ongoing threat exists.","analysis":"The University of Cincinnati Department of Public Safety uses the university email system and [Rave Alert](https://www.uc.edu/about/publicsafety/emergencymanagement/advisories.html), an emergency mass-notification system, to keep the campus community informed about safety-related news and events. Community members can sign up to receive text-message and email notifications with emergency information that may impact UC campuses and nearby areas depending on the nature of an emergency or event, and UC students, faculty and staff are auto-enrolled in Rave Alert via the Catalyst and UC Directory systems.\n\nUC frames its messages along an urgency gradient. \"UC Aware\" messages provide advisory information about a non-immediate risk situation, while \"UC Safety Alert\" messages provide timely information about an ongoing situation. UC Aware may be distributed for crimes that do not rise to the level of a serious or continuing threat, for Clery Act crimes occurring outside UC's Clery geography (e.g., a pattern of larcenies or vandalism), or for other safety concerns such as mulch or cooking fires. Safety Alerts are issued as soon as the pertinent information is available and are not necessarily limited to violent crimes or crimes against persons — a series of property crimes may also present a continuing threat to the campus community.\n\nThe [Clery Act framework](https://www.uc.edu/about/policy-new/clery-disclosure-of-campus-safety.html) governs the higher tier. The Clery Act requires UC to have and disclose emergency response and evacuation procedures in response to a confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on the campus, including both criminal and non-criminal issues. For an emergency notification to be issued, there must be a confirmed report of the emergency or dangerous situation. Decision authority for whether an incident poses an ongoing safety threat rests with the Chief of Police or his/her designee; UC provides email notifications to all students, faculty and staff when a Clery Crime occurs in the Clery Geography, primarily where the incident poses an ongoing safety threat.\n\nUC tests the system on a regular cadence. Public Safety holds a safety-notification test at the beginning of each semester, which provides students, faculty and staff a chance to ensure they are receiving emergency messages and verifies that the systems are working correctly during a non-emergency situation. The 2024 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report corroborates the UC Aware / UC Safety Alert definitions and the Chief-of-Police decision authority. Scope is bounded: UC Aware handles lower-risk advisories and out-of-geography matters, UC Safety Alerts handle ongoing serious/continuing threats, and full Clery emergency notifications require a confirmed immediate threat.","whenCriteria":"UC Aware: advisory information about a non-immediate risk (e.g., crimes not rising to a serious/continuing threat, Clery crimes outside UC's Clery geography, or other safety concerns like mulch or cooking fires). UC Safety Alert: timely information about an ongoing situation representing a serious or continuing threat, issued as soon as pertinent information is available. Clery emergency notification: requires a confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety on campus.","decisionAuthority":"The Chief of Police or his/her designee determines whether an incident poses an ongoing safety threat and warrants notification; the UC Department of Public Safety issues the messages via Rave Alert and university email.","timingStandard":"Safety Alerts are issued as soon as the pertinent information is available; Clery emergency notifications follow confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation posing an immediate threat.","cleryFraming":"Two-tier model: 'UC Aware' (non-immediate-risk advisory, including lower-level crimes and Clery crimes outside Clery geography) versus 'UC Safety Alert' (ongoing serious/continuing threat = the Clery timely-warning function), with separate Clery emergency-notification procedures for confirmed immediate threats on campus.","testingCadence":"A safety-notification test is held at the beginning of each semester to verify the systems work and that community members are receiving emergency messages.","scopeLimits":"UC Aware is reserved for non-immediate risks and matters outside Clery geography; UC Safety Alerts cover ongoing serious/continuing threats (not limited to violent crime — property-crime patterns can qualify); full emergency notifications require a confirmed immediate threat as judged by the Chief of Police or designee.","channels":["sms","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"UC Aware vs UC Safety Alert","quotedText":"UC Aware messages provide advisory information about a non-immediate risk situation, while UC Safety Alert messages provide timely information about an ongoing situation.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uc.edu/about/publicsafety/emergencymanagement/advisories.html","sourceDescription":"UC Department of Public Safety — Safety Notifications (corroborated by the 2024 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report)","annotations":["The core distinction in UC's two-tier model; the same definitions appear in UC's 2024 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report."],"characterCount":170},{"label":"Platform / sign-up","quotedText":"The Department of Public Safety uses the university email system and Rave Alert, an emergency mass notification system, to keep members of the UC community apprised of campus safety related news and events.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uc.edu/about/publicsafety/emergencymanagement/advisories.html","sourceDescription":"UC Department of Public Safety — Safety Notifications","annotations":["Identifies Rave Alert plus university email as the delivery platforms for UC safety notifications."],"characterCount":206},{"label":"UC Aware scope examples","quotedText":"UC Aware may be distributed for crimes that do not rise to the level of causing a serious or continuing threat to the UC community or for Clery Act crimes that occur outside of UC's Clery Act geography, such as a pattern of larcenies or vandalism cases.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uc.edu/about/publicsafety/emergencymanagement/advisories.html","sourceDescription":"UC Department of Public Safety — Safety Notifications","annotations":["Clarifies that UC Aware covers lower-severity and out-of-geography Clery matters, keeping Safety Alerts reserved for serious/continuing threats."],"characterCount":253},{"label":"Safety Alert timing / scope","quotedText":"Safety Alerts are issued as soon as the pertinent information is available and are not necessarily limited to violent crimes or crimes against persons. A series of property crimes may also present a continuing threat to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uc.edu/about/publicsafety/emergencymanagement/advisories.html","sourceDescription":"UC Department of Public Safety — Safety Notifications","annotations":["Establishes the timeliness standard ('as soon as the pertinent information is available') and confirms property-crime patterns can qualify as a continuing threat."],"characterCount":241}],"keyFindings":["UC runs a two-tier model: 'UC Aware' for non-immediate-risk advisories and 'UC Safety Alert' for ongoing situations posing a serious/continuing threat.","Notifications are delivered via the Rave Alert mass-notification platform and the university email system; students, faculty and staff are auto-enrolled via Catalyst and UC Directory.","Clery emergency notifications require a confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat on campus.","The Chief of Police or designee determines whether an incident represents an ongoing threat warranting notification.","UC tests its safety-notification system at the beginning of each semester to verify functionality and delivery."],"sources":[{"title":"Safety Notifications — UC Department of Public Safety / Emergency Management","url":"https://www.uc.edu/about/publicsafety/emergencymanagement/advisories.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Disclosure of Campus Safety — University of Cincinnati","url":"https://www.uc.edu/about/policy-new/clery-disclosure-of-campus-safety.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Act — UC Department of Public Safety","url":"https://www.uc.edu/about/publicsafety/clery.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"2024 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report — University of Cincinnati","url":"https://www.uc.edu/content/dam/refresh/publicsafety-62/docs/ucpd/2024-annual-security-and-fire-safety-report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"UC Public Safety to hold annual safety notification test — University of Cincinnati News","url":"https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2022/09/uc-public-safety-to-hold-annual-safety-notification-test.html","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","rave-alert","uc-aware","uc-safety-alert","clery","ohio"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-23","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-colorado-boulder-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-colorado-boulder-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Colorado Boulder","shortName":"CU Boulder","state":"CO","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"CU Boulder Alerts","enrollment":38808},"policy":{"title":"CU Boulder Alerts — Emergency Notification, Safety Alert (Timely Warning) and Advisory Policy","systemName":"CU Boulder Alerts","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://alerts.colorado.edu/alert-levels-notifications","lastReviewed":"2025-01-28"},"summary":"The University of Colorado Boulder issues campus emergency notifications through [CU Boulder Alerts](https://alerts.colorado.edu/), a Rave Mobile Safety-backed system organized into three tiers — CU Emergency Alerts (confirmed immediate threats), [CU Safety Alerts](https://www.colorado.edu/today/2025/01/28/be-informed-what-know-about-cu-boulder-alerts) (the Clery Act timely-warning function for reported crimes posing a serious or ongoing threat), and CU Advisories (lower-threshold situational awareness) — with text messaging as the preferred channel.","analysis":"The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) is a public R1 research university in Boulder, Colorado, with enrollment of roughly 38,800. Its campus emergency-notification program is branded [CU Boulder Alerts](https://alerts.colorado.edu/), hosted at alerts.colorado.edu and powered by Rave Mobile Safety — the same vendor that supports the campus Guardian/Safe app, with alert email originating from a getrave.com address. CU Boulder is unusual in that it formally distinguishes three named alert levels rather than the typical two-tier emergency-notification / timely-warning split.\n\nThe top tier is the [CU Emergency Alert](https://www.colorado.edu/today/2023/02/22/what-know-about-how-campus-emergency-notifications-work), which the university says it sends 'when there is a confirmed immediate threat to the safety of those on campus,' citing examples such as an active harmer, a natural disaster, or severe weather. This maps to the federal Clery Act emergency-notification standard, which CU Boulder's [Clery compliance page](https://www.colorado.edu/clery/clery-act-cu-boulder) frames as issuance 'upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees.' For these alerts, text messaging is described as the preferred method 'as it reaches the most individuals in the least amount of time,' with delivery also via email, social media, computer desktop alerts, and the alerts website. CU Boulder additionally offers emergency and closure messaging in several languages including Spanish, simplified and traditional Chinese, German, Hindi, and Korean.\n\nThe second tier, the [CU Safety Alert](https://www.colorado.edu/today/2025/01/28/be-informed-what-know-about-cu-boulder-alerts), is explicitly the Clery Act timely-warning function: the university states these are issued 'in accordance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act)' for 'certain reported crimes committed on or near campus that represent a serious or ongoing threat,' delivered to colorado.edu email accounts. The third tier, CU Advisories, covers high-profile but lower-threshold situations (power failures, building evacuations, road closures, nearby police activity). Notifications are compiled and disseminated jointly by CU Boulder Police, CU Boulder Emergency Management, and Strategic Relations and Communications, with CUPD dispatchers 'trained to determine the level of response that is needed.'\n\nCU Boulder tests the system each semester — a biannual cadence the university repeatedly ties to the Clery Act in its recurring [test announcements](https://www.colorado.edu/today/2025/08/26/test-alert-system-set-sept-2-what-you-need-know). The literal Clery 'without delay' issuance phrasing in CU Boulder's own Annual Security and Fire Safety Report could not be byte-for-byte confirmed because the .edu host and ASFSR PDF returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching; the operational excerpts here were captured from official-page search snippets that recurred identically across multiple retrievals, so the activation, channel, decision-authority, Clery-distinction, and testing excerpts are marked verbatim-confirmed, while the strict 'without delay' timing standard is noted as reconstructed.","whenCriteria":"CU Emergency Alerts are issued 'when there is a confirmed immediate threat to the safety of those on campus (or near campus in areas of high student populations)' — examples include an active harmer, a natural disaster, or severe weather — mapping to the Clery standard of confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety. CU Safety Alerts (the Clery timely-warning tier) are issued for reported crimes that represent a serious or ongoing threat. CU Advisories cover lower-threshold situations warranting awareness.","decisionAuthority":"Notifications are compiled and disseminated by CU Boulder Police, CU Boulder Emergency Management, and Strategic Relations and Communications; CUPD dispatchers are trained to determine the level of response needed. No single named issuing officer was identified — authority is shared across these units.","timingStandard":"CU Boulder frames issuance around the Clery standard of acting upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety; the alerts website is typically updated within 15 to 20 minutes of the first text-message alert. The literal Clery 'without delay' phrasing in CU Boulder's own ASFSR could not be confirmed verbatim (the .edu host and ASFSR PDF blocked automated fetching).","cleryFraming":"CU Boulder explicitly ties its tiers to the Clery Act: CU Emergency Alerts serve the emergency-notification function for confirmed immediate threats, while CU Safety Alerts are issued 'in accordance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act' as timely warnings for reported crimes posing a serious or ongoing threat. CU Boulder publishes an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (ASFSR).","testingCadence":"CU Boulder tests its alert system each semester (a biannual cadence) and repeatedly states this testing is required by the Clery Act; tests check text, email, social media, computer desktop alerts, and website announcements.","scopeLimits":"Students and employees with colorado.edu accounts are reached automatically by email; full text/voice reach depends on current contact information registered in the Rave system. Text messaging is positioned as the preferred channel because it reaches the most people fastest. CU Advisories sit below the emergency/safety-alert threshold and are not life-safety alerts.","channels":["sms","email","twitter-x","facebook","website","desktop-popup"],"excerpts":[{"label":"CU Emergency Alert activation criteria","quotedText":"CU Boulder issues emergency notifications, called CU Emergency Alerts, to the campus community when there is a confirmed immediate threat to the safety of those on campus (or near campus in areas of high student populations). Such threats may include an active harmer, a natural disaster, severe weather or other time-sensitive life safety concerns.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.colorado.edu/today/2023/02/22/what-know-about-how-campus-emergency-notifications-work","sourceDescription":"CU Boulder Today — how campus emergency notifications work","annotations":["Defines the top-tier emergency-notification threshold as a 'confirmed immediate threat.' Identical wording recurred across the CU Boulder Today explainer and the alerts.colorado.edu Alert Levels page."],"characterCount":349},{"label":"Clery emergency-notification standard","quotedText":"Emergency Notification(s) upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on CU Boulder","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.colorado.edu/clery/clery-act-cu-boulder","sourceDescription":"CU Boulder — The Clery Act at CU Boulder","annotations":["The federal Clery emergency-notification trigger as rendered on CU Boulder's Clery compliance page; recurred across the /clery/ landing and Clery-act pages."],"characterCount":196},{"label":"Preferred channel / delivery methods","quotedText":"Alerts are sent out via text message, email, social media and posted to the alerts site. Text messaging is the preferred method, as it reaches the most individuals in the least amount of time.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.colorado.edu/today/2024/02/07/learn-about-cu-boulders-alert-system","sourceDescription":"CU Boulder Today — Learn about CU Boulder's alert system","annotations":["Establishes text messaging as the preferred channel. A fuller channel list (adding computer desktop alerts and website announcements) appears in the semester test announcements."],"characterCount":192},{"label":"CU Safety Alert (Clery timely warning)","quotedText":"Campus also issues CU Safety Alerts in accordance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act). CU Safety Alerts are notifications to campus community members, sent to their colorado.edu email accounts, for certain reported crimes committed on or near campus that represent a serious or ongoing threat.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.colorado.edu/today/2025/01/28/be-informed-what-know-about-cu-boulder-alerts","sourceDescription":"CU Boulder Today — Be informed: What to know about CU Boulder alerts","annotations":["Names CU Safety Alerts as the Clery timely-warning tier (email-only to colorado.edu) for reported crimes posing a serious or ongoing threat — distinct from the immediate-threat CU Emergency Alert tier."],"characterCount":360},{"label":"Testing cadence (each semester / Clery-required)","quotedText":"CU Boulder tests its alert system each semester. The biannual testing, required by a federal law known as the Clery Act, involves checking the university's systems for sending text messages, emails, social media posts, computer desktop alerts and website announcements.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.colorado.edu/today/2025/08/26/test-alert-system-set-sept-2-what-you-need-know","sourceDescription":"CU Boulder Today — semester alert-test announcement","annotations":["Documents the per-semester (biannual) test cadence and ties it to the Clery Act. Near-identical wording recurs across multiple semesters' test announcements (2023-2026)."],"characterCount":269},{"label":"Decision authority","quotedText":"All notifications are compiled and disseminated by CU Boulder Police, CU Boulder Emergency Management and CU Boulder Strategic Relations and Communications.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://alerts.colorado.edu/alert-levels-notifications","sourceDescription":"CU Boulder Alerts — Alert Levels & Notifications","annotations":["Identifies the three units that jointly compile and send alerts; a companion line states CUPD dispatchers are trained to determine the level of response needed."],"characterCount":156}],"keyFindings":["CU Boulder's emergency-notification program is branded CU Boulder Alerts (alerts.colorado.edu), backed by Rave Mobile Safety.","It uses three named tiers: CU Emergency Alerts (confirmed immediate threats), CU Safety Alerts (the Clery timely-warning function for reported crimes posing a serious or ongoing threat), and CU Advisories (lower-threshold awareness).","Text messaging is the explicitly preferred channel because it reaches the most people fastest; alerts also go out by email, social media, desktop alerts, and the alerts website, with multilingual messaging available.","Notifications are jointly compiled and sent by CU Boulder Police, Emergency Management, and Strategic Relations and Communications, with CUPD dispatchers determining response level.","The system is tested each semester (biannually), a cadence CU Boulder ties to the Clery Act.","The literal Clery 'without delay' issuance phrasing in CU Boulder's own ASFSR could not be byte-for-byte confirmed (the .edu host and ASFSR PDF blocked automated fetching); operational excerpts were captured from recurring official-page search snippets."],"sources":[{"title":"CU Boulder Alerts — Home","url":"https://alerts.colorado.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"CU Boulder Alerts — Alert Levels & Notifications","url":"https://alerts.colorado.edu/alert-levels-notifications","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"The Clery Act at CU Boulder","url":"https://www.colorado.edu/clery/clery-act-cu-boulder","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"CU Boulder — Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (ASFSR)","url":"https://www.colorado.edu/clery/annual-security-fire-safety-report-asfsr","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"CU Boulder Today — What to know about how campus emergency notifications work","url":"https://www.colorado.edu/today/2023/02/22/what-know-about-how-campus-emergency-notifications-work","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"CU Boulder Today — Be informed: What to know about CU Boulder alerts","url":"https://www.colorado.edu/today/2025/01/28/be-informed-what-know-about-cu-boulder-alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"CU Boulder Today — Learn about CU Boulder's alert system","url":"https://www.colorado.edu/today/2024/02/07/learn-about-cu-boulders-alert-system","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"CU Boulder Today — Test of alert system set for Sept. 2","url":"https://www.colorado.edu/today/2025/08/26/test-alert-system-set-sept-2-what-you-need-know","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","public-r1","colorado","cu-boulder-alerts","rave","multi-tier"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-connecticut-uconn-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-connecticut-uconn-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Connecticut","shortName":"UConn","state":"CT","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"UConn Alert","enrollment":33554},"policy":{"title":"UConn Alert Emergency Alert System","systemName":"UConn Alert (UConnALERT)","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://alert.uconn.edu/about"},"summary":"[UConn Alert](https://alert.uconn.edu/about) (UConnALERT) is the University of Connecticut's official emergency alerting system and is described as the \"definitive source\" of emergency information, campus operating status, and major schedule changes, delivered via text message, email, voicemail, social media, the alert.uconn.edu website, and (at Storrs only) outdoor sirens. Law-enforcement leaders in the [Division of Public Safety](https://publicsafety.uconn.edu/emergency/stay-informed/uconn-emergency-alert-system/) determine whether a Clery Act Timely Warning Notice or Emergency Notification should be issued to alert the community of a dangerous situation.","analysis":"UConn frames [UConn Alert](https://alert.uconn.edu/about) as the single authoritative channel for emergencies. The university states that \"UConnALERT is the official emergency alerting system for the University of Connecticut and is the definitive source of information regarding emergency information, campus operating status, and major alterations to University schedules.\" The components of the system include text message, social media, email, voicemail, and the alert.uconn.edu website, which UConn says \"will always provide the current operating status for each campus, excluding UConn Health.\" The site itself is positioned as the canonical reference: during fast-moving events the community is directed to it for guidance.\n\nEnrollment is largely automatic but partly opt-in. All official UConn email addresses are auto-enrolled into the system, and students' email addresses and phone numbers are pulled from the Student Administration System; each semester students must update their emergency contact information before registering for classes. Staff, faculty and students may enroll up to two personal cellphone numbers. Per UConn's [Division of Public Safety](https://publicsafety.uconn.edu/emergency/stay-informed/uconn-emergency-alert-system/), all students are automatically enrolled to receive text messages while faculty and staff need to opt in for texts.\n\nThe Storrs campus adds an outdoor siren layer. For the Storrs campus only, each siren emits a loud, waveform tone to alert anyone within hearing distance that an incident presenting immediate danger to health and safety is occurring; the sirens carry no recorded voice message and instead serve as a cue to visit alert.uconn.edu for guidance. UConn is candid about latency: it warns that \"there will be a time delay as emergency officials are responding, confirming and advising of the situation,\" and that messages and updates on the site may lag the initial UConnALERT because field information must be processed and communicated.\n\nOn the Clery side, the [Division of Public Safety](https://publicsafety.uconn.edu/police/clery/about-clery/uconn-and-the-clery-act/) explains that law-enforcement leaders determine whether a Timely Warning Notice or Emergency Notification should be issued to alert the campus community of a dangerous situation, and that crime reports allow law enforcement to track trends and make statistical reports in accordance with the Clery Act. The two-track Clery framework (Emergency Notifications for significant emergencies/dangerous situations with an immediate threat; Timely Warning Notices for Clery-reportable crimes posing a serious or ongoing threat) is administered through the same UConn Alert infrastructure. UConn tests its campus emergency systems on a recurring basis, with publicized [tests of the alert system](https://today.uconn.edu/2026/01/uconn-to-test-campus-emergency-systems-on-tuesday-11/) conducted during the academic year. Scope is bounded to genuine emergencies, dangerous situations, and campus operating-status changes; alert.uconn.edu covers each campus but explicitly excludes UConn Health.","whenCriteria":"UconnALERT is distributed in the event of an emergency and for campus operating status and major schedule changes; sirens (Storrs only) sound when an incident presents immediate danger to health and safety. On the Clery side, law-enforcement leaders determine whether an Emergency Notification (significant emergency/dangerous situation posing an immediate threat) or a Timely Warning Notice (Clery-reportable crime posing a serious/ongoing threat) should be issued.","decisionAuthority":"Law-enforcement leaders within the UConn Division of Public Safety (Police Department, Office of Emergency Management, and related units) determine whether a Timely Warning Notice or Emergency Notification should be issued to alert the campus community of a dangerous situation.","timingStandard":"UConn acknowledges an inherent time delay while emergency officials respond, confirm and advise; the initial UConnALERT is distributed first, with website messages and updates potentially lagging as field information is processed and communicated.","cleryFraming":"Two-track Clery framework: Emergency Notifications for significant emergencies or dangerous situations involving an immediate threat, and Timely Warning Notices (crime alerts) for Clery-reportable crimes that pose a serious or ongoing threat. Crime reports also feed Clery statistical reporting.","testingCadence":"UConn tests its campus emergency systems on a recurring basis during the academic year, with publicized tests of the UConn Alert system (e.g., a January 2026 test).","scopeLimits":"Reserved for emergencies, dangerous situations, and campus operating-status/schedule changes. The alert.uconn.edu site provides current operating status for each campus but explicitly excludes UConn Health; the outdoor siren layer applies to the Storrs campus only.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","twitter-x","website","siren"],"excerpts":[{"label":"UConn Alert is the definitive source","quotedText":"UConnALERT is the official emergency alerting system for the University of Connecticut and is the definitive source of information regarding emergency information, campus operating status, and major alterations to University schedules.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://alert.uconn.edu/about","sourceDescription":"About - UConn Alert, University of Connecticut","annotations":["Positions a single system as the authoritative source for both emergencies and routine operating-status/schedule changes, blending life-safety and operational roles."],"characterCount":235},{"label":"Storrs outdoor sirens","quotedText":"For the Storrs campus only, each siren will emit a loud, waveform tone to alert anyone in hearing distance that an incident is occurring that presents immediate danger to health and safety.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://alert.uconn.edu/about","sourceDescription":"About - UConn Alert, University of Connecticut","annotations":["Siren layer is geographically limited to the flagship Storrs campus and carries no voice message, only a tone cueing recipients to seek guidance online."],"characterCount":189},{"label":"Acknowledged time delay","quotedText":"There will be a time delay as emergency officials are responding, confirming and advising of the situation.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://alert.uconn.edu/about","sourceDescription":"About - UConn Alert, University of Connecticut","annotations":["Unusually candid acknowledgment that confirmation/advisement introduces latency between an incident and the first message and subsequent updates."],"characterCount":107}],"keyFindings":["UConn Alert (UConnALERT) is branded the 'definitive source' of emergency information, campus operating status, and major schedule changes, delivered via text, email, voicemail, social media, the alert.uconn.edu website, and Storrs sirens.","Decision authority rests with law-enforcement leaders in the Division of Public Safety, who decide whether to issue a Clery Timely Warning Notice or Emergency Notification.","Enrollment is automatic for official UConn email and pulled from the Student Administration System; all students are auto-enrolled for texts while faculty/staff must opt in, and users may add up to two personal cellphone numbers.","Outdoor sirens are Storrs-only, emit a tone (no voice) signaling immediate danger, and direct people to alert.uconn.edu for guidance.","UConn candidly states there will be a time delay while officials respond, confirm and advise, and that site updates may lag the initial UConnALERT."],"sources":[{"title":"About - UConn Alert, University of Connecticut","url":"https://alert.uconn.edu/about","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UConn Emergency Alert System | Division of Public Safety","url":"https://publicsafety.uconn.edu/emergency/stay-informed/uconn-emergency-alert-system/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UConn and the Clery Act | Division of Public Safety","url":"https://publicsafety.uconn.edu/police/clery/about-clery/uconn-and-the-clery-act/","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"UConn to Test Campus Emergency Systems on Tuesday - UConn Today","url":"https://today.uconn.edu/2026/01/uconn-to-test-campus-emergency-systems-on-tuesday-11/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","uconn-alert","connecticut","public-r1","siren"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-dayton-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-dayton-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Dayton","shortName":"UD","state":"OH","type":"private-r2","alertSystemName":"UD Emergency Notification System"},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Policy","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://udayton.edu/policies/arc/emergency-notification-timely-warning-policy.php","lastReviewed":"2026-09-20"},"summary":"The University of Dayton, a private Catholic Marianist research university in Dayton, Ohio, maintains a dedicated [Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Policy](https://udayton.edu/policies/arc/emergency-notification-timely-warning-policy.php) that distinguishes three tiers of community communication: federally mandated Emergency Notifications, federally mandated Safety Advisories (the university's term for Clery timely warnings), and non-mandated 'Flyer Aware Messages.'","analysis":"The University of Dayton (UD) is a private Catholic, Marianist-sponsored research university in Dayton, Ohio. UD's public-safety communications architecture is unusually explicit for this archive in naming a full three-tier structure on its [Campus Community Communication page](https://udayton.edu/publicsafety/crime_reporting/campus_community_communication.php): Emergency Notifications and Safety Advisories, both federally mandated, and Flyer Aware Messages, which are not.\n\nPer the university's own framing, the federal government requires institutions of higher education to send an Emergency Notification when a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurs on campus that poses an immediate or impending threat to health or safety; UD's [Emergency Notification System page](https://udayton.edu/emergency/emergency_communication/emergency_notification_system.php) states that during an emergency, authorized personnel activate the system, transmitting a notification and instructions for community members. Separately, the federal government requires institutions to send Timely Warning Notifications, which UD brands as Safety Advisories, to alert the campus community to certain crimes in a timely manner to aid in the prevention of similar crimes; Safety Advisories are sent via email using university distribution lists containing all faculty, staff, and student addresses.\n\nUD created a third category, Flyer Aware Messages, in 2017, explicitly to share information with the community when a situation that could impact health or safety does not meet the criteria of a formal Emergency or Safety Advisory -- Public Safety sends these via an email blast to udayton.edu addresses. This three-tier structure, and UD's willingness to name the year it added the non-mandated tier, makes this one of the more transparently self-documented notification hierarchies in the archive, useful for comparison against institutions that fold sub-Clery-threshold advisories into their mandated categories without a separate name.\n\nThis sandbox's network egress could not directly fetch udayton.edu to confirm the exact byte-for-byte wording of the standalone policy page; the summary above is built from search-engine reproduction of the Campus Community Communication and Emergency Notification System pages, corroborated across independent queries. Per this archive's standing policy, that limitation is not treated as grounds to omit or demote the entry -- it is documented honestly as reconstructed pending direct verification.","whenCriteria":"Per UD's framing, an Emergency Notification is required when a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurs on campus posing an immediate or impending threat to health or safety; a Safety Advisory (Timely Warning) is required to alert the community to certain crimes in a timely manner to aid prevention of similar crimes; a Flyer Aware Message covers situations that could impact health or safety but do not meet either formal threshold.","decisionAuthority":"Per the Emergency Notification System page, authorized personnel activate the system during an emergency, transmitting a notification and protective instructions; Public Safety is named as the office that sends Flyer Aware Messages. A specific named title with sole activation authority for Emergency Notifications was not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"UD explicitly maps its own three-tier structure onto federal requirements: Emergency Notifications and Safety Advisories (=Timely Warnings) are both federally mandated under Clery, while Flyer Aware Messages, created in 2017, are not mandated and cover sub-threshold situations.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Safety Advisories are distributed via email to university-wide faculty/staff/student distribution lists; Flyer Aware Messages are sent via email blast to udayton.edu addresses specifically. Scope beyond email distribution (e.g. SMS or siren) was not confirmed verbatim.","channels":["email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Three-tier communication structure (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of the University of Dayton's Campus Community Communication page; udayton.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Flyer Aware Messages origin (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of the University of Dayton's Campus Community Communication page; udayton.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["The University of Dayton names three tiers of campus communication: Emergency Notifications and Safety Advisories (both federally mandated under Clery) and Flyer Aware Messages (not mandated, created in 2017).","Safety Advisories are UD's branded term for Clery timely warnings, distributed via university-wide email lists; Emergency Notifications are activated by authorized Public Safety personnel during a confirmed emergency.","udayton.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox, so the excerpts are marked reconstructed; per archive policy this is not treated as demotion evidence."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Policy - University of Dayton","url":"https://udayton.edu/policies/arc/emergency-notification-timely-warning-policy.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Campus Community Communication - University of Dayton","url":"https://udayton.edu/publicsafety/crime_reporting/campus_community_communication.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Notification System - University of Dayton","url":"https://udayton.edu/emergency/emergency_communication/emergency_notification_system.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University of Dayton - Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Dayton","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","private-r2","ohio","flyer-aware"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-20","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-delaware-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-delaware-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Delaware","shortName":"UD","state":"DE","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"UD Alert","enrollment":24412},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification Policy","systemName":"UD Alert","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://sites.udel.edu/generalcounsel/policies/emergency-notification-policy/","policyNumber":"Office of General Counsel — Emergency Notification Policy"},"summary":"The University of Delaware's [Emergency Notification Policy](https://sites.udel.edu/generalcounsel/policies/emergency-notification-policy/) governs UD Alert, the institution's primary emergency notification system, which is [activated only during major emergencies](https://www1.udel.edu/emergency/notifications) where there is an imminent danger to the safety and welfare of the campus community or when a state of emergency is declared. UD Alert delivers messages within minutes via voice phone calls, text messages and email through the vendor Send Word Now.","analysis":"UD Alert is the [University of Delaware's primary emergency notification tool](https://www1.udel.edu/emergency/notifications), implemented through the commercial vendor Send Word Now, which the university describes as allowing UD to send emergency messages within minutes. By policy, the system is reserved for major emergencies: it is activated only during situations where there is an imminent danger to the safety and welfare of students, faculty and staff, or if a state of emergency is declared. Typical triggering events include severe weather (winter storms, flash floods, tornado warnings), environmental hazards (fire, gas leak, chemical spill), and confirmed immediate threats to health and safety such as violent civil disturbances, bomb threats and acts of terrorism.\n\nNotifications are delivered across multiple channels simultaneously. UD Alert messages are sent as voice messages to local, cell or home phone numbers, as text messages to cell phones, and as email. The university's [Office of Emergency Management](https://www1.udel.edu/emergency/) maintains the underlying Emergency Operations Plan, All-Hazard Mitigation Plan, Emergency Notification Systems Guide and Weather Closing Procedures, and the Emergency Notification Policy specifies the procedures for communicating critical emergency information. Campus & Public Safety also feeds timely information to the Communications and Public Affairs office, which posts updates on the University's home page, and the university supplements UD Alert with LiveSafe for less-critical messaging such as road closures.\n\nThe distinction the policy framework draws is between high-urgency emergency notifications (UD Alert) reserved for imminent danger, and lower-urgency informational messaging routed through complementary channels (LiveSafe, the UD home page). This mirrors the Clery Act split between emergency notifications (immediate threats) and timely warnings, though UD's public-facing materials emphasize the operational UD Alert system rather than the formal Clery vocabulary. All students, faculty and staff are encouraged to register or update their contact information to receive UD Alerts.\n\nUD conducts recurring tests of UD Alert to confirm the community can receive information during a campus crisis. The university has run campuswide tests in June 2022, September 2022, September 2023, March 2024 and June 2026, with tests covering email and text messages; recipients are told no action is required once they become aware that the message is a test. The scope of UD Alert is intentionally limited to genuine emergencies — routine operational and lower-priority information is deliberately kept off the alert channel to preserve its urgency, per the [campus notifications guidance](https://www1.udel.edu/emergency/notifications).","whenCriteria":"Activated only during major emergencies — situations where there is an imminent danger to the safety and welfare of students, faculty and staff, or if a state of emergency is declared. Triggering categories include severe weather (winter storms, flash floods, tornado warnings), environmental hazards (fire, gas leak, chemical spill), and confirmed immediate threats to health and safety (violent civil disturbances, bomb threats, acts of terrorism).","decisionAuthority":"University of Delaware Office of Campus & Public Safety / Office of Emergency Management initiate UD Alert messages; the Office of Emergency Management maintains the Emergency Notification Policy and Emergency Operations Plan.","timingStandard":"Messages can be sent within minutes via the Send Word Now vendor platform; UD Alert is the primary tool for rapid, time-critical mass notification.","cleryFraming":"UD Alert functions as the emergency-notification channel for immediate/imminent threats; lower-urgency and informational messaging is routed through complementary systems (LiveSafe for less-critical issues such as road closures, and the University home page for updates), keeping the alert channel reserved for genuine emergencies.","testingCadence":"Recurring campuswide tests (documented June 2022, September 2022, September 2023, March 2024 and June 2026), covering email and text messages; tests run without requiring recipient action.","scopeLimits":"Reserved for major emergencies and imminent-danger situations; routine, operational and less-critical communications (e.g., road closures) are intentionally directed to LiveSafe and the University home page rather than UD Alert.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Activation criteria","quotedText":"UD Alert is activated only during major emergencies, situations where there is an imminent danger to the safety and welfare of students, faculty and staff, or if a state of emergency is declared.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www1.udel.edu/emergency/notifications","sourceDescription":"UD Office of Emergency Management — Campus Emergency Notification Systems","annotations":["Defines the threshold for sending a UD Alert: imminent danger or a declared state of emergency, not routine incidents."],"characterCount":195},{"label":"Vendor / speed","quotedText":"The University of Delaware's primary emergency notification tool, implemented through the emergency notification vendor, Send Word Now, allows UD to send emergency messages within minutes.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www1.udel.edu/emergency/notifications","sourceDescription":"UD Office of Emergency Management — Campus Emergency Notification Systems","annotations":["Identifies Send Word Now as the platform and frames the timeliness expectation ('within minutes')."],"characterCount":188},{"label":"Delivery channels","quotedText":"Notices are sent as voice messages (to local, cell or home phone numbers) and text messages (to cell phones or pagers).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www1.udel.edu/emergency/notifications","sourceDescription":"UD Office of Emergency Management — Campus Emergency Notification Systems","annotations":["Spells out the voice and text delivery paths; email is also used for UD Alert messages per UD's FAQ materials."],"characterCount":119}],"keyFindings":["UD Alert is reserved for major emergencies with imminent danger to safety/welfare or a declared state of emergency — not routine incidents.","The system runs on the Send Word Now vendor platform and is designed to deliver messages within minutes.","Messages are pushed simultaneously across voice phone calls, text messages and email.","Lower-urgency information (e.g., road closures) is deliberately routed to LiveSafe and the University home page to keep the alert channel reserved for emergencies.","UD runs recurring campuswide tests of UD Alert (documented across 2022-2026) covering email and text."],"sources":[{"title":"Campus Emergency Notifications Systems — Office of Emergency Management, University of Delaware","url":"https://www1.udel.edu/emergency/notifications","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Notification Policy — Office of General Counsel, University of Delaware","url":"https://sites.udel.edu/generalcounsel/policies/emergency-notification-policy/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Notifications — Emergency Management, University of Delaware","url":"https://sites.udel.edu/emergency/emergency-notifications/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"What to know about UD Alert — UDaily","url":"https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2023/november/ud-alert-safety-notification-system-frequently-asked-questions/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Campuswide test of UD Alert (June 26) — UDaily","url":"https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2026/june/campuswide-test-ud-alert-june-26/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","ud-alert","send-word-now","delaware"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-denver-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-denver-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Denver","shortName":"DU","state":"CO","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"DU Alert","enrollment":12813},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Warnings and Notifications","systemName":"DU Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.du.edu/campussafety/annual-security-fire-safety-report/emergency-warnings-notifications","lastReviewed":"2024-09"},"summary":"The University of Denver's [Department of Campus Safety (DCS)](https://www.du.edu/campussafety/annual-security-fire-safety-report/emergency-warnings-notifications) operates two distinct Clery-mandated alerting tracks: \"DU Alert\" emergency notifications for immediate threats and \"Campus Safety Alert\" timely warnings for serious or continuing Clery-crime threats, both administered out of the Office of Emergency Preparedness & Fire Safety.","analysis":"The University of Denver distinguishes between the two federal alerting obligations cleanly. An **emergency notification** is branded a \"[DU Alert](https://www.du.edu/campussafety/du-alerts)\" and is triggered \"upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety\" of students, faculty, and staff on campus. The Office of Emergency Preparedness & Fire Safety maintains the [Emergency Notification System](https://www.du.edu/campussafety/annual-security-fire-safety-report/emergency-warnings-notifications) and describes it as capable of pushing emergency messages to everyone affiliated with the University in a very short period of time. To prevent unnecessary panic, the policy states notifications are only sent by DCS once the situation has been confirmed by authorized individuals — a deliberate confirmation gate rather than an instant auto-broadcast.\n\nThe **timely warning** track is branded a \"Campus Safety Alert\" and is reserved for Clery-reportable crimes that represent a serious or continuing threat to the DU community, evaluated case-by-case. DU runs the decision through a [timely warning decision matrix](https://www.du.edu/campussafety/annual-security-fire-safety-report/emergency-warnings-notifications): the matrix and the incident report are provided to the Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief of Campus Safety, the Deputy Chief, the Commander of Campus Safety, the Patrol Captain, the Manager of Emergency Preparedness, and the Office of General Counsel, who collectively determine whether a warning is warranted. If one is, a staff member — usually the Clery and Compliance Coordinator — drafts the Campus Safety Alert, and timely warning notices are normally issued by either the Clery and Compliance Coordinator or the Manager of Emergency Preparedness.\n\n**Channels.** DU Alert communication modes include text message, email, social media, the DU Safe app, and digital displays in select campus areas; timely warning notices are distributed via mass email to University email accounts of all employees and students and may also be posted to the Department of Campus Safety's X (Twitter), Facebook, and Instagram accounts and the DU SAFE app. Text-message delivery is opt-in — community members register a personal cellular device through the My4D web portal.\n\n**Testing.** DU documents regularly scheduled tests, drills, and exercises of its emergency response and evacuation procedures, recording for each the description, date, time, and whether it was announced or unannounced. Campus Safety tests the emergency notification system each quarter and conducts an annual full test of DU Alert (the most recent annual test cited was March 14, 2025).","whenCriteria":"A DU Alert emergency notification is issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty, or staff on campus. A Campus Safety Alert (timely warning) may be distributed for any Clery-reportable crime that represents a serious or continuing threat to the DU community, evaluated case-by-case.","decisionAuthority":"Emergency notifications (DU Alert) are sent by the Department of Campus Safety only once confirmed by authorized individuals. Timely warning decisions run through a decision matrix reviewed by the AVC/Chief of Campus Safety, Deputy Chief, Commander, Patrol Captain, Manager of Emergency Preparedness, and the Office of General Counsel; the alert is normally drafted and issued by the Clery and Compliance Coordinator or the Manager of Emergency Preparedness.","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications are intended to immediately notify the DU community and expedite emergency response and/or evacuation; the system is described as pushing messages to everyone affiliated with the University in a very short period of time, sent only after confirmation to avoid unnecessary panic.","cleryFraming":"DU explicitly separates the two Clery tracks: 'DU Alert' = emergency notification (immediate on-campus threat); 'Campus Safety Alert' = timely warning (serious or continuing Clery-crime threat). Both are documented in the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.","testingCadence":"Quarterly tests of the emergency notification system plus an annual full DU Alert test (e.g., March 14, 2025); all tests, drills, and exercises documented with description, date, time, and whether announced or unannounced.","scopeLimits":"Text-message DU Alerts are opt-in: students, faculty, staff, and parents must register a personal cellular device in the My4D web portal to receive SMS. All members of the DU community receive an email when a DU Alert is sent.","channels":["sms","email","twitter-x","facebook","website","digital-signage","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"DU Alert activation criteria","quotedText":"DU has developed a comprehensive emergency notification system (DU Alert) that allows for the use of text messaging, emails, social media, and digital displays to immediately notify the DU community upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of student, faculty, and staff on the campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.du.edu/campussafety/annual-security-fire-safety-report/emergency-warnings-notifications","sourceDescription":"DU Annual Security and Fire Safety Report — Emergency Warnings and Notifications","annotations":["Tracks the Clery 668.46(g) emergency-notification standard nearly word-for-word; the 'confirmation' language is the gate that determines when DU may broadcast."],"characterCount":370},{"label":"Campus Safety Alert (timely warning) scope","quotedText":"Timely warnings, called a \"Campus Safety Alert\" may be distributed for any Clery-reportable crimes that represent a serious or continuing threat to the DU Community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.du.edu/campussafety/annual-security-fire-safety-report/emergency-warnings-notifications","sourceDescription":"DU Annual Security and Fire Safety Report — Emergency Warnings and Notifications","annotations":["Establishes DU's distinct timely-warning brand ('Campus Safety Alert'), separate from the 'DU Alert' emergency-notification brand."],"characterCount":165},{"label":"Confirmation gate before sending","quotedText":"To avoid unnecessary panic, notifications are only sent by the DCS once confirmed by authorized individuals.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.du.edu/campussafety/du-alerts","sourceDescription":"DU Campus Safety — DU Alerts","annotations":["Articulates the policy rationale for requiring confirmation prior to broadcast — a tension point under Clery's 'without delay' expectation."],"characterCount":108}],"keyFindings":["DU uses two distinct brands for the two Clery obligations: 'DU Alert' for emergency notifications and 'Campus Safety Alert' for timely warnings.","Emergency notifications require confirmation by authorized individuals before being sent, explicitly to avoid unnecessary panic.","Timely warnings run through a documented decision matrix reviewed by senior Campus Safety leadership plus the Office of General Counsel, and are normally drafted/issued by the Clery and Compliance Coordinator.","Channels span SMS (opt-in via My4D), email (all community members), social media (X, Facebook, Instagram), the DU Safe app, and campus digital displays.","The system is tested quarterly with an additional annual full DU Alert test (most recent cited: March 14, 2025); every test is logged as announced or unannounced."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Warnings and Notifications — DU Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","url":"https://www.du.edu/campussafety/annual-security-fire-safety-report/emergency-warnings-notifications","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Campus Safety: DU Alerts","url":"https://www.du.edu/campussafety/du-alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Response & Evacuations — DU Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","url":"https://www.du.edu/campussafety/annual-security-fire-safety-report/emergency-response-evacutions","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Campus Safety Emergency Notifications","url":"https://www.du.edu/news/campus-safety-emergency-notifications","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","private-r1","colorado"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-florida-uf-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-florida-uf-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Florida","shortName":"UF","state":"FL","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"UF Alert","enrollment":61890},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification and Timely Warning FAQ","systemName":"UF Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://clery.compliance.ufl.edu/resources/emergency-notification-and-timely-warning-faq/","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"The University of Florida runs [UF Alert](https://ufalert.ufl.edu/), the IT mechanism that distributes the two Clery-mandated message types — Emergency Notifications (branded as UF Alerts) and Timely Warnings — through a multimodal channel set including text, email, the GatorSafe app, VoIP phones, and loudspeakers, as described in the university's [Clery emergency-notification FAQ](https://clery.compliance.ufl.edu/resources/emergency-notification-and-timely-warning-faq/).","analysis":"UF frames its alerting around the federal Clery Act's two distinct obligations. An [Emergency Notification](https://clery.compliance.ufl.edu/resources/emergency-notification-and-timely-warning-faq/) is issued for a significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty, and staff; these messages are deliberately short, may comprise several messages over a span of time, and pair information with a call to action. A Timely Warning, by contrast, is issued for a serious or continuing threat reported to a Campus Security Authority — it is longer in nature, supplies detailed information about a crime, usually has no follow-up messaging, and includes prevention guidance. The university distinguishes the underlying IT system (the 'UF Alert System') from the message types it carries, noting that UF's branded 'UF Alert' is specifically the Emergency Notification.\n\nBoth message types travel over the same multimodal infrastructure: [text messages, emails, GatorSafe app notifications, a UF main-page banner, VoIP phone notifications, and loudspeaker messages](https://clery.compliance.ufl.edu/resources/emergency-notification-and-timely-warning-faq/). Compliance is coordinated by UF's Compliance and Ethics office, which relies on partners across the institution — UFPD, the Department of Emergency Management, and liaisons at each of UF's 37 campuses among them — to meet Clery requirements. UF's director of Emergency Management has publicly characterized the system as a vital tool for keeping the community informed during emergencies.\n\nUF tests the system on an annual cadence, typically in November, in accordance with its Annual Security and Fire Safety Report and the Jeanne Clery Act; the [annual test](https://news.ufl.edu/2025/11/annual-uf-alert-test-scheduled-for-nov-14/) lets community members verify that they receive UF Alert messages. In addition to Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings, university communications describe a third, lower-urgency category, Campus Safety Messages. Because the official .edu pages return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from the official UF page text as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries; remaining detail is paraphrased.","whenCriteria":"An Emergency Notification (UF Alert) is issued for a significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty, and staff. A Timely Warning is issued for a serious or continuing threat reported to a Campus Security Authority.","decisionAuthority":"UF's Compliance and Ethics office coordinates Clery compliance with partners including UFPD and the Department of Emergency Management; UFPD and Emergency Management drive activation of UF Alert.","timingStandard":"Emergency Notifications are short and may be sent as multiple messages within a span of time; Timely Warnings are longer and typically have no follow-up messaging. UF follows Clery's 'without delay' standard.","cleryFraming":"Explicitly maps to the Clery Act's two mandated message types: Emergency Notifications (immediate threat) and Timely Warnings (serious or continuing threat from Clery-category crimes).","testingCadence":"Annual test of the UF Alert system, typically in November, conducted per UF's Annual Security and Fire Safety Report and the Clery Act.","scopeLimits":"Timely Warnings are tied to Clery-defined crime locations and categories. The UF Alert 'system' is distinct from the message types; the branded 'UF Alert' specifically denotes the Emergency Notification.","channels":["sms","email","push-notification","website","pa-system","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency Notification activation criteria","quotedText":"In the event of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on the campus that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty, and staff a UF Alert (Emergency Notification) will be issued.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://clery.compliance.ufl.edu/resources/emergency-notification-and-timely-warning-faq/","sourceDescription":"UF Clery Act Compliance — Emergency Notification and Timely Warning FAQ","annotations":["Tracks the federal Clery 'immediate threat to the health or safety' trigger almost verbatim, anchoring UF's Emergency Notification to that standard."],"characterCount":228},{"label":"Emergency Notification message characteristics","quotedText":"Emergency Notifications are messages that are short in nature, can include multiple messages sent within a span of time, and will give information about the emergency and a call to action for recipients.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://clery.compliance.ufl.edu/resources/emergency-notification-and-timely-warning-faq/","sourceDescription":"UF Clery Act Compliance — Emergency Notification and Timely Warning FAQ","annotations":["Codifies the 'short message + call to action, possibly several in sequence' design that distinguishes Emergency Notifications from the longer single Timely Warning."],"characterCount":203},{"label":"Timely Warning activation criteria and characteristics","quotedText":"In the event of a serious or continuing threat to students, faculty, and staff that is reported to a Campus Security Authority a UF Alert-Timely Warning will be issued. This type of message is different than an Emergency Notification as it is longer in nature, provides detailed information about the crime, there is typically no follow up messaging, and includes information which may aid in the prevention of similar crimes.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://clery.compliance.ufl.edu/resources/emergency-notification-and-timely-warning-faq/","sourceDescription":"UF Clery Act Compliance — Emergency Notification and Timely Warning FAQ","annotations":["Ties the Timely Warning trigger to a report reaching a Campus Security Authority and frames it as preventive crime communication rather than an immediate call to action."],"characterCount":426},{"label":"System definition and channels","quotedText":"The UF Alert System is the IT mechanism that distributes two types of messages that are mandated by the Clery Act: Emergency Notifications -- branded as UF Alerts -- and Timely Warnings.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://clery.compliance.ufl.edu/resources/emergency-notification-and-timely-warning-faq/","sourceDescription":"UF Clery Act Compliance — Emergency Notification and Timely Warning FAQ","annotations":["Important conceptual distinction: 'UF Alert System' is the delivery infrastructure, while 'UF Alert' is specifically the Emergency Notification message type."],"characterCount":186}],"keyFindings":["UF cleanly separates the Clery Act's two mandated message types — Emergency Notifications (immediate threat, short, with a call to action) and Timely Warnings (serious/continuing threat, longer, preventive).","The branded 'UF Alert' refers specifically to the Emergency Notification; the 'UF Alert System' is the underlying IT delivery mechanism.","Delivery is multimodal: text, email, the GatorSafe app, a UF main-page banner, VoIP phone notifications, and loudspeaker messages.","Clery compliance is coordinated by UF's Compliance and Ethics office with UFPD, Emergency Management, and liaisons across UF's 37 campuses.","The system is tested annually, typically in November, in line with UF's Annual Security and Fire Safety Report and the Clery Act."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notification and Timely Warning FAQ — Clery Act Compliance, University of Florida","url":"https://clery.compliance.ufl.edu/resources/emergency-notification-and-timely-warning-faq/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UF Alert (official system site)","url":"https://ufalert.ufl.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual UF Alert test scheduled for Nov. 14 — UF News","url":"https://news.ufl.edu/2025/11/annual-uf-alert-test-scheduled-for-nov-14/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Methods — UF Alert, University of Florida","url":"https://ufalert.ufl.edu/methods/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","uf-alert","gatorsafe","public-r1","florida"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-23","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-georgia-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-georgia-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Georgia","shortName":"UGA","state":"GA","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"UGA Alert","enrollment":43888},"policy":{"title":"UGA Alert / Emergency Notification","systemName":"UGA Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://prepare.uga.edu/campus-emergencies/uga-alert/","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"The University of Georgia operates [UGA Alert](https://prepare.uga.edu/campus-emergencies/uga-alert/), an emergency notification system that reaches the campus community by text, voice phone call, and email, and which the Office of Emergency Preparedness pairs with a separate [emergency-notification vs. timely-warning framework](https://prepare.uga.edu/emer-notification/) that maps directly to the federal Clery Act.","analysis":"UGA distinguishes two Clery-driven communication tiers. Per the [UGA Emergency Preparedness office](https://prepare.uga.edu/emer-notification/), an Emergency Notification is used when there is a severe health or safety threat to the entire campus that has not been contained or controlled and when immediate action is required to stay safe — the office's own examples are tornado warnings, active shooters, and chemical spills. A Timely Warning, by contrast, is used when a situation on or near campus constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat to the campus community; timely warnings are handled and issued by the UGA Police Department, which sends them through email and a push notification in the UGA Safe app. The Clery framing is explicit: in the judgment of the Chief of the UGA Police Department or their designee, a campus-wide timely warning is issued 'without delay, as soon as the pertinent information is available to permit such a warning.'\n\nThe two tiers ride on different channel sets. An Emergency Notification activates all UGA Alert dissemination methods — email, SMS text message, and phone calls — and weather alerts are additionally shared via email, the UGA Safe app, social media, and the emergency.uga.edu website. The system is engineered for speed: UGA describes [UGA Alert](https://prepare.uga.edu/campus-emergencies/uga-alert/) as capable of sending thousands of messages within minutes. Decision authority is tightly scoped. On the Athens campus, UGA Alert emergency notifications or timely warnings are usually sent by the UGA Police Department, and messages can be authorized only by the UGA President, any Vice President, the Chief of Police (or acting Chief), and the Director of Emergency Preparedness (or acting director).\n\nUGA tests the system on a recurring cadence rather than a single annual shot: per the Office of Emergency Preparedness, UGA Alert is tested twice a year — during the February statewide severe weather drill and again near the beginning of the fall semester during the UGA evacuation drill — and the community is urged to verify their contact information annually at ugaalert.uga.edu. Student email addresses are automatically registered, so anyone signed up with an email address will automatically receive Timely Warning and Community Notification emails when issued. Because the official .edu pages return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from the official UGA page text as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries; remaining detail is paraphrased.","whenCriteria":"Emergency Notification: a severe health or safety threat to the entire campus that has not been contained or controlled and that requires immediate action to stay safe (e.g., tornado warning, active shooter, chemical spill). Timely Warning: a situation on or near campus that constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat to the campus community.","decisionAuthority":"On the Athens campus, UGA Alert emergency notifications and timely warnings are usually sent by the UGA Police Department. Messages can be authorized by the UGA President, any Vice President, the Chief of Police (or acting Chief), and the Director of Emergency Preparedness (or acting director). Timely warnings are issued in the judgment of the Chief of the UGA Police Department or their designee.","timingStandard":"Timely warnings are issued 'without delay, as soon as the pertinent information is available to permit such a warning.' UGA Alert is engineered to send thousands of messages within minutes.","cleryFraming":"Explicitly tiered to the Clery Act: Emergency Notifications for immediate, uncontained threats requiring immediate action; Timely Warnings (handled by the UGA Police Department) for ongoing or continuing threats from Clery-reportable crimes.","testingCadence":"UGA Alert is tested twice a year — during the February statewide severe weather drill and again near the start of the fall semester during the UGA evacuation drill. The community is urged to verify contact information annually at ugaalert.uga.edu.","scopeLimits":"Timely warnings are tied to ongoing/continuing threats and Clery-reportable crimes and are issued by the UGA Police Department. Authorization is limited to the President, any Vice President, the Chief of Police (or acting), and the Director of Emergency Preparedness (or acting). Routing applies specifically to the Athens campus.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","push-notification","website","twitter-x","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency Notification activation criteria","quotedText":"Emergency notifications are used when there is a severe health or safety threat to the entire campus that has not been contained or controlled and when immediate action is required to stay safe (such as tornado warnings, active shooters, or chemical spills).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://prepare.uga.edu/emer-notification/","sourceDescription":"UGA Emergency Preparedness — Emergency Notification","annotations":["Reserves the Emergency Notification specifically for uncontained, campus-wide threats requiring immediate protective action, matching the Clery 'immediate threat' standard."],"characterCount":258},{"label":"Timely Warning activation criteria and channels","quotedText":"Timely Warnings are used when a situation on or near campus constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat to the campus community. The UGA Police Department sends timely warnings through email and through a push notification in the UGA Safe app.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://prepare.uga.edu/emer-notification/","sourceDescription":"UGA Emergency Preparedness — Emergency Notification","annotations":["Distinguishes the Timely Warning (ongoing/continuing threat) from the Emergency Notification and assigns issuance to the UGA Police Department via email + UGA Safe app push."],"characterCount":243},{"label":"Timely Warning 'without delay' standard and authority","quotedText":"In the event that a situation arises, either on or off campus, that, in the judgment of the Chief of the UGA Police Department or their designee, constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat, a campus-wide \"timely warning\" will be issued without delay, as soon as the pertinent information is available to permit such a warning.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://prepare.uga.edu/emer-notification/","sourceDescription":"UGA Emergency Preparedness — Emergency Notification","annotations":["Vests the timely-warning judgment in the Chief of the UGA Police Department or designee and codifies the Clery 'without delay' timing standard."],"characterCount":327},{"label":"Emergency Notification channel activation","quotedText":"Emergency notifications activate all UGA Alert dissemination methods, which include e-mail, SMS text message and phone calls. Additionally, weather alerts will also be shared via email, the UGA Safe app, social media, and the emergency.uga.edu website.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://prepare.uga.edu/campus-emergencies/uga-alert/","sourceDescription":"UGA Emergency Preparedness — UGA Alert","annotations":["Confirms that an Emergency Notification fires the full channel set (email, SMS, phone), with weather alerts adding the UGA Safe app, social media, and the emergency.uga.edu website."],"characterCount":252}],"keyFindings":["UGA splits emergency communication into two Clery tiers: Emergency Notifications (uncontained campus-wide threat requiring immediate action) and Timely Warnings (ongoing or continuing threat), the latter issued by the UGA Police Department.","Timely warnings are issued 'without delay' in the judgment of the Chief of the UGA Police Department or their designee.","An Emergency Notification activates all UGA Alert methods — email, SMS text, and phone calls — while weather alerts add the UGA Safe app, social media, and the emergency.uga.edu website.","Authorization is restricted to the President, any Vice President, the Chief of Police (or acting), and the Director of Emergency Preparedness (or acting).","UGA Alert is tested twice a year (February statewide severe weather drill and the fall-semester UGA evacuation drill); the community is urged to verify contact info annually."],"sources":[{"title":"UGA Alert — UGA Emergency Preparedness","url":"https://prepare.uga.edu/campus-emergencies/uga-alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Notification — UGA Emergency Preparedness","url":"https://prepare.uga.edu/emer-notification/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Act — UGA Public Safety","url":"https://staysafe.uga.edu/clery-act/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Test of the UGA Alert System on September 13 at 11:10 a.m. — WUGA","url":"https://www.wuga.org/local-news/2023-09-12/test-of-the-uga-alert-system-on-september-13-at-11-10-a-m","type":"local-media"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","uga-alert","uga-safe","public-r1","georgia"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-guam-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-guam-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Guam","shortName":"UOG","state":"GU","type":"territory","alertSystemName":"Incident Command Rapid Communication Procedures / Alertus Desktop","enrollment":2896},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Procedures — Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report","systemName":"Incident Command Rapid Communication Procedures","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.uog.edu/_resources/files/hro/2024-Annual-Campus-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-2021-2023.pdf-1.pdf","lastReviewed":"2024-01-01"},"summary":"The University of Guam issues campus-wide timely warnings and emergency notifications under its [Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.uog.edu/_resources/files/hro/2024-Annual-Campus-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-2021-2023.pdf-1.pdf), activated by the President or designee and delivered through the University's Incident Command Rapid Communication Procedures, supplemented by the [Alertus](https://www.uog.edu/safety-security/alertus) desktop pop-up system.","analysis":"The University of Guam — a public land-grant institution and the primary university in the U.S. territory of Guam — sets out its alerting procedures in its [Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.uog.edu/_resources/files/hro/2024-Annual-Campus-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-2021-2023.pdf-1.pdf) (Clery ASR) rather than a single branded SMS brand. Note that UOG does not operate a 'Triton Alert' system; that name belongs to UC San Diego. UOG's emergency communication backbone is its Incident Command Rapid Communication Procedures, a defined list of channels activated during incidents.\n\nDecision authority rests at the top: when the President of the University or his/her designee determines that an incident constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat, a campus-wide timely warning will be issued. That warning goes out through the Incident Command Rapid Communication Procedures — text alerts, web-page notification, mass e-mail, phone tree, KPRG radio, hand-held radios, and messenger — to students, faculty, staff, and the Guam Police Department. The procedures themselves are posted on the University's web page and distributed to each organization within the university. A standing limitation is built in: timely warning procedures will be implemented as long as it does not jeopardize or compromise efforts to assist victims or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency. Community members with information warranting a warning are directed to the Campus Security Office at (671) 888-2456.\n\nLayered on top of the phone-tree-and-radio core is [Alertus Desktop](https://www.uog.edu/safety-security/alertus), a software client that displays a full-screen pop-up alert on UOG-issued computers when the university issues an emergency alert, simultaneously notifying users about an ongoing or sudden potential threat and what actions to take. Alertus is installed on work computers only (Windows and Mac), works within UOG's wired/wireless network or over an active UOG VPN connection, and at present covers employees (faculty, staff, administrators), who can relay information to nearby students or visitors; subsequent rollouts are planned to extend coverage to students. Covered scenarios range from an active shooter to fire, earthquake follow-up, storm notifications, and hazardous-material risks.\n\nGiven Guam's hazard profile — typhoons, earthquakes/tsunami risk, and regional security concerns — the multi-modal mix of radio (KPRG), hand-held radios, phone tree, and desktop pop-ups is built for resilience when commercial cellular or power is degraded. The University distributes the ASR by posting it on its website and notifying all enrolled students and employees of its availability by e-Triton/GoTriton email, consistent with Clery distribution requirements.","whenCriteria":"A campus-wide timely warning is issued when the President of the University or his/her designee determines an incident constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat. Alertus desktop alerts cover ongoing or sudden potential threats such as active shooter, fire, earthquake follow-up, storms, and hazardous-material risks.","decisionAuthority":"The President of the University or his/her designee determines whether an incident constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat warranting a timely warning.","timingStandard":"Warnings are issued through the Incident Command Rapid Communication Procedures upon the President's/designee's determination of an ongoing or continuing threat; implemented unless doing so would compromise victim assistance or emergency mitigation.","cleryFraming":"Procedures are published in the Clery Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report; uses 'timely warning' language for ongoing/continuing threats and Alertus for immediate-threat emergency notifications.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed; the Incident Command Rapid Communication Procedures are posted on the University web page and distributed to each organization within the university.","scopeLimits":"Timely warning procedures will be implemented as long as it does not jeopardize or compromise efforts to assist victims or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency. Alertus is installed on UOG-issued work computers only and currently covers employees, with student rollout planned.","channels":["sms","email","website","siren","phone-call","desktop-popup"],"excerpts":[{"label":"President/designee authorizes timely warning","quotedText":"When an incident that poses an ongoing or continuing threat is determined by the President of the University or their designee, a campus wide \"timely warning\" will be issued.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uog.edu/_resources/files/hro/2024-Annual-Campus-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-2021-2023.pdf-1.pdf","sourceDescription":"UOG Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report (2024)","annotations":["Decision authority is centralized in the University President or a designee — unusual among larger campuses where police command typically holds it."],"characterCount":174},{"label":"Incident Command Rapid Communication Procedures","quotedText":"The warning will be issued through the University's Incident Command Rapid Communication Procedures (i.e., text alerts, web page notification, mass e-mail, phone tree, KPRG radio, hand held radios, messenger) to students, faculty, staff and the Guam Police Department.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uog.edu/_resources/files/hro/2024-Annual-Campus-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-2021-2023.pdf-1.pdf","sourceDescription":"UOG Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report (2024)","annotations":["The channel list leans on resilient, low-bandwidth methods — phone tree, KPRG radio, and hand-held radios — appropriate for a typhoon- and earthquake-prone territory."],"characterCount":268},{"label":"Warning-procedure limitation","quotedText":"Timely warning procedures will be implemented as long as it does not jeopardize or compromise efforts to assist victims or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uog.edu/_resources/files/hro/2024-Annual-Campus-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-2021-2023.pdf-1.pdf","sourceDescription":"UOG Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report (2024)","annotations":["Mirrors the standard Clery carve-out: a warning may be withheld or shaped if issuing it would compromise victim assistance or emergency response."],"characterCount":183},{"label":"Alertus desktop scope","quotedText":"Alertus Desktop is a desktop notification app that allows University of Guam employees to receive emergency notifications affecting the UOG campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uog.edu/safety-security/alertus","sourceDescription":"UOG Safety and Security — Alertus page","annotations":["Alertus currently targets employees on UOG-issued computers; student coverage is a planned later rollout."],"characterCount":147}],"keyFindings":["UOG has no 'Triton Alert' brand (that is UC San Diego); its alerting runs through the Incident Command Rapid Communication Procedures defined in the Clery Annual Security Report.","The President of the University or designee determines whether an incident is an ongoing/continuing threat warranting a campus-wide timely warning.","Channels emphasize resilience: text alerts, web notice, mass e-mail, phone tree, KPRG radio, hand-held radios, and messenger to campus plus the Guam Police Department.","Alertus Desktop pushes full-screen pop-ups to UOG-issued work computers; it currently covers employees, with a planned rollout to students.","A standing limitation lets the University shape or withhold a warning if issuing it would compromise victim assistance or emergency mitigation."],"sources":[{"title":"UOG Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report (2024, covering 2021-2023)","url":"https://www.uog.edu/_resources/files/hro/2024-Annual-Campus-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-2021-2023.pdf-1.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"UOG Safety and Security — Alertus","url":"https://www.uog.edu/safety-security/alertus","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UOG Safety and Security — Emergencies","url":"https://www.uog.edu/safety-security/emergencies","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UOG Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report (2021)","url":"https://www.uog.edu/_resources/files/hro/2021universityofguamannualcampussecurityandfiresafetyreport.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","territory","guam","alertus","clery-asr"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"uh-hilo-alert-policy","slug":"uh-hilo-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo","shortName":"UH Hilo","state":"HI","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"UH Alert (Rave Alert)","enrollment":2649},"policy":{"title":"Criteria for Issuing a Clery Timely Warning Notice or a Security Alert Notification","systemName":"UH Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://hilo.hawaii.edu/security/clery-timely-warning-notice-criteria.php","lastReviewed":null,"effectiveDate":null,"policyNumber":null},"summary":"UH Hilo's [criteria page](https://hilo.hawaii.edu/security/clery-timely-warning-notice-criteria.php) defines two distinct campus-safety messages: a Clery Timely Warning Notice (for Clery Act crimes representing a serious or continuing threat) and a non-Clery Security Alert (typically a series of property crimes), with the decision to issue either made jointly by the Vice Chancellor for Administrative Affairs and the Director of Campus Security. Both message types are distributed through the opt-in [UH Alert](https://www.hawaii.edu/alert/) email and text system, separate from the campus's broader emergency-notification process for immediate threats.","analysis":"UH Hilo's [criteria page](https://hilo.hawaii.edu/security/clery-timely-warning-notice-criteria.php) draws a careful line between two non-emergency message categories. A **Clery Timely Warning Notice** is reserved for Clery Act crimes that 'represent a serious or continuing threat to the person and well-being of students and employees' and that occurred within the institution's Clery geography (on campus, in or on non-campus buildings or property, or on public property contiguous to campus). A **Security Alert**, by contrast, is the university's tool for situations 'not subject to the timely warning standard required by the Clery Act' — typically a series of property crimes or other man-made criminal activity. This two-track structure lets the campus communicate emerging crime patterns that do not legally trigger Clery without diluting the meaning of a formal timely warning.\n\nOn **timing**, the page states the warning 'should be issued as soon as pertinent information is available,' framing the purpose as enabling community members to protect themselves from continuing threats. The decision is explicitly fact-dependent and case-by-case, weighing the nature of the crime, the continuing danger to the community, and the risk of compromising law-enforcement efforts. **Authority** is clearly assigned: the choice to issue a Timely Warning or a Security Alert 'is made in coordination and consultation between the Vice Chancellor for Administrative Affairs and the Director of Campus Security' — a dual-authorization model rather than a single decision-maker.\n\nFor **Clery framing**, the criteria page covers only the timely-warning and security-alert tiers. UH Hilo's separate emergency-notification process — for a 'significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus' — is handled 'without delay' through additional channels described on the system's [Types of Emergency Notification](https://hilo.hawaii.edu/uhh/ehso/TypesofEmergencyNotification.php) page (voice and text via UH Alert, campus message boards, local TV and radio, departmental phone trees, Campus Security megaphones, and press releases). **Channels** for the timely-warning and security-alert messages themselves are the opt-in [UH Alert](https://www.hawaii.edu/alert/) email and text notifications, into which students and staff are directed to enroll. The criteria page does not publish a testing cadence; system testing is documented elsewhere in UH Hilo's Clery materials and the UH Alert system overview.","whenCriteria":"A Clery Timely Warning Notice is issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency, dangerous situation, incident, or crime — specifically for any Clery Act crime that represents a serious or continuing threat to students and employees, occurring within the institution's Clery geography. A Security Alert is issued for a series of criminal activity (usually property-crime related) or other criminal/man-made incidents that are not subject to the Clery timely-warning standard.","decisionAuthority":"The decision to issue a Clery Timely Warning Notice or a Security Alert is made in coordination and consultation between the Vice Chancellor for Administrative Affairs and the Director of Campus Security.","timingStandard":"The warning should be issued as soon as pertinent information is available; the issuance of a timely warning is decided case-by-case in light of the nature of the crime, the continuing danger to the campus community, and the possible risk of compromising law-enforcement efforts.","cleryFraming":"Explicitly separates Clery Timely Warning Notices (federally required for Clery crimes posing a serious/continuing threat) from non-Clery Security Alerts (a campus-defined category for crime series not meeting the Clery standard), and from the campus's separate immediate-threat emergency-notification process.","testingCadence":"Not specified on the criteria page.","scopeLimits":"Timely Warning Notices apply to Clery Act crimes within the institution's Clery geography that pose a serious or continuing threat; Security Alerts cover crime series/other criminal activity falling outside the Clery timely-warning standard. The criteria page does not govern the immediate-threat emergency-notification process.","channels":["email","sms","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely warning trigger","quotedText":"Clery Timely Warning notices will be issued to students and employees upon confirmation of a significant emergency, dangerous situation, incident or crime, impacting the campus community and/or the surrounding area.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://hilo.hawaii.edu/security/clery-timely-warning-notice-criteria.php","sourceDescription":"UH Hilo Clery Timely Warning Notice criteria page","annotations":["Establishes the threshold for a formal Clery Timely Warning — confirmation of a qualifying emergency, situation, incident, or crime affecting the campus and/or surrounding area."],"characterCount":215},{"label":"Security Alert tier (non-Clery)","quotedText":"University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo uses a Security Alert System to notify students and employees when it is determined that there is a series of criminal activity, usually property crime related or other criminal activity that is not subject to the timely warning standard required by the Clery Act.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://hilo.hawaii.edu/security/clery-timely-warning-notice-criteria.php","sourceDescription":"UH Hilo Clery Timely Warning Notice criteria page","annotations":["Defines the second, non-Clery message tier — used for crime series (often property crime) that fall below the Clery timely-warning standard."],"characterCount":294},{"label":"Timing standard","quotedText":"The warning should be issued as soon as pertinent information is available, because the intent of a Clery timely warning is to alert the campus community of continuing threats, especially concerning safety, thereby enabling community members to protect themselves.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://hilo.hawaii.edu/security/clery-timely-warning-notice-criteria.php","sourceDescription":"UH Hilo Clery Timely Warning Notice criteria page","annotations":["States the 'as soon as pertinent information is available' timing standard and ties it to the protective purpose of a timely warning."],"characterCount":264},{"label":"Decision authority","quotedText":"The decision to issue a Clery Timely Warning Notice or a Security Alert is made in coordination and consultation between the Vice Chancellor for Administrative Affairs and the Director of Campus Security.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://hilo.hawaii.edu/security/clery-timely-warning-notice-criteria.php","sourceDescription":"UH Hilo Clery Timely Warning Notice criteria page","annotations":["Dual-authorization model — neither office can issue a notice unilaterally per the stated criteria."],"characterCount":204}],"keyFindings":["UH Hilo maintains a two-track non-emergency message structure: a Clery Timely Warning Notice for Clery crimes posing a serious/continuing threat, and a non-Clery Security Alert for crime series (often property crime) outside the Clery standard.","Issuance of either notice requires joint coordination and consultation between the Vice Chancellor for Administrative Affairs and the Director of Campus Security.","The stated timing standard is 'as soon as pertinent information is available,' with case-by-case judgment about the crime's nature, continuing danger, and the risk of compromising law enforcement.","Both message types are delivered through the opt-in UH Alert (Rave) email and text system, which students and staff are directed to join.","The criteria page deliberately separates these notices from UH Hilo's immediate-threat emergency-notification process, which is initiated 'without delay' through a broader set of channels."],"sources":[{"title":"Criteria for Issuing a Clery Timely Warning Notice or a Security Alert Notification","url":"https://hilo.hawaii.edu/security/clery-timely-warning-notice-criteria.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Types of Emergency Notification for UH Hilo","url":"https://hilo.hawaii.edu/uhh/ehso/TypesofEmergencyNotification.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UH Hilo Campus Security Policies and Procedures","url":"https://hilo.hawaii.edu/security/CampusSecurityPolicies_CleryAct.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Information About UH Rave Alert","url":"https://www.hawaii.edu/alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UH enrollment tops 51,000, highest in eight years (Fall 2025 campus figures)","url":"https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2025/10/05/uh-enrollment-tops-51000-highest-in-eight-years/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","security-alert","clery","territory-pacific","hawaii"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-02","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-hawaii-manoa-uh-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-hawaii-manoa-uh-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa","shortName":"UH Mānoa","state":"HI","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"UH Alert (UH Rave Alert)","enrollment":20404},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification (UH Alert) and Timely Warning Procedures","systemName":"UH Rave Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://manoa.hawaii.edu/dps/uh-alert/","lastReviewed":"2025-09-01"},"summary":"The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa — the flagship of the 10-campus UH System — delivers campus emergency notifications through [UH Alert, powered by the UH Rave Alert system](https://www.hawaii.edu/alert/), which the system contracts from Rave Mobile Safety and which auto-enrolls every community member for email alerts (with opt-in SMS), while [timely warnings](https://manoa.hawaii.edu/dps/uh-alert/) for Clery-reportable crimes are issued separately by the Department of Public Safety.","analysis":"The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is the R1 flagship of the University of Hawaiʻi System and the largest campus in the islands. Its emergency-notification platform is operated at the system level: [UH has contracted Rave Mobile Safety to provide the UH Rave Alert emergency notification system](https://www.hawaii.edu/alert/) to notify the UH community in the event of a natural, health, or civil emergency. UH Mānoa surfaces this as 'UH Alert' through its [Department of Public Safety](https://manoa.hawaii.edu/dps/uh-alert/) (DPS). Rave is the same FedRAMP-authorized mass-notification platform used across hundreds of U.S. campuses; the UH System rolled the unified UH Rave Alert out across its campuses in early 2025 (UH Maui College, for example, [launched UH Rave Alert in January 2025](https://mauinow.com/2025/01/23/uhmc-launches-new-emergency-alert-system-uh-rave-alert/)).\n\nEnrollment is hybrid: email is automatic and SMS is opt-in. All members of the UH community are automatically enrolled to receive emergency alerts to their @hawaii.edu email address, and all students, faculty, and staff automatically receive email alerts for their home campus. SMS is optional — users must log into their UH Rave Alerts account and add a mobile number to receive text alerts, and must separately select any additional campuses whose alerts they want to receive. This design guarantees baseline coverage for the whole community (every active account holder has an @hawaii.edu mailbox) while leaving the faster SMS channel as a user opt-in — a tradeoff worth noting, since email is slower to reach a phone than a text during a fast-moving event. Technical support and account questions route to uhrave@hawaii.edu.\n\nUH Mānoa draws the standard Clery line between the two notice types. A timely warning is issued when a crime listed in the Annual Security Report has occurred within UH Mānoa's Jeanne Clery Act reportable geography and the situation poses a threat to students but is not an emergency requiring immediate action; timely warnings are sent via email to UH students and employees through their @hawaii.edu accounts. UH Alert / UH Rave Alert is reserved for emergencies — a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat — and can push both email and (for opted-in users) SMS. UH Mānoa's [Annual Security & Fire Safety Report](https://manoa.hawaii.edu/dps/asr/) documents these procedures; the campus has previously been recognized nationally for its Clery compliance program.\n\nOn decision authority, the UH System's executive policy framework provides that the determination of what constitutes an emergency is made by the president, vice presidents, chancellors, vice chancellors, and formally designated emergency coordinators; in practice the campus DPS, in coordination with senior administration, authorizes UH Mānoa alerts and timely warnings. The exact UH-Mānoa-specific authorization chain and the published system-test cadence appear in the campus ASR and DPS policy pages, which 403-block automated fetching in this environment; those specifics are paraphrased here from search-engine reproductions of the official pages and the UH System policy, and only the auto-enrollment language — which reproduced identically across multiple independent returns of the official hawaii.edu/alert page — is flagged as confirmed verbatim.","whenCriteria":"UH Alert / UH Rave Alert is activated for a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the community — described by the system as a natural, health, or civil emergency. A timely warning, by contrast, is issued when a crime listed in the Annual Security Report has occurred within UH Mānoa's Jeanne Clery Act reportable geography and the situation poses a threat to students but is not an emergency requiring immediate action.","decisionAuthority":"Under the UH System executive-policy framework, the determination of what constitutes an emergency is made only by the president, vice presidents, chancellors, vice chancellors, and formally designated emergency coordinators. Operationally, the UH Mānoa Department of Public Safety, in coordination with senior administration, authorizes and issues UH Alert emergency notifications and Clery timely warnings. (Comparable UH campuses, e.g. UH Hilo, vest the issuing decision in the Vice Chancellor for Administrative Affairs and the Director of Campus Security, with the Director able to act unilaterally in an extreme emergency.)","timingStandard":"As a Clery-covered institution, UH Mānoa issues emergency notifications immediately upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation, and timely warnings as soon as pertinent information is available. A specific numeric minutes target was not stated in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"Clear two-track distinction: timely warnings (Clery-reportable crimes within Clery geography that pose a threat but are not an immediate emergency) are sent by email to @hawaii.edu accounts; emergency notifications (immediate threat) are pushed via UH Alert / UH Rave Alert through email and opt-in SMS. Both are documented in the campus Annual Security & Fire Safety Report.","testingCadence":"The campus Annual Security & Fire Safety Report documents periodic tests of the emergency-notification system, consistent with the Clery requirement to test emergency response and evacuation procedures at least annually; the exact published test schedule was not retrievable in this review.","scopeLimits":"Email coverage is universal for active @hawaii.edu account holders (auto-enrolled), but SMS is opt-in — community members who never add a mobile number to their UH Rave Alerts account receive only email, not the faster text channel. Alerts for campuses other than a user's home campus are also opt-in. Timely warnings are email-only.","channels":["email","sms","website","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"UH Rave Alert auto-enrollment (email) vs opt-in SMS","quotedText":"All members of the UH community are automatically enrolled to receive emergency alerts from UH Rave Alert to their @hawaii.edu email address. Members of the UH community may also opt to receive emergency alerts from UH Rave Alerts to their mobile device via text messages (SMS).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hawaii.edu/alert/","sourceDescription":"University of Hawaiʻi System — Alert Notifications (Information About UH Rave Alert)","annotations":["Reproduced identically across multiple independent search returns of the official hawaii.edu/alert page. Establishes the hybrid model: automatic email enrollment for everyone, opt-in SMS by adding a mobile number to the UH Rave Alerts account."],"characterCount":278},{"label":"Vendor contracted for the system","quotedText":"UH has contracted Rave Mobile Safety to provide the UH Rave Alert emergency notification system","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hawaii.edu/alert/","sourceDescription":"University of Hawaiʻi System — Alert Notifications (captured via search-engine reproduction; hawaii.edu 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":["Names the platform vendor (Rave Mobile Safety) and the system-level, multi-campus nature of the contract. Captured from search reproductions rather than a directly fetched page, so flagged unconfirmed."],"characterCount":95},{"label":"Timely warning definition (UH Mānoa)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://manoa.hawaii.edu/dps/uh-alert/","sourceDescription":"UH Mānoa Department of Public Safety — Emergency Notification (UH Alert) (captured via search-engine reproduction)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["UH Mānoa, the UH System flagship, issues 'UH Alert' emergency notifications through the system-wide UH Rave Alert platform contracted from Rave Mobile Safety, rolled out across UH campuses in early 2025.","Coverage is hybrid: every community member is auto-enrolled for emergency email to their @hawaii.edu address, while SMS is opt-in (add a mobile number in the UH Rave Alerts account); cross-campus alerts are also opt-in.","UH Alert is reserved for immediate-threat emergencies (natural, health, or civil); Clery timely warnings — for reportable crimes within Clery geography that pose a non-immediate threat — are sent by email only.","Emergency-determination authority sits with UH executives (president, VPs, chancellors, vice chancellors, designated emergency coordinators), with the campus Department of Public Safety issuing UH Mānoa alerts and warnings operationally.","Only the auto-enrollment/opt-in-SMS language is confirmed verbatim (reproduced identically across independent returns of hawaii.edu/alert); vendor, timely-warning, and authorization specifics are paraphrased because hawaii.edu/manoa.hawaii.edu 403-block automated fetching."],"sources":[{"title":"UH Mānoa Department of Public Safety — Emergency Notification (UH Alert)","url":"https://manoa.hawaii.edu/dps/uh-alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University of Hawaiʻi System — Alert Notifications (UH Rave Alert)","url":"https://www.hawaii.edu/alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"2025 UH Mānoa Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://manoa.hawaii.edu/dps/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2025/09/2025-UH-Manoa-Annual-Security-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"UH Maui College launches new emergency alert system, UH Rave Alert — Maui Now","url":"https://mauinow.com/2025/01/23/uhmc-launches-new-emergency-alert-system-uh-rave-alert/","type":"local-media"},{"title":"UH Mānoa Department of Public Safety — Annual Security & Fire Safety Report","url":"https://manoa.hawaii.edu/dps/asr/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","public-r1","hawaii","rave-alert","rave-mobile-safety","flagship"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-houston-uh-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-houston-uh-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Houston","shortName":"UH","state":"TX","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"UH ALERT","enrollment":48972},"policy":{"title":"UH ALERT Emergency Notification System","systemName":"UH ALERT","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.uh.edu/emergency-management/emergency-alert-notification/"},"summary":"[UH ALERT](https://alerts.uh.edu/emergency/) is the University of Houston's official emergency notification system, which sends messages only when a significant emergency or dangerous situation poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community, or when certain reported crimes pose a serious or continuing threat; the system is built on the [PIER](https://uh.edu/infotech/services/e-comm/pier/index.php) emergency-communications platform and is integrated with the University's [Clery Act program](https://www.uh.edu/police/records-reports/annualreport/).","analysis":"[UH ALERT](https://alerts.uh.edu/emergency/) is the University of Houston's official emergency notification system, used to provide prompt notification to students, faculty, and staff when there is a condition that may threaten the health or safety of those on campus. UH frames the trigger narrowly and in explicitly Clery-aligned terms: \"The UH ALERT Emergency Notification System will only send messages when a significant emergency or dangerous situation that represents an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community or when certain criminal offenses have been reported that represent a serious or continuing threat to the university community.\" This single statement folds both the Clery emergency-notification standard (immediate threat) and the Clery timely-warning standard (serious or continuing threat from reported crimes) into one system.\n\nUH ALERT reaches the community across a deep channel set — the emergency website, Facebook, Twitter/X, email, phone, and text messages, plus Alertus beacons and outdoor sirens for on-campus audible/visual warning. Messages are sent by the University of Houston Police Department, the Office of Emergency Management, or University Communications, depending on the nature of the urgent situation — distributing authorization across the three offices most likely to first confirm an emergency. The notification engine sits on top of [PIER](https://uh.edu/infotech/services/e-comm/pier/index.php), the University's emergency-communications platform; UH operates multiple PIER sites for specific emergency-management functions, including the Emergency Operations Center page that serves as a single source for incident information, closures, and weather updates.\n\nOn the Clery side, [UHPD](https://www.uh.edu/police/about/clery/my-responsibility/) reviews Campus Security Authority (CSA) report forms and determines whether an incident warrants a timely warning or emergency notification of the University community and whether it is a reportable crime in the [Annual Security Report](https://www.uh.edu/police/records-reports/annualreport/). Consistent with the Clery Act, the institution issues a timely warning for Clery Act crimes that represent an ongoing threat to the safety of students or employees, while withholding the names and other identifying information of victims as confidential. The distinction mirrors federal guidance: emergency notifications respond to any immediate threat (including weather, fire, or hazmat) and may be tailored to the affected segment of campus, whereas timely warnings address reportable crimes posing a serious or continuing threat and are issued to the broader community.\n\nUH commits to a regular testing rhythm tied to the academic calendar, testing all emergency-notification channels of UH ALERT at least once each fall and spring semester, with the University community informed when each test is scheduled. Scope is bounded by the immediate-threat trigger for emergency notifications and the serious-or-continuing-threat standard for crime-based timely warnings, and by recipients keeping accurate contact information on file.","whenCriteria":"UH ALERT will only send messages when a significant emergency or dangerous situation represents an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community, or when certain criminal offenses have been reported that represent a serious or continuing threat to the university community.","decisionAuthority":"Messages are sent by the University of Houston Police Department, the Office of Emergency Management, or University Communications, depending on the nature of the urgent situation. UHPD reviews CSA report forms to determine whether a timely warning or emergency notification is warranted.","timingStandard":"UH ALERT is used to provide prompt notification when a condition may threaten the health or safety of those on campus; timely warnings for Clery Act crimes are issued for crimes that represent an ongoing threat, withholding victims' identifying information as confidential.","cleryFraming":"UH ALERT consolidates both Clery functions into one system: emergency notifications for situations posing an immediate threat to health or safety, and timely warnings for reported crimes posing a serious or continuing threat. UHPD makes the timely-warning-vs-emergency-notification and reportability determinations from CSA report forms.","testingCadence":"The University tests all emergency-notification channels of UH ALERT at least once each fall and spring semester, and the community is informed when each test is scheduled.","scopeLimits":"UH ALERT is reserved for significant emergencies/immediate threats and serious-or-continuing-threat crimes; emergency notifications may be tailored to the affected segment of campus, while timely warnings reach the broader community. Delivery depends on accurate contact information on file.","channels":["website","facebook","twitter-x","email","phone-call","sms","siren","desktop-popup"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Activation criteria","quotedText":"The UH ALERT Emergency Notification System will only send messages when a significant emergency or dangerous situation that represents an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community or when certain criminal offenses have been reported that represent a serious or continuing threat to the university community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://alerts.uh.edu/emergency/","sourceDescription":"UH ALERT Emergency Notification System","annotations":["Folds the Clery emergency-notification standard ('immediate threat') and timely-warning standard ('serious or continuing threat') into a single system trigger."],"characterCount":330},{"label":"Purpose","quotedText":"UH ALERT is used to provide prompt notification to students, faculty and staff in the event that there is a condition which may threaten the health or safety of those on campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://alerts.uh.edu/emergency/","sourceDescription":"UH ALERT Emergency Notification System","annotations":["Emphasizes promptness and a health-or-safety threat condition as the purpose of the system."],"characterCount":177},{"label":"Testing cadence","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://alerts.uh.edu/emergency/faqs/","sourceDescription":"UH ALERT Frequently Asked Questions","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["UH ALERT sends messages only for significant emergencies/dangerous situations posing an immediate threat, or for certain reported crimes posing a serious or continuing threat — a single trigger spanning both Clery functions.","Authorization is distributed: messages are sent by UHPD, the Office of Emergency Management, or University Communications, depending on the situation.","The system delivers via website, Facebook, Twitter/X, email, phone, and text, plus Alertus beacons and outdoor sirens, and runs on the University's PIER emergency-communications platform.","UHPD reviews CSA report forms to decide whether a timely warning or emergency notification is warranted and whether the incident is reportable in the Annual Security Report.","UH tests all UH ALERT emergency-notification channels at least once each fall and spring semester, with advance notice to the community."],"sources":[{"title":"UH ALERT Emergency Notification System","url":"https://alerts.uh.edu/emergency/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Alert Notification System | Office of Emergency Management","url":"https://www.uh.edu/emergency-management/emergency-alert-notification/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UH ALERT Frequently Asked Questions","url":"https://alerts.uh.edu/emergency/faqs/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"PIER Emergency System Management | University of Houston","url":"https://uh.edu/infotech/services/e-comm/pier/index.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Campus Security Authorities | University of Houston Police","url":"https://www.uh.edu/police/about/clery/my-responsibility/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report | University of Houston (PDF)","url":"https://www.uh.edu/police/records-reports/annualreport/2025-asr-uh.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","pier","texas","public-r1"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-23","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-houston-downtown-emergency-notification-policy","slug":"university-of-houston-downtown-emergency-notification-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Houston-Downtown","shortName":"UHD","state":"TX","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"UHD Alerts","enrollment":14000},"policy":{"title":"Receiving Notifications and Alerts","systemName":"UHD Alerts","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.uhd.edu/administration/emergency-management/receiving-notifications-and-alerts.aspx","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"University of Houston-Downtown's [Receiving Notifications and Alerts page](https://www.uhd.edu/administration/emergency-management/receiving-notifications-and-alerts.aspx) describes multi-channel emergency notification via email, text, digital displays, the UHD homepage, Facebook, and X accounts including UHD_Alerts.","analysis":"UHD is a public master's university in Houston. Its Emergency Management notifications page ([source](https://www.uhd.edu/administration/emergency-management/receiving-notifications-and-alerts.aspx)) is institution-specific: in an emergency UHD notifies the campus via emails, text messages, and digital displays; public notifications also go to the UHD homepage, Facebook, Twitter/X, and the dedicated UHD_Alerts account; students and faculty/staff must keep personal contact information current in myUHD to receive texts and personal email notifications; SMS short codes 89361 and 88911 must not be blocked. This record documents the system overview rather than a full Clery ASR rewrite.","whenCriteria":"Emergency situations requiring campus community notification and situational awareness.","decisionAuthority":"University of Houston-Downtown Emergency Management operations as described on the public receiving-notifications page; exclusive send authority is not named.","timingStandard":"Not stated as a numeric without-delay standard on the receiving-notifications overview page.","cleryFraming":"The multi-channel UHD emergency notification methods support campus emergency communications; dedicated UHD_Alerts social channel is part of the public notification set.","testingCadence":"Not confirmed verbatim on the receiving-notifications page reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Text and personal-email delivery depend on up-to-date contact information and unblocked SMS short codes.","channels":["email","sms","digital-signage","website","facebook","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Core notification methods","quotedText":"In the event of an emergency, the University of Houston-Downtown will notify the campus via a combination of emails, text messages, and digital displays.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uhd.edu/administration/emergency-management/receiving-notifications-and-alerts.aspx","characterCount":153},{"label":"Public viewing channels","quotedText":"Notifications for public viewing will be published to the UHD Home Page, UHD Facebook, UHD Twitter, and UHD_Alerts on Twitter.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uhd.edu/administration/emergency-management/receiving-notifications-and-alerts.aspx","characterCount":126},{"label":"Contact information requirement","quotedText":"Personal contact information must be up-to-date to receive emergency text messages and/or notifications to a personal email account.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uhd.edu/administration/emergency-management/receiving-notifications-and-alerts.aspx","characterCount":132}],"sources":[{"title":"UHD Receiving Notifications and Alerts","url":"https://www.uhd.edu/administration/emergency-management/receiving-notifications-and-alerts.aspx","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["public-masters","texas","emergency-notification","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-idaho-vandal-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-idaho-vandal-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Idaho","shortName":"U of I","state":"ID","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"Vandal Alert"},"policy":{"title":"APM 95.24 — Vandal Alert Notification System","systemName":"Vandal Alert","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.uidaho.edu/policies/apm/95/24","policyNumber":"APM 95.24"},"summary":"The University of Idaho operates [Vandal Alert](https://www.uidaho.edu/dfa/division-operations/ehs/i-safety/vandal-alert), an institution-wide, multi-modal emergency-notification system, under [Administrative Procedures Manual policy 95.24](https://www.uidaho.edu/policies/apm/95/24), which authorizes the Executive Director of Public Safety and Security to broadcast emergency notifications upon a confirmed report of an immediate threat and to issue Clery timely warnings for crimes posing a serious or continuing threat to the Moscow, Idaho (Pacific Time) campus community.","analysis":"The University of Idaho (U of I) is the state's land-grant flagship in Moscow, Idaho — which observes Pacific Time, not Mountain — and its emergency-notification system is branded [Vandal Alert](https://www.uidaho.edu/dfa/division-operations/ehs/i-safety/vandal-alert). Unlike many institutions that bury alert procedures inside a Clery ASR, U of I maintains a dedicated, numbered standalone policy: [APM 95.24 — Vandal Alert Notification System](https://www.uidaho.edu/policies/apm/95/24), part of [APM Chapter 95: Public Safety and Security](https://www.uidaho.edu/governance/policy/policies/apm/95/24). The policy describes Vandal Alert as 'an institution-wide, multi-modal (e-mail, text message, etc.) emergency notification system,' delivering messages by text, email and voice call.\n\nAPM 95.24 explicitly invokes the Clery Act (20 USC § 1092(f)) for both functions. For timely warnings, the policy states they 'will be broadcast when a report of murder, sex offense, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft, manslaughter, arson, or other Clery Act Crime is received by campus security authorities and, in the judgment of the institution, the crime at issue poses a serious or continuing threat to students and employees,' and notes that timely warnings may also be issued for non-Clery crimes that pose such a threat. For emergency notifications, the policy provides that they 'will be broadcast when the university receives a confirmed report from a cognizant authority (i.e. an emergency service authority), that a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty, staff or visitors is occurring,' that notifications will include protective-action instructions, and that an 'all clear' alert will be broadcast when the threat no longer exists.\n\nAPM 95.24 names the decision authority directly: the Executive Director of Public Safety and Security (or designee) determines the content and broadcasts the notification 'without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community,' unless doing so would, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to or otherwise mitigate the emergency — language that tracks the federal Clery exception verbatim. The U of I [Office of Public Safety, Security and Parking](https://www.uidaho.edu/infrastructure/pss/emergency-management) and its Emergency Management function administer the system.\n\nU of I's alert posture drew national scrutiny after the November 2022 off-campus murders of four students; the case is documented in the institution's [2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://content-hub.uidaho.edu/api/public/content/c8c94cc5467d4e269ca829c30f15ecc1?v=a6ecf8f3) and remains a live point of comparison for timely-warning judgment calls in the region. Because uidaho.edu and the ASR content-hub host return HTTP 403 to automated fetching here, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from indexed snippets; the timely-warning crime-list sentence, the emergency-notification 'confirmed report from a cognizant authority' sentence and the 'without delay' authority sentence each reproduced identically across two or more official-attributed retrievals and are marked verbatim-confirmed.","whenCriteria":"A Vandal Alert emergency notification is broadcast upon a confirmed report from a cognizant (emergency-service) authority that a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety is occurring. A timely warning is broadcast when a Clery-enumerated crime (or other Clery Act crime) is reported to campus security authorities and, in the institution's judgment, poses a serious or continuing threat; non-Clery crimes posing such a threat may also trigger a timely warning.","decisionAuthority":"Per APM 95.24, the Executive Director of Public Safety and Security (or designee) determines the content of the emergency notification and broadcasts it 'without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community,' subject to the Clery professional-judgment exception. The Office of Public Safety, Security and Parking administers Vandal Alert.","timingStandard":"APM 95.24 requires the Executive Director of Public Safety and Security or designee to act 'without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community,' unless notification would compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to or otherwise mitigate the emergency — the federal Clery 'without delay / professional judgment' standard. An 'all clear' alert is broadcast when the threat no longer exists.","cleryFraming":"APM 95.24 expressly cites the Jeanne Clery Act (20 USC § 1092(f)) and separates emergency notifications (confirmed immediate threat to health or safety) from timely warnings (Clery-enumerated or other crimes posing a serious or continuing threat). The University of Idaho publishes an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.","testingCadence":"APM 95.24 and the ASR provide for periodic testing of Vandal Alert and for documenting tests in the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report; the exact published periodic cadence was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","scopeLimits":"Vandal Alert is institution-wide and multi-modal (email, text, voice). Reach depends on current contact information in the system, which students and employees are asked to maintain. Emergency notifications carry protective-action instructions and are followed by an 'all clear' when the threat ends.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely-warning crime list and serious-or-continuing-threat trigger","quotedText":"Timely Warnings will be broadcast when a report of murder, sex offense, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft, manslaughter, arson, or other Clery Act Crime is received by campus security authorities and, in the judgment of the institution, the crime at issue poses a serious or continuing threat to students and employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uidaho.edu/policies/apm/95/24","sourceDescription":"University of Idaho APM 95.24 — Vandal Alert Notification System","annotations":["Enumerates the Clery crimes that trigger a timely warning, gated by the institution's serious-or-continuing-threat judgment. Identical wording appeared across two official-attributed APM 95.24 retrievals (uidaho.edu/policies/apm/95/24 and the governance/policy mirror)."],"characterCount":344},{"label":"Emergency-notification confirmation trigger","quotedText":"Emergency Notifications will be broadcast when the university receives a confirmed report from a cognizant authority (i.e. an emergency service authority), that a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty, staff or visitors is occurring.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uidaho.edu/policies/apm/95/24","sourceDescription":"University of Idaho APM 95.24 — Vandal Alert Notification System","annotations":["Ties emergency notifications to a 'confirmed report from a cognizant authority,' a stricter-than-typical confirmation gate. Identical wording appeared across two official-attributed APM 95.24 retrievals."],"characterCount":315},{"label":"Decision authority and 'without delay' standard","quotedText":"The Executive Director of Public Safety or designee will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and broadcast the notification, unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uidaho.edu/policies/apm/95/24","sourceDescription":"University of Idaho APM 95.24 — Vandal Alert Notification System","annotations":["Names the decision authority and reproduces the federal Clery 'without delay / professional-judgment exception' language nearly verbatim. Reproduced identically across two official-attributed APM 95.24 retrievals (the public-safety overview and the policy text)."],"characterCount":393},{"label":"System definition (multi-modal)","quotedText":"Vandal Alert is an institution-wide, multi-modal (e-mail, text message, etc.) emergency notification system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uidaho.edu/policies/apm/95/24","sourceDescription":"University of Idaho APM 95.24 (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Defines Vandal Alert as institution-wide and multi-modal. Surfaced via the search index from a single retrieval; uidaho.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":108}],"keyFindings":["The University of Idaho maintains a dedicated numbered standalone policy — APM 95.24 — governing the Vandal Alert emergency-notification system, rather than burying it in the ASR.","APM 95.24 names the decision authority (Executive Director of Public Safety and Security or designee) and adopts the federal Clery 'without delay / professional-judgment exception' standard nearly verbatim.","Emergency notifications require a 'confirmed report from a cognizant authority,' carry protective-action instructions, and are followed by an explicit 'all clear' alert.","Timely warnings enumerate the Clery crimes and may also cover non-Clery crimes posing a serious or continuing threat.","Moscow, Idaho observes Pacific Time (a common timezone trap); three excerpts were confirmed verbatim across two APM 95.24 retrievals, while the system-definition excerpt and the exact test cadence are flagged because uidaho.edu blocked automated fetching."],"sources":[{"title":"University of Idaho APM 95.24 — Vandal Alert Notification System","url":"https://www.uidaho.edu/policies/apm/95/24","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University of Idaho — APM Chapter 95: Public Safety and Security (95.24)","url":"https://www.uidaho.edu/governance/policy/policies/apm/95/24","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University of Idaho — Vandal Alert (I-Safety / EHS)","url":"https://www.uidaho.edu/dfa/division-operations/ehs/i-safety/vandal-alert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University of Idaho — Emergency Management (Public Safety, Security and Parking)","url":"https://www.uidaho.edu/infrastructure/pss/emergency-management","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University of Idaho — Annual Security and Fire Safety Report 2025","url":"https://content-hub.uidaho.edu/api/public/content/c8c94cc5467d4e269ca829c30f15ecc1?v=a6ecf8f3","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","standalone-policy","public-r1","idaho","vandal-alert","pacific-time"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-illinois-chicago-uic-alert-criteria","slug":"university-of-illinois-chicago-uic-alert-criteria","institution":{"name":"University of Illinois Chicago","shortName":"UIC","state":"IL","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"UIC ALERT","enrollment":35869},"policy":{"title":"UIC ALERT (Emergency Notification System)","systemName":"UIC ALERT","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://ready.uic.edu/safetyresources/uicalert/"},"summary":"The University of Illinois Chicago's Office of Preparedness and Response publishes the [UIC ALERT criteria](https://ready.uic.edu/safetyresources/uicalert/): authorized individuals issue an alert upon emergency responder confirmation of a threat to the campus community, with a professional-judgment exception where notification would compromise victim assistance or emergency containment.","analysis":"UIC's alerting rules live on the [Office of Preparedness and Response's UIC ALERT page](https://ready.uic.edu/safetyresources/uicalert/) rather than in the university's formal policy library. The page carries real activation doctrine: authorized individuals issue a UIC Alert upon emergency responder confirmation of any emergency or dangerous situation posing an ongoing or continuing threat, and the sole stated exception is the Clery-standard professional-judgment carve-out for notifications that would compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise lessen the impact of the emergency. Putting responder confirmation, not administrative deliberation, at the front of the trigger is the same design choice this archive documents at other large urban campuses where the police dispatch desk is closest to ground truth.\n\nThe formal [UIC Policy Library](https://policies.uic.edu/uic-policy-library/) was checked for a dedicated notification procedure and does not index one: its Facilities and Safety section holds the University Operations Under Emergency Conditions policy ([OPR-4600-003](https://policies.uic.edu/uic-policy-library/facilities-and-safety/university-operations-under-emergency-conditions), effective May 23, 2022, owned by the Vice Chancellor for Administrative Services), which mandates a comprehensive Emergency Operations Plan and commits the university to using all available resources in an emergency or disaster, plus an Inclement Weather and Emergency Curtailment of Operations policy that names UIC ALERT as the delivery system for weather and curtailment notices. The alert-issuance criteria themselves are published only on the preparedness site, which is why this entry is filed as a criteria page rather than a standard operating procedure.\n\nDelivery spans text message, email, the UIC.edu and emergency.uic.edu sites, X and Facebook accounts, and on-campus digital signage, and [UIC Today's testing announcements](https://today.uic.edu/testing-uics-emergency-notification-and-response-procedures/) document a universitywide test on the first Tuesday of each month at 10 a.m., with the all-clear messages from those tests archived publicly on emergency.uic.edu. Because uic.edu hosts are not reachable from this research environment (automated fetches return errors), the passages quoted below come from search-engine-indexed extracts of the cited pages rather than a firsthand line-by-line read, so every excerpt is marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false and confidence is held at medium.","whenCriteria":"A UIC Alert is issued upon emergency responder confirmation of any emergency or dangerous situation that poses an ongoing or continuing threat to the health or safety of the campus community, including emergencies, weather-related cancellations, and threats to the campus community.","decisionAuthority":"Authorized individuals issue UIC Alerts following confirmation by emergency responders; the public page does not enumerate the authorized positions by title.","timingStandard":"Issuance follows responder confirmation, subject only to the professional-judgment exception where notification would compromise efforts to assist a victim or contain, respond to, or otherwise lessen the impact of the emergency.","cleryFraming":"UIC ALERT is the university's Clery emergency notification system; the published criteria fold the Clery confirmation trigger and the compromise-of-response exception into one issuance rule.","testingCadence":"The universitywide UIC ALERT system is tested on the first Tuesday of each month at 10 a.m., and the test all-clear messages are archived on emergency.uic.edu.","scopeLimits":"Alerts are limited to critical university information, emergencies, and threats to physical safety; UIC ALERT also carries weather-related cancellation and curtailment notices under the university's inclement weather policy.","channels":["sms","email","website","twitter-x","facebook","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"What UIC ALERT is","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://ready.uic.edu/safetyresources/uicalert/","sourceDescription":"UIC Office of Preparedness and Response, UIC ALERT page; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Issuance trigger","quotedText":"Authorized individuals will issue a UIC Alert upon emergency responder confirmation of any emergency or dangerous situation that poses an ongoing or continuing threat to the health or safety of the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://ready.uic.edu/safetyresources/uicalert/","sourceDescription":"UIC Office of Preparedness and Response, UIC ALERT page; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":["Confirmation authority sits with emergency responders, placing the trigger at the dispatch and field level rather than with an administrative committee."],"characterCount":215},{"label":"Professional-judgment exception","quotedText":"A UIC Alert is sent unless issuance of the notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or contain, respond to, or otherwise lessen the impact of the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://ready.uic.edu/safetyresources/uicalert/","sourceDescription":"UIC Office of Preparedness and Response, UIC ALERT page; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":["The Clery Act's only sanctioned reason to withhold an emergency notification, restated as the rule's sole exception."],"characterCount":229}],"keyFindings":["UIC Alert issuance turns on emergency responder confirmation, with authorized individuals sending the alert once responders confirm an ongoing or continuing threat.","The only stated exception is the Clery professional-judgment carve-out for notifications that would compromise victim assistance or emergency containment.","UIC's indexed policy library holds no dedicated notification procedure; the issuance criteria are published on the preparedness site, while policy OPR-4600-003 covers emergency operations management broadly.","The universitywide system is tested on the first Tuesday of each month at 10 a.m., and test all-clear messages are archived publicly on emergency.uic.edu.","Delivery spans text, email, two university websites, X, Facebook, and campus digital signage."],"sources":[{"title":"UIC ALERT, UIC Office of Preparedness and Response","url":"https://ready.uic.edu/safetyresources/uicalert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University Operations Under Emergency Conditions (OPR-4600-003), UIC Policy Library","url":"https://policies.uic.edu/uic-policy-library/facilities-and-safety/university-operations-under-emergency-conditions","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Inclement Weather and Emergency Curtailment of Operations, UIC Policy Library","url":"https://policies.uic.edu/uic-policy-library/facilities-and-safety/inclement-weather-and-emergency-curtailment-of-operations/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Testing UIC's Emergency Notification and Response Procedures, UIC Today","url":"https://today.uic.edu/testing-uics-emergency-notification-and-response-procedures/","type":"official-statement"},{"title":"UIC's Emergency Notification System, emergency.uic.edu","url":"https://emergency.uic.edu/","type":"official-archive"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["university-of-illinois-chicago-wood-street-parking-shooting-2026-02-03","uic-credit-union-armed-robbery-student-center-east-2024-05-10"],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","criteria-page","emergency-notification","responder-confirmation","professional-judgment-exception","illinois","public-r1","uic-alert","monthly-testing"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-31","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-illinois-illini-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-illinois-illini-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign","shortName":"UIUC","state":"IL","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"Illini-Alert","enrollment":60848},"policy":{"title":"Illini-Alert Emergency Notifications","systemName":"Illini-Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://police.illinois.edu/em/response/illini-alerts/","lastReviewed":null,"effectiveDate":null,"policyNumber":null},"summary":"Illini-Alert is the [University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Division of Public Safety's](https://police.illinois.edu/em/response/illini-alerts/) emergency-notification system, used for incidents that present an imminent threat to life, health, or safety to the general campus population. The Division of Public Safety determines on a case-by-case basis whether and when to issue an Illini-Alert, delivering messages via [text, email, digital signage, and social media](https://www.dps.illinois.edu/services/stay-informed/illini-alerts/) with personal protective instructions.","analysis":"The [University of Illinois Division of Public Safety](https://police.illinois.edu/em/response/illini-alerts/) (DPS) reserves Illini-Alert for the most urgent incidents: 'Illini-Alert is used for incidents which present an imminent threat to life, health, or safety to the general campus population. These messages provide emergency information and instructions for personal protective actions.' More fully, DPS 'may issue an Illini-Alert if a situation poses a verified, imminent, or ongoing potential threat to the safety, security, or health of students or employees, and to expedite emergency response and/or evacuation procedures.' Examples given include an active threat, a major hazardous-materials release, a major fire, an infectious-disease outbreak, or a tornado that would directly impact campus.\n\nOn **decision authority and timing**, the notification system is managed by the Division of Public Safety, 'which determines on a case-by-case basis whether and when to issue Emergency Notifications (\"Illini-Alerts\") to the campus community and surrounding community.' DPS states that 'when a severe campus emergency happens, the Division of Public Safety promptly notifies our community members,' and that additional follow-up messages are sent if DPS determines there is a current or imminent threat to life and/or safety. For dissemination beyond campus, the [Emergency Response Guide](https://police.illinois.edu/emergency-management/preparedness/emergency-response-guide/) provides that if follow-up information is critical to the larger community, it 'may be disseminated using additional mechanisms at the discretion of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Executive Director of Public Safety or designee.'\n\nOn **channels and enrollment**, Illini-Alert 'sends email and text messages and displays on digital signs across campus,' supplemented by official X (Twitter) and Facebook updates. All students, faculty, and staff are prompted to provide a cellphone number for Illini-Alert text messages when they set up their campus NetID accounts; those who previously opted out can re-enroll at emergency.illinois.edu, and people without a NetID can subscribe by texting 'IlliniAlert' to 226787.\n\nOn **Clery framing**, Illini-Alert is the emergency-notification half of UIUC's Clery program, used when there is confirmation of an immediate or imminent threat to the campus population; the [Division of Public Safety's Clery compliance procedures](https://police.illinois.edu/crime-stats-and-clery/clery-compliance-procedures/) separately govern timely warnings for Clery crimes within Clery geography that pose a serious or ongoing threat. **Testing:** DPS sends at least one test message each semester to confirm the Illini-Alert service is functioning correctly. **Scope/limits:** Illini-Alert is reserved for imminent, campus-wide threats to life, health, or safety; routine incidents and crimes that do not pose an imminent population-level threat are handled through other channels (timely warnings / crime alerts) rather than Illini-Alert.","whenCriteria":"Illini-Alert is used for incidents which present an imminent threat to life, health, or safety to the general campus population. DPS may issue an Illini-Alert if a situation poses a verified, imminent, or ongoing potential threat to the safety, security, or health of students or employees, and to expedite emergency response and/or evacuation. Examples: active threat, major hazardous-materials release, major fire, infectious-disease outbreak, or a tornado directly impacting campus.","decisionAuthority":"The Division of Public Safety (DPS) manages the system and determines on a case-by-case basis whether and when to issue Emergency Notifications (Illini-Alerts) to the campus community and surrounding community; dissemination beyond campus is at the discretion of the Executive Director of Public Safety or designee.","timingStandard":"When a severe campus emergency happens, the Division of Public Safety promptly notifies community members; additional messages are sent if DPS determines there is a current or imminent threat to life and/or safety.","cleryFraming":"Illini-Alert is UIUC's Clery emergency-notification channel — used for verified, imminent, or ongoing threats to the general campus population. Timely warnings (crime alerts) for Clery crimes within Clery geography posing a serious or ongoing threat are governed separately under the Division of Public Safety's Clery compliance procedures.","testingCadence":"At least one test message is sent each semester to ensure the Illini-Alert service is functioning correctly.","scopeLimits":"Illini-Alert is reserved for imminent threats to life, health, or safety affecting the general campus population; incidents that do not rise to a campus-wide imminent threat (and already-occurred crimes posing a continuing-but-not-imminent threat) are handled through timely warnings/crime alerts rather than Illini-Alert.","channels":["sms","email","digital-signage","twitter-x","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Illini-Alert activation threshold","quotedText":"Illini-Alert is used for incidents which present an imminent threat to life, health, or safety to the general campus population. These messages provide emergency information and instructions for personal protective actions.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.illinois.edu/em/response/illini-alerts/","sourceDescription":"UIUC Division of Public Safety — Illini-Alerts","annotations":["Sets the threshold at an imminent, population-level threat to life/health/safety and frames the message content as protective-action instructions."],"characterCount":223},{"label":"Discretionary case-by-case authority","quotedText":"DPS may issue an Illini-Alert if a situation poses a verified, imminent, or ongoing potential threat to the safety, security, or health of students or employees, and to expedite emergency response and/or evacuation procedures.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.illinois.edu/em/response/illini-alerts/","sourceDescription":"UIUC Division of Public Safety — Illini-Alerts","annotations":["Describes the discretionary trigger (verified, imminent, or ongoing potential threat) and ties alerting to expediting emergency response/evacuation."],"characterCount":226},{"label":"Channels (email, text, digital signs)","quotedText":"Illini-Alert sends email and text messages and displays on digital signs across campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.dps.illinois.edu/services/stay-informed/illini-alerts/","sourceDescription":"University of Illinois Police Department — Illini Alert","annotations":["Names the three primary delivery channels — email, SMS, and campus digital signage; X/Twitter and Facebook supplement on a case-by-case basis."],"characterCount":87}],"keyFindings":["Illini-Alert is UIUC's emergency-notification system, used for incidents presenting an imminent threat to life, health, or safety to the general campus population.","The Division of Public Safety manages the system and decides on a case-by-case basis whether and when to issue Illini-Alerts to the campus and surrounding community.","Channels are email, text, and campus digital signage, supplemented by X (Twitter) and Facebook; students/faculty/staff are prompted for a cell number at NetID setup, and non-NetID users can text 'IlliniAlert' to 226787.","Illini-Alert is the Clery emergency-notification channel; timely warnings (crime alerts) for Clery crimes posing a serious or ongoing threat are handled separately under DPS Clery compliance procedures.","At least one Illini-Alert test message is sent each semester to verify the system is functioning."],"sources":[{"title":"Illini-Alerts — Division of Public Safety, University of Illinois","url":"https://police.illinois.edu/em/response/illini-alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Illini Alert — University of Illinois Police Department","url":"https://www.dps.illinois.edu/services/stay-informed/illini-alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Response Guide — Division of Public Safety, Illinois","url":"https://police.illinois.edu/emergency-management/preparedness/emergency-response-guide/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Compliance Procedures — Division of Public Safety, Illinois","url":"https://police.illinois.edu/crime-stats-and-clery/clery-compliance-procedures/","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Illini-Alert, FAQ — University of Illinois Answers","url":"https://answers.uillinois.edu/illinois/47800","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","illini-alert","clery","illinois"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-23","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-iowa-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-iowa-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Iowa","shortName":"UI","state":"IA","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"Hawk Alert","enrollment":31452},"policy":{"title":"Hawk Alert — Emergency Notifications","systemName":"Hawk Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://safety.uiowa.edu/emergency-notifications","lastReviewed":null,"effectiveDate":null,"policyNumber":null},"summary":"The University of Iowa's [Office of Campus Safety](https://safety.uiowa.edu/emergency-notifications) uses Hawk Alert to notify the campus community of immediate threats to health and safety — such as violence, severe weather, or fires in progress — distinguishing it from a Crime Alert, the university's Clery timely-warning message for crimes that have already occurred but may pose a continuing threat. All students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled, and Hawk Alerts are delivered via text, phone call, email, and full-screen [Alertus Desktop](https://its.uiowa.edu/services/hawk-alert) pop-ups.","analysis":"The University of Iowa frames its alerting in two tiers that map onto the Clery Act's two requirements. **Hawk Alert** is the emergency-notification tool: per the [Office of Campus Safety](https://safety.uiowa.edu/emergency-notifications), it is used 'to notify the campus community of immediate threats to their health and safety in emergency situations such as extreme weather events or violence.' A separate **Crime Alert** serves as the Clery timely warning — the university's own [Hawk Alert v. Crime Alert](https://safety.uiowa.edu/news/2024/08/hawk-alert-v-crime-alert-what-you-need-know) guidance explains that a Crime Alert 'provides you with a timely warning about an incident that has already occurred but may pose a serious or continuing safety threat,' sent via email when a Clery Act crime is committed within the university's Clery geography and reported to a campus security authority or local law enforcement. The distinguishing factor is immediacy: Hawk Alerts address ongoing threats requiring urgent action, while Crime Alerts cover past crimes that may still pose a continuing threat.\n\nOn **trigger and authority**, Hawk Alerts are issued by the Office of Campus Safety 'when there is confirmation of an immediate threat to the health and safety of the campus community.' The guidance also states a notable limit: 'No alert will be issued if a suspect is immediately arrested or detained and there is no imminent or ongoing threat,' reflecting the Clery standard that notification is tied to a live or continuing danger rather than to every reported incident.\n\nOn **channels**, Hawk Alerts can reach recipients via text message, phone call, and email based on each user's settings, plus an opt-in desktop pop-up. The university notes that 'while email is required, text message is the fastest way to receive an alert,' and that [Alertus Desktop](https://its.uiowa.edu/services/hawk-alert) will 'display a full-screen pop-up alert' on participating campus workstations and laptops. All UI students, faculty, and staff are automatically registered; preferences are managed through MyUI and Employee Self Service. The university also extended access to non-affiliates: campus guests can opt in by texting 'HAWK4WEEK' (one week) or 'HAWK4YEAR' (one year) to 67283, an enhancement the university ties to Clery alignment so visitors are informed of imminent threats.\n\nOn **testing**, Campus Safety conducts a Hawk Alert test in coordination with the National Weather Service and Johnson County severe-weather drills (e.g., the March 25 test at 10 a.m.), during which sirens are activated and registered users receive test messages reading 'This is a test of the Hawk Alert system' and 'This is only a test.' Outdoor sirens are separately tested at 10 a.m. on the first Wednesday of each month, weather permitting. **Scope:** Hawk Alert covers immediate, campus-wide or segment-specific threats; routine or already-resolved crime situations are handled through Crime Alerts rather than Hawk Alert.","whenCriteria":"A Hawk Alert is issued when there is confirmation of an immediate threat to the health and safety of the campus community — emergency situations such as extreme weather events, violence, or fires in progress. No alert is issued if a suspect is immediately arrested or detained and there is no imminent or ongoing threat. Past crimes that may pose a serious or continuing threat are handled through a separate Crime Alert (Clery timely warning).","decisionAuthority":"The Office of Campus Safety issues Hawk Alerts upon confirmation of an immediate threat to the health and safety of the campus community.","timingStandard":"Hawk Alerts are sent when there is confirmation of an immediate threat; the university emphasizes speed (text message is the fastest delivery method) for these immediate, ongoing threats requiring urgent action.","cleryFraming":"Two-tier model aligned to the Clery Act: Hawk Alert = emergency notification (immediate, ongoing threats); Crime Alert = timely warning (a Clery crime that has already occurred but may pose a serious or continuing threat, sent by email within the university's Clery geography).","testingCadence":"Hawk Alert tests are conducted in coordination with the National Weather Service and Johnson County severe-weather drills (e.g., an annual spring severe-weather-week test at 10 a.m.); outdoor sirens are tested at 10 a.m. on the first Wednesday of each month, weather permitting.","scopeLimits":"Hawk Alert is reserved for immediate threats to health and safety; it is not issued when a suspect is immediately arrested/detained and there is no ongoing threat. Already-occurred crimes with continuing-threat potential are covered by Crime Alerts (email) rather than Hawk Alert.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","desktop-popup","siren"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Hawk Alert purpose","quotedText":"The Office of Campus Safety uses Hawk Alerts to notify the campus community of immediate threats to their health and safety in emergency situations such as extreme weather events or violence.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.uiowa.edu/emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"UI Campus Safety — Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Identifies Hawk Alert as the immediate-threat emergency-notification tool and names the issuing office (Office of Campus Safety)."],"characterCount":191},{"label":"Delivery channels and trigger","quotedText":"While email is required, text message is the fastest way to receive an alert.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.uiowa.edu/emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"UI Campus Safety — Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Establishes email as the mandatory baseline channel while steering users toward SMS as the fastest delivery method."],"characterCount":77},{"label":"Alertus Desktop pop-up","quotedText":"When the university issues an emergency alert (Hawk Alert), all computer workstations and laptops running the Alertus system will display a full-screen pop-up alert providing messaging about the emergency on campus and what actions to take.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://its.uiowa.edu/services/hawk-alert","sourceDescription":"UI ITS — Hawk Alert (Alertus Desktop)","annotations":["Documents the desktop-popup channel: a full-screen Alertus alert pushed to participating campus computers during a Hawk Alert."],"characterCount":240},{"label":"Test message wording","quotedText":"This is a test of the Hawk Alert system. No emergency action is required. This is only a test. More: emergency.uiowa.edu","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.uiowa.edu/hawk-alert-test-hawk-alert-system-no-emergency-action-required-only-test-more-emergencyuiowaedu-2","sourceDescription":"UI Emergency Updates — archived Hawk Alert test message","annotations":["Verbatim text of an actual Hawk Alert system test, archived in the university's Emergency Updates feed."],"characterCount":120}],"keyFindings":["The University of Iowa operates a two-tier Clery alerting model: Hawk Alert for immediate threats (emergency notification) and Crime Alert for already-occurred crimes posing a continuing threat (timely warning).","Hawk Alerts are issued by the Office of Campus Safety upon confirmation of an immediate threat to health and safety.","No alert is issued when a suspect is immediately arrested/detained and there is no imminent or ongoing threat.","Channels include text, phone call, email (required baseline), and an opt-in full-screen Alertus Desktop pop-up; all students, faculty, and staff are auto-enrolled, and campus guests can opt in via text codes (HAWK4WEEK / HAWK4YEAR to 67283).","Hawk Alert is tested in coordination with NWS and Johnson County severe-weather drills; outdoor sirens are tested at 10 a.m. on the first Wednesday of each month, weather permitting."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notifications | Campus Safety - The University of Iowa","url":"https://safety.uiowa.edu/emergency-notifications","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Hawk Alert v. Crime Alert: What you need to know | Campus Safety","url":"https://safety.uiowa.edu/news/2024/08/hawk-alert-v-crime-alert-what-you-need-know","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Hawk Alert | Information Technology Services - The University of Iowa","url":"https://its.uiowa.edu/services/hawk-alert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Hawk Alert test message (archived) | Emergency Updates","url":"https://emergency.uiowa.edu/hawk-alert-test-hawk-alert-system-no-emergency-action-required-only-test-more-emergencyuiowaedu-2","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Severe Weather Awareness Week and Hawk Alert Test | Campus Safety","url":"https://safety.uiowa.edu/news/2026/03/severe-weather-awareness-week-and-hawk-alert-test","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","crime-alert","clery","alertus","iowa"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-kansas-ku-alerts-policy","slug":"university-of-kansas-ku-alerts-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Kansas","shortName":"KU","state":"KS","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"KU Alerts","enrollment":31169},"policy":{"title":"KU Alerts — Emergency Notification System","systemName":"KU Alerts","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://alerts.ku.edu/","lastReviewed":null,"effectiveDate":null,"policyNumber":null},"summary":"[KU Alerts](https://alerts.ku.edu/) is the University of Kansas–Lawrence emergency notification system, sending alerts when there is an immediate threat to the campus and in situations requiring immediate action, plus winter-weather campus-closure messages. As a Clery Act requirement, all students, faculty, and staff are required to receive emergency emails, and the university notably [does not issue alerts for severe weather](https://alerts.ku.edu/) such as tornados, flooding, or lightning — directing the community to local media and the National Weather Service for that information.","analysis":"The University of Kansas operates KU Alerts as its Lawrence-campus emergency notification system. Per the [KU Alerts](https://alerts.ku.edu/) site, the university 'uses a range of tools to keep students, faculty, staff and visitors informed in emergencies,' with alerts 'sent when there is an immediate threat to the campus and in situations requiring immediate action.' Separately, the university sends alerts when campus is closed due to winter weather. (KU's Medical Center campus runs a distinct system branded [BeAlert](https://www.kumc.edu/emergency-management/campus-emergency-communications.html), and this policy describes the Lawrence-campus KU Alerts program.)\n\nA distinctive scope limitation is that KU does not push routine weather warnings: the site states the 'university does not issue alerts for severe weather such as tornados, flooding or lightning,' and directs students and employees to 'rely on local media and the National Weather Service' for that information. This is a deliberate narrowing of the emergency-notification footprint to immediate, action-required campus threats (and to campus-status/closure decisions) rather than every National Weather Service warning that crosses the area.\n\nOn **Clery framing**, KU's [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://civilrights.ku.edu/sites/civilrights/files/documents/Reports/University_of_Kansas_Lawrence_Clery_ASR_2022.pdf) tracks the federal two-tier structure: if there is an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus, the university must follow its emergency notification procedures, and an institution that does so 'is not required to issue a timely warning based on the same circumstances' — though it must provide adequate follow-up information as needed. Emergency notifications address immediate threats; timely warnings (crime alerts) cover Clery Act crimes that may pose a serious or continuing threat.\n\nOn **channels and enrollment**, the [Clery Act](https://www.clerycenter.org/assets/docs/NCSAM19_TW-vs-EN.pdf) compliance posture is that all students, faculty, and staff are required to receive emergency emails. Students are automatically subscribed to emergency text messages and can view or edit their mobile number through Enroll & Pay; faculty and staff are automatically subscribed if their mobile number is recorded in HR/Pay. **Scope/limits:** KU Alerts is reserved for immediate threats and immediate-action situations plus winter-weather closures; routine severe-weather warnings are explicitly out of scope and deferred to NWS and local media.","whenCriteria":"KU Alerts are sent when there is an immediate threat to the campus and in situations requiring immediate action. The university also sends alerts when campus is closed due to winter weather. Under the Clery Act, an emergency notification is required if there is an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus.","decisionAuthority":"The University of Kansas (Lawrence) administers KU Alerts as its emergency notification system; under Clery procedures the university issues an emergency notification upon confirmation of an immediate threat to health or safety occurring on campus. (KU Medical Center operates a separate BeAlert system.)","timingStandard":"Alerts are sent when there is an immediate threat to the campus and in situations requiring immediate action — i.e., reserved for situations demanding immediate community response.","cleryFraming":"Federal two-tier model: emergency notifications for an immediate threat to health or safety occurring on campus, and timely warnings (crime alerts) for Clery crimes posing a serious or continuing threat. An institution that follows its emergency-notification procedures is not required to issue a timely warning based on the same circumstances but must provide adequate follow-up information.","testingCadence":"KU conducts periodic tests and campus drills of its emergency procedures (including tornado drills); the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report describes the emergency-notification testing program. Exact public cadence was not reproduced verbatim from an accessible official page.","scopeLimits":"KU Alerts is limited to immediate threats and immediate-action situations plus winter-weather campus closures. The university explicitly does not issue alerts for severe weather such as tornados, flooding, or lightning, directing the community to local media and the National Weather Service for that information.","channels":["sms","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"When alerts are sent","quotedText":"Alerts are sent when there is an immediate threat to the campus and in situations requiring immediate action.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://alerts.ku.edu/","sourceDescription":"KU Alerts website","annotations":["Defines the immediate-threat / immediate-action trigger for KU Alerts. Confirmed identically across multiple returns of the official alerts.ku.edu page."],"characterCount":109},{"label":"Severe-weather scope limit","quotedText":"The university does not issue alerts for severe weather such as tornados, flooding or lightning. For this information, students and employees should rely on local media and the National Weather Service.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://alerts.ku.edu/","sourceDescription":"KU Alerts website","annotations":["A distinctive, explicit scope limitation: routine NWS severe-weather warnings are deliberately excluded from KU Alerts. Confirmed identically across multiple returns of the official page."],"characterCount":202}],"keyFindings":["KU Alerts is the University of Kansas–Lawrence emergency notification system; alerts are sent when there is an immediate threat to the campus and in situations requiring immediate action, plus winter-weather campus closures.","The university explicitly does NOT issue alerts for severe weather such as tornados, flooding, or lightning, deferring to local media and the National Weather Service — an unusually narrow scope.","As a Clery Act requirement, all students, faculty, and staff are required to receive emergency emails; students are auto-subscribed to text via Enroll & Pay and employees via HR/Pay.","KU follows the federal two-tier model: an institution that follows its emergency-notification procedures is not required to issue a timely warning on the same circumstances but must provide adequate follow-up.","The KU Medical Center campus operates a separate emergency communications system branded BeAlert, distinct from the Lawrence KU Alerts program."],"sources":[{"title":"KU Alerts | KU Alerts","url":"https://alerts.ku.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University of Kansas – Lawrence Campus Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (2022)","url":"https://civilrights.ku.edu/sites/civilrights/files/documents/Reports/University_of_Kansas_Lawrence_Clery_ASR_2022.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"BeAlert Emergency Notification System (KU Medical Center)","url":"https://www.kumc.edu/emergency-management/campus-emergency-communications.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Alerts - Setup and Sign Up Information (KU IT)","url":"https://services.ku.edu/TDClient/812/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=18882","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Timely Warnings & Emergency Notifications (Clery Center)","url":"https://www.clerycenter.org/assets/docs/NCSAM19_TW-vs-EN.pdf","type":"other"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","ku-alerts","kansas"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-kentucky-uk-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-kentucky-uk-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Kentucky","shortName":"UK","state":"KY","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"UK Alert","enrollment":38719},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification - UK Alert","systemName":"UK Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.uky.edu/police/emergency-notification-uk-alert","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"The University of Kentucky operates [UK Alert](https://www.uky.edu/police/emergency-notification-uk-alert), an emergency notification system run by the UK Police Department's Division of Crisis Management and Preparedness that pushes urgent messages by text, phone call, email, building alarms, digital signage, social media, and a network of 50-plus outdoor Blue Emergency Notification Towers; the same office coordinates the release of [immediate UK Alert notifications and separate Clery timely warnings (Crime Bulletins)](https://police.uky.edu/clery-act).","analysis":"UK Alert is scoped tightly to genuine emergencies. Per the [UK Police Department's UK Alert page](https://www.uky.edu/police/emergency-notification-uk-alert), the system will only notify the community 'when there is a disruption to normal campus operations or an immediate threat to the health and safety of the campus community,' with the page's own examples ranging from an explosion, bomb threat, fire, hazardous material release, hostage incident, active aggressor incident, and structural failure to tornado warnings and campus closures or delayed openings. The university further narrows when an alert fires: notifications are issued only when immediate action is required by the recipient (such as the need to seek shelter immediately) or when there is a significant disruption to campus operations such as a weather-related delay.\n\nEnrollment is automatic and layered. All UK students, staff, and faculty are registered in UK Alert through their official UK email address, and the community is encouraged to add mobile numbers and personal email addresses through the myUK portal; any number listed in the 'mobile contacts' field automatically receives an SMS text with the option to also receive a phone call. The channel set is unusually broad: UK Alert sends via email, text message, phone calls, building alarm systems, digital signage, social media, and outdoor sirens. The outdoor component is the [Blue Emergency Notification Towers](https://police.uky.edu/safety/blue-emergency-towers) — strategically placed at over 50 locations across campus to provide outdoor alert tones and broadcast emergency messages with 360-degree loudspeakers.\n\nThe Clery framing is handled through a two-track structure coordinated by the Division of Crisis Management and Preparedness working with UKPD: it coordinates the release of immediate notifications (UK Alert) and timely warnings (Crime Bulletins) as distinct instruments, per the [UKPD Clery Act page](https://police.uky.edu/clery-act). UK periodically tests the system — a test causes each emergency notification tower to flash, broadcast a series of tones followed by a recorded message, and end with short tones — and the university surveys students and employees afterward to measure reach. Because the official .edu pages return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were captured from the official UK page text as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries; remaining detail is paraphrased.","whenCriteria":"UK Alert notifies the community only when there is a disruption to normal campus operations or an immediate threat to the health and safety of the campus community (examples include explosion, bomb threat, fire, hazardous material release, hostage incident, active aggressor incident, structural failure, tornado warnings, and campus closure or delayed opening). Notifications are issued only when immediate action is required by the recipient or when there is a significant disruption to campus operations.","decisionAuthority":"UK Alert is operated by the UK Police Department's Division of Crisis Management and Preparedness, which works with UKPD to coordinate the release of immediate notifications (UK Alert) and timely warnings (Crime Bulletins).","timingStandard":"Notifications are issued when immediate action is required by the recipient, such as the need to seek shelter immediately. The system is designed to reach the community rapidly across multiple simultaneous channels.","cleryFraming":"Two-track Clery structure: the Division of Crisis Management and Preparedness, with UKPD, coordinates the release of immediate notifications (UK Alert emergency notifications) and timely warnings (issued as Crime Bulletins) as distinct instruments.","testingCadence":"The Division of Crisis Management and Preparedness conducts periodic tests of UK Alert. During a test, each emergency notification tower flashes, broadcasts a series of tones followed by a recorded message, and ends with short tones; students and employees are surveyed after tests to gauge effectiveness.","scopeLimits":"UK Alert is reserved for disruptions to normal campus operations or immediate threats to health and safety; routine matters are not pushed through the system. All members are auto-enrolled via UK email and cannot opt out of email, while mobile/SMS and phone contacts are user-added through myUK.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","siren","digital-signage","twitter-x","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"UK Alert activation criteria","quotedText":"UK Alert will only notify you when there is a disruption to normal campus operations or an immediate threat to the health and safety of the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.uky.edu/get-notified/uk-alert-faq","sourceDescription":"UKPD — UK Alert FAQ","annotations":["Restricts UK Alert to operational disruptions or immediate health-and-safety threats, mirroring the Clery 'immediate threat' standard."],"characterCount":157},{"label":"Automatic registration","quotedText":"All UK students, staff, and faculty are registered automatically in the system via their UK email address.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.uky.edu/get-notified/uk-alert-faq","sourceDescription":"UKPD — UK Alert FAQ","annotations":["Confirms baseline coverage of the entire campus community by email, with mobile and personal contacts added voluntarily through myUK."],"characterCount":106},{"label":"Outdoor Blue Emergency Notification Towers","quotedText":"Blue Emergency Notification Towers are strategically placed at over 50 locations across campus to provide outdoor alert tones and broadcast emergency messages with 360° loud speakers.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.uky.edu/safety/blue-emergency-towers","sourceDescription":"UKPD — Blue Emergency Towers","annotations":["Documents the outdoor-siren component of UK Alert, used to reach people who are outside and away from phones or computers."],"characterCount":183},{"label":"When alerts are issued","quotedText":"UK Alert notifications will only be issued when immediate action is required by the recipient, such as the need to seek shelter immediately, or when there is a significant disruption to campus operations such as a delay due to inclement weather.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uky.edu/cmp/uk-alert-faqs","sourceDescription":"UK Crisis Management & Preparedness — UK Alert FAQs","annotations":["Sets the action-required threshold for issuing an alert and explicitly includes weather-driven operational disruptions."],"characterCount":245}],"keyFindings":["UK Alert fires only for disruptions to normal campus operations or immediate threats to health and safety, and only when the recipient must take immediate action.","The system is run by the UK Police Department's Division of Crisis Management and Preparedness, which coordinates immediate notifications (UK Alert) and Clery timely warnings (Crime Bulletins) as separate tracks.","All students, staff, and faculty are auto-registered via UK email; mobile numbers and personal email are user-added through myUK, with SMS plus an optional phone call.","Channels span text, phone call, email, building alarms, digital signage, social media, and outdoor sirens via 50-plus Blue Emergency Notification Towers with 360-degree loudspeakers.","UK conducts periodic tests in which towers flash and broadcast tones plus a recorded message, and surveys the community afterward to measure reach."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notification - UK Alert | University of Kentucky Police Department","url":"https://www.uky.edu/police/emergency-notification-uk-alert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UK Alert FAQ | University of Kentucky Police Department","url":"https://police.uky.edu/get-notified/uk-alert-faq","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Blue Emergency Towers | University of Kentucky Police Department","url":"https://police.uky.edu/safety/blue-emergency-towers","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"The Clery Act | University of Kentucky Police Department","url":"https://police.uky.edu/clery-act","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UK Alert Test Today; Students, Employees Asked to Take Survey After Test | UKNow","url":"https://uknow.uky.edu/campus-news/uk-alert-test-today-students-employees-asked-take-survey-after-test","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","uk-alert","blue-emergency-towers","public-r1","kentucky"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-louisville-rave-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-louisville-rave-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Louisville","shortName":"UofL","state":"KY","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"UofL Alerts (Rave)","enrollment":23270},"policy":{"title":"Pol - Jeanne Clery Campus Safety (Clery Act)","systemName":"UofL Alerts / Rave Mobile Safety","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://louisville.edu/policies/policies-and-procedures/pageholder/pol-jeanne-clery-campus-safety-clery-act","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"Under the University of Louisville's [Jeanne Clery Campus Safety policy](https://louisville.edu/policies/policies-and-procedures/pageholder/pol-jeanne-clery-campus-safety-clery-act), University Police and/or Communications and Marketing will immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat, using the [Rave](https://louisville.edu/alerts/university-alert-system) system. The same offices issue Clery Timely Warnings when a reported incident poses a serious or ongoing threat.","analysis":"The University of Louisville codifies its alerting obligations in a standalone policy, [Pol - Jeanne Clery Campus Safety (Clery Act)](https://louisville.edu/policies/policies-and-procedures/pageholder/pol-jeanne-clery-campus-safety-clery-act), which separates the Clery Act's two notification duties. For emergency notifications, the policy states that University Police and/or Communications and Marketing will immediately notify the campus community upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus, utilizing the Rave system. For timely warnings, the same offices will timely alert the campus community when a reported incident poses a serious or ongoing threat, with warnings made in a manner that aids in the prevention of similar crimes.\n\nThe alerting platform is [Rave Mobile Safety](https://service.louisville.edu/TDClient/277/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=20117), branded publicly as UofL Alerts (historically referenced as ULert). Community members manage their contact methods through the Rave portal using their UofL credentials, choosing among text, voice, and email and adding multiple phone numbers or addresses to receive alerts on more than one device. When an alert is sent, it goes out by text, email, and voice call and is posted to UofL's official social media accounts.\n\nThe university describes the kinds of situations that trigger an alert: a shooter or violent crime on campus, a bomb, a terrorist act, a chemical hazard, or a gas leak, as well as weather emergencies such as tornadoes and operational situations such as university closings and class delays. The decision authority is explicitly shared between [University Police](https://safety.louisville.edu/alerts) and Communications and Marketing. The reproduced policy language uses the Clery 'immediate' and 'without delay' framing rather than a numeric minutes standard; the specific policy number, effective date, and a published testing cadence are not reproduced in the available material, so those fields are left unstated rather than invented.","whenCriteria":"An emergency notification is issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus. Triggering situations include a shooter or violent crime, bomb, terrorist act, chemical hazard, or gas leak, plus weather emergencies (e.g., tornadoes) and university closings/class delays. A timely warning is issued when a reported incident poses a serious or ongoing threat to the campus community.","decisionAuthority":"University Police and/or Communications and Marketing.","timingStandard":"University Police and/or Communications and Marketing will 'immediately notify' the campus community upon confirmation of an immediate threat; the timely-warning track uses 'timely alert' language. No numeric minutes-based standard is published in the reproduced material.","cleryFraming":"Two distinct Clery tracks: immediate emergency notifications for confirmed immediate threats, and timely warnings for incidents posing a serious or ongoing threat, made to aid prevention of similar crimes.","testingCadence":"Not stated in the reproduced material.","scopeLimits":"Community members manage delivery preferences (text, voice, email) via the Rave portal using UofL credentials and may register multiple contact methods/devices. Alerts are also posted to UofL's official social media accounts.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","twitter-x","facebook","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency notification duty","quotedText":"The University Police and/or Communications and Marketing will immediately notify the campus community upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus, utilizing the Rave system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://louisville.edu/policies/policies-and-procedures/pageholder/pol-jeanne-clery-campus-safety-clery-act","sourceDescription":"UofL Policy Library — Pol-Jeanne Clery Campus Safety (Clery Act)","annotations":["Names the dual decision authority (University Police and/or Communications and Marketing) and the Rave platform; uses Clery 'immediately notify' / 'immediate threat' language."],"characterCount":301},{"label":"Timely warning duty","quotedText":"The University Police and/or Communications and Marketing will timely alert the campus community when a reported incident poses a serious or ongoing threat to the campus community. The timely warnings will be made in a manner that aids in the prevention of similar crimes.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://louisville.edu/policies/policies-and-procedures/pageholder/pol-jeanne-clery-campus-safety-clery-act","sourceDescription":"UofL Policy Library — Pol-Jeanne Clery Campus Safety (Clery Act)","annotations":["Distinguishes the timely-warning track from emergency notification; ties warnings to crime prevention purpose."],"characterCount":272}],"keyFindings":["UofL's standalone Jeanne Clery Campus Safety policy assigns alerting authority jointly to University Police and/or Communications and Marketing.","Emergency notifications go out 'immediately' upon confirmation of an immediate threat, using the Rave system.","Timely warnings are issued for incidents posing a serious or ongoing threat, in a manner that aids prevention of similar crimes.","The platform is Rave Mobile Safety, branded UofL Alerts (historically ULert); members opt into text, voice, and email via the Rave portal and may register multiple devices.","Triggering events include shooter/violent crime, bomb, terrorist act, chemical hazard, gas leak, severe weather (e.g., tornadoes), and university closings/class delays; alerts also post to official social media."],"sources":[{"title":"Pol-Jeanne Clery Campus Safety (Clery Act) — UofL Policy and Procedure Library","url":"https://louisville.edu/policies/policies-and-procedures/pageholder/pol-jeanne-clery-campus-safety-clery-act","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University Alert System — UofL Alerts","url":"https://louisville.edu/alerts/university-alert-system","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Alerts — UofL Department of Public Safety","url":"https://safety.louisville.edu/alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Notifications: How to Receive UofL Alerts (Rave) — UofL Service Portal","url":"https://service.louisville.edu/TDClient/277/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=20117","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-maine-umaine-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-maine-umaine-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Maine","shortName":"UMaine","state":"ME","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"umaine.alerts","enrollment":10878},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications","systemName":"umaine.alerts","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://umaine.edu/police/clery/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications/","lastReviewed":null,"effectiveDate":null,"policyNumber":null},"summary":"The University of Maine in Orono runs a multifaceted emergency communications system, established in 2007, that on activation pushes a text message to subscribers of the [umaine.alerts](https://umaine.edu/emergency/) system, sounds outdoor sirens, posts to the university homepage, social media, and portal, and provides a recorded telephone message at 207.581.INFO. Per the [UMaine Police Clery page](https://umaine.edu/police/clery/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications/), an emergency notification is required when there is confirmation of an immediate threat to the health and safety of the campus community, while a Clery timely warning is decided case-by-case by the Chief of Police or designee for already-committed Clery crimes that pose a serious or ongoing threat.","analysis":"The University of Maine separates its alerting into the two channels mandated by the Clery Act, laid out on the [Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications](https://umaine.edu/police/clery/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications/) page maintained by the UMaine Police Department. A **timely warning** is required when 'a Clery crime, occurring within Clery geography, poses a serious or on-going threat to the campus community.' An **emergency notification** is required on a wider trigger: 'When there is confirmation of an immediate threat to the health and safety of the campus community, an Emergency Notification is required to be issued.' The university stresses these are complementary rather than interchangeable — the emergency notification process does not replace the timely warning process; they differ in that the timely warning applies only to Clery-reportable crimes, while the emergency notification requirement addresses a wider range of threats such as gas leaks and weather emergencies.\n\nOn **decision authority**, 'the decision to issue a timely warning shall be decided on a case-by-case basis in compliance with the Clery Act/Clery Handbook.' At UMaine, that determination rests with the Chief of Police, or designee, who weighs all available facts, whether the crime is considered a serious threat to students or employees, and the risk of compromising law-enforcement efforts. The UMaine Police Chief (or, for the Machias campus, the Head of Campus) may use a variety of means to disseminate a timely warning, including the same mass-notification methods used for emergency notices.\n\nOn **channels and platform**, UMaine's emergency communications system 'established in 2007' is deliberately multimodal. When it is activated, per [UMaine Emergency Information](https://umaine.edu/emergency/), 'a text message is sent to subscribers of UMaine's umaine.alerts system; UMaine Police Department sounds the sirens; information is posted on the university's homepage and social media, and the UMaine portal; and a recorded telephone message may be heard by dialing 207.581.INFO.' Account holders manage their alert contact details through the [University of Maine System](https://www.maine.edu/information-technology/support/update-account-information/update-emergency-alert-preferences/) emergency-alert preferences. The public-facing materials reviewed do not name the underlying notification vendor.\n\nOn **testing**, the system is checked annually with a campus-wide test and weekly with a siren 'growl.' The annual full test — for example, [11 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024](https://www.bangordailynews.com/2024/11/07/bdn-maine/umaine-to-conduct-annual-emergency-communications-system-test-nov-13/) — sounds the outdoor sirens for several minutes and runs the full notification chain (text, web/social/portal posts, and recorded telephone message) so the community can recognize a live activation.","whenCriteria":"An emergency notification is required 'when there is confirmation of an immediate threat to the health and safety of the campus community.' A timely warning is required when a Clery crime, occurring within Clery geography, poses a serious or on-going threat to the campus community; the two are complementary, with the emergency notification requirement covering a wider range of threats (e.g., gas leaks, weather emergencies) than the crime-only timely warning.","decisionAuthority":"The decision to issue a timely warning is made on a case-by-case basis by the UMaine Chief of Police, or designee (UMM Head of Campus for the Machias campus), considering all available facts, whether the crime is a serious threat to students or employees, and the risk of compromising law-enforcement efforts.","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications are required upon confirmation of an immediate threat to the health and safety of the campus community; the multifaceted communications system is designed to 'quickly communicate vital information to the community during emergency situations.'","cleryFraming":"Two-tier Clery model: timely warning (Clery crimes within Clery geography that pose a serious or ongoing threat, decided case-by-case) and emergency notification (confirmation of an immediate threat to health and safety, covering a wider range of dangers). The emergency notification process does not replace the timely warning process.","testingCadence":"The emergency notification system is checked annually with a campus-wide test (e.g., 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024) that sounds the outdoor sirens for several minutes and runs the full notification chain, and weekly with a siren 'growl.'","scopeLimits":"Timely warnings apply only to Clery-reportable crimes within Clery geography; emergency notifications address a wider range of immediate threats (gas leaks, weather emergencies, emergency-response information). The Chief of Police, or designee, may withhold or tailor disclosure to avoid compromising law-enforcement efforts.","channels":["sms","siren","website","facebook","twitter-x","phone-call","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency notification trigger","quotedText":"When there is confirmation of an immediate threat to the health and safety of the campus community, an Emergency Notification is required to be issued.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://umaine.edu/police/clery/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications/","sourceDescription":"UMaine Police — Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications","annotations":["States the immediate-threat trigger for an emergency notification, distinct from the crime-only timely warning."],"characterCount":151},{"label":"Timely-warning decision authority","quotedText":"The decision to issue a timely warning shall be decided on a case-by-case basis in compliance with the Clery Act/Clery Handbook.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://umaine.edu/police/clery/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications/","sourceDescription":"UMaine Police — Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Establishes the case-by-case standard; UMaine vests the determination in the Chief of Police, or designee."],"characterCount":128},{"label":"Multimodal activation","quotedText":"A text message is sent to subscribers of UMaine's umaine.alerts system; UMaine Police Department sounds the sirens; information is posted on the university's homepage and social media, and the UMaine portal; and a recorded telephone message may be heard by dialing 207.581.INFO.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://umaine.edu/emergency/","sourceDescription":"UMaine Emergency Information","annotations":["Enumerates the channels fired on activation: SMS via umaine.alerts, outdoor sirens, homepage/social/portal posts, and a recorded telephone message line."],"characterCount":278}],"keyFindings":["UMaine operates a two-tier Clery model: timely warning (Clery crimes posing a serious or ongoing threat, decided case-by-case) and emergency notification (confirmation of an immediate threat to health and safety, covering a wider range of dangers).","Emergency notifications are required upon confirmation of an immediate threat to the health and safety of the campus community.","Timely-warning decisions are made case-by-case by the Chief of Police, or designee (UMM Head of Campus at Machias).","The multifaceted emergency communications system, established in 2007, fires SMS via umaine.alerts, outdoor sirens, homepage/social-media/portal posts, and a recorded telephone message at 207.581.INFO.","The system is tested annually with a campus-wide test (sirens sounded for several minutes) and weekly with a siren 'growl.'"],"sources":[{"title":"Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications — University of Maine Police Department","url":"https://umaine.edu/police/clery/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Information — University of Maine","url":"https://umaine.edu/emergency/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"The 2024 University of Maine & The University of Maine Machias Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","url":"https://umaine.edu/police/wp-content/uploads/sites/695/2025/11/UM-ASR-2024.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"UMaine to conduct annual emergency communications system test Nov. 13 — Bangor Daily News","url":"https://www.bangordailynews.com/2024/11/07/bdn-maine/umaine-to-conduct-annual-emergency-communications-system-test-nov-13/","type":"local-media"},{"title":"Update Emergency Alert Preferences — University of Maine System","url":"https://www.maine.edu/information-technology/support/update-account-information/update-emergency-alert-preferences/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","siren","maine"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-maine-farmington-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-maine-farmington-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Maine at Farmington","shortName":"UMF","state":"ME","type":"public-bachelors","alertSystemName":"UMF Campus Safety Network"},"policy":{"title":"Annual Security and Campus Safety Report and Fire Safety Report","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.umf.maine.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1/2025/10/2025-Annual-Security-Report.pdf"},"summary":"The University of Maine at Farmington publishes its [2025 Annual Security and Campus Safety Report](https://www.umf.maine.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1/2025/10/2025-Annual-Security-Report.pdf) with dedicated Emergency Response and Notification sections, backs it with the University of Maine System's shared [Emergency Notification and Alert System](https://www.maine.edu/information-technology/support/update-account-information/update-emergency-alert-preferences/), and layers emergency phones and outdoor call boxes across campus linked directly to the UMF Department of Public Safety, alongside the free UMF Safe App.","analysis":"As a campus of the University of Maine System, UMF relies on the System-wide [Emergency Notification and Alert System](https://www.maine.edu/information-technology/support/update-account-information/update-emergency-alert-preferences/) to communicate with students, faculty, staff, and community members when an emergency occurs, the same platform also used for routine announcements such as campus closures, while UMF's own [Department of Public Safety and Campus Police](https://www.umf.maine.edu/campus-life/campus-safety/) maintains campus specific infrastructure layered on top of that system-wide tool.\n\nUMF's [2025 Annual Security and Campus Safety Report and Fire Safety Report](https://www.umf.maine.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1/2025/10/2025-Annual-Security-Report.pdf) devotes sections specifically to Emergency Response and Notification, covering campus emergency response procedures and evacuation protocols, and the report states that in the event of a crime considered a threat to students, the university works quickly to alert and inform students in an accurate and timely manner, tracking the Clery Act's own timely warning language. Physically, UMF supplements digital alerting with emergency phones and outdoor call boxes throughout campus, including at outlying parking lots, each linked directly to the UMF Department of Public Safety and Campus Police communication system, plus the free UMF Safe App, described as providing direct access to campus police and emergency numbers around the clock.\n\nBecause umf.maine.edu and maine.edu returned blocked connections to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below are reconstructed from search engine indexed extracts of the official pages and report rather than a firsthand character by character read, and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation; this record is scored at medium confidence on that basis.","whenCriteria":"In the event of a crime considered to be a threat to students, UMF works quickly to alert and inform students in an accurate and timely manner. The University of Maine System's Emergency Notification and Alert System is used when an emergency occurs system-wide.","decisionAuthority":"UMF's Department of Public Safety and Campus Police is presented as maintaining campus emergency infrastructure and the direct line from emergency phones and call boxes; a single named official with sign off authority for a System-wide alert was not confirmed in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"UMF states it works quickly to alert and inform students in an accurate and timely manner; a specific minutes based standard was not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"UMF's Annual Security and Campus Safety Report and Fire Safety Report includes dedicated Emergency Response and Notification sections addressing Clery obligations; the report's own emergency notification versus timely warning distinction was not independently confirmed beyond the general timely, accurate alerting language captured.","scopeLimits":"The University of Maine System's Emergency Notification and Alert System reaches students, faculty, staff, and community members System-wide; UMF layers campus specific emergency phones, outdoor call boxes at outlying parking lots, and the UMF Safe App on top of that shared platform.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely, accurate alerting commitment","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.umf.maine.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1/2025/10/2025-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"University of Maine at Farmington, 2025 Annual Security and Campus Safety Report (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"System-wide Emergency Notification and Alert System","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.maine.edu/information-technology/support/update-account-information/update-emergency-alert-preferences/","sourceDescription":"University of Maine System, Update Emergency Alert Preferences (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Physical emergency phones and the UMF Safe App","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.umf.maine.edu/campus-life/campus-safety/","sourceDescription":"University of Maine at Farmington, Department of Public Safety / Campus Police (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["UMF relies on the University of Maine System's shared Emergency Notification and Alert System, layered with campus specific emergency phones, outdoor call boxes, and the UMF Safe App.","The 2025 Annual Security and Campus Safety Report and Fire Safety Report devotes dedicated Emergency Response and Notification sections to these Clery obligations.","Umf.maine.edu and maine.edu could not be directly loaded in this environment, so this record is scored at medium confidence and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation."],"sources":[{"title":"2025 Annual Security and Campus Safety Report and Fire Safety Report, University of Maine at Farmington (PDF)","url":"https://www.umf.maine.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1/2025/10/2025-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Department of Public Safety / Campus Police, University of Maine at Farmington","url":"https://www.umf.maine.edu/campus-life/campus-safety/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Update Emergency Alert Preferences, University of Maine System","url":"https://www.maine.edu/information-technology/support/update-account-information/update-emergency-alert-preferences/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","public-bachelors","maine","university-of-maine-system"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-27","lastUpdated":"2026-09-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-mary-washington-umw-alerts-policy","slug":"university-of-mary-washington-umw-alerts-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Mary Washington","shortName":"UMW","state":"VA","type":"public-bachelors","alertSystemName":"UMW Alerts / UMW EANS","enrollment":4000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warnings, Immediate Notifications, and UMW Alerts (2025 ASR)","systemName":"UMW Alerts / Emergency Action Notification System (EANS)","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.umw.edu/police/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"University of Mary Washington's [2025 Annual Security Report](https://www.umw.edu/police/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-Report.pdf) brands UMW Alerts (opt-out multi-channel) and the multi-tiered UMW Emergency Action Notification System (EANS), with UMW Police initiating timely warnings and Office of University Communications preparing releases; nine outdoor speaker arrays cover Fredericksburg, Stafford, and Dahlgren campuses.","analysis":"University of Mary Washington is a public bachelor's institution in Virginia. Its [2025 ASR](https://www.umw.edu/police/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-Report.pdf) is institution-specific: UMW Police initiate the timely-warning process and contact University Communications to prepare a release sent via UMW Alerts; Crime Alert Messages may also ride the Emergency Alert Network. Input roles include UMW Police, Office of Emergency Management, the vice president for administration and finance, the vice president for student affairs, and University Communications. Immediate emergencies activate EANS (text, outdoor speaker array, email, phones, website alerts). UMW Alerts is auto-subscribed/opt-out for employees and students (and allows emergency contacts). RAVE Guardian is documented separately as a reporting/safety app, not the mass-notification brand.","whenCriteria":"Timely warnings when a crime occurs and notification is necessary to warn the University community of a potentially dangerous situation. Immediate notifications / EANS when an emergency requires the employees or student body be notified; emergency alerts state location, nature, and required steps. Crime Alert Messages for crimes classified as serious incidents.","decisionAuthority":"UMW Police Department initiates the timely-warning process. Police contact the Office of University Communications to prepare a release. UMW Police, Office of Emergency Management, vice president for administration and finance, vice president for student affairs, and Office of University Communications may provide input or assistance. Threat/emergency information may be communicated to any UMW police officer, the UMW Emergency Communications Center, or the director of safety and emergency management.","timingStandard":"Timely warnings when notification is necessary to warn of a potentially dangerous situation; immediate notifications via EANS when an emergency requires community notice.","cleryFraming":"ASR pairs timely warnings with immediate notifications; Crime Alert Messages address serious-incident crimes via the Emergency Alert Network.","scopeLimits":"Timely warnings may include suspect name and personal information in certain circumstances but never include personal identifying information of the victim.","testingCadence":"Not stated as a fixed semester cadence in the extracted ASR timely-warning section; multi-tier EANS (including nine outdoor speaker arrays across three campuses) is the documented delivery architecture.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system","website","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"UMW Police initiate timely warnings via University Communications and UMW Alerts","quotedText":"At times it may be necessary for \"timely warnings\" to be issued to the University community. If a crime occurs and notification is necessary to warn the University community of a potentially dangerous situation, the UMW Police Department will initiate the warning process. The Police Department will contact the Office of University Communications to prepare a release and the information will be sent via UMW Alerts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.umw.edu/police/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"UMW 2025 ASR timely warning process","annotations":["Local police-to-communications-to-UMW Alerts workflow."],"characterCount":417},{"label":"Named input roles for timely warning and immediate notification","quotedText":"The UMW Police Department, the Office of Emergency Management, the vice president for administration and finance, vice president for student affairs and the Office of University Communications may provide input or assistance with issuing a timely warning or immediate notification.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.umw.edu/police/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"UMW 2025 ASR decision support roles","annotations":["Named VPs and OEM alongside Police and University Communications."],"characterCount":281},{"label":"EANS multi-tier emergency stack","quotedText":"In the event of an emergency that requires the employees or student body be notified, the University will activate the UMW EANS. This is a multi-tiered approach utilizing a combination of text messaging, area warning (speaker array), email, phones, and University website alerts. An emergency alert will notify the campus community about the location and nature of the emergency and what steps need to be taken.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.umw.edu/police/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"UMW 2025 ASR EANS description","annotations":["Institution-specific EANS brand with outdoor speaker array."],"characterCount":411},{"label":"UMW Alerts opt-out brand","quotedText":"UMW Alerts is a n auto -subscribed emergency alert system that can be sent to cellphones, email, SMS messaging devices, and landline telephones. It's an opt-out system. This system is available to UMW employees and students, along with emergency contacts such as parents and family, local citizens and alumni. Registration for this program is made by accessing https://www.umw.edu/alerts/","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.umw.edu/police/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"UMW 2025 ASR UMW Alerts brand","annotations":["Branded UMW Alerts opt-out system with public registration URL."],"characterCount":388},{"label":"Nine outdoor speaker arrays across three campuses","quotedText":"The area warning system consists of nine speaker arrays on the Fredericksburg, Stafford and Dahlgren campuses. This system, which employs both tones and spoken voice, is a warning system for those located outdoors when an emergency arises.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.umw.edu/police/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"UMW 2025 ASR area warning system","annotations":["Campus-specific outdoor PA count and multi-campus coverage - not generic Clery text."],"characterCount":239}],"keyFindings":["UMW Alerts is the branded opt-out emergency alert system.","UMW Police initiate timely warnings; University Communications prepares the release.","EANS combines text, nine outdoor speaker arrays, email, phones, and website alerts.","Named VPs for administration/finance and student affairs may assist with TW/EN decisions."],"sources":[{"title":"2025 Annual Security Report - University of Mary Washington","url":"https://www.umw.edu/police/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","public-bachelors","timely-warning","emergency-notification","virginia","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-maryland-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-maryland-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Maryland","shortName":"UMD","state":"MD","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"UMD Alerts","enrollment":41725},"policy":{"title":"UMD Alerts — Emergency Notifications and Information","systemName":"UMD Alerts","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://umpd.umd.edu/resources/safety-information/Emergency-Notifications","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"[UMD Alerts](https://alert.umd.edu/) is the University of Maryland's mass, urgent notification system, sent by text and email when a significant emergency or dangerous situation on or near campus poses an immediate threat to health or safety; the [University of Maryland Police](https://umpd.umd.edu/resources/safety-information/Emergency-Notifications) draw an explicit Clery line between these emergency notifications (text plus email) and the slower timely warnings (email) issued for crimes posing an ongoing risk.","analysis":"UMD Alerts is the University of Maryland's branded mass-notification platform, described on the [UMD Alerts FAQ](https://alert.umd.edu/frequently-asked-questions) as \"a mass, urgent notification system\" that the University uses to notify students, faculty and staff of an active, major campus emergency. The trigger is the Clery emergency-notification standard: a UMD Alert is sent \"when there is a significant emergency or a dangerous situation that is occurring on or near campus that poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community,\" and the purpose is \"to alert you only to emergency situations in which there is an imminent threat to public safety.\"\n\nThe [University of Maryland Police Department](https://umpd.umd.edu/resources/safety-information/Emergency-Notifications) frames the program around the two-track Clery model. For imminent threats, emergency notifications go out by text message (and email): \"In the event of a situation or incident on or near UMD which poses an imminent threat to the health or safety, text message(s) will be issued.\" For lower-urgency but ongoing risk, the University issues a timely warning by email: \"When there is important information about a crime or incident on or near UMD which poses an ongoing risk to the safety of the UMD community, an email will be issued.\" UMPD also publishes UMD Safety Notices for crimes posing an ongoing risk. The department is explicit that the system is meant \"not merely to inform but to warn,\" reserved for situations that pose an actual or potential threat to campus safety.\n\nUMD's stated timing philosophy prioritizes speed over completeness: the University \"attempts to minimize the time between the report of a potentially dangerous situation and the issuance of an alert,\" acknowledging that with speed it \"will often have to sacrifice detail\" and may clarify facts as better information becomes available, because \"overriding these concerns is the imperative to deliver alerts as soon as there's sufficient information to do so.\" Alerts typically convey timing, location, incident type, and whether other police agencies are involved, and are often followed by updates throughout the emergency.\n\nDelivery channels are text (SMS), email, and the public [alert.umd.edu](https://alert.umd.edu/) website (with an RSS feed); the system works alongside the campus Alertus desktop/beacon system and Early Warning Sirens. The platform is tested on a fixed cadence: \"the first Wednesday of each month at 11:55 a.m., the campus tests the UMD Alert Emergency Notification System, Alertus System and Early Warning Sirens,\" with messages clearly marked as tests. All U.S. colleges receiving federal student aid are required by the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act to issue emergency notifications and timely warnings about immediate or ongoing threats to safety, and UMD Alerts is the institution's primary emergency-notification mechanism under that mandate.","whenCriteria":"A UMD Alert is sent when there is a significant emergency or a dangerous situation occurring on or near campus that poses an immediate (imminent) threat to the health or safety of the campus community. The system is intended only for emergencies that pose an actual or potential threat to campus safety — to warn, not merely to inform.","decisionAuthority":"The University of Maryland (via the University of Maryland Police Department) determines when an alert is warranted and issues UMD Alerts; emergency notifications are sent for imminent threats and timely warnings/Safety Notices for crimes posing an ongoing risk.","timingStandard":"UMD attempts to minimize the time between the report of a potentially dangerous situation and the issuance of an alert; with speed it will often have to sacrifice detail and may clarify details later, but the overriding imperative is to deliver alerts as soon as there is sufficient information to do so.","cleryFraming":"Explicit two-track Clery model: emergency notifications (text plus email) for situations posing an imminent threat to health or safety, versus timely warnings (email) and UMD Safety Notices for crimes/incidents posing an ongoing risk. Issuance is required under the Jeanne Clery Act.","testingCadence":"Tested on the first Wednesday of each month at 11:55 a.m., in conjunction with tests of the Alertus System and the Early Warning Sirens; test messages are clearly marked as only tests.","scopeLimits":"Used only for emergency situations involving an imminent threat to public safety; UMD Alerts uses the SMS network of the recipient's cell phone, so carrier short codes must be enabled to receive text alerts. The exact number of messages is difficult to predict.","channels":["sms","email","website","siren","desktop-popup"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Mass urgent notification system","quotedText":"The UMD Alerts System is a mass, urgent notification system, comprising a variety of methods through which the University notifies students, faculty and staff of an active, major campus emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://alert.umd.edu/frequently-asked-questions","sourceDescription":"UMD Alerts Frequently Asked Questions","annotations":["Defines the system as a mass, urgent notification platform for active, major campus emergencies."],"characterCount":196},{"label":"Emergency-notification trigger","quotedText":"In the event of a situation or incident on or near UMD which poses an imminent threat to the health or safety, text message(s) will be issued.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://umpd.umd.edu/resources/safety-information/Emergency-Notifications","sourceDescription":"UMPD — Emergency Notifications and Information","annotations":["States the emergency-notification (UMD Alert) trigger as an imminent threat to health or safety, delivered by text."],"characterCount":142},{"label":"Timely warning trigger","quotedText":"When there is important information about a crime or incident on or near UMD which poses an ongoing risk to the safety of the UMD community, an email will be issued.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://umpd.umd.edu/resources/safety-information/Emergency-Notifications","sourceDescription":"UMPD — Emergency Notifications and Information","annotations":["Distinguishes the Clery timely warning (ongoing risk, email) from the imminent-threat emergency notification (text)."],"characterCount":165},{"label":"Speed over detail","quotedText":"With speed, the university will often have to sacrifice detail and, in some cases, may have to clarify details as more and better information becomes available. But overriding these concerns is the imperative to deliver alerts as soon as there's sufficient information to do so.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://umpd.umd.edu/resources/safety-information/Emergency-Notifications","sourceDescription":"UMPD — Emergency Notifications and Information","annotations":["Articulates the timing philosophy — accuracy and detail are subordinate to delivering the alert as soon as there is sufficient information."],"characterCount":278}],"keyFindings":["UMD Alerts is a mass, urgent notification system reserved for significant emergencies/dangerous situations posing an immediate threat to health or safety.","UMD draws an explicit Clery distinction: text-plus-email emergency notifications for imminent threats, email timely warnings (and UMD Safety Notices) for crimes posing an ongoing risk.","The stated timing philosophy is speed over detail — minimize delay and deliver as soon as there is sufficient information, clarifying facts later.","Primary channels are SMS, email, and the alert.umd.edu website, working alongside the Alertus desktop/beacon system and Early Warning Sirens.","The system is tested the first Wednesday of each month at 11:55 a.m. alongside the Alertus System and Early Warning Sirens."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notifications and Information — University of Maryland Police Department","url":"https://umpd.umd.edu/resources/safety-information/Emergency-Notifications","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UMD Alerts — Frequently Asked Questions","url":"https://alert.umd.edu/frequently-asked-questions","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UMD Alerts — Home","url":"https://alert.umd.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Act Info & Reports — University of Maryland Police Department","url":"https://umpd.umd.edu/statistics-reports/clery-act-info-reports","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Overview of the UMD Alerts System — IT Service Desk","url":"https://itsupport.umd.edu/itsupport/?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0010422","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","umd-alerts","university-of-maryland","clery","mass-notification"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"umass-amherst-alerts-policy","slug":"umass-amherst-alerts-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Massachusetts Amherst","shortName":"UMass Amherst","state":"MA","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"UMass Amherst Alerts","enrollment":31726},"policy":{"title":"UMass Amherst Alerts Emergency Notification System","systemName":"UMass Amherst Alerts","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.umass.edu/emergency/emergency-notifications"},"summary":"[UMass Amherst Alerts](https://www.umass.edu/emergency/emergency-notifications) is the university's emergency notification system, whose notifications apply only to emergency situations or conditions that pose an immediate or imminent safety or security threat to the campus community, delivered via text message, email, the UMass homepage, social media, and outdoor warning sirens. The [Emergency Management](https://www.umass.edu/emergency/) program tests the system once per semester (Fall and Spring) to confirm it is working and that the community is familiar with it.","analysis":"[UMass Amherst Alerts](https://ehs.umass.edu/umass-amherst-alerts) is scoped tightly to life-safety events. The university states that \"UMass Amherst Alerts notifications only apply to emergency situations or conditions that pose an immediate or imminent safety or security threat to the campus community.\" It further explains that the alerts \"are issued to notify the campus community of imminent or ongoing threats to safety, security, and health\" and are disseminated \"with the goal of notifying as many people as possible, as quickly as possible.\" This deliberate narrowing of scope to immediate/imminent threats is the system's defining feature and aligns with the Clery Act standard for emergency notifications.\n\nThe system is multi-channel. Text messages go to enrolled mobile phones; students, faculty and staff enroll via SPIRE, and family members can sign up by texting UMassAlert to 78015. Emails are sent to UMass email addresses for emergencies and general safety messages. The university also posts to the UMass homepage and its official social media accounts (UMass on X/Twitter and Facebook), which may supplement the alerts with more in-depth information and instructions. In addition, the campus operates outdoor warning sirens/loudspeakers located throughout campus that may be used to notify the community of an existing or imminent threat.\n\nTesting cadence is explicit and twice-yearly. UMass states the UMass Amherst Emergency Alerts are tested once per semester (Fall and Spring) to ensure they are working properly and that the community is familiar with them, with an advance notice sent the week before each scheduled test that includes access to UMass preparedness resources. Public [UMass Amherst announcements](https://www.umass.edu/news/article/emergency-notification-system-test-set-oct-22) confirm scheduled semester tests of the notification system.\n\nThe broader [Emergency Management](https://www.umass.edu/emergency/) program frames these alerts within the university's continuing effort to evaluate and improve its ability to provide timely and effective emergency notification and warnings during a campus emergency. The Clery framing is the standard two-track model: immediate/imminent-threat events drive emergency notifications via UMass Amherst Alerts, while Clery-reportable crimes posing a serious or ongoing threat drive timely warnings. Scope is bounded by the immediate/imminent threshold; routine or non-emergency information is communicated through other channels rather than the alert system.","whenCriteria":"Notifications apply only to emergency situations or conditions that pose an immediate or imminent safety or security threat to the campus community; alerts are issued to notify the community of imminent or ongoing threats to safety, security, and health.","decisionAuthority":"Administered through the UMass Amherst Emergency Management program (with Environmental Health & Safety and the UMass Police Department) under the university's emergency operations framework.","timingStandard":"Alerts are disseminated with the goal of notifying as many people as possible, as quickly as possible; the university's continuing effort is to provide timely and effective emergency notification and warnings during a campus emergency.","cleryFraming":"Standard two-track Clery model: emergency notifications via UMass Amherst Alerts for immediate/imminent safety, security, and health threats, with timely warnings issued separately for Clery-reportable crimes posing a serious or ongoing threat.","testingCadence":"Tested once per semester (Fall and Spring) to ensure proper function and community familiarity, with an advance notice sent the week before each scheduled test that includes access to UMass preparedness resources.","scopeLimits":"Strictly limited to emergency situations or conditions posing an immediate or imminent safety/security threat; routine or non-emergency information is communicated through other channels. Family members may receive texts by separate opt-in (text UMassAlert to 78015).","channels":["sms","email","website","twitter-x","facebook","siren","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Scope limited to immediate/imminent threats","quotedText":"UMass Amherst Alerts notifications only apply to emergency situations or conditions that pose an immediate or imminent safety or security threat to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://ehs.umass.edu/umass-amherst-alerts","sourceDescription":"UMass Amherst Alerts | Environmental Health & Safety, UMass Amherst","annotations":["Explicitly narrows the system to immediate/imminent safety or security threats, mirroring the Clery emergency-notification standard and excluding routine messaging."],"characterCount":169},{"label":"Goal of notifying as many people as quickly as possible","quotedText":"UMass Amherst Emergency Alerts are issued to notify the campus community of imminent or ongoing threats to safety, security, and health, and are disseminated with the goal of notifying as many people as possible, as quickly as possible.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.umass.edu/emergency/umass-emergency-alerts","sourceDescription":"UMass Emergency Alerts | Emergency Management, UMass Amherst","annotations":["Adds 'health' alongside safety and security and states a speed-and-reach objective rather than a fixed minutes-based standard."],"characterCount":236}],"keyFindings":["UMass Amherst Alerts is scoped only to emergency situations posing an immediate or imminent safety or security threat to the campus community.","Channels include text message (enroll via SPIRE; family via text UMassAlert to 78015), email to UMass addresses, the UMass homepage, official social media, and outdoor warning sirens/loudspeakers.","The stated objective is to notify as many people as possible, as quickly as possible, of imminent or ongoing threats to safety, security, and health.","The system is tested once per semester (Fall and Spring), with an advance notice the week before each test that links to UMass preparedness resources.","Emergency Management frames the alerts within a continuing effort to provide timely and effective emergency notification and warnings during a campus emergency."],"sources":[{"title":"UMass Amherst Alerts | Environmental Health & Safety, UMass Amherst","url":"https://ehs.umass.edu/umass-amherst-alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UMass Emergency Alerts | Emergency Management, UMass Amherst","url":"https://www.umass.edu/emergency/umass-emergency-alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Notifications | Emergency Management, UMass Amherst","url":"https://www.umass.edu/emergency/emergency-notifications","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Notification System Test Set for Oct. 22 | UMass Amherst","url":"https://www.umass.edu/news/article/emergency-notification-system-test-set-oct-22","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","umass-amherst-alerts","massachusetts","public-r1","siren"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"umass-lowell-2025-asr-alert-policy","slug":"umass-lowell-2025-asr-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Massachusetts Lowell","shortName":"UMass Lowell","state":"MA","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"Rave / UMass Lowell Alerts","alertPlatform":"Rave"},"policy":{"title":"2025 Annual Security Report - Emergency Notification and Rave","systemName":"Rave / UMass Lowell Alerts","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.uml.edu/police/alerts-statistics/annual-security-report/2025-annual-security-report.aspx","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"UMass Lowell's [2025 Annual Security Report](https://www.uml.edu/police/alerts-statistics/annual-security-report/2025-annual-security-report.aspx) requires UMLPD, Life Safety and Emergency Management and/or Facilities, with Marketing and Communications, to determine notification content and initiate the system without delay when an emergency or dangerous situation poses an immediate threat. Students, faculty and staff are automatically signed up for Rave email alerts.","analysis":"UMass Lowell (public-r2, six filed cases, no prior policy file; named on the 08-31 census as next and never worked) publishes a live [2025 ASR](https://www.uml.edu/police/alerts-statistics/annual-security-report/2025-annual-security-report.aspx) (HTTP 200). UMLPD, Life Safety and Emergency Management and/or Facilities in conjunction with UML Marketing and Communications (MarCom) determine content and initiate the notification system without delay, taking community safety into account, unless first responders judge that issuing would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Communication methods include Rave for text and email. Students, faculty and staff are automatically signed up for email alerts through their official UMass Lowell email address. A later University apostrophe is curly and that sentence is not quoted. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live HTML.","whenCriteria":"An emergency or dangerous situation that poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of some or all members of the University community, confirmed by UMLPD, Life Safety and Emergency Management, Facilities or MarCom with other administrators and first responders.","decisionAuthority":"UMLPD, Life Safety and Emergency Management and/or Facilities in conjunction with UML Marketing and Communications (MarCom). First responders named in the without-delay sentence include UMLPD, Life Safety and Emergency Management, LPD, and/or Lowell Fire and EMS.","timingStandard":"Without delay, taking into account the safety of the community. Federal law is cited in the ASR as requiring immediate notification of the campus community or appropriate segments.","cleryFraming":"The ASR treats emergency notification (immediate threat, without delay) separately from Timely Warning Notices referenced elsewhere in the report.","scopeLimits":"Students, faculty and staff are automatically signed up for email alerts. Phone numbers are added or modified on the myAlert / getrave.com/login/uml site. Rave is described as available to those in the UMass Lowell community.","channels":["sms","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Community duty to report significant emergencies","quotedText":"All members of the University community are notified on an annual basis that they are required to notify UMLPD of any situation or incident on campus that involves a significant emergency or dangerous situation that may involve an immediate or ongoing threat to the health and safety of students and/or employees on campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uml.edu/police/alerts-statistics/annual-security-report/2025-annual-security-report.aspx","sourceDescription":"UMass Lowell 2025 Annual Security Report (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Reporting duty that feeds confirmation."],"characterCount":323},{"label":"Without-delay initiation","quotedText":"The UMLPD, Life Safety and Emergency Management and/or Facilities in conjunction with UML Marketing & Communications (MarCom) will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system, unless issuing a notification will, in the judgment of the first responders (including, but not limited to: UMLPD, Life Safety and Emergency Management, LPD, and/or the Lowell Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services), compromise the efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uml.edu/police/alerts-statistics/annual-security-report/2025-annual-security-report.aspx","sourceDescription":"UMass Lowell 2025 Annual Security Report (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Ampersand in Marketing & Communications is the live rendered character from &amp;."],"characterCount":609},{"label":"Rave as communication method","quotedText":"These methods of communication include Rave, a system that provides emergency communications and other important information via text message and email.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uml.edu/police/alerts-statistics/annual-security-report/2025-annual-security-report.aspx","sourceDescription":"UMass Lowell 2025 Annual Security Report (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Named system."],"characterCount":152},{"label":"Automatic email enrollment","quotedText":"Students, faculty and staff are automatically signed up for email alerts through their official UMass Lowell email address.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uml.edu/police/alerts-statistics/annual-security-report/2025-annual-security-report.aspx","sourceDescription":"UMass Lowell 2025 Annual Security Report (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["No serial comma after faculty."],"characterCount":123}],"keyFindings":["UMLPD, Life Safety and Emergency Management and/or Facilities with MarCom initiate notifications without delay on an immediate threat.","Rave sends emergency text and email.","Students, faculty and staff are automatically signed up for email alerts."],"sources":[{"title":"UMass Lowell 2025 Annual Security Report","url":"https://www.uml.edu/police/alerts-statistics/annual-security-report/2025-annual-security-report.aspx","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","massachusetts","public-r2","rave"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-memphis-uofm-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-memphis-uofm-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Memphis","shortName":"UofM","state":"TN","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"UofM Alert","enrollment":22000},"policy":{"title":"UofM Alert Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Procedures","systemName":"UofM Alert (powered by Everbridge)","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.memphis.edu/police/everbridge.php","lastReviewed":"2025-01-01"},"summary":"The University of Memphis issues emergency notifications through [UofM Alert, powered by Everbridge](https://www.memphis.edu/police/everbridge.php), a multi-channel mass-notification system that can reach thousands of community members in seconds, and runs the program through the [Office of Crisis Management](https://memphis.edu/crisis/emergency_info.php) with University Police Services issuing Clery emergency notifications and timely warnings.","analysis":"The University of Memphis (UofM) is a public R1 university in Memphis, Tennessee. Its current emergency mass-notification system is [UofM Alert, powered by Everbridge](https://www.memphis.edu/police/everbridge.php); the university migrated to the Everbridge platform on June 15, 2023. UofM describes the system as one that 'is used to make sure you know about issues that may affect your safety' and that 'allows the UofM to contact thousands of campus community members in seconds so you can find out about an emergency right away.'\n\nUofM's emergency text-messaging program was originally launched and marketed under the name TigerText, administered through the UofM Office of Crisis Management with oversight from the Vice President for Business and Finance; the platform has since been consolidated under the UofM Alert / Everbridge brand. UofM states explicitly that the emergency text service 'will never be used for non-emergency notifications,' a self-imposed scope limit intended to protect the credibility and attention-value of the channel.\n\nUofM is deliberately multi-channel and says so directly: 'In the event of an emergency, the University of Memphis has several means of notification in place. The University recognizes that no one method is effective for all students, faculty, staff and visitors.' The channel mix includes UofM Alert text/voice via Everbridge, email alerts to every memphis.edu account, outdoor emergency warning sirens, university web pages, and the [LiveSafe smartphone app](https://www.memphis.edu/police/everbridge.php) for two-way communication with police, alerts, and a SafeWalk virtual-escort feature. The [Crisis Management Team](https://memphis.edu/crisis/emergency_info.php) maintains the broader emergency-management plan, meets regularly, and conducts drills.\n\nUofM keeps the Clery functions distinct between emergency notifications (immediate threats to health or safety, issued without delay upon confirmation) and timely-warning crime alerts (for Clery-reportable crimes representing a serious or continuing threat), both handled through [University Police Services](https://www.memphis.edu/police/) and documented in the [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.memphis.edu/police/pdf/annualsecurityfire.pdf). Because memphis.edu hosts and the ASR PDF return HTTP 403 to automated fetching here, the exact confirmation-and-timing wording in the ASR and the named position with final trigger authority were not byte-for-byte confirmable; two short excerpts (the Everbridge reach statement and the multi-channel rationale) appeared with identical wording across multiple official-page retrievals and are marked verbatim-confirmed.","whenCriteria":"UofM Alert / Everbridge is reserved for emergencies that may affect the safety of the campus community; the text service is explicitly never used for non-emergency notifications. Emergency notifications are issued for significant emergencies or dangerous situations posing an immediate threat to health or safety; timely-warning crime alerts are issued for Clery-reportable crimes representing a serious or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"The UofM Office of Crisis Management administers the emergency-notification program (historically with oversight from the Vice President for Business and Finance), and University Police Services issues Clery emergency notifications and timely warnings. The specific position authorized to confirm and trigger a UofM Alert was not confirmed verbatim (memphis.edu and the ASR PDF blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"UofM emphasizes speed — the Everbridge system can 'contact thousands of campus community members in seconds' — consistent with the federal Clery standard of issuing emergency notifications without delay upon confirmation. The exact internal timing language from the ASR was not confirmable verbatim in this environment.","cleryFraming":"UofM separates Clery emergency notifications (immediate threats to health/safety) from timely-warning crime alerts (serious or continuing crime threats), both handled by University Police Services and documented in the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.","testingCadence":"The Crisis Management Team meets regularly and conducts drills, and the university periodically tests its notification systems. The exact published periodic test cadence for UofM Alert was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","scopeLimits":"UofM states that no single method reaches everyone, so it layers Everbridge text/voice, email to all memphis.edu accounts, outdoor sirens, web pages, and the LiveSafe app; email reaches anyone with a memphis.edu account, while full text/voice reach depends on current contact information in Everbridge. The emergency text channel is restricted to genuine emergencies only.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","siren","website","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"UofM Alert / Everbridge reach statement","quotedText":"UofM Alert powered by Everbridge is used to make sure you know about issues that may affect your safety. This system allows the UofM to contact thousands of campus community members in seconds so you can find out about an emergency right away.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.memphis.edu/police/everbridge.php","sourceDescription":"UofM Police Services — Everbridge page","annotations":["States the system brand (UofM Alert powered by Everbridge) and its speed claim of reaching thousands in seconds. Identical wording appeared across multiple retrievals of the official Everbridge page."],"characterCount":243},{"label":"Multi-channel rationale","quotedText":"In the event of an emergency, the University of Memphis has several means of notification in place. The University recognizes that no one method is effective for all students, faculty, staff and visitors.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.memphis.edu/police/everbridge.php","sourceDescription":"UofM Police Services — Everbridge page","annotations":["Articulates the redundancy philosophy behind layering SMS, email, sirens, web, and the LiveSafe app. Identical wording appeared across multiple retrievals of official UofM safety pages."],"characterCount":204},{"label":"Emergency-only scope limit on the text channel","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.memphis.edu/_alert/","sourceDescription":"UofM Alert / Crisis Management (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["UofM's current emergency-notification system is UofM Alert, powered by Everbridge (migrated June 15, 2023), able to contact thousands of community members in seconds.","The text service was originally launched as TigerText, administered by the Office of Crisis Management; it is consolidated under the UofM Alert / Everbridge brand.","UofM is intentionally multi-channel — Everbridge SMS/voice, email to all memphis.edu accounts, outdoor sirens, web pages, and the LiveSafe app (with SafeWalk).","The emergency text channel is explicitly restricted to emergencies and 'will never be used for non-emergency notifications.'","Clery emergency notifications and timely warnings run through University Police Services; the named trigger authority and exact ASR timing language were not confirmable verbatim because memphis.edu and the ASR PDF blocked automated fetching."],"sources":[{"title":"UofM Police Services — Everbridge (UofM Alert)","url":"https://www.memphis.edu/police/everbridge.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UofM Alert Notification","url":"https://www.memphis.edu/_alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UofM — Be TigerREADY (Crisis Management / emergency info)","url":"https://memphis.edu/crisis/emergency_info.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UofM Police Services","url":"https://www.memphis.edu/police/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UofM — Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.memphis.edu/police/pdf/annualsecurityfire.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","public-r1","tennessee","uofm-alert","everbridge","tigertext","multi-channel"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-miami-enn-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-miami-enn-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Miami","shortName":"UM","state":"FL","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"Emergency Notification Network (ENN)","enrollment":19852},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification Network (ENN)","systemName":"Emergency Notification Network (ENN)","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://prepare.miami.edu/enn/index.html"},"summary":"The [Emergency Notification Network (ENN)](https://prepare.miami.edu/enn/index.html) is the University of Miami's multi-channel mass-notification system, used to warn the campus community when a condition significantly threatens the health and safety of persons on campus; a summarizing policy statement appears in the University's [Annual Safety Matters publication / Annual Security Report](https://umpd.miami.edu/_assets/pdf/pdf/asr-annual-safety-report-2025.pdf) as required by the Clery Act, while the UM Police Department separately issues [Clery Crime Advisories and Timely Warnings](https://umpd.miami.edu/campus-safety/clery-crime-advisories/).","analysis":"The [Emergency Notification Network (ENN)](https://prepare.miami.edu/enn/index.html) is the University of Miami's life-safety alerting backbone, described by the University as \"the comprehensive communications solution that allows the University to quickly disseminate an urgent message through multiple communication mediums.\" The activation trigger is condition-based: if there is a condition which significantly threatens the health and safety of persons on campus, University officials will warn the campus community through a variety of methods. This broad, threat-based standard tracks the Clery Act's emergency-notification framework, which covers not only crime but weather, fires, gas leaks, disease outbreaks, and other situations posing an immediate threat.\n\nThe ENN's defining feature is its breadth of channels. University officials may use one or more of the following methods: SMS text messages and voice messages to cell phones, email to official @miami.edu addresses, an emergency information hotline (1-800-227-0354), UM website banners, the Emergency Preparedness webpage, the UMiami Mobile App, Facebook, Twitter, an RSS feed, campus cable TV (Gables and Medical campuses only), and outdoor warning sirens (Gables Campus only). Recipients are enrolled automatically through the University's systems of record: ENN messages are sent to members of the community who have personal contact information registered on [CaneLink (students) or Workday (employees)](https://prepare.miami.edu/enn/faqs/index.html), and the University notes that those who do not keep contact information current may not receive voice, text, or email alerts.\n\nOn the Clery side, the [Annual Security Report](https://umpd.miami.edu/_assets/pdf/pdf/asr-annual-safety-report-2025.pdf) (published as the University's Annual Safety Matters publication, released on or about October 1 each year) contains the summarizing emergency-notification policy statement required by law. The [UM Police Department](https://umpd.miami.edu/campus-safety/clery-crime-advisories/) issues Clery Crime Advisories and Timely Warnings when a reported crime represents a serious or continuing threat to the community — the federally mandated, distinct-from-emergency-notification function that aims to enable informed personal-safety decisions and aid in preventing similar crimes. The University operates a separate but parallel ENN program for the [Miller School of Medicine / Medical Campus](https://med.miami.edu/offices/public-safety/alerts/emergency-notification-network-(enn)), governed by Public Safety Department Policy E-015 (Emergency Notification).\n\nUM tests the ENN community-wide; public test announcements (for example, an ENN test scheduled between 12:05 PM and 12:20 PM) are circulated in advance via the University's [@UMiamiENN](https://twitter.com/umiamienn) channels and emergency-preparedness pages, and outdoor warning sirens are tested on the Gables Campus. Scope is bounded by the significant-threat trigger for the ENN itself and, on the Clery side, by the serious-or-continuing-threat standard for Timely Warnings and Crime Advisories.","whenCriteria":"ENN is activated when there is a condition which significantly threatens the health and safety of persons on campus; University officials then warn the campus community through a variety of methods. Separately, the UM Police Department issues Clery Crime Advisories / Timely Warnings when a reported crime represents a serious or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"University officials activate the ENN; the UM Police Department (UMPD) issues Clery Crime Advisories and Timely Warnings. On the Medical Campus, ENN use is governed by Public Safety Department Policy E-015 (Emergency Notification).","timingStandard":"The ENN is designed to quickly disseminate an urgent message; the summarizing emergency-notification policy statement required under the Clery Act appears in the University's Annual Safety Matters / Annual Security Report.","cleryFraming":"Two-track framework: the ENN delivers Clery emergency notifications for conditions that significantly threaten campus health and safety (broad threat trigger), while UMPD issues separate Clery Crime Advisories / Timely Warnings for crimes representing a serious or continuing threat.","testingCadence":"The ENN is tested community-wide, with public advance notice (e.g., test windows announced via @UMiamiENN and emergency-preparedness pages); outdoor warning sirens are tested on the Gables Campus.","scopeLimits":"ENN reaches only community members whose contact information is registered on CaneLink (students) or Workday (employees); outdoor warning sirens cover the Gables Campus only and campus cable TV covers the Gables and Medical campuses only. The Medical Campus runs a parallel ENN program under Policy E-015.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","website","facebook","twitter-x","push-notification","siren","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"ENN definition","quotedText":"The University of Miami Emergency Notification Network (ENN) is the comprehensive communications solution that allows the University to quickly disseminate an urgent message through multiple communication mediums.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://prepare.miami.edu/enn/index.html","sourceDescription":"Emergency Notification Network (ENN) | UM Emergency Preparedness","annotations":["Frames the ENN as a multi-channel system whose core purpose is speed of dissemination."],"characterCount":213},{"label":"Activation trigger","quotedText":"If there is a condition which significantly threatens the health and safety of persons on campus, university officials will warn the campus community through a variety of methods.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://prepare.miami.edu/enn/index.html","sourceDescription":"Emergency Notification Network (ENN) | UM Emergency Preparedness","annotations":["A broad, threat-based trigger consistent with the Clery Act's emergency-notification standard (covers more than crime)."],"characterCount":179},{"label":"Registration requirement","quotedText":"ENN messages are sent to every member of the University community who has personal contact information registered on CaneLink (Students) or Workday (Employees).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://prepare.miami.edu/enn/faqs/index.html","sourceDescription":"ENN FAQs | UM Emergency Preparedness","annotations":["Enrollment depends on keeping contact data current in the systems of record; stale data means missed voice/text/email alerts."],"characterCount":160}],"keyFindings":["The ENN is activated when a condition significantly threatens the health and safety of persons on campus — a broad, Clery-style threat trigger.","The ENN spans an unusually wide channel set: SMS, voice, email, hotline, website banners, the UMiami mobile app, Facebook, Twitter, RSS, campus cable TV, and outdoor warning sirens.","Recipients are auto-enrolled via CaneLink (students) and Workday (employees); members without current contact data may not receive alerts.","Outdoor warning sirens cover the Gables Campus only, and campus cable TV covers the Gables and Medical campuses only.","UMPD separately issues Clery Crime Advisories / Timely Warnings for crimes posing a serious or continuing threat; the summarizing policy statement appears in the Annual Safety Matters / Annual Security Report."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notification Network (ENN) | UM Emergency Preparedness","url":"https://prepare.miami.edu/enn/index.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"ENN Communication Method Descriptions | UM Emergency Preparedness","url":"https://prepare.miami.edu/enn/communication_methods/index.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"ENN FAQs | UM Emergency Preparedness","url":"https://prepare.miami.edu/enn/faqs/index.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Crime Advisories | UMPD | University of Miami","url":"https://umpd.miami.edu/campus-safety/clery-crime-advisories/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"2025-2026 University of Miami Comprehensive Combined Annual Security Report (PDF)","url":"https://umpd.miami.edu/_assets/pdf/pdf/asr-annual-safety-report-2025.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Emergency Notification Network (ENN) | Miller School of Medicine","url":"https://med.miami.edu/offices/public-safety/alerts/emergency-notification-network-(enn)","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","outdoor-warning-sirens","florida","private-r1"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-michigan-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-michigan-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Michigan","shortName":"U-M","state":"MI","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"U-M Emergency Alert","enrollment":53488},"policy":{"title":"U-M Emergency Alerts","systemName":"U-M Emergency Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://dpss.umich.edu/prevention-and-training/emergency-preparedness/u-m-emergency-alerts/"},"summary":"U-M Emergency Alert is a free, mass notification system through which the University of Michigan notifies students, faculty, and staff of an active, major campus emergency; the U-M Police Department (UMPD) initiates an urgent notification when it determines there is an active emergency that may put campus public safety at risk, with alerts delivered by text/SMS, voice message, and email ([U-M Division of Public Safety & Security](https://dpss.umich.edu/prevention-and-training/emergency-preparedness/u-m-emergency-alerts/)).","analysis":"[U-M Emergency Alert](https://dpss.umich.edu/prevention-and-training/emergency-preparedness/u-m-emergency-alerts/) is the University of Michigan's free, mass-notification system used to inform students, faculty, and staff of an active, major campus emergency. The decision to activate rests with the U-M Police Department: when UMPD determines there is an active emergency in which the public safety of the campus may be at risk, UMPD will initiate an urgent notification through the system. The university gives concrete triggering examples — when a person actively shooting a weapon is on the loose, when a tornado is predicted to strike the campus area, or when a major hazardous material spill is impacting a large portion of campus.\n\nThe system is deliberately reserved for campus-wide emergencies. U-M states it does not activate the system for localized or suspicious incidents such as small fires or suspicious behavior, and that U-M Emergency Alert usually won't be used for localized incidents within a building such as a small fire. Alerts can be received via text message (SMS), voice message to phones, or email, and students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled to receive U-M Emergency Alerts via email and text message/SMS. The Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses each provide emergency alerts through the program, which is administered by the [Division of Public Safety & Security (DPSS)](https://dpss.umich.edu/prevention-and-training/emergency-preparedness/u-m-emergency-alerts/emergency-alert-faqs/).\n\nOn testing and Clery framing, DPSS tests the system at least once during the fall and winter semesters, and a test message will include the word \"Test.\" U-M's emergency-notification function satisfies the Jeanne Clery Act obligation to notify the community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees; this is distinct from Clery \"timely warnings\" issued for reportable crimes that represent an ongoing threat. Because the program is for major, campus-wide emergencies, lower-level crime advisories and timely warnings are handled separately from the urgent U-M Emergency Alert blast. (Most policy language here is reproduced from search-engine snippets of the official DPSS pages, which returned HTTP 403 when fetched directly in this environment.)","whenCriteria":"Activated when UMPD determines there is an active emergency in which the public safety of the campus may be at risk. Examples: a person actively shooting a weapon is on the loose; a tornado is predicted to strike the campus area; a major hazardous material spill is impacting a large portion of campus. Reserved for campus-wide emergencies; not used for localized or suspicious incidents such as small fires or suspicious behavior, and usually not for localized incidents within a building such as a small fire.","decisionAuthority":"The U-M Police Department (UMPD) determines whether an active emergency exists that may put campus public safety at risk and initiates the urgent notification. The program is administered by the Division of Public Safety & Security (DPSS).","timingStandard":"U-M characterizes the alert as an 'urgent notification' for an 'active, major campus emergency' but does not publish a specific minute-based timing standard on the public page; under Clery, emergency notifications are issued without unreasonable delay upon confirmation of a significant emergency.","cleryFraming":"The U-M Emergency Alert serves the Clery emergency-notification function (significant emergency or dangerous situation posing an immediate threat to health or safety). Clery 'timely warnings' for reportable crimes that represent an ongoing threat are a separate, distinct category from the major-emergency alert blast.","testingCadence":"DPSS tests the system at least once during the fall and winter semesters; a test message will include the word \"Test.\"","scopeLimits":"Sent to students, faculty, and staff, who are automatically enrolled via email and text/SMS; the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses each provide alerts. Reserved for active, major, campus-wide emergencies; not used for localized or suspicious incidents (e.g., small fires, suspicious behavior) or localized incidents within a single building.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"What the system is","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://dpss.umich.edu/prevention-and-training/emergency-preparedness/u-m-emergency-alerts/","sourceDescription":"U-M DPSS - U-M Emergency Alerts page (text reproduced identically across multiple search snippets; official page returned HTTP 403 in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Who activates and when","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://dpss.umich.edu/prevention-and-training/emergency-preparedness/u-m-emergency-alerts/","sourceDescription":"U-M DPSS - U-M Emergency Alerts page (reproduced via search snippet; official page HTTP 403)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"When the system won't be used","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://dpss.umich.edu/prevention-and-training/emergency-preparedness/u-m-emergency-alerts/emergency-alert-faqs/","sourceDescription":"U-M DPSS - U-M Emergency Alert FAQs (reproduced via search snippet; official page HTTP 403)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Testing cadence","quotedText":"DPSS tests the system at least once during the fall and winter semesters. A test message will include the word \"Test.\"","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://dpss.umich.edu/prevention-and-training/emergency-preparedness/u-m-emergency-alerts/emergency-alert-faqs/","sourceDescription":"U-M DPSS - U-M Emergency Alert FAQs (reproduced via search snippet; official page HTTP 403)","annotations":["Documents the at-least-twice-yearly test schedule and the 'Test' marker used to distinguish drills. Not verbatim-confirmed because the official page could not be fetched directly."],"characterCount":118}],"keyFindings":["U-M Emergency Alert is a free, mass-notification system for active, major campus emergencies, reaching students, faculty, and staff by text/SMS, voice call, and email.","The U-M Police Department (UMPD) makes the activation decision when it determines an active emergency may put campus public safety at risk; DPSS administers the program.","Triggering examples include an active shooter on the loose, a tornado predicted to strike campus, or a major hazardous-material spill affecting a large portion of campus.","The system is reserved for campus-wide emergencies and is not used for localized or suspicious incidents such as small fires, suspicious behavior, or single-building incidents.","DPSS tests the system at least once each fall and winter semester, with test messages marked by the word 'Test'; the alert fulfills the Clery emergency-notification obligation, separate from Clery timely warnings."],"sources":[{"title":"U-M Emergency Alerts | Division of Public Safety & Security","url":"https://dpss.umich.edu/prevention-and-training/emergency-preparedness/u-m-emergency-alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"U-M Emergency Alert FAQs | Division of Public Safety & Security","url":"https://dpss.umich.edu/prevention-and-training/emergency-preparedness/u-m-emergency-alerts/emergency-alert-faqs/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"U-M Emergency Alert - Dean of Students Office","url":"https://deanofstudents.umich.edu/article/u-m-emergency-alert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Alerts | Office of the Vice President for Communications","url":"https://vpcomm.umich.edu/resources/emergency-alerts/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","university-of-michigan","u-m-emergency-alert","clery"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-10-12","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-minnesota-safe-u-policy","slug":"university-of-minnesota-safe-u-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Minnesota, Twin Cities","shortName":"UMN","state":"MN","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"SAFE-U","enrollment":57879},"policy":{"title":"SAFE-U Emergency Notifications & Advisories","systemName":"SAFE-U","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://safe-campus.umn.edu/emergency-notifications","lastReviewed":null,"effectiveDate":null,"policyNumber":null},"summary":"SAFE-U is the University of Minnesota's emergency mass-notification system, sending [rapid notifications](https://safe-campus.umn.edu/emergency-notifications) to students, faculty, and staff for incidents within the University's Clery geography. UMN runs a clear two-tier model: [SAFE-U Emergency notifications](https://safe-campus.umn.edu/emergency-notifications) for an immediate threat or imminent danger, and [SAFE-U Advisories](https://clery.umn.edu/safeuadvisory) — its Clery timely warnings — for already-occurred Clery crimes that pose a serious or ongoing threat but do not require immediate action.","analysis":"The University of Minnesota's [Safe Campus](https://safe-campus.umn.edu/emergency-notifications) office describes SAFE-U as 'the University's emergency mass notification system,' through which 'rapid notifications in emergency situations are sent to students, faculty, and staff for incidents that occur within the University's Clery Geography.' A SAFE-U Emergency Alert is issued 'when police confirm that a significant emergency or dangerous situation that poses an immediate threat to campus has occurred and the campus community should take immediate action to preserve safety.' The system is organized around two notification types: SAFE-U Emergency notifications (for an immediate threat or imminent danger) and SAFE-U Advisories (for awareness when there is no immediate threat or danger).\n\nOn **decision authority**, the [Twin Cities Annual Security & Fire Safety Report](https://safe-campus.umn.edu/asfsr/twin-cities/part-i-twin-cities-campus/twin-cities-public-safety) explains that SAFE-U Emergency Notifications can be authorized by UMPD (University of Minnesota Police Department) supervisory staff and Department of Emergency Management staff. For the timely-warning tier, 'the UMPD on-call administrator will evaluate the facts of each crime on a case-by-case basis to determine if a SAFE-U Advisory Notification is warranted' — a discretionary, incident-by-incident judgment about whether a reported Clery crime poses a serious or ongoing threat.\n\nOn **channels and scope**, SAFE-U 'communications are delivered via email, text message, and/or phone messages,' and the system can communicate with students, staff, faculty, and visitors through voice, text, and email. The University notes a Clery-driven floor: 'As part of the Clery Act, all students, faculty, and staff are required to receive emails with SAFE-U Alerts.' The University does not segment SAFE-U Emergency notifications — all current students, staff, and faculty receive the notification. SAFE-U Advisory Notifications are 'electronically distributed to all Twin Cities Campus students, staff, and faculty via University of Minnesota email,' and the University states that 'Personally Identifying Information of victims and reporting parties will not be disclosed in a SAFE-U Notification.'\n\nOn **Clery framing**, UMN maps its two tiers onto the Clery Act precisely. The emergency tier addresses immediate, confirmed threats requiring immediate protective action. The [SAFE-U Advisory](https://clery.umn.edu/safeuadvisory) tier satisfies the timely-warning requirement: 'The Clery Act requires timely warning notification to the campus community when a reported Clery crime, occurring on University of Minnesota Clery geography, poses a serious or ongoing threat to public safety. The University issues SAFE-U Advisory Notifications to comply with the timely warning requirement,' and these advisories are 'designed to give the University community information which may aid in the prevention of similar crimes.' **Testing:** the University Department of Emergency Management, with the Department of Public Safety, conducts an annual exercise to test the Twin Cities campus's emergency response and evacuation procedures, announced and publicized via campus email. **Scope/limits:** SAFE-U Emergency notifications are reserved for situations likely to impact the campus as a whole or University operations; already-occurred crimes that pose a continuing-but-not-immediate threat are routed to SAFE-U Advisories (email) rather than the emergency tier.","whenCriteria":"A SAFE-U Emergency Alert is issued when police confirm that a significant emergency or dangerous situation posing an immediate threat to campus has occurred and the community should take immediate action to preserve safety. SAFE-U Advisories are issued when emergency-response personnel confirm that a crime occurring within University Clery geography could pose a serious or ongoing threat but does not require immediate action.","decisionAuthority":"SAFE-U Emergency Notifications can be authorized by UMPD supervisory staff and Department of Emergency Management staff. For advisories (timely warnings), the UMPD on-call administrator evaluates the facts of each crime on a case-by-case basis to determine whether a SAFE-U Advisory is warranted.","timingStandard":"SAFE-U sends rapid notifications in emergency situations; emergency notifications are sent when police confirm an immediate threat and the community should take immediate action to preserve safety.","cleryFraming":"Explicit two-tier Clery model: SAFE-U Emergency notifications = emergency notifications (immediate threat / imminent danger; take immediate action). SAFE-U Advisories = timely warnings, issued to comply with the Clery timely-warning requirement when a reported Clery crime within Clery geography poses a serious or ongoing threat but does not require immediate action.","testingCadence":"The University Department of Emergency Management, with the Department of Public Safety, conducts an annual exercise to test the Twin Cities campus's emergency response and evacuation procedures; the test is announced and publicized via campus email.","scopeLimits":"SAFE-U Emergency notifications are used for emergencies/dangerous situations likely to impact the campus as a whole or University operations; the University does not segment emergency notifications, so all current students, staff, and faculty receive them. Already-occurred Clery crimes posing a serious-but-not-immediate threat are handled via SAFE-U Advisories (email). Personally identifying information of victims and reporting parties is not disclosed.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"SAFE-U Emergency activation threshold","quotedText":"SAFE-U Emergency Alerts are issued when police confirm that a significant emergency or dangerous situation that poses an immediate threat to campus has occurred and the campus community should take immediate action to preserve safety.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://safe-campus.umn.edu/emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"UMN Safe Campus — Emergency Notifications","annotations":["States the Clery emergency-notification trigger (police-confirmed immediate threat) and the action standard (community should take immediate action)."],"characterCount":234},{"label":"SAFE-U Advisory = Clery timely warning","quotedText":"The Clery Act requires timely warning notification to the campus community when a reported Clery crime, occurring on University of Minnesota Clery geography, poses a serious or ongoing threat to public safety. The University issues SAFE-U Advisory Notifications to comply with the timely warning requirement.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://clery.umn.edu/safeuadvisory","sourceDescription":"UMN Clery Compliance — SAFE-U Advisory","annotations":["Explicitly identifies SAFE-U Advisory Notifications as the University's mechanism for satisfying the Clery timely-warning requirement."],"characterCount":308},{"label":"Clery email floor","quotedText":"As part of the Clery Act, all students, faculty, and staff are required to receive emails with SAFE-U Alerts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://safe-campus.umn.edu/emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"UMN Safe Campus — Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Establishes email as the mandatory, Clery-driven baseline channel that no member of the community can opt out of."],"characterCount":109}],"keyFindings":["SAFE-U is UMN's emergency mass-notification system for incidents within the University's Clery geography, organized into two tiers: SAFE-U Emergency notifications and SAFE-U Advisories.","SAFE-U Emergency notifications are issued when police confirm a significant emergency posing an immediate threat and the community should take immediate action; they can be authorized by UMPD supervisory staff and Department of Emergency Management staff.","SAFE-U Advisories are UMN's Clery timely warnings, issued case-by-case by the UMPD on-call administrator for reported Clery crimes posing a serious or ongoing (but not immediate) threat.","Channels are email, text, and phone; email is mandatory under the Clery Act for all students, faculty, and staff. Emergency notifications are not segmented — everyone receives them.","The Department of Emergency Management and Department of Public Safety conduct an annual exercise to test the Twin Cities campus's emergency response and evacuation procedures, publicized via campus email."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notifications | Safe Campus — University of Minnesota","url":"https://safe-campus.umn.edu/emergency-notifications","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Twin Cities: Public Safety (Annual Security & Fire Safety Report) | Safe Campus","url":"https://safe-campus.umn.edu/asfsr/twin-cities/part-i-twin-cities-campus/twin-cities-public-safety","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"SAFE-U Advisory | University Clery Compliance — University of Minnesota","url":"https://clery.umn.edu/safeuadvisory","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Safety Notifications | UMN Department of Public Safety","url":"https://publicsafety.umn.edu/alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Self-Help Guide to SAFE-U Notifications | UMN University Services","url":"https://uservices.umn.edu/self-help-guide-safe-u-notifications","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","safe-u","clery","advisory","minnesota"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-23","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-mississippi-rebalert-policy","slug":"university-of-mississippi-rebalert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Mississippi","shortName":"Ole Miss","state":"MS","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"RebAlert","enrollment":24710},"policy":{"title":"RebAlert Emergency Notification System / Timely Warnings","systemName":"RebAlert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://olemiss.edu/departments/student-affairs/emergency-management/stay-informed/index.php","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"The University of Mississippi operates [RebAlert](https://olemiss.edu/departments/student-affairs/emergency-management/stay-informed/index.php), its emergency notification service activated during immediate emergencies such as certain criminal incidents, severe weather, or other imminent threats to campus, delivering simultaneous telephone calls, emails, and text messages. Separately, the university issues Clery Act [Timely Warnings](https://olemiss.edu/upd/reports/) via email when a serious or unique crime poses a possible continuing threat.","analysis":"The University of Mississippi draws the standard Clery Act distinction between two notification tracks. The first is the [RebAlert](https://olemiss.edu/helpdesk/faq/rebalert.html) emergency notification system, which the university describes as being activated during immediate emergencies, including certain criminal incidents, severe weather, or other imminent threats to campus. When RebAlert is activated, recipients may receive simultaneous notifications by telephone call, email, and text message. The second track is the Timely Warning, an email notice issued when a serious or unique Clery Act crime occurs on campus and the possibility of a continuing threat to the campus or the health or safety of students remains.\n\nRebAlert is positioned by the university as an opt-out-by-default system for its core community: it is available to UM employees, students, and parents, and employees and students who have provided a valid cell phone number are automatically enrolled to receive RebAlert text messages, which the university notes are compatible with any cellular device, including non-smartphones. Parents and other interested parties can subscribe voluntarily. The system's messaging footprint also extends to the @RebAlert account on X/Twitter, which the Office of Emergency Management uses to push public-facing notifications.\n\nThe institution's [Clery compliance function](https://olemiss.edu/upd/reports/) sits with the Equal Opportunity and Regulatory Compliance office (the Clery Compliance Specialist), while the University Police Department and the Office of Emergency Management within the Division of Student Affairs operate the alerting infrastructure day to day. The publicly reproduced material does not name a specific commercial alerting vendor for RebAlert, nor does it publish a precise testing cadence or a numeric timeliness standard (e.g., a stated number of minutes), so those elements are paraphrased or marked unknown rather than quoted. The publicly stated criteria for activation (immediate emergency / imminent threat) and for Timely Warnings (serious or unique crime with a possible continuing threat) are reproduced verbatim below.","whenCriteria":"RebAlert is activated during immediate emergencies, including certain criminal incidents, severe weather, or other imminent threats to campus. A Timely Warning is issued when a serious or unique crime occurs on campus and the possibility of a continuing threat to the campus remains.","decisionAuthority":"Operated by the University Police Department and the Office of Emergency Management (Division of Student Affairs); Clery compliance is coordinated by the Equal Opportunity and Regulatory Compliance office (Clery Compliance Specialist). The specific named activation authority is not published in the reproduced material.","timingStandard":"Notifications are described as activated during 'immediate emergencies'; no numeric timeliness standard (specific number of minutes) is published in the reproduced material.","cleryFraming":"Two distinct tracks: RebAlert emergency notifications for immediate/imminent threats, and email-based Timely Warnings for serious or unique Clery crimes with a possible continuing threat.","testingCadence":"Not stated in the reproduced material.","scopeLimits":"RebAlert is available to UM employees, students, and parents; employees and students with a valid cell phone number on file are automatically enrolled for text messages. Timely Warnings are delivered via email.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"When RebAlert activates","quotedText":"The REBALERT System is the University of Mississippi's emergency notification service, activated during immediate emergencies, including certain criminal incidents, severe weather, or other imminent threats to campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://olemiss.edu/departments/student-affairs/emergency-management/stay-informed/index.php","sourceDescription":"Ole Miss Emergency Management — Stay Informed","annotations":["States the activation criteria for the emergency-notification track: immediate emergencies / imminent threats."],"characterCount":217},{"label":"Channels when activated","quotedText":"When REBALERT is activated, you may receive simultaneous notifications via telephone calls, emails, and text messages to keep you informed and safe.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://olemiss.edu/departments/student-affairs/emergency-management/stay-informed/index.php","sourceDescription":"Ole Miss Emergency Management — Stay Informed","annotations":["Confirms multi-channel simultaneous delivery: phone call, email, and SMS."],"characterCount":148},{"label":"Timely Warning trigger","quotedText":"If a serious or unique crime occurs on the campus and the possibility of a continuing threat to the campus remains, you will receive a Timely Warning via email.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://olemiss.edu/departments/student-affairs/emergency-management/stay-informed/index.php","sourceDescription":"Ole Miss Emergency Management — Stay Informed","annotations":["Distinguishes the email-based Timely Warning track from the RebAlert emergency-notification track."],"characterCount":160},{"label":"Automatic enrollment for text","quotedText":"University employees and students who have provided a valid cell phone number will automatically receive REBALERT text message notifications from the University. These text messages can be received on any cellular device, even cell phones that are not smartphones.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://olemiss.edu/helpdesk/faq/rebalert.html","sourceDescription":"Ole Miss Help Desk — RebAlert FAQ","annotations":["Auto-enrollment for those with a valid cell number on file; non-smartphone compatibility explicitly noted."],"characterCount":264}],"keyFindings":["RebAlert is the emergency-notification track, activated for immediate emergencies including certain criminal incidents, severe weather, or other imminent threats to campus.","Emergency notifications are pushed simultaneously via telephone call, email, and text message; the @RebAlert X/Twitter account adds a public channel.","A separate Clery Timely Warning is issued by email when a serious or unique crime poses a possible continuing threat.","Students and employees with a valid cell number on file are automatically enrolled for RebAlert texts; parents may subscribe.","No specific commercial vendor, numeric timeliness standard, or testing cadence is published in the reproduced material."],"sources":[{"title":"Stay Informed — Ole Miss Emergency Management","url":"https://olemiss.edu/departments/student-affairs/emergency-management/stay-informed/index.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"RebAlert FAQ — Ole Miss Help Desk","url":"https://olemiss.edu/helpdesk/faq/rebalert.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UPD Reports / Clery — University Police Department","url":"https://olemiss.edu/upd/reports/","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Ole Miss Emergency Management (@RebAlert) on X","url":"https://x.com/RebAlert","type":"official-social"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-missouri-mu-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-missouri-mu-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Missouri","shortName":"Mizzou","state":"MO","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"MU Alert","enrollment":31543},"policy":{"title":"MU Alert — Emergency Mass Notification System","systemName":"MU Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://mualert.missouri.edu/what-to-do/alert-system-faq","lastReviewed":null,"effectiveDate":null,"policyNumber":null},"summary":"[MU Alert](https://mualert.missouri.edu/) is the University of Missouri's official emergency mass notification system, activated when a campus emergency could affect the health and safety of students, employees, and the community. The university states that in such an event it [will immediately activate](https://www.umsystem.edu/ums/emergency_system) the system, sending text and email alerts (with the MU Alert and Show Me Mizzou websites serving as the official sources of verified information) during incidents such as a tornado warning, winter-weather closure, or active threat.","analysis":"The University of Missouri frames MU Alert as the campus's official emergency-notification channel under the Clery Act. The University of Missouri System's [Emergency Mass Notification System](https://www.umsystem.edu/ums/emergency_system) page states the governing trigger: 'In the event of a campus emergency that could affect the health and safety of students, employees and the community, the University will immediately activate an emergency mass notification system.' The [MU Alert FAQ](https://mualert.missouri.edu/what-to-do/alert-system-faq) describes MU Alert as Mizzou's official emergency notification system that provides instructions during emergent situations presenting a risk to safety on or near campus, and limits campus-wide warnings to situations that pose an immediate threat to campus.\n\nOn **scope and trigger**, MU Alerts are sent during incidents that may impact the entire campus — examples given include a tornado warning, a winter-weather closure, or an active threat. The university distinguishes the two Clery obligations: an emergency notification is issued for an immediate and ongoing threat (e.g., an approaching tornado, an active shooter, a fire, or a health epidemic), while a timely warning (crime alert) covers Clery Act crimes that may pose a serious or ongoing threat, sent so community members can better protect themselves. The university uses the MU Alert system to satisfy both, as described by the [MU Police Department's Clery Act](https://mupolice.missouri.edu/clery-act/) program.\n\nOn **channels and enrollment**, the system delivers text messages and email; the [MU Alert site](https://mualert.missouri.edu/) and the Show Me Mizzou site are designated as the only official sources of information or verification for the public and news media. Students sign up and update their contact information through myZou (student employees must also enroll through myHR), and faculty and staff manage their information and enrollment through myHR. The FAQ also advises that every alert tool will include a recommended action and that recipients should follow those recommendations rather than call MUPD for additional information.\n\nOn **testing**, the university states the emergency notification system is tested several times each year, and it regularly conducts drills to review current plans and policies while also testing the emergency alert system. A widely reported [December 2023 test](https://abc17news.com/news/education/university-of-missouri/2023/12/06/technical-issue-identified-during-test-of-mus-emergency-communications-system/) identified a technical issue and led MU to improve its alert protocols. **Scope/limits:** campus-wide warnings are restricted to situations posing an immediate threat to campus; routine or non-emergency information is not pushed through MU Alert, and the system is centrally activated by the university (rather than individually triggered) when an emergency meets the health-and-safety threshold.","whenCriteria":"MU Alert is activated in the event of a campus emergency that could affect the health and safety of students, employees, and the community. Campus-wide warnings are restricted to situations that pose an immediate threat to campus; examples include a tornado warning, a winter-weather closure, or an active threat.","decisionAuthority":"MU Alert is the university's centrally activated emergency mass notification system; the University states it 'will immediately activate' the system when a qualifying emergency occurs. The MU Police Department / Emergency Management administers the Clery emergency-notification and timely-warning program.","timingStandard":"The University states it will 'immediately activate' the emergency mass notification system when a campus emergency could affect health and safety.","cleryFraming":"Two-tier Clery model delivered through MU Alert: an emergency notification for an immediate and ongoing threat (e.g., approaching tornado, active shooter, fire, health epidemic) and a timely warning (crime alert) for Clery Act crimes that may pose a serious or ongoing threat so community members can better protect themselves.","testingCadence":"The emergency notification system is tested several times each year; the university also regularly conducts drills that review plans and policies while testing the alert system (e.g., fall and other periodic system tests).","scopeLimits":"Campus-wide warnings are limited to situations that pose an immediate threat to campus. The MU Alert and Show Me Mizzou websites are designated as the only official sources of verified information for the public and news media; recipients are told to follow the recommended action in each alert and not to call MUPD for additional information.","channels":["sms","email","website","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Immediate activation trigger","quotedText":"In the event of a campus emergency that could affect the health and safety of students, employees and the community, the University will immediately activate an emergency mass notification system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.umsystem.edu/ums/emergency_system","sourceDescription":"University of Missouri System — Emergency Mass Notification System","annotations":["Establishes the health-and-safety trigger and the 'immediately activate' timing standard for the university's mass notification system. Confirmed identically across the UM System page and MU Alert materials."],"characterCount":196},{"label":"Official source of information","quotedText":"This website, MU Alert communications, and the Show Me Mizzou site are the only official sources of information or verification for the public and the news media.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://mualert.missouri.edu/","sourceDescription":"MU Alert website","annotations":["Designates MU Alert and Show Me Mizzou as the authoritative information sources during an emergency, a scope/limit on where verified information flows."],"characterCount":162}],"keyFindings":["MU Alert is the University of Missouri's official emergency mass notification system, activated when a campus emergency could affect the health and safety of students, employees, and the community.","The university states it will 'immediately activate' the system when such an emergency occurs, and restricts campus-wide warnings to situations posing an immediate threat to campus.","MU uses the MU Alert system to satisfy both Clery obligations: emergency notifications for immediate/ongoing threats and timely warnings (crime alerts) for Clery Act crimes posing a serious or ongoing threat.","Primary channels are text and email, with the MU Alert and Show Me Mizzou websites designated as the only official sources of verified information; students enroll via myZou and employees via myHR.","The emergency notification system is tested several times each year; a December 2023 test surfaced a technical issue and prompted improved alert protocols."],"sources":[{"title":"MU Alert FAQs | MU Alert","url":"https://mualert.missouri.edu/what-to-do/alert-system-faq","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Mass Notification System | University of Missouri System","url":"https://www.umsystem.edu/ums/emergency_system","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"MU Alert (home)","url":"https://mualert.missouri.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"MUPD Clery Act — University of Missouri Police Department","url":"https://mupolice.missouri.edu/clery-act/","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"'Technical issue' identified during test of MU's emergency communications system","url":"https://abc17news.com/news/education/university-of-missouri/2023/12/06/technical-issue-identified-during-test-of-mus-emergency-communications-system/","type":"local-media"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","mu-alert","missouri"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"umkc-umkc-alert-policy","slug":"umkc-umkc-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Missouri-Kansas City","shortName":"UMKC","state":"MO","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"UMKC Alert","enrollment":16000},"policy":{"title":"UMKC Alert Emergency Mass Notification System and Clery Notification Policy","systemName":"UMKC Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.umkc.edu/alert/","lastReviewed":"2025-01-01"},"summary":"The University of Missouri-Kansas City notifies its community of campus emergencies through [UMKC Alert](https://www.umkc.edu/alert/), the campus implementation of the [University of Missouri System emergency mass-notification platform](https://www.umsystem.edu/ums/emergency_system), sending phone, text, and email alerts about severe weather, emergency events, and significant campus changes.","analysis":"The University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) is a public research university that achieved [Carnegie R1 'very high research' classification for the first time in 2025](https://www.umkc.edu/news/posts/2025/february/umkc-joins-nations-top-research-universities-with-new-classification.html), making it Kansas City's first R1 institution. Its campus emergency-notification system is branded [UMKC Alert](https://www.umkc.edu/alert/) — also written 'UMKC Alert!' in some materials — and is the campus deployment of the broader [University of Missouri System emergency mass-notification system](https://www.umsystem.edu/ums/emergency_system), an automated rapid-notification platform the System describes as supplementing existing communication tools to notify students, faculty and staff about campus emergencies and closings, as well as class cancellations due to inclement weather.\n\nUMKC describes UMKC Alert as the channel through which 'announcements through the UMKC Alert Emergency Mass Notification system are sent to all students, faculty and staff during campus emergencies or significant changes,' and states that 'UMKC faculty and staff receive automatic alerts related to severe weather and emergency events on campus via phone, text and email.' Students sign up for and manage their alert preferences through Pathway, the UM System student portal, while parents and community members can opt in by texting the keyword 'UMKCAlert' (all one word) to 67283. This split — automatic enrollment for employees, portal-managed enrollment for students, and keyword opt-in for non-affiliates — is typical of UM System campuses and means coverage of students depends on their having added current contact details in Pathway.\n\nUMKC's [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.umkc.edu/police/) (produced by the UMKC Police Department under the Clery Act) is the authoritative source for the formal emergency-notification and timely-warning policy, including the named decision authority, the 'immediately, upon confirmation' issuance standard, and the periodic test cadence. Those policy specifics, and the precise verbatim activation-threshold language, were not byte-for-byte confirmable in this review because umkc.edu and umsystem.edu hosts and the ASR PDF returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching; the fields here draw on indexed snippets of the official UMKC and UM System pages. Importantly, the system's confirmed brand name is 'UMKC Alert' (keyword 'UMKCAlert') — the name 'RooAlert' suggested in the tasking could NOT be corroborated against any official UMKC source and is not used here. Because the strongest available excerpts are descriptive system-overview language rather than verbatim Clery policy text confirmed across two official-attributed retrievals, this record is rated medium confidence.","whenCriteria":"UMKC Alert is used during campus emergencies, severe weather and emergency events on campus, and significant campus changes/closings, including class cancellations due to inclement weather. The formal Clery 'immediate threat to health or safety' emergency-notification threshold and the timely-warning criteria are stated in UMKC's Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, which was not confirmable verbatim here (host blocked automated fetching).","decisionAuthority":"UMKC's emergency-notification function is administered through the UMKC Police Department / campus emergency management within the University of Missouri System platform. The specific position authorized to confirm and trigger a UMKC Alert was not confirmed verbatim in this review (umkc.edu / umsystem.edu hosts and the ASR PDF blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"As a Clery-covered institution, UMKC is required to issue emergency notifications immediately upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety; the exact policy timing language was not confirmed verbatim here (host blocked automated fetching).","cleryFraming":"UMKC operates UMKC Alert as its emergency mass-notification channel and produces an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report through the UMKC Police Department under the Clery Act, which documents emergency-notification and timely-warning procedures. The precise Clery framing language was not confirmable verbatim here.","testingCadence":"UMKC asks students to maintain alert preferences in Pathway and employees to keep contact information current so test and live alerts reach them; the exact published periodic test cadence (e.g., per-semester) was not confirmed verbatim in this review (official hosts blocked automated fetching).","scopeLimits":"Announcements reach all students, faculty and staff during campus emergencies or significant changes. Employee alerts are automatic via phone, text and email; students manage enrollment in Pathway; parents and community members opt in by texting 'UMKCAlert' to 67283 — so full reach depends on current contact data and, for non-employees, active opt-in.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"UMKC Alert system scope","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.umkc.edu/alert/","sourceDescription":"UMKC — Alert (Home Suite) page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Automatic employee alerts by channel","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.umkc.edu/alert/","sourceDescription":"UMKC — Alert (Home Suite) page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Keyword opt-in for community members","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.umkc.edu/alert/","sourceDescription":"UMKC — Alert (Home Suite) page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"UM System mass-notification purpose","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.umsystem.edu/ums/emergency_system","sourceDescription":"University of Missouri System — Emergency Mass Notification System (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["UMKC's emergency-notification system is branded UMKC Alert (keyword 'UMKCAlert', short code 67283), the campus instance of the University of Missouri System mass-notification platform.","The name 'RooAlert' could NOT be corroborated against any official UMKC source; every official page uses 'UMKC Alert,' so that is the brand used here.","Employees receive automatic phone/text/email alerts; students enroll via the Pathway portal; parents and community members opt in by keyword text.","UMKC achieved Carnegie R1 classification for the first time in 2025, Kansas City's first R1 institution.","Formal Clery policy specifics (named decision authority, immediate-issuance language, test cadence) live in UMKC's Annual Security and Fire Safety Report and were not confirmable verbatim here (umkc.edu / umsystem.edu and the ASR PDF blocked automated fetching); record rated medium confidence."],"sources":[{"title":"UMKC — Alert (Home Suite)","url":"https://www.umkc.edu/alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University of Missouri System — Emergency Mass Notification System","url":"https://www.umsystem.edu/ums/emergency_system","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UMKC — Emergency (Finance and Administration / EHS)","url":"https://www.umkc.edu/finadmin/environmental-health-and-safety/emergency.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UMKC — Pathway help: UMKC Alert (PDF)","url":"https://www.umkc.edu/registrar/docs/umkc_alert.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UMKC Joins Nation's Top Research Universities With New Classification (R1, 2025)","url":"https://www.umkc.edu/news/posts/2025/february/umkc-joins-nations-top-research-universities-with-new-classification.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Carnegie Classification — University of Missouri-Kansas City","url":"https://carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/institution/university-of-missouri-kansas-city/","type":"government"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","mass-notification","public-r1","missouri","umkc-alert","university-of-missouri-system","clery"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-montana-um-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-montana-um-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Montana","shortName":"UM","state":"MT","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"UM Alert","enrollment":10811},"policy":{"title":"UM Alerts — Timely Warnings, Emergency Notifications & Public Service Announcements","systemName":"UM Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.umt.edu/police/um-alerts/","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"The University of Montana classifies its [UM Alerts](https://www.umt.edu/police/um-alerts/) into three explicit tiers — UM Emergency Notification (text and email for imminent or immediate threats), UM Timely Warning (text and email for Clery crimes posing a serious or ongoing threat), and UM Public Service Announcement (email, optionally text, for non-Clery activity) — a structure the [University of Montana Police Department](https://www.umt.edu/police/) uses to keep urgent text traffic reserved for situations requiring immediate action.","analysis":"The University of Montana (UM) is the public research university in Missoula (Mountain Time). Its emergency-notification platform is branded UM Alert, and UM is distinctive for publishing an explicit three-tier taxonomy of alert messages on its [UM Alerts page](https://www.umt.edu/police/um-alerts/), administered by the [University of Montana Police Department](https://www.umt.edu/police/). This taxonomy maps the two Clery functions plus a discretionary informational tier, and it deliberately rations the text channel to the most urgent traffic.\n\nThe first tier, a UM Emergency Notification, 'is sent via text and email when a significant emergency or dangerous situation on the UM campus poses an imminent or immediate threat' — examples include an active-shooter event or fire. The second, a UM Timely Warning, 'is sent via text and email in response to Clery Act crimes that have already occurred but present a serious or ongoing threat to students or employees,' generally including the type of crime and prevention tips. The third, a UM Public Service Announcement, 'is sent via e-mail with an option to be sent as a text message' for non-Clery-reportable activity that does not meet the Emergency Notification or Timely Warning thresholds but that the university judges worth communicating for safety reasons.\n\nA notable design choice is that UM rations its text channel: text alerts are deployed only where immediate action is required (such as a lock-down or natural disaster), while non-urgent crime information is conveyed by email. UM tightened this posture after a [reported string of drugging incidents](https://missoulian.com/news/local/um-reports-string-of-druggings-changes-policy-on-sending-out-emergency-alerts/article_c5cf9f3a-e221-54da-a660-8b2d3e34f6cb.html), revisiting when an event rises to a text-worthy alert — an instructive example of a campus recalibrating its alert thresholds in response to community concern.\n\nUM's [Office of Public Safety / Emergency Preparedness](https://www.umt.edu/emergency/) maintains the system and the companion mobile emergency-procedures app. Because umt.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from indexed snippets; the UM Emergency Notification and UM Timely Warning definitions each reproduced identically across two or more official-attributed retrievals of the UM Alerts page and are marked verbatim-confirmed, while the Public Service Announcement definition and the text-rationing description appeared in a single retrieval and are flagged. The exact named decision authority and the precise published periodic test cadence were not byte-for-byte confirmable and are reconstructed.","whenCriteria":"UM Emergency Notification: a significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus posing an imminent or immediate threat (e.g., active shooter, fire). UM Timely Warning: a Clery Act crime that has already occurred but presents a serious or ongoing threat to students or employees. UM Public Service Announcement: non-Clery-reportable activity not meeting the Emergency Notification or Timely Warning thresholds but communicated for safety reasons.","decisionAuthority":"The University of Montana Police Department administers UM Alert and determines alert tier; the Office of Public Safety / Emergency Preparedness supports the system. The specific position authorized to confirm and trigger a UM Emergency Notification was not confirmed verbatim in this review (umt.edu blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"UM Emergency Notifications are issued for imminent or immediate threats consistent with the federal Clery 'immediately, upon confirmation' standard; UM rations text alerts to situations requiring immediate action (lock-down, natural disaster). Timely warnings are issued to aid prevention of similar crimes. The exact verbatim timing language was not confirmable (host blocked automated fetching).","cleryFraming":"UM publishes an explicit three-tier taxonomy: UM Emergency Notification (Clery emergency notification, imminent/immediate threat), UM Timely Warning (Clery timely warning, past crime posing serious/ongoing threat), and UM Public Service Announcement (discretionary non-Clery informational notice). UM produces an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.","testingCadence":"UM tests the UM Alert system periodically; the exact published periodic cadence was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","scopeLimits":"UM rations the text channel: text alerts are deployed only where immediate action is required (e.g., lock-down or natural disaster), with non-urgent crime information conveyed by email. Reach depends on current contact information maintained by community members. The three-tier taxonomy is intended to prevent alert fatigue by reserving urgent text traffic for true emergencies.","channels":["sms","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"UM Emergency Notification definition","quotedText":"A UM Emergency Notification is sent via text and email when a significant emergency or dangerous situation on the UM campus poses an imminent or immediate threat.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.umt.edu/police/um-alerts/","sourceDescription":"University of Montana — UM Alerts","annotations":["Defines the emergency-notification tier and the imminent/immediate-threat threshold. Identical wording appeared across two official-attributed retrievals of the UM Alerts page and the active-shooter messages page."],"characterCount":162},{"label":"UM Timely Warning definition","quotedText":"A UM Timely Warning is sent via text and email in response to Clery Act crimes that have already occurred but present a serious or ongoing threat to students or employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.umt.edu/police/um-alerts/","sourceDescription":"University of Montana — UM Alerts","annotations":["Defines the timely-warning tier as covering already-occurred Clery crimes that still pose a serious or ongoing threat. Identical wording confirmed via a quoted-string retrieval matching the UM Alerts page across two retrievals."],"characterCount":171},{"label":"UM Public Service Announcement definition","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.umt.edu/police/um-alerts/","sourceDescription":"University of Montana — UM Alerts (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["UM publishes an explicit three-tier alert taxonomy: UM Emergency Notification, UM Timely Warning, and UM Public Service Announcement.","UM Emergency Notifications go by text and email for imminent or immediate threats; UM Timely Warnings go by text and email for already-occurred Clery crimes posing a serious or ongoing threat.","UM deliberately rations its text channel — text alerts are reserved for situations requiring immediate action (lock-down, natural disaster), with non-urgent crime info sent by email.","UM recalibrated its alert thresholds after a reported string of drugging incidents, illustrating a live debate over when an event becomes text-worthy.","Two excerpts (the Emergency Notification and Timely Warning definitions) were confirmed verbatim across two official-attributed retrievals; the Public Service Announcement definition and the exact test cadence are flagged because umt.edu blocked automated fetching."],"sources":[{"title":"University of Montana — UM Alerts","url":"https://www.umt.edu/police/um-alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University of Montana — Types of UM Alerts (active-shooter messages)","url":"https://www.umt.edu/police/response.to.active.shooter/messages-during-active-shooter-event.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University of Montana — Campus Safety and Support (notification)","url":"https://www.umt.edu/safety/notification.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University of Montana — Emergency Preparedness","url":"https://www.umt.edu/emergency/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Missoulian — UM reports string of druggings, changes policy on sending out emergency alerts","url":"https://missoulian.com/news/local/um-reports-string-of-druggings-changes-policy-on-sending-out-emergency-alerts/article_c5cf9f3a-e221-54da-a660-8b2d3e34f6cb.html","type":"local-media"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","public-service-announcement","public-r1","montana","um-alert","alert-tiering"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-nebraska-kearney-unk-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-nebraska-kearney-unk-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Nebraska at Kearney","shortName":"UNK","state":"NE","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"UNK Alert","enrollment":5699},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning Policy","systemName":"UNK Alert","documentType":"sop","url":"https://www.unk.edu/offices/police/_files/timely-warning-policy.pdf","effectiveDate":"2021-09-01","lastReviewed":"2021-08-01"},"summary":"The University of Nebraska at Kearney communicates emergencies through [UNK Alert](https://www.unk.edu/offices/emergency_management/unk_alert.php), a phone/text/email/social notification system, while its published [Timely Warning Policy](https://www.unk.edu/offices/police/_files/timely-warning-policy.pdf) assigns the decision to issue a Clery timely warning to the UNK Police Department Chief or their designee, who drafts the notice and routes it through UNK Communications and Community Relations for distribution.","analysis":"The University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK) runs a two-track emergency communication system consistent with the Clery Act's distinction between broad emergency notifications and crime-specific timely warnings. The [UNK Alert](https://www.unk.edu/offices/emergency_management/unk_alert.php) page describes the overall system in plain terms: UNK Alert is a notification system that alerts students, faculty and staff in the event of an emergency situation, further specifying that UNKAlert will notify you any time the campus community is impacted by a significant emergency or dangerous situation which involves the immediate threat to the health and safety of the campus community, closely tracking the federal Clery emergency-notification standard. Delivery uses multiple channels: cell phones (text and voice), landline phones, and e-mail addresses, and the system was later expanded to enable emergency notification delivery by text messaging (SMS), with participation in UNKAlert texting described as voluntary but strongly encouraged.\n\nRegistration follows an opt-out rather than a pure opt-in model for institutional contact points: students and employees who do not wish to receive emergency messages on their personal telephones or e-mail addresses may opt out, but they cannot opt out of receiving UNKAlert on UNK landline telephones, UNK e-mail addresses, or cell phones provided by UNK, meaning university-issued contact points remain mandatory recipients regardless of personal preference. Text-message opt-in specifically runs through the MyBLUE student portal, where a student selects the Phone Type of Campus Alert Text and enters a telephone number; removing that number from the field opts the person back out, with any carrier costs for text messages being the recipient's responsibility.\n\nUNK's separate, published [Timely Warning Policy](https://www.unk.edu/offices/police/_files/timely-warning-policy.pdf) (effective September 1, 2021) names a specific decision authority: the UNKPD Chief or the designee is responsible for making the decision whether a Timely Warning will be issued, doing so in consultation with other University and city departments if needed. The implementation mechanic is similarly explicit: unless exigent circumstances exist, UNKPD Chief or designee will draft an email containing the proposed Timely Warning and forward it to UNK Communications and Community Relations for review and distribution, and on timing, the policy states the University will take no more time than necessary to analyze the threat, determine the need for the notice and disseminate the timely warning, explicitly allowing a warning to be issued with few facts and then updated as more information is provided, if needed, rather than delaying release until every fact is confirmed.\n\nUNK was reclassified in the 2025 Carnegie update from a Master's-only classification toward a research-activity designation reflecting expanded doctoral program offerings, though its predominant identity remains a regional public master's-granting institution serving roughly 5,700 students as of fall 2025.","whenCriteria":"UNKAlert will notify you any time the campus community is impacted by a significant emergency or dangerous situation which involves the immediate threat to the health and safety of the campus community. Separately, under the Timely Warning Policy, a warning is issued for Clery-reportable crimes the UNKPD Chief or designee determines represent a serious or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"The UNKPD Chief or the designee is responsible for making the decision whether a Timely Warning will be issued, in consultation with other University and city departments if needed. Unless exigent circumstances exist, the Chief or designee drafts the notice and forwards it to UNK Communications and Community Relations for review and distribution.","timingStandard":"The University will take no more time than necessary to analyze the threat, determine the need for the notice and disseminate the timely warning; a warning may be issued with few facts and then updated as more information is provided, if needed.","cleryFraming":"UNK maintains a dedicated, published Timely Warning Policy (effective September 1, 2021) alongside the broader UNK Alert emergency-notification system, mirroring the Clery Act's distinction between crime-specific timely warnings and the emergency-notification standard for any significant, immediate threat to campus health and safety.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Students and employees may opt out of receiving emergency messages on personal phones/emails, but cannot opt out of UNK landline phones, UNK email addresses, or UNK-provided cell phones; SMS opt-in is managed through the MyBLUE portal's Campus Alert Text phone-type field, and recipients bear any carrier text-messaging costs.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","twitter-x","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"What UNK Alert is","quotedText":"UNK Alert is a notification system that alerts students, faculty and staff in the event of an emergency situation.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.unk.edu/offices/emergency_management/unk_alert.php","sourceDescription":"University of Nebraska at Kearney - UNK Alert","annotations":["Defines UNK Alert as the umbrella notification system covering students, faculty, and staff during emergencies."],"characterCount":114},{"label":"Emergency-notification standard","quotedText":"UNKAlert will notify you any time the campus community is impacted by a significant emergency or dangerous situation which involves the immediate threat to the health and safety of the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.unk.edu/offices/emergency_management/unk_alert.php","sourceDescription":"University of Nebraska at Kearney - UNK Alert","annotations":["Closely mirrors the federal Clery emergency-notification standard (significant emergency or dangerous situation, immediate threat to health and safety)."],"characterCount":202},{"label":"Opt-out limits on university-issued contact points","quotedText":"Students and employees who do not wish to receive emergency messages on their personal telephones or e-mail addresses may \"opt-out\", though students and employees cannot \"opt-out\" of receiving UNKAlert on UNK landline telephones, UNK e-mail addresses or cell phones provided by UNK.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.unk.edu/offices/emergency_management/_files/UNKAlertFAQ.pdf","sourceDescription":"University of Nebraska at Kearney - UNK Alert FAQ","annotations":["Establishes that opt-out is available for personal contact points but never for university-issued phones/email, guaranteeing a mandatory-recipient floor."],"characterCount":282},{"label":"Timely Warning decision authority","quotedText":"The UNKPD Chief or the designee is responsible for making the decision whether a Timely Warning will be issued. He or she can do this in consultation with other University and city departments if needed.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.unk.edu/offices/police/_files/timely-warning-policy.pdf","sourceDescription":"University of Nebraska at Kearney - Timely Warning Policy","annotations":["Names the specific decision-authority role (UNKPD Chief or designee) for Clery timely-warning determinations."],"characterCount":203},{"label":"Timeliness standard","quotedText":"The University will take no more time than necessary to analyze the threat, determine the need for the notice and disseminate the timely warning.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.unk.edu/offices/police/_files/timely-warning-policy.pdf","sourceDescription":"University of Nebraska at Kearney - Timely Warning Policy","annotations":["States the timeliness commitment without a fixed minutes-based number, instead binding the university to a no-more-time-than-necessary standard."],"characterCount":145}],"keyFindings":["UNK runs a two-track system: UNK Alert for broad emergency notification, and a separately published Timely Warning Policy (effective September 1, 2021) for Clery-reportable crimes.","The Timely Warning Policy names the UNKPD Chief or designee as decision authority, who drafts the notice and routes it through UNK Communications and Community Relations absent exigent circumstances.","The timeliness standard is qualitative ('no more time than necessary') rather than a fixed minutes-based SLA, with warnings allowed to be issued incomplete and updated later.","University-issued contact points (UNK landline, UNK email, UNK-provided cell phones) cannot be opted out of, unlike personal phones/emails.","SMS opt-in runs through the MyBLUE student portal's Campus Alert Text phone-type field."],"sources":[{"title":"UNK Alert - Emergency Management - University of Nebraska at Kearney","url":"https://www.unk.edu/offices/emergency_management/unk_alert.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UNK Alert FAQ - University of Nebraska at Kearney","url":"https://www.unk.edu/offices/emergency_management/_files/UNKAlertFAQ.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Timely Warning Policy - UNK Police Department","url":"https://www.unk.edu/offices/police/_files/timely-warning-policy.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report 2023 - UNK","url":"https://nebraska.edu/-/media/projects/unca/docs/transparency/safety/2023/unk-fire-and-campus-safety-report-2023.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"University of Nebraska at Kearney announces fall 2025 enrollment - UNK News","url":"https://unknews.unk.edu/2025/09/08/university-of-nebraska-at-kearney-announces-fall-2025-enrollment/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","unk-alert","public-masters","nebraska"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-20","lastUpdated":"2026-07-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-nebraska-omaha-uno-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-nebraska-omaha-uno-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Nebraska Omaha","shortName":"UNO","state":"NE","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"UNO Alert","alertPlatform":"Rave Mobile Safety","enrollment":14972},"policy":{"title":"UNO Emergency Notifications","systemName":"UNO Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.unomaha.edu/emergency/notifications.php","lastReviewed":"2026-07-03"},"summary":"The University of Nebraska Omaha runs [UNO Alert](https://www.unomaha.edu/emergency/notifications.php), a Rave Mobile Safety text, phone, and email notification system that automatically includes all current students, faculty, and staff, and distinguishes those emergency notifications from the separate Clery timely warnings UNO issues for ongoing threats to the campus community. UNO [upgraded the platform from Omnilert to Rave Mobile Safety in December 2023](https://www.unomaha.edu/news/2023/12/important-upgrade-to-uno-emergency-alerts-enhances-campus-safety.php), adding a companion mobile app with Mobile Blue Light and Chat with Dispatch features.","analysis":"The University of Nebraska Omaha is a public R2 doctoral university in Omaha whose emergency-communication system is branded [UNO Alert](https://www.unomaha.edu/emergency/notifications.php). UNO describes the notification system as reaching a broad audience quickly because it automatically includes all current students, faculty, and staff, rather than depending solely on self-registration; recipients can then choose to be notified by text message, email, phone call, or any combination of the three once they log in and set preferences.\n\nFor people who prefer to opt in outside the standard university account flow, UNO also publishes a short-code path: texting the keyword \"unoalert\" to 79516 subscribes a phone for text alerts without requiring a NetID, a detail UNO surfaces specifically in its [severe-weather sign-up guidance](https://www.unomaha.edu/news/signup-for-emergency-notifications.php) since weather closures are one of the most frequent uses of the system. The service is free to the UNO community, and the university periodically reminds students, faculty, and staff to verify their contact information so alerts reach current numbers and addresses.\n\nOn the Clery side, UNO's [emergency notifications page](https://www.unomaha.edu/emergency/notifications.php) draws an explicit line between UNO Alert emergency notifications and timely warnings: timely warnings are described as one type of notification issued when there is an ongoing threat to the campus community, tracking the federal Clery Act's requirement that colleges and universities issue timely warnings when public safety is threatened by an ongoing danger. UNO's [Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.unomaha.edu/news/2018/10/annual-campus-security-and-fire-safety-report.php) is the parallel Clery disclosure document that details UNO's crime statistics and safety policies each October.\n\nDelivery is genuinely multi-channel beyond the core text/phone/email trio: UNO states that during a major campus emergency, administration may use one or more of Facebook and Twitter posts, an all-campus email, an emergency banner on the UNO homepage, or the UNO Alert system itself. The December 2023 platform migration from the older Omnilert system to Rave Mobile Safety was framed by UNO as a safety upgrade, and the UNO Alert mobile app has since added Mobile Blue Light (a virtual escort/panic feature) and Chat with Dispatch. UNO also periodically participates in statewide tests, such as a March 2025 tornado-drill test of the notification system, though a fixed calendar cadence for routine (non-drill) tests was not found in the pages reviewed. Because unomaha.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were reconstructed from search-index snippets of the official pages; two passages (the 79516 opt-in instructions) reproduced identically across independent retrievals and are marked verbatim-confirmed, while passages that varied in wording between retrievals are marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false out of caution.","whenCriteria":"UNO Alert emergency notifications are issued for life-threatening or critical events on campus. Timely warnings, a distinct Clery-required category, are issued when there is an ongoing threat to the campus community, per the federal Clery Act's requirement that institutions warn the community of continuing public-safety threats.","decisionAuthority":"UNO's emergency communications are administered through its Emergency Information / Public Safety office; a single named approving official for triggering UNO Alert was not reproduced verbatim in the public pages reviewed in this session.","timingStandard":"UNO frames timely warnings around the ongoing-threat standard drawn from the federal Clery Act; a specific minutes-based service-level standard for UNO Alert emergency notifications was not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"UNO separates UNO Alert (its emergency-notification system for life-threatening or critical events) from timely warnings (issued for an ongoing threat to the campus community under the Clery Act), and publishes both a dedicated emergency-notifications page and an Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report.","testingCadence":"UNO periodically tests the system, including participating in statewide tornado drills (documented in March 2025); a fixed non-drill testing calendar was not found in the pages reviewed.","scopeLimits":"All current students, faculty, and staff are automatically included in UNO Alert; recipients choose their preferred channel(s) among text, email, and phone once logged in, and are encouraged to keep contact information current. The 79516 short-code opt-in is a supplementary text-only enrollment path that does not require a NetID.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","twitter-x","facebook","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Text opt-in short code","quotedText":"To opt-in via text message, text unoalert to 79516. A NetID is not required for this process.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.unomaha.edu/news/signup-for-emergency-notifications.php","sourceDescription":"UNO News, Stay Informed About Severe Weather","annotations":["The 79516 short code and 'unoalert' keyword, plus the NetID-not-required detail, appeared identically across independent retrievals of UNO's sign-up guidance."],"characterCount":93},{"label":"Automatic-inclusion reach","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.unomaha.edu/emergency/notifications.php","sourceDescription":"UNO Emergency Notifications","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Timely warning / Clery framing","quotedText":"Timely warnings are one type of notification you may receive in the event that there is an ongoing threat to the campus community. The federal Clery Act requires colleges and universities to issue timely warnings to the campus community when there is an ongoing threat to public safety.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.unomaha.edu/emergency/notifications.php","sourceDescription":"UNO Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Anchors UNO's timely-warning category to the federal Clery ongoing-threat standard; reconstructed from search-index text since unomaha.edu blocked automated fetching in this environment."],"characterCount":286},{"label":"Platform upgrade to Rave Mobile Safety","quotedText":"The latest enhancement introduces RAVE Mobile Safety, a cutting-edge platform that replaces the former Omnilert system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.unomaha.edu/news/2023/12/important-upgrade-to-uno-emergency-alerts-enhances-campus-safety.php","sourceDescription":"UNO News, Important Upgrade to UNO Emergency Alerts Enhances Campus Safety","annotations":["Documents the December 2023 migration from Omnilert to Rave Mobile Safety as the current UNO Alert platform."],"characterCount":119}],"keyFindings":["UNO Alert automatically includes all current students, faculty, and staff, with a supplementary text-only opt-in via 'unoalert' to short code 79516 that does not require a NetID.","UNO explicitly separates UNO Alert emergency notifications from Clery timely warnings, which are tied to the federal ongoing-threat standard.","The platform migrated from Omnilert to Rave Mobile Safety in December 2023, adding a mobile app with Mobile Blue Light and Chat with Dispatch features.","Beyond text, email, and phone, UNO may also use Facebook, Twitter, and a homepage emergency banner during major incidents.","UNO periodically tests the system through statewide drills, such as a March 2025 tornado-drill test, though no fixed non-drill testing calendar was found."],"sources":[{"title":"UNO Emergency Notifications","url":"https://www.unomaha.edu/emergency/notifications.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UNO News, Stay Informed About Severe Weather","url":"https://www.unomaha.edu/news/signup-for-emergency-notifications.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UNO News, Important Upgrade to UNO Emergency Alerts Enhances Campus Safety","url":"https://www.unomaha.edu/news/2023/12/important-upgrade-to-uno-emergency-alerts-enhances-campus-safety.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UNO News, Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report","url":"https://www.unomaha.edu/news/2018/10/annual-campus-security-and-fire-safety-report.php","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","uno-alert","rave","public-r2","nebraska"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-nebraska-lincoln-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-nebraska-lincoln-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Nebraska-Lincoln","shortName":"UNL","state":"NE","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"UNL Alert","enrollment":23952},"policy":{"title":"UNL Alert — Emergency Notification System","systemName":"UNL Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://safety.unl.edu/campus-safety/unl-alert/","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"The University of Nebraska-Lincoln operates [UNL Alert](https://safety.unl.edu/campus-safety/unl-alert/), a mass-notification system that UNL Police initiate for any significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students and employees, pushing messages by [text, email, Alertus desktop popups, banners on unl.edu websites, indoor Alertus Beacons, and social media](https://unlalert.unl.edu/unlalert/default.aspx).","analysis":"UNL Alert is the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's emergency-notification backbone, described on the [Safety at Nebraska site](https://safety.unl.edu/campus-safety/unl-alert/) as a mass-notification system that sends text messages and emails to the device and address a user designates, with UNL Police determining when UNL Alerts are sent. UNL Police initiate UNL Alerts for any significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on campus involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students and employees — language that tracks the Clery Act's emergency-notification trigger. In practice the first alert is issued by a UNLPD dispatcher, and the department maintains pre-written templates so a first alert can be sent quickly.\n\nDelivery is multi-channel and redundant. Per the [About UNL Alert page](https://unlalert.unl.edu/unlalert/default.aspx), the UNL Alert system sends emergency messages to text, email, Alertus desktop popups, banners on unl.edu websites, indoor Alertus Beacons, and social media. Alerts appear in real time on UNL websites built with the UNL web templates and on social media including @UNLPD, @NebToday, and @UNLincoln, and digital signs and designated computers on campus also display the messages. The [Alertus desktop app](https://nusupport.nebraska.edu/TDClient/33/Portal/Requests/ServiceDet?ID=47) extends UNL Alerts to desktops — popping a full-screen notification on networked university computers — and is installed on all general-purpose classroom, lab, and loaner computers managed by ITS, giving University Police the capability to provide safety instructions quickly and directly to faculty, staff, and students.\n\nEnrollment is structured so that no one with a university email can fall through the cracks. Coverage of the system in the [Daily Nebraskan](https://www.dailynebraskan.com/news/unl-alert-campus-immediate-warning-system-in-emergency-scenarios/article_2a86ca00-bd46-11ed-91e8-a70f4824f33e.html) explains the program became opt-out for anyone with a university email in 2015 while remaining an opt-in text service; the university frames participation in the text/registration program as voluntary but strongly encouraged and free, with sign-up via emergency.unl.edu/unlalert (and removal via the 'Remove Me' link at unlalert.unl.edu). The Clery framing on the [University Police Clery page](https://police.unl.edu/clery-act-title-ix-information/) ties the program to the 1990 Clery Act's requirement to give timely warnings of serious or ongoing threats to the campus community.\n\nOn timeliness, UNL states alerts are issued as soon as pertinent information is available, sent as a mass email to all students and employees and simultaneously surfaced on UNL websites and social channels — with the templating system explicitly designed to ensure the first message goes out fast. The system is exercised through emergency drills, including tornado drills, to confirm it functions properly. Because the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's official .edu hosts (safety.unl.edu, unlalert.unl.edu, police.unl.edu) and the Daily Nebraskan article all return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were captured from the official and student-newspaper text as reproduced and corroborated across multiple independent search queries rather than fetched directly; they are marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false and remaining detail is paraphrased.","whenCriteria":"UNL Police initiate UNL Alerts for any significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on campus involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students and employees. The 1990 Clery Act framing requires timely warnings of serious or ongoing threats to the campus community.","decisionAuthority":"UNL Police determine when UNL Alerts are sent; the first alert is issued by a UNLPD dispatcher using pre-written templates. The Alertus desktop capability is operated by University Police.","timingStandard":"Alerts are issued as soon as pertinent information is available; pre-built templates are in place so the first alert can be sent quickly.","cleryFraming":"UNL Alert is the Clery emergency-notification channel for significant emergencies or dangerous situations involving an immediate threat to health or safety; the University Police Clery program ties the system to the 1990 Clery Act's requirement to give timely warnings of serious or ongoing threats to the campus community.","testingCadence":"The system is exercised through emergency drills, including tornado drills, to ensure it functions properly; specific calendar cadence was not stated in the publicly reproduced text reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Became opt-out for anyone with a university email in 2015 while remaining an opt-in text service; participation in registration/text is voluntary but strongly encouraged and free. Sign-up is at emergency.unl.edu/unlalert; removal via the 'Remove Me' link at unlalert.unl.edu. Alertus desktop popups appear on networked university computers and are installed on all general-purpose classroom, lab, and loaner machines managed by ITS.","channels":["sms","email","desktop-popup","website","twitter-x","facebook","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"UNL Alert definition and police authority","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.unl.edu/campus-safety/unl-alert/","sourceDescription":"Safety at Nebraska — UNL Alert","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Trigger criteria for UNL Alert","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.dailynebraskan.com/news/unl-alert-campus-immediate-warning-system-in-emergency-scenarios/article_2a86ca00-bd46-11ed-91e8-a70f4824f33e.html","sourceDescription":"Daily Nebraskan — UNL Alert: Campus' immediate warning system","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Multi-channel delivery","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://unlalert.unl.edu/unlalert/default.aspx","sourceDescription":"About UNL Alert — University of Nebraska-Lincoln","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Alertus desktop extension","quotedText":"The Alertus app extends UNL Alerts to desktops, giving University Police the capability to provide safety instructions quickly and directly to faculty, staff and students.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://nusupport.nebraska.edu/TDClient/33/Portal/Requests/ServiceDet?ID=47","sourceDescription":"Desktop Emergency Alerts — Alertus (UNL ITS support)","annotations":["Describes the desktop full-screen-popup capability and that it is police-operated. Captured from reproduced official IT-support text across searches; page 403-blocks fetching."],"characterCount":171}],"keyFindings":["UNL Alert is a mass-notification system that UNL Police decide when to send, triggered for any significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students and employees.","Delivery is multi-channel and redundant: text, email, Alertus desktop popups, banners on unl.edu websites, indoor Alertus Beacons, and social media (@UNLPD, @NebToday, @UNLincoln), plus campus digital signs.","The first alert is issued by a UNLPD dispatcher using pre-written templates so messages go out quickly; alerts are sent as soon as pertinent information is available.","Email became opt-out for anyone with a university email in 2015 while text remains opt-in; registration is voluntary but strongly encouraged and free, via emergency.unl.edu/unlalert.","The system is exercised through emergency drills (including tornado drills); the University Police Clery program ties UNL Alert to the 1990 Clery Act's timely-warning mandate for serious or ongoing threats."],"sources":[{"title":"UNL Alert — Safety at Nebraska","url":"https://safety.unl.edu/campus-safety/unl-alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"About UNL Alert — University of Nebraska-Lincoln","url":"https://unlalert.unl.edu/unlalert/default.aspx","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Act & Title IX Information — University Police, Nebraska","url":"https://police.unl.edu/clery-act-title-ix-information/","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Desktop Emergency Alerts — Alertus (UNL ITS support)","url":"https://nusupport.nebraska.edu/TDClient/33/Portal/Requests/ServiceDet?ID=47","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UNL Alert: Campus' immediate warning system in emergency scenarios — Daily Nebraskan","url":"https://www.dailynebraskan.com/news/unl-alert-campus-immediate-warning-system-in-emergency-scenarios/article_2a86ca00-bd46-11ed-91e8-a70f4824f33e.html","type":"student-newspaper"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","unl-alert","alertus","public-r1","nebraska"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"unlv-rebelsafe-alert-policy","slug":"unlv-rebelsafe-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Nevada, Las Vegas","shortName":"UNLV","state":"NV","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"RebelSAFE Alert","enrollment":33700},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications / RebelSAFE Alert and Timely Warning Policy (Annual Security and Fire Safety Report)","systemName":"RebelSAFE Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.unlv.edu/sites/default/files/media/document/2025-09/2025-ASR-UNLV.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-09-01"},"summary":"The University of Nevada, Las Vegas issues emergency notifications through [RebelSAFE Alert](https://www.unlv.edu/info), an automatic-enrollment, multi-channel emergency-notification system reserved for incidents presenting an imminent threat to life, health or safety, and issues separate [Timely Warning crime alerts](https://www.unlv.edu/news-story/timely-warning-crime-alert-0) under the Clery Act through University Police Services.","analysis":"The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) is a public R1 university whose campus emergency-notification system is branded [RebelSAFE Alert](https://www.unlv.edu/info). UNLV describes it as the system 'used for incidents that present an imminent threat to life, health or safety to UNLV students, employees, faculty, and community members.' All UNLV students and employees are automatically enrolled and will receive at least an email notification when an emergency or disaster occurs, removing the opt-in coverage gap that limits keyword-subscription systems.\n\nRebelSAFE Alert is unusually multi-channel. UNLV states that in an emergency the system 'will send emails, text messages, post to University Police Department Facebook and Twitter, push notifications to the RebelSAFE Mobile App, and provide audio and visual warnings to computer desktops and VOIP phones, digital advertising kiosks, RebelSAFE Emergency Phones, and UNLV websites.' The 12-foot RebelSAFE Emergency Phones add a public-address layer — they broadcast RebelSAFE Alerts via PA speakers — so the campus combines push, desktop popup, digital signage, and outdoor PA in a single notification ecosystem. The companion RebelSAFE Mobile App also supports one-touch dialing of Police Services, crime reporting, and real-time chat with dispatch.\n\nFor emergency notifications, UNLV's Annual Security and Fire Safety Report frames issuance around the federal standard: upon confirmation (through various sources) of a significant emergency or dangerous situation, an emergency notification is issued 'without delay' taking into account the safety of those involved, and the message may include a short description of the emergency/crime, instructions on contacting University Police, immediate protective steps, and personal-safety information. UNLV's [Department of Police Services / Emergency Preparedness unit](https://www.unlv.edu/police/units/emergency-preparedness) administers these systems and routinely tests them, including a scheduled campus Emergency Alert System TEST.\n\nUNLV keeps the Clery emergency-notification and timely-warning functions distinct. Under the 'Timely Warning' provisions of the Jeanne Clery Act, [University Police Services issues timely-warning crime alerts](https://www.unlv.edu/news-story/timely-warning-crime-alert-0) following reported Clery-reportable incidents that may pose an ongoing threat; UNLV states such a notice 'will contain the phrase \"Timely Warning Notification\"' and will include a short description of the crime and, depending on the nature of the crime, a suspect description if available. The exact named decision authority and the precise published periodic test cadence for RebelSAFE Alert were not byte-for-byte confirmable because the unlv.edu host and ASR PDFs returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching; those fields draw on indexed snippets of the official pages and ASR and are noted where reconstructed. Two excerpts (the system definition and the channel list) appeared with identical wording across multiple official UNLV-page retrievals and are marked verbatim-confirmed.","whenCriteria":"RebelSAFE Alert is reserved for incidents presenting an imminent threat to life, health or safety. Per UNLV's ASR, upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation an emergency notification is issued without delay, taking into account the safety of those involved. Separately, timely-warning crime alerts are issued for Clery-reportable crimes that may represent a continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"UNLV's Department of Police Services (including its Emergency Preparedness unit) administers RebelSAFE Alert, and University Police Services issues Clery timely-warning crime alerts. The specific position authorized to confirm and trigger a RebelSAFE Alert was not confirmed verbatim in this review (unlv.edu and the ASR PDFs blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"UNLV's ASR states an emergency notification is issued 'without delay' upon confirmation, taking into account the safety of those involved — consistent with the federal Clery 'immediately, upon confirmation' standard. Timely warnings are issued as soon as pertinent information is available.","cleryFraming":"UNLV separates the two Clery functions: RebelSAFE Alert emergency notifications for imminent threats to health/safety, and 'Timely Warning Notification' crime alerts (which carry that exact phrase) issued by University Police Services for Clery-reportable crimes that may pose an ongoing threat. UNLV produces and distributes an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.","testingCadence":"UNLV routinely tests the system and runs a scheduled campus Emergency Alert System TEST; the ASR also documents annual fire/evacuation drills. The exact published periodic cadence (e.g., per-semester) for the RebelSAFE Alert test was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","scopeLimits":"All students and employees are automatically enrolled and guaranteed at least an email notification; full reach (text/voice) depends on current contact information in the system, which UNLV periodically asks the community to update. The multi-channel design (push, desktop/VOIP popups, digital kiosks, emergency-phone PA, websites, social media) is intended to reduce single-channel dependency.","channels":["sms","email","push-notification","twitter-x","facebook","website","pa-system","digital-signage","desktop-popup","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"RebelSAFE Alert definition / activation threshold","quotedText":"RebelSAFE Alert is the emergency notification system used for incidents that present an imminent threat to life, health or safety to UNLV students, employees, faculty, and community members.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.unlv.edu/info","sourceDescription":"UNLV — Emergency Notifications page","annotations":["Sets the activation threshold at an 'imminent threat to life, health or safety.' Identical wording appeared across multiple official UNLV-page retrievals (unlv.edu/info, unlv.edu/police/unlv, unlv.edu/safety-emergency/info)."],"characterCount":190},{"label":"Multi-channel delivery list","quotedText":"In the event of an emergency, RebelSAFE Alert will send emails, text messages, post to University Police Department Facebook and Twitter, push notifications to the RebelSAFE Mobile App, and provide audio and visual warnings to computer desktops and VOIP phones, digital advertising kiosks, RebelSAFE Emergency Phones, and UNLV websites.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.unlv.edu/info","sourceDescription":"UNLV — Emergency Notifications page","annotations":["One of the most multi-channel notification descriptions in the archive — combines SMS/email, social media, app push, desktop/VOIP popups, digital signage, outdoor emergency-phone PA, and websites. Identical wording appeared across multiple official UNLV-page retrievals."],"characterCount":336},{"label":"Timely Warning phrase requirement","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.unlv.edu/news-story/timely-warning-crime-alert-0","sourceDescription":"UNLV — Timely Warning Crime Alert (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Automatic enrollment","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.unlv.edu/info","sourceDescription":"UNLV — Emergency Notifications page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["UNLV's emergency-notification system is RebelSAFE Alert, reserved for incidents presenting an imminent threat to life, health or safety; all students and employees are automatically enrolled.","RebelSAFE Alert is exceptionally multi-channel — SMS, email, app push, UPD Facebook/Twitter, desktop/VOIP popups, digital kiosks, outdoor RebelSAFE Emergency-Phone PA, and websites.","Emergency notifications are issued 'without delay' upon confirmation per the ASR, consistent with the Clery federal standard.","Clery functions are kept distinct: timely-warning crime alerts carry the literal phrase 'Timely Warning Notification' and are issued by University Police Services.","The named decision authority and exact RebelSAFE test cadence could not be confirmed verbatim (unlv.edu and ASR PDFs blocked automated fetching), so those fields are reconstructed and flagged; two excerpts confirmed verbatim across multiple official-page retrievals."],"sources":[{"title":"UNLV — Emergency Notifications (University Notifications)","url":"https://www.unlv.edu/info","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UNLV — University Police Department (RebelSAFE Alert overview)","url":"https://www.unlv.edu/police/unlv","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UNLV — Annual Security and Fire Safety Report 2025 (PDF)","url":"https://www.unlv.edu/sites/default/files/media/document/2025-09/2025-ASR-UNLV.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"UNLV — Timely Warning Crime Alert","url":"https://www.unlv.edu/news-story/timely-warning-crime-alert-0","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UNLV — Emergency Preparedness (University Police Department)","url":"https://www.unlv.edu/police/units/emergency-preparedness","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UNLV — Be Informed (Safety and Emergency)","url":"https://www.unlv.edu/safety-emergency/info","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","public-r1","nevada","rebelsafe","multi-channel"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-nevada-reno-emergency-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-nevada-reno-emergency-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Nevada, Reno","shortName":"UNR","state":"NV","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"University of Nevada, Reno Emergency Alert System","enrollment":23024},"policy":{"title":"Jeanne Clery Campus Security Act — Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Policy (Administrative Manual 7,012)","systemName":"University of Nevada, Reno Emergency Alert System","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.unr.edu/administrative-manual/7000-7999-miscellaneous/7012-jeanne-clery-campus-security-act","lastReviewed":"2025-09-01"},"summary":"The University of Nevada, Reno issues campus-wide emergency notifications through its [Emergency Alert System](https://www.unr.edu/emergency/alerts), an automatic-enrollment text/email system used only during a safety emergency or unexpected closing of the University, and issues separate Clery [Timely Warnings](https://www.unr.edu/administrative-manual/7000-7999-miscellaneous/7012-jeanne-clery-campus-security-act) through University Police Services when a Clery-reportable crime poses a serious or continuing threat to the campus community.","analysis":"The University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) is a public R1 ('Research 1: Very High Spending and Doctorate Production') university that [retained its R1 Carnegie designation in 2025](https://www.unr.edu/nevada-today/news/2025/r1-designation-retained) and enrolls roughly 24,000 students. Its emergency-notification function is delivered through what the university calls the [Emergency Alert System](https://www.unr.edu/emergency/alerts) — a text-and/or-email system that UNR describes as 'only used during a safety emergency or unexpected closing of the University.' Although the system is informally referenced around campus, UNR's own pages and its Clery policy brand it simply as the Emergency Alert System rather than a marketing name; this archive uses the official label.\n\nUNR's central governing document is [Administrative Manual policy 7,012, 'Jeanne Clery Campus Security Act'](https://www.unr.edu/administrative-manual/7000-7999-miscellaneous/7012-jeanne-clery-campus-security-act), which states its purpose is to maintain compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (20 U.S.C. § 1092(f)). The policy cleanly separates the two Clery functions. For emergency notifications, UNR 'through University Police Services will issue an Emergency Notification when a significant emergency or dangerous situation poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty or staff,' and such notifications 'are to be issued immediately upon confirmation of the emergency and may be tailored exclusively to the segment of the campus community at risk.' For timely warnings, UNR 'without delay' issues a Timely Warning whenever a Clery-covered crime poses a 'serious or continuing threat' to the main campus, non-campus buildings, and adjacent public property.\n\nA notable strength is the named decision authority: the policy assigns the final determination for both functions to a single accountable position — 'the Assistant Vice President & Director of University Police Services or his/her designee.' UNR also documents broad automatic enrollment: 'All students, faculty and staff are automatically enrolled in this system through phone and email data contained in University of Nevada, Reno student or human resources systems (MyNevada and Workday, respectively),' and that contact data is refreshed at least monthly. The university further publishes a structured delivery hierarchy — students receive alerts at their preferred email plus the eAlert/mobile/home phone selected in MyNevada, while employees receive them at primary work email and mobile numbers in Workday.\n\nUNR commits to a published periodic test cadence, stating it 'will provide test messages at least twice annually to ensure that the emergency alert service is working as expected,' a cadence corroborated by [University Police test announcements](https://www.unr.edu/nevada-today/news/2019/emergency-alert-system-test-8-5-19). Because the unr.edu host and the [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report PDF](https://www.unr.edu/main/pdfs/verified-accessible/divisions-offices/administration-finance/police-services/annual-security-report.pdf) return HTTP 403 to automated fetching, the excerpts here were captured from indexed search snippets; the four most-corroborated passages (appearing identically across multiple official-page retrievals) are marked verbatim-confirmed, while passages surfaced from only a single indexed retrieval are marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution.","whenCriteria":"An Emergency Notification is issued when a significant emergency or dangerous situation poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty or staff; notifications are issued immediately upon confirmation and may be tailored exclusively to the segment of the campus community at risk. A Timely Warning is issued, without delay, whenever a crime covered by the Clery Act poses a serious or continuing threat to the main campus, non-campus buildings and properties, and adjacent public property.","decisionAuthority":"The policy assigns final determination for both Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings to the Assistant Vice President & Director of University Police Services, or his/her designee. The need for a Timely Warning is evaluated on a case-by-case basis.","timingStandard":"Emergency Notifications are to be issued immediately upon confirmation of the emergency. Timely Warnings are issued 'without delay' once University Police Services determines a Clery crime poses a serious or continuing threat — consistent with the federal Clery standard.","cleryFraming":"UNR's policy 7,012 explicitly exists to maintain compliance with the Jeanne Clery Act (20 U.S.C. § 1092(f)) and distinguishes Emergency Notifications (immediate threats to health or safety) from Timely Warnings (Clery-reportable crimes posing a serious or continuing threat). UNR publishes an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report through University Police Services.","testingCadence":"UNR commits to providing test messages at least twice annually to verify the emergency alert service is working as expected; University Police periodically announce and conduct these campus tests.","scopeLimits":"All students, faculty and staff are automatically enrolled via MyNevada (students) and Workday (employees), with contact data refreshed at least monthly. An opt-out procedure exists for emergency-alert notifications. Reach depends on accurate contact information in those systems; the Emergency Alert System is limited to safety emergencies or unexpected University closings rather than routine operational messaging.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency Alert System purpose and scope","quotedText":"The Emergency Alert System sends a text and/or email message alert to all cell phones in the event of an emergency at the University, and is only used during a safety emergency or unexpected closing of the University.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.unr.edu/emergency/alerts","sourceDescription":"UNR — Emergency Alerts page","annotations":["Defines the system as text/email and narrowly scopes it to safety emergencies or unexpected University closings. Identical wording surfaced across multiple official UNR-page retrievals (unr.edu/emergency/alerts and unr.edu/employee-resource-center/safety)."],"characterCount":217},{"label":"Emergency Notification threshold and authority","quotedText":"The University of Nevada, Reno through University Police Services will issue an Emergency Notification when a significant emergency or dangerous situation poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty or staff of the institution.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.unr.edu/administrative-manual/7000-7999-miscellaneous/7012-jeanne-clery-campus-security-act","sourceDescription":"UNR Administrative Manual 7,012 — Jeanne Clery Campus Security Act","annotations":["Sets the emergency-notification trigger at an immediate threat to health or safety and names University Police Services as the issuing office. Surfaced identically across multiple Clery-policy retrievals."],"characterCount":254},{"label":"Immediacy and targeting of Emergency Notifications","quotedText":"Notifications are to be issued immediately upon confirmation of the emergency and may be tailored exclusively to the segment of the campus community at risk.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.unr.edu/administrative-manual/7000-7999-miscellaneous/7012-jeanne-clery-campus-security-act","sourceDescription":"UNR Administrative Manual 7,012 — Jeanne Clery Campus Security Act","annotations":["Adopts the federal 'immediately, upon confirmation' standard and authorizes geographically/segment-targeted notifications rather than always all-campus. Corroborated across multiple official-page retrievals."],"characterCount":157},{"label":"Timely Warning trigger ('without delay')","quotedText":"The University of Nevada, Reno through University Police Services will without delay issue a Timely Warning to the entire campus community whenever a crime covered by the Clery Act poses a serious or continuing threat to the main campus, non-campus buildings and properties including those occupied by officially recognized student organizations, and public property within or immediately adjacent to, and accessible from, the main campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.unr.edu/administrative-manual/7000-7999-miscellaneous/7012-jeanne-clery-campus-security-act","sourceDescription":"UNR Administrative Manual 7,012 — Jeanne Clery Campus Security Act","annotations":["Defines the Clery geographic scope (main campus, non-campus buildings, adjacent public property) and the 'serious or continuing threat' standard, with a 'without delay' timing commitment. Corroborated across multiple Clery-policy retrievals."],"characterCount":439},{"label":"Named final decision authority","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.unr.edu/administrative-manual/7000-7999-miscellaneous/7012-jeanne-clery-campus-security-act","sourceDescription":"UNR Administrative Manual 7,012 (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Automatic enrollment via MyNevada and Workday","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.unr.edu/emergency/alerts","sourceDescription":"UNR — Emergency Alerts page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["UNR's emergency-notification function is its 'Emergency Alert System' (text/email), used only for safety emergencies or unexpected University closings; the prompt's guessed 'Nevada Alert' brand was not confirmed as the official name.","Governing document is Administrative Manual 7,012 (Jeanne Clery Campus Security Act), which separates Emergency Notifications (immediate threat to health/safety) from Timely Warnings (Clery crimes posing a serious or continuing threat).","Emergency Notifications are issued immediately upon confirmation and may be targeted to the at-risk segment; Timely Warnings are issued 'without delay.'","A single named authority — the Assistant Vice President & Director of University Police Services, or designee — makes the final determination for both functions.","All students, faculty and staff are automatically enrolled via MyNevada/Workday (refreshed monthly), and UNR provides test messages at least twice annually.","unr.edu and the ASR PDF returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching; four most-corroborated excerpts are marked verbatim, two single-source excerpts are flagged isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"sources":[{"title":"UNR — Administrative Manual 7,012: Jeanne Clery Campus Security Act","url":"https://www.unr.edu/administrative-manual/7000-7999-miscellaneous/7012-jeanne-clery-campus-security-act","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UNR — Emergency Alerts","url":"https://www.unr.edu/emergency/alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UNR — Annual Security and Fire Safety Report 2025 (PDF)","url":"https://www.unr.edu/main/pdfs/verified-accessible/divisions-offices/administration-finance/police-services/annual-security-report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"UNR — Emergency Information","url":"https://www.unr.edu/emergency","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UNR — University Police test Emergency Alert System (test cadence)","url":"https://www.unr.edu/nevada-today/news/2019/emergency-alert-system-test-8-5-19","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UNR — Emergency Alert Notification Opt-Out Procedure (PDF)","url":"https://www.unr.edu/main/pdfs/verified-accessible/divisions-offices/president/emergency/emergencyalert-optout.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UNR retains R1 designation (2025)","url":"https://www.unr.edu/nevada-today/news/2025/r1-designation-retained","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","public-r1","nevada","clery","named-authority"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-new-england-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-new-england-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of New England","shortName":"UNE","state":"ME","type":"private-r2","alertSystemName":"UNE Alert","alertPlatform":"Rave Mobile Safety","enrollment":6573},"policy":{"title":"How You Will Be Notified - UNE Emergency Notifications","systemName":"UNE Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.une.edu/emergency/emergency-notifications","lastReviewed":"2026-07-20"},"summary":"The University of New England, a Research-2 institution with campuses in Biddeford and Portland, Maine, uses [UNE Alert](https://www.une.edu/emergency/emergency-notifications), a Rave Mobile Safety-powered notification service that gives faculty, professional staff, and students timely information and instructions during emergencies via text and email numbers registered through the UNE Compass student/employee portal, backed by the Rave Guardian mobile safety app.","analysis":"The University of New England (UNE), a private research university with campuses in Biddeford and Portland, Maine, and additional programs in Tangier, Morocco, describes its emergency communication platform on a dedicated [emergency notifications page](https://www.une.edu/emergency/emergency-notifications): UNE uses Rave Mobile Safety, an emergency notification service that provides faculty, professional staff, and students with timely information and instructions during emergencies or other urgent situations that may directly affect their well-being. The platform allows the University to stay connected with the UNE community and provide critical information in real time during emergency situations on campus or in the surrounding communities, alerts during school closures, and information about weather-related events, framing the system's reach as extending to nearby off-campus conditions and not just the physical campus footprint.\n\nRegistration is handled through UNE Compass, the university's student/employee self-service portal, rather than a separate stand-alone sign-up site. Individuals who have entered their mobile phone number in UNE Compass will receive urgent alerts via text message, and a subscriber can add up to two additional phone numbers under UNE Alert Phone 2 and 3 to receive UNE alerts as an optional supplement to their primary number. The registration path runs through the portal's My Self-Service, General Services, Personal Information, and Phone Number sections, where three distinct alert phone number fields (UNE Alert1, UNE Alert2, UNE Alert3) can be populated. The platform also includes the Rave Guardian mobile app for smartphones, available on the App Store and Google Play, extending the alerting system with additional personal-safety features beyond passive text/email receipt.\n\nUNE reached Carnegie's R2 (\"Doctoral Universities - High Research Activity\") research classification, a comparatively unusual research profile for an institution of its size that also runs a full Clery-covered emergency-notification program; the university publishes a separate [Clery Reporting](https://www.une.edu/studentlife/security/safety-reports) page and a [cancellation/delay policy](https://www.une.edu/about/cancellation-delay-policy) that intersects with UNE Alert for weather-related closures.\n\nBecause une.edu hosts return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the language above was captured from UNE's emergency-notifications page as reproduced identically across multiple independent search queries and is treated as verbatim on that basis; a specific named decision-authority title (e.g., a designated Clery Compliance Officer) and a published testing-cadence calendar were not confirmed word-for-word and are left general rather than asserted.","whenCriteria":"UNE Alert is used to provide faculty, professional staff, and students timely information and instructions during emergencies or other urgent situations that may directly affect their well-being, including emergency situations on campus or in the surrounding communities, school closures, and weather-related events.","decisionAuthority":"A specific named decision-authority title (e.g., a Clery Compliance Officer, Director of Public Safety, or similar role) was not confirmed verbatim in the public sources reviewed; UNE Alert is administered as a campus-wide Rave Mobile Safety platform tied to the university's Office of Safety and Security.","timingStandard":"UNE Alert is described as providing timely information and instructions and real-time critical information during emergency situations; a specific minutes-based delivery standard was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"UNE maintains a separate Clery Reporting page distinct from the UNE Alert system-overview page; the specific verbatim language distinguishing timely warnings from emergency notifications under Clery was not confirmed in the sources reviewed for this entry.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Reach depends on a mobile number being entered in UNE Compass (the university's self-service portal); up to two additional numbers (UNE Alert Phone 2 and 3) can be added, and the Rave Guardian app extends functionality to smartphones. The system explicitly also covers surrounding-community conditions, not solely the on-campus footprint.","channels":["sms","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"What UNE Alert is","quotedText":"UNE uses Rave Mobile Safety, an emergency notification service that provides faculty, professional staff, and students with timely information and instructions during emergencies or other urgent situations that may directly affect their well-being.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.une.edu/emergency/emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"University of New England - How You Will Be Notified","annotations":["Defines UNE Alert as a Rave Mobile Safety platform covering faculty, professional staff, and students, framed around well-being-affecting emergencies broadly, not only on-campus incidents."],"characterCount":248},{"label":"Registration path","quotedText":"Individuals who have entered their mobile phone number in UNE Compass following the steps above will receive urgent alerts via text message. You can add up to two additional phone numbers under UNE Alert Phone 2 and 3 to receive UNE alerts (optional).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.une.edu/emergency/emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"University of New England - How You Will Be Notified","annotations":["Documents the UNE Compass self-service registration mechanism and the optional two-additional-number ceiling per account."],"characterCount":251}],"keyFindings":["UNE Alert is a Rave Mobile Safety-powered emergency notification service for faculty, professional staff, and students at UNE's Biddeford and Portland, Maine campuses.","Registration runs through the UNE Compass self-service portal rather than a stand-alone sign-up site; up to two additional phone numbers can be added per account.","The Rave Guardian mobile app extends the platform with additional personal-safety features on smartphones.","UNE holds Carnegie R2 (Doctoral Universities - High Research Activity) status, an unusually research-intensive profile for an institution of its size.","A specific named decision-authority title and a published testing-cadence calendar were not confirmed verbatim and are left unstated rather than invented."],"sources":[{"title":"How You Will Be Notified - University of New England in Maine","url":"https://www.une.edu/emergency/emergency-notifications","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Overview and Current Status - University of New England in Maine","url":"https://www.une.edu/emergency","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Reporting - University of New England in Maine","url":"https://www.une.edu/studentlife/security/safety-reports","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"About the Office of Safety and Security - University of New England in Maine","url":"https://www.une.edu/studentlife/security","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UNE retains R2 Research status, reinforcing leadership in scientific advancement","url":"https://www.une.edu/une-retains-r2-research-status","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","une-alert","rave-mobile-safety","private-r2","maine"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-20","lastUpdated":"2026-07-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-new-hampshire-unh-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-new-hampshire-unh-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of New Hampshire","shortName":"UNH","state":"NH","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"UNH Alert","enrollment":13554},"policy":{"title":"UNH Alert — Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Crime Alert Policy (Annual Security and Fire Safety Report)","systemName":"UNH Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://law.unh.edu/sites/default/files/media/2024-11/2024-afsr-final.pdf","lastReviewed":"2024-09-01"},"summary":"The University of New Hampshire delivers emergency notifications through [UNH Alert](https://www.unh.edu/upd/crime-prevention/campus-alerts), a Rave-powered system used to notify the community of events posing an immediate or on-going threat to health and safety, and issues separate Clery [Timely Warning Crime Alerts](https://law.unh.edu/sites/default/files/media/2024-11/2024-afsr-final.pdf) for reportable crimes that represent a serious or continuing threat. UNH issues alerts only by text and email (it has opted out of the voice-call feature), augmented by social media, on-campus TV screens, and the my.usnh.edu portal.","analysis":"The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is a public R1 research university based in Durham, NH, with additional campuses in Manchester and Concord (Franklin Pierce School of Law). UNH first reached R1 (Doctoral Universities — Very High Research Activity) in 2019 and [retained R1 in the February 2025 Carnegie Classification](https://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/2025/02/unh-retains-carnegie-r1-classification), so its prior R2 status is outdated. Its mass-notification system is branded [UNH Alert](https://www.unh.edu/upd/crime-prevention/campus-alerts) and runs on Rave Mobile Safety ('Rave Alert'), to which UNH migrated in December 2017; the self-registration portal at alert.unh.edu renders as a Rave login.\n\nUNH defines the system's scope in its own words: UNH Alert 'is used to notify users of significant events that may cause an immediate or on-going threat to the health and/or safety of our campus communities,' designed to 'notify a large population quickly of hostile events, severe weather, or hazardous situations,' and may also announce curtailed operations or serious traffic delays. The decision authority and timing standard are set out in UNH's [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://law.unh.edu/sites/default/files/media/2024-11/2024-afsr-final.pdf): all UNHPD sergeants, the captain, deputy chief, chief, and dispatchers are authorized to initiate the Rave Alert system, and in a time-critical threat a message is 'sent immediately on authority of the Chief of Police or his/her designee.' The Police Chief or designee drafts the content, determines the affected segment of the community, and sends the message through any or all available systems. UNH does not use the Clery phrase 'without delay' in its own materials — its standard is to act 'immediately' — and that distinction is preserved here rather than imputing language UNH does not use.\n\nUNH's channel implementation is deliberately narrower than Rave's full catalog: the university 'has opted not to use the telephone feature,' so only text and email go out through UNH Alert itself, with administrators also able to push to UNH Police [social media](https://www.unh.edu/upd/crime-prevention/campus-alerts) (@UNHPolice on Facebook and @UNH_Police on X), on-campus television screens on the Durham and Manchester campuses, and the my.usnh.edu portal. Separately, UNH operates an outdoor notification (siren) system under an 'Alert and Inform' approach — the [outdoor system is tested each July](https://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/2018/06/alert-and-inform), broadcasting a siren and recorded message — so outdoor PA is part of the broader warning infrastructure even though text and email are the primary mass-notification path. Voice/phone calls are therefore intentionally excluded.\n\nUNH keeps the two Clery functions distinct. The emergency-notification function (sent immediately for confirmed significant emergencies or dangerous situations) is separate from the [Timely Warning Crime Alert](https://law.unh.edu/sites/default/files/media/2024-11/2024-afsr-final.pdf), which the ASR describes as 'intended to warn of criminal incidents so people can make informed decisions regarding their safety' and which the Clery Act requires for certain Clery crimes within UNH's Clery geography that 'represent a serious or continuing threat.' For testing, the ASR states UNH 'conducts a campus-wide drill and exercise on an annual basis,' publicizes its emergency-response and evacuation procedures in conjunction with the test, and documents each test. The activation, authority, timing, timely-warning, and testing excerpts here were corroborated identically across multiple ASR-year retrievals; because the .edu-hosted ASR PDF returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, the literal Clery 'significant emergency... immediate threat to the health or safety' boilerplate sentence could not be pulled byte-for-byte from UNH's own document and is not claimed verbatim — UNH's confirmed 'immediate or on-going threat to the health and/or safety' wording is used instead.","whenCriteria":"UNH Alert is used 'to notify users of significant events that may cause an immediate or on-going threat to the health and/or safety of our campus communities' and to quickly notify a large population of hostile events, severe weather, or hazardous situations; it may also announce curtailed operations and serious traffic delays. Separately, Timely Warning Crime Alerts are issued for Clery-reportable crimes within UNH's Clery geography that represent a serious or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"All UNHPD sergeants, the captain, deputy chief, chief, and dispatchers are authorized to initiate the Rave Alert notification system; for time-critical threats the message is sent immediately on the authority of the Chief of Police or his/her designee, who is responsible for drafting the content and determining the affected community segment.","timingStandard":"Per UNH's ASR, during a time-critical threat to campus a Rave Alert message is 'sent immediately on authority of the Chief of Police or his/her designee.' UNH's materials use 'immediately' rather than the Clery phrase 'without delay,' which is not attributed to UNH here.","cleryFraming":"UNH distinguishes the two Clery functions: an Emergency Notification for confirmed significant emergencies/dangerous situations posing an immediate threat, and a 'Timely Warning Crime Alert' for Clery-reportable crimes within UNH's Clery geography that represent a serious or continuing threat. An impacted individual's identifying information will never appear in a crime warning, the daily crime log, or the report. UNH publishes an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.","testingCadence":"UNH 'conducts a campus-wide drill and exercise on an annual basis,' publicizes its emergency-response and evacuation procedures in conjunction with the test, and documents each test (description, date, time, and whether announced or unannounced). The outdoor notification (siren) system is tested each July.","scopeLimits":"UNH has opted not to use the telephone/voice feature of the alert system — only text messages and email are sent via UNH Alert — augmented by UNH Police social media, on-campus TV screens (digital signage), and the my.usnh.edu portal, plus a separate outdoor siren system. Full text reach depends on current contact information registered in the Rave system.","channels":["sms","email","twitter-x","facebook","digital-signage","website","siren","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"UNH Alert purpose / activation scope","quotedText":"UNH Alert is used to notify users of significant events that may cause an immediate or on-going threat to the health and/or safety of our campus communities: Durham, Manchester, Concord (Law School), and the USNH office. The system is designed to notify a large population quickly of hostile events, severe weather, or hazardous situations. The system may also be used to announce Curtailed Operations, serious traffic delays or other public safety concerns.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.unh.edu/upd/crime-prevention/campus-alerts","sourceDescription":"UNH Police Department — Campus Alerts page","annotations":["UNH's own definition of the system's activation scope; identical wording recurred across the Campus Alerts page, Emergency Alert FAQ, and University Alerts page."],"characterCount":458},{"label":"Decision authority and immediate-issuance standard","quotedText":"All UNHPD sergeants, captain, deputy chief, chief, and dispatchers are authorized to initiate and use the Rave Alert notification system. During situations in which there is a time-critical threat to campus, a Rave Alert message and messages sent via other systems are sent immediately on authority of the Chief of Police or his/her designee.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://law.unh.edu/sites/default/files/media/2024-11/2024-afsr-final.pdf","sourceDescription":"UNH 2024 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (Clery ASR)","annotations":["Names the authorized initiators and sets the timing standard as 'sent immediately' on authority of the Chief of Police or designee. Recurred across multiple ASR-year retrievals; the .edu PDF host blocked direct fetch."],"characterCount":342},{"label":"Channels (UNH-specific, excludes voice)","quotedText":"Administrators can also send notifications to UNH Police social media (facebook: @UNHPolice and X: @UNH_Police), on-campus television screens located in a variety of locations on the Durham and Manchester campuses, and the my.usnh.edu portal.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.unh.edu/upd/crime-prevention/campus-alerts","sourceDescription":"UNH Police Department — Campus Alerts page","annotations":["Lists UNH's supplementary channels beyond text/email; UNH separately states it 'has opted not to use the telephone feature,' so voice calls are intentionally excluded."],"characterCount":242},{"label":"Timely Warning Crime Alert (Clery)","quotedText":"The University of New Hampshire's 'Timely Warning Crime Alert' is intended to warn of criminal incidents so people can make informed decisions regarding their safety. The Clery Act requires UNH to distribute Timely Crime Alerts regarding certain Clery crimes that occur within UNH's Clery geography and represent a serious or continuing threat to the safety of students or employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://law.unh.edu/sites/default/files/media/2024-11/2024-afsr-final.pdf","sourceDescription":"UNH 2024 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (Clery ASR)","annotations":["Establishes 'Timely Warning Crime Alert' as UNH's named term for the Clery timely-warning function, triggered by Clery crimes in Clery geography posing a serious or continuing threat."],"characterCount":383},{"label":"Testing cadence (annual drill)","quotedText":"When UNH tests the systems, it includes a test of all notification systems as well. The University of New Hampshire conducts a campus-wide drill and exercise on an annual basis. Annually UNH will publicize the emergency response and evacuation procedures in conjunction with the test, and will document each test, to include a description of the exercise, the date, time and whether the exercise was announced or unannounced.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://law.unh.edu/sites/default/files/media/2024-11/2024-afsr-final.pdf","sourceDescription":"UNH 2024 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (Clery ASR)","annotations":["Documents UNH's annual campus-wide drill and the requirement to publicize and document each test; the separate outdoor siren system is tested each July."],"characterCount":425}],"keyFindings":["UNH's emergency-notification system is UNH Alert, running on Rave Mobile Safety (migrated December 2017); the portal at alert.unh.edu is a Rave login.","UNH is a verified R1 university (first R1 in 2019; retained R1 in February 2025), correcting any prior R2 classification.","UNH issues alerts only by text and email — it has explicitly opted out of the voice/telephone feature — augmented by UNH Police social media, on-campus TV screens, the my.usnh.edu portal, and a separate outdoor siren system.","Authority to initiate is broad (UNHPD sergeants, captain, deputy chief, chief, dispatchers), but time-critical messages go out immediately on the authority of the Chief of Police or designee, who drafts content and scopes the audience.","UNH names its Clery timely-warning function the 'Timely Warning Crime Alert,' kept distinct from the emergency-notification function; testing is via an annual campus-wide drill.","UNH's materials use 'immediately,' not the Clery phrase 'without delay'; the literal Clery boilerplate activation sentence could not be confirmed verbatim from UNH's own ASR (the .edu PDF blocked automated fetching), so UNH's confirmed 'immediate or on-going threat' wording is used instead."],"sources":[{"title":"UNH Police Department — Campus Alerts","url":"https://www.unh.edu/upd/crime-prevention/campus-alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UNH Police Department — Emergency Alert FAQ","url":"https://www.unh.edu/upd/crime-prevention/campus-alerts/emergency-alert-faq","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UNH 2024 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (Clery ASR) (PDF)","url":"https://law.unh.edu/sites/default/files/media/2024-11/2024-afsr-final.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"UNH Alert — Rave self-registration portal","url":"https://alert.unh.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UNH Today — Alert and Inform (outdoor siren testing)","url":"https://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/2018/06/alert-and-inform","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UNH Today — New Alert System Now Live (Rave migration, Dec 2017)","url":"https://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/2017/12/new-alert-system-now-live","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UNH Today — UNH Retains Carnegie R1 Classification (Feb 2025)","url":"https://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/2025/02/unh-retains-carnegie-r1-classification","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UNH main-campus enrollment, 2024-25 (IPEDS-derived: 13,554 total; 11,355 undergraduate + 2,199 graduate)","url":"https://www.collegetuitioncompare.com/edu/183044/university-of-new-hampshire-main-campus/enrollment/","type":"other"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","public-r1","new-hampshire","unh-alert","rave","text-email-only"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-31","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-new-mexico-loboalerts-policy","slug":"university-of-new-mexico-loboalerts-policy","institution":{"name":"University of New Mexico","shortName":"UNM","state":"NM","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"LoboAlerts","enrollment":23200},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications / LoboAlerts and LoboAdvisory (Timely Warning) Policy","systemName":"LoboAlerts","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://campussafety.unm.edu/education/emergency-preparedness/emergency-communication.html","lastReviewed":"2025-09-01"},"summary":"The University of New Mexico issues emergency notifications through [LoboAlerts](https://loboalerts.unm.edu/), a Rave Mobile Safety platform integrated with Banner that auto-enrolls the campus on an opt-out basis, distinguishing a 'LoboAlert' (emergency notification, issued immediately upon confirmation of an imminent threat) from a [LoboAdvisory](https://campussafety.unm.edu/education/emergency-preparedness/emergency-communication.html) (Clery timely warning, issued as soon as pertinent information is available).","analysis":"The University of New Mexico (UNM) is a public R1 research university whose emergency-notification system is branded [LoboAlerts](https://loboalerts.unm.edu/) and runs on the Rave Mobile Safety platform, integrated with UNM's Banner records system. Enrollment is automatic on an opt-out basis — all faculty, staff, registered students, UNM affiliates, and UNM Hospital employees are auto-enrolled, and a subscriber cannot opt out of both text and email — which closes the coverage gap that limits opt-in keyword systems.\n\nUNM draws an unusually clear brand-level line between its two Clery functions. A **LoboAlert** is the emergency notification: per UNM's [Campus Safety Emergency Communication page](https://campussafety.unm.edu/education/emergency-preparedness/emergency-communication.html), it is 'triggered by any significant emergency or dangerous situation that is currently occurring on or near the campus' and 'is issued immediately upon confirmation of the emergency.' A **LoboAdvisory** is the Clery timely warning, 'triggered by crimes that have already occurred but represent a serious ongoing threat,' and 'issued as soon as the pertinent information is available.' UNM also uses **LoboTest** as the brand for scheduled test messages and **LoboGuardian** for its Rave Guardian personal-safety app (one-button UNMPD contact, safety-timer sessions, anonymous tips) — distinct from the mass-notification channel.\n\nOn timing and authority, UNM's [2023 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://campussafety.unm.edu/asfsr-s/2023-asr.html) tracks the federal Clery standard: 'UNMPD, in collaboration with the Director of Crisis Management and Preparedness and the Clery Coordinator will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system,' subject to the standard exception where notification would compromise efforts to assist a victim or mitigate the emergency. The decision authority is therefore a three-party collaboration — UNMPD plus the Director of Crisis Management and Preparedness plus the Clery Coordinator — rather than a single office. UNM uses the qualitative Clery timing standard ('without delay,' 'immediately upon confirmation'), not a stated minute target.\n\nLoboAlerts is multi-channel: text/SMS, email, an outdoor [Emergency Alert Sirens / Campus Warning System](https://emanage.unm.edu/EMNS.shtml), a website/homepage banner, the UNM Newsroom, and dedicated LoboAlerts social-media accounts (Facebook and X). The sirens are sounded for emergencies 'that make it dangerous to be outdoors,' such as severe weather, an environmental hazard, or a threat from an armed individual. The entire Campus Warning System is tested at the beginning of each semester (fall, spring, and summer), i.e., at least three advertised tests per year. Two caveats: UNM-specific sources did not confirm WEA/IPAWS, desktop pop-up alerts, or digital signage as named channels, so those are not asserted; and because campussafety.unm.edu, loboalerts.unm.edu, and the ASR PDFs returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, the excerpts below were captured from search-index snippets and corroborated across multiple independent retrievals, with the exact testing-cadence sentence marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false because its phrasing varied by page.","whenCriteria":"A LoboAlert (emergency notification) is triggered by any significant emergency or dangerous situation currently occurring on or near campus involving an imminent threat to the health or safety of students, staff, faculty, and/or visitors, and is issued immediately upon confirmation. A LoboAdvisory (timely warning) is triggered by crimes that have already occurred but represent a serious ongoing threat, and is issued as soon as pertinent information is available.","decisionAuthority":"UNMPD, in collaboration with the Director of Crisis Management and Preparedness and the Clery Coordinator, determines the content of the notification and initiates the system — a three-party collaboration rather than a single named office.","timingStandard":"Per UNM's ASR, UNMPD and partners act 'without delay and taking into account the safety of the community,' and a LoboAlert 'is issued immediately upon confirmation of the emergency,' subject to the standard Clery exception. A LoboAdvisory is issued 'as soon as the pertinent information is available.' UNM uses this qualitative standard rather than a stated minute target.","cleryFraming":"UNM keeps the two Clery functions branded and distinct: a LoboAlert is the emergency notification for imminent threats to health or safety, and a LoboAdvisory is the timely-warning crime alert for serious ongoing threats from crimes already committed. UNM produces an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.","testingCadence":"The entire Campus Warning System (warning siren, text messaging, email, and web-page update) is tested at the beginning of each semester (fall, spring, and summer) — at least three advertised test messages per year, branded LoboTest.","scopeLimits":"Enrollment is automatic and opt-out: all faculty, staff, registered students, UNM affiliates, and UNM Hospital employees are auto-enrolled, and a subscriber cannot opt out of both text and email. WEA/IPAWS, desktop pop-up alerts, and digital signage were not confirmed as named LoboAlerts channels and are not asserted. LoboGuardian (Rave Guardian app) is a personal-safety tool, not the mass-notification channel.","channels":["sms","email","siren","website","twitter-x","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"LoboAlert definition — activation criteria and timing","quotedText":"A LoboAlert is an 'Emergency Notification' triggered by any significant emergency or dangerous situation that is currently occurring on or near the campus involving an imminently threat to the health or safety of students, staff, faculty and/or visitors. It is issued immediately upon confirmation of the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://campussafety.unm.edu/education/emergency-preparedness/emergency-communication.html","sourceDescription":"UNM Campus Safety — Emergency Communication page","annotations":["Sets the LoboAlert activation threshold and the 'issued immediately upon confirmation' timing. The exact phrasing — including the grammatical quirk 'an imminently threat' — appeared identically across three independent retrievals, a strong authenticity marker; the campussafety.unm.edu host blocked direct fetching, so it was captured from the search index."],"characterCount":315},{"label":"Decision authority + 'without delay' clause (ASR)","quotedText":"UNMPD, in collaboration with the Director of Crisis Management and Preparedness and the Clery Coordinator will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system, unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://campussafety.unm.edu/asfsr-s/2023-asr.html","sourceDescription":"UNM 2023 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (Clery ASR)","annotations":["Names the three-party decision authority (UNMPD + Director of Crisis Management and Preparedness + Clery Coordinator) and applies the Clery 'without delay' standard with the federal mitigation exception. Recurred identically across two independent retrievals and is echoed in branch-campus ASR PDFs."],"characterCount":453},{"label":"LoboAdvisory definition — timely warning","quotedText":"A LoboAdvisory is a 'Timely Warning' triggered by crimes that have already occurred but represent a serious ongoing threat to students, staff, faculty and/or visitors on the UNM Campus. It is issued as soon as the pertinent information is available and is disseminated through text, email and UNM Newsroom.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://campussafety.unm.edu/education/emergency-preparedness/emergency-communication.html","sourceDescription":"UNM Campus Safety — Emergency Communication page","annotations":["Brands the Clery timely warning as a 'LoboAdvisory,' distinct from the LoboAlert emergency notification, and lists its dissemination channels (text, email, UNM Newsroom). Appeared consistently across two independent retrievals."],"characterCount":306},{"label":"Outdoor Emergency Alert Sirens activation","quotedText":"The University of New Mexico Emergency Alert Sirens are sounded in the event of an emergency that makes it dangerous to be outdoors, such as a severe lightning storm, an environmental hazard or a threat from an armed individual.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emanage.unm.edu/EMNS.shtml","sourceDescription":"UNM Emergency Management — Emergency Alert Sirens page","annotations":["Defines when the outdoor siren layer is activated (severe weather, environmental hazard, armed threat) — a separate channel from the SMS/email LoboAlert. Appeared identically across two independent retrievals."],"characterCount":228},{"label":"Testing cadence — Campus Warning System","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://campussafety.unm.edu/education/emergency-preparedness/emergency-communication.html","sourceDescription":"UNM Campus Safety / UNM Emergency Management","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["UNM's emergency-notification system is LoboAlerts, built on Rave Mobile Safety and integrated with Banner for automatic, opt-out enrollment of faculty, staff, students, affiliates, and UNM Hospital employees.","UNM brands the two Clery functions distinctly: a LoboAlert (emergency notification, issued immediately upon confirmation) and a LoboAdvisory (timely warning, issued as soon as pertinent information is available).","Decision authority is a three-party collaboration: UNMPD, the Director of Crisis Management and Preparedness, and the Clery Coordinator, acting 'without delay.'","Channels include SMS, email, an outdoor Emergency Alert Siren / Campus Warning System, website banner, UNM Newsroom, and dedicated LoboAlerts Facebook and X accounts; the entire system is tested at the start of each semester (fall, spring, summer).","WEA/IPAWS, desktop pop-up alerts, and digital signage were not confirmed as named UNM channels and are not asserted; LoboGuardian (Rave Guardian) is a separate personal-safety app. campussafety.unm.edu, loboalerts.unm.edu, and ASR PDFs blocked automated fetching, so excerpts were captured from search-index snippets corroborated across retrievals."],"sources":[{"title":"UNM Campus Safety — Emergency Communication (LoboAlerts / LoboAdvisory policy)","url":"https://campussafety.unm.edu/education/emergency-preparedness/emergency-communication.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UNM 2023 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (Clery ASR)","url":"https://campussafety.unm.edu/asfsr-s/2023-asr.html","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"LoboAlerts — Emergency Messaging (sign-up portal)","url":"https://loboalerts.unm.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"LoboAlerts FAQ","url":"https://loboalerts.unm.edu/faq.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UNM Emergency Management — Emergency Alert Sirens (EMNS)","url":"https://emanage.unm.edu/EMNS.shtml","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"LoboGuardian (Rave Guardian app)","url":"https://loboalerts.unm.edu/loboguardian.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UNM enrollment continues growth — fall 2024 data (UNM Newsroom)","url":"https://news.unm.edu/news/unm-enrollment-continues-growth-incoming-student-gpas-rise-fall-2024-data-show","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University of New Mexico — Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_New_Mexico","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","public-r1","new-mexico","loboalerts","loboadvisory","rave-mobile-safety","siren","multi-channel"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-new-orleans-privateer-alerts-policy","slug":"university-of-new-orleans-privateer-alerts-policy","institution":{"name":"University of New Orleans","shortName":"UNO","state":"LA","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"Privateer Alerts","enrollment":8000},"policy":{"title":"University Alert System and Privateer Alerts Notification System","systemName":"Privateer Alerts","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.uno.edu/upd/university-alert-system","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"The University of New Orleans [University Alert System page](https://www.uno.edu/upd/university-alert-system) brands Privateer Alerts for crisis text/email instant alerts, documents a 3-minute siren meaning take shelter with text and LSU New Orleans email all-clear messages, and directs that the emergency ends only with face-to-face instructions from Department of Public Safety / UNO Police or a University administrator.","analysis":"University of New Orleans is a public R2 institution in Louisiana (often branded LSU New Orleans in recent materials). Its [University Alert System](https://www.uno.edu/upd/university-alert-system) page is institution-specific: a 3-minute siren means take shelter; Privateer Alerts sends instant text, email, or both in a crisis; email goes to all LSU New Orleans email addresses; text messages indicate the nature of the emergency and protective steps; the all-clear is not solely electronic - face-to-face instructions from Department of Public Safety/LSU New Orleans Police or a University administrator end the emergency; callers are told only to call police for life-threatening emergencies or specific immediate danger information once the siren has sounded.","whenCriteria":"Crisis events warranting instant Privateer Alerts text/email; siren activation for take-shelter emergencies.","decisionAuthority":"Department of Public Safety / LSU New Orleans Police and University administrators for face-to-face all-clear.","timingStandard":"Instant alert via text, email, or both in a crisis; 3-minute siren tone for take shelter.","cleryFraming":"Page focuses on emergency notification and shelter procedures rather than Clery Timely Warning boilerplate alone.","scopeLimits":"LSU New Orleans email addresses for email channel; Privateer Alerts text registration; siren campus-wide.","testingCadence":"Not stated on the University Alert System page.","channels":["sms","email","siren","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Siren take-shelter and Privateer Alerts all-clear pairing","quotedText":"A 3 minute siren sound means \"take shelter\"; a text message will be sent through the Privateer Alerts System and an email message will be sent to all LSU New Orleans email addresses when the \"all clear\"","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uno.edu/upd/university-alert-system","sourceDescription":"UNO University Alert System page","annotations":["Local siren meaning and Privateer Alerts brand for all-clear pairing."],"characterCount":202},{"label":"Privateer Alerts crisis instant notification","quotedText":"PRIVATEER ALERTS Notification System. In the event of a crisis, an instant alert will be sent via text, email or both.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uno.edu/upd/university-alert-system","sourceDescription":"UNO University Alert System page","annotations":["Local Privateer Alerts brand and dual-channel crisis alerts."],"characterCount":118},{"label":"Face-to-face all-clear authority","quotedText":"Until you are given face-to-face instructions by LSU New Orleans Department of Public Safety/LSU New Orleans Police or a University administrator that the emergency is over.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uno.edu/upd/university-alert-system","sourceDescription":"UNO University Alert System page","annotations":["Institution-specific all-clear requires in-person DPS/UPD or administrator instruction."],"characterCount":173}],"keyFindings":["Privateer Alerts is the local crisis notification brand.","Public-r2 Louisiana institution with distinctive siren plus face-to-face all-clear protocol."],"sources":[{"title":"University Alert System - University of New Orleans","url":"https://www.uno.edu/upd/university-alert-system","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["public-r2","louisiana","privateer-alerts","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"unc-asheville-alert-policy","slug":"unc-asheville-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of North Carolina at Asheville","shortName":"UNC Asheville","state":"NC","type":"public-bachelors","alertSystemName":"Bulldog Alert","enrollment":3000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning Policy","systemName":"Bulldog Alert","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://go.unca.edu/policies/policy-918/","policyNumber":"918"},"summary":"UNC Asheville's [Timely Warning Policy (Policy 918)](https://go.unca.edu/policies/policy-918/) implements the Clery Act's timely-warning requirement for crimes posing a serious or continuing threat within the university's Clery geography, distributing warnings through the multi-channel [Bulldog Alert](https://em.unca.edu/emergency-notifications/bulldog-alert/) system.","analysis":"UNC Asheville's [Timely Warning Policy (Policy 918)](https://go.unca.edu/policies/policy-918/) states that, in accordance with the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act, the university must issue Timely Warnings to the campus community for Clery Act crimes that occur on or near campus and are considered to represent a serious or continuing threat to students and employees. The policy supports the university's efforts to inform and advise community members about crimes that may pose such a threat.\n\nTimely Warnings are issued on a case-by-case basis. The university issues a Timely Warning when pertinent information is available, the crime has been reported in good faith to UNC Asheville Police or a Campus Security Authority and is one of the Clery Act crimes, and either the crime is considered to present a serious or ongoing threat to the physical safety of students and employees, or the crime represents a pattern that has occurred two or more times within a specific area or a shortened/condensed period of time. The policy also sets outer limits: although each case is evaluated individually, Timely Warnings will not be issued when a report is filed more than five (5) calendar days after the date of the alleged incident unless it is determined that there is a continuing threat to the community, among other specified circumstances. Crimes reported to confidential resources, such as professional counselors, or privileged information protected by state law, are exempt from Timely Warning consideration.\n\nThe response process is a defined three-step sequence: in the event of a serious or continuing threat, UNC Asheville will (1) confirm that the reported Clery crime meets the requirements of a Timely Warning, including confirming the existence of a serious or continuing threat within the university's Clery Act Geography; (2) determine the content of the Timely Warning; and (3) distribute the Timely Warning through the university's notification system as soon as the above criteria have been determined.\n\nDistribution runs through [Bulldog Alert](https://go.unca.edu/bulldogalert/), UNC Asheville's emergency-alert messaging system, which is also used to send Timely Warnings when an incident poses a serious or continuing threat. The university describes Bulldog Alert as a multi-channel notification system designed to send messages quickly and reach as much of the community as possible, including university email (auto-enrolled for students, faculty, and staff), text/SMS and voice to registered phones, outdoor sirens, desktop alerts to university-owned computers, and digital signage in campus buildings. The same Bulldog Alert system serves the broader [emergency-notification](https://em.unca.edu/emergency-notifications/bulldog-alert/) function for immediate threats; this Timely Warning Policy specifically governs the Clery timely-warning subset. UNC Asheville [tests Bulldog Alert](https://www.unca.edu/events-and-news/stories/unc-asheville-to-test-bulldogalert-system-jan-6-2022/) (for example, an announced system test on January 6, 2022), and registered primary contact numbers are auto-enrolled while affiliates and family may register annually.","whenCriteria":"Issued case-by-case when pertinent information is available and a Clery crime reported in good faith to UNC Asheville Police or a CSA either presents a serious or ongoing threat to the physical safety of students and employees, or represents a pattern occurring two or more times within a specific area or condensed period.","decisionAuthority":"UNC Asheville (via University Police / responsible officials) confirms the warning criteria are met, determines content, and distributes through the notification system once criteria are determined.","timingStandard":"Distributed through the university's notification system as soon as the confirmation and content criteria have been determined; not issued for reports filed more than five calendar days after the alleged incident absent a continuing threat.","cleryFraming":"Standalone Clery timely-warning policy tied to the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act for serious/continuing-threat Clery crimes in the university's Clery Act Geography; the same Bulldog Alert system also handles general emergency notifications.","testingCadence":"Bulldog Alert is periodically tested with announced tests (e.g., a system test on January 6, 2022); affiliates and family may register annually.","scopeLimits":"Limited to Clery crimes in the university's Clery Act Geography meeting the serious-or-continuing-threat or repeat-pattern standard; excludes crimes reported to confidential resources or privileged information protected by state law, and generally excludes reports filed more than five calendar days after the incident absent a continuing threat.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","siren","desktop-popup","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Clery basis and serious/continuing threat","quotedText":"In accordance with the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act, UNC Asheville must issue \"Timely Warnings\" to the campus community for Clery Act crimes that occur on or near campus and are considered to represent a serious or continuing threat to students and employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://go.unca.edu/policies/policy-918/","sourceDescription":"UNC Asheville Timely Warning Policy (Policy 918)","annotations":["Establishes the Clery-Act basis and the serious-or-continuing-threat standard."],"characterCount":261},{"label":"Three-step response procedure","quotedText":"In the event of a serious or continuing threat, UNC Asheville will 1) confirm that the reported Clery crime meets the requirements of a Timely Warning, including confirming the existence of a serious or continuing threat to student and employees within the university's Clery Act Geography; 2) determine the content of the Timely Warning; and 3) distribute the Timely Warning through the university's notification system as soon as the above criteria have been determined.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://go.unca.edu/policies/policy-918/","sourceDescription":"UNC Asheville Timely Warning Policy (Policy 918)","annotations":["Defines the confirm/determine-content/distribute sequence and ties scope to Clery Act Geography. Preserves the source's 'student and employees' phrasing."],"characterCount":472},{"label":"Repeat-pattern trigger","quotedText":"The crime represents a pattern that has occurred two or more times within a specific area or shortened/condensed period of time.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://go.unca.edu/policies/policy-918/","sourceDescription":"UNC Asheville Timely Warning Policy (Policy 918)","annotations":["Provides an alternate trigger based on repetition rather than a single serious threat."],"characterCount":128}],"keyFindings":["UNC Asheville's Timely Warning Policy (Policy 918) is a standalone Clery-based policy covering serious/continuing-threat crimes in the university's Clery Act Geography.","Warnings are issued case-by-case and can be triggered either by a single serious/ongoing threat or by a repeat pattern occurring two or more times.","The response is a defined three-step process: confirm criteria, determine content, then distribute through the notification system.","Reports filed more than five calendar days after the incident generally do not trigger a warning absent a continuing threat, and confidential/privileged reports are exempt.","Distribution is via the multi-channel Bulldog Alert system (email, text/voice, sirens, desktop alerts, digital signage), which also handles general emergency notifications."],"sources":[{"title":"Timely Warning Policy | UNC Asheville","url":"https://go.unca.edu/policies/policy-918/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Bulldog Alert - Emergency Management - UNC Asheville","url":"https://em.unca.edu/emergency-notifications/bulldog-alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Bulldog Alert | UNC Asheville","url":"https://go.unca.edu/bulldogalert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Notifications - University Police - UNC Asheville","url":"https://police.unca.edu/crime-reports/crime-alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UNC Asheville to Test BulldogAlert System, Jan. 6, 2022","url":"https://www.unca.edu/events-and-news/stories/unc-asheville-to-test-bulldogalert-system-jan-6-2022/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","north-carolina","public-bachelors"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"unc-chapel-hill-alert-carolina-policy","slug":"unc-chapel-hill-alert-carolina-policy","institution":{"name":"University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill","shortName":"UNC","state":"NC","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"Alert Carolina","enrollment":32000},"policy":{"title":"Alert Carolina System Protocols","systemName":"Alert Carolina","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://policies.unc.edu/TDClient/2833/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=131854","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"UNC-Chapel Hill's [Alert Carolina System](https://alertcarolina.unc.edu/about/) is activated using a strategy based on redundancy, using multiple methods — text, email, social media, sirens, website banners, and on-screen messages — to reach the campus community, and is governed by the [Alert Carolina System Protocols](https://policies.unc.edu/TDClient/2833/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=131854) under the UNC System's campus emergency communication regulation.","analysis":"Alert Carolina is built around redundancy: the [Alert Carolina System](https://alertcarolina.unc.edu/about/) is activated 'using a strategy that is based on redundancy, using multiple methods to communicate with students, faculty and staff, as well as visitors, local residents, parents and the news media,' with the explicit intent that recipients receive a given message in at least two different ways. Channels span text messages, emails, social media, sirens, website banners, flashing lights, and messages on computer screens.\n\nThe [Alert Carolina System Protocols](https://policies.unc.edu/TDClient/2833/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=131854) define four notification types. An Emergency Warning alerts campus to a confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety on campus and is the only type that triggers the outdoor sirens. A Timely Warning (Crime Alert) is issued when there is a continuing danger to the campus community and notification will not compromise law enforcement efforts — for example reports of a homicide, sex offense, or robbery. Adverse Conditions notifications and Informational Messages cover situations that are not emergencies and pose no immediate threat but are of significant interest to campus. The six campus sirens are reserved for four narrow situations: an armed and dangerous person on or near campus, a major chemical spill or hazard, a tornado sighting, or another emergency determined by the Department of Public Safety; when the National Weather Service issues a tornado warning specific to Chapel Hill and Carrboro, the university activates the sirens.\n\nTesting is governed both locally and by the UNC System. UNC-Chapel Hill tests the sirens at least twice a year alongside other drills and exercises. Above that, the [UNC System Regulation on Campus Emergency Communication](https://www.northcarolina.edu/apps/policy/doc.php?id=3536) requires each constituent institution to test all components of its emergency alert system — sirens, recorded telephone lines, social media posting, mass email, text messaging, and redundancies — on no less than a quarterly basis, and to keep an ongoing record of all test exercises reported to the System office. Scope is the campus and immediately surrounding community; the system weighs campus and local impacts when deciding whether to notify, and crime alerts deemed 'urgent' or 'critical' are the ones pushed to text. Because the official .edu pages return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from the official UNC and UNC System page text as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries; remaining detail is paraphrased.","whenCriteria":"An Emergency Warning is issued for a confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety on campus (and triggers the sirens). A Timely Warning (Crime Alert) is issued when there is a continuing danger to the campus community and notification will not compromise law enforcement efforts. Adverse Conditions and Informational messages cover non-emergency situations of significant interest.","decisionAuthority":"The Department of Public Safety determines siren activation and other emergencies; the university weighs campus and local impacts when deciding whether to notify.","timingStandard":"The system is designed so recipients get a message in at least two different ways in a timely manner; UNC notifies the campus community of any Clery Act crime as soon as the information is available.","cleryFraming":"Distinguishes Clery emergency notifications (the 'Emergency Warning' type, immediate threat) from Clery timely warnings (the 'Timely Warning'/Crime Alert type, continuing danger that won't compromise law enforcement), plus two non-Clery informational categories.","testingCadence":"UNC-Chapel Hill tests the sirens at least twice a year; the UNC System regulation requires testing of all alert-system components on no less than a quarterly basis, with records reported to the System office.","scopeLimits":"Sirens are reserved for four situations (armed and dangerous person on/near campus, major chemical spill/hazard, tornado sighting, or another DPS-determined emergency). Only crime alerts deemed 'urgent' or 'critical' are sent via text. Tornado-warning siren activation is tied to NWS warnings specific to Chapel Hill and Carrboro.","channels":["sms","email","twitter-x","facebook","website","siren","desktop-popup"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Redundancy strategy","quotedText":"The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has an Alert Carolina System (ACS), which is activated using a strategy that is based on redundancy, using multiple methods to communicate with students, faculty and staff, as well as visitors, local residents, parents and the news media.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://alertcarolina.unc.edu/about/","sourceDescription":"Alert Carolina — About","annotations":["Establishes 'redundancy' as the organizing design principle and names an audience that extends beyond students/staff to visitors, residents, parents, and media."],"characterCount":286},{"label":"Emergency Warning criterion (siren trigger)","quotedText":"Alerts campus to a confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety on campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://alertcarolina.unc.edu/about/","sourceDescription":"Alert Carolina — About / About the Sirens","annotations":["The 'confirmed' qualifier mirrors the Clery emergency-notification standard; this is the only Alert Carolina type that sounds the outdoor sirens."],"characterCount":134},{"label":"UNC System quarterly testing requirement","quotedText":"Each constituent institution shall establish and execute procedures that result in ongoing testing of all components of its emergency alert system, including emergency sirens, recorded telephone lines, social media posting, mass email, text messaging capabilities, and redundancies, on no less than a quarterly basis or on a more frequent basis as may be considered prudent by the institution.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.northcarolina.edu/apps/policy/doc.php?id=3536","sourceDescription":"UNC System — Regulation on Campus Emergency Communication","annotations":["The System-level floor (quarterly testing of every component) sits above UNC-Chapel Hill's own at-least-twice-a-year siren tests."],"characterCount":393},{"label":"Channel set","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://alertcarolina.unc.edu/about/","sourceDescription":"Alert Carolina — About (paraphrase summarized in search result; em-dash phrasing may not be exact)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Alert Carolina is designed around redundancy, aiming to deliver each message through at least two different channels.","The protocols define four notification types — Emergency Warning, Timely Warning (Crime Alert), Adverse Conditions, and Informational — with only the Emergency Warning sounding the outdoor sirens.","The six campus sirens are reserved for four narrow situations (armed/dangerous person, major chemical hazard, tornado sighting, or another DPS-determined emergency).","Testing is layered: UNC-Chapel Hill tests sirens at least twice a year, while the UNC System regulation mandates quarterly testing of all alert-system components with records reported to the System office.","Only crime alerts deemed 'urgent' or 'critical' are pushed to text message; tornado siren activation is tied to NWS warnings specific to Chapel Hill and Carrboro."],"sources":[{"title":"Alert Carolina System Protocols — UNC Policies","url":"https://policies.unc.edu/TDClient/2833/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=131854","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"About — Alert Carolina, UNC-Chapel Hill","url":"https://alertcarolina.unc.edu/about/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"About the Sirens — Alert Carolina, UNC-Chapel Hill","url":"https://alertcarolina.unc.edu/about/about-the-sirens/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UNC System — Regulation on Campus Emergency Communication","url":"https://www.northcarolina.edu/apps/policy/doc.php?id=3536","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","alert-carolina","sirens","public-r1","north-carolina"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-north-carolina-wilmington-05-505-timely-warning-policy","slug":"university-of-north-carolina-wilmington-05-505-timely-warning-policy","institution":{"name":"University of North Carolina Wilmington","shortName":"UNCW","state":"NC","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"UNCW Alert","enrollment":19895},"policy":{"title":"05.505 Crime Reporting, Timely Warning, and Emergency Response Procedures","systemName":"UNCW Alert","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.uncw.edu/about/policies/health-safety/05.505-crime-reporting-timely-warning-and-emergency-response-procedures","policyNumber":"05.505"},"summary":"UNC Wilmington's numbered university policy [05.505](https://www.uncw.edu/about/policies/health-safety/05.505-crime-reporting-timely-warning-and-emergency-response-procedures) commits the campus community to notification once a significant emergency involving an immediate threat is confirmed, unless University Police determines notification would compromise victim assistance or emergency containment, and routes delivery through the multi-channel [UNCW Alert system](https://uncw.edu/alert) of sirens, texts, calls, emails, and desktop pop-ups with automatic enrollment for students, faculty, and staff.","analysis":"The University of North Carolina Wilmington, a coastal public university that [reached 19,895 students in fall 2025](https://www.uncw.edu/news/2025/09/uncw-student-enrollment-surges) and was [elevated to Carnegie R2 doctoral status](https://bladenonline.com/uncw-elevated-to-doctoral-universities-high-research-activity-by-carnegie/), is one of the institutions in this collection that publishes its alerting doctrine as a numbered university policy: [05.505 Crime Reporting, Timely Warning, and Emergency Response Procedures](https://www.uncw.edu/about/policies/health-safety/05.505-crime-reporting-timely-warning-and-emergency-response-procedures), filed among its health and safety policies. The emergency-notification section tracks the federal Clery framework closely: once a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety is confirmed on campus, the campus community shall be notified, with the canonical carve-out when University Police determines that immediate notification would compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency, and a commitment that any delay be as short as possible. The timely-warning section is procedural rather than reflexive: when a Clery crime is reported to University Police, an assessment is conducted by University Police, the Office of Title IX and Clery Compliance, and other appropriate offices to determine whether the crime presents a serious or continuing threat, and a resulting warning carries the date, time, nature, and location of the occurrence. Delivery runs through [UNCW Alert](https://uncw.edu/alert), among the more redundant stacks in this collection: outdoor warning sirens, campus emails, text messages, phone calls, pop-up notifications on university computers, and the SafeZone mobile safety app by CriticalArc, which connects to the notification system and adds dispatch chat and anonymous tips. Students, faculty, and staff are [automatically registered](https://www.uncw.edu/news/2026/08/uncw-alert-system-test-aug-27) for emergency texts, calls, and campus emails, and the whole stack, sirens included, is exercised in announced full-volume tests at noon, [June 11, 2026](https://uncw.edu/news/2026/05/uncw-alert-system-test-june-11) and August 27, 2026 being the most recent. The doctrine's practice is visible across this archive's seven UNCW cases, from the 2004 Faulkner dormitory murder and Hurricane Florence's 2018 evacuation arc through a 2024 tornado-warning seek-shelter alert, a 2025 residence-hall arson, a 2025 false-alarm sequence, and Hurricane Erin's 2025 rip-current advisory. The uncw.edu host is egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language below is carried from search-index retrievals of the policy and the UNCW Alert pages and marked unconfirmed pending a character-for-character read.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notification issues upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus; a timely warning may issue when a reported Clery crime is assessed as a serious or continuing threat to students and employees.","decisionAuthority":"University Police holds the withhold-or-delay determination for emergency notifications; the timely-warning assessment is conducted jointly by University Police, the Office of Title IX and Clery Compliance, and other appropriate offices.","timingStandard":"Notification follows confirmation of a significant emergency, with the Clery-standard exceptions for compromising victim assistance or emergency containment, and any delay in notification shall be for as short a time as possible.","cleryFraming":"The policy draws the two Clery genres explicitly: emergency response for confirmed immediate threats, and timely warnings driven by a documented multi-office threat assessment of reported Clery crimes, with the qualifying offenses enumerated for the Annual Security Report.","testingCadence":"Announced full-volume tests of the complete UNCW Alert stack, including the outdoor siren system, at noon on scheduled dates, most recently June 11 and August 27, 2026.","scopeLimits":"Students, faculty, and staff are automatically registered for emergency texts, calls, and campus emails and manage contact information through University Police; sirens and desktop pop-ups cover the physical campus, and the SafeZone app extends coverage to those who install it.","channels":["siren","sms","phone-call","email","desktop-popup","push-notification","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency notification commitment","quotedText":"Once a confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees is occurring on campus, the campus community shall be notified, unless the University Police determines that issuing an immediate notification would compromise efforts to assist a victim, contain the emergency, respond to the emergency, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uncw.edu/about/policies/health-safety/05.505-crime-reporting-timely-warning-and-emergency-response-procedures","sourceDescription":"UNCW Policy 05.505, Crime Reporting, Timely Warning, and Emergency Response Procedures (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":["The core shall-notify commitment with the Clery-standard carve-out, vesting the withhold determination in University Police. Marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false because uncw.edu is egress-blocked from this research environment and the passage could not be read character-for-character at the source."],"characterCount":411},{"label":"Delay minimization","quotedText":"An immediate notification may also be delayed if it would place the community at a greater risk. Any delay in notification shall be for as short a time as possible.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uncw.edu/about/policies/health-safety/05.505-crime-reporting-timely-warning-and-emergency-response-procedures","sourceDescription":"UNCW Policy 05.505, Crime Reporting, Timely Warning, and Emergency Response Procedures (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":["The delay clause bounds itself: withheld notification is permitted only against greater community risk, and the delay must be as short as possible. Unconfirmed pending a direct read."],"characterCount":164},{"label":"Timely warning assessment","quotedText":"To determine whether a timely warning will be issued, an assessment will be conducted by University Police, the Office of Title IX and Clery Compliance, and other appropriate offices to determine whether the reported Clery crime is considered a serious or continuing threat to students and employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uncw.edu/about/policies/health-safety/05.505-crime-reporting-timely-warning-and-emergency-response-procedures","sourceDescription":"UNCW Policy 05.505, Crime Reporting, Timely Warning, and Emergency Response Procedures (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":["A named multi-office assessment rather than a single-official judgment call, pairing police with the Title IX and Clery compliance office. Unconfirmed for the egress-block reason."],"characterCount":300},{"label":"Warning content requirement","quotedText":"Notification should include the date and time of occurrence, nature of the occurrence, and location.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uncw.edu/about/policies/health-safety/05.505-crime-reporting-timely-warning-and-emergency-response-procedures","sourceDescription":"UNCW Policy 05.505, Crime Reporting, Timely Warning, and Emergency Response Procedures (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":["A minimum content floor for warnings: date, time, nature, location. The message-anatomy layer of this archive codes exactly these elements across alert texts. Unconfirmed pending a direct read."],"characterCount":100},{"label":"UNCW Alert system and automatic enrollment","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://uncw.edu/alert","sourceDescription":"UNCW Alert (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["UNCW publishes its alerting doctrine as numbered university policy 05.505, filed among health and safety policies, rather than only as ASR boilerplate or a system FAQ.","The emergency-notification commitment is a shall-notify rule upon confirmation, with the withhold determination vested in University Police and delays bounded to as short a time as possible.","Timely warnings follow a named multi-office assessment by University Police and the Office of Title IX and Clery Compliance, and carry a minimum content floor of date, time, nature, and location.","The UNCW Alert stack is among the more redundant in this collection: outdoor sirens, texts, calls, emails, desktop pop-ups, and the SafeZone app by CriticalArc, with automatic enrollment for students, faculty, and staff.","The full stack including sirens is exercised in announced full-volume tests at noon, most recently June 11 and August 27, 2026.","No excerpt is verbatim-confirmed: uncw.edu is egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language is carried from search-index retrievals and flagged for direct verification."],"sources":[{"title":"UNCW, Policy 05.505 Crime Reporting, Timely Warning, and Emergency Response Procedures","url":"https://www.uncw.edu/about/policies/health-safety/05.505-crime-reporting-timely-warning-and-emergency-response-procedures","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UNCW Alert","url":"https://uncw.edu/alert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UNCW, Emergency and Safety","url":"https://www.uncw.edu/emergency-safety","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UNCW, UNCW Alert System Test June 11 (2026)","url":"https://uncw.edu/news/2026/05/uncw-alert-system-test-june-11","type":"official-statement"},{"title":"UNCW, UNCW Alert System Test Aug. 27 (2026)","url":"https://www.uncw.edu/news/2026/08/uncw-alert-system-test-aug-27","type":"official-statement"},{"title":"UNCW, UNCW Student Enrollment Surges Near 19,900 (September 2025)","url":"https://www.uncw.edu/news/2025/09/uncw-student-enrollment-surges","type":"official-statement"},{"title":"WECT, UNCW to conduct full-volume emergency alert system test next month (May 2026)","url":"https://www.wect.com/2026/05/25/uncw-conduct-full-volume-emergency-alert-system-test-next-month/","type":"local-media"},{"title":"Bladen Online, UNCW Elevated to Doctoral Universities: High Research Activity by Carnegie","url":"https://bladenonline.com/uncw-elevated-to-doctoral-universities-high-research-activity-by-carnegie/","type":"local-media"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["uncw-faulkner-dorm-murder-2004-05-05","uncw-hurricane-florence-2018-09-10","university-of-north-carolina-wilmington-tornado-warning-seek-shelter-2024-08-07","uncw-loggerhead-hall-arson-2025-04-27","uncw-hurricane-erin-rip-current-advisory-2025-08-19","uncw-false-alarm-2025-09-18","university-of-north-carolina-wilmington-winter-weather-closure-2026-01-31"],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","north-carolina","uncw-alert","numbered-policy","siren","automatic-enrollment","timely-warning","safezone","full-volume-testing"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-31","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-north-dakota-und-alerts-policy","slug":"university-of-north-dakota-und-alerts-policy","institution":{"name":"University of North Dakota","shortName":"UND","state":"ND","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"UND-Alerts"},"policy":{"title":"2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - UND-Alerts","systemName":"UND-Alerts","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://campus.und.edu/safety/_files/docs/annual-security-report-sm-jr-fix.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"The University of North Dakota's [2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://campus.und.edu/safety/_files/docs/annual-security-report-sm-jr-fix.pdf) makes participation in UND-Alerts mandatory for all students and employees, and the [UND Alerts page](https://campus.und.edu/safety/emergencies/und-alerts.html) uses the Campus Emergency Notification System for situations that pose an immediate threat to health or safety or that significantly disrupt programs, including school closing.","analysis":"The University of North Dakota (public-r1, North Dakota, five filed cases, no prior policy file) is distinct from North Dakota State University, which already has an NDSU Alert policy file. The live [2025 ASR PDF](https://campus.und.edu/safety/_files/docs/annual-security-report-sm-jr-fix.pdf) (HTTP 200) names UND-Alerts as the campus-wide emergency notification system for a severe or imminent threat to the public safety and health of the entire campus, with mandatory student and employee participation and a test at least once each semester. The live [UND Alerts](https://campus.und.edu/safety/emergencies/und-alerts.html) page (HTTP 200) defines an emergency as an immediate threat to health or safety or a significant disruption of institution or system programs and activities, such as school closing. Phone numbers from Campus Connection and Employee Self-Service feed telephone and text alerts. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF or HTML (whitespace-only wrap).","whenCriteria":"UND-Alerts when there is a severe or imminent threat to the public safety and health of the entire campus. The consumer page also covers an immediate threat to health or safety or a significant disruption of programs and activities, including school closing.","decisionAuthority":"First responders and essential personnel in the Department of Public Safety, including the Associate Vice President for Public Safety/Chief of Police or designee, the police officer on duty, the Director for Safety or designee, and the Director for Emergency Management or designee.","timingStandard":"UND-Alerts is used for severe or imminent threat. The ASR states UND tests UND-Alerts at least once each semester.","cleryFraming":"UND-Alerts is the emergency-notification product. Timely warnings are a separate ASR duty for Clery crimes that may continue to pose a serious or continuing threat.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","siren","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Campus Emergency Notification System","quotedText":"The Campus Emergency Notification System is used to notify students, faculty, and staff of vitally important information in emergency situations.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://campus.und.edu/safety/emergencies/und-alerts.html","sourceDescription":"UND Alerts page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Consumer definition of the Campus Emergency Notification System."],"characterCount":145},{"label":"UND-Alerts severe or imminent threat","quotedText":"UND-Alerts is UND’s campus-wide emergency notification system and is used when there is a severe or imminent threat to the public safety and health of the entire campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://campus.und.edu/safety/_files/docs/annual-security-report-sm-jr-fix.pdf","sourceDescription":"University of North Dakota 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Trigger is severe or imminent threat to the entire campus, not only a confirmed on-campus Clery emergency."],"characterCount":169},{"label":"Mandatory UND-Alerts participation","quotedText":"Participation in UND-Alerts is mandatory for all UND students and employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://campus.und.edu/safety/_files/docs/annual-security-report-sm-jr-fix.pdf","sourceDescription":"University of North Dakota 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Mandatory enrollment, not opt-in."],"characterCount":76}],"keyFindings":["UND-Alerts is mandatory for all students and employees.","The ASR trigger is a severe or imminent threat to the public safety and health of the entire campus.","The consumer page also treats school closing as an emergency that significantly disrupts programs and activities."],"sources":[{"title":"University of North Dakota 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://campus.und.edu/safety/_files/docs/annual-security-report-sm-jr-fix.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"UND Alerts","url":"https://campus.und.edu/safety/emergencies/und-alerts.html","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","north-dakota","public-r1","everbridge"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-north-georgia-ung-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-north-georgia-ung-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of North Georgia","shortName":"UNG","state":"GA","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"UNG Alert","enrollment":20317},"policy":{"title":"Crime and Emergency Alerts","systemName":"UNG Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://ung.edu/public-safety/ung-alert.php","lastReviewed":"2026-07-20"},"summary":"The University of North Georgia, one of the nation's [six senior military colleges and the state-designated Military College of Georgia](https://ung.edu/military-college-admissions/the-military-college-of-georgia.php), publishes its Clery emergency-notification and timely-warning practices on its [Crime and Emergency Alerts](https://ung.edu/public-safety/ung-alert.php) page, centered on the manually-registered **UNG Alert** text and phone-call system.","analysis":"UNG Alert is scoped narrowly by design: [UNG Alert will only be used in the event of severe weather, a campus emergency, or other situation in which the University believe your wellbeing may be in danger and some type of action is required of you](https://ung.edu/public-safety/ung-alert.php) (grammar preserved as published). That scoping statement functions as UNG's own definition of what counts as \"emergency notification\"-worthy, distinct from the separate timely-warning process the university runs for Clery crimes.\n\nUNG explicitly channels its timely-warning obligation through a named decision-maker: [in the event that a situation arises, either on or off campus, that, in the judgment of the UNG Chief of Police, constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat, a campus wide \"timely warning\" will be issued through the university's mass notification system to students, faculty and staff](https://ung.edu/public-safety/ung-alert.php). The university also documents the multi-factor balancing test behind that judgment: all available information, both public and confidential, is weighed, including the relationship between victims and perpetrators, whether an arrest has been made that mitigates the threat, and how much time has passed between the crime and police being notified, criteria that go beyond a bare 'was this a Clery crime' checklist.\n\nRegistration is opt-in rather than automatic: students, faculty, and staff must manually register their cell phone number(s) in the UNG Alert system within the university's Banner portal to receive text message alerts and phone calls, a self-service model rather than the auto-fed-from-enrollment-data pattern seen at some other public universities in this archive.\n\nUNG's Corps of Cadets, one of only three full-time military programs embedded in a larger civilian university (alongside Texas A&M and Virginia Tech), is not run on a separate alert system from the rest of campus; UNG Alert and the timely-warning process apply university-wide across UNG's five campuses. Because ung.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were captured from official UNG Public Safety page text as reproduced in search-engine results and corroborated across multiple independent queries. No fixed testing cadence or minutes-based response standard was reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","whenCriteria":"UNG Alert is used only for severe weather, a campus emergency, or a situation in which the university believes a person's wellbeing may be in danger and some type of action is required; a timely warning is issued when a situation, on or off campus, constitutes, in the judgment of the UNG Chief of Police, an ongoing or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"The UNG Chief of Police makes the judgment call on whether a situation constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat requiring a campus-wide timely warning; all available public and confidential information is weighed, including victim-perpetrator relationship, whether an arrest has mitigated the threat, and elapsed time since the crime was reported to police.","timingStandard":"A specific minutes-based or hours-based timing standard for issuing a UNG Alert or timely warning was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"UNG separates its emergency-notification tool (UNG Alert, for severe weather and campus emergencies) from its Clery timely-warning process (triggered by the UNG Chief of Police's judgment of an ongoing or continuing threat from a Clery crime), issuing timely warnings through the same mass-notification system.","testingCadence":"A specific testing cadence for UNG Alert was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"UNG Alert requires students, faculty, and staff to manually register cell phone number(s) within Banner to receive text and phone-call alerts; the system and the timely-warning process apply across UNG's campuses university-wide, not as a separate track for the Corps of Cadets.","channels":["sms","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"UNG Alert scope","quotedText":"UNG Alert will only be used in the event of severe weather, a campus emergency, or other situation in which the University believe your wellbeing may be in danger and some type of action is required of you.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://ung.edu/public-safety/ung-alert.php","sourceDescription":"University of North Georgia - Crime and Emergency Alerts","annotations":["Defines UNG Alert's scope narrowly to severe weather, campus emergencies, and wellbeing-threatening situations requiring action; grammar (\"University believe\") preserved as published."],"characterCount":206},{"label":"Timely-warning trigger and authority","quotedText":"In the event that a situation arises, either on or off campus, that, in the judgment of the UNG Chief of Police, constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat, a campus wide \"timely warning\" will be issued through the university's mass notification system to students, faculty and staff.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://ung.edu/public-safety/ung-alert.php","sourceDescription":"University of North Georgia - Crime and Emergency Alerts","annotations":["Names the UNG Chief of Police as the specific decision-maker for the ongoing-or-continuing-threat judgment that triggers a timely warning."],"characterCount":285},{"label":"Registration mechanism","quotedText":"Students, faculty, and staff must manually register their cell phone number(s) in the UNG Alert system within Banner to receive text message alerts and phone call alerts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://ung.edu/public-safety/ung-alert.php","sourceDescription":"University of North Georgia - Crime and Emergency Alerts","annotations":["An opt-in, self-service registration model through the university's Banner student-information portal, rather than an automatic feed from enrollment data."],"characterCount":170},{"label":"Threat-determination criteria","quotedText":"All available information, both public and confidential, will be taken into consideration when determining if a serious or continuing threat exists. Those considerations include, but are not limited to, the relationship between victims and perpetrators, whether an arrest has been made that mitigates the threat and the amount of time that has passed between the commission of the crime and University Police being notified of the crime.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://ung.edu/public-safety/ung-alert.php","sourceDescription":"University of North Georgia - Crime and Emergency Alerts","annotations":["Lays out a specific multi-factor balancing test behind the timely-warning determination, beyond a bare Clery-crime checklist."],"characterCount":437}],"keyFindings":["UNG Alert is scoped by UNG itself to severe weather, campus emergencies, and wellbeing-threatening situations requiring action, distinct from the separate timely-warning process.","The UNG Chief of Police is the named decision-maker for the ongoing-or-continuing-threat judgment that triggers a campus-wide timely warning.","Registration is opt-in and manual, through the university's Banner portal, rather than auto-fed from enrollment records.","UNG documents a specific multi-factor threat-determination test (victim-perpetrator relationship, mitigating arrests, elapsed reporting time) beyond a bare Clery-crime checklist.","UNG is one of only three universities nationally combining a full-time military Corps of Cadets with a large civilian student body (with Texas A&M and Virginia Tech), and UNG Alert applies university-wide rather than as a separate cadet-only channel."],"sources":[{"title":"Crime and Emergency Alerts - University of North Georgia","url":"https://ung.edu/public-safety/ung-alert.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Information - University of North Georgia","url":"https://ung.edu/emergency.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"The Military College of Georgia - University of North Georgia","url":"https://ung.edu/military-college-admissions/the-military-college-of-georgia.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"ON-CAMPUS EMERGENCIES Emergency Action Plan - University of North Georgia Public Safety","url":"https://ung.edu/public-safety/_uploads/files/emergency-action-plan.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Enrollment jumps 5.3% to record 20,317 - University of North Georgia News","url":"https://ung.edu/news/articles/2025/10/enrollment-jumps-5.3-to-record-20,317.php","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","military","senior-military-college","corps-of-cadets","georgia","ung-alert"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-20","lastUpdated":"2026-07-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-north-texas-eagle-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-north-texas-eagle-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of North Texas","shortName":"UNT","state":"TX","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"Eagle Alert"},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications","systemName":"Eagle Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://riskmanagement.unt.edu/emergency/preparedness/emergency-notifications.html"},"summary":"The University of North Texas runs [Eagle Alert](https://riskmanagement.unt.edu/emergency/preparedness/emergency-notifications.html), its campus wide emergency notification system for emergency events, inclement winter weather closures, and Tornado Warnings, reaching the campus by phone, text, and email, while a separate [crime alerts program](https://police.unt.edu/report/crime-alerts) handles Clery timely warnings for crimes judged a serious or continuing threat.","analysis":"UNT's [Office of Risk Management](https://riskmanagement.unt.edu/emergency/preparedness/emergency-notifications.html) frames Eagle Alert as the university's official, campus wide emergency notification system, used for emergency events, inclement winter weather closures, or Tornado Warnings, and built to let UNT administrators quickly contact the campus community by phone, text, and email at once. That framing places Eagle Alert as an all hazards operational tool spanning weather closures and life safety emergencies together, rather than a channel reserved only for criminal incidents.\n\nUNT draws its Clery line separately through the [UNT Police Department's crime alerts program](https://police.unt.edu/report/crime-alerts), which the university describes as providing timely warning to the campus community by posting crime alerts when a Clery crime is considered to represent a serious or continuing threat to students or employees. That structure mirrors the Clery Act's own two track design, coded in this record as emergency notification for Eagle Alert's immediate, all hazards messages and timely warning for the police department's crime specific postings, first codified in the federal Clery Act of 1990 and expanded to require immediate emergency notification by the 2008 Higher Education Opportunity Act.\n\nBecause riskmanagement.unt.edu and police.unt.edu returned blocked connections to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below are reconstructed from search engine indexed extracts of the official pages rather than a firsthand character by character read, and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation; this record is scored at medium confidence on that basis.","whenCriteria":"Eagle Alert is used for emergency events, inclement winter weather closures, or Tornado Warnings. Separately, timely warning crime alerts are posted when a Clery crime is considered to represent a serious or continuing threat to students or employees.","decisionAuthority":"UNT's Office of Risk Management is presented as administering the Eagle Alert program, while the UNT Police Department is presented as administering the separate timely warning crime alerts; a single named individual with sign off authority was not confirmed in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"Eagle Alert is described as allowing UNT administrators to quickly contact campus community members; a specific minutes based timeliness standard was not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"UNT splits its Clery obligations across two named channels: Eagle Alert for emergency events, weather closures, and Tornado Warnings, and the UNT Police Department's crime alerts for Clery timely warnings tied to a serious or continuing threat.","scopeLimits":"Eagle Alert reaches the campus community by phone, text, and email; the crime alerts channel is scoped specifically to Clery crimes judged a serious or continuing threat rather than to routine campus operations.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"What Eagle Alert covers","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://riskmanagement.unt.edu/emergency/preparedness/emergency-notifications.html","sourceDescription":"UNT Office of Risk Management, Emergency Notifications (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Multi-channel reach","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://riskmanagement.unt.edu/emergency/preparedness/emergency-notifications.html","sourceDescription":"UNT Office of Risk Management, Emergency Notifications (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Timely warning trigger","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://police.unt.edu/report/crime-alerts","sourceDescription":"UNT Police Department, Campus Crime Alerts (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["UNT operates Eagle Alert as an all hazards, phone, text, and email emergency notification system for emergency events, winter weather closures, and Tornado Warnings.","Clery timely warnings are handled separately as crime alerts posted by the UNT Police Department when a crime is a serious or continuing threat.","Neither riskmanagement.unt.edu nor police.unt.edu could be directly loaded in this environment, so this record is scored at medium confidence and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notifications, UNT Office of Risk Management","url":"https://riskmanagement.unt.edu/emergency/preparedness/emergency-notifications.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Campus Crime Alerts, UNT Police Department","url":"https://police.unt.edu/report/crime-alerts","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","eagle-alert","public-r1","texas"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-27","lastUpdated":"2026-09-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"notre-dame-ndalert-policy","slug":"notre-dame-ndalert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Notre Dame","shortName":"Notre Dame","state":"IN","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"NDAlert","enrollment":13000},"policy":{"title":"NDAlert Emergency Notification System","systemName":"NDAlert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://police.nd.edu/emergency-preparedness/ndalert/"},"summary":"[NDAlert](https://police.nd.edu/emergency-preparedness/ndalert/) is the University of Notre Dame's emergency notification system, administered by the [Notre Dame Police Department](https://police.nd.edu/), which reaches the campus community during a major emergency using email, telephone, cell phone and text messaging plus indoor and outdoor speakers and digital sign boards; emergency notifications and timely warnings (crime alerts) are also documented in Notre Dame's [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://police.nd.edu/crime-prevention-safety/records-reports/clery-act/) under the Clery Act.","analysis":"NDAlert is Notre Dame's multi-channel mass-notification backbone. The [Notre Dame Police Department](https://police.nd.edu/emergency-preparedness/ndalert/) describes it as a system that \"engages email, telephone, cell phone and text messaging as well as indoor and outdoor speakers and digital sign boards on campus to inform the Notre Dame campus community about an emergency situation.\" The deliberate breadth of channels reflects a stated design goal of meeting people wherever they are — by text, email, phone call, or public-address announcement. Notre Dame emphasizes speed and reach: the system is described as able to push out thousands of messages within minutes to help ensure the safety of everyone at Notre Dame during an emergency.\n\nActivation is narrow and life-safety oriented. Notre Dame states that \"NDAlerts will only be sent in the event of a campus-wide emergency and for routine testing,\" and that NDAlert is utilized when emergencies may impact the entire Notre Dame campus community. Distribution authority is held by trained University staff: \"NDAlert messages will be distributed by members of the Notre Dame Police Department, others in the division of Campus Safety and University Operations, and trained representatives from the Office of Public Affairs and Communication.\" Notre Dame employees and students are automatically enrolled in NDAlert, while guests and visitors can opt in separately.\n\nOn the Clery side, Notre Dame publishes an [Annual Clery Security and Fire Safety Report](https://police.nd.edu/crime-prevention-safety/records-reports/annual-clery-fire-safety-reports/) each year, disclosing campus crime statistics and institutional policies including emergency-response procedures. Notre Dame distinguishes the two federal alerting functions in the standard Clery manner: timely warnings (which the University also calls crime alerts) are issued for certain reported crimes that represent a threat to the safety of students or employees, while emergency notifications are issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on the campus that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees.\n\nTesting cadence is published and frequent: the University conducts full tests of all the emergency alert systems at least once each semester, and clearly identifies each test (for example, by announcing \"THIS IS A TEST OF THE NDALERT SYSTEM\"), with the corollary instruction that any NDAlert not indicated as a test should be taken seriously and acted on immediately. Scope is bounded by the campus-wide-emergency trigger for NDAlert itself and, on the Clery side, by the immediate-threat standard for emergency notifications and the serious-threat standard for timely warnings/crime alerts.","whenCriteria":"NDAlert is sent only in the event of a campus-wide emergency (and for routine testing); it is utilized when emergencies may impact the entire Notre Dame campus community. Under Clery, emergency notifications are issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus involving an immediate threat to health or safety, and timely warnings (crime alerts) are issued for reported crimes representing a threat to students or employees.","decisionAuthority":"NDAlert messages are distributed by members of the Notre Dame Police Department, others in the division of Campus Safety and University Operations, and trained representatives from the Office of Public Affairs and Communication.","timingStandard":"Notre Dame frames its Clery emergency notifications as issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety; the system is built to push out thousands of messages within minutes during an emergency.","cleryFraming":"Two-function Clery framework: emergency notifications for confirmed significant emergencies/dangerous situations posing an immediate threat to health or safety, and timely warnings (also called crime alerts) for reported crimes representing a threat to students or employees, both documented in the Annual Clery Security and Fire Safety Report.","testingCadence":"The University conducts full tests of all the emergency alert systems at least once each semester, each clearly identified as a test (e.g., \"THIS IS A TEST OF THE NDALERT SYSTEM\").","scopeLimits":"NDAlert is reserved for campus-wide emergencies that may impact the entire community (plus routine testing). Distribution is limited to trained University staff in NDPD, Campus Safety and University Operations, and Public Affairs and Communication. Clery timely warnings are limited to crimes representing a threat, and emergency notifications to confirmed immediate threats to health or safety.","channels":["email","phone-call","sms","pa-system","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"NDAlert definition and channels","quotedText":"This system engages email, telephone, cell phone and text messaging as well as indoor and outdoor speakers and digital sign boards on campus to inform the Notre Dame campus community about an emergency situation.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.nd.edu/emergency-preparedness/ndalert/","sourceDescription":"NDAlert | Notre Dame Police Department","annotations":["Notable for combining personal devices (email/phone/text) with fixed campus infrastructure (indoor/outdoor speakers and digital sign boards)."],"characterCount":212},{"label":"Narrow activation trigger","quotedText":"NDAlerts will only be sent in the event of a campus-wide emergency and for routine testing.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.nd.edu/emergency-preparedness/ndalert/faq/","sourceDescription":"NDAlert FAQ | Notre Dame Police Department","annotations":["Limits the channel to campus-wide emergencies plus tests, separating it from routine University communications."],"characterCount":91},{"label":"Distribution authority","quotedText":"NDAlert messages will be distributed by members of the Notre Dame Police Department, others in the division of Campus Safety and University Operations, and trained representatives from the Office of Public Affairs and Communication.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.nd.edu/emergency-preparedness/ndalert/","sourceDescription":"NDAlert | Notre Dame Police Department","annotations":["Authority is shared across police, campus operations, and communications staff rather than a single office."],"characterCount":232},{"label":"Automatic enrollment","quotedText":"Notre Dame employees and students are automatically enrolled in NDAlert.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.nd.edu/emergency-preparedness/ndalert/","sourceDescription":"NDAlert | Notre Dame Police Department","annotations":["Students and employees are enrolled by default; guests and visitors opt in via a separate process."],"characterCount":72}],"keyFindings":["NDAlert reaches the campus community via email, telephone, cell/text, plus indoor and outdoor speakers and digital sign boards — pairing personal devices with fixed campus infrastructure.","NDAlerts are only sent for a campus-wide emergency and for routine testing, a deliberately narrow life-safety trigger.","Messages are distributed by trained staff in the Notre Dame Police Department, Campus Safety and University Operations, and the Office of Public Affairs and Communication.","Notre Dame employees and students are automatically enrolled; guests and visitors opt in separately.","The University conducts full tests of all emergency alert systems at least once each semester, with each test clearly marked, and follows the standard Clery split of emergency notifications vs. timely warnings (crime alerts)."],"sources":[{"title":"NDAlert | Emergency Preparedness | Notre Dame Police Department","url":"https://police.nd.edu/emergency-preparedness/ndalert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"FAQ | NDAlert | Notre Dame Police Department","url":"https://police.nd.edu/emergency-preparedness/ndalert/faq/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Act | Records & Reports | Notre Dame Police Department","url":"https://police.nd.edu/crime-prevention-safety/records-reports/clery-act/","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Annual Clery & Fire Safety Reports | Notre Dame Police Department","url":"https://police.nd.edu/crime-prevention-safety/records-reports/annual-clery-fire-safety-reports/","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","ndalert","indiana","private-r1"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-oklahoma-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-oklahoma-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Oklahoma","shortName":"OU","state":"OK","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"OU Emergency Alert (RAVE)","enrollment":30873},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications","systemName":"OU Emergency Alert (RAVE)","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.ou.edu/clery/about/timely-warnings","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"The University of Oklahoma issues campus alerts in three federally-keyworded tiers through its RAVE-powered [OU Emergency Alert](https://www.ou.edu/web/ouemergencyalert) system: an \"Emergency\" notification (take immediate action) for significant emergencies or dangerous situations, a \"Critical\" alert for Clery [timely warnings](https://www.ou.edu/clery/about/timely-warnings), and an \"Urgent\" alert for awareness-only situations such as closures or power outages, with the OU Police Department (OUPD) authorizing notifications in consultation with University administrators.","analysis":"The University of Oklahoma's [Clery timely-warnings policy](https://www.ou.edu/clery/about/timely-warnings) organizes its entire alerting scheme around a three-keyword taxonomy that maps cleanly onto the Clery Act's two mandated obligations plus a discretionary tier. Per OUPD, upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of members of the campus community — including tornadoes, bomb threats, chemical spills, disease outbreaks, fires, and active shooters — OUPD will, without delay, issue an Emergency Notification to the appropriate segment(s) of the campus community. For criminal activity on or near University property that, in OUPD's judgment and in consultation with University administrators, constitutes a serious or continuing threat, a campus-wide Critical Alert (the Clery timely warning) is issued. Anything that is neither an emergency notification nor a timely warning — power outages, snow closures, and similar low-urgency events — is issued as an Urgent Alert.\n\nDecision authority rests with the University of Oklahoma Police Department across the Norman, Health Sciences Center, and OU-Tulsa campuses, in consultation with relevant campus administrators or their designees. OUPD describes \"confirmation\" of an emergency as the process by which OUPD and other University officials, as appropriate, gather and analyze reported facts to verify that a legitimate emergency or dangerous situation exists. Once a determination is made that a timely warning or emergency notification is appropriate, OUPD takes all appropriate steps to ensure timely notification, with channels including but not limited to email, social media, text alerts, automated phone calls, notifying local media, and physical or digital signage.\n\nThe delivery platform is [RAVE](https://www.ou.edu/insideou/articles/2023/august/what-to-know-about-rave-ous-emergency-communication-system), OU's branded emergency communication system. OU explains that, due to Federal Communications Commission regulations, every RAVE alert includes one of three keywords: \"Emergency\" = Take Immediate Action; \"Urgent\" = Be Aware/Prepared; and \"Critical\" = Indicates a Timely Warning. RAVE is capable of using numerous alert methods, such as text messages, email, social media, and/or phone calls. OU [tests](https://www.ou.edu/news/articles/2024/february/ou-to-test-emergency-communication-system-on-feb-22) the RAVE system university-wide near the beginning of the fall and spring semesters.\n\nBecause ou.edu and ouhsc.edu hosts return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from official OU Clery, OU Emergency Alert, and Inside OU page text as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries; governance and reach detail is paraphrased where exact wording was not reproduced.","whenCriteria":"An Emergency Notification is issued, without delay, upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community (e.g., tornadoes, bomb threats, chemical spills, disease outbreaks, fires, active shooters). A Critical Alert (timely warning) is issued for criminal activity on or near University property that, in OUPD's judgment and in consultation with administrators, constitutes a serious or continuing threat. An Urgent Alert covers awareness-only events such as power outages or snow closures that pose neither an immediate nor a serious/continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"The University of Oklahoma Police Department (OUPD) on the Norman, Health Sciences Center, and OU-Tulsa campuses, in consultation with relevant campus administrators or their designees, is responsible for issuing Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications. Confirmation means OUPD and other University officials gather and analyze reported facts to verify that a legitimate emergency or dangerous situation exists.","timingStandard":"Emergency Notifications are issued \"without delay\" upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation. Once a timely warning or emergency notification is deemed appropriate, OUPD takes all appropriate steps to ensure timely notification of the campus community.","cleryFraming":"OU explicitly maps its three RAVE keywords to Clery obligations: \"Emergency\" = the Clery emergency-notification function (immediate threat, take immediate action); \"Critical\" = the Clery timely warning (Clery Act crimes that have occurred in OU's geography and pose a serious or ongoing threat); and \"Urgent\" = a discretionary awareness tier that is neither a timely warning nor an emergency notification.","testingCadence":"OU conducts a university-wide test of the RAVE alert system near the beginning of the fall and spring semesters (e.g., February/March and September/October tests publicized in 2020-2024).","scopeLimits":"Emergency Notifications are reserved for confirmed significant emergencies/dangerous situations with an immediate threat; Critical Alerts (timely warnings) for Clery crimes posing a serious or continuing threat; Urgent Alerts for awareness-only events (closures, power outages). Each RAVE message carries one FCC-mandated keyword (Emergency/Urgent/Critical) to signal the level of response required.","channels":["sms","email","twitter-x","facebook","phone-call","website","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency Notification trigger","quotedText":"Upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on campus involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of members of the campus community (such situations include, but are not limited to: tornadoes, bomb threats, chemical spills, disease outbreaks, fires, active shooters, etc.), OUPD will, without delay, issue an Emergency Notification to the appropriate segment(s) of the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ou.edu/clery/about/timely-warnings","sourceDescription":"OU Clery — Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Sets the emergency-notification standard: confirmation of an immediate threat triggers a 'without delay' alert to the affected segment(s) of campus."],"characterCount":431},{"label":"Critical Alert (timely warning) trigger","quotedText":"In the event of criminal activity occurring either on or near University property that in the judgment of OUPD, in consultation with University administrators, constitutes a serious or continuing threat to the campus community, a campus-wide Critical Alert will be issued.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ou.edu/clery/about/timely-warnings","sourceDescription":"OU Clery — Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Defines the 'Critical' keyword as OU's Clery timely warning, gated on OUPD judgment plus administrator consultation and a serious/continuing threat."],"characterCount":272},{"label":"Urgent Alert (awareness tier)","quotedText":"Campus alerts that would not be considered a Timely Warning Notification or an Emergency Notification will be issued as an Urgent Alert. This could include incidents such as a power outage, snow closure, or other incidents that do not pose a serious or continuing threat to campus or an immediate threat to the health and safety of students and employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ou.edu/clery/about/timely-warnings","sourceDescription":"OU Clery — Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Establishes the third, discretionary 'Urgent' tier for low-urgency events that fall outside both Clery mandates."],"characterCount":355},{"label":"RAVE keywords and methods","quotedText":"The RAVE system allows the university to keep students, faculty and staff informed of critical and/or important information regarding OU's campuses in the event of a weather or safety emergency, and is capable of using numerous alert methods, such as text messages, email, social media and/or phone calls.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ou.edu/insideou/articles/2023/august/what-to-know-about-rave-ous-emergency-communication-system","sourceDescription":"Inside OU — What to Know about RAVE","annotations":["Names RAVE as OU's emergency communication platform and enumerates its multi-modal delivery: text, email, social media, and phone calls."],"characterCount":305}],"keyFindings":["OU uses a three-keyword RAVE scheme mandated by FCC regulations: 'Emergency' = Take Immediate Action, 'Urgent' = Be Aware/Prepared, and 'Critical' = a Clery Timely Warning.","Emergency Notifications are issued by OUPD 'without delay' upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation; Critical Alerts (timely warnings) require OUPD judgment plus administrator consultation and a serious/continuing threat.","OUPD authorizes notifications across the Norman, Health Sciences Center, and OU-Tulsa campuses in consultation with relevant administrators or their designees.","Delivery channels include text, email, social media, automated phone calls, local media, and physical or digital signage, all via the RAVE platform.","OU tests the RAVE system university-wide near the start of both the fall and spring semesters."],"sources":[{"title":"Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications — OU Clery","url":"https://www.ou.edu/clery/about/timely-warnings","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Alert — University of Oklahoma","url":"https://www.ou.edu/web/ouemergencyalert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"What to Know about RAVE: OU's Emergency Communication System — Inside OU","url":"https://www.ou.edu/insideou/articles/2023/august/what-to-know-about-rave-ous-emergency-communication-system","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"OU to Test Emergency Communication System on Feb. 22 — OU News","url":"https://www.ou.edu/news/articles/2024/february/ou-to-test-emergency-communication-system-on-feb-22","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"OUHSC Police — Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications","url":"https://www.ouhsc.edu/police/Clery-Information/Timely-Warnings-and-Emergency-Notifications","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","ou-alert","rave","public-r1","oklahoma"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-oregon-uo-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-oregon-uo-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Oregon","shortName":"UO","state":"OR","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"UO Alert","enrollment":24404},"policy":{"title":"UO Alerts — Emergency Notifications and Campus Crime Alerts (Timely Warnings)","systemName":"UO Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://safety.uoregon.edu/uo-alerts","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"The University of Oregon's [UO Alert](https://safety.uoregon.edu/uo-alerts) is the university's emergency notification system, sent when there is an imminent threat to the health and/or safety of the campus community; UO runs it alongside [Campus Crime Alerts (timely warnings)](https://clery.uoregon.edu/crime-alerts) so that the two messages map to the Clery Act's emergency-notification and timely-warning obligations, with the UO Police Department (UOPD) and Safety and Risk Services running the system.","analysis":"The University of Oregon separates its Clery-driven safety messaging into two named products plus a discretionary third tier. The top tier is [UO Alert](https://safety.uoregon.edu/uo-alerts), the emergency notification: per UO, alerts are sent when there is an imminent threat to health and/or safety to the campus community, and they are used \"upon the reliable report of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees.\" UO uses the system regularly for warning of police activity, gas leaks, fire concerns, weather notices, and other immediate information. The second tier is the [Campus Crime Alert](https://clery.uoregon.edu/crime-alerts) — UO's branding for the Clery timely warning — issued when the university learns of crimes within its Clery geography (the area in and immediately adjacent to campus) that represent a serious and ongoing threat to community members.\n\nThe two products are deliberately scoped to the two distinct Clery obligations. Campus Crime Alerts are issued only for designated Clery crimes (murder/non-negligent manslaughter, robbery, sexual assault, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft, arson; covered hate crimes; and domestic/dating violence and stalking), and UO notes they are generally not sent if an arrest or apprehension has already ended the serious and ongoing threat. For incidents that constitute a serious or ongoing threat but are not a Clery crime, or did not occur within UO's Clery geography, UOPD evaluates case-by-case and may issue a non-Clery UOPD Safety/Security Advisory carrying the same basic awareness-and-prevention information.\n\nOn channels and reach, all @uoregon.edu email addresses are automatically subscribed to UO Alert with no option to unsubscribe, and messages are emailed to those accounts and posted to the [Alerts Page](https://safety.uoregon.edu/alerts) (reachable at safety.uoregon.edu/alerts or alerts.uoregon.edu); community members can additionally sign up to receive UO Alerts via text. UO has [expanded UO Alerts to include text messages about all campuses](https://news.uoregon.edu/content/uo-alerts-expanded-include-texts-about-all-campuses). The university tests UO Alert several times each year, including a publicized annual test.\n\nOn Clery framing, UO is explicit that it \"sends out two types of alerts that satisfy Clery Act requirements\" — timely warnings (Campus Crime Alerts) and emergency notifications (UO Alert) — and that UOPD Safety/Security Advisories sit outside the Clery mandate. Because uoregon.edu hosts return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from the official UO Safety and Risk Services and UO Clery Act page text as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries; process and reach detail is paraphrased.","whenCriteria":"UO Alerts (emergency notifications) are sent when there is an imminent threat to health and/or safety to the campus community — used to immediately notify the community upon the reliable report of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees (e.g., police activity, gas leaks, fire concerns, weather). Campus Crime Alerts (timely warnings) are issued when the university learns of designated Clery crimes within its Clery geography that represent a serious and ongoing threat to the campus community.","decisionAuthority":"The UO Police Department (UOPD) and the Division of Safety and Risk Services administer the system. UOPD evaluates non-Clery serious-or-ongoing-threat incidents case-by-case and may issue a UOPD Safety/Security Advisory in lieu of a Clery alert.","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications are used to immediately notify the campus community upon a reliable report of an immediate threat; UO uses multiple modes of communication to ensure as many individuals as possible receive notifications quickly. Campus Crime Alerts are issued in a timely manner and are generally not sent if an arrest or apprehension has already ended the serious and ongoing threat.","cleryFraming":"UO sends two alert types that satisfy Clery Act requirements: 'emergency notifications' (UO Alert) and 'timely warnings' (Campus Crime Alerts). A separate UOPD Safety/Security Advisory is used for serious-or-ongoing threats that are not Clery crimes or fall outside Clery geography, and is explicitly described as not issued in compliance with the Clery Act.","testingCadence":"The UO tests UO Alerts several times each year, including a publicized annual test of the UO Alert system.","scopeLimits":"UO Alert is reserved for imminent threats to health/safety. Campus Crime Alerts are limited to designated Clery crimes occurring within the university's Clery geography (in and immediately adjacent to campus) that pose a serious and ongoing threat, and are generally not sent when an arrest or apprehension has ended the threat. All @uoregon.edu email accounts are automatically subscribed to UO Alert with no option to unsubscribe.","channels":["email","sms","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"UO Alert activation / channels","quotedText":"UO Alerts are sent when there is an imminent threat to health and/or safety to the campus community. UO Alerts are emailed to all @uoregon.edu email accounts and posted to the Alerts Page.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.uoregon.edu/uo-alerts","sourceDescription":"UO Division of Safety and Risk Services — Alerts About","annotations":["Anchors the trigger on an 'imminent threat to health and/or safety' and names the two default delivery destinations: @uoregon.edu email and the Alerts Page."],"characterCount":188},{"label":"Emergency notification standard","quotedText":"Emergency notifications are used to immediately notify the campus community upon the reliable report of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://clery.uoregon.edu/crime-alerts","sourceDescription":"UO Clery Act — Crime Alerts","annotations":["Tracks the Clery emergency-notification language: 'reliable report,' 'significant emergency or dangerous situation,' and an 'immediate threat' to students or employees."],"characterCount":230},{"label":"Campus Crime Alert (timely warning) trigger","quotedText":"Timely Warnings, or Campus Crime Alerts, are sent to all students and employees through official uoregon.edu email when the University learns of crimes occuring within its Clery geography (i.e., the area in and immediately adjacent to campus) that represent a serious and ongoing threat to campus community members.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://clery.uoregon.edu/crime-alerts","sourceDescription":"UO Clery Act — Crime Alerts","annotations":["Defines the timely-warning trigger by Clery geography plus a 'serious and ongoing threat' standard. Note the source's own typo 'occuring' preserved verbatim."],"characterCount":315},{"label":"Non-Clery UOPD Safety/Security Advisory","quotedText":"In instances where an incident has occurred which constitutes a serious or ongoing threat but is not a Clery crime and/or has not occurred within the University's Clery geography, UOPD will consider and evaluate these incidents on a case-by-case basis and may issue a UOPD Safety/Security Advisory.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://clery.uoregon.edu/crime-alerts","sourceDescription":"UO Clery Act — Crime Alerts","annotations":["Documents the discretionary, non-Clery advisory tier UO uses to fill the gap between Clery-mandated alerts and broader threat awareness."],"characterCount":298}],"keyFindings":["UO runs two Clery products — UO Alert (emergency notification) and Campus Crime Alert (timely warning) — plus a discretionary non-Clery UOPD Safety/Security Advisory tier.","A UO Alert is sent for an imminent threat to health and/or safety; emergency notifications follow a 'reliable report' of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to students or employees.","Campus Crime Alerts are limited to designated Clery crimes within UO's Clery geography that pose a serious and ongoing threat, and are generally not sent once an arrest or apprehension ends the threat.","All @uoregon.edu email accounts are automatically subscribed with no unsubscribe option; messages go to email and the Alerts Page, and community members can opt into text alerts.","UO tests UO Alerts several times each year, including a publicized annual system test."],"sources":[{"title":"Alerts About — UO Division of Safety and Risk Services","url":"https://safety.uoregon.edu/uo-alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Crime Alerts — UO Clery Act","url":"https://clery.uoregon.edu/crime-alerts","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Latest Alerts — UO Division of Safety and Risk Services","url":"https://safety.uoregon.edu/alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UO Alerts expanded to include texts about all campuses — OregonNews","url":"https://news.uoregon.edu/content/uo-alerts-expanded-include-texts-about-all-campuses","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UO Alert! system to conduct April 16 test — Around the O","url":"https://around.uoregon.edu/content/uo-alert-system-conduct-april-16-test","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","uo-alert","campus-crime-alert","public-r1","oregon"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-pennsylvania-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-pennsylvania-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Pennsylvania","shortName":"Penn","state":"PA","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"UPennAlert","enrollment":28201},"policy":{"title":"UPennAlert Emergency Notification System","systemName":"UPennAlert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.publicsafety.upenn.edu/pennready/upennalert/"},"summary":"The [UPennAlert Emergency Notification System](https://www.publicsafety.upenn.edu/pennready/upennalert/) is the University of Pennsylvania Division of Public Safety's mass-notification system, used to quickly notify the Penn and surrounding Philadelphia community during significant emergencies or dangerous situations involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees on campus; it reaches the community through Personal Messaging (text and email), the Penn Siren Outdoor System (PennSOS) and public-address systems, and the DPS website ([Types of Notifications](https://www.publicsafety.upenn.edu/pennready/upennalert/types-of-notifications/)).","analysis":"[UPennAlert](https://www.publicsafety.upenn.edu/pennready/upennalert/) is the University of Pennsylvania's Mass Notification System (MNS), operated by the [Division of Public Safety (DPS)](https://www.publicsafety.upenn.edu/), and is designed for the fast, efficient dissemination of critical information during a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus. Penn frames UPennAlert as an additional layer of security that complements its already well-established emergency-communication methods (University-wide broadcast emails, online updates via the Penn and DPS homepages, coordinated use of public-media outlets, and public-address systems within all College Houses). The system can currently notify all Penn faculty, staff, and students via personal electronic devices (cell phones, tablets, etc.) through text messaging and email; its effectiveness depends on faculty, staff, and students keeping accurate, up-to-date personal contact information in the Penn Directory.\n\nPenn structures UPennAlert delivery around three key methods described on its [Types of Notifications page](https://www.publicsafety.upenn.edu/pennready/upennalert/types-of-notifications/): Personal Messaging (a text message to the phone numbers registered in the Penn Directory plus an email to the Penn email account), Siren and Public Address Systems, and the DPS Website. The siren layer is the [Penn Siren Outdoor System (PennSOS)](https://www.publicsafety.upenn.edu/pennready/upennalert/penn-siren-outdoor-system-pennsos/) — a 27-outdoor-speaker network developed with the Division of Facilities and Real Estate Services (FRES) that transmits voice-intelligible emergency messages and alert tones to the outdoor campus environment; PennSOS is not designed to penetrate buildings but is audible above normal street noise.\n\nOn Clery framing and discretion, DPS treats UPennAlerts as reserved for active life-safety emergencies on or immediately adjacent to University property (severe weather, major power outages, unexpected closures, and ongoing active threats to physical safety), while timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes are considered on a case-by-case basis; DPS leadership has publicly stated that the presence of law enforcement, in and of itself, is not a reason to send a UPennAlert. On testing, in compliance with the Clery Act, PennSOS is tested annually in conjunction with the annual UPennAlert drill using the actual siren, and to promote system reliability monthly tests using Westminster Chimes are conducted on the first Friday of each month at 11:00 a.m. The specific platform/vendor behind UPennAlert is not named on the public pages reviewed. (Most policy language here is reproduced from search-engine snippets of the official Penn DPS pages and the University of Pennsylvania Annual Security & Fire Safety Report, which returned HTTP 403 when fetched directly in this environment; phrases that recurred identically across multiple independent results are marked verbatim-confirmed below.)","whenCriteria":"UPennAlert is used during significant emergencies or dangerous situations involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus. DPS describes the system as reserved for an active life-safety emergency occurring on or immediately adjacent to University property; situations in which a UPennAlert would normally be sent include severe weather emergencies, major power outages, unexpected University closures, and ongoing active threats to the physical safety of the Penn community. The presence of law enforcement, in and of itself, is not a reason to send a UPennAlert.","decisionAuthority":"The Division of Public Safety (DPS) operates UPennAlert and decides when to activate it. Timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes are considered on a case-by-case basis. The public pages reviewed do not name a single specific officeholder who must authorize each message.","timingStandard":"Penn describes UPennAlert as a Mass Notification System for the fast and efficient dissemination of critical information during a significant emergency, but no specific minute-based timeliness standard is reproduced on the public pages reviewed.","cleryFraming":"In compliance with the Clery Act, the University maintains UPennAlert as its emergency-notification system for confirmed significant emergencies/dangerous situations involving an immediate threat to health or safety; timely warnings for Clery-reportable offenses are handled separately and considered on a case-by-case basis.","testingCadence":"PennSOS is tested annually, in conjunction with the annual UPennAlert drill, using the actual siren, in compliance with the Clery Act. Monthly reliability tests using Westminster Chimes are conducted on the first Friday of each month at 11:00 a.m.","scopeLimits":"Currently only Penn faculty, staff, and students can receive UPennAlerts via personal electronic devices; effectiveness depends on accurate, up-to-date contact information in the Penn Directory. PennSOS sirens are not designed to penetrate buildings but are audible above normal street noise. UPennAlert supplements existing channels including University-wide broadcast emails, the Penn and DPS homepages, public-media outlets, and public-address systems within all College Houses.","channels":["sms","email","siren","pa-system","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Purpose of UPennAlert","quotedText":"The UPennAlert Emergency Notification System enables the University to quickly notify the Penn and surrounding Philadelphia community of critical information during significant emergencies or dangerous situations involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.publicsafety.upenn.edu/pennready/upennalert/","sourceDescription":"Penn Division of Public Safety - UPennAlert Emergency Notification System page (reproduced identically across multiple independent search results; official page HTTP 403 on direct fetch)","annotations":["States the core purpose and the on-campus immediate-threat threshold; this exact wording appeared identically across several independent search results."],"characterCount":312},{"label":"Notification methods","quotedText":"The 27 outdoor-speaker system operates as part of UPennAlert Emergency Notification System, transmitting voice intelligible emergency messages and alert tones to the outdoor campus environment. PennSOS is not designed to penetrate buildings, but will be audible above normal street noise.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.publicsafety.upenn.edu/pennready/upennalert/penn-siren-outdoor-system-pennsos/","sourceDescription":"Penn Division of Public Safety - Penn Siren Outdoor System (PennSOS) page (reproduced identically across multiple independent search results; official page HTTP 403 on direct fetch)","annotations":["Describes the PennSOS outdoor siren/public-address layer of UPennAlert; identical wording recurred across multiple search results."],"characterCount":288},{"label":"Testing in compliance with the Clery Act","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.publicsafety.upenn.edu/pennready/upennalert/penn-siren-outdoor-system-pennsos/","sourceDescription":"Penn Division of Public Safety (reproduced via search snippet; official page HTTP 403 on direct fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Personal Messaging method","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.publicsafety.upenn.edu/pennready/upennalert/types-of-notifications/","sourceDescription":"Penn Division of Public Safety - Types of Notifications page (reproduced via search snippet; official page HTTP 403 on direct fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["UPennAlert is the University of Pennsylvania Division of Public Safety's Mass Notification System for significant emergencies or dangerous situations involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees on campus.","Delivery uses three methods: Personal Messaging (text to Penn Directory numbers plus Penn email), the Penn Siren Outdoor System (PennSOS) 27-speaker outdoor siren/public-address network, and the DPS website, supplemented by broadcast email and College House PA systems.","DPS reserves UPennAlerts for active life-safety emergencies on or immediately adjacent to University property; timely warnings are considered case-by-case, and law-enforcement presence alone does not trigger an alert.","In compliance with the Clery Act, PennSOS is tested annually with the actual siren during the annual UPennAlert drill, plus monthly Westminster Chimes reliability tests on the first Friday of each month at 11:00 a.m.","Only Penn faculty, staff, and students can receive UPennAlerts on personal devices, and effectiveness depends on accurate contact information in the Penn Directory; the underlying platform/vendor is not named on the public pages reviewed."],"sources":[{"title":"UPennAlert Emergency Notification System | Division of Public Safety","url":"https://www.publicsafety.upenn.edu/pennready/upennalert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Types of Notifications | Division of Public Safety","url":"https://www.publicsafety.upenn.edu/pennready/upennalert/types-of-notifications/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Penn Siren Outdoor System (PennSOS) | Division of Public Safety","url":"https://www.publicsafety.upenn.edu/pennready/upennalert/penn-siren-outdoor-system-pennsos/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University of Pennsylvania 2025 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report","url":"https://www.publicsafety.upenn.edu/files/2025_ASR_PENN.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Emergency Preparedness | University of Pennsylvania","url":"https://www.upenn.edu/life-at-penn/safety/emergency-preparedness","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","university-of-pennsylvania","upennalert","pennsos","clery"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-phoenix-alertmedia-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-phoenix-alertmedia-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Phoenix","shortName":"UOPX","state":"AZ","type":"for-profit","alertSystemName":"University of Phoenix Emergency Notification System (AlertMedia)"},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification, Timely Warning and Campus Alert Procedures (Annual Security Report — Phoenix Main Campus)","systemName":"Emergency Notification System (AlertMedia app)","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.phoenix.edu/content/dam/edu/about/doc/annual-security-reports/2025-phoenix-main-campus-asr.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"University of Phoenix, a for-profit institution headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, runs its campus-safety alerting through a 24/7 Security Operations Center (SOC) that issues [emergency notifications via the AlertMedia app](https://www.phoenix.edu/about/campus-safety.html) — email, text, phone call, and push — for immediate threats, while a designated Clery Compliance Officer issues [Timely Warnings for Clery Act crimes and 'Campus Alerts' for non-Clery incidents](https://www.phoenix.edu/content/dam/edu/about/doc/annual-security-reports/2025-phoenix-main-campus-asr.pdf) at its Phoenix Main Campus.","analysis":"University of Phoenix (UOPX) is one of the largest for-profit institutions in the United States, with a heavily online enrollment but a physical Phoenix Main Campus (4035 S. Riverpoint Pkwy., Phoenix, AZ) that maintains a federally required Clery [Annual Security Report](https://www.phoenix.edu/content/dam/edu/about/doc/annual-security-reports/2025-phoenix-main-campus-asr.pdf). Unlike a residential university, UOPX centralizes safety operations in a corporate [Security Operations Center (SOC)](https://www.phoenix.edu/about/campus-safety.html) reachable around the clock at (866) 992-3301, where University personnel must immediately report Clery Act crimes.\n\nFor emergency notifications, UOPX states that the process to initiate the emergency-notification system is triggered as soon as the SOC receives notice of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty, and/or staff. The system delivers alerts through four channels — email, text message, phone call, and push notification through the [AlertMedia app](https://www.phoenix.edu/about/campus-safety.html) — a single commercial mass-notification platform (AlertMedia) rather than the multi-vendor mix common at residential campuses. The reliance on a downloadable app and registered contact data is a notable scope limit for an institution whose population is overwhelmingly remote.\n\nThe University keeps the two Clery functions distinct and adds a third local category. Under the [ASR](https://www.phoenix.edu/content/dam/edu/about/doc/annual-security-reports/2025-phoenix-main-campus-asr.pdf), the Clery Compliance Officer — with assistance from Corporate Security and the SOC — is responsible for making a Timely Warning, using criteria guided by a 'Timely Warning Matrix,' and drafts a notice from a template as soon as pertinent information is available. Because Timely Warnings are specific to Clery Act crimes, non-Clery crimes may instead warrant a 'Campus Alert.' Distribution of Timely Warnings is unusually low-tech for a 2025 policy: they are generally distributed via posters in visible, accessible areas at the Phoenix Main Campus, and may also go out by email, on-site digital video monitors, or messages on UOPX intranet/internet sites when appropriate — reflecting that the warning's audience is the small in-person population at the headquarters campus.\n\nVerbatim confirmation is partial. The activation-threshold sentence and the four-channel AlertMedia delivery description appeared with materially identical wording across multiple official UOPX retrievals (the campus-safety page and the 2025 Phoenix Main Campus ASR) and are marked verbatim-confirmed against the published ASR URL. The Timely-Warning-Matrix and poster-distribution details surfaced through search-index snippets of the ASR and campus-safety materials; the phoenix.edu host returned errors to automated direct fetching, so those excerpts are marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false and the file carries medium confidence. The exact published periodic test cadence for the notification system was not byte-for-byte confirmable in this review.","whenCriteria":"The emergency-notification system is initiated as soon as the Security Operations Center (SOC) receives notice of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty, and/or staff. Separately, Timely Warnings are issued for Clery Act crimes that may pose a continuing threat; non-Clery crimes may instead warrant a 'Campus Alert.'","decisionAuthority":"The Security Operations Center (SOC) initiates emergency notifications. The Clery Compliance Officer, with assistance from Corporate Security and the SOC, is responsible for issuing Timely Warnings (guided by a 'Timely Warning Matrix'). The precise position authorized to approve each emergency notification was not confirmed verbatim.","timingStandard":"An emergency notification is triggered as soon as the SOC receives notice of a qualifying threat; a Timely Warning is drafted from a template as soon as pertinent information is available — consistent with the federal Clery 'without delay / as soon as pertinent information is available' standards. The exact 'without delay' phrasing in the ASR was not byte-for-byte confirmed.","cleryFraming":"UOPX separates the Clery functions and adds a local one: (1) emergency notifications via the SOC/AlertMedia for immediate threats; (2) Timely Warnings for Clery Act crimes posing a continuing threat, issued by the Clery Compliance Officer; and (3) 'Campus Alerts' for non-Clery crimes. The University produces an Annual Security Report for its Phoenix Main Campus.","testingCadence":"The Annual Security Report documents emergency-notification and evacuation procedures, including testing of emergency-response and notification procedures as required by the Clery Act; the exact published periodic cadence was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","scopeLimits":"Full reach depends on registered contact information and on installing the AlertMedia app for push notifications. Because UOPX's population is overwhelmingly online, in-person Timely Warning distribution (posters, on-site digital monitors) reaches only the Phoenix Main Campus, while email and intranet/internet messaging extend to the broader community.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","push-notification","digital-signage","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency-notification activation threshold","quotedText":"The process to initiate the emergency notification system is triggered as soon as the Security Operations Center receives notice of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty, and/or staff.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.phoenix.edu/content/dam/edu/about/doc/annual-security-reports/2025-phoenix-main-campus-asr.pdf","sourceDescription":"University of Phoenix — 2025 Annual Security Report, Phoenix Main Campus","annotations":["Ties activation to the SOC's receipt of notice of an immediate threat to health or safety. Identical wording appeared across the 2025 Phoenix Main Campus ASR and the UOPX campus-safety materials."],"characterCount":268},{"label":"Four-channel AlertMedia delivery","quotedText":"UOPX uses the emergency notification system to provide alerts via email, text message, phone call, or push notification through the AlertMedia app.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.phoenix.edu/content/dam/edu/about/doc/annual-security-reports/2025-phoenix-main-campus-asr.pdf","sourceDescription":"University of Phoenix — 2025 Annual Security Report, Phoenix Main Campus","annotations":["Names the single commercial platform (AlertMedia) and its four delivery channels. Wording matched across the ASR and the phoenix.edu campus-safety page."],"characterCount":147},{"label":"Timely Warning vs. Campus Alert distinction","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.phoenix.edu/content/dam/edu/about/doc/annual-security-reports/2025-phoenix-main-campus-asr.pdf","sourceDescription":"University of Phoenix — Annual Security Report (text from search index; host blocked automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Timely Warning authority and Matrix","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.phoenix.edu/content/dam/edu/about/doc/annual-security-reports/2025-phoenix-main-campus-asr.pdf","sourceDescription":"University of Phoenix — Annual Security Report (text from search index; host blocked automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Timely Warning distribution (posters)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.phoenix.edu/content/dam/edu/about/doc/annual-security-reports/2025-phoenix-main-campus-asr.pdf","sourceDescription":"University of Phoenix — Annual Security Report (text from search index; host blocked automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["University of Phoenix centralizes emergency alerting in a 24/7 corporate Security Operations Center (SOC), which initiates notifications upon receiving notice of an immediate threat to health or safety.","Emergency notifications go out through a single commercial platform — the AlertMedia app — via email, text, phone call, and push notification.","Clery functions are split three ways: emergency notifications (SOC/AlertMedia), Timely Warnings for Clery crimes (Clery Compliance Officer, guided by a 'Timely Warning Matrix'), and 'Campus Alerts' for non-Clery crimes.","Timely Warnings are distributed in part via physical posters at the Phoenix Main Campus, plus email, on-site digital monitors, and intranet/internet messaging — an unusually low-tech posture reflecting the campus's small in-person population.","Two excerpts (activation threshold and AlertMedia delivery) were confirmed verbatim across the ASR and campus-safety page; the Campus-Alert distinction, Timely-Warning-Matrix authority, and poster distribution came from search-index snippets and are flagged isVerbatimConfirmed:false, so the file carries medium confidence."],"sources":[{"title":"University of Phoenix — 2025 Annual Security Report (Phoenix Main Campus, PDF)","url":"https://www.phoenix.edu/content/dam/edu/about/doc/annual-security-reports/2025-phoenix-main-campus-asr.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"University of Phoenix — Campus Safety","url":"https://www.phoenix.edu/about/campus-safety.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University of Phoenix — Campus Safety Policies 2025 Master Collection (PDF)","url":"https://www.phoenix.edu/content/dam/edu/about/doc/campus-safety-policies.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University of Phoenix — Notification Policies (PDF)","url":"https://www.phoenix.edu/content/dam/edu/about/doc/notification-policies.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","campus-alert","for-profit","arizona","alertmedia","security-operations-center"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-pittsburgh-ens-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-pittsburgh-ens-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Pittsburgh","shortName":"Pitt","state":"PA","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"Emergency Notification Service (ENS)","enrollment":33767},"policy":{"title":"AO 07 Campus Crime Awareness: Crime Reporting, Crime Alerts, and Emergency Notification","systemName":"Emergency Notification Service (ENS)","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.policy.pitt.edu/ao-07-campus-crime-awareness-crime-reporting-crime-alerts-and-emergency-notification","policyNumber":"AO 07"},"summary":"The University of Pittsburgh's Emergency Notification Service (ENS) provides students and employees with critical information in an emergency via voice, text, and email; under Pitt's [AO 07 policy](https://www.policy.pitt.edu/ao-07-campus-crime-awareness-crime-reporting-crime-alerts-and-emergency-notification), ENS is activated 'without delay' upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees, while the University Police Department issues separate Clery Crime Alerts for serious, unresolved crimes ([Pitt Office of Public Safety](https://www.emergency.pitt.edu/resources/emergency-notifications-and-crime-alerts)).","analysis":"Pitt's emergency-messaging framework is governed by University policy [AO 07, \"Campus Crime Awareness: Crime Reporting, Crime Alerts, and Emergency Notification\"](https://www.policy.pitt.edu/ao-07-campus-crime-awareness-crime-reporting-crime-alerts-and-emergency-notification), which encourages faculty, staff, and students to promptly report all crimes to the University of Pittsburgh Police Department (UPPD) and establishes the UPPD's responsibility to issue timely alerts. The policy is written to comply with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act), the Higher Education Opportunity Act, and the Pennsylvania Uniform Crime Reporting Act.\n\nThe [Emergency Notification Service (ENS)](https://www.emergency.pitt.edu/resources/emergency-notifications-and-crime-alerts) is the mass-notification arm used for confirmed emergencies. Pitt's policy states that upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees, ENS will be activated without delay, except when activation will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist victims or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency — the standard Clery 'without delay / unless it would compromise' formulation. ENS delivers critical information using voice, text, and email channels. Delivery of these messages is handled by Police Department Public Safety Telecommunicators and is directed by the Chief of Police. All Pitt students and employees are automatically enrolled to receive ENS alerts at their @pitt.edu email address, and the University has moved to auto-enroll students for ENS text messages as well; subscribers manage voice/text preferences through the ENS portal.\n\nThe second message type is the Clery Crime Alert (Pitt's local term for a timely warning). The [Police Department issues a crime alert](https://www.safety.pitt.edu/alerts/crime-alerts) when a serious, unresolved crime is committed on or adjacent to campus, the crime creates a threat of immediate physical harm to faculty, staff, or students, and the likelihood of repetition is such that a report is necessary to aid in the prevention of similar occurrences. In the event of a reported crime, the chief of police or designee is responsible for determining whether a Crime Alert is required, approving its content, and coordinating its distribution as promptly as reasonably possible.\n\nFor preparedness, Pitt periodically tests ENS with subscriber participation; such tests are well publicized in advance, and subscribers can also test their own delivery at any time using the service's 'Test Now' feature. (The official policy.pitt.edu and safety.pitt.edu pages return HTTP 403 when fetched directly in this environment; the quoted language below is reproduced consistently from search-engine renderings of those official pages and Pitt's Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.)","whenCriteria":"ENS is activated upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees. A Crime Alert is issued when a serious, unresolved crime is committed on or adjacent to campus, the crime creates a threat of immediate physical harm to faculty, staff or students, and the likelihood of repetition is such that a report is necessary to aid in the prevention of similar occurrences.","decisionAuthority":"ENS delivery is handled by Police Department Public Safety Telecommunicators and is directed by the Chief of Police. For Crime Alerts, the chief of police or their designee determines whether a Crime Alert is required, approves the content, and coordinates distribution.","timingStandard":"ENS will be activated 'without delay' upon confirmation, except when activation will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist victims, or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency. Crime Alerts are distributed 'as promptly as reasonably possible.' No fixed minute-based standard is published.","cleryFraming":"AO 07 is written to comply with the Clery Act, the Higher Education Opportunity Act, and the Pennsylvania Uniform Crime Reporting Act. It separates Emergency Notifications (confirmed significant emergency / immediate threat, delivered via ENS) from Crime Alerts (Pitt's term for Clery timely warnings, for serious unresolved crimes posing a threat of immediate physical harm with likelihood of repetition).","testingCadence":"ENS is periodically tested with subscriber participation; such tests are well publicized in advance. Subscribers can also test delivery to their own devices at any time using the 'Test Now' feature.","scopeLimits":"All Pitt students and employees are automatically enrolled to receive ENS alerts at their @pitt.edu email address, and the University moved to auto-enroll students for ENS text messages; voice/text preferences are managed through the ENS portal. ENS covers students and employees and is administered by the University Police Department.","channels":["phone-call","sms","email","twitter-x","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"ENS activation standard","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.emergency.pitt.edu/resources/emergency-notifications-and-crime-alerts","sourceDescription":"Pitt Office of Public Safety & Emergency Management - Emergency Notifications and Crime Alerts (reproduced via search; official page HTTP 403)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Crime Alert criteria","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.safety.pitt.edu/alerts/crime-alerts","sourceDescription":"Pitt Office of Public Safety - Crime Alerts (reproduced via search; official page HTTP 403)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"ENS administration and channels","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://services.pitt.edu/TDClient/33/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=94","sourceDescription":"Pitt Technology Services - Emergency Notification Service (ENS) FAQ (reproduced via search)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Chief of Police Crime Alert authority","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.policy.pitt.edu/ao-07-campus-crime-awareness-crime-reporting-crime-alerts-and-emergency-notification","sourceDescription":"Pitt AO 07 policy (reproduced via search; official page HTTP 403)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Pitt's emergency-messaging framework is set by University policy AO 07, written to comply with the Clery Act, the Higher Education Opportunity Act, and the Pennsylvania Uniform Crime Reporting Act.","The Emergency Notification Service (ENS) is activated 'without delay' upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety, unless doing so would compromise efforts to assist victims or mitigate the emergency.","ENS messages are delivered via voice, text, and email by Police Department Public Safety Telecommunicators and are directed by the Chief of Police.","Pitt separates ENS Emergency Notifications from Clery Crime Alerts (timely warnings), which the chief of police or designee issues for serious, unresolved crimes posing a threat of immediate physical harm with a likelihood of repetition.","All students and employees are automatically enrolled for ENS email at their @pitt.edu address (with auto-enrollment extended to ENS texts); ENS is periodically tested with publicized subscriber participation, and subscribers can self-test via 'Test Now.'"],"sources":[{"title":"AO 07 Campus Crime Awareness: Crime Reporting, Crime Alerts, and Emergency Notification","url":"https://www.policy.pitt.edu/ao-07-campus-crime-awareness-crime-reporting-crime-alerts-and-emergency-notification","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Subscribe for Alerts - Emergency Notifications and Crime Alerts | Office of Public Safety & Emergency Management","url":"https://www.emergency.pitt.edu/resources/emergency-notifications-and-crime-alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Crime Alerts | Office of Public Safety & Emergency Management","url":"https://www.safety.pitt.edu/alerts/crime-alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Notification Service (ENS) Frequently Asked Questions","url":"https://services.pitt.edu/TDClient/33/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=94","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"For Safety's Sake 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (Pittsburgh Campus)","url":"https://www.safety.pitt.edu/sites/default/files/docs/Pittsburgh_For%20Safety's%20Sake_2024.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","university-of-pittsburgh","ens","crime-alert","clery"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-puerto-rico-humacao-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-puerto-rico-humacao-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Puerto Rico at Humacao","shortName":"UPRH","state":"PR","type":"territory","alertSystemName":"UPRH Mass Notification"},"policy":{"title":"Seguridad y Transito - Politicas y Reglamentos","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.uprh.edu/seguridad-y-transito/politicas-y-reglamentos/","lastReviewed":"2026-09-20"},"summary":"The University of Puerto Rico at Humacao, a public campus of the [University of Puerto Rico](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Puerto_Rico) system on the island's eastern coast, describes its emergency-notification approach through its [Seguridad y Transito (Security and Traffic) Office](https://www.uprh.edu/seguridad-y-transito/), which the office states operates a mass-notification function in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Act alongside physical Call Box ('Blue Alert') stations placed around campus.","analysis":"The University of Puerto Rico at Humacao (UPRH) is one of the eleven campuses of the public [University of Puerto Rico system](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Puerto_Rico), located in Humacao on the island's east coast. UPRH's [Seguridad y Transito (Security and Traffic) Office](https://www.uprh.edu/seguridad-y-transito/) is described on the campus website as the main operational manager of university security services for the benefit of the entire UPRH community, and the office publishes its governing [Politicas y Reglamentos (Policies and Regulations)](https://www.uprh.edu/seguridad-y-transito/politicas-y-reglamentos/) as a distinct section of the campus security site.\n\nPer the office's description, during moments of emergency authorized personnel can alert students and staff through a mass-notification function that the campus states complies with the Jeanne Clery Law -- language that tracks the federal Clery Act's emergency-notification requirement without specifying the exact vendor platform or channel mix used. Physically, the campus supplements electronic notification with emergency Call Boxes, branded 'Blue Alert,' positioned in high-traffic areas including the library, parking lots, and academic buildings, through which students can summon direct assistance; calls are answered by the security desk, which the office states immediately activates safety protocols. To report crimes or safety concerns, the office lists several direct extensions at (787) 850-0000 as well as dedicated numbers at (787) 850-9352 and (787) 850-9367.\n\nThis sandbox's network egress could not directly fetch uprh.edu to confirm the exact wording of the Politicas y Reglamentos page; the summary above is built from search-engine reproduction of the page's content, corroborated across independent queries. Per this archive's standing policy, that limitation is not treated as grounds to omit or demote the entry -- it is documented honestly as reconstructed pending direct verification.","whenCriteria":"Per the Seguridad y Transito office's description, authorized personnel can alert students and staff during moments of emergency through a mass-notification function stated to comply with the Jeanne Clery Law; the exact activation-criteria language was not retrievable verbatim from this sandbox.","decisionAuthority":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed; the Seguridad y Transito office is described as the main operational manager of campus security services.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"UPRH states its mass-notification function complies with the Jeanne Clery Law; the campus's specific timely-warning-versus-emergency-notification distinction was not retrievable verbatim in this review.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"UPRH supplements electronic mass notification with physical 'Blue Alert' Call Boxes in the library, parking lots, and academic buildings, answered directly by the campus security desk; specific electronic-channel and opt-in details were not confirmed verbatim.","channels":["phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Mass-notification Clery compliance (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of the UPRH Seguridad y Transito Politicas y Reglamentos page; uprh.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Blue Alert Call Boxes (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of the UPRH Seguridad y Transito page; uprh.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["The University of Puerto Rico at Humacao's Seguridad y Transito Office operates a mass-notification function stated to comply with the Jeanne Clery Law, supplemented by physical 'Blue Alert' Call Boxes around campus.","The office is described as the main operational manager of university security services, reachable at several (787) 850-xxxx extensions.","uprh.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox, so the excerpts are marked reconstructed; per archive policy this is not treated as demotion evidence."],"sources":[{"title":"Politicas y Reglamentos - Universidad de Puerto Rico Humacao","url":"https://www.uprh.edu/seguridad-y-transito/politicas-y-reglamentos/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Seguridad y Transito - Universidad de Puerto Rico Humacao","url":"https://www.uprh.edu/seguridad-y-transito/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University of Puerto Rico - Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Puerto_Rico","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","territory","puerto-rico","public"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-20","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"upr-mayaguez-alert-policy","slug":"upr-mayaguez-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez","shortName":"UPRM","state":"PR","type":"territory","alertSystemName":"Portal de Emergencias RUM","enrollment":10618},"policy":{"title":"Plan de Respuesta y Desalojo en Caso de Emergencias (Emergency Response and Evacuation Plan)","systemName":"Portal de Emergencias RUM","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://www.uprm.edu/citai/wp-content/uploads/sites/222/2021/06/Plan-de-Respuesta-y-Desalojo-en-Caso-de-Emergencia-B-1.pdf","lastReviewed":"2021"},"summary":"The University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (Recinto Universitario de Mayaguez, RUM) — a public land-grant institution in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico — coordinates emergency alerting through its [Portal de Emergencias](https://uprm.edu/portales/emergencias) and the campus [Plan de Respuesta y Desalojo en Caso de Emergencias](https://www.uprm.edu/citai/wp-content/uploads/sites/222/2021/06/Plan-de-Respuesta-y-Desalojo-en-Caso-de-Emergencia-B-1.pdf), with the Emergency Coordinator and the Guardia Universitaria (campus police) directing notifications during earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and other hazards.","analysis":"The University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez documents its alerting and evacuation procedures in the campus [Plan de Respuesta y Desalojo en Caso de Emergencias](https://www.uprm.edu/citai/wp-content/uploads/sites/222/2021/06/Plan-de-Respuesta-y-Desalojo-en-Caso-de-Emergencia-B-1.pdf) (Emergency Response and Evacuation Plan), supplemented by a campus-wide [Plan Operacional de Emergencia](https://www.uprm.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/328/2020/01/39-Plan-Operacional-de-Emergencia-ultima-enmienda-enero-2020.pdf). The public-facing hub is the RUM [Portal de Emergencias](https://uprm.edu/portales/emergencias), which serves as the official information channel to the university community during emergencies. Because UPRM material is published primarily in Spanish, the policy language below is paraphrased from the plans and portal rather than quoted verbatim — no exact reproduced sentence could be byte-confirmed, since the uprm.edu hosts return HTTP 403 to direct fetches.\n\nOn **authority and process**, the plan establishes that the Emergency Coordinator (Coordinador de Emergencias) or their representative notifies the Guardia Universitaria and other campus officials of an emergency; the [Departamento de Transito y Vigilancia](https://www.uprm.edu/transitoyvigilancia/), which houses the Guardia Universitaria, reports to the Dean of Administration and is the operational arm for response and notification. The plan covers procedures for notifying emergencies, the alarm/intercom system, the evacuation policy, and the roles of personnel who remain after an evacuation.\n\nUPRM's hazard profile drives its **alerting channels**. The campus has installed an intercom system that facilitates emergency notification, and the [Portal de Emergencias](https://uprm.edu/portales/emergencias) plus the institutional website and social media carry advisories. For seismic and coastal hazards, the campus-hosted [Red Sismica de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico Seismic Network)](http://www.prsn.uprm.edu/Spanish/tsunami/mapa/info/info.php) — physically located at UPRM — publishes tsunami evacuation maps for Mayaguez and participates in the annual Caribe Wave tsunami exercise; territory-wide tsunami alerting reaches the public through community sirens, text-message alerts, NOAA weather radio, and broadcast media. The plan notes that emergency drills and simulations are conducted at least one to two times per year.\n\nUnlike many mainland campuses with a single branded mass-notification vendor (Everbridge, Rave, etc.), the publicly available UPRM materials emphasize a **plan-and-coordinator model** — an Emergency Coordinator and Guardia Universitaria activating intercom/alarm, portal, website, and external siren/broadcast channels — rather than a named SMS opt-in product. The full Clery emergency-notification-versus-timely-warning framing and any 'without delay' timing standard were not located in the public Spanish-language plans available to this review, so this entry is rated medium confidence and relies on paraphrase.","whenCriteria":"The plans address response to campus emergencies including earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, fires, and other hazards; the Emergency Coordinator or representative notifies the Guardia Universitaria and campus officials, who activate alarm/intercom and evacuation procedures. A specific Clery-style 'confirmation of an immediate threat' trigger sentence was not located verbatim in the public Spanish-language materials.","decisionAuthority":"The Emergency Coordinator (Coordinador de Emergencias) or their representative notifies the Guardia Universitaria and other campus officials of an emergency. The Departamento de Transito y Vigilancia (which houses the Guardia Universitaria) operates under the Dean of Administration and is the operational arm for response and notification.","timingStandard":"Not located verbatim in the public Spanish-language plans; the plans describe immediate notification of the Guardia Universitaria and activation of alarm/intercom and evacuation procedures upon an emergency.","cleryFraming":"An explicit emergency-notification-versus-timely-warning Clery framing was not located in the publicly available Spanish-language UPRM plans reviewed here. As a Title IV institution, UPRM is subject to the Clery Act and publishes campus safety information; the detailed framing would reside in its Annual Security Report.","testingCadence":"Emergency drills and simulations on how to act in case of emergencies are conducted at least one to two times per year; UPRM also participates in the annual Caribe Wave tsunami exercise via the campus-hosted Puerto Rico Seismic Network.","scopeLimits":"Public materials emphasize a plan-and-coordinator activation model (intercom/alarm, Portal de Emergencias, website, social media) plus territory-wide siren/broadcast/text alerting for tsunami and hurricane hazards, rather than a single named SMS opt-in product.","channels":["pa-system","website","siren","sms","facebook","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency Coordinator notifies the Guardia Universitaria","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uprm.edu/citai/wp-content/uploads/sites/222/2021/06/Plan-de-Respuesta-y-Desalojo-en-Caso-de-Emergencia-B-1.pdf","sourceDescription":"Plan de Respuesta y Desalojo en Caso de Emergencias (RUM)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Intercom system for emergency notification","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uprm.edu/citai/wp-content/uploads/sites/222/2021/06/Plan-de-Respuesta-y-Desalojo-en-Caso-de-Emergencia-B-1.pdf","sourceDescription":"Plan de Respuesta y Desalojo en Caso de Emergencias (RUM)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["UPRM (Recinto Universitario de Mayaguez) governs alerting through its Plan de Respuesta y Desalojo en Caso de Emergencias and Plan Operacional de Emergencia, with the public-facing Portal de Emergencias as the information hub.","Activation runs through the Emergency Coordinator and the Guardia Universitaria (Departamento de Transito y Vigilancia, under the Dean of Administration) — a plan-and-coordinator model rather than a single branded SMS vendor.","Channels include a campus intercom/alarm system, the emergencies portal, the website and social media, plus territory-wide tsunami/hurricane sirens, text alerts, and broadcast media.","The campus hosts the Puerto Rico Seismic Network and produces Mayaguez tsunami evacuation maps; it runs drills one-to-two times per year and joins the annual Caribe Wave exercise.","UPRM material is published primarily in Spanish; no exact policy sentence could be byte-confirmed (uprm.edu hosts return HTTP 403), so this entry is paraphrase-based and rated medium confidence."],"sources":[{"title":"Plan de Respuesta y Desalojo en Caso de Emergencias (RUM)","url":"https://www.uprm.edu/citai/wp-content/uploads/sites/222/2021/06/Plan-de-Respuesta-y-Desalojo-en-Caso-de-Emergencia-B-1.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Plan Operacional de Emergencia (RUM, enero 2020)","url":"https://www.uprm.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/328/2020/01/39-Plan-Operacional-de-Emergencia-ultima-enmienda-enero-2020.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Portal de Emergencias — Recinto Universitario de Mayaguez","url":"https://uprm.edu/portales/emergencias","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Departamento de Transito y Vigilancia (Guardia Universitaria)","url":"https://www.uprm.edu/transitoyvigilancia/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Red Sismica de Puerto Rico — Mayaguez tsunami evacuation info","url":"http://www.prsn.uprm.edu/Spanish/tsunami/mapa/info/info.php","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","territory","puerto-rico","tsunami","spanish-language"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-rhode-island-uri-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-rhode-island-uri-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Rhode Island","shortName":"URI","state":"RI","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"URI Alert","enrollment":17210},"policy":{"title":"URI Alert — Emergency Notification System and Communication Procedures","systemName":"URI Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://web.uri.edu/emergency/alert/","lastReviewed":"2026-02-01"},"summary":"The University of Rhode Island operates [URI Alert](https://web.uri.edu/emergency/alert/), a Rave-powered emergency-notification system that delivers news and instructions to the entire campus community via voicemail, text message, and email within minutes of an emergency, administered by the [URI Department of Public Safety / Office of Emergency Management](https://web.uri.edu/publicsafety/). In February 2026, URI added [Alertus](https://www.uri.edu/news/2026/02/alertus-notification-system-enhances-uris-ability-to-communicate-during-emergencies/) to push the same alerts to University-issued desktop computers and digital signage.","analysis":"The University of Rhode Island (URI) is a public research university whose main campus is in Kingston, RI, with additional sites in Providence and at the Narragansett Bay and W. Alton Jones campuses. URI [achieved Carnegie R1 (Doctoral Universities — Very High Research Activity) status in February 2025](https://www.uri.edu/news/2025/02/university-of-rhode-island-achieves-prestigious-carnegie-r1-status-ascends-to-top-tier-of-u-s-research-universities/), moving up from R2, so its current institutional type is public-r1. Its emergency-notification system is branded [URI Alert](https://web.uri.edu/emergency/alert/) and runs on Rave; the login portal lives at getrave.com/login/uri. Notably, the 'RhodyAlert' name sometimes attributed to URI could not be corroborated in this research — URI's own pages consistently use 'URI Alert' (also styled 'URI ALERT'), so that is the brand used here.\n\nURI describes the system on its [Emergency Management page](https://web.uri.edu/emergency/alert/): URI Alert 'allows news and instructions to be sent quickly to all members of the University community in the event of an emergency,' using Rave so that 'the University is able to deliver emergency notices simultaneously via voicemail, text-messaging and email to the entire student, faculty and staff population within minutes.' Unlike some peers, URI does use the voice/voicemail channel. The [Communication Procedures overview](https://web.uri.edu/emergency/com/) frames the broader system as available 'a day, 7 days a week' and situates URI Alert alongside website pages, campus voicemail, weather/closure hotlines (874-1000 and 874-SNOW), and the outdoor blue-light emergency-phone network.\n\nURI has built an outdoor public-address capability into that blue-light network: per its [Alert FAQs](https://web.uri.edu/emergency/faq/), 'The University has installed audio broadcasting capability and flashing red lights to the \"blue light\" emergency phone system on the Kingston Campus. The flashing lights would be activated and a brief message would be broadcast in the event of an immediate threat,' across 68 stanchions on the Kingston campus plus stations at the Narragansett Bay and W. Alton Jones campuses. In December 2025 URI added desktop alerting on University-issued machines, and in February 2026 it deployed [Alertus](https://www.uri.edu/news/2026/02/alertus-notification-system-enhances-uris-ability-to-communicate-during-emergencies/) — becoming, per the university, the first college or university in Rhode Island to use it — so a single message now reaches desktops, digital signage, and individuals' text, phone, and email simultaneously. Alertus augments rather than replaces the Rave-based URI Alert.\n\nDecision authority sits with the URI Department of Public Safety, whose Office of Emergency Management 'is responsible for emergency planning, response, mitigation, and recovery on all URI campuses,' but the exact role authorized to trigger a notification could not be confirmed verbatim because the URI Clery report PDF and .edu pages returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching. For the same reason, URI's own verbatim wording for the Clery activation threshold and the precise testing cadence could not be pulled from its own documents — only the federal Clery standard (immediate notification upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety) and evidence of periodic system tests (documented Emergency Alert System tests on February 23, 2022 and April 30, 2024) are corroborated. Those elements are therefore marked unconfirmed and the overall record carries medium confidence; the system name, vendor, channels, and the system-description and blue-light excerpts are confirmed across multiple official retrievals.","whenCriteria":"URI Alert delivers time-sensitive emergency notifications to the entire University community within minutes of an emergency. URI follows the federal Clery standard of notifying the community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety; the outdoor blue-light audio/flashing-light broadcast is specifically reserved for 'the event of an immediate threat.' URI's own verbatim activation-threshold wording could not be confirmed (Clery PDF and .edu pages blocked automated fetching).","decisionAuthority":"The URI Department of Public Safety, through its Office of Emergency Management, 'is responsible for emergency planning, response, mitigation, and recovery on all URI campuses.' The specific position authorized to issue/activate a URI Alert was not confirmed verbatim (the Clery report PDF and .edu pages returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching).","timingStandard":"URI states emergency notices are delivered to the entire community 'within minutes' of an emergency. URI follows the Clery 'immediately, upon confirmation' standard, but URI's own verbatim timing wording from its ASR could not be confirmed (PDF blocked automated fetching).","cleryFraming":"URI's Annual Security, Crime Statistics, and Fire Safety Report (the Clery Report) covers institutional policies including timely warnings and emergency notifications. URI's own verbatim definition distinguishing 'timely warning' from 'emergency notification,' and any URI-specific crime-alert label, could not be retrieved (the Clery PDF returned HTTP 403); only the standard Clery split is corroborated.","testingCadence":"URI sends a test message to confirm registration when a user registers a phone, and updates contact records each semester. Emergency Alert System tests are documented (e.g., February 23, 2022 and April 30, 2024); the Clery Act requires procedures to be publicized and tested annually. URI's own exact testing-frequency wording could not be confirmed verbatim (FAQ/Clery PDF blocked automated fetching).","scopeLimits":"URI Alert reaches the entire student, faculty, and staff population by voicemail, text, and email; full reach depends on current contact information registered in Rave. Alertus (added February 2026) augments URI Alert by reaching University-issued desktops and digital signage, and the blue-light outdoor PA broadcast is reserved for immediate threats on the Kingston, Narragansett Bay, and W. Alton Jones campuses.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","pa-system","desktop-popup","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"System name, vendor, and delivery channels","quotedText":"The University of Rhode Island uses an emergency notification system, URI Alert, that allows news and instructions to be sent quickly to all members of the University community in the event of an emergency. URI Alert uses services offered by RAVE... the University is able to deliver emergency notices simultaneously via voicemail, text-messaging and email to the entire student, faculty and staff population within minutes.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://web.uri.edu/emergency/alert/","sourceDescription":"URI Emergency Management — Emergency Notification System page","annotations":["Confirms the brand 'URI Alert,' the Rave vendor, and the voicemail/text/email channel set with a 'within minutes' delivery goal. Identical wording recurred across 3+ official-page retrievals."],"characterCount":424},{"label":"24/7 availability of emergency notices","quotedText":"An emergency notice can be disseminated 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://web.uri.edu/emergency/com/","sourceDescription":"URI Emergency Management — Overview of Communication Procedures","annotations":["Confirms continuous availability of the notification system; appears on the Communication Procedures page alongside the URI Alert, hotline, and blue-light listing."],"characterCount":68},{"label":"Blue-light outdoor PA broadcast for immediate threat","quotedText":"The University has installed audio broadcasting capability and flashing red lights to the \"blue light\" emergency phone system on the Kingston Campus. The flashing lights would be activated and a brief message would be broadcast in the event of an immediate threat.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://web.uri.edu/emergency/faq/","sourceDescription":"URI Emergency Management — Alert FAQs","annotations":["Documents URI's outdoor public-address layer (audio + flashing lights on the blue-light stanchions) reserved for immediate threats. Consistent across two independent retrievals."],"characterCount":264},{"label":"Alertus augmentation (Feb 2026)","quotedText":"Alertus, an emergency mass notification system, will augment the existing URI Alert system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uri.edu/news/2026/02/alertus-notification-system-enhances-uris-ability-to-communicate-during-emergencies/","sourceDescription":"URI Rhody Today — Alertus notification system news release (Feb 2026)","annotations":["Confirms Alertus augments (does not replace) URI Alert; a companion line states messages go out over URI Alert to University-issued desktop computers, digital signage, and individuals' text, phone, and email. Corroborated by two media outlets."],"characterCount":91},{"label":"Clery activation/timing standard (federal, not URI-verbatim)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://web.uri.edu/police/cleryreport/","sourceDescription":"Clery Act statutory standard (34 CFR 668.46) as applied to URI's ASR — URI Police Clery Report landing page","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["URI's emergency-notification system is branded URI Alert (not 'RhodyAlert,' which could not be corroborated) and runs on Rave; the login portal is getrave.com/login/uri.","URI is a verified R1 university, having moved up from R2 in the February 2025 Carnegie Classification.","URI Alert delivers emergency notices simultaneously by voicemail, text, and email to the entire community within minutes, available 24/7 — URI does use the voice/voicemail channel.","URI built outdoor public-address capability (audio + flashing lights) into its blue-light emergency-phone network for immediate threats, and in February 2026 added Alertus for desktop and digital-signage alerting (augmenting, not replacing, URI Alert).","Decision authority rests with the URI Department of Public Safety / Office of Emergency Management, but the exact issuing role, URI's verbatim Clery activation wording, and its precise testing cadence could not be confirmed (Clery PDF and .edu pages blocked automated fetching), so those carry isVerbatimConfirmed:false and the record is rated medium confidence."],"sources":[{"title":"URI Emergency Management — Emergency Notification System (URI Alert)","url":"https://web.uri.edu/emergency/alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"URI Emergency Management — Overview of Communication Procedures","url":"https://web.uri.edu/emergency/com/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"URI Emergency Management — Alert FAQs","url":"https://web.uri.edu/emergency/faq/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"URI Department of Public Safety","url":"https://web.uri.edu/publicsafety/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"URI Police Department — Clery Act / Annual Security Report","url":"https://web.uri.edu/police/cleryreport/","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"URI Rhody Today — Alertus notification system enhances URI's ability to communicate during emergencies (Feb 2026)","url":"https://www.uri.edu/news/2026/02/alertus-notification-system-enhances-uris-ability-to-communicate-during-emergencies/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"URI Rhody Today — University of Rhode Island achieves prestigious Carnegie R1 status (Feb 2025)","url":"https://www.uri.edu/news/2025/02/university-of-rhode-island-achieves-prestigious-carnegie-r1-status-ascends-to-top-tier-of-u-s-research-universities/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"URI Rhody Today — Upgrading URI's emergency notification system (Dec 2025 desktop alerts)","url":"https://www.uri.edu/news/2025/12/upgrading-uris-emergency-notification-system/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","public-r1","rhode-island","uri-alert","rave","alertus"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-rochester-alertur-policy","slug":"university-of-rochester-alertur-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Rochester","shortName":"URochester","state":"NY","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"AlertUR"},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Information - AlertUR Emergency Notifications","systemName":"AlertUR","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://rochester.edu/emergency/"},"summary":"The University of Rochester's [emergency information page](https://rochester.edu/emergency/) describes AlertUR as the emergency notification system that allows mass dissemination of critical information via voice, text, and email to undergraduate students during a major emergency. Text messages are delivered more quickly than voice messages.","analysis":"Rochester (New York private-r1, five filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [emergency information page](https://rochester.edu/emergency/) (HTTP 200). The University's emergency notification system allows for the mass dissemination of critical information via voice, text, and email to undergraduate students during a major emergency. Text messages are delivered more quickly than voice messages. A following sentence about editing contact information in AlertUR contains an NBSP before the link and is not quoted. The 2025 ASR PDF URL returned HTML rather than a PDF in this pass, so ASR sentences are not quoted. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live HTML.","whenCriteria":"Mass dissemination of critical information to undergraduate students during a major emergency.","decisionAuthority":"Not named on the quoted list items.","timingStandard":"Text messages are delivered more quickly than voice messages. No minutes-based SLA is quoted.","cleryFraming":"This file is the consumer AlertUR overview. How Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications are issued is named in the 2025 ASR, which was not opened as a PDF here.","scopeLimits":"The quoted sentence names undergraduate students for mass dissemination. Staff and faculty can edit AlertUR contacts; that sentence is not quoted because of an NBSP.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Mass dissemination during a major emergency","quotedText":"The University’s emergency notification system allows for the mass dissemination of critical information via voice, text, and email to undergraduate students during a major emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://rochester.edu/emergency/","sourceDescription":"University of Rochester Emergency Information page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["U+2019 in University's is live."],"characterCount":183},{"label":"Text faster than voice","quotedText":"Text messages are delivered more quickly than voice messages.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://rochester.edu/emergency/","sourceDescription":"University of Rochester Emergency Information page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Delivery-speed note."],"characterCount":61}],"keyFindings":["AlertUR mass-disseminates voice, text, and email to undergraduates during a major emergency.","Text is faster than voice. The 2025 ASR PDF was not retrieved as a PDF in this pass."],"sources":[{"title":"University of Rochester Emergency Information","url":"https://rochester.edu/emergency/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","system-overview","emergency-notification","new-york","private-r1"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-san-diego-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-san-diego-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of San Diego","shortName":"USD","state":"CA","type":"private-r2","alertSystemName":"USD Emergency Notification"},"policy":{"title":"Policy 2.4.3: Policy on Timely Warnings, Emergency Notifications, and Other Alerts","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.sandiego.edu/safety/documents/Policy-2.4.3.pdf","policyNumber":"2.4.3","lastReviewed":"2026-09-20"},"summary":"The University of San Diego, a private Catholic university in San Diego, California, governs its Clery Act communications through a formally numbered institutional policy -- [Policy 2.4.3: Policy on Timely Warnings, Emergency Notifications, and Other Alerts](https://www.sandiego.edu/safety/documents/Policy-2.4.3.pdf) -- distinct from the general-purpose Emergency Notification page on the university's [Emergency Preparedness site](https://www.sandiego.edu/emergency/emergency-notification.php).","analysis":"The University of San Diego (USD) is a private Catholic university in San Diego, California (not to be confused with the public University of California, San Diego, a wholly separate institution). USD's campus-safety governance is distinctive within this archive for treating its Clery communications requirement as a formally numbered institutional policy rather than only an informational web page: [Policy 2.4.3, 'Policy on Timely Warnings, Emergency Notifications, and Other Alerts,'](https://www.sandiego.edu/safety/documents/Policy-2.4.3.pdf) is published as a standalone PDF within the university's broader policy manual numbering system, alongside the more general [Emergency Notification page](https://www.sandiego.edu/emergency/emergency-notification.php) maintained by USD's Emergency Preparedness office.\n\nThe policy's title itself signals a three-part structure -- Timely Warnings, Emergency Notifications, and 'Other Alerts' -- suggesting USD, like several private institutions in this archive (Seton Hall's PirateAlert advisories, the University of Dayton's Flyer Aware Messages), documents a category of campus communication that sits outside the two Clery-mandated alert types. Formally numbering a safety policy within an institution's broader administrative policy manual (rather than publishing it only as freestanding safety-office web content) is itself a governance signal: it typically means the policy went through the university's standard policy-adoption and periodic-review process rather than being maintained solely at the discretion of the public-safety department.\n\nThis sandbox's network egress could not directly fetch sandiego.edu to confirm the exact wording of Policy 2.4.3's substantive provisions (activation criteria, decision authority, or channel details); the summary above is built from search-engine reproduction confirming the policy's existence, number, and title, corroborated across independent queries. Per this archive's standing policy, that limitation is not treated as grounds to omit or demote the entry -- it is documented honestly as reconstructed pending direct verification.","whenCriteria":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed; the policy's title indicates it separately governs Timely Warnings, Emergency Notifications, and a third 'Other Alerts' category, but the specific activation-criteria text for each was not retrievable from this sandbox.","decisionAuthority":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"Policy 2.4.3's title explicitly separates 'Timely Warnings' and 'Emergency Notifications' -- the two Clery-mandated categories -- from a third 'Other Alerts' category outside the statute's scope; the policy's specific verbatim definitions were not retrievable from this sandbox.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Policy 2.4.3 is formally numbered within USD's institutional policy manual (distinguishing it from a discretionary safety-office web page); its specific geographic and channel scope was not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","channels":["website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Policy title and numbering (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine reproduction of the document title and URL for the University of San Diego's Policy 2.4.3 PDF; sandiego.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm the full document's exact internal wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["The University of San Diego (private, distinct from public UC San Diego) governs Clery communications through a formally numbered institutional policy, 2.4.3, rather than only informal safety-office web content.","Policy 2.4.3's title names three categories -- Timely Warnings, Emergency Notifications, and 'Other Alerts' -- suggesting a documented non-Clery advisory tier similar to peer private institutions in this archive.","sandiego.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox, so the excerpt is marked reconstructed and limited to the confirmed title/number; per archive policy this is not treated as demotion evidence."],"sources":[{"title":"Policy 2.4.3: Policy on Timely Warnings, Emergency Notifications, and Other Alerts - University of San Diego","url":"https://www.sandiego.edu/safety/documents/Policy-2.4.3.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Notification - Emergency Preparedness - University of San Diego","url":"https://www.sandiego.edu/emergency/emergency-notification.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University of San Diego - Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_San_Diego","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","private-r2","california","numbered-policy"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-20","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-south-carolina-carolina-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-south-carolina-carolina-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of South Carolina","shortName":"USC","state":"SC","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"Carolina Alert","enrollment":40266},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification System Policy","systemName":"Carolina Alert","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://www.sc.edu/policies/documents/em100.pdf","policyNumber":"EM 1.00","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"The University of South Carolina governs its [Carolina Alert](https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/law_enforcement_and_safety/carolina-alert/) emergency notification system through a formal standalone policy, [EM 1.00, the Emergency Notification System Policy](https://www.sc.edu/policies/documents/em100.pdf), which directs authorized personnel to activate notifications 'without delay' once a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat is confirmed, while reserving text alerts strictly for situations posing an immediate risk to life and safety.","analysis":"Unlike many institutions that publish only a criteria web page, USC governs Carolina Alert through a numbered, documented policy — [EM 1.00, the Emergency Notification System Policy](https://www.sc.edu/policies/documents/em100.pdf) — that codifies who decides and how fast. The policy makes activation the responsibility of named authorized persons: per the policy text, it is the responsibility of authorized persons to confirm an emergency, determine the appropriate segment(s) of the campus community to receive a notification, determine the content of the message, and initiate the selected communication media within the Carolina Alert emergency notification system. The same passage carries the Clery 'without delay' timing standard and the standard safety carve-out: these personnel will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, activate the notification system, unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to or otherwise mitigate the emergency.\n\nUSC draws a sharp line around when the system's most intrusive channel fires. Per the [Carolina Alert page](https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/law_enforcement_and_safety/carolina-alert/), text messages are only sent in the event of a true emergency; more specifically, text messages will only be used if a situation exists that poses an immediate risk to life and safety and requires persons to change their behavior, such as to seek shelter or evacuate. The Carolina Alert system notifies individuals via text message or email in the case of violence, natural disasters, medical emergencies, or other threats that happen on or around campus.\n\nThe policy is deliberately flexible on channels: not all media will be used for every notification, because every incident is unique and different communication media will be activated based on their reach, effectiveness, and location. The framework explicitly addresses Clery's timely-warning provision and confirms FERPA does not preclude the University's compliance with it, situating Carolina Alert within the federal emergency-notification-versus-timely-warning structure. Because the official .edu and policy-PDF hosts return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were captured from the official USC policy and Carolina Alert page text as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries; remaining detail is paraphrased.","whenCriteria":"Carolina Alert is activated upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty, staff, or visitors on campus. The system notifies via text message or email in cases of violence, natural disasters, medical emergencies, or other threats on or around campus. Text messages are reserved for situations posing an immediate risk to life and safety that require persons to change their behavior (seek shelter, evacuate, etc.).","decisionAuthority":"Authorized persons are responsible for confirming an emergency, determining the appropriate segment(s) of the campus community to notify, determining message content, and initiating the selected communication media within the Carolina Alert system.","timingStandard":"Authorized persons will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, activate the notification system, unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","cleryFraming":"Governed by a formal Clery-aligned standalone policy (EM 1.00); addresses the timely-warning provision and states that FERPA does not preclude the University's compliance with it, situating Carolina Alert within the federal emergency-notification-vs-timely-warning structure.","testingCadence":"Carolina Alert is periodically tested to verify reach and contact-information accuracy; the community is urged to register and keep contact details current. (Specific cadence not stated verbatim in the reproduced source text.)","scopeLimits":"Not all media are used for every notification; different communication media are activated based on reach, effectiveness, and location of the incident. Text alerts are limited to immediate risks to life and safety requiring a behavior change. Notifications may be suppressed where issuance would compromise victim assistance or emergency mitigation.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","twitter-x","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Authority and content-determination duties","quotedText":"It is the responsibility of authorized persons to confirm an emergency, determine the appropriate segment(s) of the campus community to receive a notification, determine the content of the message, and initiate the selected communication media within the Carolina Alert emergency notification system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sc.edu/policies/documents/em100.pdf","sourceDescription":"USC Policy EM 1.00 — Emergency Notification System Policy","annotations":["Vests confirmation, audience scoping, content, and activation in designated 'authorized persons' rather than a single named officer."],"characterCount":300},{"label":"'Without delay' timing standard and carve-out","quotedText":"These personnel will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, activate the notification system, unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sc.edu/policies/documents/em100.pdf","sourceDescription":"USC Policy EM 1.00 — Emergency Notification System Policy","annotations":["Codifies the Clery 'without delay' standard alongside the standard exception that allows suppression when notice would compromise victim assistance or emergency mitigation."],"characterCount":316},{"label":"Text-message threshold","quotedText":"Text messages are only sent in the event of a true emergency. More specifically, text messages will only be used if a situation exists that poses an immediate risk to life and safety and requires persons to change their behavior (i.e. seek shelter, evacuate, etc.).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/law_enforcement_and_safety/carolina-alert/","sourceDescription":"USC Law Enforcement and Safety — Carolina Alert","annotations":["Limits the SMS channel to immediate life-safety situations requiring behavior change, distinguishing it from lower-urgency advisories sent by other media."],"characterCount":265},{"label":"Channel selection by incident","quotedText":"Not all media will be used for every notification. Every incident is unique; therefore different communication media will be activated based on their reach, effectiveness and location.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sc.edu/policies/documents/em100.pdf","sourceDescription":"USC Policy EM 1.00 — Emergency Notification System Policy","annotations":["Establishes that channel selection is incident-specific, weighing reach, effectiveness, and location rather than firing every channel by default."],"characterCount":184}],"keyFindings":["USC governs Carolina Alert through a formal numbered standalone policy (EM 1.00, Emergency Notification System Policy), not just a criteria web page.","Authorized persons confirm the emergency, scope the audience, set the message content, and initiate the chosen media within Carolina Alert.","The policy carries the Clery 'without delay' timing standard, with the standard carve-out when notice would compromise victim assistance or emergency mitigation.","Text messages are reserved for situations posing an immediate risk to life and safety that require a behavior change (seek shelter, evacuate); email and other media cover broader cases.","Channels are selected per incident based on reach, effectiveness, and location, and the policy notes FERPA does not preclude compliance with the Clery timely-warning provision."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notification System Policy (EM 1.00)","url":"https://www.sc.edu/policies/documents/em100.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Carolina Alert - Law Enforcement and Safety | University of South Carolina","url":"https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/law_enforcement_and_safety/carolina-alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Carolina Alerts Archive - Law Enforcement and Safety | University of South Carolina","url":"https://www.sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/law_enforcement_and_safety/carolina-alert/alerts-archive/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Register for Carolina Alert - USC News & Events","url":"https://sc.edu/uofsc/announcements/posts/2023/09/register_for_carolina_alert.php","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","carolina-alert","standalone-policy","public-r1","south-carolina"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-south-dakota-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-south-dakota-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of South Dakota","shortName":"USD","state":"SD","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"USD Campus Alert System","enrollment":10619},"policy":{"title":"University of South Dakota Emergency Operations Plan","systemName":"USD Campus Alert System","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://public.powerdms.com/USD/documents/2389804","effectiveDate":"2025-07-01"},"summary":"The [University of South Dakota](https://www.usd.edu/administration/university-police/campus-alert-system), the state's flagship and only [Carnegie R2 research university](https://carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/institution/university-of-south-dakota/), publishes a July 2025 [Emergency Operations Plan](https://public.powerdms.com/USD/documents/2389804) built on Incident Command System structure, vesting the President with authority to declare a Campus State of Emergency and pairing the plan with the Everbridge-powered USD Campus Alert System.","analysis":"The University of South Dakota (USD), based in Vermillion, is South Dakota's oldest public university and the only institution in the state carrying [Carnegie R2 (high research activity)](https://carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/institution/university-of-south-dakota/) classification, enrolling roughly 10,600 students and encompassing the state's only public law school and medical school. Its emergency framework is documented in an [Emergency Operations Plan (EOP)](https://public.powerdms.com/USD/documents/2389804) dated July 2025, hosted through the PowerDMS policy platform used across the South Dakota Board of Regents system, and structured around Incident Command System (ICS) roles, an Emergency Operations Center (EOC), and a formal After-Action Report process following activations.\n\nDecision authority is anchored at the top of the institution. The plan describes the University president or their designee as holding the authority to declare a Campus State of Emergency when circumstances require changes to normal operations, and any substantive amendment to the plan itself requires the USD President's approval. Day-to-day incident management runs through an Incident Commander/Unified Command structure and an EOC Director, who determine when response operations can be demobilized, with a Planning Section, if activated, developing a written or verbal demobilization plan as early in an incident as possible.\n\nMass notification is delivered through the [USD Campus Alert system](https://www.usd.edu/administration/university-police/campus-alert-system), which the university describes as the emergency notification tool for the public universities governed by the South Dakota Board of Regents, built on the Everbridge platform to notify students, staff, and faculty of emergencies occurring on or near campus. As a Title IV, Clery-covered institution, USD is bound by the standard federal split between timely warnings for continuing threats and emergency notifications upon confirmation of an imminent danger, although this review could not independently confirm USD's exact Annual Security Report notification-criteria wording.\n\nA sourcing caveat: both usd.edu and the PowerDMS-hosted EOP document return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this review's environment, so the passages above are reconstructed from search-engine-indexed excerpts of the plan and its supporting pages rather than a directly retrieved copy of the document. No excerpt below is confirmed word-for-word against the source, so this record carries medium confidence.","whenCriteria":"The EOP is activated when circumstances require changes to normal university operations, structured around Incident Command System roles and an Emergency Operations Center rather than a narrow list of enumerated trigger events.","decisionAuthority":"The University president or their designee holds authority to declare a Campus State of Emergency; substantive amendments to the plan itself require the USD President's approval. Incident-level management runs through an Incident Commander/Unified Command and an EOC Director.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed. As a Clery-covered institution, USD is bound by the federal standard of emergency notifications issued without delay upon confirmation and timely warnings as soon as pertinent information is available.","cleryFraming":"Standard federal two-track distinction applies (timely warning vs. emergency notification). USD's specific Annual Security Report notification-criteria language was not independently retrievable and is reconstructed from the federal standard.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed. The EOP requires a formal After-Action Report following activations to evaluate response performance and identify improvements, functioning as USD's documented post-incident review mechanism rather than a scheduled drill cadence.","scopeLimits":"The USD Campus Alert system is shared infrastructure across the South Dakota Board of Regents' public universities, built on the Everbridge platform. The exact channel mix and opt-in/opt-out mechanics for students, faculty, and staff were not independently confirmed beyond the system's general description.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Presidential authority to declare a Campus State of Emergency","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://public.powerdms.com/USD/documents/2389804","sourceDescription":"University of South Dakota Emergency Operations Plan, July 2025 (captured via search-engine-indexed excerpt; PowerDMS host 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"After-Action Report requirement","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://public.powerdms.com/USD/documents/2389804","sourceDescription":"University of South Dakota Emergency Operations Plan, July 2025 (captured via search-engine-indexed excerpt)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"USD Campus Alert system description","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.usd.edu/administration/university-police/campus-alert-system","sourceDescription":"USD Campus Alert System page (captured via search-engine-indexed excerpt)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["USD's EOP (July 2025) structures response around Incident Command System roles, an Emergency Operations Center, and a mandatory After-Action Report following activations.","The University president or a designee holds authority to declare a Campus State of Emergency; plan amendments require presidential approval.","The USD Campus Alert system is shared, Everbridge-powered infrastructure spanning the South Dakota Board of Regents' public universities rather than USD-specific software.","USD is South Dakota's only Carnegie R2 research university and hosts the state's only public law and medical schools, factors reflected in the EOP's cross-disciplinary Incident Command structure.","Both usd.edu and the PowerDMS-hosted EOP document 403-block automated fetching in this review's environment, so all quoted language is reconstructed from search-indexed excerpts rather than a directly retrieved document; confidence is medium, not high."],"sources":[{"title":"University of South Dakota Emergency Operations Plan, July 2025 (PowerDMS)","url":"https://public.powerdms.com/USD/documents/2389804","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"USD Campus Alert System","url":"https://www.usd.edu/administration/university-police/campus-alert-system","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University of South Dakota, Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education","url":"https://carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/institution/university-of-south-dakota/","type":"other"},{"title":"USD Emergency Preparedness","url":"https://www.usd.edu/Student-Life/Security-and-Safety/Emergency-Preparedness","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-operations-plan","south-dakota","public-r2","board-of-regents","everbridge","incident-command-system","emergency-notification","timely-warning"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-south-florida-alertusf-policy","slug":"university-of-south-florida-alertusf-policy","institution":{"name":"University of South Florida","shortName":"USF","state":"FL","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"AlertUSF","enrollment":49622},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification System (AlertUSF)","systemName":"AlertUSF","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.usf.edu/administrative-services/emergency-management/programs/emergency-notification-system.aspx","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"The University of South Florida operates [AlertUSF](https://www.usf.edu/administrative-services/emergency-management/programs/emergency-notification-system.aspx), a comprehensive Emergency Notification System (ENS) for issuing immediate notification during emergencies through redundant, regularly tested layers — text messages, desktop alerts, digital display boards, and alert beacons — distinct from the university's Clery Timely Warnings (Campus Safety Alerts) handled by [University Police](https://www.usf.edu/administrative-services/university-police/your-safety/index.aspx).","analysis":"USF describes [AlertUSF](https://www.usf.edu/administrative-services/emergency-management/programs/emergency-notification-system.aspx) as a comprehensive Emergency Notification System (ENS) maintained for the purpose of issuing immediate notification to keep the USF community informed and safe during an emergency situation. The system is built around redundancy: many components provide redundant layers of notification to ensure the widest possible distribution of the message, and those components are regularly tested to ensure proper functionality. Reported components include AlertUSF text messages (the primary channel through which all official USF emergency notifications are sent), desktop alerts on USF IT-maintained computers, integrated digital display boards on the Tampa campus, and alert beacons in designated rooms that provide tone, strobe, and text.\n\nThe activation logic follows the Clery confirmation sequence. [Upon the report of a dangerous or emergency situation](https://www.usf.edu/public-safety/emergency-management/programs/emergency-notification-system.aspx), campus officials confirm the existence of the threat — situations that may include law enforcement issues, hazardous material release, and hazardous weather affecting a USF campus. As soon as USF officials have confirmed that a significant emergency or dangerous situation exists, they take into account the safety of the campus community, determine what information to release, and begin the notification process. This phrasing tracks the federal requirement to notify the campus community 'without delay' upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety.\n\nUSF keeps its Clery obligations conceptually separate: AlertUSF carries Emergency Notifications, while [Timely Warnings (Campus Safety Alerts)](https://www.usf.edu/administrative-services/university-police/your-safety/index.aspx) are issued by University Police for Clery-category crimes that pose an ongoing threat to students and employees. AlertUSF is a multi-campus deployment (Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Sarasota-Manatee each have their own AlertUSF view) operated through USF Emergency Management together with the USF Police Department.\n\nReporting note on sourcing and scope: in this environment the official usf.edu pages return HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so the verbatim excerpts below were captured from official USF Emergency Management page text as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries. Care was taken to avoid the University of San Francisco (usfca.edu / 'myUSF'), a distinct institution whose 'Campus Safety Alerts' language ('Senior Director/Chief of Public Safety or his designee') is NOT used here. AlertUSF testing is reported on a per-semester cadence (once per semester during daytime hours) per USF St. Petersburg documentation, but the named alert platform/vendor for AlertUSF is not stated in the sources reviewed and is therefore omitted rather than guessed.","whenCriteria":"Upon the report of a dangerous or emergency situation (including law enforcement issues, hazardous material release, and hazardous weather affecting a USF campus), campus officials confirm the threat; as soon as a significant emergency or dangerous situation is confirmed, USF begins the notification process. Timely Warnings (Campus Safety Alerts) are issued for Clery crimes that pose an ongoing threat.","decisionAuthority":"Campus officials confirm the existence of the threat and begin the notification process; AlertUSF is operated by USF Emergency Management with the USF Police Department. Clery Timely Warnings (Campus Safety Alerts) are issued by University Police.","timingStandard":"Issues 'immediate notification' once a significant emergency or dangerous situation is confirmed — the Clery 'without delay' standard for Emergency Notifications.","cleryFraming":"AlertUSF is the Emergency Notification System (immediate notification of confirmed emergencies); Timely Warnings/Campus Safety Alerts are handled separately by University Police for ongoing-threat Clery crimes.","testingCadence":"AlertUSF components are regularly tested to ensure proper functionality; reported as tested once per semester during daytime hours (per USF St. Petersburg documentation).","scopeLimits":"AlertUSF carries Emergency Notifications, not routine messaging; it is a multi-campus deployment (Tampa, St. Petersburg, Sarasota-Manatee). Timely Warnings are limited to Clery-category crimes posing an ongoing threat.","channels":["sms","email","desktop-popup","digital-signage","siren","website","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"AlertUSF system definition","quotedText":"The University of South Florida maintains a comprehensive Emergency Notification System (ENS), called AlertUSF, for the purpose of issuing immediate notification to keep the USF community informed and safe during an emergency situation.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.usf.edu/administrative-services/emergency-management/programs/emergency-notification-system.aspx","sourceDescription":"USF Emergency Management — AlertUSF (Emergency Notification System)","annotations":["Defines AlertUSF explicitly as the institution's Emergency Notification System, tying its purpose to 'immediate notification' during emergencies."],"characterCount":236},{"label":"Redundancy and testing","quotedText":"There are many components of the system that provide redundant layers of notification to ensure the widest possible distribution of the message, and these system components are regularly tested to ensure proper functionality.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.usf.edu/administrative-services/emergency-management/programs/emergency-notification-system.aspx","sourceDescription":"USF Emergency Management — AlertUSF (Emergency Notification System)","annotations":["Codifies a defense-in-depth design philosophy: multiple redundant channels plus a standing commitment to regular testing for reliability."],"characterCount":225},{"label":"Confirmation-then-notify sequence","quotedText":"Upon the report of a dangerous or emergency situation, campus officials will confirm the existence of the threat.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.usf.edu/public-safety/emergency-management/programs/emergency-notification-system.aspx","sourceDescription":"USF Emergency Management — AlertUSF activation process","annotations":["Establishes confirmation as the gating step before notification — the Clery 'confirm then notify without delay' sequence."],"characterCount":113},{"label":"Decision steps after confirmation","quotedText":"As soon as USF officials have confirmed that a significant emergency or dangerous situation exists, USF officials will take into account the safety of the campus community; determine what information to release about the situation; and begin the notification process.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.usf.edu/public-safety/emergency-management/programs/emergency-notification-system.aspx","sourceDescription":"USF Emergency Management — AlertUSF activation process","annotations":["Lays out the three-step post-confirmation workflow — assess community safety, decide content, then notify — and uses the Clery 'significant emergency or dangerous situation' phrasing."],"characterCount":267}],"keyFindings":["AlertUSF is USF's comprehensive Emergency Notification System (ENS), built for 'immediate notification' during confirmed emergencies.","The design emphasizes redundancy — many overlapping channels for widest distribution — with components that are regularly tested.","Reported channels include AlertUSF text (the primary channel for all official emergency notifications), desktop alerts, Tampa-campus digital display boards, and tone/strobe/text alert beacons.","Activation follows a confirm-then-notify sequence: officials confirm the threat, weigh community safety, decide content, and begin notification.","AlertUSF is a multi-campus deployment (Tampa, St. Petersburg, Sarasota-Manatee); Timely Warnings (Campus Safety Alerts) are handled separately by University Police for ongoing-threat Clery crimes."],"sources":[{"title":"AlertUSF — USF Emergency Management (Emergency Notification System)","url":"https://www.usf.edu/administrative-services/emergency-management/programs/emergency-notification-system.aspx","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"AlertUSF — USF Emergency Management (Public Safety)","url":"https://www.usf.edu/public-safety/emergency-management/programs/emergency-notification-system.aspx","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"USFPD — Your Safety, Programs and Services","url":"https://www.usf.edu/administrative-services/university-police/your-safety/index.aspx","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"USF Emergency Management — Emergency portal","url":"https://emergency.usf.edu/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","alertusf","public-r1","florida"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-23","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"usc-trojansalert-policy","slug":"usc-trojansalert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Southern California","shortName":"USC","state":"CA","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"TrojansAlert","enrollment":46566},"policy":{"title":"TrojansAlert Emergency Notification System","systemName":"TrojansAlert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://dps.usc.edu/services/trojans-alerts/"},"summary":"[TrojansAlert](https://dps.usc.edu/services/trojans-alerts/) is the University of Southern California's emergency notification system, run through the [Department of Public Safety](https://dps.usc.edu/), which lets authorized University officials contact the community during an emergency via text message and email; DPS separately issues Clery [timely warnings and crime alerts](https://dps.usc.edu/alerts/) for serious crimes in and around campus.","analysis":"TrojansAlert is USC's emergency notification channel. The [Department of Public Safety](https://dps.usc.edu/services/trojans-alerts/) describes it as \"an emergency notification system that allows university officials to contact you during an emergency by sending messages via text message and email.\" DPS adds that \"When an emergency occurs, authorized USC senders will instantly notify you with real-time updates, instructions on where to go, what to do (or what not to do), whom to contact and other important information\" — emphasizing that activation is limited to pre-authorized senders and that messages are action-oriented.\n\nEnrollment is automatic for the core population and opt-in for everyone else. Current students are automatically enrolled and no action is required; faculty and staff are encouraged to add their cell phone numbers in Workday (and designate them as the USC Emergency/Safety Alerts number) so they receive text alerts, which DPS calls the fastest and most direct way to reach individuals in an emergency. All recipients who are not current students, faculty, or staff — including parents, community members, and alumni — must sign up annually to keep receiving alerts. (In a September 2024 [update to how TrojansAlerts are distributed](https://dps.usc.edu/2024/09/10/reminder-updates-to-how-trojansalerts-will-be-distributed/), DPS reiterated these enrollment mechanics.)\n\nOn Clery framing, USC's [Department of Public Safety](https://dps.usc.edu/alerts/) distinguishes between two notice types tied to geography. The Clery Act requires USC to notify the public of certain crimes occurring within Clery-designated geography; these notices are called timely warnings, issued in response to Clery crimes within a Clery reportable location that represent a serious or continuing threat to the campus community, determined case-by-case by pre-identified USC officials under USC's policy and procedures for issuing a timely warning. Separately, any time a serious crime is reported within USC's patrol boundaries — approximately a two-mile radius around campus — but not within Clery geography, DPS files it as a crime alert. As one of the nation's largest university public-safety agencies with more than 300 full-time members operating 24/7, USC's wide patrol footprint makes this geography-driven warning/alert distinction operationally significant.\n\nEmergency notifications under the Clery Act are issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of USC faculty, staff, employees, students, patients, and visitors occurring on campus; the [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://dps.usc.edu/alerts/annual-report/) is published on or before October 1 each year for the preceding three years. Scope is therefore bounded by the authorized-sender requirement and the Clery serious/continuing-threat and immediate-threat standards, with the timely-warning vs. crime-alert split keyed to whether a crime falls inside Clery geography or merely inside DPS's broader patrol area.","whenCriteria":"TrojansAlert is activated during an emergency by authorized USC senders to deliver real-time updates and instructions. Under Clery, timely warnings are issued for Clery crimes within a Clery reportable location that represent a serious or continuing threat, and emergency notifications upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus involving an immediate threat to health or safety; serious crimes inside DPS's ~2-mile patrol boundary but outside Clery geography are issued as crime alerts.","decisionAuthority":"Authorized USC senders within the Department of Public Safety send TrojansAlert messages; the decision to issue a timely warning is made case-by-case by one or more pre-identified USC officials under USC's Policy and Procedures for Issuing a Timely Warning.","timingStandard":"Authorized senders are described as able to instantly notify the community when an emergency occurs; Clery emergency notifications are issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety on campus.","cleryFraming":"Geography-driven three-part framework: emergency notifications for confirmed significant emergencies/immediate threats on campus; Clery timely warnings for serious/continuing-threat crimes within Clery geography; and crime alerts for serious crimes inside DPS's ~2-mile patrol boundary but outside Clery geography.","testingCadence":"USC tests the TrojansAlert system periodically; the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (published on or before October 1 annually) documents the institution's emergency-notification and testing policies. Exact published cadence was not reproduced in accessible sources.","scopeLimits":"TrojansAlert activation is limited to authorized USC senders. Timely warnings are limited to Clery crimes within Clery geography that pose a serious or continuing threat; crimes outside Clery geography but within DPS's ~2-mile patrol boundary are handled as crime alerts; emergency notifications require a confirmed immediate threat on campus.","channels":["sms","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"TrojansAlert definition and channels","quotedText":"TrojansAlert is an emergency notification system that allows university officials to contact you during an emergency by sending messages via text message and email.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://dps.usc.edu/services/trojans-alerts/","sourceDescription":"TrojansAlert | USC Department of Public Safety","annotations":["Defines the system as a two-channel (text and email) tool operated by university officials."],"characterCount":164},{"label":"Authorized senders and content","quotedText":"When an emergency occurs, authorized USC senders will instantly notify you with real-time updates, instructions on where to go, what to do (or what not to do), whom to contact and other important information.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://dps.usc.edu/services/trojans-alerts/","sourceDescription":"TrojansAlert | USC Department of Public Safety","annotations":["Limits activation to pre-authorized senders and frames messages as action-oriented instructions."],"characterCount":208},{"label":"Clery geography vs. patrol-boundary crime alerts","quotedText":"Any time a serious crime is reported within USC's patrol boundaries (approximately 2-mile radius around campus) but not within Clery geography, DPS files it as a crime alert.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://dps.usc.edu/alerts/","sourceDescription":"Clery & Crime Alerts | USC Department of Public Safety","annotations":["Distinguishes Clery timely warnings (inside Clery geography) from crime alerts (inside the broader ~2-mile patrol boundary)."],"characterCount":174}],"keyFindings":["TrojansAlert is USC's two-channel (text and email) emergency notification system, operated by the Department of Public Safety.","Activation is limited to authorized USC senders, who deliver real-time, action-oriented instructions (where to go, what to do, whom to contact).","Current students are automatically enrolled; faculty/staff add cell numbers in Workday; parents, community members, and alumni must sign up annually.","USC draws a geography-based distinction: timely warnings for serious/continuing-threat crimes inside Clery geography, and crime alerts for serious crimes inside DPS's ~2-mile patrol boundary but outside Clery geography.","Clery emergency notifications are issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation posing an immediate threat to health or safety on campus, documented in the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report."],"sources":[{"title":"TrojansAlert | USC Department of Public Safety","url":"https://dps.usc.edu/services/trojans-alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery & Crime Alerts | USC Department of Public Safety","url":"https://dps.usc.edu/alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual Security Report | USC Department of Public Safety","url":"https://dps.usc.edu/alerts/annual-report/","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Reminder: updates to how TrojansAlerts will be distributed | USC DPS","url":"https://dps.usc.edu/2024/09/10/reminder-updates-to-how-trojansalerts-will-be-distributed/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","trojansalert","crime-alert","california","private-r1"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-23","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-southern-maine-usm-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-southern-maine-usm-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Southern Maine","shortName":"USM","state":"ME","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"USM Alert","alertPlatform":"Blackboard Connect","enrollment":7600},"policy":{"title":"University of Southern Maine 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report: Timely Warnings and Emergency Notification (published September 2025)","systemName":"USM Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://usm.maine.edu/public-safety/wp-content/uploads/sites/388/2025/09/2024-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-1.pdf"},"summary":"The University of Southern Maine issues Clery Timely Warnings at the judgment of the Vice President of Public Safety (or a designee) for crimes within the [USM Clery Geography](https://usm.maine.edu/public-safety/timely-notices/) considered a serious or continuing threat, distributed primarily by email blast plus [USM Alert](https://usm.maine.edu/public-safety/sign-up-for-campus-alert/) text messages, while the broader University of Maine System uses an opt-out [Blackboard Connect](https://www.maine.edu/information-technology/support/update-account-information/update-emergency-alert-preferences/) phone, text, and email platform that automatically enrolls every USM student and employee.","analysis":"The University of Southern Maine is one of the University of Maine System's regional universities, with campuses in Portland and Gorham plus the Lewiston-Auburn College site, and its Clery-facing notification framework has two distinct layers. The narrower layer is the Timely Warning process described in USM's [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://usm.maine.edu/public-safety/wp-content/uploads/sites/388/2025/09/2024-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-1.pdf): the Vice President of Public Safety, or a designee, decides case-by-case whether a reported crime within the USM Clery Geography (On Campus, Public Property, and Non-campus) rises to a serious or continuing threat, in consultation with other campus administrators and responsible authorities when time permits. That decision is not automatic; it is a discretionary judgment call tied to a specific reported incident, consistent with the Clery Act's own timely-warning standard.\n\nThe broader layer is USM Alert, built on the University of Maine System's shared Blackboard Connect platform, which is described in UMS's own IT documentation as an opt-out system: every USM student and employee is automatically enrolled and must affirmatively opt out of the service, or of specific message subscriptions, if they do not want to receive it. That is a meaningfully different default than the opt-in registration model used at many other institutions in this archive, and UMS's guidance explicitly discourages opting out of both the text and email channels at once, an acknowledgment that either channel alone can fail to reach a given recipient. One source also attributes decisions about which segment or segments of the campus community receive a UMS-platform notification, and when to initiate it, to the University Provost, Chief of Police, and Police Captain; this appears to describe systemwide UMS functionality rather than a USM-only chain of command, and it was not independently corroborated by a second source, so it is reported here with that caveat rather than folded into the Timely Warning authority above.\n\nFor day-to-day Timely Warnings specifically, USM states the primary channel is an email blast to all USM-assigned accounts, supplemented as needed by USMALERT text messages or email and by physical building postings from Building Administrators; no numeric timing standard (such as a stated number of minutes from confirmation to notification) or a fixed testing cadence was found in the material reviewed.\n\nThis environment's web sandbox returned HTTP 403 for every usm.maine.edu and maine.edu URL attempted directly, including the ASR PDF itself, consistent with the archive-wide note that official .edu archive hosts are blocked here. The excerpts below were recovered through search-engine summaries of those pages rather than a direct page or PDF load; one summary flagged part of a sentence with editorial brackets, a sign of paraphrase rather than an exact quote, and that portion has been excluded from the corresponding excerpt below. Because none of this was confirmed against a directly loaded source, every excerpt is marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false and confidence is set to medium.","whenCriteria":"USM issues a Timely Warning when a crime is reported, or a situation arises, within the USM Clery Geography (On Campus, Public Property, and Non-campus) that, in the judgment of the Vice President of Public Safety, in consultation with responsible authorities when time permits, constitutes a serious or continuing threat. The decision is made case-by-case in compliance with the Clery Act.","decisionAuthority":"Timely Warnings are decided, and generally written, by the Vice President of USM Public Safety or a designee, in coordination with other campus administrators. For the broader University of Maine System notification platform, one source describes the University Provost, Chief of Police, and Police Captain as determining which segment or segments of the campus community receive a notification and initiating the system; this appears to describe UMS-wide functionality rather than a USM-specific chain of command and was not independently confirmed by a second source.","timingStandard":"No specific minutes-based timing standard (for example, a stated number of minutes from confirmation to notification) was found stated in the pages and report excerpts reviewed. The located language frames timing as consulting other authorities 'when time permits' once a situation is already judged a serious or continuing threat, so speed is implicit in the case-by-case Clery standard rather than spelled out as a numeric service-level target.","cleryFraming":"USM's materials draw the standard Clery distinction: Timely Warnings are scoped to the USM Clery Geography and a specific reported crime, decided by the Vice President of Public Safety. Emergency notifications ride the University of Maine System's separate Blackboard Connect platform, described as covering campus emergencies more broadly, including storm closings and other outreach messaging, rather than only Clery-reportable crimes.","testingCadence":"No testing cadence for USM Alert or Blackboard Connect was found stated in the pages reviewed.","scopeLimits":"USM Alert (Blackboard Connect) is opt-out by default: all students and employees are automatically entered into the system and may opt out of the service or of specific message subscriptions, though USM discourages opting out of both text and email together. Timely Warnings are limited to the USM Clery Geography (On Campus, Public Property, and Non-campus) at the Portland, Gorham, and Lewiston-Auburn locations.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely Warning activation criteria","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://usm.maine.edu/public-safety/wp-content/uploads/sites/388/2025/09/2024-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-1.pdf","sourceDescription":"USM 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, Timely Warning section (recovered via search-engine summary; a direct PDF load returned HTTP 403 in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Timely Warning distribution channels","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://usm.maine.edu/public-safety/wp-content/uploads/sites/388/2025/09/2024-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-1.pdf","sourceDescription":"USM 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, Timely Warning section (recovered via search-engine summary; a direct PDF load returned HTTP 403 in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Decision authority and case-by-case standard","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://usm.maine.edu/public-safety/wp-content/uploads/sites/388/2025/09/2024-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-1.pdf","sourceDescription":"USM 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, Timely Warning section (recovered via search-engine summary; a direct PDF load returned HTTP 403 in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Blackboard Connect opt-out enrollment","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.maine.edu/information-technology/support/update-account-information/update-emergency-alert-preferences/","sourceDescription":"University of Maine System IT, Update Emergency Alert Preferences page (recovered via search-engine summary; a direct page load returned HTTP 403 in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["USM's Timely Warning process is decided case-by-case by the Vice President of Public Safety (or a designee), scoped to the USM Clery Geography (On Campus, Public Property, Non-campus) and a 'serious or continuing threat' standard.","USM Alert rides the University of Maine System's shared Blackboard Connect platform, which is opt-out by default: every student and employee is automatically enrolled and must actively opt out, a meaningfully different default from the opt-in model common elsewhere in this archive.","Primary distribution for Timely Warnings is an email blast to all USM-assigned accounts, supplemented by USMALERT text or email and physical building postings from Building Administrators.","One source attributes broader UMS-platform activation decisions to the University Provost, Chief of Police, and Police Captain, but this reads as systemwide UMS functionality rather than USM-specific and was not independently corroborated.","No numeric timing standard or fixed testing cadence was found stated in the pages reviewed; this environment's web sandbox 403-blocked every usm.maine.edu and maine.edu URL attempted directly, so all excerpts here are reconstructed from search-engine summaries rather than confirmed verbatim."],"sources":[{"title":"2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (Published September 2025) - University of Southern Maine Public Safety","url":"https://usm.maine.edu/public-safety/wp-content/uploads/sites/388/2025/09/2024-Annual-Security-and-Fire-Safety-Report-1.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Timely Notices - Public Safety - University of Southern Maine","url":"https://usm.maine.edu/public-safety/timely-notices/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Sign Up for Campus Alert - University of Southern Maine","url":"https://usm.maine.edu/public-safety/sign-up-for-campus-alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Update Emergency Alert Preferences (Students, Faculty, Staff) - University of Maine System","url":"https://www.maine.edu/information-technology/support/update-account-information/update-emergency-alert-preferences/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","usm-alert","blackboard-connect","public-masters","maine"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"utc-chattanooga-utc-alert-policy","slug":"utc-chattanooga-utc-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Tennessee at Chattanooga","shortName":"UTC","state":"TN","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"UTC-Alert"},"policy":{"title":"2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - Emergency Notifications (UTC-ALERT)","systemName":"UTC-Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.utc.edu/sites/default/files/2025-10/asfsr-2025.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's [2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.utc.edu/sites/default/files/2025-10/asfsr-2025.pdf) immediately notifies the campus community upon confirmation of an emergency or dangerous situation that poses an immediate threat to students or employees on campus, using UTC-ALERT. The [UTC-Alert page](https://www.utc.edu/finance-and-administration/department-of-public-safety/utc-alert) auto-enrolls students upon enrollment. Distinct from Chattanooga State Community College.","analysis":"UTC (Tennessee public-r2, five filed cases, no prior policy file; distinct from Chattanooga State) publishes a live [2025 ASR PDF](https://www.utc.edu/sites/default/files/2025-10/asfsr-2025.pdf) (HTTP 200). UTC will immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation of an emergency or dangerous situation that poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees on campus. An emergency notification will be issued utilizing the UTC-ALERT. Timely warnings go out as UTC-ALERT: Timely Warning for Clery Act crimes in Clery geography that represent an ongoing threat. The live [UTC-Alert page](https://www.utc.edu/finance-and-administration/department-of-public-safety/utc-alert) (HTTP 200) names UTC-Alert as the official emergency notification and incident management system and states that students are automatically enrolled upon enrollment. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF or HTML.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notification upon confirmation of an emergency or dangerous situation posing an immediate threat on campus. Timely warnings for Clery Act crimes in Clery geography that represent an ongoing threat.","decisionAuthority":"Not named in the quoted sentences. The ASR describes a multipath UTC-ALERT system.","timingStandard":"Immediately notify upon confirmation.","cleryFraming":"The ASR keeps Emergency Notifications (UTC-ALERT) distinct from Timely Warnings (UTC-ALERT: Timely Warning).","scopeLimits":"Students are automatically enrolled upon enrollment.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","desktop-popup","digital-signage","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Immediate EN upon confirmation","quotedText":"UTC will immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation of an emergency or dangerous situation that poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees on campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.utc.edu/sites/default/files/2025-10/asfsr-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"UTC 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["EN trigger."],"characterCount":196},{"label":"UTC-ALERT as EN channel","quotedText":"An emergency notification will be issued utilizing the UTC-ALERT.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.utc.edu/sites/default/files/2025-10/asfsr-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"UTC 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Named product."],"characterCount":65},{"label":"Timely Warning product name","quotedText":"UTC will send timely warnings, in the form of a UTC-ALERT: Timely Warning message, of Clery Act crimes occurring in Clery Act geography and reported to a Campus Security Authority or local law enforcement that represent an ongoing threat to students and employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.utc.edu/sites/default/files/2025-10/asfsr-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"UTC 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["UTC-ALERT: Timely Warning is the live product name."],"characterCount":264},{"label":"Student auto-enrollment","quotedText":"Students are automatically enrolled in the UTC-Alert system upon enrollment at the University.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.utc.edu/finance-and-administration/department-of-public-safety/utc-alert","sourceDescription":"UTC-Alert System page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Auto-enrollment."],"characterCount":94}],"keyFindings":["UTC-ALERT issues emergency notifications immediately upon confirmation of an on-campus immediate threat.","Timely warnings are branded UTC-ALERT: Timely Warning.","Students are auto-enrolled. Distinct from Chattanooga State Community College."],"sources":[{"title":"University of Tennessee at Chattanooga 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.utc.edu/sites/default/files/2025-10/asfsr-2025.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"UTC-Alert System","url":"https://www.utc.edu/finance-and-administration/department-of-public-safety/utc-alert","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","tennessee","public-r2"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-tennessee-knoxville-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-tennessee-knoxville-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Tennessee, Knoxville","shortName":"UTK","state":"TN","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"UT Alert","enrollment":40421},"policy":{"title":"UT Alert Emergency Notification System","systemName":"UT Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://safety.utk.edu/ut-alert/","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"[UT Alert](https://safety.utk.edu/ut-alert/) is the University of Tennessee, Knoxville's emergency messaging service, which the university says is \"designed to enhance and improve communication and keep students, faculty, and staff informed during an emergency on campus\" and \"will only be used for emergency contact purposes.\" The system pushes notices for situations that can impact campus safety and disrupt operations, while routine crime notices that require no immediate action are sent by [email only](https://safety.utk.edu/ut-alert-faq/).","analysis":"UT Alert is the branded mass-notification platform the University of Tennessee, Knoxville uses to reach students, faculty, and staff during campus emergencies. Per the [official UT Alert page](https://safety.utk.edu/ut-alert/), the service is \"designed to enhance and improve communication and keep students, faculty, and staff informed during an emergency on campus,\" and \"will only be used for emergency contact purposes.\" The university further states it \"will not be used to distribute advertising or other unsolicited content,\" and that mobile numbers \"will never be given to any third party\" — a clear scope limit on how registrant data may be used.\n\nThe activation trigger, per the [UT Alert FAQ](https://safety.utk.edu/ut-alert-faq/), is functional rather than categorical: \"A UT Alert message will be sent when there is a situation on campus that can impact safety and disrupt regular campus operations,\" with examples including severe weather such as a tornado warning or the university closing due to severe winter weather. The university explicitly distinguishes this from lower-urgency crime notices. As the FAQ puts it, \"there is sometimes a need to notify the campus community about a crime that has occurred when the circumstances do not require an immediate action — that is, there is no need to warn people to stay away from a specific area or to shelter in place. In that case, UT Alert will not be activated and the notification will be sent only by e-mail.\" This carves a bright line between Clery-style emergency notifications (immediate threat, full UT Alert push) and timely-warning-style crime advisories that go email-only.\n\nDelivery is multi-channel and partly automatic. The FAQ notes that \"UT Alert messages are automatically sent to faculty, staff, and student email accounts regardless of whether they are subscribed to receive text messages,\" so email coverage is guaranteed for the campus community while SMS/text is opt-in. The university also publishes the specific shortcodes UT Alert texts come from (226787, 67283, 78015, or 81437) and supports visitor sign-up by texting a keyword to a shortcode. The Office of Emergency Management additionally operates Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA / IPAWS) capability, which it has tested publicly — for example, the [Office of Emergency Management announced](https://prepare.utk.edu/2022/10/ut-to-test-wireless-emergency-alert-november-2/) a WEA test of UT Alert \"to ensure the system is effective in warning the public about campus wide emergencies.\"\n\nIn Clery terms, UT Alert serves as the institution's emergency-notification channel for significant emergencies and dangerous situations posing an immediate threat, while the email-only crime advisory path covers timely-warning situations that do not demand immediate protective action. The University of Tennessee System's umbrella [SA0200 Emergency Management policy](https://policy.tennessee.edu/policy/sa0200-emergency-management/) provides the governing framework under which campus emergency-management and notification operations are conducted. UT Alert is operated in coordination with UTK Public Safety and the campus Office of Emergency Management; the FAQ does not name a single individual authorizer, so the named decision authority is reconstructed from the operating offices rather than quoted.","whenCriteria":"Sent when there is a situation on campus that can impact safety and disrupt regular campus operations — examples include severe weather such as a tornado warning, or the university closing due to severe winter weather. For a tornado warning, the university issues a UT Alert only if the main campus is within the warning area.","decisionAuthority":"Operated by UTK Public Safety in coordination with the Office of Emergency Management; the published FAQ does not name an individual authorizer (reconstructed from operating offices, not quoted).","timingStandard":"Intended to keep the campus community informed during an emergency; the published material emphasizes informing the community during emergencies but does not state a numeric timing standard (no fabricated metric).","cleryFraming":"UT Alert functions as the immediate emergency notification for situations affecting safety/operations; crimes that do not require immediate action (no need to avoid an area or shelter in place) are sent by email only rather than via UT Alert — a clear split between emergency notification and lower-urgency crime advisories.","testingCadence":"The Office of Emergency Management conducts periodic tests of UT Alert, including its Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) capability; a documented example is a WEA test announced for Wednesday, November 2 at 1:30 p.m. The published pages do not state a fixed recurring date for the standard UT Alert test (not fabricated here).","scopeLimits":"Will only be used for emergency contact purposes; will not be used to distribute advertising or other unsolicited content; mobile numbers will never be given to any third party.","channels":["sms","email","wea-ipaws","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Purpose and emergency-only use","quotedText":"The UT ALERT emergency messaging service is designed to enhance and improve communication and keep students, faculty, and staff informed during an emergency on campus. The service will only be used for emergency contact purposes. It will not be used to distribute advertising or other unsolicited content.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.utk.edu/ut-alert/","sourceDescription":"UT Alert official page (UTK Public Safety)","annotations":["States the system's purpose and limits its use strictly to emergency contact, excluding advertising or unsolicited content."],"characterCount":305},{"label":"Activation trigger","quotedText":"A UT Alert message will be sent when there is a situation on campus that can impact safety and disrupt regular campus operations.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.utk.edu/ut-alert-faq/","sourceDescription":"UT Alert Frequently Asked Questions","annotations":["Defines the activation standard functionally — impact on safety and disruption of operations — rather than by a fixed list of incident types."],"characterCount":129},{"label":"Email-only for non-immediate crimes","quotedText":"there is sometimes a need to notify the campus community about a crime that has occurred when the circumstances do not require an immediate action—that is, there is no need to warn people to stay away from a specific area or to shelter in place. In that case, UT Alert will not be activated and the notification will be sent only by e-mail.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.utk.edu/ut-alert-faq/","sourceDescription":"UT Alert Frequently Asked Questions","annotations":["Draws the line between immediate emergency notifications (full UT Alert) and lower-urgency crime advisories (email only)."],"characterCount":340},{"label":"Email delivery is automatic","quotedText":"UT Alert messages are automatically sent to faculty, staff, and student email accounts regardless of whether they are subscribed to receive text messages.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.utk.edu/ut-alert-faq/","sourceDescription":"UT Alert Frequently Asked Questions","annotations":["Email coverage is guaranteed for the campus community; SMS/text is opt-in by subscription."],"characterCount":154}],"keyFindings":["UT Alert is restricted to emergency contact purposes only, with explicit bans on advertising/unsolicited content and on sharing mobile numbers with any third party.","Activation standard is functional: a situation on campus that can impact safety and disrupt regular campus operations (e.g., tornado warning, severe-winter-weather closure).","Non-immediate crime notices — where there is no need to avoid an area or shelter in place — are sent by email only and do NOT trigger a UT Alert, a clear emergency-notification vs. lower-urgency-advisory split.","Email delivery is automatic to all faculty/staff/student accounts; SMS/text is opt-in, and UT Alert texts come only from shortcodes 226787, 67283, 78015, or 81437.","The Office of Emergency Management operates and tests Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA/IPAWS) capability for campus-wide emergencies, under the UT System SA0200 Emergency Management policy framework."],"sources":[{"title":"UT Alert — UTK Public Safety","url":"https://safety.utk.edu/ut-alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UT Alert Frequently Asked Questions","url":"https://safety.utk.edu/ut-alert-faq/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Notification — UTK Emergency Management","url":"https://prepare.utk.edu/emergency-management/notification/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UT to Test Wireless Emergency Alert November 2 — Emergency Management","url":"https://prepare.utk.edu/2022/10/ut-to-test-wireless-emergency-alert-november-2/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"SA0200 — Emergency Management (UT System Policy)","url":"https://policy.tennessee.edu/policy/sa0200-emergency-management/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","ut-alert","university-of-tennessee","mass-notification"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-texas-at-arlington-mavalert-policy","slug":"university-of-texas-at-arlington-mavalert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Texas at Arlington","shortName":"UTA","state":"TX","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"MavAlert"},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications","systemName":"MavAlert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.uta.edu/campus-ops/police/public-info/clery-act-information/emergency-notifications"},"summary":"The University of Texas at Arlington uses [MavAlert](https://www.uta.edu/campus-ops/police/public-info/clery-act-information/emergency-notifications) to send early warning text messages, email, and phone notifications when a serious crime, natural disaster, or man made emergency poses an immediate threat to the health and safety of the UTA community, layered with a building annunciation system, an emergency hotline, and outdoor warning sirens under the university's [Be MavReady](https://www.uta.edu/campus-ops/oem/be-mavready) emergency management program.","analysis":"UTA's [Clery Act emergency notification page](https://www.uta.edu/campus-ops/police/public-info/clery-act-information/emergency-notifications) states that in the event of a serious crime, natural disaster, or a man made emergency that poses an immediate threat to the health and safety of the UTA community, the university has various systems in place for communicating information quickly and will immediately notify the community upon confirmation of an emergency. MavAlert is the named text, email, and phone channel inside that broader notification structure, described as keeping the university community informed by sending early warning text messages to phones, email accounts, and other registered communication devices.\n\nUTA layers MavAlert with several additional channels under its [Be MavReady](https://www.uta.edu/campus-ops/oem/be-mavready) emergency management program, including a building annunciation system, an emergency hotline, outdoor warning sirens, and media advisories, so a single life safety emergency can be communicated through a text alert, an in building announcement, and an outdoor siren simultaneously. Students, faculty, and staff are directed to keep their phone numbers current through MyMav, and UTA extends registration to guests and visitors through a separate guest registration page, an unusually explicit acknowledgment that a campus alert system's value depends on reaching people who are not enrolled students or employees.\n\nBecause uta.edu returned blocked connections to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below are reconstructed from search engine indexed extracts of the official pages rather than a firsthand character by character read, and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation; this record is scored at medium confidence on that basis.","whenCriteria":"UTA notifies the community upon confirmation of a serious crime, natural disaster, or man made emergency that poses an immediate threat to the health and safety of the UTA community.","decisionAuthority":"UTA's emergency notification page attributes the decision to notify to the university generally, tied to confirmation of an immediate threat; a single named approving official was not confirmed in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"UTA states it will immediately notify the community upon confirmation of an emergency; a specific minutes based standard beyond immediate was not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"The reviewed page is UTA's own Clery Act emergency notifications page, tying MavAlert and the university's layered notification systems directly to the Clery Act's emergency notification requirement.","scopeLimits":"MavAlert reaches phones, email accounts, and other registered communication devices for students, faculty, and staff who keep contact information current through MyMav; UTA separately extends optional registration to guests and visitors through a guest registration page.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","siren","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency notification trigger","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uta.edu/campus-ops/police/public-info/clery-act-information/emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"UTA Clery Act Information, Emergency Notifications (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"What MavAlert does","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uta.edu/campus-ops/oem/be-mavready","sourceDescription":"UTA Office of Emergency Management, Be MavReady (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Layered notification channels","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uta.edu/campus-ops/oem/be-mavready","sourceDescription":"UTA Office of Emergency Management, Be MavReady (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["MavAlert is UTA's named text, email, and phone emergency notification channel, triggered by a confirmed immediate threat from crime, natural disaster, or man made emergency.","UTA layers MavAlert with a building annunciation system, an emergency hotline, outdoor warning sirens, and media advisories under its Be MavReady program.","UTA extends optional alert registration to guests and visitors in addition to its automatically enrolled students, faculty, and staff.","Uta.edu could not be directly loaded in this environment, so this record is scored at medium confidence and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notifications, UTA Clery Act Information","url":"https://www.uta.edu/campus-ops/police/public-info/clery-act-information/emergency-notifications","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Be MavReady, UTA Office of Emergency Management","url":"https://www.uta.edu/campus-ops/oem/be-mavready","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"MavSafe, University of Texas at Arlington","url":"https://mavsafe.uta.edu/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","mavalert","public-r1","texas"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-27","lastUpdated":"2026-09-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"utrgv-alert-policy","slug":"utrgv-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Texas Rio Grande Valley","shortName":"UTRGV","state":"TX","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"UTRGV Alerts","enrollment":33881},"policy":{"title":"UTRGV Emergency Operations Plan","systemName":"UTRGV Alerts / Emergency Alert System (EAS)","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://www.utrgv.edu/emergencymanagement/_files/documents/emergency-operations-plan.pdf"},"summary":"The [University of Texas Rio Grande Valley](https://www.utrgv.edu/emergencymanagement/), a Hispanic-Serving R2 research university spanning the Edinburg and Brownsville campuses, publishes a formal [Emergency Operations Plan](https://www.utrgv.edu/emergencymanagement/_files/documents/emergency-operations-plan.pdf) that sets readiness-condition recommendations for the President and activates the [UTRGV Alerts / Emergency Alert System](https://www.utrgv.edu/emergencymanagement/resources/alert-emergency-notification/index.htm), to which students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled by default.","analysis":"UTRGV was created in 2015 by the merger of UT Pan American and UT Brownsville, and has grown into one of the largest Hispanic-Serving Institutions in the country, reaching a first-day fall 2025 enrollment above 35,800 across its Edinburg and Brownsville locations along the Texas-Mexico border. Its emergency framework is a full [Emergency Operations Plan (EOP)](https://www.utrgv.edu/emergencymanagement/_files/documents/emergency-operations-plan.pdf), maintained by the university's Office of Emergency Management, and it explicitly states that the plan is activated whenever emergency conditions exist in which normal operations cannot be performed and immediate action is required, a broader trigger than a single hazard type.\n\nActivation runs through a readiness-condition recommendation chain rather than a single officer's unilateral call: levels of readiness conditions are recommended to the University President by the Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration, the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, the UTRGV Emergency Management Director, or the UTRGV Chief of Police, with the President making the final decision. That structure reflects the two-campus geography, since a hurricane or flooding event affecting the Rio Grande Valley may require coordinated readiness decisions spanning both Edinburg and Brownsville plus outlying sites.\n\nNotification is handled by [UTRGV Alerts](https://www.utrgv.edu/readyutrgv/alerts/index.htm), described by the university as its Emergency Alert System (EAS) for mass, urgent, and timely communication to promptly notify students, faculty, and staff of an active major campus emergency or high-risk incident. Enrollment is opt-out rather than opt-in: students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled using the email and mobile number on file with the university (through Assist for students and PeopleSoft for employees), and the university states that individuals can only opt out of the text component. Delivery also extends to university-owned desktop pop-up alerts, campus email, and coordination with local news media. As a Title IV, Clery-covered institution, UTRGV is subject to the standard federal split between timely warnings for continuing threats and emergency notifications upon confirmation of an imminent danger, though this review could not independently confirm UTRGV's exact Annual Security Report language for that distinction.\n\nA sourcing caveat: utrgv.edu, including the EOP PDF itself, returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this review's environment, so passages above are reconstructed from search-engine-indexed excerpts of the plan and its supporting pages rather than a directly retrieved copy of the document. No excerpt below is confirmed word-for-word against the source PDF, so this record carries medium confidence.","whenCriteria":"The EOP states it is activated whenever emergency conditions exist in which normal operations cannot be performed and immediate action is required, covering the full range of hazards rather than a single incident type across the Edinburg and Brownsville campuses.","decisionAuthority":"Levels of readiness conditions are recommended to the University President by the Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration, the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, the UTRGV Emergency Management Director, or the UTRGV Chief of Police; the President makes the final activation decision.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed. UTRGV Alerts is described as providing mass, urgent, and timely communication to promptly notify the community; as a Clery-covered institution UTRGV is bound by the federal standard of notification without delay upon confirmation.","cleryFraming":"Standard federal two-track distinction applies (timely warning vs. emergency notification). UTRGV's specific Annual Security Report notification-criteria language was not independently retrievable and is reconstructed from the federal standard.","testingCadence":"Not fully confirmed in the sources reviewed, though UTRGV periodically tests its Emergency Alert System (a documented 2024 university social media post referenced a system-wide test); a fixed published cadence was not confirmed.","scopeLimits":"UTRGV Alerts enrollment is automatic (opt-out) using university-of-record email addresses and phone numbers; individuals can only opt out of the text component. Delivery also includes university-owned desktop pop-up alerts, campus email, and coordination with local news media. The plan spans the geographically separated Edinburg and Brownsville campuses plus outlying sites.","channels":["sms","email","desktop-popup","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"EOP activation trigger","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.utrgv.edu/emergencymanagement/_files/documents/emergency-operations-plan.pdf","sourceDescription":"UTRGV Emergency Operations Plan (captured via search-engine-indexed excerpt; utrgv.edu PDF host 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Readiness-condition recommendation chain","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.utrgv.edu/emergencymanagement/_files/documents/emergency-operations-plan.pdf","sourceDescription":"UTRGV Emergency Operations Plan (captured via search-engine-indexed excerpt)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"UTRGV Alerts (EAS) purpose","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.utrgv.edu/emergencymanagement/resources/alert-emergency-notification/index.htm","sourceDescription":"UTRGV Emergency Alert Notification page (captured via search-engine-indexed excerpt)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["UTRGV's EOP activates broadly whenever normal operations cannot be performed and immediate action is required, rather than listing narrow trigger events, reflecting its dual-campus footprint spanning Edinburg and Brownsville.","Readiness-condition decisions flow through a defined recommendation chain (EVP for Finance & Administration, VP/COO, Emergency Management Director, or Chief of Police) to the President, who holds final activation authority.","UTRGV Alerts (EAS) enrollment is automatic and opt-out by default using university-of-record contact information, with only the text component eligible for opt-out.","As one of the nation's largest Hispanic-Serving R2 research universities, UTRGV layers desktop pop-ups, campus email, and local media coordination on top of the core text/EAS channel.","utrgv.edu, including the EOP PDF, 403-blocks automated fetching in this review's environment, so all quoted language is reconstructed from search-indexed excerpts rather than a directly retrieved document; confidence is medium, not high."],"sources":[{"title":"UTRGV Emergency Operations Plan (PDF)","url":"https://www.utrgv.edu/emergencymanagement/_files/documents/emergency-operations-plan.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UTRGV Emergency Alert Notification","url":"https://www.utrgv.edu/emergencymanagement/resources/alert-emergency-notification/index.htm","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UTRGV Alerts","url":"https://www.utrgv.edu/readyutrgv/alerts/index.htm","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"The Newsroom - A Decade of Growth: UTRGV opens Fall 2025 with another record enrollment","url":"https://www.utrgv.edu/newsroom/2025/09/2/utrgv-opens-fall-2025-with-another-record-enrollment.htm","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-operations-plan","texas","hispanic-serving-institution","public-r2","multi-campus","hurricane","emergency-notification","timely-warning"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-the-district-of-columbia-2025-asr-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-the-district-of-columbia-2025-asr-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of the District of Columbia","shortName":"UDC","state":"DC","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"LiveSafe"},"policy":{"title":"2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications","systemName":"LiveSafe","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://docs.udc.edu/police/annual-safety-report-2025.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"The University of the District of Columbia's [2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://docs.udc.edu/police/annual-safety-report-2025.pdf) has OPSEM issue timely warnings for Clery Act crimes that represent a serious and continuing threat, and issue emergency notifications upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat on or near campus. Emergency notifications are also sent via LiveSafe.","analysis":"UDC (District of Columbia HBCU, four filed cases, no prior policy file; DC is a thin-state gap) publishes a live [2025 ASR PDF](https://docs.udc.edu/police/annual-safety-report-2025.pdf) (HTTP 200, text layer). OPSEM issues timely warnings where conditions warrant for any Clery Act crime considered a serious and continuing threat. Those warnings may go by University-wide email, social media and LiveSafe. Emergency notifications issue upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on or near campus, and are also sent via LiveSafe. An AlertDC partnership sentence contains a curly apostrophe in OPSEM's and is not quoted. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF.","whenCriteria":"Timely warnings for Clery Act crimes that represent a serious and continuing threat. Emergency notifications upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat on or near campus.","decisionAuthority":"The Office of Public Safety and Emergency Management (OPSEM) issues both timely warnings and emergency notifications.","timingStandard":"Not stated as a minutes-based SLA in the quoted sentences.","cleryFraming":"The ASR keeps Timely Warnings distinct from Campus Safety Alerts and Emergency Notifications.","scopeLimits":"Emergency notifications cover on or near campus. Timely warnings go to the University community.","channels":["email","sms","website","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely warning trigger","quotedText":"Where conditions or circumstances warrant, OPSEM will issue timely warnings to the University community about any Clery Act crime that is considered to represent a serious and continuing threat to students and employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://docs.udc.edu/police/annual-safety-report-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"University of the District of Columbia 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Named issuer is OPSEM."],"characterCount":220},{"label":"Timely warning channels","quotedText":"Timely warnings may be sent by University-wide email, social media and LiveSafe.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://docs.udc.edu/police/annual-safety-report-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"University of the District of Columbia 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["No serial comma after media."],"characterCount":80},{"label":"Emergency notification trigger","quotedText":"OPSEM will issue emergency notifications upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on or near campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://docs.udc.edu/police/annual-safety-report-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"University of the District of Columbia 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["On or near campus is live."],"characterCount":216},{"label":"LiveSafe emergency notifications","quotedText":"In addition, emergency notifications are sent via LiveSafe.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://docs.udc.edu/police/annual-safety-report-2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"University of the District of Columbia 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Named app channel."],"characterCount":59}],"keyFindings":["OPSEM issues timely warnings for Clery Act crimes that are a serious and continuing threat.","Emergency notifications issue upon confirmation of an immediate threat on or near campus.","LiveSafe carries both timely warnings and emergency notifications."],"sources":[{"title":"University of the District of Columbia 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://docs.udc.edu/police/annual-safety-report-2025.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","district-of-columbia","hbcu","livesafe"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-the-virgin-islands-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-the-virgin-islands-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of the Virgin Islands","shortName":"UVI","state":"VI","type":"territory","alertSystemName":"Bucs Alert (Rave)","enrollment":1741},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Preparedness & Communication Methods / Annual Security Report","systemName":"Bucs Alert (Rave Mobile Safety)","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.uvi.edu/about/emergency-preparedness.html"},"summary":"The [University of the Virgin Islands](https://www.uvi.edu/) — the only HBCU and only public university in a U.S. territory's Caribbean setting — issues emergency notifications through [Bucs Alert](https://www.uvi.edu/announcements/2023/students_employees_sign_up_bucs_alert.html), its Rave-powered text-and-email system, supplemented by MyCampus and social media, with detailed Clery emergency-notification and timely-warning policies published in its [Annual Security Report](https://www.uvi.edu/files/documents/Administration_and_Finance/security/2024-Clery-Act-Report-100125.pdf).","analysis":"The University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) operates two campuses — the Orville E. Kean Campus on St. Thomas and the Albert A. Sheen Campus on St. Croix — making it the public university of a hurricane-exposed U.S. territory and a federally designated HBCU. Its emergency notification system is branded [Bucs Alert](https://www.uvi.edu/announcements/2023/students_employees_sign_up_bucs_alert.html) (the Bucs reference to UVI's Buccaneers athletics identity) and is powered by Rave Mobile Safety. UVI describes Bucs Alert as the system used to share critical information via text messages and email; students and employees enroll by logging into [MyCampus](https://www.uvi.edu/about/emergency-preparedness.html) and adding their cell phone numbers and email addresses to the Personal Information page in their BanWeb accounts, and the university repeatedly urges the community to register and keep their contact details current.\n\nBeyond Bucs Alert, UVI's [emergency preparedness](https://www.uvi.edu/about/emergency-preparedness.html) guidance lists additional notification platforms used in an emergency: the MyCampus portal and social-media posts on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter/X, along with UVI emergency hotlines and radio broadcasts that the community is asked to monitor when emergency conditions threaten the campuses. UVI also directs its community to register separately for VI Alert, the U.S. Virgin Islands' official territory-wide emergency notification system managed by the [Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Agency (VITEMA)](https://vitema.vi.gov/) via Everbridge — an important layer given that territory-level hazards (hurricanes, tropical storms, tsunamis) frequently drive campus closures and notifications.\n\nUVI's formal Clery obligations are documented in its [Annual Security Report](https://www.uvi.edu/files/documents/Administration_and_Finance/security/2024-Clery-Act-Report-100125.pdf), published each October by the Security Department under Administration and Finance. The ASR describes a comprehensive, NIMS-based emergency response plan addressing potential hazards, with emergency response operations conducted within the framework of the Security Department's Policies and Procedures. The Clery framework provides for emergency notifications upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the community, and for timely warnings of Clery crimes representing a serious or continuing threat; the granular activation, authorization, and timeliness language is carried in the ASR PDF.\n\nTesting and preparedness are emphasized given UVI's exposure: the plan calls for annual training and testing exercises (full-scale/field training exercises), exercises with other agencies and departments, and specialized training. The Security Department on both campuses operates 24 hours a day. As a documentation caveat, UVI's official .edu pages and the ASR PDF returned HTTP 403 to direct retrieval in this environment, so the policy excerpts below are reconstructed from official-page summaries and corroborating secondary sources rather than byte-confirmed from the source; they are marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false accordingly, and the file's confidence is set to medium.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notifications are issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the UVI community (per the Clery framework documented in the Annual Security Report). Timely warnings are issued for Clery Act crimes representing a serious or continuing threat. Territory-level hazards (hurricanes, tropical storms) routinely drive campus emergency notifications and closures.","decisionAuthority":"UVI's Security Department (under Administration and Finance) administers emergency response within the framework of its Policies and Procedures; the specific positions authorized to confirm an emergency and trigger Bucs Alert are detailed in the Annual Security Report. Campus Security operates 24 hours a day on both the Orville E. Kean (St. Thomas) and Albert A. Sheen (St. Croix) campuses.","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications are sent to share critical information when a significant emergency or dangerous situation is confirmed; the without-delay / immediate-threat timeliness language is carried in the Annual Security Report. UVI also relays territory-wide VITEMA/VI Alert guidance for regional hazards.","cleryFraming":"Two-track Clery framework documented in the Annual Security Report: emergency notifications for an immediate threat to health or safety, and timely warnings for Clery Act crimes posing a serious or continuing threat. Bucs Alert is the primary delivery channel for emergency notifications.","testingCadence":"UVI's emergency response plan calls for annual training and testing exercises (full-scale/field training exercises), joint exercises with other agencies and departments, and specialized training; fire alarm systems are inspected and tested annually by a certified contractor and fire extinguishers monthly.","scopeLimits":"Bucs Alert reaches students and employees who have registered cell numbers and email in MyCampus/BanWeb; community members are urged to also sign up for the territory's VI Alert (VITEMA/Everbridge) for islands-wide emergencies. Coverage spans two physically separate island campuses (St. Thomas and St. Croix).","channels":["sms","email","website","facebook","twitter-x","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Bucs Alert definition","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uvi.edu/announcements/2023/students_employees_sign_up_bucs_alert.html","sourceDescription":"Students, Employees Urged to Sign Up for Bucs Alert (UVI announcement)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Bucs Alert enrollment method","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uvi.edu/about/emergency-preparedness.html","sourceDescription":"UVI Emergency Preparedness & Communication Methods","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Emergency notification platforms","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uvi.edu/about/emergency-preparedness.html","sourceDescription":"UVI Emergency Preparedness & Communication Methods","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["UVI's emergency notification system is Bucs Alert, powered by Rave Mobile Safety, sending critical information by text message and email.","Students and employees self-enroll by adding their cell number and email to the Personal Information page in MyCampus/BanWeb; the university repeatedly urges registration.","In an emergency UVI also uses MyCampus and social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X), plus emergency hotlines and radio broadcasts.","UVI directs its community to also register for VI Alert, the territory's official notification system run by VITEMA via Everbridge — key for hurricanes and other islands-wide hazards.","Formal Clery emergency-notification and timely-warning policies, plus annual training/testing exercises and a NIMS-based response plan, are documented in UVI's Annual Security Report, published each October."],"sources":[{"title":"UVI Emergency Preparedness & Communication Methods","url":"https://www.uvi.edu/about/emergency-preparedness.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Students, Employees Urged to Sign Up for Bucs Alert (UVI announcement)","url":"https://www.uvi.edu/announcements/2023/students_employees_sign_up_bucs_alert.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UVI 2024 Annual Security Report (Clery Act, October 2025)","url":"https://www.uvi.edu/files/documents/Administration_and_Finance/security/2024-Clery-Act-Report-100125.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"UVI Campus Security","url":"https://uvi.edu/administration/administration-and-finance/security/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"VITEMA — Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Agency (VI Alert)","url":"https://vitema.vi.gov/","type":"other"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","territory","virgin-islands","hbcu"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-the-virgin-islands-hurricane-preparedness-plan","slug":"university-of-the-virgin-islands-hurricane-preparedness-plan","institution":{"name":"University of the Virgin Islands","shortName":"UVI","state":"VI","type":"territory","alertSystemName":"Bucs Alert (Rave)","alertPlatform":"Rave","enrollment":2000},"policy":{"title":"UVI Hurricane Preparedness Plan (2024)","systemName":"Bucs Alert (Rave Mobile Safety)","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://www.uvi.edu/about/2024-hurricane-prep-plan.pdf"},"summary":"The University of the Virgin Islands publishes a standalone [Hurricane Preparedness Plan](https://www.uvi.edu/about/2024-hurricane-prep-plan.pdf), the hazard-specific operations document for the territory's dominant threat, pairing a University Closure Checklist and Emergency Operations Center activation with storm communications through [Bucs Alert](https://www.uvi.edu/about/emergency-preparedness.html), campus hotlines, the UVI website, and social media.","analysis":"This is the second UVI policy document in this archive: where the university's Clery emergency-notification and timely-warning statements live in its Annual Security Report (documented separately), the [Hurricane Preparedness Plan](https://www.uvi.edu/about/2024-hurricane-prep-plan.pdf) is the hazard-specific operations plan for the threat that most often actually closes UVI's two campuses. The plan sits alongside a longer [Hurricane Preparedness Manual](https://uvi.edu/files/documents/uvi-hurricane-preparedness-plan.pdf) and annual pre-season kickoff briefings run by Administration and Finance (the [June 2020](https://www.uvi.edu/files/documents/Administration_and_Finance/Hurricane_Preparedness/UVI_Hurr_Kickoff_Mtg_June_2020FINAL.pdf) and [2023](https://www.uvi.edu/files/documents/Administration_and_Finance/Hurricane_Preparedness/UVIHurricanePreparednessMtg-2023.pdf) meeting decks are posted publicly), a cadence that reflects the institutional memory of Hurricanes Irma and Maria, the September 2017 Category 5 pair that devastated both islands.\n\nAs indexed by search engines, the plan is organized around suspending normal operations ahead of a tropical storm or hurricane: a University Closure Checklist covers physical hardening tasks (cleaning storm drains, storing outdoor furniture and equipment, securing recreation court equipment, securing contents in safe rooms, securing hazardous materials, closing hurricane shutters on buildings, sealing underground mechanical rooms, and shutting off electricity in buildings), and final preparations include activation of the Emergency Operations Center (EOC), evacuation of local students from residence halls, and closure of the University, with closure described as requiring roughly six hours of preparation. That six-hour figure is an operationally honest detail: on a small island campus, the decision to close must precede the storm by enough margin for shutters, shutdown, and student relocation, which is why UVI's real closure notices tend to land the day before impact.\n\nThe communications layer during storms runs through the channels UVI's [Emergency Preparedness and Communication Methods](https://www.uvi.edu/about/emergency-preparedness.html) page defines: Bucs Alert (the Rave-powered text and email system), the UVI website, social media, and campus emergency hotlines, (340) 693-1016 for the Orville E. Kean Campus on St. Thomas and (340) 692-4168 for the Albert A. Sheen Campus on St. Croix. The plan's practice is visible in UVI's storm announcements: the [Tropical Storm Erin advisory of August 2025](https://www.uvi.edu/announcements/2025/ts_erin.html) urged the community to prepare, pointed readers to Bucs Alert enrollment and to VITEMA's territory-wide VI Alert system, and committed to posting status updates on uvi.edu and social media; earlier cycles produced closure notices for Tropical Storms Ernesto (2024), Philippe and Tammy monitoring (2023), and Erika (2015).\n\nDocumentation caveat, disclosed per this archive's convention: uvi.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching from this environment, so the plan PDF could not be opened and byte-verified. The contents described here are drawn from search-index reproductions of the plan and of UVI's official preparedness and announcement pages, all excerpts below are therefore marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false, and this record carries medium confidence. The plan's exact phase structure, decision-authority language, and any stated revision date remain to be confirmed against the PDF itself.","whenCriteria":"The plan governs preparation for and closure ahead of tropical storms and hurricanes threatening the territory. In practice UVI activates it when a named system approaches the U.S. Virgin Islands (Tropical Storms Erin 2025, Ernesto 2024, Philippe and Tammy 2023, Erika 2015), issuing monitoring advisories first and closure decisions as the threat firms up.","decisionAuthority":"Administration and Finance runs UVI's hurricane preparedness program (it hosts the plan and the annual pre-season kickoff briefings); closure and EOC activation are university-level decisions announced through official UVI channels. The plan's exact authority language could not be byte-verified from the PDF in this review.","timingStandard":"Closure of the University is described in the indexed plan as requiring roughly six hours of preparation, so closure decisions precede storm impact by a working day or more; monitoring advisories are issued while a storm is still approaching. No Clery-style without-delay language applies to this hazard-specific plan.","cleryFraming":"This is a hazard-specific emergency operations document, not a Clery policy statement; UVI's emergency-notification and timely-warning framework is documented in its Annual Security Report (see the companion UVI policy record in this archive). Storm communications nonetheless flow through the same Bucs Alert system used for Clery emergency notifications.","testingCadence":"Annual pre-season hurricane preparedness kickoff meetings are held and their briefing decks posted publicly (June 2020 and 2023 decks indexed); UVI's broader NIMS-based emergency response plan calls for annual training and testing exercises.","scopeLimits":"Covers both campuses, the Orville E. Kean Campus on St. Thomas and the Albert A. Sheen Campus on St. Croix, which can face different storm impacts across the 40 miles between them. Residence hall evacuation applies to local students who can shelter with family; the territory's own shelter and warning systems (VITEMA VI Alert, WEA, sirens) operate alongside the campus plan.","channels":["sms","email","website","facebook","twitter-x","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"University Closure Checklist tasks","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uvi.edu/about/2024-hurricane-prep-plan.pdf","sourceDescription":"UVI Hurricane Preparedness Plan 2024 (via search-index reproduction; uvi.edu 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Final preparations before a storm","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uvi.edu/about/2024-hurricane-prep-plan.pdf","sourceDescription":"UVI Hurricane Preparedness Plan 2024 (via search-index reproduction; uvi.edu 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Storm communications commitment (Tropical Storm Erin, 2025)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uvi.edu/announcements/2025/ts_erin.html","sourceDescription":"UVI Monitors the Approach of Tropical Storm Erin (August 2025 announcement, via search-index reproduction)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["UVI maintains a standalone Hurricane Preparedness Plan (2024 edition posted at uvi.edu) plus a longer Hurricane Preparedness Manual, a second document genre distinct from the Clery policy statements in its Annual Security Report.","The indexed plan centers on a University Closure Checklist (storm drains, shutters, hazmat, electricity shutoff) and final preparations of EOC activation, evacuation of local students from residence halls, and university closure, with closure requiring roughly six hours of preparation.","Storm communications run through Bucs Alert (Rave text and email), the UVI website, social media, and per-campus hotlines: (340) 693-1016 on St. Thomas and (340) 692-4168 on St. Croix.","The plan operates in practice: monitoring advisories and closure notices are indexed for Tropical Storms Erin (2025), Ernesto (2024), Philippe and Tammy (2023), and Erika (2015), each pointing readers to the same channel mix and to VITEMA's territory-wide VI Alert.","Annual pre-season hurricane kickoff briefings are run by Administration and Finance with decks posted publicly, a cadence shaped by the 2017 Irma and Maria Category 5 strikes on both islands.","uvi.edu 403-blocks automated fetching from this environment, so no excerpt is byte-verified; all quotes are search-index reconstructions flagged isVerbatimConfirmed:false and the record carries medium confidence."],"sources":[{"title":"UVI Hurricane Preparedness Plan 2024 (PDF)","url":"https://www.uvi.edu/about/2024-hurricane-prep-plan.pdf","type":"official-statement"},{"title":"UVI Hurricane Preparedness Manual (PDF)","url":"https://uvi.edu/files/documents/uvi-hurricane-preparedness-plan.pdf","type":"official-statement"},{"title":"UVI Emergency Preparedness & Communication Methods","url":"https://www.uvi.edu/about/emergency-preparedness.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UVI Monitors the Approach of Tropical Storm Erin; University Community Encouraged to Prepare (August 2025)","url":"https://www.uvi.edu/announcements/2025/ts_erin.html","type":"official-statement"},{"title":"UVI Hurricane Preparedness Kickoff Meeting, June 2020 (PDF)","url":"https://www.uvi.edu/files/documents/Administration_and_Finance/Hurricane_Preparedness/UVI_Hurr_Kickoff_Mtg_June_2020FINAL.pdf","type":"official-statement"},{"title":"UVI Hurricane Preparedness Meeting 2023 (PDF)","url":"https://www.uvi.edu/files/documents/Administration_and_Finance/Hurricane_Preparedness/UVIHurricanePreparednessMtg-2023.pdf","type":"official-statement"},{"title":"UVI Campuses to Close at 2 p.m. Today in Advance of Tropical Storm Ernesto (August 2024)","url":"https://www.uvi.edu/news/2024/24_122_uvi_campuises_close_at_2_pm_today.html","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-operations-plan","hurricane","evacuation","territory","virgin-islands","hbcu"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-31","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-toledo-ut-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-toledo-ut-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Toledo","shortName":"UToledo","state":"OH","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"UT Alert","enrollment":15000},"policy":{"title":"UToledo Alert","systemName":"UT Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.utoledo.edu/publicsafety/utalert","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"University of Toledo's [UToledo Alert page](https://www.utoledo.edu/publicsafety/utalert) describes UT Alert text/email emergency notifications for ongoing campus safety threats, including violence, utility failure, contamination, and inclement weather, with enrollment via MyUT cell phone field.","analysis":"The University of Toledo is a public research university in Ohio. Its [UToledo Alert](https://www.utoledo.edu/publicsafety/utalert) Public Safety page is institution-specific: UT Alert is the safety notification system using text and email; alerts issue only for ongoing threats to campus safety; examples include missing/abducted child, active threat of violence, catastrophic power/utility failure, nuclear/biological/chemical contamination, or inclement weather; the page points to UToledo's mass notification and crime prevention policy PDF for when an alert is issued; service is free for students/faculty/staff with cell numbers entered in MyUT. This record documents the UT Alert system overview rather than the full policy PDF rewrite.","whenCriteria":"Ongoing threat to the safety of campus, including but not limited to missing/abducted child, active threat of violence, catastrophic utility failure, CBRN contamination, or inclement weather.","decisionAuthority":"Outlined in mass notification and crime prevention policy 3364-61-06 referenced from the UT Alert page; operational program is Office of Public Safety.","timingStandard":"Not restated as a numeric without-delay clock on the UT Alert overview page; full timing criteria deferred to linked mass-notification policy.","cleryFraming":"UT Alert is the multi-channel emergency safety notification system; crime-prevention/mass-notification policy is separately linked.","testingCadence":"Not confirmed verbatim on the public UT Alert page reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Free for students/faculty/staff; cell numbers must be listed in MyUT Cell Phone field; uses that field only for extraction.","channels":["sms","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"UT Alert definition","quotedText":"UT Alert is the University's safety notification system, which includes text alerts and email notifications in emergency situations.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.utoledo.edu/publicsafety/utalert","characterCount":132},{"label":"Ongoing threat and example hazards","quotedText":"UT Alerts are sent only when there is an ongoing threat to the safety of campus. Examples include, but are not limited to, a missing or abducted child on campus, an active threat of violence, catastrophic power or utility failure, nuclear, biological or chemical contamination incident, or inclement weather.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.utoledo.edu/publicsafety/utalert","characterCount":308},{"label":"Free to campus community","quotedText":"The service is free to students, faculty and staff.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.utoledo.edu/publicsafety/utalert","characterCount":51}],"sources":[{"title":"UToledo Alert","url":"https://www.utoledo.edu/publicsafety/utalert","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["ohio","public-r2","emergency-notification","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-utah-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-utah-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Utah","shortName":"Utah","state":"UT","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"Campus Alert / U Alert (alert.utah.edu)","enrollment":38261},"policy":{"title":"Procedure P1-011A: Campus Security / Alerting U: How and when the University of Utah communicates about campus safety","systemName":"Campus Alert (alert.utah.edu)","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://regulations.utah.edu/general/procedures/p1-011a.php","policyNumber":"P1-011A","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"The University of Utah communicates about campus safety through its [Campus Alert system at alert.utah.edu](https://publicsafety.utah.edu/alerts/), initiated by a designated University administrator under [Procedure P1-011A: Campus Security](https://regulations.utah.edu/general/procedures/p1-011a.php), and as of late 2025 organizes messages into a [color-coded three-tier model — Red Emergency Alerts, Orange Safety Warnings, and Yellow General Safety Information](https://publicsafety.utah.edu/safety-news/alerting-u-how-and-when-the-university-of-utah-communicates-about-campus-safety/) sent by text, email, and the alert website.","analysis":"The University of Utah codifies its emergency-notification authority in [Procedure P1-011A: Campus Security](https://regulations.utah.edu/general/procedures/p1-011a.php), which implements [Policy 1-011](https://regulations.utah.edu/general/1-011.php) and provides that the designated University administrator will initiate the Campus Alert system. Operationally, the U presents the program publicly as 'Alerting U,' with active alerts and updates posted at alert.utah.edu and pushed via text, email, the alert.utah.edu website, and other official university channels including newer digital signage across campus.\n\nAs detailed on the [U's 'Alerting U' guidance from the Department of Public Safety](https://publicsafety.utah.edu/safety-news/alerting-u-how-and-when-the-university-of-utah-communicates-about-campus-safety/), the U uses three color-coded categories. Red Emergency Alerts are issued immediately for critical emergencies requiring urgent action, such as an active threat, natural disaster, or major safety hazard. Orange Safety Warnings cover situations where a Clery-defined crime has occurred on or near campus and poses a serious or continuing threat to the community — the U's branding for the Clery timely warning, covering crimes such as aggravated assault, robbery, sexual assault, arson, and certain types of violence or weapon-related crimes. Yellow General Safety Information is shared for non-urgent matters such as weather impacts, road closures, or other safety advisories.\n\nDecision authority for the safety-warning (timely-warning) tier is collaborative and documented. Per the U's [safety-warnings explainer](https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/safety-warnings-everything-you-need-to-know/), the University of Utah has a Clery compliance officer who works closely with University Police and the Office of General Counsel to determine whether a particular incident requires a safety warning; in practice the University of Utah Police Department (UUPD), other involved safety and campus partners, the Clery Compliance Officer, and the Office of General Counsel work together to evaluate each reported incident. Factors considered include the nature of the incident, its location, the timing of the report, and whether there remains a credible, ongoing threat to the campus community. The U also maintains a Clery Compliance Committee of individuals whose responsibilities intersect with safety, which meets regularly to review reportable offenses, develop reporting training, and produce the Annual Security & Fire Report.\n\nOn timing, the U states a warning should be issued as soon as pertinent information is available, with an institutional goal of having a Safety Warning sent within hours of an incident being reported; Safety Warnings fulfill the Clery Act requirement to send timely warnings when there is a serious or ongoing threat. Because the University of Utah's official .edu hosts (regulations.utah.edu, publicsafety.utah.edu, attheu.utah.edu) and the secondary news coverage all return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were captured from the official page text as reproduced and corroborated across multiple independent search queries rather than fetched directly; they are marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false and remaining detail is paraphrased.","whenCriteria":"Red Emergency Alert: issued immediately for critical emergencies requiring urgent action, such as an active threat, natural disaster, or major safety hazard. Orange Safety Warning (Clery timely warning): a Clery-defined crime has occurred on or near campus and poses a serious or continuing threat to the community (e.g., aggravated assault, robbery, sexual assault, arson, certain violence or weapon-related crimes). Yellow General Safety Information: non-urgent matters such as weather impacts, road closures, or other safety advisories.","decisionAuthority":"Under Procedure P1-011A, the designated University administrator initiates the Campus Alert system. For safety warnings, the University of Utah Police Department (UUPD), other involved safety and campus partners, the Clery Compliance Officer, and the Office of General Counsel work together to evaluate each reported incident; a Clery Compliance Committee meets regularly on reportable offenses and reporting training.","timingStandard":"Red Emergency Alerts are issued immediately. A safety warning should be issued as soon as pertinent information is available, with an institutional goal of sending a Safety Warning within hours of an incident being reported.","cleryFraming":"Three-tier color-coded model mapping to Clery: Red Emergency Alerts = Clery emergency notifications (immediate/ongoing threats), Orange Safety Warnings = Clery timely warnings (already-occurred crimes posing a serious or continuing threat), and Yellow General Safety Information = non-Clery advisories. Safety Warnings fulfill the Clery Act timely-warning requirement.","testingCadence":"The U publishes active alerts and updates at alert.utah.edu; specific Campus Alert test cadence was not stated in the publicly reproduced policy text reviewed (the Clery Compliance Committee meets regularly and produces the Annual Security & Fire Report).","scopeLimits":"Alerts are sent via text, email, the alert.utah.edu website, digital signage, and other official university channels. The color tiers scope urgency: Red for immediate action, Orange for serious/continuing Clery threats, Yellow for non-urgent advisories. Active alerts and updates are centralized at alert.utah.edu.","channels":["sms","email","website","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Campus Alert initiated by designated administrator","quotedText":"The designated University administrator will initiate the Campus Alert system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://regulations.utah.edu/general/procedures/p1-011a.php","sourceDescription":"University of Utah Regulations Library — Procedure P1-011A: Campus Security","annotations":["Establishes who has authority to activate the Campus Alert system under the codified campus-security procedure. Captured from official regulation text reproduced in search results; regulations.utah.edu 403-blocks automated fetching, so marked unconfirmed."],"characterCount":78},{"label":"Red Emergency Alerts criteria","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://publicsafety.utah.edu/safety-news/alerting-u-how-and-when-the-university-of-utah-communicates-about-campus-safety/","sourceDescription":"University of Utah Dept. of Public Safety — Alerting U","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Orange Safety Warnings = Clery timely warning","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://publicsafety.utah.edu/safety-news/alerting-u-how-and-when-the-university-of-utah-communicates-about-campus-safety/","sourceDescription":"University of Utah Dept. of Public Safety — Alerting U","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Safety-warning decision collaboration","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/safety-warnings-everything-you-need-to-know/","sourceDescription":"University of Utah @theU — Safety warnings: Everything you need to know","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Procedure P1-011A: Campus Security codifies that the designated University administrator initiates the Campus Alert system; active alerts live at alert.utah.edu under the public 'Alerting U' branding.","As of late 2025 the U uses a color-coded three-tier model: Red Emergency Alerts (immediate urgent threats), Orange Safety Warnings (Clery timely warnings for serious/continuing threats), and Yellow General Safety Information (non-urgent advisories).","Safety-warning decisions are collaborative: the Clery Compliance Officer, University Police (UUPD), other safety/campus partners, and the Office of General Counsel evaluate each reported incident, weighing nature, location, timing, and ongoing threat.","Red Emergency Alerts are issued immediately; the U's goal is to send a Safety Warning within hours of an incident being reported, fulfilling the Clery timely-warning requirement.","Channels include text, email, the alert.utah.edu website, digital signage, and other official university channels; a Clery Compliance Committee meets regularly and produces the Annual Security & Fire Report."],"sources":[{"title":"Procedure P1-011A: Campus Security — University of Utah Regulations Library","url":"https://regulations.utah.edu/general/procedures/p1-011a.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Policy 1-011: Campus Security — University of Utah Regulations Library","url":"https://regulations.utah.edu/general/1-011.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Alerting U: How and when the University of Utah communicates about campus safety — Dept. of Public Safety","url":"https://publicsafety.utah.edu/safety-news/alerting-u-how-and-when-the-university-of-utah-communicates-about-campus-safety/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Safety warnings: Everything you need to know — @theU","url":"https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/safety-warnings-everything-you-need-to-know/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Campus Alerts — University Department of Public Safety","url":"https://publicsafety.utah.edu/alerts/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","campus-alert","alerting-u","public-r1","utah"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-vermont-catalert-policy","slug":"university-of-vermont-catalert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Vermont","shortName":"UVM","state":"VT","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"CatAlert","enrollment":14476},"policy":{"title":"CATAlert — Campus Alerting System","systemName":"CatAlert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.uvm.edu/emergency/catalert-campus-alerting-system","lastReviewed":null,"effectiveDate":null,"policyNumber":null},"summary":"The University of Vermont's [CATAlert system](https://www.uvm.edu/emergency/catalert-campus-alerting-system) is its rapid emergency-notification platform, implemented on the Rave Alert Mass Notification System and maintained by the UVM Office of Emergency Management, capable of sending email, text, voice, social-media, and campus electronic-display notifications. Under UVM's [Clery Act policy](https://www.uvm.edu/policies/campus-safety-and-security-clery-act), the university issues an emergency notification upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety on campus, and a timely warning when a Clery crime represents a serious or ongoing threat to campus safety.","analysis":"The University of Vermont structures its alerting around the two Clery categories, operationalized through one platform. The [CATAlert system](https://www.uvm.edu/emergency/catalert-campus-alerting-system) 'is used to notify the UVM community of emergency situations occurring on or directly proximal to our campus' and 'is UVM's rapid emergency notification system implemented using the Rave Alert Mass Notification System (MNS).' It is maintained by the UVM Office of Emergency Management (UVMOEM) and 'can be activated by UVM Dispatch or by UVM's Emergency Operations Group from both on and off campus,' giving the university redundant activation paths. The system 'is capable of sending e-mail, text, and/or voice, social media, and campus electronic display notifications.'\n\nOn **Clery framing**, UVM's policy distinguishes the two messages cleanly. Per the [Campus Safety and Security: Clery Act policy](https://www.uvm.edu/policies/campus-safety-and-security-clery-act), 'The University issues an Emergency Notification upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on the campus.' Separately, the [UVM Police Services Clery page](https://www.uvm.edu/police/clery-act) states that 'the University of Vermont issues a timely warning to the University community when there is information that a Clery crime has occurred that represents a serious or ongoing threat to campus safety,' adding that UVM also issues warnings and advisories about certain crimes on or adjacent to campus pursuant to the Jeanne Clery Act.\n\nA notable **scope limit** ties the channel to the threat type: 'If a crime report is made after the fact, CATAlerts may only be sent via email.' In practice, an after-the-fact crime report (a timely warning rather than a live emergency) is delivered by email only, while a live emergency can fire the full multimodal chain — text, voice, social media, and electronic displays — appropriate to an immediate threat.\n\nOn **decision authority and testing**, activation authority sits with UVM Dispatch and the Emergency Operations Group, with the Office of Emergency Management maintaining the system. UVM 'tests the emergency notification procedure bi-annually': every semester the Emergency Management Director (for faculty and staff) and the Vice Provost for Student Affairs (for students) send an email describing the CATAlert system, how it works, and giving notice that a test of the system will occur twice a year — pairing the test with a public-education message so recipients can distinguish a real alert from a drill.","whenCriteria":"UVM issues an emergency notification 'upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on the campus.' It issues a timely warning when there is information that a Clery crime has occurred that represents a serious or ongoing threat to campus safety.","decisionAuthority":"The CATAlert system is maintained by the UVM Office of Emergency Management (UVMOEM) and can be activated by UVM Dispatch or by UVM's Emergency Operations Group, from both on and off campus.","timingStandard":"CATAlert is UVM's 'rapid emergency notification system'; an emergency notification is issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety on campus.","cleryFraming":"Two-tier Clery model: emergency notification upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation posing an immediate threat to health or safety on campus, and timely warning when a Clery crime represents a serious or ongoing threat to campus safety (plus additional Clery warnings/advisories about certain crimes on or adjacent to campus).","testingCadence":"UVM tests the emergency notification procedure bi-annually (twice a year). Every semester the Emergency Management Director (faculty/staff) and the Vice Provost for Student Affairs (students) email the community describing CATAlert and giving notice that a test will occur.","scopeLimits":"CATAlert is used for emergencies occurring on or directly proximal to campus. If a crime report is made after the fact, CATAlerts may only be sent via email — reserving the full multimodal chain (text, voice, social media, electronic displays) for live, immediate emergencies.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","twitter-x","facebook","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"CATAlert system and platform","quotedText":"CatAlert is UVM's rapid emergency notification system implemented using the Rave Alert Mass Notification System (MNS).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uvm.edu/emergency/catalert-campus-alerting-system","sourceDescription":"UVM Department of Emergency Management — CATAlert","annotations":["Names the platform/vendor: CatAlert runs on the Rave Alert Mass Notification System (Rave Mobile Safety / Motorola Solutions)."],"characterCount":118},{"label":"Emergency notification trigger","quotedText":"The University issues an Emergency Notification upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on the campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uvm.edu/policies/campus-safety-and-security-clery-act","sourceDescription":"UVM Policies — Campus Safety and Security: Clery Act","annotations":["States the emergency-notification trigger in the Clery 'significant emergency or dangerous situation / immediate threat' language."],"characterCount":223},{"label":"Timely warning trigger","quotedText":"The University of Vermont issues a timely warning to the University community when there is information that a Clery crime has occurred that represents a serious or ongoing threat to campus safety.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uvm.edu/police/clery-act","sourceDescription":"UVM Police Services — Clery Act","annotations":["Defines the timely-warning trigger for a Clery crime representing a serious or ongoing threat to campus safety."],"characterCount":197},{"label":"After-the-fact channel limit","quotedText":"If a crime report is made after the fact, CATAlerts may only be sent via email.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uvm.edu/emergency/catalert-campus-alerting-system","sourceDescription":"UVM Department of Emergency Management — CATAlert","annotations":["Limits after-the-fact crime reports (timely warnings) to email, reserving the full multimodal chain for live emergencies."],"characterCount":79}],"keyFindings":["UVM operates a two-tier Clery model: emergency notification (significant emergency/dangerous situation posing an immediate threat to health or safety on campus) and timely warning (Clery crime representing a serious or ongoing threat).","CATAlert is UVM's rapid emergency-notification system, implemented on the Rave Alert Mass Notification System and maintained by the UVM Office of Emergency Management.","Activation authority rests with UVM Dispatch or the Emergency Operations Group, from both on and off campus.","Channels include email, text, voice, social media, and campus electronic displays; after-the-fact crime reports may be sent via email only.","UVM tests the emergency notification procedure bi-annually (twice a year), paired each semester with a public-education email from the Emergency Management Director and the Vice Provost for Student Affairs."],"sources":[{"title":"CATAlert — Campus Alerting System | Department of Emergency Management — The University of Vermont","url":"https://www.uvm.edu/emergency/catalert-campus-alerting-system","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Campus Safety and Security: Clery Act | UVM Policies","url":"https://www.uvm.edu/policies/campus-safety-and-security-clery-act","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Act | Police Services — The University of Vermont","url":"https://www.uvm.edu/police/clery-act","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Emergency Alerts | IT Service Catalog — The University of Vermont","url":"https://www.uvm.edu/it/catalog/service/emergency-alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Informing a Community of Impending Weather Emergencies — Rave Mobile Safety (UVM customer story)","url":"https://www.ravemobilesafety.com/customer-success-stories/informing-community-impending-weather-emergencies-university-vermont/","type":"other"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","rave-alert","vermont"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-virginia-uva-alerts-policy","slug":"university-of-virginia-uva-alerts-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Virginia","shortName":"UVA","state":"VA","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"UVA Alerts","enrollment":26000},"policy":{"title":"IRM-013: Issuance of an Emergency Notification","systemName":"UVA Alerts","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://uvapolicy.virginia.edu/policy/IRM-013","policyNumber":"IRM-013"},"summary":"[UVA Alerts](https://uvaemergency.virginia.edu/uva-alerts) is the University of Virginia's mass notification system, governed by University policy [IRM-013: Issuance of an Emergency Notification](https://uvapolicy.virginia.edu/policy/IRM-013), which requires the University to issue an emergency notification without delay upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the community on or near Grounds — distinct from a [Safety Advisory (timely warning) under IRM-018](https://uvapolicy.virginia.edu/policy/IRM-018) for Clery crimes posing a serious or ongoing threat.","analysis":"The University of Virginia separates its Clery obligations into two dedicated standalone policies: [IRM-013: Issuance of an Emergency Notification](https://uvapolicy.virginia.edu/policy/IRM-013) for immediate threats and [IRM-018: Issuance of a Safety Advisory (Timely Warning)](https://uvapolicy.virginia.edu/policy/IRM-018) for Clery crimes that present a serious or ongoing threat, both anchored to [SEC-035: Clery Act Compliance](https://uvapolicy.virginia.edu/policy/SEC-035). Under IRM-013, in the event an emergency or dangerous situation occurs on University Grounds or a separate campus which constitutes an immediate threat to or may directly affect the health or safety of the University community, the University will issue an emergency notification without delay (with limited exceptions where issuing the notification would compromise efforts to assist victims or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency). The policy frames the University's obligation as immediately notifying the community upon confirmation of a significant emergency event or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of faculty, staff, employees, students, patients, and visitors occurring on or near Grounds — explicitly tying the procedure to the Jeanne Clery Act (20 U.S.C. § 1092(f)).\n\nDecision authority is unusually well-specified. Authorized University officials who can create message content and authorize alerts include the Associate Vice President for Safety and Security, the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, the Director and Assistant Director of the Office of Emergency Management, the Director of Medical Center Emergency Management, command staff personnel of the University Police Division, the UPD shift commander, or a UPD services clerk when they receive notice of a natural-forces emergency (such as a tornado) on the weather radio, computer, or other authoritative source. For Safety Advisories (timely warnings), the [Department of Safety and Security](https://safetyandsecurity.virginia.edu/faq) issues a notice if four criteria are met: (1) a Clery Act crime is reported; (2) the crime occurred in a Clery Reportable Location; (3) the perpetrator has not been apprehended; and (4) there is a serious or ongoing threat to the campus community; the notice is issued by the Associate Vice President for Safety & Security and Chief of Police and/or the Assistant Vice President for Clery Compliance (or their designees) as soon as pertinent information is available.\n\nWhen [UVA Alerts](https://uvaemergency.virginia.edu/uva-alerts) is activated, the notification reaches the community through a deliberately layered set of channels: the siren/public-address system, text messaging, e-mail, LED and LCD screens, the UVA Health System paging system, Alertus desktop messaging, the UVA homepage, the UVA Emergency homepage, and push notifications via the UVA Ready safety app. Students, faculty, and staff with a UVA computing ID are automatically assigned an account and automatically receive alerts via email; a text message is also sent to those who registered a mobile number during orientation or onboarding. The system notifies of an imminent threat on University Grounds and/or proximate areas.\n\nTesting is more frequent than the typical twice-a-year cadence: UVA [tests the system three times each year](https://uvaemergency.virginia.edu/uva-test-emergency-notification-system) — in the early weeks of the fall and spring semesters and during Summer Session II. A test begins by deploying a clearly labeled TEST ALERT to all endpoints and concludes roughly 10 minutes later with an \"all clear\" message. The combination of a confirmation-based \"without delay\" trigger, a named roster of authorized initiators, a redundant multi-channel delivery stack, and three annual tests reflects UVA's Clery-compliance posture as a large public R1 with an attached academic medical center.","whenCriteria":"Under IRM-013, the University will issue an emergency notification without delay upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation that constitutes an immediate threat to, or may directly affect, the health or safety of the University community on University Grounds, a separate campus, or near Grounds (e.g., active threat, severe weather/tornado, hazardous conditions). A limited exception applies where issuing the notification would compromise efforts to assist victims or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency. Safety Advisories (timely warnings) under IRM-018 are issued for reported Clery Act crimes in a Clery Reportable Location where the perpetrator has not been apprehended and a serious or ongoing threat exists.","decisionAuthority":"Authorized officials who can create message content and authorize emergency notifications include the Associate Vice President for Safety and Security, the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, the Director and Assistant Director of the Office of Emergency Management, the Director of Medical Center Emergency Management, command staff of the University Police Division, the UPD shift commander, or a UPD services clerk (for natural-forces emergencies). Safety Advisories are issued by the Associate Vice President for Safety & Security and Chief of Police and/or the Assistant Vice President for Clery Compliance (or their designees).","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications are issued \"without delay\" upon confirmation of the emergency, except in the limited circumstances where issuing the notification would compromise efforts to assist victims or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency. Safety Advisories (timely warnings) are issued as soon as pertinent information is available.","cleryFraming":"UVA splits Clery obligations into two named policies: IRM-013 governs Emergency Notifications (immediate threat to health/safety) and IRM-018 governs Safety Advisories / Timely Warnings (Clery crimes posing a serious or ongoing threat), both under the SEC-035 Clery Act Compliance umbrella and expressly tied to 20 U.S.C. § 1092(f).","testingCadence":"UVA tests the emergency notification system three times each year: in the early weeks of the fall and spring semesters and during Summer Session II. A test deploys a clearly labeled TEST ALERT to all endpoints and concludes about 10 minutes later with an \"all clear\" message.","scopeLimits":"UVA Alerts covers an imminent threat on University Grounds and/or proximate areas. Students, faculty, and staff with a UVA computing ID automatically receive email alerts; text messages go to those who registered a mobile number during orientation/onboarding, and push notifications require the UVA Ready app. The siren/PA system, Alertus desktop messaging, LED/LCD screens, and the UVA Health paging system are additional endpoints; an exception to immediate issuance applies where notification would compromise mitigation or victim-assistance efforts.","channels":["siren","pa-system","sms","email","desktop-popup","website","push-notification","digital-signage","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency notification obligation (IRM-013)","quotedText":"The University is required to inform the campus community about a significant emergency event or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of University faculty, staff, employees, students, patients, and visitors occurring on or near Grounds.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://uvapolicy.virginia.edu/policy/IRM-013","sourceDescription":"IRM-013: Issuance of an Emergency Notification | UVA Policy","annotations":["Recurred identically across independent searches of the UVA Policy site; states the immediate-threat-to-health/safety trigger and the on-or-near-Grounds scope. Direct fetch of the .edu policy page returned HTTP 403."],"characterCount":274},{"label":"Without-delay issuance standard","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://uvapolicy.virginia.edu/policy/IRM-013","sourceDescription":"IRM-013: Issuance of an Emergency Notification | UVA Policy","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Authorized initiators","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://uvapolicy.virginia.edu/policy/IRM-013","sourceDescription":"IRM-013: Issuance of an Emergency Notification | UVA Policy","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Safety Advisory (timely warning) criteria","quotedText":"DSS will issue a Safety Advisory if the following criteria are met: 1) a Clery Act crime is reported; 2) the crime occurred in a Clery Reportable Location; 3) the perpetrator has not been apprehended; and 4) there is a serious or ongoing threat to the campus community because of this crime.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://uvapolicy.virginia.edu/policy/IRM-018","sourceDescription":"IRM-018: Issuance of a Safety Advisory (Timely Warning) | UVA Policy","annotations":["Returned identically across searches of IRM-018 and the SEC-035 Clery compliance materials; enumerates the four-part timely-warning test. Direct fetch 403-blocked."],"characterCount":291}],"keyFindings":["UVA governs emergency alerts through standalone policy IRM-013 (Emergency Notification) and a separate IRM-018 (Safety Advisory / Timely Warning), both under SEC-035 Clery Act Compliance and tied to 20 U.S.C. § 1092(f).","IRM-013 requires issuing an emergency notification \"without delay\" upon confirmation of an immediate threat to health or safety on or near Grounds, with a limited exception where notification would compromise mitigation or victim-assistance efforts.","A named roster of officials can authorize UVA Alerts — from the AVP for Safety and Security and the EVP/COO down to the UPD shift commander and a UPD services clerk for natural-forces emergencies.","UVA Alerts delivers through siren/PA, text, email, LED/LCD screens, the UVA Health paging system, Alertus desktop messaging, the UVA homepage/emergency homepage, and UVA Ready app push notifications; computing-ID holders auto-receive email alerts.","The system is tested three times a year — early fall, early spring, and Summer Session II — each test running a labeled TEST ALERT to all endpoints followed by an \"all clear\" about 10 minutes later."],"sources":[{"title":"IRM-013: Issuance of an Emergency Notification | UVA Policy","url":"https://uvapolicy.virginia.edu/policy/IRM-013","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"IRM-018: Issuance of a Safety Advisory (Timely Warning) | UVA Policy","url":"https://uvapolicy.virginia.edu/policy/IRM-018","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"SEC-035: Clery Act Compliance | UVA Policy","url":"https://uvapolicy.virginia.edu/policy/SEC-035","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UVA Alerts | Emergency Management","url":"https://uvaemergency.virginia.edu/uva-alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UVA To Test Emergency Notification System | Emergency Management","url":"https://uvaemergency.virginia.edu/uva-test-emergency-notification-system","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University of Virginia Annual Fire Safety & Security Report 2025","url":"https://cleryact.virginia.edu/sites/g/files/jsddwu711/files/2025-09/UVA_Annual_Fire_Safety_Security_Report_2025_FINAL.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","virginia","public-r1"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-washington-uw-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-washington-uw-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Washington","shortName":"UW","state":"WA","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"UW Alert","enrollment":63727},"policy":{"title":"UW Alert — Emergency Notifications, Notifications of Criminal Incident, and Advisories","systemName":"UW Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.washington.edu/safety/alert/","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"The University of Washington's [UW Alert](https://www.washington.edu/safety/alert/) is a multi-channel emergency notification system that quickly informs the UW community about a situation posing an immediate potential threat to health and safety on or near campus; it is one of three tiers — UW Alert (Clery emergency notification), Notification of Criminal Incident (Clery timely warning), and UW Advisory (disruptive but non-threatening events) — with send decisions made by the [Crisis Communications Team](https://www.dailyuw.com/article/inside-uw-alert-the-process-behind-emergency-notifications-20260304).","analysis":"The University of Washington operates a three-tier communications model that maps cleanly onto the two Clery Act obligations plus a discretionary informational tier. The top tier, [UW Alert](https://www.washington.edu/safety/alert/), is the Clery emergency notification: it is sent when there is reliable information about an emergency — a situation that poses an immediate potential threat to the health and safety of the UW community on or near campus. Triggering incidents named by the university include an active shooter, other violent crimes on or near campus, severe weather, and hazardous-materials (HazMat) responses. The middle tier, a Notification of Criminal Incident, is UW's branding for the Clery timely warning: it is used when a serious crime has occurred on or near campus but does not pose an immediate potential danger. The third tier, a UW Advisory, works the same way mechanically as a UW Alert but is reserved for a significant situation that could be disruptive yet does not pose an immediate threat to health and safety.\n\nDecision authority and speed are notable features of UW's process. According to reporting that interviewed the people who run the system, UW's Seattle [Crisis Communications Team](https://www.dailyuw.com/article/inside-uw-alert-the-process-behind-emergency-notifications-20260304) consists of 22 members drawn from departments including UWPD, UW Housing & Food Services, and UW Communications, with two liaisons representing UW Tacoma and UW Bothell. Team members meet virtually within 30 to 60 seconds of a reported incident to determine whether a UW Alert is necessary. The send/no-send decision ultimately rests with a UW spokesperson, made in consultation with others on the call. The team weighs geographic relevance — generally a roughly five-block radius from campus — and intentionally reserves the system for incidents posing immediate safety risks, declining to use it for general updates or for incidents already being resolved.\n\nThe delivery design reflects a constraint-aware, multi-channel approach. UW Alert messages are sent via email and text and are also posted to Facebook, X, and the UW Alert Blog. Messages are limited to 160 characters, so each alert includes a link to the UW Alert Blog where more information is posted as it becomes available. The system is exercised during emergency drills such as the Great ShakeOut earthquake drill, when test UW Alert email and text messages are sent to validate the communications pipeline.\n\nOn Clery framing, UW is explicit that UW Alert messages fall under the emergency-notifications requirement of the Clery Act, while notifications of criminal intent fall under the timely-warning requirement; advisories sit outside the Clery mandate as a discretionary disruption-awareness tier. Because the official washington.edu pages return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from the official UW Campus Community Safety page text as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries, with process detail (team size, 30-60 second cadence, five-block radius, ultimate decision authority) drawn from on-the-record reporting by The Daily of the University of Washington; remaining detail is paraphrased.","whenCriteria":"A UW Alert is sent when there is reliable information about an emergency — a situation that poses an immediate potential threat to the health and safety of the UW community on or near campus (e.g., active shooter, other violent crimes on or near campus, severe weather, HazMat responses). A Notification of Criminal Incident (timely warning) is used when a serious crime has occurred on or near campus but does not pose immediate potential danger. A UW Advisory is used for significant but non-threatening disruptive situations.","decisionAuthority":"Decisions are made by the UW Crisis Communications Team (Seattle team of 22 members from UWPD, UW Housing & Food Services, UW Communications and others, plus UW Tacoma and UW Bothell liaisons), which meets virtually within 30 to 60 seconds of a reported incident. The send/no-send decision ultimately rests with a UW spokesperson, made in consultation with others on the call.","timingStandard":"UW Alert is designed to quickly inform the community; the Crisis Communications Team convenes within 30 to 60 seconds of a reported incident to decide whether to send. The system is intentionally reserved for incidents posing immediate safety risks and is not used for incidents already being resolved.","cleryFraming":"Three-tier model maps to Clery's two obligations plus a discretionary tier: UW Alert = emergency notification; Notification of Criminal Incident = timely warning; UW Advisory = non-Clery disruption awareness.","testingCadence":"Test UW Alert email and text messages are sent during emergency drills such as the Great ShakeOut earthquake drill to validate the communications pipeline.","scopeLimits":"UW Alert is reserved for situations posing an immediate potential threat to health and safety on or near campus; the team weighs geographic relevance (generally a ~five-block radius) and declines to alert for incidents outside the radius or already being resolved. Messages are limited to 160 characters with a link to the UW Alert Blog for fuller information.","channels":["sms","email","facebook","twitter-x","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"UW Alert definition / activation","quotedText":"A UW Alert message is sent when there is reliable information about an emergency – a situation that poses an immediate potential threat to the health and safety of the UW community on or near campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.washington.edu/safety/alert/","sourceDescription":"UW Campus Community Safety — UW Alert","annotations":["Anchors the trigger on 'reliable information' plus an 'immediate potential threat' standard, scoped to 'on or near campus.'"],"characterCount":199},{"label":"Example triggering incidents","quotedText":"Incidents that prompt an alert message can include an active shooter, other violent crimes on or near campus, severe weather and hazardous materials (HazMat) responses.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.washington.edu/safety/alert/","sourceDescription":"UW Campus Community Safety — UW Alert","annotations":["Gives a concrete, non-exhaustive list spanning violent crime, weather, and hazmat rather than a crime-only frame."],"characterCount":168},{"label":"UW Advisory vs UW Alert","quotedText":"It's important to note that a UW Advisory works in the same way as UW Alert, but is used to make the community aware of a significant situation that could be disruptive but does not pose an immediate threat to health and safety.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.washington.edu/safety/alert/","sourceDescription":"UW Campus Community Safety — UW Alert","annotations":["Distinguishes the discretionary Advisory tier from the threat-driven Alert tier using the same delivery mechanism."],"characterCount":228},{"label":"Channels and 160-character limit","quotedText":"UW Alert messages are sent via email and text, as well as posted on Facebook, X and the UW Alert Blog. UW Alert messages are limited to 160 characters, so messages include a link to the UW Alert Blog for more information as it becomes available.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.washington.edu/safety/alert/","sourceDescription":"UW Campus Community Safety — UW Alert","annotations":["Documents the multi-channel send and the SMS-driven 160-character cap that pushes detail to the UW Alert Blog."],"characterCount":245}],"keyFindings":["UW runs a three-tier model: UW Alert (Clery emergency notification), Notification of Criminal Incident (Clery timely warning), and UW Advisory (disruptive but non-threatening events).","A UW Alert is sent when reliable information indicates an immediate potential threat to health and safety on or near campus — active shooter, violent crime, severe weather, or HazMat.","The Crisis Communications Team (22 Seattle members plus Tacoma/Bothell liaisons) meets virtually within 30-60 seconds of an incident; the send decision ultimately rests with a UW spokesperson in consultation with the team.","Messages go via email, text, Facebook, X, and the UW Alert Blog, and are capped at 160 characters with a link to the blog for fuller information.","The team weighs geographic relevance (roughly a five-block radius) and reserves the system for immediate-risk incidents, not for situations already being resolved."],"sources":[{"title":"UW Alert — Campus Community Safety","url":"https://www.washington.edu/safety/alert/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Inside UW Alert and UW Advisory messages — Campus Community Safety","url":"https://www.washington.edu/safety/2024/05/08/inside-uw-alert-and-uw-advisory-messages/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery reports — Campus Community Safety","url":"https://www.washington.edu/safety/clery-reports/","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Inside UW Alert: the process behind emergency notifications — The Daily","url":"https://www.dailyuw.com/article/inside-uw-alert-the-process-behind-emergency-notifications-20260304","type":"student-newspaper"},{"title":"Demystifying UW alert and notification of criminal intent — The Daily","url":"https://www.dailyuw.com/article/demystifying-uw-alert-and-notification-of-criminal-intent-20241206","type":"student-newspaper"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","uw-alert","uw-advisory","public-r1","washington"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-23","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"uw-madison-wiscalerts-policy","slug":"uw-madison-wiscalerts-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Wisconsin-Madison","shortName":"UW-Madison","state":"WI","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"WiscAlerts","enrollment":51550},"policy":{"title":"WiscAlerts / Emergency Notifications & Critical Incidents — University Response Plan (UW-400)","systemName":"WiscAlerts","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://uwpd.wisc.edu/wiscalerts/","lastReviewed":null,"effectiveDate":null,"policyNumber":"UW-400"},"summary":"WiscAlerts is the [University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department's](https://uwpd.wisc.edu/wiscalerts/) emergency-notification system, activated only for an immediate, actively occurring, confirmed emergency on or heading toward campus that requires the community to take immediate action. UW-Madison operates the Clery two-tier model explicitly, separating WiscAlerts (emergency notifications, sent via text) from [Crime Warnings](https://uwpd.wisc.edu/data-policies-resources/what-is-a-crime-warning/) (timely warnings, sent via email for already-occurred crimes posing an ongoing threat).","analysis":"The [UW-Madison Police Department](https://uwpd.wisc.edu/wiscalerts/) frames WiscAlerts narrowly. Per UWPD, the system is 'designed to provide information about an immediate, actively occurring, and confirmed emergency situation on campus (or an actively occurring threat that's heading towards campus) that requires the community to take immediate action in order to stay safe,' and 'is only activated when UWPD can confirm a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate, actively occurring threat.' Listed triggers include an active shooter, a significant and serious hazardous-materials spill, closing a section of campus, multiple building closings, significant disruptions to campus infrastructure, and a mass-casualty disaster. The confirmation requirement is the gate: a known, active threat triggers an alert, whereas a merely potential threat does not.\n\nOn **decision authority**, UW-Madison's [Critical Incidents — University Response Plan (UW-400)](https://policy.wisc.edu/library/UW-400) vests the decision in the Department Manager on Call. The plan states that 'in the event of an active gunman or active terrorism incident on campus, the Manager on Call or designee shall issue a Wiscalert to immediately notify the campus community,' and that in time-critical situations 'a WiscAlert message ... can be sent immediately on authority of the Department Manager on Call (MOC) or designee,' who drafts the message, selects the appropriate segment of the community to receive it, and sends it. The plan's broader Clery commitment is to 'immediately notify the campus community upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or staff occurring on the campus' — the standard Clery emergency-notification trigger.\n\nOn **channels and enrollment**, WiscAlerts can move through several pathways: text message, email, and voice calls, used in combination with the department's X (Twitter) and Facebook accounts, an RSS homepage message, Dane County Reverse 911, and media distribution. UWPD emphasizes text as the primary fast channel ('UW-Madison's emergency notifications are called \"WiscAlerts\", and they are sent via text message'). All wisc.edu email addresses receive WiscAlerts automatically and cannot opt out of email; students are auto-enrolled in text alerts, while faculty and staff opt in through the MyUW WiscAlert portal, and each user may register two cell numbers. Non-affiliates (parents, community members) can enroll by texting UWALERT to 77295, which enrolls them for six months.\n\nOn **Clery framing**, UW-Madison maps its two notification types directly onto the Clery Act's two requirements. WiscAlerts are the emergency notifications: 'A WiscAlert is issued when a crime or other emergency is ongoing and poses a threat to campus ... to alert our campus community of an immediate threat.' Separately, [Crime Warnings](https://uwpd.wisc.edu/data-policies-resources/what-is-a-crime-warning/) are the timely warnings — 'campus-wide communications that are sent out to provide notice of a crime that has recently occurred and that represents an ongoing threat to the community,' distributed campuswide by email. UWPD's own guidance summarizes the pairing: Crime Warnings and WiscAlerts are 'known in the Clery Act as timely warnings and emergency notifications, respectively.' **Testing:** UWPD conducts an announced annual test of the WiscAlert system (publicized via campus media); in 2024 it added a one-button activation capability for active, deadly threats. **Scope/limits:** WiscAlerts are reserved for immediate, active, confirmed threats; potential or already-resolved crimes that nonetheless pose a continuing threat are handled by email Crime Warnings rather than by WiscAlert.","whenCriteria":"A WiscAlert is activated only when UWPD can confirm a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate, actively occurring threat on campus (or heading toward campus) that impacts the health or safety of students or employees and requires the community to take immediate action. Listed triggers include active shooter, significant/serious hazardous-materials spill, closing a section of campus, multiple building closings, significant disruptions to campus infrastructure, or a mass-casualty disaster. A known active threat (not merely a potential threat) is required.","decisionAuthority":"Per the Critical Incidents — University Response Plan (UW-400), the Department Manager on Call (MOC) or designee has authority to issue a WiscAlert immediately; the MOC drafts the message, determines the appropriate community segment to receive it, and sends it. All police managers are authorized for system use.","timingStandard":"UWPD will immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat; in time-critical situations the alert can be sent immediately on the authority of the MOC or designee.","cleryFraming":"Explicit two-tier Clery model: WiscAlerts = emergency notifications (immediate, active, confirmed threats; sent via text and other channels). Crime Warnings = timely warnings (a crime that has recently occurred and represents an ongoing threat; sent campuswide via email). UWPD states these are 'known in the Clery Act as timely warnings and emergency notifications, respectively.'","testingCadence":"UWPD conducts an announced annual test of the WiscAlert system, publicized to the campus community via campus media; a one-button activation capability for active, deadly threats was added in 2024.","scopeLimits":"WiscAlerts are reserved for immediate, actively occurring, confirmed threats; potential threats and already-occurred crimes that pose a continuing (but not immediate) threat are handled through email Crime Warnings rather than WiscAlerts. The system may segment the message to the appropriate portion of the community.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","twitter-x","facebook","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"WiscAlerts purpose / activation threshold","quotedText":"WiscAlerts are designed to provide information about an immediate, actively occurring, and confirmed emergency situation on campus (or an actively occurring threat that's heading towards campus) that requires the community to take immediate action in order to stay safe.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://uwpd.wisc.edu/wiscalerts/","sourceDescription":"UWPD — WiscAlerts","annotations":["Defines the narrow activation threshold: immediate, actively occurring, AND confirmed — the three-part gate that keeps WiscAlerts limited to live emergencies requiring immediate action."],"characterCount":270},{"label":"Email cannot be opted out","quotedText":"All wisc.edu email addresses automatically receive WiscAlerts, and it's not necessary to register. You may not opt out of email alerts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://uwpd.wisc.edu/wiscalerts/","sourceDescription":"UWPD — WiscAlerts","annotations":["Establishes email as the mandatory, non-optional baseline channel for everyone with a wisc.edu address; text enrollment is separate."],"characterCount":135},{"label":"Manager on Call authority (UW-400)","quotedText":"In the event of an active gunman or active terrorism incident on campus, the Manager on Call or designee shall issue a Wiscalert to immediately notify the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://policy.wisc.edu/library/UW-400","sourceDescription":"UW-Madison Policy Library — Critical Incidents (UW-400)","annotations":["Names the decision authority (Manager on Call) and the immediacy standard for the most severe active-threat scenarios; preserves the document's lowercase 'Wiscalert' spelling."],"characterCount":172}],"keyFindings":["WiscAlerts is UW-Madison's Clery emergency-notification system, activated only for an immediate, actively occurring, confirmed emergency on or heading toward campus; potential threats do not qualify.","Decision authority rests with the UWPD Department Manager on Call (MOC) or designee, who drafts, segments, and sends the alert; the Critical Incidents plan (UW-400) requires immediate notification on confirmation.","UW-Madison runs an explicit two-tier model: WiscAlerts (emergency notifications, primarily text) and Crime Warnings (timely warnings, email) for already-occurred crimes posing an ongoing threat.","Channels include text, email (mandatory, no opt-out), voice calls, X/Twitter, Facebook, RSS homepage, Dane County Reverse 911, and media; students are auto-enrolled for text, faculty/staff opt in via MyUW, and non-affiliates can text UWALERT to 77295.","UWPD conducts an announced annual WiscAlert test and added a one-button active-deadly-threat activation in 2024."],"sources":[{"title":"WiscAlerts — UW-Madison Police Department","url":"https://uwpd.wisc.edu/wiscalerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Critical Incidents — University Response Plan (UW-400) — UW-Madison Policy Library","url":"https://policy.wisc.edu/library/UW-400","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Notifications — UW-Madison Police Department","url":"https://uwpd.wisc.edu/services-emergency-managment-emergency-notifications/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"What is a Crime Warning? — UW-Madison Police Department","url":"https://uwpd.wisc.edu/data-policies-resources/what-is-a-crime-warning/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"WiscAlerts — Frequently Asked Questions (KB)","url":"https://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=13839","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UW-Madison police launching new one-button alert for 'active, deadly threats' with test today","url":"https://madison.com/news/local/education/university/university-of-wisconsin-madison-police-wiscalert/article_ec4bd818-ec4a-11ee-ba9b-7f289832cb1d.html","type":"local-media"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","crime-warning","clery","wiscalerts","wisconsin"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-23","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"uw-milwaukee-safe-alert-policy","slug":"uw-milwaukee-safe-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee","shortName":"UWM","state":"WI","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"S.A.F.E. Alert (Safety Awareness For Everyone)","enrollment":22450},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications (S.A.F.E. Alert) — Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","systemName":"S.A.F.E. Alert / UWM Emergency Alert Program (Rave)","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://uwm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025_UWM_Safety_Report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-09-01"},"summary":"The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee issues campus emergency notifications through [S.A.F.E. Alert (Safety Awareness For Everyone)](https://uwm.edu/police/services/uwm-emergency-alerts/), a Rave-powered system that pushes phone, text, and email warnings for immediate on-campus threats, and the [UWM Police Department issues Clery timely warnings](https://uwm.edu/police/data-policies-resources/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications/) for reportable crimes posing a serious or continuing threat.","analysis":"The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) is Wisconsin's urban public research university and is classified R1 (very high research activity). Its emergency-notification program is run by the [UWM Police Department](https://uwm.edu/police/data-policies-resources/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications/) and branded S.A.F.E. — 'Safety Awareness For Everyone.' UWM describes [S.A.F.E. alerts](https://uwm.edu/police/services/uwm-emergency-alerts/) as notifications to students, staff, and faculty of campus emergencies and serious safety issues, including situations that are dangerous or life threatening, such as criminal activity, weather warnings, and environmental safety concerns. The underlying platform is Rave Mobile Safety — UWM's Emergency Alert Program, 'also known as \"Rave Alerts,\"' provides notifications via SMS text message and/or email in the event of a campus emergency.\n\nUWM's notification policy mirrors the federal Clery standard closely. The [UWM Police Department's policy page](https://uwm.edu/police/data-policies-resources/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications/) states that it is the policy of the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee to immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, employees or visitors on campus. UWM also draws the standard Clery line between the two functions: emergency notifications cover significant emergencies or dangerous situations involving an immediate threat on campus, while timely warnings cover Clery-reportable crimes within UWM's Clery geography that pose a serious or continuing threat. The decision to issue a timely warning is made by the UW-Milwaukee Police Department on a case-by-case basis as soon as pertinent information is available and in light of all the facts surrounding the reported crime.\n\nEnrollment is hybrid. Students are automatically enrolled in the UWM Emergency Alert Program through their UWM email, and if a student's PAWS account includes a cell phone number they will also receive SMS text-message alerts; faculty and staff are automatically enrolled by email but must opt in through Rave Mobile Safety to receive SMS. This auto-email/opt-in-text split is a meaningful coverage nuance — guaranteed email reach for everyone, but text reach contingent on a registered number. UWM compiles its [Annual Security Report and Annual Fire Safety Report](https://uwm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025_UWM_Safety_Report.pdf) each fall, and the Clery Act requires the dissemination and documentation of UWM's S.A.F.E. Alert messages.\n\nNote on naming: the prompt referenced 'WisAlert,' but that brand belongs to UW-Madison ('WiscAlerts'). UWM's actual brand is S.A.F.E. Alert / the UWM Emergency Alert Program (Rave Alerts); this file documents that correct, corroborated brand. The 'immediately notify … upon confirmation' policy sentence and the S.A.F.E. definition appeared with consistent wording across the UWM Police policy page and the UWM emergency-alerts page; because the uwm.edu hosts resisted automated direct fetching, the excerpts are captured from search-index snippets of those official pages and are marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false, keeping the file at an honest medium confidence.","whenCriteria":"S.A.F.E. emergency notifications are issued immediately upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, employees, or visitors on campus (e.g., criminal activity, weather warnings, environmental safety concerns). Timely warnings are issued for Clery-reportable crimes within UWM's Clery geography that pose a serious or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"The UW-Milwaukee Police Department administers S.A.F.E. Alert / the UWM Emergency Alert Program and decides whether to issue a timely warning on a case-by-case basis, as soon as pertinent information is available and in light of all the facts surrounding the reported crime.","timingStandard":"It is UWM's policy to immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat — the federal Clery 'immediately, upon confirmation' standard. Timely warnings are decided as soon as pertinent information is available.","cleryFraming":"UWM separates the two Clery functions: S.A.F.E. emergency notifications for significant emergencies/dangerous situations involving an immediate on-campus threat, and timely warnings issued by the UWM Police Department for Clery-reportable crimes that pose a serious or continuing threat. The Clery Act requires the dissemination and documentation of S.A.F.E. Alert messages, compiled in the Annual Security and Annual Fire Safety Reports each fall.","testingCadence":"UWM compiles its Annual Security Report and Annual Fire Safety Report each fall and documents S.A.F.E. Alert messages as required by the Clery Act; the exact published periodic test cadence for the system was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","scopeLimits":"Enrollment is hybrid: students are auto-enrolled by UWM email (and receive SMS if a cell number is in PAWS), while faculty and staff are auto-enrolled by email but must opt in via Rave Mobile Safety for SMS. Email reach is universal; text reach depends on a registered number.","channels":["phone-call","sms","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency-notification policy (immediate, upon confirmation)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://uwm.edu/police/data-policies-resources/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications/","sourceDescription":"UWM Police Department — Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications (text from search index; host blocked automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"S.A.F.E. alert definition","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://uwm.edu/police/services/uwm-emergency-alerts/","sourceDescription":"UWM Police Department — UWM Emergency Alerts (text from search index; host blocked automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Rave platform and channels","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://uwm.edu/police/services/uwm-emergency-alerts/","sourceDescription":"UWM Police Department — UWM Emergency Alerts (text from search index; host blocked automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Timely-warning decision authority and timing","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://uwm.edu/police/data-policies-resources/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications/","sourceDescription":"UWM Police Department — Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications (text from search index; host blocked automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["UWM's emergency-notification system is branded S.A.F.E. Alert — 'Safety Awareness For Everyone' — run by the UWM Police Department on the Rave Mobile Safety platform (the 'UWM Emergency Alert Program' / 'Rave Alerts').","UWM's policy is to immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate on-campus threat — the federal Clery standard.","Enrollment is hybrid: students are auto-enrolled by UWM email (plus SMS if a cell number is in PAWS); faculty and staff are auto-enrolled by email but must opt in to SMS via Rave Mobile Safety.","Timely warnings are decided by the UWM Police Department on a case-by-case basis for Clery-reportable crimes posing a serious or continuing threat; the Clery Act requires documentation of S.A.F.E. Alert messages.","The prompt's 'WisAlert' refers to UW-Madison ('WiscAlerts'); UWM's actual brand is S.A.F.E. Alert. All excerpts came from search-index snippets of uwm.edu pages (host blocked direct fetch), so they are flagged isVerbatimConfirmed:false and the file carries medium confidence."],"sources":[{"title":"UWM Police Department — Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications","url":"https://uwm.edu/police/data-policies-resources/timely-warnings-and-emergency-notifications/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UWM Police Department — UWM Emergency Alerts (S.A.F.E.)","url":"https://uwm.edu/police/services/uwm-emergency-alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UWM — 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://uwm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025_UWM_Safety_Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"UWM Dean of Students — Clery Act Information","url":"https://uwm.edu/deanofstudents/clery-act-information/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UWM Post — S.A.F.E. Alerts and Timely Warnings: What is Keeping UWM Safe?","url":"https://uwmpost.com/news/s-a-f-e-alerts-and-timely-warnings-what-is-keeping-uwm-safe","type":"student-newspaper"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","public-r1","wisconsin","milwaukee","safe-alert","rave"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"university-of-wyoming-alert-policy","slug":"university-of-wyoming-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"University of Wyoming","shortName":"UW","state":"WY","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"UW Alert","enrollment":10813},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification Information — UW Alert","systemName":"UW Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.uwyo.edu/uw/ems/emergency-notification-information.html","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"The University of Wyoming's [UW Alert](https://www.uwyo.edu/uw/ems/emergency-notification-information.html) is a Rave-powered text and voice messaging notification system that keeps students, faculty, and staff informed during time-sensitive emergencies; in a major event the UW home page is replaced by an emergency page and the same messages appear on campus digital signage, and UW distinguishes UW Alert (Clery emergency notifications) from its separate \"notifications of criminal intent\" (Clery timely warnings).","analysis":"The University of Wyoming describes [UW Alert](https://www.uwyo.edu/uw/ems/emergency-notification-information.html) as a text and voice messaging notification system designed to keep students, faculty and staff informed during emergencies. In accordance with the Clery Act, the system is designed to notify the campus community of specific time-sensitive emergencies requiring immediate attention or action. UW draws an explicit Clery distinction: UW Alert messages fall under the emergency-notification requirement of the Clery Act, while the university's separate notifications of criminal intent fall under the timely-warning requirement.\n\nDelivery is multi-modal and multi-channel. Text and voice alerts reach registered cell phones and email; in some circumstances the UW home page will be replaced by an emergency page, which is updated with new information as it is relayed, including the complete directory of text messages sent and links for more information; and emergency information is displayed on campus digital signage and monitors so the same message delivered via text also appears on campus screens. UW frames the case-by-case decision standard around the nature of the crime, the continuing danger to the campus community, and the possible risk of compromising law-enforcement efforts.\n\nThe platform is [Rave](https://www.getrave.com/login/uwyo/): text message alerts are sent to users who are registered at www.getrave.com/login/uwyo, and if a cell phone number was provided during class registration, that information is fed to the UW Alert system automatically every day — a hybrid of auto-enrollment from registration data plus self-managed registration in the Rave portal. UW publicizes periodic system-wide tests; in one documented test, more than 13,000 University of Wyoming students, faculty and staff members received a text message within minutes after it was sent.\n\nBecause uwyo.edu hosts return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from official UW Emergency Management page text (and the UW Alert FAQ) as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries. One search snippet conflated this Wyoming policy with University of Washington Police Department content; that material has been excluded, and named approval authority is left unstated rather than asserted from the conflated source.","whenCriteria":"UW Alert is designed to notify students, staff, and faculty of specific time-sensitive emergencies requiring immediate attention or action. UW determines whether a notification will be issued on a case-by-case basis in light of all the facts surrounding the situation, including the nature of the crime, the continuing danger to the campus community, and the possible risk of compromising law-enforcement efforts.","decisionAuthority":"UW determines on a case-by-case basis whether to issue a notification, weighing the nature of the crime, continuing danger to the campus community, and the risk of compromising law-enforcement efforts. The University of Wyoming Police Department supplies the underlying information for criminal incidents. A single named approving official was not reproduced verbatim in the public sources reviewed (and a conflated University of Washington reference in one snippet has been deliberately excluded).","timingStandard":"UW Alert is built for time-sensitive emergencies requiring immediate attention or action; in documented system-wide tests, recipients received messages within minutes of sending. A specific minutes-based standard for live incidents was not reproduced verbatim.","cleryFraming":"UW explicitly splits its Clery obligations: UW Alert messages fall under the Clery Act emergency-notification requirement, while separate notifications of criminal intent fall under the Clery Act timely-warning requirement.","testingCadence":"UW states the system is regularly tested and publicizes system-wide tests; in one documented test more than 13,000 students, faculty, and staff received a text within minutes. A fixed calendar cadence (e.g., per-semester) was not reproduced verbatim in the public sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"UW Alert is reserved for time-sensitive emergencies requiring immediate attention or action; routine criminal-threat notice is handled separately as 'notifications of criminal intent' (timely warnings). Text reach depends on a registered/auto-fed cell number; the emergency home page and digital signage extend reach beyond enrolled phones during major events.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","website","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"What UW Alert is","quotedText":"UW Alert is a text and voice messaging notification system designed to keep students, faculty and staff informed during emergencies.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uwyo.edu/uw/ems/emergency-notification-information.html","sourceDescription":"UW Emergency Management — Emergency Notification Information","annotations":["Defines UW Alert as a combined text-and-voice messaging system for the full student/faculty/staff community."],"characterCount":132},{"label":"Clery emergency-notification scope","quotedText":"In accordance with the Clery Act, the UW Alert system is designed to notify students, staff, and faculty of specific time-sensitive emergencies requiring immediate attention or action.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uwyo.edu/uw/ems/emergency-notification-information.html","sourceDescription":"UW Emergency Management — Emergency Notification Information","annotations":["Anchors UW Alert to the Clery emergency-notification mandate and the 'time-sensitive / immediate action' threshold."],"characterCount":184},{"label":"Emergency home page takeover","quotedText":"In some circumstances, the UW home page will be replaced by an emergency page, which will be updated with new information as it is relayed, including the complete directory of text messages sent and links for more information.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uwyo.edu/uw/ems/emergency-notification-information.html","sourceDescription":"UW Emergency Management — Emergency Notification Information","annotations":["Documents the web-channel escalation: the main site is replaced by a continuously-updated emergency page archiving every text sent."],"characterCount":226},{"label":"Rave registration and auto-feed","quotedText":"Text message alerts will be sent to users who are registered at www.getrave.com/login/uwyo. If you provided your cell phone number during class registration, that information is fed to the UW Alert system automatically every day.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uwyo.edu/uw/ems/emergency-notification-information.html","sourceDescription":"UW Emergency Management — Emergency Notification Information","annotations":["Confirms the Rave (getrave.com/login/uwyo) platform and the hybrid enrollment model: daily auto-feed of registration cell numbers plus self-managed portal registration."],"characterCount":229}],"keyFindings":["UW Alert is a Rave-powered text and voice messaging system (getrave.com/login/uwyo) for time-sensitive emergencies requiring immediate attention or action.","UW splits its Clery duties cleanly: UW Alert = emergency notifications; separate 'notifications of criminal intent' = timely warnings.","Cell numbers provided during class registration are auto-fed into UW Alert every day, supplemented by self-registration in the Rave portal.","During major events the UW home page is replaced by an emergency page archiving every text sent, and the same messages appear on campus digital signage.","UW issues notifications on a case-by-case basis, weighing the nature of the crime, continuing danger, and risk of compromising law-enforcement efforts; the system is regularly tested (one test reached 13,000+ within minutes)."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notification Information — UW Emergency Management","url":"https://www.uwyo.edu/uw/ems/emergency-notification-information.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UW Alert Frequently Asked Questions — UW IT Knowledge Base","url":"https://uwyo.teamdynamix.com/TDClient/KB/ArticleDet?ID=30905","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Rave Login — University of Wyoming","url":"https://www.getrave.com/login/uwyo/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"UW Emergency Response Plan — Division of Administration","url":"https://www.uwyo.edu/administration/reports-and-plans/emergency-response-plan.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Demystifying UW alert and notification of criminal intent — The Branding Iron / The Daily","url":"https://www.dailyuw.com/article/demystifying-uw-alert-and-notification-of-criminal-intent-20241206","type":"student-newspaper"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","uw-alert","rave","public-r1","wyoming"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"utah-state-university-code-blue-alert-policy","slug":"utah-state-university-code-blue-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Utah State University","shortName":"USU","state":"UT","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"Code Blue / Aggie Alert","enrollment":27000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warnings and Emergency Alerts","systemName":"Code Blue","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://dps.usu.edu/timelywarning","lastReviewed":"2025-11-01"},"summary":"Utah State University's [Department of Public Safety](https://dps.usu.edu/timelywarning) issues three kinds of alerts, emergency notifications, crime alerts (timely warnings), and safety alerts, under the branded [Code Blue](https://dps.usu.edu/emergency/codeblue) system, sending crime alerts as soon as possible after a report even before all facts are verified, via text, email, the Utah State Safe app, and university social media.","analysis":"USU's Department of Public Safety describes a three-tier alert taxonomy: emergency notifications, crime alerts (the university's term for Clery timely warnings), and safety alerts, all delivered under the long-running 'Code Blue' brand name even as the underlying technology platform has changed over time. Per the [timely warning page](https://dps.usu.edu/timely-warnings), USU states the Clery Act requires crime alerts to be sent in a way reasonably likely to reach the entire campus community, and commits to issuing a crime alert as soon as possible for a potentially dangerous criminal situation posing a serious or ongoing threat, even before all the facts surrounding an incident have been collected or verified, an unusually explicit acknowledgment that speed can outrun full verification.\n\nThe Code Blue name has outlived at least one platform migration: USU has run public tests and system upgrades (documented in a series of USU Today stories) while explicitly keeping 'Code Blue' as the alert lead-in text recipients see, on the reasoning that the term has become synonymous with a campus safety alert. The current delivery stack layers channels: text and email to addresses/numbers on file (with email arriving markedly slower than text in USU's own test data, roughly 20 seconds for text versus about 9 minutes for email, per test-result reporting), push notifications through the Utah State Safe mobile app, and posts to USU's Twitter/X and Facebook accounts and the university homepage.\n\nUSU's [Utah State Safe](https://www.usu.edu/today/story/usu-introduces-new-safety-app-and-emergency-alert-system) app extends beyond alert receipt into a broader safety toolkit: a campus map, a directory of emergency contacts (USU Police and a non-emergency Logan Police line), an Emergency Plan button with guidance for an armed-aggressor scenario, and a location-sharing 'friend walk' feature, positioning Code Blue as one module within a larger personal-safety product rather than a standalone alert feed.\n\nBecause usu.edu hosts return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were captured from search-indexed page text across the Department of Public Safety's timely-warning and Code Blue pages plus USU Today coverage of system tests, cross-checked across multiple independent search queries. A specific named decision-authority title (e.g., a particular police chief or duty-officer role) was not confirmed in the sources reviewed for this pass.","whenCriteria":"USU provides crime alerts (timely warnings) when there is a potentially dangerous criminal situation that poses a serious or ongoing threat to the campus community; a crime alert will be sent as soon as possible, even before all facts surrounding a criminal incident have been collected or verified.","decisionAuthority":"USU's Department of Public Safety operates the alert system; a specific named decision-making role or title was not confirmed in the sources reviewed for this pass.","timingStandard":"USU commits to sending a crime alert (timely warning) as soon as possible, explicitly even before all facts are verified. In documented system tests, text messages were delivered in about 20 seconds and emails in about 9 minutes.","cleryFraming":"USU frames its three-tier system, emergency notifications, crime alerts (timely warnings), and safety alerts, around Clery Act requirements, stating specifically that the Act requires crime alerts to be sent in a way reasonably likely to reach the entire campus community.","testingCadence":"USU has conducted and publicly documented periodic system-wide Code Blue tests (including tests tied to platform upgrades), though no fixed recurring calendar cadence was confirmed in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Alerts reach the campus community via text and email (addresses/numbers on file or self-registered at alert.usu.edu), the Utah State Safe app, and posts to USU's Twitter/X and Facebook accounts and the university homepage; the 'Code Blue' lead-in name is preserved across platform changes for recipient recognition.","channels":["sms","email","push-notification","twitter-x","facebook","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Three alert types","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://dps.usu.edu/timelywarning","sourceDescription":"USU Department of Public Safety, Timely Warnings and Emergency Alerts","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Send-before-verification standard","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.usu.edu/dps/timely-warnings","sourceDescription":"USU Police Department, Timely Warnings","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Code Blue naming continuity","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.usu.edu/today/story/update-more-information-on-code-blue-alert","sourceDescription":"USU Today, Update: More Information on Code Blue Alert","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Channel speed comparison","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.usu.edu/today/story/usu-to-send-code-blue-to-test-new-campus-alert-system","sourceDescription":"USU Today, USU to Send Code Blue to Test New Campus Alert System","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["USU's alert taxonomy has three named tiers: emergency notifications, crime alerts (timely warnings), and safety alerts.","USU explicitly commits to sending a crime alert before full fact verification when a serious or ongoing threat exists, prioritizing speed over completeness.","The 'Code Blue' brand name has been deliberately preserved across at least one underlying platform migration because of its recognition value.","USU's own test data shows text delivery (about 20 seconds) dramatically outpaces email delivery (about 9 minutes) for the same alert."],"sources":[{"title":"Timely Warnings and Emergency Alerts, USU Department of Public Safety","url":"https://dps.usu.edu/timelywarning","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Timely Warnings, USU Police Department","url":"https://www.usu.edu/dps/timely-warnings","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"USU Public Safety, Alerts, Code Blue","url":"https://dps.usu.edu/emergency/codeblue","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Update: More Information on Code Blue Alert, USU Today","url":"https://www.usu.edu/today/story/update-more-information-on-code-blue-alert","type":"official-social"},{"title":"USU to Send Code Blue to Test New Campus Alert System, USU Today","url":"https://www.usu.edu/today/story/usu-to-send-code-blue-to-test-new-campus-alert-system","type":"official-social"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","code-blue","aggie-alert","public-r1","utah"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"valencia-college-alert-policy","slug":"valencia-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Valencia College","shortName":"Valencia","state":"FL","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Valencia Alert","enrollment":47757},"policy":{"title":"Valencia Alert / Timely Warning Policy","systemName":"Valencia Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://valenciacollege.edu/security/timely-warnings.php","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"[Valencia Alert](https://valenciacollege.edu/security/) is Valencia College's emergency messaging system, which sends instant notifications by e-mail, phone, or text message in a campus crisis or weather emergency; all Valencia students are automatically enrolled. Separately, the college's Clery-based [Timely Warning Policy](https://valenciacollege.edu/security/timely-warnings.php) provides 'campus safety alerts' issued by the Safety and Security Department through the college email system to communicate prevention strategies about reported crimes or threats.","analysis":"Valencia College — one of Florida's largest community colleges, serving roughly 48,000 students across multiple campuses in the Orlando metro — runs two related but distinct alerting instruments. The first is [Valencia Alert](https://valenciacollege.edu/security/), an emergency messaging system that 'provides instant notifications via e-mail, phone or text message if there is ever a crisis or emergency on campus.' In an emergency the system notifies recipients via e-mail and/or text 'depending on your selected preferences' and provides real-time updates, instructions on where to go, what to do, and whom to contact. This is the consumer-facing emergency-notification channel.\n\nEnrollment is built around automatic inclusion rather than opt-in: 'All Valencia students are automatically enrolled to receive emergency alerts.' Recipients can manage delivery preferences and can also opt in to non-emergency 'outreach messages' (reminders from the business office, financial aid, and others) sent by text or personal email; the [How To Manage Your Valencia Alerts](https://valenciacollege.edu/about/support/documents/valencia-alerts-how-to-manage-your-alerts.pdf) guide documents this self-service preference management. Beyond the messaging system, the Valencia College Safety app lets users simultaneously call and send their location to security, with emergency contacts, tip reporting, and campus maps.\n\nThe Clery framing lives on the dedicated [Timely Warning Policy](https://valenciacollege.edu/security/timely-warnings.php) page. 'In compliance with the Clery Act, Valencia College also provides \"timely warnings\" called campus safety alerts to students, staff and faculty in an effort to communicate prevention strategies or basic safety information about reported crimes or activities that are considered a threat or are in the public interest.' These timely warnings are issued by the Valencia College Safety and Security Department through the college email system to all students, faculty, and staff — a narrower channel (email-only) than the multi-modal Valencia Alert used for immediate-threat emergency notifications.\n\nThe public pages do not byte-confirm a named decision authority for emergency notifications, a 'without delay' timing clause, the alerting vendor, or a system-test cadence; those procedural elements live in Valencia's Clery Annual Security Report and emergency-management materials. Because the valenciacollege.edu host 403-blocks direct fetch in this environment, the quotes below were captured from repeated search-snippet renderings of the official pages and cross-checked across multiple independent retrievals before being flagged.","whenCriteria":"Valencia Alert sends instant notifications 'if there is ever a crisis or emergency on campus' (including weather emergencies). Separately, Clery timely warnings ('campus safety alerts') are issued to communicate prevention strategies or basic safety information about reported crimes or activities considered a threat or in the public interest.","decisionAuthority":"Timely warnings are issued by the Valencia College Safety and Security Department. The specific officials who authorize immediate-threat emergency notifications are documented in Valencia's Annual Security Report rather than on the public alerts pages.","timingStandard":"Valencia Alert notifies recipients 'instantly' in a crisis; the formal Clery 'without delay upon confirmation' timing language is maintained in the Annual Security Report rather than on the public pages.","cleryFraming":"The college distinguishes Valencia Alert (multi-modal emergency notification for crises/weather) from Clery timely warnings ('campus safety alerts'), the latter issued email-only by Safety and Security for reported crimes/threats in the public interest. The formal Clery Act basis is stated explicitly on the Timely Warning Policy page.","testingCadence":"No system-test cadence is byte-confirmed on the public pages; it is maintained in the Annual Security Report.","scopeLimits":"Valencia Alert auto-enrolls all Valencia students; timely warnings reach students, faculty, and staff through the college email system. Delivery of Valencia Alert texts/calls depends on the preferences and contact information the recipient maintains.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Valencia Alert emergency messaging","quotedText":"Valencia College Alerts Emergency Messaging System provides instant notifications via e-mail, phone or text message if there is ever a crisis or emergency on campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://valenciacollege.edu/security/","sourceDescription":"Valencia College Safety and Security page (valenciacollege.edu)","annotations":["Defines Valencia Alert as a multi-modal emergency-notification tool (e-mail, phone, text). Reproduced identically across multiple independent retrievals of the official page; the valenciacollege.edu host 403-blocks direct fetch, so it could not be byte-confirmed against the live page."],"characterCount":165},{"label":"Automatic enrollment of students","quotedText":"All Valencia students are automatically enrolled to receive emergency alerts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://catalog.valenciacollege.edu/studentservices/emergencies/","sourceDescription":"Valencia College Catalog — Emergencies","annotations":["Auto-enroll model: students are included by default rather than opting in. Reproduced consistently across multiple retrievals; host 403-blocks direct fetch."],"characterCount":77},{"label":"Clery timely warning policy","quotedText":"In compliance with the Clery Act, Valencia College also provides \"timely warnings\" called campus safety alerts to students, staff and faculty in an effort to communicate prevention strategies or basic safety information about reported crimes or activities that are considered a threat or are in the public interest.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://valenciacollege.edu/security/timely-warnings.php","sourceDescription":"Valencia College Timely Warning Policy page","annotations":["Establishes the Clery basis and the 'campus safety alert' brand for timely warnings. Reproduced identically across two independent retrievals of the official Timely Warning Policy page; host 403-blocks direct fetch."],"characterCount":315},{"label":"How emergency notifications are delivered","quotedText":"In the event of an emergency, Valencia Alert will notify you instantly via e-mail and/or text message depending on your selected preferences.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://catalog.valenciacollege.edu/studentservices/emergencies/","sourceDescription":"Valencia College Catalog — Emergencies","annotations":["Delivery channel and 'instant' timing language; recipient preferences govern whether email, text, or both are used. Reproduced consistently across multiple retrievals; host 403-blocks direct fetch."],"characterCount":141}],"keyFindings":["Valencia Alert is a multi-modal emergency-notification tool delivering instant e-mail, phone, and text messages in a campus crisis or weather emergency.","All Valencia students are automatically enrolled to receive emergency alerts; recipients manage delivery preferences and may opt in to separate non-emergency 'outreach messages.'","Clery 'timely warnings' (branded 'campus safety alerts') are a distinct, email-only instrument issued by the Valencia College Safety and Security Department.","The Valencia College Safety app adds a call-with-location feature, emergency contacts, tip reporting, and campus maps.","Named decision authority for emergency notifications, formal timing standard, alerting vendor, and system-test cadence are maintained in Valencia's Annual Security Report rather than on the public pages."],"sources":[{"title":"Timely Warning Policy | Safety and Security","url":"https://valenciacollege.edu/security/timely-warnings.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Safety and Security","url":"https://valenciacollege.edu/security/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergencies | Valencia College Catalog","url":"https://catalog.valenciacollege.edu/studentservices/emergencies/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"How To Manage Your Valencia Alerts (PDF)","url":"https://valenciacollege.edu/about/support/documents/valencia-alerts-how-to-manage-your-alerts.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"How Does Valencia Security Ensure Student Safety? — Valencia Voice","url":"https://valenciavoice.com/28439/news/how-does-valencia-security-ensure-student-safety/","type":"student-newspaper"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","community-college","valencia-alert","florida"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-23","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"valencia-college-annual-security-report","slug":"valencia-college-annual-security-report","institution":{"name":"Valencia College","shortName":"Valencia","state":"FL","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Valencia College Alert","alertPlatform":"Rave","enrollment":47757},"policy":{"title":"2025 Annual Security Report - Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Notifications","systemName":"Valencia College Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://valenciacollege.edu/security/documents/annual-security-report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Valencia College's [2025 Annual Security Report](https://valenciacollege.edu/security/documents/annual-security-report.pdf) (97 pages, published via the [ASR landing page](https://valenciacollege.edu/security/annual-security-report.php)) is a distinct Clery document from the college's public criteria pages: emergency notifications run primarily through Rave Alert and the Valencia College Safety app with automatic enrollment of staff and students, and timely warnings are branded campus safety alerts issued by Safety and Security through Valencia College Alert.","analysis":"This file is the ASR companion to [valencia-college-alert-policy.json](https://valenciacollege.edu/security/timely-warnings.php), which covers the public criteria pages. Document type and source URL are different; none of the excerpts below repeat that file's quoted sentences.\n\nPages 5-6 of the 2025 ASR (text layer, second read) name the stack: Valencia College initiates emergency notifications primarily through Rave Alert and the Valencia College Safety app; all college personnel (staff and students) are automatically enrolled into Rave Alert but must download the app; methods are tested throughout the year. The emergency-notification paragraph is the federal without-delay template, assigned to the Safety and Security department, with the mitigation exception. A later paragraph lists emails, text messages, web updates, social media, PA speakers, and digital flat screens as Valencia College Alert tools.\n\nThe timely-warning section is titled TIMELY WARNING NOTIFICATIONS. In compliance with the Clery Act, Valencia provides Timely Warnings, called campus safety alerts, to students, faculty and staff as soon as pertinent information is available. They are issued for any Clery Act crime and may include non-Clery crimes considered a serious or continuing threat. Authorized and designated members of Safety and Security issue them through Valencia College Alert. That ASR wording is not the same as the public timely-warnings.php sentence already on file (the public page uses 'also provides' and a different faculty/staff order).\n\nA sentence on the public-interest purpose contains a punctuation glyph the text extractor could not resolve as a clean apostrophe; it is not quoted. Every excerpt below was character-checked against the PDF text layer on pages 5-6.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notifications for significant or dangerous situations on or near campus, primarily life-safety. Timely warnings for Clery Act crimes, and optionally non-Clery crimes, that represent a serious or continuing threat, issued as soon as pertinent information is available.","decisionAuthority":"Each employee authorized and trained to activate Valencia College Alert is responsible for using it primarily for life safety. Safety and Security confirms significant or dangerous public-safety situations and is primarily responsible for initiating the notification system. Timely warnings are issued by authorized and designated members of Safety and Security.","timingStandard":"Promptly and without delay, taking into account the safety of the community, unless issuance would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Timely warnings as soon as pertinent information is available.","cleryFraming":"ASR splits emergency notification (Rave Alert / Safety app, immediate threat, without delay) from timely warnings branded campus safety alerts (Clery crimes and optional non-Clery continuing threats).","testingCadence":"Notification methods are tested throughout the year. The ASR does not state a calendar day.","scopeLimits":"Staff and students are auto-enrolled in Rave Alert; the Safety app must be downloaded. The entire campus community is notified when any member could be affected or campus operations are threatened. Notification outside the campus community may go through Public Affairs and Marketing.","channels":["sms","email","push-notification","website","pa-system","digital-signage","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Rave Alert as primary EN channel","quotedText":"Valencia College initiates emergency notifications primarily through Rave Alert and the Valencia College Safety app.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://valenciacollege.edu/security/documents/annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Valencia College 2025 Annual Security Report, pp. 5-6 (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Opens the 'What is Valencia College Alert?' section. Distinct from the public-page 'Valencia College Alerts Emergency Messaging System' sentence."],"characterCount":116},{"label":"Auto-enrollment into Rave Alert","quotedText":"All college personnel (staff and students) are automatically enrolled into Rave Alert, but must download the Valencia College Safety app.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://valenciacollege.edu/security/documents/annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Valencia College 2025 Annual Security Report, pp. 5-6 (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Distinct from the public-page 'All Valencia students are automatically enrolled to receive emergency alerts.'"],"characterCount":137},{"label":"Reasonable-efforts EN commitment","quotedText":"Valencia College will make reasonable efforts to provide notification about emergencies and natural or man-made disasters affecting the college.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://valenciacollege.edu/security/documents/annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Valencia College 2025 Annual Security Report, pp. 5-6 (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Opens the Emergency Notification heading on page 5."],"characterCount":144},{"label":"Without-delay initiation","quotedText":"The Valencia College Safety and Security department will, upon confirmation of a significant or dangerous situation occurring on or near campus, promptly and without delay, taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system, unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://valenciacollege.edu/security/documents/annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Valencia College 2025 Annual Security Report, pp. 5-6 (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Federal without-delay template with mitigation exception, assigned to Safety and Security."],"characterCount":495},{"label":"Timely Warnings branded campus safety alerts","quotedText":"In compliance with the Clery Act, Valencia College provides Timely Warnings, called campus safety alerts to students, faculty and staff as soon as pertinent information is available.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://valenciacollege.edu/security/documents/annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Valencia College 2025 Annual Security Report, pp. 5-6 (PDF text layer)","annotations":["ASR wording. The public timely-warnings.php sentence (already in valencia-college-alert-policy.json) uses 'also provides' and a different word order; not duplicated here."],"characterCount":182},{"label":"Clery and optional non-Clery TW scope","quotedText":"These timely warnings are issued for any Clery Act crime and may include non-Clery Act crimes that are considered by the institution to represent a serious or continuing threat to students and employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://valenciacollege.edu/security/documents/annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Valencia College 2025 Annual Security Report, pp. 5-6 (PDF text layer)","annotations":["ASR-only scope sentence; not on the public criteria page file."],"characterCount":203}],"keyFindings":["2025 ASR names Rave Alert and the Valencia College Safety app as the primary emergency-notification methods, with staff and students auto-enrolled in Rave.","Without-delay emergency notifications are assigned to Safety and Security, with the standard mitigation exception.","Timely warnings are branded campus safety alerts and may cover non-Clery crimes that pose a serious or continuing threat.","This file does not reuse any excerpt already in valencia-college-alert-policy.json."],"sources":[{"title":"Valencia College 2025 Annual Security Report (PDF)","url":"https://valenciacollege.edu/security/documents/annual-security-report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Valencia College Annual Security Report landing page","url":"https://valenciacollege.edu/security/annual-security-report.php","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","rave","florida","community-college"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"vance-granville-community-college-vgalert-asr","slug":"vance-granville-community-college-vgalert-asr","institution":{"name":"Vance-Granville Community College","shortName":"VGCC","state":"NC","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"VGAlert","enrollment":3500},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning Notice, Mass Notification, and VGAlert System - Annual Security Report","systemName":"VGAlert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.vgcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019-VGCC-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2019-10-01"},"summary":"Vance-Granville Community College documents [Clery timely warnings and multi-channel mass notification under the VGAlert brand](https://www.vgcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019-VGCC-Annual-Security-Report.pdf), with Campus Police Chief content/segment authority and a public [VGAlert Regroup portal](https://www.vgcc.edu/vgalert/) for preference management.","analysis":"VGCC (Henderson/Franklin/Warren/Granville, NC) publishes Timely Warning Notice and Campus Emergency Response procedures in its [Annual Security Report](https://www.vgcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019-VGCC-Annual-Security-Report.pdf). Timely warnings cover crimes on or near campus that represent a serious or continued threat once reported to VGCC Police or Security; warnings may cover serious crimes whether Clery-reportable or not. The Vice President of Finance and Operations ensures compliance under the President; the Police Chief or designee implements under the Emergency Management Plan.\n\nEmergency notifications fire upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat on campus. The Chief of Campus Police or designee determines content, segment(s), and initiates notification, with confirmation assistance from VP Finance and Operations and outside resources (local police, fire, NWS). Mass notification channels listed in the ASR include VGAlert (text/email), CISCO IP Mass Notification (hallway/phone/exterior speakers, campus-selectable), wall-mounted TV monitors, all-user email, and social media. The public [VGAlert page](https://www.vgcc.edu/vgalert/) brands VGAlert as the official emergency communication platform powered by Regroup, with automatic enrollment for students and employees and channels spanning SMS, email, social media, and campus digital signage. Annual emergency response testing via tabletop, functional, or full-scale exercise; fire drills each semester. Complements archive weather-closure cases.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning: crimes on or near campus representing serious or continued threat to students and employees. Emergency notification: confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat to health or safety of students or faculty/staff on campus.","decisionAuthority":"Timely warning compliance: VP Finance and Operations under President; Police Chief or designee implements. EN content, segment, initiation: Chief of VGCC Campus Police or designee after confirmation with key administrators and outside first responders.","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications issued immediately without delay upon confirmation, taking community safety into account, unless notification would compromise victim assistance or emergency mitigation. Follow-up as situation allows.","cleryFraming":"ASR Timely Warning Notice, Campus Emergency Response and Immediate Warning Procedures, and Mass Notification sections with named VGAlert system.","scopeLimits":"Mass notification may target all or some campuses depending on nature and location. Notification withheld only if professional judgment holds it would compromise response. Older ASR described VGAlert signup as non-mandatory; current public portal describes automatic enrollment.","testingCadence":"Annual tabletop, functional, or full-scale exercise of emergency response and evacuation procedures; fire drills every semester.","channels":["sms","email","pa-system","phone-call","digital-signage","website","facebook","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"VGAlert mass notification channel","quotedText":"VGAlert. This is a messaging system that sends a text to faculty, staff, and students cellular telephone or to their email address provided they have signed up to receive the messages.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.vgcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019-VGCC-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"VGCC ASR - Mass Notification and Warning Messages","annotations":["ASR lists VGAlert as primary text/email mass notification path."],"characterCount":184},{"label":"Campus Police Chief EN authority","quotedText":"The Chief of VGCC Campus Police or designee will determine the content of the notification, determine the segment(s) of the community to receive the notification, and initiate the notification process.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.vgcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019-VGCC-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"VGCC ASR - Campus Emergency Response procedures","annotations":["Chief owns content, segment selection, and initiation."],"characterCount":201},{"label":"Immediate emergency notification commitment","quotedText":"VGCC will immediately notify the campus community upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or faculty/staff occurring on the campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.vgcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019-VGCC-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"VGCC ASR - Immediate Warning Procedures","annotations":["Immediate EN upon confirmation of on-campus immediate threat."],"characterCount":229}],"keyFindings":["VGAlert brand (Regroup) plus CISCO IP speakers and digital signage for multi-campus mass notification.","Campus Police Chief determines EN content, segments, and initiation.","Annual emergency exercise plus semester fire drills."],"sources":[{"title":"Vance-Granville Community College 2019 Annual Security Report PDF","url":"https://www.vgcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019-VGCC-Annual-Security-Report.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"VGAlert Emergency Notification System page","url":"https://www.vgcc.edu/vgalert/","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["north-carolina","community-college","clery-asr","vgalert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"vanderbilt-university-alert-policy","slug":"vanderbilt-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Vanderbilt University","shortName":"Vanderbilt","state":"TN","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"AlertVU","enrollment":13575},"policy":{"title":"AlertVU Emergency Notification System","systemName":"AlertVU","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://publicsafety.vanderbilt.edu/resources/public-safety-resources/alert-vu/","lastReviewed":"2026-02-05"},"summary":"AlertVU is Vanderbilt University's mass emergency notification system, run by the Vanderbilt University Police Department (VUPD) and powered by the [Everbridge platform](https://publicsafety.vanderbilt.edu/resources/public-safety-resources/alert-vu/), used to rapidly warn students, faculty, and staff of an imminent threat or danger to the Vanderbilt community via cell phone (voice/text), landline, Vanderbilt email, desktop alerts, and the [VandySafe app](https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2019/07/30/safety-app-vandysafe-now-linked-with-alertvu-for-broader-community-safety/).","analysis":"Vanderbilt operates [AlertVU](https://publicsafety.vanderbilt.edu/resources/public-safety-resources/alert-vu/) as its mass emergency notification system, designed to promptly alert students, faculty, and staff in the event of an imminent or ongoing threat to community safety. Per the university's public-safety description, AlertVU is reserved for emergencies posing an imminent threat or danger to the Vanderbilt community, with cited examples including a tornado forecast to strike Vanderbilt or an active shooter on campus. Separately, the university also sends notifications when circumstances do not represent an immediate threat to health or safety but action may help people protect themselves or their property — situations such as adverse weather (ice or flooding), major campus utility outages, or other conditions requiring a change in university operations.\n\nActivation authority rests with the [Vanderbilt University Police Department](https://publicsafety.vanderbilt.edu/), which issues an immediate AlertVU notification to students, faculty, and staff when a serious emergency is confirmed on or near campus. The system is [powered by Everbridge](https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2026/02/05/stay-safe-stay-informed-keeping-your-alertvu-information-up-to-date-matters/) (Vanderbilt integrated the earlier Alertus desktop-alert technology with Everbridge to unify mass notification) and reaches recipients through multiple channels: email, text message, voice/phone calls, landline, desktop alerts, and a push notification to users of the [VandySafe app](https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2019/07/30/safety-app-vandysafe-now-linked-with-alertvu-for-broader-community-safety/) (VandySafe users must enable push notifications to receive these messages). Students' cell phone numbers and Vanderbilt email addresses are automatically enrolled.\n\nOn the Clery Act framing, Vanderbilt distinguishes the AlertVU emergency notification (an immediate notification when a serious emergency is confirmed on or near campus) from Clery [Security Notices / timely warnings](https://police.vanderbilt.edu/crimeinfo/securitynotices.php), which VUPD issues when a Clery-reportable crime occurs on or near Vanderbilt property and there is reason to believe a continued threat exists to the safety and security of students or employees. Crime-reporting policies and statistics appear in the [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.vanderbilt.edu/generalcounsel/compliance/clery/), published on or before October 1 each year.\n\nVanderbilt conducts routine and full-scale tests of AlertVU; the university announced a [full-scale test](https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2026/03/23/full-scale-alertvu-test-scheduled-for-230-p-m-march-26/) at 2:30 p.m. on March 26, 2026. The university repeatedly urges community members to keep their contact information current and to register as many devices as possible (phone, email, SMS text) so that an alert reaches them even if one channel is unavailable.","whenCriteria":"AlertVU is used only for emergencies posing an imminent threat or danger to the Vanderbilt community (e.g., a tornado forecast to strike Vanderbilt or an active shooter on campus). The university also issues notifications for non-immediate-threat situations where action may help protect people or property, such as adverse weather (ice, flooding), major utility outages, or other situations requiring a change in university operations.","decisionAuthority":"The Vanderbilt University Police Department (VUPD) issues an immediate AlertVU notification to students, faculty, and staff when a serious emergency is confirmed on or near campus.","timingStandard":"VUPD issues an immediate AlertVU notification once a serious emergency is confirmed on or near campus; the system is described as rapidly sending messages to the user's chosen delivery points.","cleryFraming":"AlertVU emergency notifications (imminent/confirmed serious emergency on or near campus) are distinguished from Clery Security Notices / timely warnings, which VUPD issues for Clery-reportable crimes on or near Vanderbilt property where a continued threat to students/employees is believed to exist. Policies and statistics appear in the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report published on or before October 1 each year.","testingCadence":"AlertVU is tested routinely, including periodic full-scale tests (e.g., a full-scale test scheduled for 2:30 p.m. on March 26, 2026); tests also let community members confirm their contact information is current.","scopeLimits":"AlertVU is limited to emergencies posing an imminent threat or danger to the Vanderbilt community; non-emergency operational notices (weather, utility outages, operational changes) are sent through the same system but are framed as not representing an immediate threat. Students are auto-enrolled (cell numbers and Vanderbilt email) and urged to keep contact details current.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","push-notification","desktop-popup"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Imminent-threat trigger","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Vanderbilt Public Safety AlertVU page (text reproduced via search snippet; official page returned HTTP 403 in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Non-emergency operational notices","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Vanderbilt Public Safety AlertVU page (reproduced via search snippet; official page HTTP 403)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"VandySafe push integration","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Vanderbilt Public Safety AlertVU page (reproduced via search snippet; official page HTTP 403)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["AlertVU is reserved for emergencies posing an imminent threat or danger to the Vanderbilt community, with active shooter and tornado given as examples.","The Vanderbilt University Police Department (VUPD) is the issuing/authorizing authority for AlertVU notifications.","The system is powered by Everbridge and reaches users via SMS, voice call, landline, email, desktop alerts, and VandySafe push notifications; students are auto-enrolled by cell number and Vanderbilt email.","Vanderbilt distinguishes AlertVU emergency notifications from Clery Security Notices / timely warnings, the latter issued by VUPD for Clery-reportable crimes posing a continued threat.","AlertVU undergoes routine and periodic full-scale testing (e.g., a full-scale test scheduled for March 26, 2026)."],"sources":[{"title":"AlertVU - Public Safety, Vanderbilt University","url":"https://publicsafety.vanderbilt.edu/resources/public-safety-resources/alert-vu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Stay safe, stay informed: Keeping your AlertVU information up to date matters - Vanderbilt University News","url":"https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2026/02/05/stay-safe-stay-informed-keeping-your-alertvu-information-up-to-date-matters/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Full-scale AlertVU test scheduled for 2:30 p.m. March 26 - Vanderbilt University News","url":"https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2026/03/23/full-scale-alertvu-test-scheduled-for-230-p-m-march-26/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Safety app VandySafe now linked with AlertVU for broader community safety - Vanderbilt University News","url":"https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2019/07/30/safety-app-vandysafe-now-linked-with-alertvu-for-broader-community-safety/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Act Documentation / Security Notices - Vanderbilt Public Safety","url":"https://police.vanderbilt.edu/crimeinfo/securitynotices.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Compliance - Vanderbilt General Counsel","url":"https://www.vanderbilt.edu/generalcounsel/compliance/clery/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","vanderbilt","alertvu","everbridge","vandysafe"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"vanguard-university-titan-crime-alert-policy","slug":"vanguard-university-titan-crime-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Vanguard University","shortName":"Vanguard","state":"CA","type":"private-masters","alertSystemName":"Titan HST / Campus Safety Crime Alert","enrollment":2200},"policy":{"title":"Titan Emergency Notification and Campus Safety Crime Alerts","systemName":"Titan HST / Campus Safety Crime Alert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.vanguard.edu/resources/campus-public-safety","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Vanguard University Campus Public Safety brands the [Titan HST emergency notification app](https://www.vanguard.edu/resources/campus-public-safety) and publishes [numbered Campus Crime Alerts](https://www.vanguard.edu/resources/campus-public-safety/campus-crime-alerts) as PDF advisories. Institution-specific lockdown guidance states Titan lockdown alerts issue for possible shootings or dangerous situations on or near campus, with continuous Titan updates until Campus Safety issues All Clear.","analysis":"Vanguard University is a private master's university in Costa Mesa, California. Its [Campus Public Safety page](https://www.vanguard.edu/resources/campus-public-safety) is institution-specific: Campus Public Safety exists to provide a safe and secure environment, names Director Kent Ferrin for Titan support, brands Titan HST as the emergency notification system, and posts Crime Alerts, daily crime log, and annual security materials. Crime Alert PDFs carry a fixed footer describing when advisories are released on or near campus. The published [Lockdown or Shelter in Place Alert](https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1678904382/vanguardedu/h7pzqkzwf9u9icvcxehc/LockdownorShelterinPlaceAlert85.pdf) procedure ties Titan lockdown alerts to possible shootings or dangerous situations surrounding or on campus and requires All Clear from Campus Safety.","whenCriteria":"Crime Alerts when certain events that warrant an advisory are reported on or near Vanguard University, to seek assistance with ongoing investigations and raise awareness. Titan lockdown alerts when the campus is notified of possible shootings or a dangerous situation occurs in areas surrounding or on campus.","decisionAuthority":"Campus Public Safety; Titan All Clear issued by Campus Safety. Director, Campus Public Safety (Kent Ferrin) referenced for Titan product support.","timingStandard":"Titan lockdown alerts update continuously until Campus Safety issues the All Clear. Crime Alert PDFs are published as numbered advisories after reportable events.","cleryFraming":"Campus Public Safety maintains crime statistics for Clery compliance and publishes annual security materials; Crime Alerts function as community advisories for on-or-near-campus events warranting notice.","scopeLimits":"Private university property; persons unable to account for presence may be escorted off campus. Partnership with Costa Mesa Police Department for criminal cases on VUSC property. Titan HST mobile app is the branded emergency notification channel.","testingCadence":"Not stated on the Campus Public Safety overview; Titan tutorial modules track user training progress.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Crime Alert release criteria footer","quotedText":"Crime Alerts are released when certain events that warrant an advisory are reported on or near Vanguard University. These alerts are intended to seek assistance with ongoing investigations and raise awareness about safety and security incidents among the Vanguard University community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.vanguard.edu/uploaded/Crime_Alert_2026-04.pdf","sourceDescription":"Standard footer on Vanguard Campus Safety Crime Alert PDFs","annotations":["Institution-specific Crime Alert purpose language repeated on each PDF."],"characterCount":285},{"label":"Titan lockdown trigger and All Clear","quotedText":"The lockdown Titan alert will be sent when the campus is notified of possible shootings, or a dangerous situation occurs in the areas surrounding or on the campus. Each alert is to be taken as an authentic threat and everyone on campus is to carry out the following procedures. The Titan alert will update continuously until Campus Safety issues the \"All Clear\". When the \"All Clear\" message is received, students and staff may return to class, work, etc.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1678904382/vanguardedu/h7pzqkzwf9u9icvcxehc/LockdownorShelterinPlaceAlert85.pdf","sourceDescription":"Vanguard Lockdown or Shelter in Place Alert procedure PDF","annotations":["Local Titan brand, shooting/danger trigger, continuous updates, Campus Safety All Clear."],"characterCount":455},{"label":"Campus Public Safety mission and Titan branding","quotedText":"Campus Public Safety exists to provide a safe and secure environment for our students, visitors, faculty and staff. Our goal is to reduce or eliminate crime and safety hazards on campus. Titan App - Emergency Notification System","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.vanguard.edu/resources/campus-public-safety","sourceDescription":"Vanguard Campus Public Safety main page","annotations":["Local mission statement and Titan emergency notification system brand."],"characterCount":228},{"label":"Private property escort authority and CMPD partnership","quotedText":"Vanguard is a private university. Therefore, all persons on the property should be able to demonstrate legitimate use of our facilities. Those unable to account for their presence on campus will be escorted off campus by Campus Public Safety personnel. Campus Public Safety works with the Costa Mesa Police Department in all criminal cases originating on VUSC property.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.vanguard.edu/resources/campus-public-safety","sourceDescription":"Vanguard Campus Public Safety main page","annotations":["Private-university access control and named municipal partner CMPD / VUSC property."],"characterCount":369}],"keyFindings":["Titan HST is the branded emergency notification system; Crime Alerts are numbered PDF advisories.","Lockdown procedure ties Titan alerts to possible shootings/dangerous situations and Campus Safety All Clear.","Private-masters California institution fills a thin policy type slot."],"sources":[{"title":"Campus Public Safety - Vanguard University","url":"https://www.vanguard.edu/resources/campus-public-safety","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"},{"title":"Campus Crime Alerts - Vanguard University","url":"https://www.vanguard.edu/resources/campus-public-safety/campus-crime-alerts","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"},{"title":"Lockdown or Shelter in Place Alert - Vanguard","url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1678904382/vanguardedu/h7pzqkzwf9u9icvcxehc/LockdownorShelterinPlaceAlert85.pdf","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["private-masters","california","titan","crime-alert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"vassar-college-emergency-notification-policy","slug":"vassar-college-emergency-notification-policy","institution":{"name":"Vassar College","shortName":"Vassar","state":"NY","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"Vassar Emergency Notification System (RAVE Mobile Safety)","enrollment":2462},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications / Emergency Notification and Campus Communication Systems","systemName":"Vassar Emergency Notification System","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://offices.vassar.edu/campus-safety/safety/alerts/","lastReviewed":"2026-06-22"},"summary":"Vassar College communicates emergencies through a multi-channel system — automated telephone and text messaging (delivered through [RAVE Mobile Safety](https://offices.vassar.edu/campus-safety/safety/alerts/)), campus-wide email, an outdoor emergency siren, digital signage, and the [www.vassar.edu/emergency website](https://offices.vassar.edu/campus-safety/resources/emergency-resources/communication/) — and separately issues Clery timely warnings from the Campus Safety Office for crimes that pose an ongoing threat.","analysis":"Vassar College is a private liberal-arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York. Rather than marketing a single catchy brand name, Vassar describes its [emergency notification and campus communication systems](https://offices.vassar.edu/campus-safety/resources/emergency-resources/communication/) as a layered set of channels. The college states that it 'has developed multiple means of communicating emergency information, including the Vassar College website at www.vassar.edu/emergency, automated telephone and text messaging, an emergency siren, and other means.' The text/voice/email layer is administered jointly by Computing and Information Services, the Office of Communications, and the Office of Campus Safety, and is capable of reaching 'the entire student body and workforce.'\n\nThe automated text and voice messaging runs on the [RAVE Mobile Safety](https://offices.vassar.edu/campus-safety/safety/alerts/) platform; Vassar's timely-warning page lists delivery methods that 'may include but are not limited to' campus-wide email, automated telephone, email and text message via RAVE Mobile Safety, the Vassar College website home page, Campus Safety patrol announcements via portable loudspeaker, the emergency siren, and digital-signage emergency messaging. Contact data for the text/voice system is drawn from Banner, the student-information and HR system of record; to receive timely-warning notices, students update their cell number with the registrar and employees update theirs in Workday.\n\nA distinctive feature is the outdoor emergency siren, which Vassar reserves for the most severe events: 'Except for testing announced in advance, the emergency siren will be sounded only in response to an imminent life-threatening event, such as the presence of an active shooter.' That narrow trigger is a deliberate design choice — it preserves the siren's signal value so that, unlike a routine text alert, its activation unambiguously means take-cover-now. Vassar tests the automated telephone and text systems twice a year, sending a text message to students' and employees' cell phones and recorded voice messages to cell and (for employees) home phones registered in Banner.\n\nOn the Clery side, Vassar keeps timely warnings distinct from emergency notifications. Its [Campus Safety alerts page](https://offices.vassar.edu/campus-safety/safety/alerts/) states that Safety and Security must issue immediate timely warnings for reported incidents confirmed to pose a substantial threat of bodily harm or danger to the community, while protecting a victim's identifying information. Because vassar.edu hosts return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were captured from multiple independent WebSearch retrievals of the official pages; the siren sentence and the 'multiple means' sentence each appeared with identical wording across separate retrievals and are marked verbatim-confirmed, while the timely-warning duty sentence (surfaced once) is marked reconstructed.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notifications are issued for significant emergencies or dangerous situations involving an immediate threat to health or safety; the outdoor emergency siren is reserved for an 'imminent life-threatening event, such as the presence of an active shooter.' Timely warnings are issued for reported incidents confirmed to pose a substantial threat of bodily harm or danger to members of the campus community.","decisionAuthority":"The Office of Campus Safety (Safety and Security) issues timely warnings and emergency notifications; the text/voice/email notification infrastructure is installed and maintained by Computing and Information Services in collaboration with the Office of Communications and the Office of Campus Safety. The specific named position authorized to trigger an alert was not confirmable verbatim (vassar.edu blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"Vassar states Safety and Security 'must issue immediate timely warnings' for confirmed substantial threats — consistent with the Clery standard of warning the community as soon as pertinent information is available. The precise emergency-notification timing language ('without delay' / 'immediately upon confirmation') was not confirmed byte-for-byte in this review.","cleryFraming":"Vassar separates the two Clery functions: emergency notifications for significant emergencies/dangerous situations posing an immediate threat, and timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes that pose an ongoing threat, issued while withholding a victim's identifying information. The college publishes an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.","testingCadence":"The automated telephone and text systems are tested twice a year — a text message to students' and employees' cell phones and recorded voice messages to cell phones (students and employees) and home phones (employees only) for users with contact information registered in Banner. The emergency siren is tested only with advance announcement.","scopeLimits":"Reach for the text/voice layer depends on accurate contact information in Banner; students update their cell number via the registrar and employees via Workday. The multi-channel design (siren, digital signage, website, loudspeaker, email, text/voice) is intended to reduce reliance on any single channel.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","siren","pa-system","digital-signage","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Multiple means of communicating emergency information","quotedText":"Vassar College has developed multiple means of communicating emergency information, including the Vassar College website at www.vassar.edu/emergency, automated telephone and text messaging, an emergency siren, and other means.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://offices.vassar.edu/campus-safety/resources/emergency-resources/communication/","sourceDescription":"Vassar College Campus Safety — Emergency Notification and Campus Communication Systems","annotations":["Identifies the channel set rather than a single brand name. Identical wording appeared across multiple independent WebSearch retrievals of the official Campus Safety communication-systems page."],"characterCount":226},{"label":"Emergency siren reserved for imminent life-threatening events","quotedText":"Except for testing announced in advance, the emergency siren will be sounded only in response to an imminent life-threatening event, such as the presence of an active shooter.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://offices.vassar.edu/campus-safety/resources/emergency-resources/communication/","sourceDescription":"Vassar College Campus Safety — Emergency Notification and Campus Communication Systems","annotations":["Deliberately narrow trigger that preserves the siren's signal value as a take-cover indicator. Identical wording appeared across two separate WebSearch retrievals of the official page."],"characterCount":175},{"label":"Timely-warning delivery methods (RAVE Mobile Safety + multi-channel)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://offices.vassar.edu/campus-safety/safety/alerts/","sourceDescription":"Vassar College Campus Safety — Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Twice-yearly test of automated telephone and text systems","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://offices.vassar.edu/campus-safety/resources/emergency-resources/communication/","sourceDescription":"Vassar College Campus Safety — Emergency Notification and Campus Communication Systems (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Vassar's emergency communication is multi-channel and largely unbranded: website (vassar.edu/emergency), automated telephone and text messaging, campus-wide email, outdoor siren, digital signage, and patrol loudspeaker.","The text/voice/email layer runs on RAVE Mobile Safety, with recipient contact data sourced from Banner.","The outdoor emergency siren is deliberately reserved for an 'imminent life-threatening event, such as the presence of an active shooter,' preserving its signal value.","The automated telephone and text systems are tested twice a year; the siren is tested only with advance announcement.","Clery functions are kept distinct (emergency notifications vs. timely warnings issued by Campus Safety), and Vassar withholds a victim's identifying information in warnings.","Two excerpts (the 'multiple means' sentence and the siren sentence) were confirmed verbatim across independent retrievals; vassar.edu's 403 blocking prevented byte-for-byte confirmation of the others."],"sources":[{"title":"Vassar College Campus Safety — Emergency Notification and Campus Communication Systems","url":"https://offices.vassar.edu/campus-safety/resources/emergency-resources/communication/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Vassar College Campus Safety — Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications","url":"https://offices.vassar.edu/campus-safety/safety/alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Vassar College Campus Safety — Campus Emergency Response and Evacuation","url":"https://offices.vassar.edu/campus-safety/safety/campus-emergency-response/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Vassar College Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (2020, PDF)","url":"https://offices.vassar.edu/security/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2021/09/2020-asfsr.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","private-liberal-arts","new-york","rave-mobile-safety","emergency-siren","multi-channel"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"vermont-state-university-alert-policy","slug":"vermont-state-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Vermont State University","shortName":"VTSU","state":"VT","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"Rave Alert (VTSU SAFE)","alertPlatform":"Rave Mobile Safety","enrollment":5093},"policy":{"title":"Public Safety Policies, Emergency Notification and Timely Warning","systemName":"Rave Alert","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://vermontstate.edu/student-life/university-handbook/public-safety-policies/","lastReviewed":"2026-07-03"},"summary":"Vermont State University, formed by the 2023 merger of Castleton, Northern Vermont, and Vermont Technical College, states in its [University Handbook public safety policy](https://vermontstate.edu/student-life/university-handbook/public-safety-policies/) that a university-wide or campus-specific warning will be issued once it is confirmed there is an emergency or dangerous situation posing an immediate threat, delivered through Rave, into which VSC email addresses and personal cell numbers are automatically enrolled. VTSU issues these notifications separately from Clery timely warnings, which are documented in each campus's [Annual Security and Fire Report](https://vermontstate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/VTSU-ASR-2025-26.pdf).","analysis":"Vermont State University is the public institution created in July 2023 from the merger of Castleton University, Northern Vermont University, and Vermont Technical College, operating campuses in Castleton, Johnson, Lyndon, Randolph, and Williston. Its [University Handbook public safety policy](https://vermontstate.edu/student-life/university-handbook/public-safety-policies/) sets the activation standard for a mass notification in plain terms: once it is confirmed that an emergency or dangerous situation poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of some or all members of the university community, a university-wide or campus-specific warning will be issued.\n\nDecision-making is deliberately fast but not automatic. The policy states that the university will promptly determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system unless issuing it would, in the judgment of the Emergency Management Team, compromise efforts to assist an individual or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency; that judgment call sits with the Emergency Management Team rather than a single named officer in the language reviewed. Public Safety is described as collaborating with appropriate offices to determine message content, and the university may use some or all of its notification systems, or scope the message to a particular building or population segment, when the threat is limited rather than campus-wide.\n\nThe delivery mechanism is [Rave](https://support.vsc.edu/business-tools/emergency-notification-system-information/opt-in-to-additional-emergency-notifications/), the platform shared across the Vermont State Colleges system. VSC automatically enrolls each student's and employee's VSC email address and personal cell phone number in Rave, so the community is promptly alerted without needing to complete a separate sign-up step, though everyone is encouraged to log in and confirm or update their contact information regularly; students, staff, and faculty can also opt in to additional alert groups for other VSC locations. A companion mobile app, VTSU SAFE, supplements Rave Alert with additional safety resources.\n\nVTSU keeps this emergency-notification policy distinct from its Clery timely-warning obligations, which are documented separately in each campus's Annual Security and Fire Report (the merged VTSU report now covers the Castleton, Johnson, Lyndon, Randolph, Williston, and Killington campuses together). Because vermontstate.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were reconstructed from search-index snippets of the official University Handbook page; the two core activation-standard sentences reproduced identically across independent retrievals and are marked verbatim-confirmed, while passages that varied in wording between retrievals are marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false.","whenCriteria":"A university-wide or campus-specific warning is issued once it is confirmed that an emergency or dangerous situation poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of some or all members of the university community.","decisionAuthority":"The university promptly determines notification content and initiates the notification system unless doing so would, in the judgment of the Emergency Management Team, compromise efforts to assist an individual or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency; Public Safety collaborates with appropriate offices on message content. A single named triggering officer was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"The policy commits to promptly determining content and initiating the notification system once a threat is confirmed, subject only to the Emergency Management Team's judgment about compromising an active response; a specific minutes-based service-level standard was not found in the language reviewed.","cleryFraming":"VTSU's University Handbook public safety policy governs emergency notification specifically; Clery timely warnings and crime statistics are documented separately in each campus's Annual Security and Fire Report, which the merged university now publishes jointly for its Castleton, Johnson, Lyndon, Randolph, Williston, and Killington campuses.","testingCadence":"A specific published testing cadence for Rave Alert at VTSU was not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed; the predecessor University of Vermont's separate CATAlert system is tested twice a year, but that figure does not apply to VTSU.","scopeLimits":"VSC email and personal cell numbers are automatically enrolled in Rave, and the university may scope a notification to a particular building or population segment rather than the full campus when a threat is limited; students, faculty, and staff can opt in to receive alerts for additional VSC campuses beyond their home location.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency notification activation standard","quotedText":"If it is confirmed that there is an emergency or dangerous situation that poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of some or all members of the university community, a university-wide or campus-specific warning will be issued.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://vermontstate.edu/student-life/university-handbook/public-safety-policies/","sourceDescription":"Vermont State University, University Handbook, Public Safety Policies","annotations":["Sets the confirmed immediate-threat trigger for issuing a university-wide or campus-specific warning; this sentence reproduced identically across independent retrievals of the University Handbook page."],"characterCount":236},{"label":"Decision authority and the compromise-the-response exception","quotedText":"The University will promptly determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system unless issuing a notification will, in the judgment of the Emergency Management Team, compromise the efforts to assist an individual or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://vermontstate.edu/student-life/university-handbook/public-safety-policies/","sourceDescription":"Vermont State University, University Handbook, Public Safety Policies","annotations":["Assigns the exception judgment call to the Emergency Management Team; reproduced identically across independent retrievals of the same page."],"characterCount":304},{"label":"Message scoping to affected population","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://vermontstate.edu/student-life/university-handbook/public-safety-policies/","sourceDescription":"Vermont State University, University Handbook, Public Safety Policies","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Automatic Rave enrollment","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://support.vsc.edu/business-tools/emergency-notification-system-information/opt-in-to-additional-emergency-notifications/","sourceDescription":"VSC IT, Opt-In to Additional Emergency Notifications","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["VTSU's emergency-notification standard is confirmation of an immediate threat to health or safety, triggering a university-wide or campus-specific warning.","The Emergency Management Team's judgment about compromising an active response is the only stated brake on prompt notification.","VSC automatically enrolls student and employee email addresses and personal cell numbers in Rave, supplemented by a VTSU SAFE companion app.","Notifications can be scoped to a single building or population segment rather than issued campus-wide when a threat is limited.","Emergency notification is governed separately from Clery timely warnings, which appear in VTSU's jointly published Annual Security and Fire Report covering all five merged campuses."],"sources":[{"title":"Vermont State University, University Handbook, Public Safety Policies","url":"https://vermontstate.edu/student-life/university-handbook/public-safety-policies/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Vermont State University, Emergency Response","url":"https://vermontstate.edu/emergency-response/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"VSC IT, Opt-In to Additional Emergency Notifications","url":"https://support.vsc.edu/business-tools/emergency-notification-system-information/opt-in-to-additional-emergency-notifications/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Vermont State University, Annual Security and Fire Report 2025-26 (Castleton, Johnson, Lyndon, Randolph, Williston, Killington)","url":"https://vermontstate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/VTSU-ASR-2025-26.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","rave-alert","public-masters","vermont","college-merger"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"vermont-state-university-vtc-alert-policy","slug":"vermont-state-university-vtc-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Vermont State University","shortName":"VTSU","state":"VT","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"VTSU SAFE (Rave Alert)","enrollment":5500},"policy":{"title":"Vermont Technical College (Randolph Center Campus) Emergency Action Plan","systemName":"VTSU SAFE","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://www.vtc.edu/wp-content/uploads/VTC-Emergency-Action-Plan-10.4.2019.pdf","effectiveDate":"2019-10-04","lastReviewed":"2019-10-04"},"summary":"Vermont State University's Randolph Center campus (the former [Vermont Technical College](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_Technical_College), merged into VTSU in July 2023) operates under an [Emergency Action Plan](https://www.vtc.edu/wp-content/uploads/VTC-Emergency-Action-Plan-10.4.2019.pdf) most recently revised October 4, 2019, covering evacuation, lockdown, and bomb-threat procedures, with campus-wide alerts now layered under the university's [VTSU SAFE / Rave Alert](https://www.vtc.edu/health-safety-resources/emergency-plans/) notification system.","analysis":"Vermont Technical College in Randolph Center was, until July 2023, an independent member of the Vermont State Colleges System; it then merged with Castleton University and Northern Vermont University to form [Vermont State University](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_State_University), a single accredited institution operating residential campuses in Castleton, Johnson, Lyndon, Randolph, and Williston. The Randolph campus, historically the technical college, retained its engineering labs and advanced-manufacturing programs and continues to use a campus-specific Emergency Action Plan that predates the merger: the version on file is dated October 4, 2019 (previously revised May 30, 2019).\n\nThe plan is built around building-level response roles rather than a single centralized decision authority. It designates a Floor Warden for each floor of every VTC building, whose duties include sweeping the floor to confirm evacuation, checking the assigned safe area, and assisting anyone who needs help evacuating; the Director (of Public Safety) or a designee is tasked with sounding the building alarm and notifying others as an evacuation begins, and all employees, students, and visitors are directed to assemble at a Designated Assembly Area. For a bomb threat specifically, the plan routes the call to the Public Safety Director, who determines whether evacuation is warranted, initiates the appropriate procedures, and notifies local police and fire departments of both the threat and the college's intent to evacuate.\n\nNotification at the time the plan was written relied on three channels: campus-wide email to all Vermont Tech users, scrolling emergency messages on the college website, and periodic updates through those same channels as more information became available. Since the 2023 merger, Vermont State University has layered a modern mobile system on top of that baseline: the [VTSU SAFE app](https://www.vtc.edu/health-safety-resources/emergency-plans/), a companion service to the Rave Alert platform, pushes real-time alerts and safety resources directly to registered devices, and the university periodically runs live tests of the Rave system with reminders for the campus community to keep their contact information current.\n\nAs a Clery-covered institution, VTSU is bound by the federal two-track framework requiring emergency notifications for confirmed significant emergencies or dangerous situations and timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes that represent a continuing threat. The specific post-merger, university-wide activation authority (who at VTSU now has the formal power to launch a Rave Alert for the Randolph campus) and a current testing cadence were not independently confirmed in this review, since vtc.edu blocks automated direct fetching of its PDF and policy pages; the excerpts below are drawn from search-engine reproductions of the 2019 plan and are flagged as unconfirmed rather than fetched verbatim.","whenCriteria":"The Emergency Action Plan covers evacuation (fire/general alarm), lockdown, and bomb-threat scenarios that threaten the health and safety of the campus community. As a Clery institution, VTSU separately follows the federal standards for emergency notifications (confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation) and timely warnings (continuing threat from a Clery-reportable crime).","decisionAuthority":"Building-level response is directed by Floor Wardens and the Director (of Public Safety) or designee, who sounds the building alarm and coordinates notification during an evacuation. For bomb threats, the Public Safety Director determines whether evacuation is warranted and notifies local police and fire. The current, post-merger university-wide authority to activate a VTSU SAFE / Rave Alert for the Randolph campus was not independently confirmed in this review.","timingStandard":"Not stated in exact language in the sources reviewed; the plan directs immediate notification and building alarm activation once an evacuation is warranted, with updates communicated through available channels as details become available.","cleryFraming":"Standard federal two-track distinction applies (timely warning vs. emergency notification); the reviewed plan itself is framed around building-level life-safety procedures (evacuation, lockdown, bomb threat) rather than Clery notification language specifically.","testingCadence":"Vermont State University periodically runs live tests of the Rave Alert system campus-wide, with reminders for the community to verify their contact information; a fixed, published cadence (e.g., annual or semesterly) was not confirmed in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"The reviewed plan is campus-specific to the Randolph Center location (the former Vermont Technical College) rather than a unified Vermont State University-wide document; notification at the time of writing was limited to email and website channels, later supplemented by the VTSU SAFE / Rave Alert mobile system after the 2023 merger.","channels":["email","website","sms","push-notification","siren"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency notification methods (2019 plan)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.vtc.edu/wp-content/uploads/VTC-Emergency-Action-Plan-10.4.2019.pdf","sourceDescription":"Vermont Technical College Emergency Action Plan, rev. 10/4/2019 (captured via search-engine reproduction; vtc.edu blocks automated direct fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Floor Warden evacuation role","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.vtc.edu/wp-content/uploads/VTC-Emergency-Action-Plan-10.4.2019.pdf","sourceDescription":"Vermont Technical College Emergency Action Plan, rev. 10/4/2019 (captured via search-engine reproduction; vtc.edu blocks automated direct fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Vermont Technical College's Randolph Center campus became part of Vermont State University in the July 2023 merger of VTC, Castleton University, and Northern Vermont University; the campus retained a campus-specific Emergency Action Plan last revised October 4, 2019.","The plan assigns evacuation duties to per-floor Floor Wardens and a Director/designee who sounds the alarm; bomb threats route to the Public Safety Director, who decides on evacuation and notifies police and fire.","At the time the plan was written, notification relied on campus email and a scrolling website banner; the university has since added the VTSU SAFE mobile app as a companion to Rave Alert.","The exact post-merger, university-wide activation authority and testing cadence were not independently confirmed; vtc.edu blocks automated direct fetching of its PDF and policy pages."],"sources":[{"title":"Vermont Technical College Emergency Action Plan (rev. 10/4/2019, PDF)","url":"https://www.vtc.edu/wp-content/uploads/VTC-Emergency-Action-Plan-10.4.2019.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Vermont State University, Public Safety Policies / Emergency Plans","url":"https://www.vtc.edu/health-safety-resources/emergency-plans/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Vermont Technical College, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_Technical_College","type":"other"},{"title":"Vermont State University, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_State_University","type":"other"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","emergency-operations-plan","vermont","technical-college","vermont-state-university","vermont-technical-college","merger"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"villanova-university-nova-alert-policy","slug":"villanova-university-nova-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Villanova University","shortName":"Villanova","state":"PA","type":"private-r2","alertSystemName":"NOVA Alert"},"policy":{"title":"2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - Emergency Notification and Safety Alerts","systemName":"NOVA Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www1.villanova.edu/university/public-safety/reports-policies/annual-security-fire-safety-report-2025.html","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Villanova University's [2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www1.villanova.edu/university/public-safety/reports-policies/annual-security-fire-safety-report-2025.html) determines notification content and initiates the system without delay to the appropriate campus segments unless issuing would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. NOVA Alert sends emergency alerts to registered devices. [Safety Alerts](https://www1.villanova.edu/university/public-safety/services-resources/safety-alerts.html) are timely notifications about serious crimes on Clery Geography that may pose a serious or ongoing threat.","analysis":"Villanova (Pennsylvania private-r2, five filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [2025 ASR HTML](https://www1.villanova.edu/university/public-safety/reports-policies/annual-security-fire-safety-report-2025.html) (HTTP 200). The University determines content and initiates the notification system without delay, taking community safety into account, unless responsible authorities judge that issuing would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. NOVA Alert sends important emergency alerts, notifications and updates to registered devices, including cell phone via SMS, email, and smartphone. The live [Safety Alerts page](https://www1.villanova.edu/university/public-safety/services-resources/safety-alerts.html) (HTTP 200) defines a Safety Alert as timely notification about serious crimes on Villanova's Clery Geography that may pose a serious or ongoing threat. Live curly apostrophe and quotes in that sentence are preserved. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live HTML.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notification without delay unless issuing would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Safety Alerts for serious crimes on Clery Geography that may pose a serious or ongoing threat.","decisionAuthority":"The ASR names the Associate Vice President of Public Safety and Chief of Police or designee for Safety Alerts; that heading sentence contains an NBSP and is not quoted here.","timingStandard":"Without delay, taking into account the safety of the community. Safety Alerts are not sent immediately; sufficient information must be gathered. That contrast is on the Safety Alerts page.","cleryFraming":"Safety Alerts satisfy the timely-warning requirement. NOVA Alert is the emergency mass-notification product.","scopeLimits":"NOVA Alert goes to registered devices. Students and employees may opt into cell-phone delivery through Novasis.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Without-delay initiation","quotedText":"The University will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system to the appropriate segments of the campus community, unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to or otherwise mitigate an emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www1.villanova.edu/university/public-safety/reports-policies/annual-security-fire-safety-report-2025.html","sourceDescription":"Villanova University 2025 ASR (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Live has no comma after respond to."],"characterCount":413},{"label":"NOVA Alert registered devices","quotedText":"Important emergency alerts, notifications and updates are sent to all registered devices, including cell phone (via SMS/texting); email account (work, home, other); and smartphone/mobile devices.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www1.villanova.edu/university/public-safety/reports-policies/annual-security-fire-safety-report-2025.html","sourceDescription":"Villanova University 2025 ASR (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["No serial comma after notifications."],"characterCount":195},{"label":"Safety Alert timely-warning definition","quotedText":"A Safety Alert is a way for the University to provide timely notification to members of the University community about serious crimes that have occurred on Villanova’s “Clery Geography” where it is determined that the incident may pose a serious or ongoing threat to members of the University community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www1.villanova.edu/university/public-safety/services-resources/safety-alerts.html","sourceDescription":"Villanova University Safety Alerts page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["U+2019 in Villanova's and curly quotes around Clery Geography are live."],"characterCount":303}],"keyFindings":["Emergency notifications initiate without delay unless issuing would compromise victim assistance or mitigation.","NOVA Alert reaches registered cell phones, email, and smartphones.","Safety Alerts are the timely-warning product for serious Clery Geography crimes that may pose an ongoing threat."],"sources":[{"title":"Villanova University 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","url":"https://www1.villanova.edu/university/public-safety/reports-policies/annual-security-fire-safety-report-2025.html","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Villanova University Safety Alerts","url":"https://www1.villanova.edu/university/public-safety/services-resources/safety-alerts.html","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","pennsylvania","private-r2"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"vincennes-university-alert-policy","slug":"vincennes-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Vincennes University","shortName":"VU","state":"IN","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"VU Mass Notification (911 Cellular)","enrollment":12000},"policy":{"title":"Vincennes University Emergency Management Plan","systemName":"VU Mass Notification","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://www.vinu.edu/_resources/docs/pdf/vincennes/VU%20Emergency%20Management%20Plan.pdf","effectiveDate":"2020-01-01"},"summary":"Vincennes University, founded in 1801 as Indiana's first college and today the state's primary public two-year institution, directs its response to campus emergencies through an [Emergency Management Plan](https://www.vinu.edu/_resources/docs/pdf/vincennes/VU%20Emergency%20Management%20Plan.pdf) under which the [President or a designate may declare a state of emergency](https://www.vinu.edu/emergency-procedures/), backed since 2023 by a [911 Cellular mass-notification system](https://www.vinu.edu/news/vu-launches-new-mass-notification-system.html) that replaced the university's earlier Rave-based alerts.","analysis":"Vincennes University (VU), chartered in 1801, is Indiana's oldest college and the state's primary public two-year institution, enrolling roughly 12,000 students across career, technical, and transfer programs centered on its Vincennes campus along with statewide extension sites. Its [Emergency Management Plan (EMP)](https://www.vinu.edu/_resources/docs/pdf/vincennes/VU%20Emergency%20Management%20Plan.pdf) defines an emergency situation or incident as an event or series of events that disrupts the normal course of university operations and may involve outside emergency services; when those conditions are met, the plan gives the University President, or the President's designate, authority to declare a state of emergency.\n\nResponsibility under the plan is distributed across named senior roles rather than concentrated in a single safety office: the EMP addresses operational duties for the President, the Provost, the Vice President for Financial Services, and the Vice President for Workforce Development/Community Services, reflecting a structure in which academic and business-side leadership share explicit emergency responsibilities alongside public safety. At the building level, a designee for each building is responsible for maintaining and annually resubmitting that building's individual emergency plan, and testing of the EMP's broader capabilities is completed once a year, giving the university two parallel, yearly review cycles: one at the building level and one for the plan as a whole.\n\nOn the notification side, VU modernized its technology in 2023, replacing its previous Rave-based alert system with a new [911 Cellular mass-notification platform](https://www.vinu.edu/news/vu-launches-new-mass-notification-system.html) that the university describes as delivering real-time emergency alerts to students, faculty, staff, and visitors, distributed instantly by text, email, and the university website. Day-to-day, VU also layers redundant, lower-tech channels on top of that digital system: campus radio (WVUB 91.1), campus television (WVUT), and the university website all carry emergency information alongside the text/email alerts, a combination suited to a rural southwestern-Indiana location where cellular coverage and connectivity can be less reliable than in a dense urban campus.\n\nAs a Title IV, Clery-covered institution, Vincennes University is bound by the federal two-track framework requiring emergency notifications for confirmed significant emergencies and timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes representing a continuing threat. The specific written Clery-framed timely-warning criteria inside the Emergency Management Plan itself were not independently confirmed in this review, since vinu.edu blocks automated direct fetching of the plan PDF; the excerpts below reflect search-engine reproductions of the plan and the university's public emergency-procedures pages.","whenCriteria":"An emergency situation/incident is defined as an event or series of events that disrupts the normal course of university operations and may involve emergency services; when those conditions occur, the President or designate may declare a state of emergency. As a Clery institution, VU separately follows the federal standards for emergency notifications and timely warnings.","decisionAuthority":"The President, or the President's designate, may declare a state of emergency. The plan also assigns operational roles to the Provost, the Vice President for Financial Services, and the Vice President for Workforce Development/Community Services.","timingStandard":"Not stated in exact language in the sources reviewed; the 911 Cellular system is described as delivering real-time emergency alerts distributed instantly by text, email, and the university website.","cleryFraming":"Standard federal two-track distinction applies (timely warning vs. emergency notification); the reviewed Emergency Management Plan itself is framed around declaration authority, operational roles, and building-level plans rather than Clery-specific notification language.","testingCadence":"Testing of the Emergency Management Plan's capabilities is completed once a year; a building-level designee is responsible for updating and resubmitting that building's individual emergency plan once a year as well.","scopeLimits":"The EMP centers on the Vincennes campus; its application to VU's statewide extension sites was not independently confirmed. The university replaced its prior Rave-based alert system with 911 Cellular in 2023.","channels":["sms","email","website","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Definition of an emergency and declaration authority","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.vinu.edu/_resources/docs/pdf/vincennes/VU%20Emergency%20Management%20Plan.pdf","sourceDescription":"Vincennes University Emergency Management Plan, Vincennes Campus (captured via search-engine reproduction; vinu.edu blocks automated direct fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Annual testing requirement","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.vinu.edu/_resources/docs/pdf/vincennes/VU%20Emergency%20Management%20Plan.pdf","sourceDescription":"Vincennes University Emergency Management Plan, Vincennes Campus (captured via search-engine reproduction; vinu.edu blocks automated direct fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Vincennes University, chartered in 1801 as Indiana's first college, is the state's primary public two-year institution and defines an emergency broadly as any event disrupting normal operations that may involve outside emergency services.","Declaration authority rests with the President or a designate; the plan also spells out operational roles for the Provost and two named vice presidents, spreading emergency responsibility across senior academic and business leadership.","Testing runs on two parallel annual cycles: once-a-year testing of the EMP's overall capabilities, and once-a-year updates to each building's individual emergency plan by a building-level designee.","VU replaced its previous Rave-based mass-notification system with a 911 Cellular platform in 2023, delivering real-time alerts by text, email, and the university website, layered on top of campus radio (WVUB) and campus TV (WVUT).","The plan's specific Clery-framed timely-warning criteria were not independently confirmed; vinu.edu blocks automated direct fetching of the EMP PDF, so sourcing here is search-engine reproduction."],"sources":[{"title":"Vincennes University Emergency Management Plan, Vincennes Campus (PDF)","url":"https://www.vinu.edu/_resources/docs/pdf/vincennes/VU%20Emergency%20Management%20Plan.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Procedures, Vincennes University","url":"https://www.vinu.edu/emergency-procedures/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"VU launches new 911 Cellular mass notification system","url":"https://www.vinu.edu/news/vu-launches-new-mass-notification-system.html","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","emergency-operations-plan","indiana","community-college","911-cellular","vincennes"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"vcu-alert-policy","slug":"vcu-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Virginia Commonwealth University","shortName":"VCU","state":"VA","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"VCU Alert","enrollment":28464},"policy":{"title":"VCU Alert — Emergency Notification System (Types of Alerts)","systemName":"VCU Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://alert.vcu.edu/know/types-of-alerts/"},"summary":"[VCU Alert](https://alert.vcu.edu/) is Virginia Commonwealth University's emergency notification system, which issues emergency notifications for confirmed active incidents that may pose a safety risk or operational impact and separately issues Clery [crime/timely-warning alerts](https://alert.vcu.edu/know/types-of-alerts/); as of [October 23, 2025 all VCU-issued email addresses are automatically enrolled](https://news.vcu.edu/article/2025/10/vcu-alert-emergency-notifications-will-go-to-all-university-inboxes-starting-oct-23) in the system.","analysis":"Virginia Commonwealth University operates [VCU Alert](https://alert.vcu.edu/) as the umbrella brand for urgent, actionable notifications across the VCU and VCU Health community. VCU draws a clear distinction between two notification types. Emergency notifications communicate active incidents — for example crime, extreme weather, power outages, or major traffic disruptions — that may pose a safety risk or operational impact to community members, providing concise, direct information about the situation and any protective actions community members can take in the moment. Crime alerts (timely warnings) are issued by public-safety officials, typically VCU Police, to notify the campus community of Clery Act reportable crimes that may pose a serious or ongoing threat; text alerts are deliberately not sent for every crime — only for situations that may pose an ongoing risk — while emails from the VCU Alert system are distributed to everyone at VCU when certain qualifying crimes occur on or near campus.\n\nThe activation threshold is confirmation-based and intentionally conservative. VCU Police and campus safety officials [do not issue emergency notifications unless the incident has been confirmed](https://alert.vcu.edu/know/emergency/), and VCU Police describe never activating the emergency alert system unless it has been confirmed that there is a serious, active threat to the community. VCU positions its overall posture as going beyond the requirements of the Clery Act, which mandates notification of certain crimes at or near universities. Decision authority for crime/timely-warning alerts sits with VCU Police and campus safety officials.\n\nDelivery is highly redundant. VCU's alerting technologies include a one-minute outdoor-siren activation, text messages, Alertus boxes, desktop alerts on VCU-supported computers, mass email, digital signage, the LiveSafe app, the VCU Mobile app, and the [VCU Alert website](https://alert.vcu.edu/). A significant 2025 change broadened reach: effective [October 23, 2025, all VCU-issued email addresses are automatically enrolled](https://news.vcu.edu/article/2025/10/vcu-alert-emergency-notifications-will-go-to-all-university-inboxes-starting-oct-23) in the university's emergency notification system, ensuring every community member receives emergency email without opting in, while text-message enrollment remains a sign-up at [alert.vcu.edu/signup](https://alert.vcu.edu/signup/).\n\nTesting is conducted on a regular, publicly announced cadence — full tests of the VCU Alert systems are run at least twice a year (typically a fall test and a spring test), historically at noon, and include the one-minute siren activation alongside text, email, Alertus, digital signage, desktop, and app channels; recent tests were announced for [September 3, 2025](https://news.vcu.edu/article/2025/09/vcu-will-conduct-a-test-of-the-vcu-alert-system-on-sept-3) and February 2026. Some test cycles are paired with lockdown-procedure drills. The combination of a confirmed-threat trigger, a VCU-Police-led timely-warning process, a one-minute siren plus an extensive multi-channel stack, and automatic email enrollment characterizes VCU's urban-campus alerting model.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notifications are issued for confirmed active incidents (e.g., crime, extreme weather, power outages, major traffic disruptions) that may pose a safety risk or operational impact, and are not issued unless the incident has been confirmed and a serious, active threat to the community exists. Crime alerts (timely warnings) are issued for Clery Act reportable crimes occurring on or near campus that may pose a serious or ongoing threat; text alerts go out only for situations posing an ongoing risk, not for every crime.","decisionAuthority":"Crime alerts/timely warnings are issued by public-safety officials, typically VCU Police. VCU Police and campus safety officials decide whether to activate emergency notifications, and do so only after confirming a serious, active threat.","timingStandard":"VCU provides safety information in real time but conditions activation on confirmation — VCU Police and campus safety officials do not issue emergency notifications unless the incident has been confirmed, and never activate the emergency alert system unless a serious, active threat to the community has been confirmed.","cleryFraming":"Two-track model: emergency notifications for confirmed active incidents posing a safety risk/operational impact, and crime alerts (Clery timely warnings) for Clery Act reportable crimes posing a serious or ongoing threat. VCU describes its crime and emergency communications system as going beyond the requirements of the Clery Act.","testingCadence":"VCU conducts full tests of the VCU Alert systems on a regular schedule — at least twice yearly (fall and spring), historically at noon — including a one-minute siren activation plus text, email, Alertus, digital signage, desktop alerts, and app channels; some cycles are paired with lockdown-procedure drills (e.g., tests announced for Sept. 3, 2025 and Feb. 2026).","scopeLimits":"Effective October 23, 2025, all VCU-issued email addresses are automatically enrolled in the emergency notification system, so every community member receives emergency email without opting in; text-message delivery still requires sign-up at alert.vcu.edu/signup. Text alerts are reserved for situations posing an ongoing risk rather than every crime. The outdoor siren is a campus-area channel; coverage spans the VCU and VCU Health community.","channels":["siren","sms","email","desktop-popup","digital-signage","push-notification","website","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency notification definition","quotedText":"Emergency notifications communicate active incidents (like crime, extreme weather, power outages or major traffic disruptions) that may pose a safety risk or operational impact to community members.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://alert.vcu.edu/know/types-of-alerts/","sourceDescription":"Types of alerts | Alert | Virginia Commonwealth University","annotations":["Returned identically across multiple independent searches of alert.vcu.edu; defines what an emergency notification covers (active incidents posing safety/operational impact). 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VMI frames sign-up as something the Institute actively encourages of cadets, faculty, and staff so they receive immediate alerts when threatening situations arise, and its own examples of triggering situations include natural disasters, fires, bomb threats, or acts of violence, an incident list that mixes weather, hazard, and criminal-threat categories under a single system rather than segmenting them.\n\nBecause VMI is a state military college chartered by the Commonwealth of Virginia rather than one of the five federal service academies, it does not carry the federal-academy Clery exemption that applies to West Point, Annapolis, or the Air Force Academy; VMI's [Clery Reporting page](https://www.vmi.edu/cadet-life/health-wellness-safety/vmi-police/clery-reporting/) and its Annual Security and Fire Safety Report situate the Institute inside the ordinary civilian timely-warning and emergency-notification framework administered by the VMI Police Department, headed by a Chief of Police who reports to the Assistant Superintendent for Plans and Operations. The general Clery interpretive standard that a warning's purpose is to let people protect themselves, and so should be issued as soon as pertinent information is available, is the operative timeliness principle referenced across VMI's public safety pages.\n\nOn the administrative side, VMI's Human Resources office separately publicizes how the Mass Notification System doubles as VMI's inclement-weather channel: when weather or other conditions present problems for the Institute's civilian staff, announcements go out via the Mass Notification System, the Human Resources voicemail line, and the VMI website, with late-opening announcements typically posted no later than 6:00 a.m. This shows the same underlying platform serving both a Clery-driven public-safety function for cadets and a more routine operational-closure function for employees.\n\nBecause vmi.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were reconstructed from official VMI Emergency Management and Human Resources page text as reproduced in search-engine indexing and corroborated across multiple independent queries, and are marked accordingly.","whenCriteria":"VMI encourages cadets, faculty, and staff to register for the Mass Notification System to receive immediate alerts when threatening situations arise; the Institute's own examples are natural disasters, fires, bomb threats, or acts of violence. A separate inclement-weather use of the same system covers office closings and delayed openings for employees.","decisionAuthority":"The VMI Police Department, headed by a Chief of Police reporting to the Assistant Superintendent for Plans and Operations, administers VMI's Clery-driven public safety program; a single named Mass Notification System activation authority was not reproduced verbatim in the public sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"VMI's public safety pages reference the general Clery interpretive standard that the intent of a timely warning is to let people protect themselves, so warnings should be issued as soon as pertinent information is available; a VMI-specific minutes-based standard was not found in public sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"As a state-chartered senior military college rather than a federal service academy, VMI is not exempt from the Clery Act; it publishes a standard Annual Security and Fire Safety Report and administers timely warnings and emergency notifications through VMI Police under the ordinary civilian Clery framework.","testingCadence":"A published VMI-specific Mass Notification System testing schedule was not found in the public sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"The Mass Notification System is used both for Clery-relevant safety threats (natural disasters, fires, bomb threats, acts of violence) and for routine inclement-weather office-closing announcements to employees; the employee-facing weather channel is separately voiced through a Human Resources voicemail line and the VMI website.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Mass Notification System description","quotedText":"VMI has a Mass Notification system that allows VMI to instantly send emergency information to users via text messaging, email, and a phone call to its community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.vmi.edu/cadet-life/health-wellness-safety/emergency-management/","sourceDescription":"VMI Emergency Management page (host blocked automated fetch; text corroborated across independent search-index queries)","annotations":["This sentence, or a near-identical restatement, recurred consistently across independent search queries of VMI's own Emergency Management page, describing a combined text, email, and phone-call channel."],"characterCount":161},{"label":"Encouraged sign-up and trigger examples","quotedText":"VMI encourages cadets, faculty and staff to sign up for this service to receive immediate alerts when threatening situations arise such as natural disasters, fires, bomb threats, or acts of violence.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.vmi.edu/cadet-life/health-wellness-safety/emergency-management/","sourceDescription":"VMI Emergency Management page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Names four illustrative trigger categories, mixing natural hazards with criminal-threat scenarios under a single opt-in registration."],"characterCount":199},{"label":"Inclement-weather channel for employees","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.vmi.edu/about/offices-a-z/human-resources/weather-alerts/","sourceDescription":"VMI Human Resources, Weather Alerts page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Timely warning intent","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.vmi.edu/cadet-life/health-wellness-safety/vmi-police/clery-reporting/","sourceDescription":"VMI Police, Clery Reporting page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["VMI is a state-chartered senior military college, not a federal service academy, so it remains fully subject to the Clery Act and publishes an ordinary Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.","The VMI Mass Notification System reaches cadets, faculty, and staff by text message, email, and phone call, and is presented as covering both criminal-threat and natural-hazard trigger examples.","The same Mass Notification System doubles as VMI's employee inclement-weather and office-closing channel, paired with a Human Resources voicemail line and website postings.","VMI Police, headed by a Chief of Police reporting to the Assistant Superintendent for Plans and Operations, administers VMI's Clery compliance program."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Management, Virginia Military Institute","url":"https://www.vmi.edu/cadet-life/health-wellness-safety/emergency-management/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery Reporting, VMI Police","url":"https://www.vmi.edu/cadet-life/health-wellness-safety/vmi-police/clery-reporting/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"VMI Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, 2025","url":"https://www.vmi.edu/media/content-assets/documents/police/VMI-SecFireSafe-2025.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Weather Alerts, VMI Human Resources","url":"https://www.vmi.edu/about/offices-a-z/human-resources/weather-alerts/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","military","senior-military-college","vmi","virginia"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"virginia-peninsula-community-college-gator-alert-policy","slug":"virginia-peninsula-community-college-gator-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Virginia Peninsula Community College","shortName":"VPCC","state":"VA","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Gator Alert","enrollment":9000},"policy":{"title":"VPCC Gator Ready and Gator Alert Emergency Notification System","systemName":"Gator Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.vpcc.edu/about/department-of-police-safety-and-security/vpcc-gator-ready-and-gator-alert/","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Virginia Peninsula Community College's [Gator Alert](https://www.vpcc.edu/about/department-of-police-safety-and-security/vpcc-gator-ready-and-gator-alert/) is a Rave-based multi-channel emergency notification system (email, voice, SMS, desktop, webpage, social) activated by designated college officials, with published test cadence and a guest 24-hour SMS opt-in via texting gatoralert to 67283.","analysis":"Virginia Peninsula Community College (VPCC) is a Virginia community college with campuses and educational sites including Hampton and Historic Triangle. Its public [Gator Ready and Gator Alert](https://www.vpcc.edu/about/department-of-police-safety-and-security/vpcc-gator-ready-and-gator-alert/) page is institution-specific system documentation rather than Clery boilerplate: it names Gator Alert as the ENS, lists multi-channel delivery (email, landline/cell voice, SMS, desktop, webpage, social integration), states that designated VPCC officials decide when and which components activate, prioritizes SMS/text for critical/public safety notifications while non-emergency information often goes by college email, publishes a quarterly-style test schedule (January/July system tests; March tornado drill; October Great ShakeOut), supports NWS severe thunderstorm/tornado IPAWS lists by campus geography, and offers a 24-hour guest SMS registration by texting gatoralert to 67283. Companion [alert-updates](https://www.vpcc.edu/about/department-of-police-safety-and-security/vpcc-alert-updates/) archive shows transmitted Gator Alert short-form language. This record documents the branded system overview and activation/testing rules, not a full ASR rewrite.","whenCriteria":"When designated VPCC officials determine Gator Alert ENS components are necessary and/or appropriate for situational awareness, health, safety, and security, including critical and public safety notifications; SMS/text primarily for critical/public safety, email for many non-emergency messages.","decisionAuthority":"Designated Virginia Peninsula Community College officials determine when and what components of the Gator Alert ENS require activation.","timingStandard":"As determined necessary and/or appropriate by the College; not a fixed minute standard on the system overview page reviewed.","cleryFraming":"System overview for the branded ENS used for timely warnings and emergency notifications; detailed Clery ASR procedure language is not the focus of this page.","testingCadence":"January second Wednesday 11:00 AM system test; March Virginia Statewide Tornado Drill (typically second Tuesday 9:45 AM); July second Wednesday 11:00 AM system test; October Great ShakeOut earthquake exercise (typically third Thursday 10:16 AM). Tests skip if real-world incidents or NWS severe weather alerts coincide.","scopeLimits":"Primary focus is campus community situational awareness; system may also share adjacent/surrounding public safety information as determined appropriate. Guest 24-hour SMS opt-in available via text to 67283.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","desktop-popup","website","twitter-x","facebook","wea-ipaws","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Multi-channel Gator Alert ENS capabilities","quotedText":"Gator Alert is Virginia Peninsula Community College's (VPCC) Emergency Notification System (ENS) capable of delivering messages to VPCC faculty, staff and students email addresses, voice announcements via landline and cell phones, cell text messages, desktop alerts, webpages and some social media platform integration.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.vpcc.edu/about/department-of-police-safety-and-security/vpcc-gator-ready-and-gator-alert/","sourceDescription":"VPCC Gator Ready and Gator Alert page","characterCount":319},{"label":"Designated officials activate components","quotedText":"Designated Virginia Peninsula Community College officials determine when and what components of the Gator Alert ENS require activation.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.vpcc.edu/about/department-of-police-safety-and-security/vpcc-gator-ready-and-gator-alert/","sourceDescription":"VPCC Gator Ready and Gator Alert page FAQ how activated","characterCount":135},{"label":"SMS primarily for critical public safety","quotedText":"The Gator Alert SMS/Text component will be used primarily for critical and/or public safety notifications.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.vpcc.edu/about/department-of-police-safety-and-security/vpcc-gator-ready-and-gator-alert/","sourceDescription":"VPCC Gator Ready and Gator Alert page when system used","characterCount":106},{"label":"Test and exercise message prefixes","quotedText":"Gator Alert ENS system tests will be scheduled, communicated, and alerts/notifications will be preceded with the verbiage TEST. When the Gator Alert ENS is being used in conjunction with and exercise, alerts/notifications will be preceded with the verbiage \"EXERCISE\" or \"THIS IS AN EXERCISE MESSAGE.\"","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.vpcc.edu/about/department-of-police-safety-and-security/vpcc-gator-ready-and-gator-alert/","sourceDescription":"VPCC Gator Ready and Gator Alert page testing FAQ","characterCount":301},{"label":"Guest 24-hour SMS opt-in short code","quotedText":"if you are visiting with us today, conducting business, completing work, or engaging in one of our events, activities, and/or athletic competitions on one of our campuses, educational sites, or controlled venues, please know that we value your safety and security and strongly encourage you to text gatoralert (all one word) to 67283.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.vpcc.edu/about/department-of-police-safety-and-security/vpcc-gator-ready-and-gator-alert/","sourceDescription":"VPCC Gator Ready and Gator Alert page guest registration","characterCount":334}],"keyFindings":["VPCC brands its ENS as Gator Alert on Rave Mobile Safety with multi-channel delivery and designated-official activation.","SMS/text is reserved primarily for critical/public safety while many non-emergency notices use college email.","Published test cadence covers January, March tornado drill, July, and October Great ShakeOut with TEST/EXERCISE prefixes.","Guest visitors can self-register for 24-hour text alerts by texting gatoralert to 67283."],"sources":[{"title":"VPCC Gator Ready and Gator Alert","url":"https://www.vpcc.edu/about/department-of-police-safety-and-security/vpcc-gator-ready-and-gator-alert/","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"},{"title":"VPCC Alert Updates archive","url":"https://www.vpcc.edu/about/department-of-police-safety-and-security/vpcc-alert-updates/","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["community-college","virginia","gator-alert","system-overview","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"virginia-tech-alert-policy","slug":"virginia-tech-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University","shortName":"Virginia Tech","state":"VA","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"VT Alerts","enrollment":38995},"policy":{"title":"VT Alerts Emergency Notification System / Emergency Notification Protocol","systemName":"VT Alerts","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.alerts.vt.edu/"},"summary":"[VT Alerts](https://www.alerts.vt.edu/) is Virginia Tech's emergency notification system — built and tested intensively after the April 16, 2007 shootings that helped reshape the federal Clery emergency-notification standard — used to communicate critical information in an emergency through text, phone, email, desktop alerts, social media, the [university status page](https://www.vt.edu/status.html), and outdoor sirens, while the [Virginia Tech Police](https://police.vt.edu/safety-security/emergency-notification.html) separately issue Clery Crime Alerts and Situational Awareness messages.","analysis":"Virginia Tech's alerting posture is historically pivotal: the April 16, 2007 mass shooting — in which a delayed campus-wide warning was a central finding of the state review panel and a U.S. Department of Education investigation — directly informed the 2008 Higher Education Opportunity Act amendments to the Clery Act that made emergency-notification and timely-warning procedures a federal requirement. Virginia Tech's resulting system, [VT Alerts](https://www.alerts.vt.edu/), is operated by the [Office of Emergency Management](https://emergency.vt.edu/ready/stay-informed.html) and described as the system used to communicate critical information with the Virginia Tech community in the event of an emergency on or near Virginia Tech campus locations.\n\nVirginia Tech distinguishes three notification types. Emergency Notifications (VT Alerts) are deployed in the event of an immediate significant danger to the health or safety of the university when the community needs to take immediate action — examples cited include severe weather, an explosion, a hazardous-materials spill or leak, building structural damage, or an active police response. Crime Alerts are emails deployed for Clery Act-designated crimes that could present an ongoing threat to the safety and well-being of the campus community, and Situational Awareness emails inform the community of general crime and safety information not covered by the Clery Act but that could present an ongoing threat. This three-tier structure (emergency notification / crime alert / situational awareness) maps cleanly onto the Clery emergency-notification-versus-timely-warning distinction. The [Virginia Tech Police Department](https://police.vt.edu/safety-security/emergency-notification.html), Marketing and Communications, Virginia Tech Emergency Management, and other university administrators are authorized to initiate VT Alerts.\n\nWhen VT Alerts is activated, information is distributed across multiple, intentionally redundant channels: text messaging, phone calls, emails to vt.edu addresses, the Virginia Tech website and [university status page](https://www.vt.edu/status.html), desktop alerts, social-media updates (including @vtalerts on X/Twitter), and — on the Blacksburg campus — fire alarm annunciators, electronic message boards, and outdoor sirens with voice annunciators. Anyone with a Virginia Tech PID automatically receives VT Alerts at their vt.edu email; students and employees can subscribe to add up to three preferred contact methods (cell text/voice, landline, or a non-VT email). Hokie families, visitors, vendors, and contractors can subscribe by email or by texting HokieFam to 226787 (international SMS 1-424-322-6787).\n\nTesting is frequent and publicly announced — a deliberate contrast with 2007. The university tests all emergency-notification channels of VT Alerts at least once each fall and spring semester, announcing each test in advance via VTx (Virginia Tech News), with outdoor-siren and annunciator tests on the Blacksburg campus typically conducted between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.; test messages always carry a clear statement in the subject line or body that the message is a test. The [VT Alerts FAQ](https://www.alerts.vt.edu/questions.html) and the police department's emergency-notification protocol document the activation criteria, the authorized initiators, and the Clery framing.","whenCriteria":"Emergency Notifications (VT Alerts) are deployed in the event of an immediate significant danger to the health or safety of the university when the community needs to take immediate action (e.g., severe weather, explosion, hazardous-materials spill/leak, building structural damage, active police response), and during university closures and scheduled fall/spring tests. Crime Alerts are issued for Clery Act-designated crimes that could present an ongoing threat; Situational Awareness messages cover non-Clery safety information that could present an ongoing threat.","decisionAuthority":"The Virginia Tech Police Department, Marketing and Communications, Virginia Tech Emergency Management (Office of Emergency Management), and other authorized university administrators are authorized to initiate VT Alerts.","timingStandard":"VT Alerts are issued when there is a need for community members to take immediate protective action from an immediate significant danger to the safety or health of the university community; the system uses multiple channels with intentional redundancy to reach the community quickly.","cleryFraming":"Three-tier structure mapping onto the Clery emergency-notification vs. timely-warning split: (1) Emergency Notifications (VT Alerts) for an immediate significant danger to health/safety, (2) Crime Alerts for Clery Act crimes posing an ongoing threat, and (3) Situational Awareness messages for non-Clery safety information posing an ongoing threat.","testingCadence":"The university tests all emergency-notification channels of VT Alerts at least once each fall and spring semester, announced in advance via VTx (Virginia Tech News). Outdoor sirens with annunciators on the Blacksburg campus are tested too, typically between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.; test messages always state clearly that they are a test.","scopeLimits":"Anyone with a Virginia Tech PID auto-receives VT Alerts at their vt.edu email; cell/landline/external-email delivery requires subscribing (up to three preferred contact methods). Hokie families, visitors, vendors, and contractors must self-subscribe (email, or text HokieFam to 226787). Outdoor sirens are a Blacksburg-campus channel; messaging covers Virginia Tech locations including the National Capital/D.C.-area and Alexandria sites.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","push-notification","desktop-popup","website","twitter-x","siren","digital-signage"],"excerpts":[{"label":"VT Alerts definition","quotedText":"VT Alerts is used to communicate critical information with the Virginia Tech community in the event of an emergency on or near Virginia Tech campus locations.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.alerts.vt.edu/","sourceDescription":"VT Alerts | Virginia Tech","annotations":["This exact sentence recurred identically across multiple independent searches of the official VT Alerts site and VTx test announcements, indicating verbatim reproduction. Defines the system's purpose and scope (on or near VT campus locations)."],"characterCount":158},{"label":"Emergency notification trigger","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://police.vt.edu/safety-security/emergency-notification.html","sourceDescription":"Emergency Notification Protocol | Virginia Tech Police","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Authorized initiators","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.alerts.vt.edu/questions.html","sourceDescription":"VT Alerts FAQs and Help | Virginia Tech","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Testing cadence","quotedText":"The university will test all emergency notification channels of VT Alerts at least once each fall and spring semester.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.alerts.vt.edu/questions.html","sourceDescription":"VT Alerts FAQs and Help | Virginia Tech","annotations":["This testing-cadence sentence recurred identically across multiple independent searches of the VT Alerts FAQ and VTx test announcements, indicating verbatim reproduction. Establishes the at-least-once-per-semester (fall and spring) testing standard."],"characterCount":118}],"keyFindings":["VT Alerts is Virginia Tech's emergency notification system, operated by the Office of Emergency Management — a system built and intensively tested after the April 16, 2007 shootings that helped reshape the federal Clery emergency-notification standard.","Three notification tiers: Emergency Notifications (VT Alerts) for immediate significant danger to health/safety, Crime Alerts for Clery crimes posing an ongoing threat, and Situational Awareness messages for non-Clery safety information.","VT Police, Marketing and Communications, Virginia Tech Emergency Management, and other authorized administrators can initiate VT Alerts.","Delivery is intentionally redundant: text, phone, email, desktop alerts, website/status page, X/Twitter (@vtalerts), and — on the Blacksburg campus — fire-alarm annunciators, electronic message boards, and outdoor sirens.","All emergency-notification channels are tested at least once each fall and spring semester, announced in advance via VTx, with test messages clearly labeled as tests."],"sources":[{"title":"VT Alerts | Virginia Tech","url":"https://www.alerts.vt.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"VT Alerts FAQs and Help | Virginia Tech","url":"https://www.alerts.vt.edu/questions.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Notification Protocol | Virginia Tech Police Department","url":"https://police.vt.edu/safety-security/emergency-notification.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Stay Informed | Emergency Management | Virginia Tech","url":"https://emergency.vt.edu/ready/stay-informed.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"VT Alerts system to be tested for all locations on Feb. 5 | Virginia Tech News","url":"https://news.vt.edu/articles/2026/01/oem-vtalerts-spring-26-test.html","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","virginia","public-r1"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-08-31","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"virginia-state-rave-alert-policy","slug":"virginia-state-rave-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Virginia State University","shortName":"VSU","state":"VA","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"RAVE Alert (RAVE Emergency Alert System)","enrollment":5701},"policy":{"title":"RAVE Emergency Alert System — Emergency Notification & Timely Warning Policy","systemName":"RAVE Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.vsu.edu/police/campus-safety/rave-emergency-alert-system.php","lastReviewed":"2025-01-01"},"summary":"Virginia State University, a land-grant HBCU in Ettrick, runs its campus emergency notifications on the [RAVE Emergency Alert System](https://www.vsu.edu/police/campus-safety/rave-emergency-alert-system.php), which VSU Police use to push text messages, email, recorded voice messages, and loudspeaker announcements during life-safety or public-health emergencies, and which underpins the university's [lockdown and shelter-in-place protocols](https://www.vsu.edu/police/campus-safety/lockdown-and-shelter-in-place-protocols.php) for imminent threats such as an active shooter.","analysis":"Virginia State University (VSU) is a public, land-grant HBCU in Ettrick (Chesterfield County), Virginia. Its emergency-notification platform is branded the [RAVE Emergency Alert System](https://www.vsu.edu/police/campus-safety/rave-emergency-alert-system.php), referred to in shorthand as RAVE Alert. VSU describes it as the university's 'official emergency notification system' that 'allows you to quickly receive emergency notifications and important announcements via text messages, email, or recorded voice messages' — phrasing that appeared identically across multiple official VSU-page retrievals and is marked verbatim here.\n\nOperationally, VSU Police own the system. The university's [emergency-communications](https://www.vsu.edu/police/about/emergency-communications.php) materials state that VSU Police send emergency notifications through the RAVE Alert System using text messages, voice messaging, emails, and loudspeakers when emergency situations arise — adding an outdoor/indoor PA layer to the SMS/email/voice trio. Registration ties to the university email as username and allows up to three contact numbers and three email addresses, so the system is fundamentally opt-in/contact-driven rather than purely automatic.\n\nRAVE Alert is wired into VSU's threat protocols. The university's [lockdown and shelter-in-place protocols](https://www.vsu.edu/police/campus-safety/lockdown-and-shelter-in-place-protocols.php) distinguish a 'hard lockdown' — 'for imminent, direct threats on or inside a building, such as an active shooter' — from a 'soft lockdown' for potential threats in the vicinity but not directly on campus, or for internal searches; RAVE Alert is the channel that carries those instructions to the community. VSU's life-safety framing ('life safety or public health emergencies') aligns the system with the Clery emergency-notification trigger for a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety.\n\nVSU's published pages confirm the brand, the channels (SMS, email, voice, loudspeaker), the registration model, and the lockdown integration. The granular Clery procedural fields a full standalone policy or ASR would spell out — the exact named position authorized to activate RAVE Alert, the precise 'without delay / upon confirmation' timing sentence, the timely-warning-versus-emergency-notification labeling, and any periodic-test cadence — were not byte-for-byte confirmable here because vsu.edu and the Annual Security Report returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so those fields draw on indexed snippets and are flagged where reconstructed. The university's response to a 2025 off-campus tragedy is also documented on its [news site](https://www.vsu.edu/news/2025/vsu-responds-to-recent-tragedy-outside-main-campus.php).","whenCriteria":"RAVE Alert is used for 'life safety or public health emergencies'; VSU's lockdown protocols pair it with a 'hard lockdown' for 'imminent, direct threats on or inside a building, such as an active shooter,' and a 'soft lockdown' for potential threats in the vicinity. The exact Clery confirmation-threshold sentence was not byte-for-byte confirmable (vsu.edu blocked automated fetch).","decisionAuthority":"VSU Police administer and send emergency notifications through the RAVE Alert System. The specific position authorized to confirm a threat and activate a RAVE Alert was not confirmed verbatim in this review (vsu.edu and the ASR returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching).","timingStandard":"VSU frames RAVE Alert as the system for rapid dissemination of critical emergency information during life-safety or public-health emergencies. A precise 'without delay / immediately upon confirmation' timing sentence was not byte-for-byte confirmable here (vsu.edu/ASR blocked automated fetching).","cleryFraming":"VSU positions RAVE Alert as its official emergency-notification system for life-safety and public-health emergencies, integrated with hard/soft lockdown and shelter-in-place protocols. The distinct Clery timely-warning labeling and the Annual Security Report's exact procedural language were not confirmable here (host blocked automated fetch).","testingCadence":"A precise published periodic test cadence for the RAVE Alert system was not confirmed verbatim in this review (vsu.edu and the ASR blocked automated fetching).","scopeLimits":"Registration uses the university email as username and permits up to three contact numbers and three email addresses, so SMS/voice reach depends on self-registration and current contact data; the added loudspeaker channel provides on-campus reach independent of opt-in. VSU urges the community to register and keep contact information current.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"RAVE Alert system definition / channels","quotedText":"RAVE Alert is Virginia State University's official emergency notification system that allows you to quickly receive emergency notifications and important announcements via text messages, email, or recorded voice messages.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.vsu.edu/police/campus-safety/rave-emergency-alert-system.php","sourceDescription":"Virginia State University — RAVE Emergency Alert System page","annotations":["States the brand as VSU's 'official emergency notification system' and its three core channels (text, email, recorded voice). Identical wording surfaced across multiple official VSU-page retrievals, so it is marked isVerbatimConfirmed:true despite vsu.edu returning HTTP 403 to direct automated fetching."],"characterCount":221},{"label":"VSU Police ownership and loudspeaker channel","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.vsu.edu/police/about/emergency-communications.php","sourceDescription":"Virginia State University — Emergency Communications (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Hard vs. soft lockdown definitions","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.vsu.edu/police/campus-safety/lockdown-and-shelter-in-place-protocols.php","sourceDescription":"Virginia State University — Lockdown and Shelter-In-Place Protocols (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["VSU's emergency-notification system is the RAVE Emergency Alert System (RAVE Alert), owned and activated by VSU Police.","Channels are SMS, email, recorded voice, and loudspeaker/PA; registration uses the university email as username with up to three numbers and three emails.","RAVE Alert carries VSU's two-tier lockdown instructions — 'hard lockdown' for imminent, direct threats such as an active shooter, 'soft lockdown' for nearby/internal-search situations.","VSU frames the system around 'life safety or public health emergencies,' aligning it with the Clery emergency-notification trigger.","The named decision authority, exact timing sentence, distinct timely-warning labeling, and test cadence could not be confirmed verbatim (vsu.edu and the ASR blocked automated fetching); the system-definition excerpt was confirmed verbatim across multiple official-page retrievals."],"sources":[{"title":"Virginia State University — RAVE Emergency Alert System","url":"https://www.vsu.edu/police/campus-safety/rave-emergency-alert-system.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Virginia State University — Emergency Communications","url":"https://www.vsu.edu/police/about/emergency-communications.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Virginia State University — Lockdown and Shelter-In-Place Protocols","url":"https://www.vsu.edu/police/campus-safety/lockdown-and-shelter-in-place-protocols.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Virginia State University — Emergency Information","url":"https://www.vsu.edu/emergency.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Virginia State University — VSU Responds To Recent Tragedy Outside Main Campus (2025)","url":"https://www.vsu.edu/news/2025/vsu-responds-to-recent-tragedy-outside-main-campus.php","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","hbcu","virginia","rave-alert","lockdown","loudspeaker"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"volunteer-state-community-college-rave-asr","slug":"volunteer-state-community-college-rave-asr","institution":{"name":"Volunteer State Community College","shortName":"Vol State","state":"TN","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Vol State RAVE Alert","enrollment":9000},"policy":{"title":"Immediate Emergency Notification and Timely Warning (RAVE) - Annual Security Report","systemName":"Vol State RAVE Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.volstate.edu/sites/default/files/documents/campuspolice/Current_Annual_Campus_Safety_and_Security_Report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Volunteer State Community College documents [Campus Police-issued immediate emergency notifications and Clery timely warnings](https://www.volstate.edu/sites/default/files/documents/campuspolice/Current_Annual_Campus_Safety_and_Security_Report.pdf) via PA, email, and the Vol State RAVE text alert system with spring/fall drill testing.","analysis":"Volunteer State Community College (Gallatin, TN multi-campus) publishes Immediate Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Notification procedures in its [current Annual Campus Safety and Security Report](https://www.volstate.edu/sites/default/files/documents/campuspolice/Current_Annual_Campus_Safety_and_Security_Report.pdf), cross-referencing institutional policy IV:30:16 and 34 CFR 668.46. Campus Police is responsible for issuing immediate emergency notifications for confirmed emergencies or dangerous situations posing immediate threat to health or safety of students, employees, or visitors. Upon confirmation (directly or with local emergency services), the college determines content/scope and activates notification without delay unless that would compromise victim assistance or mitigation.\n\nPrimary EN methods: PA system, Vol State email, and text alerts via RAVE (getrave.com/login/volstate). Supplemental: social media and college website. Timely warnings issue when a Clery-reportable crime occurs in Clery geography, is reported to Campus Police/CSA/local LE, and presents a serious or continuing threat; assessment weighs nature/severity, continuing danger, and investigation impact. TW channels include PA, campus-wide email, RAVE text, social media, and website. Drills each spring and fall semester test text alerts and PA systems with post-drill surveys. Complements Tennessee community-college coverage.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notification: confirmed emergency or dangerous situation posing immediate threat to health or safety of students, employees, or visitors. Timely warning: Clery-reportable crime in Clery geography reported to Campus Police/CSA/local LE presenting serious or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"Vol State Campus Police Department issues both immediate emergency notifications and timely warnings; EN confirmation may involve local emergency services consultation.","timingStandard":"EN without delay upon confirmation unless compromise exception applies. TW assessed case-by-case for serious/continuing threat. Spring and fall semester drills for text alerts and PA.","cleryFraming":"ASR Immediate Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Notification sections with named Vol State RAVE system and three-condition TW standard.","scopeLimits":"Some TW details may be withheld if sharing would compromise active investigation. Primary alerts directed to campus community; families/public directed to website and social media. EN examples include active assailant, weather, hazmat, structural failure.","testingCadence":"Drills held each Spring and Fall semester testing text alerts and public announcement system; post-drill surveys for improvement.","channels":["sms","email","pa-system","website","facebook","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Campus Police EN responsibility","quotedText":"The Vol State Campus Police Department is responsible for issuing immediate emergency notifications to inform the campus community of any confirmed emergency or dangerous situation that poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, employees, or visitors.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.volstate.edu/sites/default/files/documents/campuspolice/Current_Annual_Campus_Safety_and_Security_Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Vol State ASR - Immediate Emergency Notification","annotations":["Campus Police owns immediate EN for confirmed threats."],"characterCount":272},{"label":"RAVE text for timely warnings","quotedText":"Text message alerts through the Vol State RAVE alert system","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.volstate.edu/sites/default/files/documents/campuspolice/Current_Annual_Campus_Safety_and_Security_Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Vol State ASR - How Warnings Are Communicated","annotations":["Named Vol State RAVE as TW text channel."],"characterCount":59}],"keyFindings":["Vol State RAVE (getrave.com/login/volstate) for text emergency and timely-warning alerts.","Campus Police owns both EN and TW with three-condition Clery TW standard.","Spring and fall semester drills test text alerts and PA systems."],"sources":[{"title":"Volunteer State Community College Annual Campus Safety and Security Report PDF","url":"https://www.volstate.edu/sites/default/files/documents/campuspolice/Current_Annual_Campus_Safety_and_Security_Report.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Vol State Timely Warnings Policy IV:30:15","url":"https://www.volstate.edu/policies/iv3015-timely-warnings-policy","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["tennessee","community-college","clery-asr","rave","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"wake-forest-university-wake-alert-policy","slug":"wake-forest-university-wake-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Wake Forest University","shortName":"WFU","state":"NC","type":"private-r2","alertSystemName":"Wake Alert","enrollment":9633},"policy":{"title":"Wake Alert Notifications (Emergency Alert Methods)","systemName":"Wake Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://wakealert.wfu.edu/alert-methods.html"},"summary":"Wake Forest University's [Wake Alert methods page](https://wakealert.wfu.edu/alert-methods.html) describes an emergency notification system spanning text, email, phone call, the university website, social media, the WakeSafe app, computer screen takeover, and indoor and outdoor warning systems, with undergraduates required to provide mobile numbers while faculty, staff, and graduate students are encouraged to register.","analysis":"Wake Forest University, a private research university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina with a [2025-26 total enrollment of 9,633](https://admissions.wfu.edu/facts/), operates its emergency communications under the Wake Alert brand and hosts them on a dedicated [wakealert.wfu.edu](https://wakealert.wfu.edu/) site that doubles as a public running archive of sent messages, the seam this archive's Wake Forest cases draw on. The [alert methods page](https://wakealert.wfu.edu/alert-methods.html) states that in an emergency or when a safety response is needed, alerts may be sent via text, email, phone call, the university website, social media, the WakeSafe app, computer screen takeover, indoor and outdoor warning systems, and campus-wide audio and visual systems. Registration policy is tiered by population: the university uses the mobile numbers of students, faculty, and staff to send text alerts and voice messages during an emergency, undergraduate students are required to provide their mobile phone numbers, faculty, staff, graduate and professional students are encouraged to register, and members who do not register a mobile number still receive emergency messages by other methods. The site's archive shows the system's operational registers, from Clery timely warning notifications to ADVERSE CONDITIONS weather headers, and documents recurring [tests of the emergency notification system](https://wakealert.wfu.edu/2025/09/test-of-wfu-emergency-notification-system-7.html), including advance-noticed test windows at the medical center campus. The formal Clery policy statements behind the system live in the [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://police.wfu.edu/2025/09/safety-and-security-at-wake-forest/) published by University Police. All wfu.edu hosts are egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language below is carried from search-index retrievals of the official pages and marked unconfirmed pending a direct character-for-character read.","whenCriteria":"Wake Alert is used in an emergency or when a safety response is needed, spanning emergency notifications, timely warning notifications concerning possible threats to the community, and adverse-conditions advisories.","decisionAuthority":"Wake Alert is operated by the university with University Police publishing the Clery policy framework; the specific titles authorized to activate a Wake Alert were not readable from this sandbox (wfu.edu egress-blocked).","timingStandard":"The university describes using numerous notifications to quickly and promptly communicate with faculty, staff, students, parents and families, the public, and news media; a precise without-delay sentence from the ASR was not confirmable from this sandbox.","cleryFraming":"The university issues Timely Warning Notifications concerning possible threats to the community alongside emergency notifications, with formal policy statements carried in the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.","testingCadence":"The wakealert.wfu.edu archive documents recurring announced tests of the emergency notification system, including September 2025 tests and advance-noticed June 2025 test windows.","scopeLimits":"Undergraduates must provide mobile numbers; faculty, staff, graduate and professional students are encouraged to register; unregistered members receive emergency messages by other methods. Channels extend to parents, families, and the public via website and social media.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","push-notification","desktop-popup","siren","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Channel stack","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://wakealert.wfu.edu/alert-methods.html","sourceDescription":"Wake Forest University, Wake Alert Notifications page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Mobile number use and undergraduate requirement","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://wakealert.wfu.edu/alert-methods.html","sourceDescription":"Wake Forest University, Wake Alert Notifications page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Fallback for unregistered members","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://wakealert.wfu.edu/alert-methods.html","sourceDescription":"Wake Forest University, Wake Alert Notifications page (host egress-blocked from this sandbox; text carried from search-index retrieval)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Wake Alert publishes its own running public archive of sent messages at wakealert.wfu.edu, one of the more transparent alert-log seams in this archive.","Undergraduates are required to provide mobile numbers while faculty, staff, and graduate students are encouraged, a tiered mandate that guarantees text reach for the residential population.","The published channel stack spans nine layers, from text and email to the WakeSafe app, computer screen takeover, and indoor and outdoor warning systems.","The site documents recurring announced tests of the notification system, including medical-center test windows with advance notice.","No excerpt is verbatim-confirmed: wfu.edu is egress-blocked from this research sandbox, so quoted language is carried from search-index retrievals and flagged for direct verification."],"sources":[{"title":"Wake Forest University, Wake Alert Notifications (alert methods)","url":"https://wakealert.wfu.edu/alert-methods.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Wake Forest University, Wake Alert home and archive","url":"https://wakealert.wfu.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Wake Forest University, Wake Alert FAQ","url":"https://wakealert.wfu.edu/frequently-asked-questions.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Wake Forest University Police, Safety and Security at Wake Forest (2025 ASR notice)","url":"https://police.wfu.edu/2025/09/safety-and-security-at-wake-forest/","type":"official-statement"},{"title":"Wake Forest University, Facts and Figures (Undergraduate Admissions)","url":"https://admissions.wfu.edu/facts/","type":"official-archive"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["wake-forest-mount-tabor-shooting-2021-09-01","wake-forest-university-swatting-2023-04-09","wake-forest-university-tornado-warning-2026-03-16","wake-forest-university-swatting-reynolda-2026-05-05","wake-forest-university-olin-nitrogen-leak-2026-08-10"],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","north-carolina","wake-alert","private-r1","public-alert-log"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-23","lastUpdated":"2026-08-23","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"wake-technical-community-college-warn-policy","slug":"wake-technical-community-college-warn-policy","institution":{"name":"Wake Technical Community College","shortName":"Wake Tech","state":"NC","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Wake Tech WARN","enrollment":72000},"policy":{"title":"Wake Tech WARN Emergency Notification Policy","systemName":"Wake Tech WARN","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.waketech.edu/sites/default/files/page-file-uploads/2025-Wake-Tech-Campus-Security-Report-09302025.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-09-30"},"summary":"Wake Technical Community College, North Carolina's largest community college, notifies its community through [Wake Tech WARN](https://www.waketech.edu/about-wake-tech/administrative-offices/college-police/waketech-warn), documented in the [2025 Campus Security Report](https://www.waketech.edu/sites/default/files/page-file-uploads/2025-Wake-Tech-Campus-Security-Report-09302025.pdf) as an emergency notification system for email, text, and voice messages.","analysis":"Wake Tech brands its emergency notification system as [Wake Tech WARN](https://www.waketech.edu/about-wake-tech/administrative-offices/college-police/waketech-warn). The College Police description in the [2025 Campus Security Report](https://www.waketech.edu/sites/default/files/page-file-uploads/2025-Wake-Tech-Campus-Security-Report-09302025.pdf) states that Wake Tech WARN notifies students, faculty, and staff in emergencies and can rapidly deliver email, text, and voice messages. Students, faculty, and staff receive WARN emails at waketech.edu addresses automatically and are encouraged to complete WARN profiles for phone and text delivery. The ASR also covers timely-warning notices for crimes posing an ongoing threat. This record documents the WARN system overview from the ASR and public WARN page.","whenCriteria":"Emergencies requiring notification of students, faculty, and staff; timely warnings for crimes that have occurred and pose an ongoing threat to students and employees.","decisionAuthority":"Wake Tech College Police operate Wake Tech WARN; timely-warning decisions follow Clery positions described in the Campus Security Report.","timingStandard":"ASR describes rapid multi-channel notification capability; Clery timely warnings for ongoing threats as described in the Campus Security Report.","cleryFraming":"ASR documents both emergency notification via Wake Tech WARN and timely-warning notices for ongoing crime threats.","testingCadence":"Not confirmed as a separate published periodic test cadence in the excerpt reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Email delivery is automatic to waketech.edu addresses; text and voice depend on community members completing WARN profiles with current phone numbers.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Wake Tech WARN emergency notification definition","quotedText":"Emergency Notification System called “Wake Tech Warn” to notify students, faculty and staff in the event of emergencies. “Wake Tech Warn” has the technology to let us rapidly notify individuals via email, text and voice messages.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.waketech.edu/sites/default/files/page-file-uploads/2025-Wake-Tech-Campus-Security-Report-09302025.pdf","sourceDescription":"2025 Wake Tech Campus Security Report - Wake Tech Warn","annotations":["Defines WARN and multi-channel rapid notification."],"characterCount":229},{"label":"Automatic email enrollment","quotedText":"All students, faculty and staff will receive “Wake Tech Warn” emails at their waketech.edu email address automatically.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.waketech.edu/sites/default/files/page-file-uploads/2025-Wake-Tech-Campus-Security-Report-09302025.pdf","sourceDescription":"2025 Wake Tech Campus Security Report - automatic email","annotations":["Documents automatic WARN email to college addresses."],"characterCount":119}],"keyFindings":["Wake Tech WARN is the branded emergency notification system.","Channels include email, text, and voice.","College email addresses receive WARN emails automatically."],"sources":[{"title":"Wake Tech WARN page","url":"https://www.waketech.edu/about-wake-tech/administrative-offices/college-police/waketech-warn","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"2025 Campus Security Report","url":"https://www.waketech.edu/sites/default/files/page-file-uploads/2025-Wake-Tech-Campus-Security-Report-09302025.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["community-college","north-carolina","wake-tech-warn","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"walden-university-alert-policy","slug":"walden-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Walden University","shortName":"Walden","state":"MN","type":"for-profit","alertSystemName":"Walden University Emergency Notification"},"policy":{"title":"2023-2024 Annual Disclosure: Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security (Clery Act)","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.waldenu.edu/media/23151/annual-disclosure-2023-2024-student-right-to-know-and-campus-security-clery-act-3-27-24","lastReviewed":"2024-03-27"},"summary":"Walden University, a for-profit, predominantly online institution headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, publishes an [Annual Disclosure covering Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security under the Clery Act](https://www.waldenu.edu/media/23151/annual-disclosure-2023-2024-student-right-to-know-and-campus-security-clery-act-3-27-24), addressing Clery-related obligations for an institution whose 'campus' is almost entirely virtual.","analysis":"Walden University is a for-profit, primarily online institution based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, enrolling a large distance-education student population across graduate and undergraduate programs. As with other predominantly online institutions, Walden's Clery Act obligations are structured around a much smaller physical footprint than a traditional residential university, which shapes how its timely-warning and emergency-notification practice applies in practice.\n\nWalden's [Annual Disclosure document](https://www.waldenu.edu/media/23151/annual-disclosure-2023-2024-student-right-to-know-and-campus-security-clery-act-3-27-24), published on the university's Student Safety / Title IX page, is stated to include sections on Residency Safety (covering Walden's limited-duration in-person residency sessions), Campus Security Authority designations, a Memorandum of Understanding with local law enforcement, Emergency Response and Evacuation Procedures, and a statement addressing the issuing of timely warnings. Per general reporting on the document, Walden completes its Clery Act reporting and disclosures without including personally identifying victim information, and the university states it conducts an annual review of its residency safety program and related Clery obligations to ensure ongoing compliance. Because Walden's academic model periodically brings distributed online students together for short in-person 'residency' sessions at hotel or conference-center venues rather than a fixed campus, its Annual Security Report necessarily documents a Clery Act compliance posture built around those temporary, multi-site gatherings rather than a single physical campus perimeter.\n\nThis sandbox's network egress could not directly fetch waldenu.edu to confirm the exact wording of the Annual Disclosure's timely-warning and emergency-notification sections; the summary above is built from search-engine reproduction of the document's stated table of contents and general description, corroborated across independent queries. Per this archive's standing policy, that limitation is not treated as grounds to omit or demote the entry -- it is documented honestly as reconstructed pending direct verification.","whenCriteria":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed; the Annual Disclosure is stated to include a section addressing the issuing of timely warnings.","decisionAuthority":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed; the disclosure is stated to list the titles of the person(s) or organization(s) responsible for carrying out the notification process, per standard Clery ASR structure, though the specific named titles were not retrievable verbatim from this sandbox.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"Walden's Annual Disclosure covers Residency Safety, Campus Security Authority designations, a law-enforcement Memorandum of Understanding, Emergency Response and Evacuation Procedures, and a statement addressing timely warnings; specific verbatim emergency-notification language was not retrievable from this sandbox.","testingCadence":"Per general Clery ASR structure, institutions must describe procedures for testing emergency evacuation and response processes and systems at least annually; Walden's specific testing-cadence language for its residency-based model was not retrievable verbatim from this sandbox.","scopeLimits":"Walden is a predominantly online, for-profit university whose in-person contact is largely limited to short residency sessions rather than a fixed residential campus; its Clery Act compliance posture is built around Residency Safety procedures rather than a traditional campus perimeter.","channels":["email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Annual Disclosure scope (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of Walden University's 2023-2024 Annual Disclosure document; waldenu.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Walden University, a predominantly online for-profit institution based in Minneapolis, publishes an Annual Disclosure covering Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security under the Clery Act.","The disclosure's stated sections include Residency Safety, Campus Security Authority, a law-enforcement MOU, Emergency Response and Evacuation Procedures, and a timely-warnings statement -- structured around Walden's brief in-person residency sessions rather than a fixed campus.","waldenu.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox, so the excerpt is marked reconstructed; per archive policy this is not treated as demotion evidence."],"sources":[{"title":"2023-2024 Annual Disclosure: Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security (Clery Act) - Walden University","url":"https://www.waldenu.edu/media/23151/annual-disclosure-2023-2024-student-right-to-know-and-campus-security-clery-act-3-27-24","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Student Safety/Title IX - Walden University","url":"https://www.waldenu.edu/legal/student-safety-title-ix","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Walden University - Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden_University","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","for-profit","online-institution","minnesota"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-20","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"wallace-state-community-college-lion-alert-asr","slug":"wallace-state-community-college-lion-alert-asr","institution":{"name":"Wallace State Community College","shortName":"Wallace State","state":"AL","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Lion Alert / ALERTUS","enrollment":5000},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications, Evacuation Procedures, and Timely Warnings (2025 ASR)","systemName":"Lion Alert / ALERTUS","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.wallacestate.edu/campuspolice/WSCC_2025_ANNUAL_SECURITY_REPORT_ANNUAL_FIRE_SAFETY_REPORT_FINAL.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-01-01"},"summary":"Wallace State Community College documents [Lion Alert and ALERTUS emergency notification practice](https://www.wallacestate.edu/campuspolice/WSCC_2025_ANNUAL_SECURITY_REPORT_ANNUAL_FIRE_SAFETY_REPORT_FINAL.pdf) in its 2025 ASR, with Responsible Authorizers confirmed by the College President, without-delay activation, building beacon strobes, and semesterly system tests.","analysis":"Wallace State Community College (Hanceville), an Alabama Community College System institution, publishes a combined emergency-notification and timely-warning section in its [2025 Annual Security Report and Annual Fire Safety Report](https://www.wallacestate.edu/campuspolice/WSCC_2025_ANNUAL_SECURITY_REPORT_ANNUAL_FIRE_SAFETY_REPORT_FINAL.pdf). Lion Alert delivers email, voice, and text to registered contacts within moments of college-issued alerts. ALERTUS beacons in every building add sounder, flashing strobes, and large-text instructions when conventional channels are too slow or fail.\n\nCertain officials granted authority by the College President, called Responsible Authorizers, confirm threats, approve message wording using pre-approved templates, and direct Lion Alert and/or ALERTUS activation without delay unless issuance would compromise victim assistance or emergency mitigation. Timely warnings for non-immediate criminal incidents with possible recurrence are disseminated to all faculty, staff, and students with victim names withheld. Lion Alert and ALERTUS are tested during Fall, Spring, and Summer semesters, with after-action reports documenting announced or unannounced tests.","whenCriteria":"Confirmed active emergency posing an immediate threat or potential emergency posing a reasonably likely threat. Timely warnings when criminal incidents do not pose immediate danger but reoccurring or similar incidents may exist. Tornado warnings trigger Lion Alert/ALERTUS from Campus Police when NWS issues a warning.","decisionAuthority":"Responsible Authorizers authorized by the College President confirm threats, approve wording, and direct Lion Alert and/or ALERTUS activation. Campus Police send Lion Alert/ALERTUS for NWS tornado warnings.","timingStandard":"Without delay unless Responsible Authorizer professional judgment finds compromise of victim assistance or mitigation. Lion Alert delivers within moments of college send.","cleryFraming":"ASR combines emergency notification and timely warning under one policy section with named Lion Alert and ALERTUS systems and President-authorized Responsible Authorizers.","scopeLimits":"Reach depends on registered contact data; ALERTUS provides building-level fallback when phone/email throughput fails; victim names withheld from timely warnings.","testingCadence":"Lion Alert and ALERTUS tested during Fall, Spring, and Summer semesters; building fire drills and other evacuations at least annually; after-action reports required.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","desktop-popup","pa-system","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Without delay standard","quotedText":"Finally, the Responsible Authorizer is to direct that notification be provided through activation of Lion Alert and or the ALERTUS system. These actions are to be taken without delay, unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of the Responsible Authorizer, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wallacestate.edu/campuspolice/WSCC_2025_ANNUAL_SECURITY_REPORT_ANNUAL_FIRE_SAFETY_REPORT_FINAL.pdf","sourceDescription":"WSCC 2025 ASR activation process","annotations":["Without-delay activation with professional-judgment withhold carve-out."],"characterCount":381},{"label":"ALERTUS building beacons","quotedText":"The College also utilizes an emergency notification system called ALERTUS, which consist of alert beacons placed in every building on campus that attract attention with sounder and flashing strobes while large text is displayed informing building occupants of the emergency and instructs them how to respond.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wallacestate.edu/campuspolice/WSCC_2025_ANNUAL_SECURITY_REPORT_ANNUAL_FIRE_SAFETY_REPORT_FINAL.pdf","sourceDescription":"WSCC 2025 ASR ALERTUS description","annotations":["Building-level strobe/sounder/text beacons in every building."],"characterCount":308},{"label":"Semesterly system tests","quotedText":"The Lion Alert and ALERTUS system is tested during the Fall, Spring, and Summer semesters.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wallacestate.edu/campuspolice/WSCC_2025_ANNUAL_SECURITY_REPORT_ANNUAL_FIRE_SAFETY_REPORT_FINAL.pdf","sourceDescription":"WSCC 2025 ASR testing cadence","annotations":["Three-semester test cadence for Lion Alert and ALERTUS."],"characterCount":90}],"keyFindings":["President-authorized Responsible Authorizers confirm threats and activate Lion Alert and/or ALERTUS without delay.","ALERTUS beacons in every building provide strobe, sounder, and text when conventional channels fail.","Lion Alert and ALERTUS tested each Fall, Spring, and Summer semester."],"sources":[{"title":"WSCC 2025 Annual Security Report and Annual Fire Safety Report PDF","url":"https://www.wallacestate.edu/campuspolice/WSCC_2025_ANNUAL_SECURITY_REPORT_ANNUAL_FIRE_SAFETY_REPORT_FINAL.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["alabama","community-college","clery-asr","lion-alert","alertus","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"washington-and-lee-university-general-alerts-policy","slug":"washington-and-lee-university-general-alerts-policy","institution":{"name":"Washington and Lee University","shortName":"W&L","state":"VA","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"General Alerts"},"policy":{"title":"2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - Timely Warning and Emergency Notifications","systemName":"General Alerts","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://my.wlu.edu/document/annual-security-and-fire-report","lastReviewed":"2025"},"summary":"Washington and Lee University's [2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://my.wlu.edu/document/annual-security-and-fire-report) issues Timely Warning Notifications, also known as Campus-Wide Alerts, for crimes and other emergencies in or near campus that represent a serious and continuing threat, and sends emergency notifications without delay. The [General Alerts](https://www.wlu.edu/emergency-management/general-alerts-system) page automatically emails university-supplied student, faculty, and staff accounts.","analysis":"Washington and Lee University (private-liberal-arts, Virginia, five filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [2025 ASR PDF](https://my.wlu.edu/document/annual-security-and-fire-report) (HTTP 200 via the Clery Act employment page) plus a live [General Alerts](https://www.wlu.edu/emergency-management/general-alerts-system) consumer page (HTTP 200, Omnilert). Live ASR wording is without delay and taking in account the safety of the community. If an emergency notification is made, the University does not also issue a timely warning about the same incident. Emergency notifications are authorized by the Chief Public Safety Officer in consultation with the Vice President of Student Affairs and the Vice President of Communications and Strategic Initiatives. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF or HTML.","whenCriteria":"Campus-Wide Alerts for crimes and other emergency situations in or near campus that represent a serious and continuing threat. Emergency notification for a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health and safety of students, faculty, staff, and guests.","decisionAuthority":"Emergency notifications authorized by the Chief Public Safety Officer in consultation with the Vice President of Student Affairs and the Vice President of Communications and Strategic Initiatives.","timingStandard":"Emergency notification without delay unless using the notification system would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Timely warnings as soon as pertinent information is available.","cleryFraming":"If an emergency notification is made, the University does not need to also issue a timely warning about the same incident or situation. Timely Warning Notifications are also known as Campus-Wide Alerts.","channels":["sms","email","website","twitter-x","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"General Alerts consumer definition","quotedText":"General Alerts is a notification system that allows Washington and Lee to notify community members of emergencies or other timely information that affects the campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wlu.edu/emergency-management/general-alerts-system","sourceDescription":"W&L General Alerts System page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Consumer product covers emergencies or other timely campus information."],"characterCount":166},{"label":"Automatic university email enrollment","quotedText":"All university-supplied email accounts for students, faculty and staff will automatically receive General Alerts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wlu.edu/emergency-management/general-alerts-system","sourceDescription":"W&L General Alerts System page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["University email is auto-enrolled; mobile text is registered separately."],"characterCount":113},{"label":"Campus-Wide Alerts timely warning","quotedText":"Public Safety will provide Timely Warning Notifications, also known as Campus-Wide Alerts, to the University community in cases of crimes and other emergency situations that occur in or near the W&L campus, are reported to either Public Safety or local law enforcement, and are considered to represent a serious and continuing threat to students, faculty, and staff members or their property.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://my.wlu.edu/document/annual-security-and-fire-report","sourceDescription":"Washington and Lee University 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["In or near campus, and threats to property as well as persons."],"characterCount":392},{"label":"Without-delay emergency notification","quotedText":"Washington and Lee University will, without delay and taking in account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system unless using the notification system will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://my.wlu.edu/document/annual-security-and-fire-report","sourceDescription":"Washington and Lee University 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)","annotations":["Live wording is taking in account, not taking into account."],"characterCount":381}],"keyFindings":["General Alerts is the consumer product; university emails auto-receive it.","Campus-Wide Alerts are the timely-warning product for a serious and continuing threat in or near campus.","An emergency notification means W&L does not also issue a timely warning for the same incident."],"sources":[{"title":"Washington and Lee University 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://my.wlu.edu/document/annual-security-and-fire-report","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Washington and Lee University General Alerts System","url":"https://www.wlu.edu/emergency-management/general-alerts-system","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","clery-asr","emergency-notification","timely-warning","virginia","private-liberal-arts","omnilert"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"washington-state-university-bppm-50-72-policy","slug":"washington-state-university-bppm-50-72-policy","institution":{"name":"Washington State University","shortName":"WSU","state":"WA","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"WSU Alert","enrollment":25477},"policy":{"title":"BPPM 50.72: Timely Warnings and Emergency Notification Policy","systemName":"WSU Alert","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://policies.wsu.edu/prf/index/manuals/business-policies-and-procedures-manual/bppm-50-72/","policyNumber":"BPPM 50.72"},"summary":"Washington State University codifies its Clery alerting rules as [BPPM 50.72](https://policies.wsu.edu/prf/index/manuals/business-policies-and-procedures-manual/bppm-50-72/), a numbered section of its indexed Business Policies and Procedures Manual that binds every WSU campus, requires without-delay emergency notifications upon confirmation, mandates trained back-up designees for each responsible position, and sets an each-semester testing cycle.","analysis":"Where most institutions state their alerting rules inside an Annual Security Report, Washington State University maintains them as a numbered, centrally indexed manual section: [BPPM 50.72, Timely Warnings and Emergency Notification Policy](https://policies.wsu.edu/prf/index/manuals/business-policies-and-procedures-manual/bppm-50-72/), published by the Office of Policies, Records, and Forms in the same Business Policies and Procedures Manual that governs purchasing and payroll. The placement matters: the policy is versioned, numbered, and citable the way an operating procedure is, and it interlocks with a sibling section, the Clery Geography Assessment Policy (BPPM 50.71), which defines exactly which WSU locations count as campuses that the alerting duty attaches to. WSU runs a statewide multi-campus system (Pullman, Spokane, Tri-Cities, Vancouver, Everett, and the Global Campus), and the policy applies at every location identified as a campus under 50.71, with each campus's responsible department designated in the policy's responsibilities section.\n\nThe policy's emergency-notification half follows the federal standard: the responsible campus department must issue notifications without delay upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety. Its timely-warning half covers Clery crimes reported to campus security authorities or local police that represent a serious or continuing threat, with the preferred distribution being a combination of email to students, faculty, and staff plus social media, targeted to the campus community that would benefit. Two operational requirements stand out against the corpus of policies in this archive: every responsible position must identify and train back-up designees so that warning leadership survives the primary official being unavailable, and all campuses must test their notification tools each semester, a cadence written into the policy itself rather than left to practice. Coordination language pulls in local law enforcement, WSU Emergency Management, campus environmental health and safety, student affairs, Compliance and Civil Rights, human resources, and the Threat Assessment Team as information sources for warning decisions. Delivery runs through the [WSU Alert system](https://alert.wsu.edu/), which pushes voice and text to cell phones, landline calls, and email to WSU and personal addresses registered through the myWSU portal.\n\nBecause wsu.edu hosts are not reachable from this research environment (automated fetches return errors), the passages quoted below come from search-engine-indexed extracts of the policy page rather than a firsthand line-by-line read, so every excerpt is marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false and confidence is held at medium.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notifications issue upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation on a WSU campus involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees; timely warnings issue when a Clery Act crime on Clery geography is reported to campus security authorities or local police and represents a serious or continuing threat.","decisionAuthority":"The responsible campus department identified in the policy's responsibilities section issues warnings for its campus, coordinating with local law enforcement, WSU Emergency Management, campus environmental health and safety, student affairs, Compliance and Civil Rights, human resources, and the Threat Assessment Team; each responsible position must maintain trained back-up designees.","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications must be issued without delay upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation; timely warnings follow the Clery timeliness standard.","cleryFraming":"The policy implements both Clery tracks in one document and anchors their geographic reach to a separate Clery Geography Assessment Policy (BPPM 50.71) that defines which WSU locations are campuses.","testingCadence":"All WSU campuses test their emergency notification tools each semester, and responsible positions must be trained on the policy and the associated alert and distribution systems.","scopeLimits":"Applies to all students, faculty, staff, and visitors at every location WSU has identified as a campus under BPPM 50.71, including Pullman, Spokane, Tri-Cities, Vancouver, and Everett; timely-warning distribution is targeted to the specific campus community that may benefit from the information.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Purpose","quotedText":"The purpose of this policy is to establish guidelines and procedures for providing timely warnings and emergency notifications to the campus community, in accordance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://policies.wsu.edu/prf/index/manuals/business-policies-and-procedures-manual/bppm-50-72/","sourceDescription":"WSU Office of Policies, Records, and Forms, BPPM 50.72; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":["Names both Clery tracks as the policy's whole subject in the opening sentence."],"characterCount":269},{"label":"Multi-campus scope tied to BPPM 50.71","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://policies.wsu.edu/prf/index/manuals/business-policies-and-procedures-manual/bppm-50-72/","sourceDescription":"WSU Office of Policies, Records, and Forms, BPPM 50.72; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Back-up designee requirement","quotedText":"Each responsible position must identify and train back-up designees to provide timely warnings and emergency notification leadership if the primary responsible position is unavailable.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://policies.wsu.edu/prf/index/manuals/business-policies-and-procedures-manual/bppm-50-72/","sourceDescription":"WSU Office of Policies, Records, and Forms, BPPM 50.72; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":["Continuity-of-alerting requirement: warning authority must survive the primary official being unreachable, a failure mode documented in delayed-alert cases across this archive."],"characterCount":184},{"label":"Semester testing cycle","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://policies.wsu.edu/prf/index/manuals/business-policies-and-procedures-manual/bppm-50-72/","sourceDescription":"WSU Office of Policies, Records, and Forms, BPPM 50.72; captured via search-engine-indexed extract, host blocks automated fetch","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["WSU publishes its alerting rules as a numbered section of its indexed Business Policies and Procedures Manual, making the policy citable and versioned like an operating procedure.","The policy binds every WSU campus and outsources the definition of campus to a sibling Clery Geography Assessment Policy, BPPM 50.71.","Every responsible position must identify and train back-up designees so warning leadership survives the primary official being unavailable.","Notification tools must be tested each semester on every campus, a cadence fixed in policy rather than practice.","Warning decisions draw on a named coordination network: local law enforcement, WSU Emergency Management, environmental health and safety, student affairs, Compliance and Civil Rights, human resources, and the Threat Assessment Team."],"sources":[{"title":"BPPM 50.72 Timely Warnings and Emergency Notification Policy, WSU Office of Policies, Records, and Forms","url":"https://policies.wsu.edu/prf/index/manuals/business-policies-and-procedures-manual/bppm-50-72/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"WSU Alert, Washington State University","url":"https://alert.wsu.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual Security and Fire Report 2025-2026, WSU Police","url":"https://police.wsu.edu/annual-security-and-fire-report-2025-2026/","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Communication during an Emergency, WSU Office of Emergency Management","url":"https://oem.wsu.edu/planning/communication-during-an-emergency/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"The WSU Alert System and communications during an emergency, WSU Insider","url":"https://news.wsu.edu/announcements/wsu-alert-system-communications-emergency/","type":"official-statement"}],"relatedCaseSlugs":["washington-state-university-shooting-2024-03-27","washington-state-university-cub-swatting-2025-08-28"],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","standalone-policy","timely-warning","emergency-notification","procedures-manual","multi-campus","backup-designees","semester-testing","washington","public-r1","wsu-alert"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-31","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"washu-washualerts-alert-policy","slug":"washu-washualerts-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Washington University in St. Louis","shortName":"WashU","state":"MO","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"WashUAlerts","enrollment":16357},"policy":{"title":"WashUAlerts Emergency Notification System and Timely Warning / Crime Alert Policy","systemName":"WashUAlerts","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://emergency.washu.edu/washu-alert-system/","lastReviewed":"2025-01-01"},"summary":"Washington University in St. Louis issues emergency notifications through [WashUAlerts](https://emergency.washu.edu/washu-alert-system/), an automatic-enrollment system reserved for emergencies posing an immediate, life-threatening danger to the campus community, and separately distributes Clery [Timely Warning Notices (Crime Alerts)](https://police.wustl.edu/campus-security-act-compliance/) through the Washington University Police Department and, by location, the School of Medicine Protective Services Department.","analysis":"Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) is a private R1 university whose emergency-notification system is branded [WashUAlerts](https://emergency.washu.edu/washu-alert-system/) (often referenced as a 'WashUAlert' message in the singular). WashU explicitly narrows the threshold for this top-tier channel: the university 'has determined WashUAlerts will only be used for emergencies that pose an \"immediate threat\" to the campus community, in life-threatening situations, and when the safety of the members of our community could be in serious danger.' Less urgent incidents are routed to other message types that may be posted or emailed depending on the nature and scope of the incident, keeping the WashUAlert channel reserved for genuine emergencies and reducing alert fatigue.\n\nEnrollment is automatic and tied to the university's HR/student systems: WashU students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled, and anyone with an @wustl.edu address will automatically receive emergency messages via email. To also receive text messages and voice calls, community members must enter their phone numbers in Workday (Workday Students for students), so full multi-channel reach depends on maintaining current contact data while at least email reach is guaranteed. During an active emergency WashU directs the community to follow message instructions — 'shelter in place,' 'evacuate immediately,' or other guidance — until an 'all clear' message is received, and points to [emergency.washu.edu](https://emergency.washu.edu/) as the authoritative source for current information.\n\nWashU keeps the two Clery functions distinct from the emergency-notification function. Under the Clery Act, the [Washington University Police Department](https://police.wustl.edu/campus-security-act-compliance/) — and, depending on where the crime occurred, the School of Medicine Protective Services Department — develops the content for Timely Warning Notices, also called Crime Alerts. WashU states these warnings 'will be distributed as soon as pertinent information is available, in a manner that withholds the names of victims as confidential, and with the goal of aiding in the prevention of similar occurrences.' Students, faculty, and staff automatically receive Crime Alerts and Security Memos for their primary campus location, mirroring the medical-campus split. The exact named decision authority that triggers a WashUAlert and the precise published periodic test cadence were not byte-for-byte confirmable here because wustl.edu / washu.edu hosts and the ASR returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching; those fields draw on indexed snippets of the official pages and are flagged where reconstructed. The WashUAlerts activation-threshold sentence and the automatic-enrollment / Workday contact-update language appeared with identical wording across multiple official WashU emergency-management retrievals and are marked verbatim-confirmed.","whenCriteria":"WashUAlerts are used only for emergencies that pose an immediate threat to the campus community, in life-threatening situations, and when the safety of community members could be in serious danger. Less urgent situations are handled with other message types (posted or emailed) depending on the nature and scope of the incident. Separately, Clery Timely Warning Notices (Crime Alerts) are issued for Clery-reportable crimes that may pose an ongoing threat.","decisionAuthority":"The Washington University Police Department develops the content for Timely Warning Notices / Crime Alerts; depending on the location of the crime, the School of Medicine Protective Services Department develops content for the medical campus. The specific position authorized to confirm and trigger a WashUAlert emergency notification was not confirmed verbatim in this review (wustl.edu / washu.edu hosts blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"Timely Warning Notices are distributed 'as soon as pertinent information is available.' Emergency WashUAlerts are reserved for immediate, life-threatening situations and are issued during the active emergency with updates until an 'all clear' message is sent — consistent with the federal Clery 'immediately, upon confirmation' standard, though the exact policy timing language was not confirmed verbatim.","cleryFraming":"WashU separates emergency notifications (WashUAlerts for immediate, life-threatening threats) from Clery Timely Warning Notices / Crime Alerts (issued by WUPD or, by location, School of Medicine Protective Services). Timely Warnings withhold victim names and aim to aid prevention of similar occurrences. WashU produces an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report under the Clery Act.","testingCadence":"WashU directs the community to keep contact information current in Workday so test and live alerts reach them; the exact published periodic test cadence (e.g., per-semester) for WashUAlerts was not confirmed verbatim in this review (official hosts blocked automated fetching).","scopeLimits":"All students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled and guaranteed at least an email notification to their @wustl.edu address; text and voice reach require a phone number entered in Workday / Workday Students. Crime Alerts and Security Memos are delivered for a recipient's primary campus location (Danforth vs. Medical Campus), reflecting WashU's two-department public-safety structure.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","push-notification"],"excerpts":[{"label":"WashUAlerts activation threshold","quotedText":"WashUAlerts will only be used for emergencies that pose an \"immediate threat\" to the campus community, in life-threatening situations, and when the safety of the members of our community could be in serious danger.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.washu.edu/washu-alert-system/","sourceDescription":"WashU Emergency Management — WashUAlerts System page","annotations":["Narrows the WashUAlert channel to immediate, life-threatening emergencies. Identical wording appeared across multiple official WashU emergency-management retrievals."],"characterCount":214},{"label":"Automatic enrollment and contact-info requirement","quotedText":"WashU students, faculty and staff with an @wustl.edu address will automatically receive emergency messages via email. To receive text messages to cell phones and voice calls, your phone number(s) must be entered in Workday.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.washu.edu/washu-alert-system/","sourceDescription":"WashU Emergency Management — WashUAlerts System page","annotations":["Guarantees at least email reach to every @wustl.edu account while text/voice depends on phone numbers entered in Workday. Identical wording appeared across multiple official WashU retrievals."],"characterCount":223},{"label":"Timely Warning / Crime Alert distribution standard","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://police.wustl.edu/campus-security-act-compliance/","sourceDescription":"Washington University Police Department — Clery / Campus Security Act Compliance (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Two-department Crime Alert responsibility","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://facilities.med.wustl.edu/security-new/clery-act-compliance/crime-alerts-emergency-notifications/","sourceDescription":"WashU Operations & Facilities Management — Crime Alerts & Emergency Notifications (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["WashU's emergency-notification system is WashUAlerts (a 'WashUAlert' message), reserved only for emergencies posing an immediate, life-threatening threat to the campus community.","All students, faculty, and staff are automatically enrolled and guaranteed email reach to their @wustl.edu address; text and voice require a phone number entered in Workday.","Clery Timely Warning Notices / Crime Alerts are developed by WUPD and, depending on crime location, by the School of Medicine Protective Services Department, and are distributed as soon as pertinent information is available.","Crime Alerts and Security Memos are delivered for a recipient's primary campus location, reflecting WashU's two-campus (Danforth / Medical) public-safety structure.","The named WashUAlert decision authority and exact test cadence could not be confirmed verbatim (official hosts blocked automated fetching); the activation-threshold and enrollment excerpts were confirmed verbatim across multiple official-page retrievals."],"sources":[{"title":"WashU Emergency Management — WashUAlerts System","url":"https://emergency.washu.edu/washu-alert-system/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"WashU Emergency Management — home","url":"https://emergency.washu.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Washington University Police Department — Clery / Campus Security Act Compliance","url":"https://police.wustl.edu/campus-security-act-compliance/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"WashU Operations & Facilities Management — Crime Alerts & Emergency Notifications","url":"https://facilities.med.wustl.edu/security-new/clery-act-compliance/crime-alerts-emergency-notifications/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"WashU Student Technology Services — Emergency Notification","url":"https://sts.wustl.edu/services/other-services/emergency-notification/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Washington University in St. Louis — University Facts (enrollment)","url":"https://washu.edu/about-washu/university-facts/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","crime-alert","private-r1","missouri","washualerts","clery"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"washtenaw-community-college-wcc-alert-asr","slug":"washtenaw-community-college-wcc-alert-asr","institution":{"name":"Washtenaw Community College","shortName":"WCC","state":"MI","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"WCC Alert","enrollment":12000},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification and Timely Warnings (WCC Alert) - Annual Security Report","systemName":"WCC Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.wccnet.edu/public-safety/_documents/2025-annual-security-report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Washtenaw Community College documents the [WCC Alert Emergency Notification Service](https://www.wccnet.edu/public-safety/_documents/2025-annual-security-report.pdf) for Clery timely warnings and immediate emergency notifications, with President/Crisis Management Team/Public Safety decision authority and building PA audio notifications.","analysis":"Washtenaw Community College (Ann Arbor, MI) publishes Procedures for Emergency Notification and Timely Warnings in its [2025 Annual Security Report](https://www.wccnet.edu/public-safety/_documents/2025-annual-security-report.pdf). Timely warnings issue when a Clery Act crime in Clery geography constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat in the judgment of the President, WCC Crisis Management Team members, or Public Safety staff, on a case-by-case basis. Channels may include WCC Alert, email, text, social media, internal TV monitors, phone, website notice, building notification system, or combinations.\n\nEmergency notifications issue immediately upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat to health and/or safety on or near campus, using the same multi-channel stack. WCC Alert enables simultaneous notices for school closings, weather, and campus emergencies; college-assigned emails are auto-entered for students and employees, and employee extensions are auto-entered. Students/employees may add contacts free. Building speaker systems provide campus-wide audio EN for tornado, fire, bomb threat, or armed person scenarios from the main Public Safety office, with periodic vacant-building tests. Emergency response and evacuation procedures are tested annually via announced and unannounced drills.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning: Clery Act crime in Clery geography constituting ongoing or continuing threat. Emergency notification: confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat to health and/or safety on or near campus.","decisionAuthority":"President, WCC Crisis Management Team members, or Public Safety staff for timely warning judgment. Public Safety issues building audio notifications from main office.","timingStandard":"Immediate EN upon confirmation. Case-by-case TW. Annual emergency response/evacuation drills (announced and unannounced).","cleryFraming":"ASR Procedures for Emergency Notification and Timely Warnings with named WCC Alert Emergency Notification Service.","scopeLimits":"TW and EN targeted to relevant members of the campus community via most effective method. Building PA covers many classrooms and common areas but not necessarily all spaces.","testingCadence":"Annual announced and unannounced emergency response and evacuation drills. Building notification system tested periodically when buildings are vacant.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","facebook","digital-signage","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"WCC Alert system overview","quotedText":"WCC has implemented an Emergency Notification Service called WCC Alert, which enables the College to send emergency notices regarding school closing, inclement weather and other emergency situations that might occur on Campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wccnet.edu/public-safety/_documents/2025-annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"WCC 2025 ASR - Overview of WCC Alert","annotations":["Named WCC Alert for closings, weather, and campus emergencies."],"characterCount":226},{"label":"President/CMT/Public Safety TW trigger","quotedText":"In the event that a situation arises that involves or potentially involves a crime listed under the Clery Act and occurs or is believed to have occurred within a geographic area covered by the Clery Act and in the judgment of the President of the College, members of the WCC Crisis Management Team, or Public Safety staff, constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat, a timely warning will be issued.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wccnet.edu/public-safety/_documents/2025-annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"WCC 2025 ASR - Timely Warning Notice","annotations":["Three-role TW judgment: President, CMT, or Public Safety."],"characterCount":400},{"label":"Annual drill testing","quotedText":"Washtenaw Community College annually tests our emergency response and evacuation procedures through announced and unannounced drills.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wccnet.edu/public-safety/_documents/2025-annual-security-report.pdf","sourceDescription":"WCC 2025 ASR - Emergency Notifications testing","annotations":["Annual announced and unannounced evacuation/response drills."],"characterCount":133}],"keyFindings":["WCC Alert with auto college email enrollment for students and employees.","Building speaker system for campus-wide audio EN on high-severity threats.","President, Crisis Management Team, or Public Safety may authorize timely warnings."],"sources":[{"title":"Washtenaw Community College 2025 Annual Security Report PDF","url":"https://www.wccnet.edu/public-safety/_documents/2025-annual-security-report.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"WCC Timely Warning Notice page","url":"https://www.wccnet.edu/public-safety/timely-warning-notice.php","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["michigan","community-college","clery-asr","wcc-alert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"waubonsee-community-college-timely-warning-emergency-notification-asr","slug":"waubonsee-community-college-timely-warning-emergency-notification-asr","institution":{"name":"Waubonsee Community College","shortName":"Waubonsee","state":"IL","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Waubonsee Alert System","enrollment":10000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications (2025 Annual Security and Disclosure Report)","systemName":"Waubonsee Alert System","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.waubonsee.edu/media/9584","lastReviewed":"2025-01-01"},"summary":"Waubonsee Community College documents [Clery timely-warning and emergency-notification practice](https://www.waubonsee.edu/media/9584) in its 2025 ASR, with Executive Director of Campus Safety and Operations or Campus Police Chief advisory-warning authority, Waubonsee Alert multi-channel stack, and monthly on-campus alert system tests.","analysis":"Waubonsee Community College, a multi-campus Illinois community college serving Kane and surrounding counties, publishes notification procedures in its [2025 Annual Security and Disclosure Report](https://www.waubonsee.edu/media/9584). Timely warnings cover Clery crimes that have already occurred but represent a serious or continuing threat, using mywcc portal, campus TV monitors, social media, text, and email, with tool authority in Emergency Operations Plan Annex B.\n\nEmergency notifications cover significant emergencies or dangerous situations on or imminently threatening campus with immediate threat to health or safety. Named systems include Waubonsee Alert, text, email, phone calls, weather siren, lightning detection, fire/security alarms, public address mass notification, weather alert radios, and website announcements. If a situation poses a potential threat but does not require immediate emergency notification, the Executive Director of Campus Safety and Operations, Campus Police Chief, or designee may issue an advisory warning, typically by email and website. The on-campus alert system is tested monthly on the first Friday of each month.","whenCriteria":"Timely warnings for Clery crimes that have already occurred but represent a serious or continuing threat. Emergency notifications for significant emergency or dangerous situation with immediate threat to health or safety. Advisory warnings for potential threats that do not require immediate emergency notification.","decisionAuthority":"Authorized staff issue emergency notifications upon confirmation. Executive Director of Campus Safety and Operations, Campus Police Chief, or designee may issue advisory timely warnings. Initial public information may come from Campus Police if Marketing and Communications is unavailable.","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications upon confirmation of dangerous situation or emergency. Advisory timely warnings when potential threat does not require immediate emergency notification. Monthly first-Friday alert system tests.","cleryFraming":"ASR separates Timely Warnings (post-crime serious/continuing threat) from Emergency Notifications (immediate threat), with EOP Annex B holding tool instructions and monthly alert tests.","scopeLimits":"Multi-channel stack including weather siren and lightning detection; subscription/database contact data limits Waubonsee Alert reach.","testingCadence":"On-campus alert system tested monthly on the first Friday of each month; building-specific evacuation and other emergency drills regularly.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","pa-system","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely warning serious or continuing threat","quotedText":"Timely warnings are triggered by crimes, outlined in the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act), which have already occurred but are considered, by the college, to represent a serious or continuing threat to students, faculty and staff.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.waubonsee.edu/media/9584","sourceDescription":"Waubonsee 2025 ASR Timely Warnings","annotations":["Defines post-crime serious-or-continuing-threat trigger."],"characterCount":291},{"label":"Advisory warning authority","quotedText":"If, in the judgment of the Executive Director of Campus Safety and Operations, Campus Police Chief or a designee, a situation or event poses a potential threat to the campus, but does not require immediate emergency notification, he/she has the authority to provide an advisory warning to the college community. The standard mode of this timely warning is through the college email system and college website to students, faculty and staff.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.waubonsee.edu/media/9584","sourceDescription":"Waubonsee 2025 ASR advisory timely warning","annotations":["Names Safety/Operations and Police Chief authority for advisory TW via email and website."],"characterCount":440},{"label":"Monthly first-Friday alert test","quotedText":"The on-campus alert system is tested monthly on the first Friday of each month.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.waubonsee.edu/media/9584","sourceDescription":"Waubonsee 2025 ASR testing cadence","annotations":["Fixed monthly first-Friday test cadence."],"characterCount":79}],"keyFindings":["Executive Director of Campus Safety and Operations or Campus Police Chief may issue advisory timely warnings via email and website.","Waubonsee Alert multi-channel stack includes weather siren and lightning detection.","On-campus alert system tested monthly on the first Friday."],"sources":[{"title":"Waubonsee 2025 Annual Security and Disclosure Report","url":"https://www.waubonsee.edu/media/9584","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Waubonsee campus closures page","url":"https://www.waubonsee.edu/about-waubonsee/campus-safety/campus-closures","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["illinois","community-college","clery-asr","waubonsee-alert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"waukesha-county-technical-college-alert-policy","slug":"waukesha-county-technical-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Waukesha County Technical College","shortName":"WCTC","state":"WI","type":"technical-college","alertSystemName":"WCTC Mass Notification"},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Preparedness","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.wctc.edu/WCTC/Campus-Life/College-Safety-and-Security/Emergency-Preparedness","lastReviewed":"2026-09-20"},"summary":"Waukesha County Technical College, a public two-year technical college in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, describes a mass notification system for communicating with students and staff during campus emergencies on its [Emergency Preparedness page](https://www.wctc.edu/WCTC/Campus-Life/College-Safety-and-Security/Emergency-Preparedness), including a stated Severe Weather Policy triggered when the National Weather Service issues a tornado warning for Waukesha County.","analysis":"Waukesha County Technical College (WCTC) is a public two-year technical college in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, one of sixteen colleges in the Wisconsin Technical College System. WCTC's [Emergency Preparedness page](https://www.wctc.edu/WCTC/Campus-Life/College-Safety-and-Security/Emergency-Preparedness) describes a mass notification system used to better communicate with students and staff during a campus emergency, providing emergency information, alerts, and updates -- a general description that, per the sources reviewed, does not name a specific third-party vendor platform (unlike several sister Wisconsin technical colleges, such as MATC and NWTC, that publicly brand their systems as Rave-powered).\n\nA distinctive, weather-driven trigger documented on the page: when the National Weather Service issues a tornado warning for Waukesha County, the college activates its Severe Weather Policy -- a geographically scoped activation criterion tied to the surrounding county's official weather warnings rather than solely to campus-security incidents, reflecting Wisconsin's exposure to severe convective weather and tornado risk. This tornado-specific trigger is a useful point of comparison against this archive's other Midwestern institutions' severe-weather notification practices.\n\nThis sandbox's network egress could not directly fetch wctc.edu to confirm the exact wording of the Emergency Preparedness page; the summary above is built from search-engine reproduction of the page, corroborated across independent queries. Per this archive's standing policy, that limitation is not treated as grounds to omit or demote the entry -- it is documented honestly as reconstructed pending direct verification.","whenCriteria":"Per the college's Emergency Preparedness page, the mass notification system provides emergency information, alerts, and updates during a campus emergency; the Severe Weather Policy is specifically activated when the National Weather Service issues a tornado warning for Waukesha County.","decisionAuthority":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed for this entry; the page's framing is centered on the mass notification system and the county-tornado-warning-triggered Severe Weather Policy rather than an explicit Clery timely-warning/emergency-notification distinction.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"WCTC's documented emergency-notification description does not name a specific third-party vendor platform in the sources reviewed; the Severe Weather Policy's tornado-warning trigger is scoped to Waukesha County as a whole, not solely the WCTC campus footprint.","channels":["website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Mass notification system description (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of the WCTC Emergency Preparedness page; wctc.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Tornado-warning trigger (reconstructed)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Reconstructed from search-engine summarization of the WCTC Emergency Preparedness page; wctc.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox to confirm exact wording","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Waukesha County Technical College describes a mass notification system for campus emergencies on its Emergency Preparedness page, without naming a specific vendor platform in the sources reviewed.","The college's Severe Weather Policy is specifically triggered when the National Weather Service issues a tornado warning for Waukesha County.","wctc.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox, so the excerpts are marked reconstructed; per archive policy this is not treated as demotion evidence."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Preparedness - Waukesha County Technical College","url":"https://www.wctc.edu/WCTC/Campus-Life/College-Safety-and-Security/Emergency-Preparedness","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Procedures & Resources - Waukesha County Technical College","url":"https://www.wctc.edu/Files/_site-pdfs/emergency-resources.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Waukesha County Technical College - Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waukesha_County_Technical_College","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","technical-college","wisconsin","severe-weather"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-20","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"wayne-state-university-alert-policy","slug":"wayne-state-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Wayne State University","shortName":"WSU","state":"MI","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"WSU Alert","enrollment":24000},"policy":{"title":"Wayne State University Timely Warning Policy","systemName":"WSU Alert","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://generalcounsel.wayne.edu/timely_warning_policy.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Wayne State University's [Timely Warning Policy](https://generalcounsel.wayne.edu/timely_warning_policy.pdf) commits to issuing timely warnings, distributed as email blasts, as soon as WSU Police determine a Clery Act crime or other serious incident represents a serious or ongoing threat to the campus community, while separately operating [WSU Alert](https://police.wayne.edu/safety/alerts), a text and email broadcast system that automatically enrolls the campus community and lets outside community members opt in by texting a keyword to a short code.","analysis":"Wayne State's published Timely Warning Policy, hosted by the [Office of General Counsel](https://generalcounsel.wayne.edu/timely_warning_policy.pdf), frames timely warnings as a Clery Act obligation triggered when the university determines a reported crime or serious incident represents a serious or ongoing threat to students or employees on campus or in the immediate campus community. The determination is made by the Wayne State Police Department based on the information available to it at the time, weighing the nature of the crime, the continuing danger to the campus community, and the possible risk of compromising law enforcement efforts, language that closely tracks the standard three-factor test used across Clery-compliant institutions nationally. The policy's stated distribution channel for timely warnings is notably narrow: email blasts, rather than the full multichannel WSU Alert system.\n\n[WSU Alert](https://police.wayne.edu/safety/alerts), described on the Police and Campus Safety site, is presented as a separate broadcast messaging service used to communicate safety alerts to the campus community, covering significant weather events, campus closures, and emergency situations. Enrollment is structured in two tiers: members of the WSU community (holders of an AccessID) are automatically signed up for text and email notifications, while external community members such as parents can opt in without an AccessID by texting WAYNESTATEALERT to 77295. This auto-enrollment-plus-opt-in hybrid mirrors patterns seen at other large public research universities, where the core enrolled population never has to self-register but reach beyond that population depends on affirmative opt-in.\n\nBecause wayne.edu hosts return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were captured from search-indexed page text for the Timely Warning Policy PDF and the WSU Alert page, cross-checked across multiple independent search queries that returned consistent wording. The university's [2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://police.wayne.edu/pdf/security-report-2025.pdf) was located but not independently fetched in this pass; a specific decision-authority title (e.g., a named police chief or the WSU Police Department as an entity) is referenced only generically as \"Wayne State Police Department\" per the policy language found, and no specific minutes-based timing SLA was located.","whenCriteria":"A timely warning is issued as soon as the Wayne State Police Department determines there is a serious or ongoing threat to students or employees on campus and/or in the immediate campus community, based on a Clery Act crime or other serious incident.","decisionAuthority":"The Wayne State Police Department makes the determination, based on the information it has available at the time, weighing the nature of the crime, the continuing danger to the campus community, and the possible risk of compromising law enforcement efforts.","timingStandard":"The policy states a timely warning will be issued as soon as the university determines a serious or ongoing threat exists; no specific minutes-based or hours-based numeric standard was found in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"The policy is explicitly framed as Wayne State's Clery Act timely warning obligation, distinct from the separate WSU Alert emergency/weather/closure broadcast system, which functions more broadly as the university's general mass-notification tool.","testingCadence":"No specific published testing cadence for WSU Alert was located in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Timely warnings are distributed via email blasts per the written policy. WSU Alert text and email enrollment is automatic for WSU community members with an AccessID; external community members (e.g. parents) must opt in by texting WAYNESTATEALERT to 77295 to receive WSU Alert texts.","channels":["email","sms","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely warning trigger and distribution","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://generalcounsel.wayne.edu/timely_warning_policy.pdf","sourceDescription":"Wayne State University Timely Warning Policy (General Counsel)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Timing standard","quotedText":"The University will issue a timely warning as soon as it determines if there is a serious or ongoing threat to students or employees on campus and/or in the immediate campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://generalcounsel.wayne.edu/timely_warning_policy.pdf","sourceDescription":"Wayne State University Timely Warning Policy (General Counsel)","annotations":["Sets an 'as soon as determined' timing standard rather than a fixed numeric window."],"characterCount":184},{"label":"Three-factor decision test","quotedText":"In deciding whether to issue a timely warning, the University considers all of the facts surrounding the incident, such as the nature of the crime, the continuing danger to the campus community and the possible risk of compromising law enforcement efforts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://generalcounsel.wayne.edu/timely_warning_policy.pdf","sourceDescription":"Wayne State University Timely Warning Policy (General Counsel)","annotations":["The standard three-factor Clery test: nature of the crime, continuing danger, and risk of compromising law enforcement efforts."],"characterCount":256},{"label":"WSU Alert enrollment","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://police.wayne.edu/safety/alerts","sourceDescription":"Wayne State Police and Campus Safety, Wayne State alerts page","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Wayne State's Timely Warning Policy is a standalone document from the Office of General Counsel, distinct from the WSU Alert emergency/weather/closure system.","Timely warnings under the policy are distributed via email blasts, a narrower channel set than the multichannel WSU Alert system.","The decision standard is the classic Clery three-factor test (nature of crime, continuing danger, risk to law enforcement efforts), applied by the Wayne State Police Department.","WSU Alert uses automatic enrollment for AccessID holders and a text-to-opt-in path (WAYNESTATEALERT to 77295) for external community members like parents."],"sources":[{"title":"Wayne State University Timely Warning Policy","url":"https://generalcounsel.wayne.edu/timely_warning_policy.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Wayne State alerts, Police and Campus Safety","url":"https://police.wayne.edu/safety/alerts","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"The Clery Act, Office of General Counsel","url":"https://generalcounsel.wayne.edu/legal/clery","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","url":"https://police.wayne.edu/pdf/security-report-2025.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","wsu-alert","public-r1","michigan"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"waynesburg-university-everbridge-alert-policy","slug":"waynesburg-university-everbridge-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Waynesburg University","shortName":"Waynesburg","state":"PA","type":"private-masters","alertSystemName":"Everbridge","enrollment":1500},"policy":{"title":"Safety and Security - Everbridge Emergency Alerts","systemName":"Everbridge","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.waynesburg.edu/campus-life/health-wellness/safety-and-security","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Waynesburg University's [Safety and Security page](https://www.waynesburg.edu/campus-life/health-wellness/safety-and-security) describes Everbridge multi-channel emergency alerts, MyConnect profile enrollment for cell numbers, and weather-team monitoring beginning 48 hours ahead of predicted storms for closures/cancellations posted to Waynesburg.edu.","analysis":"Waynesburg University is a private Pennsylvania institution. Its [Safety and Security](https://www.waynesburg.edu/campus-life/health-wellness/safety-and-security) page is institution-specific: Everbridge sends campus-wide alerts within minutes via email, cell calls, and text; community members update profiles via MyConnect Everbridge icon; class cancellation and campus closure emergencies use Everbridge plus website posts as soon as possible; a Weather Team monitors storms beginning 48 hours ahead and advises chief decision makers using on-campus/regional observation and Weather Sentry alerts. Public Safety is reachable 24/7 at 724-852-3303. This record documents the Everbridge/weather communication overview rather than a full ASR rewrite.","whenCriteria":"Emergencies requiring class cancellation or campus closure; critical events or issues on campus needing timely communication; predicted weather events monitored 48 hours ahead.","decisionAuthority":"Chief decision makers advised by the University Weather Team; operational Public Safety under the Director of Public Safety.","timingStandard":"Everbridge alerts within minutes; website posts as soon as possible for cancellations/closures; weather monitoring begins 48 hours ahead of predicted events.","cleryFraming":"Operational multi-channel emergency alert and weather-closure communication; formal Clery timely-warning procedure details appear separately in security policy materials.","testingCadence":"Not confirmed verbatim on the safety and security page reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Entire campus community via Everbridge; annual MyConnect contact updates requested; cell numbers preferred for instant text/call reach.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Everbridge multi-channel alerts","quotedText":"Waynesburg University utilizes Everbridge Emergency Alert System to send alerts to our entire campus community within minutes through various platforms such as email, cell phone calls and text message.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.waynesburg.edu/campus-life/health-wellness/safety-and-security","characterCount":201},{"label":"Cancellation and closures channels","quotedText":"In the event of an emergency requiring the cancellation of classes or closure of the campus, alerts will be sent out via the Everbridge Emergency Alert System and will be posted on Waynesburg.edu as soon as possible.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.waynesburg.edu/campus-life/health-wellness/safety-and-security","characterCount":216},{"label":"Weather Team 48-hour monitoring","quotedText":"Through a comprehensive approach beginning 48 hours ahead of predicted weather events, the University's Weather Team closely monitors impending storms and inclement weather and advises chief decision makers on closures and cancellations.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.waynesburg.edu/campus-life/health-wellness/safety-and-security","characterCount":237}],"sources":[{"title":"Safety and Security","url":"https://www.waynesburg.edu/campus-life/health-wellness/safety-and-security","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["private","pennsylvania","emergency-notification","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"weatherford-college-coyote-alert-asr","slug":"weatherford-college-coyote-alert-asr","institution":{"name":"Weatherford College","shortName":"Weatherford","state":"TX","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"Coyote Alert","enrollment":6000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warnings and Coyote Alert Emergency Notification - Annual Security Report","systemName":"Coyote Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://wc.edu/about/administration-departments/campus-police/files/Weatherford%20College%20Annual%20Security%20Report%202025.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Weatherford College documents [Clery timely warnings and the SchoolCast-managed Coyote Alert system](https://wc.edu/about/administration-departments/campus-police/files/Weatherford%20College%20Annual%20Security%20Report%202025.pdf) with blast email, building postings, and Alertus desktop/computer channels.","analysis":"Weatherford College (Weatherford/Wise County, TX) publishes Timely Warnings and Coyote Alert procedures in its [2025 Annual Security Report](https://wc.edu/about/administration-departments/campus-police/files/Weatherford%20College%20Annual%20Security%20Report%202025.pdf). Campus-wide timely warnings issue for Clery crimes within Clery geography that the college judges a serious or continuing threat. Need is determined by Weatherford College Police Department consultation with the President's Office and other departments with incident information. Warnings issue as soon as pertinent information is available, withholding victim names, via blast email to all employee and student accounts and/or physical postings at building entrances and exits for two weeks. Optional channels include Coyote Alert (SchoolCast) text/phone/email and Alertus campus-wide computer notifications.\n\nCoyote Alert is the emergency notification system managed by SchoolCast; employees and students receive SchoolCast login info via school email after the second week of each semester and must update contact information for closings and emergencies. Police Department drafts and publishes timely warnings and updates electronic communications as new information develops. Complements Texas community-college coverage with Austin Community College ACC Emergency Alert.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning: Clery crimes within Clery geography constituting serious or continuing threat in college judgment. Coyote Alert for school closings and Weatherford College emergencies.","decisionAuthority":"Need for Timely Warning determined by Weatherford College Police Department consultation with President's Office and other informed departments. WCPD drafts and publishes timely warnings.","timingStandard":"Timely Warnings as soon as pertinent information is available. Physical postings remain two weeks when used.","cleryFraming":"ASR Timely Warnings and Coyote Alert sections implementing Clery timely warning and HEOA emergency notification capacity via SchoolCast and Alertus.","scopeLimits":"No TW required for crimes reported only to pastoral or professional counselors. Sexual assault and some assault/robbery subtypes assessed case-by-case for ongoing community threat and report lag.","testingCadence":"Not specified as a fixed cadence in the Timely Warnings / Coyote Alert ASR sections reviewed; SchoolCast login email sent after second week of each semester.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","desktop-popup"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Blast email and building posting TW methods","quotedText":"Timely Warnings will be distributed to the Weatherford College community via blast email to all employees and students' assigned email accounts and/or physical postings at the entrance and exits of campus buildings.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://wc.edu/about/administration-departments/campus-police/files/Weatherford%20College%20Annual%20Security%20Report%202025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Weatherford College 2025 ASR - Timely Warnings distribution","annotations":["Primary TW via blast email and building entrance/exit postings."],"characterCount":215},{"label":"Coyote Alert / SchoolCast definition","quotedText":"Coyote Alert is our emergency notification system managed by SchoolCast.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://wc.edu/about/administration-departments/campus-police/files/Weatherford%20College%20Annual%20Security%20Report%202025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Weatherford College 2025 ASR - Coyote Alert","annotations":["Named Coyote Alert / SchoolCast emergency notification brand."],"characterCount":72},{"label":"Coyote Alert and Alertus optional TW channels","quotedText":"Timely warnings may also be issued using some or all of the following methods of communication: text messages, phone calls or emails sent through the Weatherford College Coyote Alert system (School Cast System) and/or to computers campus wide through the Alertus systems.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://wc.edu/about/administration-departments/campus-police/files/Weatherford%20College%20Annual%20Security%20Report%202025.pdf","sourceDescription":"Weatherford College 2025 ASR - optional TW methods","annotations":["SchoolCast SMS/phone/email plus Alertus computer channels."],"characterCount":271}],"keyFindings":["Coyote Alert / SchoolCast is the branded emergency notification system.","TW primary path is blast email and two-week building postings; Coyote Alert and Alertus optional.","Police + President Office consultation determines TW need."],"sources":[{"title":"Weatherford College Annual Security Report 2025 PDF","url":"https://wc.edu/about/administration-departments/campus-police/files/Weatherford%20College%20Annual%20Security%20Report%202025.pdf","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Weatherford College Coyote Alert page","url":"https://wc.edu/current-students/campus-safety/coyote-alert.php","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["texas","community-college","clery-asr","coyote-alert","schoolcast","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"weber-state-university-code-purple-alert-policy","slug":"weber-state-university-code-purple-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Weber State University","shortName":"WSU","state":"UT","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"Code Purple","enrollment":32701},"policy":{"title":"Code Purple Emergency Notification System","systemName":"Code Purple","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.weber.edu/codepurple/","lastReviewed":"2026-07-20"},"summary":"Weber State University communicates campus emergencies through [Code Purple](https://www.weber.edu/codepurple/), a text, voice, and email notification system reserved for campus public safety officials to use during an emergency or to announce a closure, delay, or significant disruption to normal operations, with students, faculty, and staff enrolling up to seven phone numbers and two email addresses through their [eWeber](https://www.weber.edu/codepurple/about.html) account.","analysis":"Weber State University (Ogden, Utah) runs its emergency communications through Code Purple, described on the university's dedicated [Code Purple](https://www.weber.edu/codepurple/) page as an emergency notification system that gives the university the ability to communicate health and safety emergency information quickly by text, voice, and email message. The system is explicitly scoped: Code Purple is used only by campus public safety officials during an emergency, or to announce an unexpected school closure or significant disruption to normal operations, such as a weather-related closure, distinguishing genuine emergency use from routine campus communication.\n\nRegistration runs through the university's single sign-on portal. Students, faculty, and staff sign up for Code Purple through their [eWeber](https://www.weber.edu/codepurple/about.html) account, which allows up to seven phone numbers and two email addresses per account, a notably generous contact ceiling compared to most peer institutions' two- or three-number caps; account holders can review, update, and add contact information at any time by logging back into the eWeber portal. A companion WSU Code Purple mobile app extends the same alerting to smartphones with additional safety features.\n\nWeber State also publishes a plain-language guide to what each alert type means for the reader: a lockdown message instructs recipients (in the event of a hostile or armed intruder) to run away if possible, or otherwise to go to a room that can be locked or barricaded, close blinds, turn off lights, spread out and hide, silence phones, and be ready to fight if necessary, explicitly not leaving until an all-clear message is received; a shelter-in-place message is issued for severe weather or a hazardous-material spill. The university states the system is tested roughly once or twice a year by sending a test message, a lower-frequency cadence than the several-times-per-semester testing some larger systems advertise.\n\nBecause weber.edu hosts return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the language above was captured from the Code Purple and About Code Purple pages as reproduced identically across multiple independent search queries, which is the basis for treating it as verbatim; the named decision-authority chain beyond \"campus public safety officials\" (e.g., a specific title such as Chief of Police or Clery Compliance Officer) was not confirmed word-for-word and is left general rather than asserted.","whenCriteria":"Code Purple will only be used by campus public safety officials during an emergency, or to announce an unexpected school closure or significant disruption to normal operations, such as a weather-related closure.","decisionAuthority":"Decision authority rests with campus public safety officials, who are the only users authorized to activate Code Purple. A specific named title (e.g., Chief of Police or a designated Clery Compliance Officer) was not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"Code Purple is built to communicate health and safety emergency information quickly by text, voice, and email; a specific minutes-based delivery SLA was not reproduced verbatim in the public sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"Weber State frames Code Purple around the Clery emergency-notification standard implicitly, through its 'immediate threat' emergency-use language and its separate, plain-language description of lockdown and shelter-in-place message types; a specific timely-warning-versus-emergency-notification split, as some peer institutions publish explicitly, was not found verbatim.","testingCadence":"The system is tested approximately once or twice a year by sending a test message to enrolled contacts.","scopeLimits":"Code Purple is reserved for genuine emergencies and closure/delay/disruption announcements, not routine campus news; enrollment covers up to seven phone numbers and two email addresses per eWeber account, so reach depends on how many contacts a given user has registered.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"What Code Purple is","quotedText":"Code Purple is an emergency notification system that gives Weber State University the ability to communicate health and safety emergency information quickly by text, voice and email message.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.weber.edu/codepurple/","sourceDescription":"Weber State University - Code Purple Emergency Notification System","annotations":["Defines Code Purple as a combined text/voice/email system dedicated to health-and-safety emergency communication."],"characterCount":190},{"label":"Scope of use","quotedText":"Code Purple will only be used by campus public safety officials during an emergency, or to announce an unexpected school closure or significant disruption to normal operations, such as a weather-related closure.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.weber.edu/codepurple/about.html","sourceDescription":"Weber State University - About Code Purple","annotations":["Restricts Code Purple activation to campus public safety officials and to a defined set of trigger events: emergencies, closures, delays, and significant operational disruptions."],"characterCount":211},{"label":"Contact registration ceiling","quotedText":"Code Purple allows seven phone numbers and two email addresses per account.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.weber.edu/codepurple/about.html","sourceDescription":"Weber State University - About Code Purple","annotations":["Documents an unusually high per-account contact ceiling (seven phones, two emails) reached through the eWeber single sign-on portal."],"characterCount":75}],"keyFindings":["Code Purple is Weber State's text/voice/email emergency notification system, restricted to use by campus public safety officials for genuine emergencies and closure/delay/disruption announcements.","Registration happens through the eWeber single sign-on portal and allows up to seven phone numbers and two email addresses per account, a high ceiling relative to peer systems.","A companion WSU Code Purple mobile app extends alerting to smartphones with additional safety features.","Weber State publishes plain-language guidance distinguishing lockdown messages (run, hide, or fight; wait for an explicit all-clear) from shelter-in-place messages (severe weather or a hazmat spill).","The system is tested roughly once or twice per year by sending a test message; a specific named decision-authority title beyond 'campus public safety officials' was not confirmed verbatim."],"sources":[{"title":"Code Purple Emergency Notification System - Weber State University","url":"https://www.weber.edu/codepurple/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"About Code Purple - Weber State University","url":"https://www.weber.edu/codepurple/about.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Code Purple App - Weber State University","url":"https://www.weber.edu/codepurple/code-purple-app.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Management - Weber State University Police","url":"https://www.weber.edu/police/emergency.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Upcoming emergency test alert - The Signpost","url":"https://thesignpostwsu.com/138158/news/upcoming-emergency-test-alert/","type":"student-newspaper"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","code-purple","public-masters","utah"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-20","lastUpdated":"2026-07-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"wellesley-college-alert-policy","slug":"wellesley-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Wellesley College","shortName":"Wellesley","state":"MA","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"WC Alert / WC BlueAlert (Rave Mobile Safety)","enrollment":2407},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Policy (Annual Security and Fire Safety Report)","systemName":"WC Alert / WC BlueAlert (Rave Mobile Safety)","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://wellesley-college.files.svdcdn.com/production/About/Policies/Wellesley-College-Annual-Security-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Wellesley College, a private women's liberal-arts college and one of the Seven Sisters, delivers emergency notifications through a [Rave Mobile Safety](https://www1.wellesley.edu/police/emergencynotification) mass-notification system branded \"WC Alert\" on text messages and \"WC BlueAlert\" on email, administered by the sworn [Wellesley College Public Safety and Police Department](https://www.wellesley.edu/about-us/offices-departments/police-public-safety). The same department issues Clery timely-warning notifications for crimes that pose a serious or continuing threat to the community.","analysis":"Wellesley College is a private women's liberal-arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with roughly 2,400 undergraduates. Its mass-notification capability runs on the [Rave Mobile Safety platform](https://www1.wellesley.edu/police/emergencynotification): the college states it 'has partnered with Rave Mobile Safety to deliver emergency alerts and weather-related school closures to the campus community.' Unlike single-brand systems, Wellesley's notifications carry channel-specific sender names — emails arrive from 'WC BlueAlert,' text messages arrive from 'WC Alert,' and automated voice calls come from the college's main public-safety line — so members of the community can recognize a legitimate alert by its source.\n\nThe sworn [Wellesley College Public Safety and Police Department](https://www.wellesley.edu/about-us/offices-departments/police-public-safety) is the decision authority for both Clery functions. For emergency notifications, Wellesley adopts the federal Clery 'without delay' standard verbatim: upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation, the college will, without delay and taking the safety of the community into account, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system, unless doing so would, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.\n\nFor timely warnings, the [Public Safety and Police Department](https://www1.wellesley.edu/police/emergencynotification) issues notices as soon as pertinent information is available for crimes that represent a serious or continuing threat, with the explicit purpose of enabling people to protect themselves. Timely warnings are posted to the Public Safety web page and may be supplemented with fliers placed around campus and in campus buildings, giving the warning function a physical-posting layer distinct from the SMS/email/voice channels used for imminent-threat emergency notifications.\n\nWellesley documents a regular test cadence — the system is tested campus-wide twice a year, in the fall and spring — which exceeds the bare federal requirement for at least annual testing. Verbatim confirmation here is environment-limited: both the wellesley.edu host and the ASR PDF host returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so all quoted text was captured from search-index snippets. Four excerpts (the channel/sender-name description, the Rave partnership, the testing cadence, and the 'without delay' standard) appeared with stable wording across multiple independent retrievals and are marked verbatim-confirmed; the timely-warning posting sentence varied slightly between retrievals and is marked reconstructed.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notifications (WC Alert / WC BlueAlert) are issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the community. Timely warnings are issued for Clery-reportable crimes that pose a serious or continuing threat to students and employees, as soon as pertinent information is available, to enable people to protect themselves.","decisionAuthority":"The sworn Wellesley College Public Safety and Police Department is responsible for issuing both emergency notifications and timely warnings; for timely warnings, the department 'will promptly make a decision regarding the need to disseminate a timely warning notification.'","timingStandard":"Wellesley adopts the Clery 'without delay' standard: upon confirmation, the college will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system, unless doing so would compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency. Timely warnings are issued as soon as pertinent information is available.","cleryFraming":"Wellesley keeps the two Clery functions distinct: Rave-based emergency notifications ('WC Alert' SMS / 'WC BlueAlert' email) for immediate threats, and timely-warning notifications issued by Public Safety and Police for crimes posing a serious or continuing threat. The college publishes an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.","testingCadence":"The emergency notification system is tested campus-wide twice a year (Fall and Spring), exceeding the federal minimum of at least annual testing.","scopeLimits":"Notifications reach the community by text, email, and automated voice call; full reach depends on current contact information held in the Rave system. Timely warnings are additionally posted to the Public Safety web page and may be supplemented with fliers placed around campus and in campus buildings. A separate BlueAware safety app and emergency blue-light phones exist but are companion tools, not the mass-notification system itself.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Channel-specific sender names (WC BlueAlert / WC Alert)","quotedText":"Emails will come from \"WC BlueAlert\" and phone calls will come from 781-283-1000 and text messages will come from \"WC Alert\" with a five-digit number that will change with different alerts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www1.wellesley.edu/police/emergencynotification","sourceDescription":"Wellesley College — Emergency Notification page (Public Safety)","annotations":["Documents that Wellesley alerts use channel-specific sender names — 'WC BlueAlert' on email and 'WC Alert' on SMS — rather than one unified brand. Identical wording appeared across multiple independent search retrievals; the wellesley.edu host returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching."],"characterCount":189},{"label":"Rave platform partnership","quotedText":"Wellesley College has partnered with Rave Mobile Safety to deliver emergency alerts and weather-related school closures to the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www1.wellesley.edu/police/emergencynotification","sourceDescription":"Wellesley College — Emergency Notification page (Public Safety)","annotations":["Confirms the underlying vendor is Rave Mobile Safety (not Send Word Now or another platform) and that the same system also delivers weather/closure messages. Stable wording across multiple retrievals."],"characterCount":144},{"label":"Twice-yearly testing cadence","quotedText":"Wellesley College has an emergency notification system, Rave, to communicate to community members in the event of a crisis. This system is tested campus-wide twice a year (Fall & Spring).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www1.wellesley.edu/police/emergencynotification","sourceDescription":"Wellesley College — Emergency Notification page / Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","annotations":["Establishes a published per-semester test cadence (Fall and Spring), which exceeds the Clery minimum of at least annual testing. Wording appeared in multiple independent retrievals."],"characterCount":187},{"label":"'Without delay' emergency-notification standard","quotedText":"Wellesley College will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system, unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://wellesley-college.files.svdcdn.com/production/About/Policies/Wellesley-College-Annual-Security-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Wellesley College 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","annotations":["The Clery emergency-notification 'without delay' standard, including the carve-out where notification might compromise mitigation efforts. Identical wording surfaced across multiple retrievals; the ASR PDF host returned HTTP 403 to direct fetching, so text was captured from the search index."],"characterCount":366},{"label":"Timely-warning posting and fliers","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://wellesley-college.files.svdcdn.com/production/About/Policies/Wellesley-College-Annual-Security-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf","sourceDescription":"Wellesley College Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Wellesley's mass-notification system runs on Rave Mobile Safety, with channel-specific sender names: 'WC Alert' on text and 'WC BlueAlert' on email.","The sworn Wellesley College Public Safety and Police Department is the decision authority for both emergency notifications and timely warnings.","Wellesley adopts the Clery 'without delay' emergency-notification standard, including the standard carve-out where notification could compromise mitigation efforts.","The system is tested campus-wide twice a year (Fall and Spring), exceeding the federal annual-test minimum.","Timely warnings are posted to the Public Safety web page and may be supplemented by fliers placed around campus and in buildings.","Verbatim text was environment-limited (wellesley.edu and the ASR PDF host returned HTTP 403); four excerpts were confirmed across multiple independent retrievals, one is marked reconstructed."],"sources":[{"title":"Emergency Notification — Wellesley College (Public Safety and Police)","url":"https://www1.wellesley.edu/police/emergencynotification","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Wellesley College 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://wellesley-college.files.svdcdn.com/production/About/Policies/Wellesley-College-Annual-Security-Fire-Safety-Report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Wellesley College 2023 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www1.wellesley.edu/sites/default/files/assets/departments/police/files/new_clery_2023_v_final.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Public Safety and Police Department — Wellesley College","url":"https://www.wellesley.edu/about-us/offices-departments/police-public-safety","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Wellesley College — Wikipedia (enrollment and profile)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellesley_College","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","private-liberal-arts","womens-college","massachusetts","rave","blue-alert"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"wentworth-institute-of-technology-rave-alert-policy","slug":"wentworth-institute-of-technology-rave-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Wentworth Institute of Technology","shortName":"WIT","state":"MA","type":"technical-college","alertSystemName":"Rave Alert","enrollment":4191},"policy":{"title":"Rave Alert Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Procedures (Annual Security and Fire Safety Report)","systemName":"Rave Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://wit.edu/sites/default/files/2024-09/2024%20Annual%20Security%20and%20Fire%20Safety%20Report%20FINAL.pdf","lastReviewed":"2024-09-01"},"summary":"Wentworth Institute of Technology, a hands-on technology and engineering institution in Boston's Fenway, runs its campus emergency-notification system under the [Rave Alert](https://wit.edu/student-life/public-safety/rave) brand, sending text, email, and an outdoor mass-notification layer for emergencies, while the Wentworth Police Department issues [Timely Warning Notifications](https://wit.edu/student-life/public-safety/clery) for Clery-defined crimes that may pose a serious or ongoing threat.","analysis":"Wentworth Institute of Technology (WIT) is a degree-granting, hands-on technology and engineering institution in Boston's Fenway neighborhood and a member of the Colleges of the Fenway consortium. Its sworn [Wentworth Police Department / Public Safety](https://wit.edu/student-life/public-safety) operates the campus emergency-notification system under the [Rave Alert](https://wit.edu/student-life/public-safety/rave) brand (powered by Rave Mobile Safety). The institution describes Rave Alert as the system used 'to communicate with the campus community during crisis and emergency situations,' and strongly encourages every faculty member, staff member, and student to register.\n\nThe channel mix is notable for a compact urban campus: in addition to a text message to a registered mobile phone and an email to the Wentworth account, Rave Alert can trigger an outdoor mass notification 'when appropriate' — an outdoor public-address/siren layer reaching people who are not looking at a phone. WIT illustrates the activation scope with concrete examples, stating that emergency situations requiring Rave Alert 'include, but are not limited to, fire, flood, dangerous person, gas leak, or severe weather.'\n\nWentworth's [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://wit.edu/sites/default/files/2024-09/2024%20Annual%20Security%20and%20Fire%20Safety%20Report%20FINAL.pdf) frames issuance around the federal Clery standard, stating that the University will, without delay and considering the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system, unless issuing the notification will compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency. The ASR keeps the Clery timely-warning function distinct: 'Timely Warning Notifications are issued campus-wide for any Clery-defined crime that occurs within Wentworth's Clery Geography that may present a serious or ongoing threat to members of the University community.'\n\nVerbatim confirmation is mixed. The Rave Alert delivery description and the activation-examples sentence appeared with identical wording across multiple official retrievals (the wit.edu Rave page and the Colleges of the Fenway consortium description) and are marked verbatim-confirmed against the WIT Rave page. The ASR 'without delay … unless issuing the notification will compromise' sentence and the Timely-Warning-Notification definition surfaced through search-index snippets of the 2024 ASR PDF, which resisted automated direct fetching, so those are marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false; the file carries high confidence overall because the brand, channels, and Clery framing are independently corroborated. Per the task's instruction, this case is classified type 'technical-college' as the closest available schema value, though WIT is in fact a four-year, degree-granting technical/engineering university rather than a two-year college.","whenCriteria":"Rave Alert is used for emergencies including, but not limited to, fire, flood, dangerous person, gas leak, or severe weather. Per the ASR, when there is a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat, the University determines the content and initiates the notification system without delay (considering community safety) unless doing so would compromise mitigation efforts.","decisionAuthority":"The Wentworth Police Department / Office of Public Safety operates Rave Alert and issues Timely Warning Notifications. The University (in concert with first responders) determines notification content and initiates the system; the specific named position authorized to trigger an alert was not confirmed verbatim.","timingStandard":"The ASR states the University will, without delay and considering the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system — unless issuing it would compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency (the standard Clery 'without delay, upon confirmation' formulation). Timely Warnings are issued as soon as pertinent information is available.","cleryFraming":"Wentworth separates the two Clery functions: Rave Alert emergency notifications for significant emergencies/dangerous situations, and 'Timely Warning Notifications' issued campus-wide by the Wentworth Police Department for any Clery-defined crime within Wentworth's Clery Geography that may present a serious or ongoing threat. The institution produces an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.","scopeLimits":"Full text/email reach depends on registering for Rave Alert and keeping contact information current; WIT strongly encourages all faculty, staff, and students to register. The outdoor mass-notification layer extends reach to people on campus who are not actively checking a phone or email.","channels":["sms","email","pa-system","siren"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Rave Alert delivery channels","quotedText":"This system allows Public Safety to send a text message to your mobile phone, an email to your Wentworth account, and an outdoor mass notification (when appropriate) with important information regarding an emergency situation and steps necessary to take to remain as safe as possible.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://wit.edu/student-life/public-safety/rave","sourceDescription":"Wentworth — Rave Alert Emergency Notification System","annotations":["Documents the three-channel mix — SMS, Wentworth email, and an outdoor mass-notification layer. Identical wording appeared on the wit.edu Rave page and the Colleges of the Fenway consortium description."],"characterCount":284},{"label":"Rave Alert activation examples","quotedText":"Some examples of emergency situations requiring the use of RAVE include, but are not limited to, fire, flood, dangerous person, gas leak, or severe weather.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://wit.edu/student-life/public-safety/rave","sourceDescription":"Wentworth — Rave Alert Emergency Notification System","annotations":["Gives concrete activation scenarios for a compact urban campus. Matched across the wit.edu Rave page and the Colleges of the Fenway description."],"characterCount":156},{"label":"Emergency-notification timing standard","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://wit.edu/sites/default/files/2024-09/2024%20Annual%20Security%20and%20Fire%20Safety%20Report%20FINAL.pdf","sourceDescription":"Wentworth — 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (text from search index; host blocked automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Timely Warning Notification definition","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://wit.edu/sites/default/files/2024-09/2024%20Annual%20Security%20and%20Fire%20Safety%20Report%20FINAL.pdf","sourceDescription":"Wentworth — 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (text from search index; host blocked automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Wentworth's emergency-notification system is branded Rave Alert (powered by Rave Mobile Safety) and operated by the Wentworth Police Department / Public Safety.","Rave Alert delivers via SMS, Wentworth email, and an outdoor mass-notification layer used 'when appropriate' — adding outdoor reach for a compact urban campus.","WIT lists concrete activation scenarios: fire, flood, dangerous person, gas leak, or severe weather.","The ASR uses the standard Clery timing standard (initiate 'without delay' unless doing so compromises mitigation) and issues separate 'Timely Warning Notifications' for Clery-defined crimes within Wentworth's Clery Geography.","Brand, channels, and activation examples were confirmed verbatim across the wit.edu Rave page and the Colleges of the Fenway description; the ASR timing and timely-warning sentences came from search-index snippets and are flagged isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"sources":[{"title":"Wentworth — Rave Alert Emergency Notification System","url":"https://wit.edu/student-life/public-safety/rave","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Wentworth — 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://wit.edu/sites/default/files/2024-09/2024%20Annual%20Security%20and%20Fire%20Safety%20Report%20FINAL.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Wentworth — Clery Report / Public Safety","url":"https://wit.edu/student-life/public-safety/clery","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Wentworth — Public Safety (Wentworth Police)","url":"https://wit.edu/student-life/public-safety","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Colleges of the Fenway — RAVE Emergency Alert System","url":"https://www.colleges-fenway.org/rave-emergency-alert-system/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","technical-college","massachusetts","boston","rave-alert","outdoor-mass-notification"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"wesleyan-university-connect-ed-alert-policy","slug":"wesleyan-university-connect-ed-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Wesleyan University","shortName":"Wesleyan","state":"CT","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"Connect-Ed Emergency Alert System","enrollment":4011},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification, Crime Alert and Community Notification Procedures (Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report)","systemName":"Connect-Ed","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.wesleyan.edu/publicsafety/pdf/ASR2025Final1.21.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-01-21"},"summary":"Wesleyan University, a private liberal-arts university in Middletown, Connecticut, alerts its community to serious emergencies through a voice-and-text [Connect-Ed emergency alert system](https://www.wesleyan.edu/publicsafety/communication/notifications.html) coordinated by the Director of Public Safety, and issues separate [Crime Alerts and Clery timely warnings](https://www.wesleyan.edu/publicsafety/clery.html) when a crime poses a substantial, ongoing risk to the campus community.","analysis":"Wesleyan University is a private liberal-arts university in Middletown, Connecticut. Its [Office of Public Safety](https://www.wesleyan.edu/publicsafety/) prepares the [Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.wesleyan.edu/publicsafety/pdf/ASR2025Final1.21.pdf) under the Clery Act and operates the campus emergency-notification system. Wesleyan's named system is Connect-Ed: the [community-notifications page](https://www.wesleyan.edu/publicsafety/communication/notifications.html) states that, in cases of a serious emergency or a dangerous situation that poses an immediate threat to the community, an emergency alert system that notifies the community by both voice and text message to a designated phone and e-mail is utilized 'via the Connect-Ed system.'\n\nWesleyan's emergency-notification procedure tracks the federal Clery model and gives first responders explicit discretion to delay. The ASR states that when there is an immediate threat to the health or safety of some or all members of the campus community, first responders will notify supervisors in the Office of Public Safety or other authorized University office to issue an emergency notification, and that if, in the professional judgment of first responders, issuing a notification potentially compromises efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency, the University may elect to delay issuing it. The office responsible for issuing the notification (usually Public Safety), in concert with University and local first responders, determines the content, and Wesleyan maintains pre-built template messages that the authorizing individual selects and modifies to the specific incident.\n\nWesleyan keeps the Clery timely-warning function distinct, branding it as Crime Alerts. Public Safety generally issues Crime Alerts for arson, aggravated assault, criminal homicide, robbery, burglary, sex assaults, and hate crimes, posting them via emails, other electronic communication, and campus media, with text alerts to those who register their cell phone numbers. The University's stated criteria are explicit and three-pronged: it issues Crime Alerts whenever '1) a crime is committed; 2) the perpetrator has not been apprehended; and 3) there is a substantial risk to the physical safety of other members of the campus community because of this crime.' Routine community e-mail and voice-mail broadcasts for serious incidents (arsons, aggravated assault, criminal homicide, robbery, and sex offenses) are coordinated through the Director of Public Safety.\n\nVerbatim confirmation is partial and the file carries medium confidence. Wesleyan operates two distinct institutions-with-similar-names risk: 'Wesleyan College' in Georgia uses an Omnilert-powered 'WesAlert' brand — that is a different school and is deliberately not used here. For the Connecticut university, the Connect-Ed naming, the voice/text emergency-alert description, the delay-discretion language, and the three-pronged Crime Alert criteria appeared across the wesleyan.edu Public Safety pages and the 2025 ASR, but the wesleyan.edu host resisted automated direct fetching, so excerpts are captured from search-index snippets of those official pages and marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false where they could not be byte-for-byte confirmed across two independent retrievals.","whenCriteria":"An emergency notification is issued when there is an immediate threat to the health or safety of some or all members of the campus community; the Connect-Ed system is used for a serious emergency or dangerous situation that poses an immediate threat. Crime Alerts are issued when a crime is committed, the perpetrator has not been apprehended, and there is a substantial risk to the physical safety of other community members.","decisionAuthority":"First responders notify supervisors in the Office of Public Safety (or another authorized University office) to issue an emergency notification; the issuing office determines content in concert with University and local first responders. The Director of Public Safety coordinates community e-mail/voice-mail broadcasts and Public Safety issues Crime Alerts.","timingStandard":"The University issues emergency notifications upon an immediate threat, but may elect to delay if, in first responders' professional judgment, issuing the notification would compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency — the standard Clery discretionary-delay formulation. Crime Alerts are issued to provide timely notice.","cleryFraming":"Wesleyan separates the Clery functions: Connect-Ed emergency notifications (voice + text + email) for immediate threats, and 'Crime Alerts'/timely warnings issued by Public Safety for Clery-reportable crimes meeting its three-pronged criteria. The Office of Public Safety produces the Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report.","scopeLimits":"Faculty, staff, and students with a Wesleyan e-mail are reachable by email/voice-mail broadcast; text-message reach for Crime Alerts depends on registering a cell phone number. The University uses pre-built template messages that the authorizing individual customizes per incident.","channels":["phone-call","sms","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Connect-Ed emergency alert system","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wesleyan.edu/publicsafety/communication/notifications.html","sourceDescription":"Wesleyan University — Community Notifications, Public Safety (text from search index; host blocked automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Emergency-notification trigger and delay discretion","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wesleyan.edu/publicsafety/pdf/ASR2025Final1.21.pdf","sourceDescription":"Wesleyan University — 2025 Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report (text from search index; host blocked automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Crime Alert (timely warning) three-pronged criteria","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wesleyan.edu/publicsafety/clery.html","sourceDescription":"Wesleyan University — Clery Compliance, Public Safety (text from search index; host blocked automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Director of Public Safety coordinates broadcasts","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wesleyan.edu/publicsafety/communication/notifications.html","sourceDescription":"Wesleyan University — Community Notifications, Public Safety (text from search index; host blocked automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT) operates a voice-and-text emergency alert system branded Connect-Ed, coordinated by the Director of Public Safety.","The 2025 ASR gives first responders explicit discretion to delay an emergency notification if issuing it would compromise victim-assistance or mitigation efforts.","Wesleyan issues separate 'Crime Alerts' (Clery timely warnings) under an explicit three-pronged test: a crime committed, perpetrator not apprehended, and substantial ongoing risk to community safety.","The University uses pre-built template messages that the authorizing official selects and customizes per incident; Crime Alerts post via email, electronic communication, campus media, and text to registered numbers.","Do not confuse with 'Wesleyan College' (Georgia), which uses an Omnilert 'WesAlert' brand — a different institution; the Connecticut university's brand is Connect-Ed. All excerpts came from search-index snippets of wesleyan.edu pages (host blocked direct fetch), so they are flagged isVerbatimConfirmed:false and the file carries medium confidence."],"sources":[{"title":"Wesleyan University — 2025 Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.wesleyan.edu/publicsafety/pdf/ASR2025Final1.21.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Wesleyan University — Community Notifications, Public Safety","url":"https://www.wesleyan.edu/publicsafety/communication/notifications.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Wesleyan University — Clery Compliance, Public Safety","url":"https://www.wesleyan.edu/publicsafety/clery.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Wesleyan University — Public Safety (home)","url":"https://www.wesleyan.edu/publicsafety/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","crime-alert","private-liberal-arts","connecticut","connect-ed","director-of-public-safety"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"west-virginia-state-university-warn-alert-policy","slug":"west-virginia-state-university-warn-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"West Virginia State University","shortName":"WVSU","state":"WV","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"WARN","enrollment":2900},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Response, University Police Department","systemName":"WARN","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://wvstateu.edu/administration/public-safety/emergency-response/","lastReviewed":"2025-06-01"},"summary":"West Virginia State University, a historically Black university near Charleston, publishes a [Crime Statistics and Clery Act compliance page](https://wvstateu.edu/administration/public-safety/crime-statistics/) and directs students, faculty, and staff to opt into its WARN emergency notification system for text and phone alerts on top of the university email notifications everyone automatically receives, per the [Emergency Response page](https://wvstateu.edu/administration/public-safety/emergency-response/) maintained by the University Police Department.","analysis":"West Virginia State University's [Crime Statistics page](https://wvstateu.edu/administration/public-safety/crime-statistics/) states the university provides campus safety and crime-statistics disclosures in compliance with the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990 and the 1998 Amendment to the Higher Education Act of 1965, the federal statutes now commonly known together as the Clery Act, with the University Police Department responsible for publishing the disclosures. As a historically Black public university in Institute, West Virginia, WVSU is a comparatively small institution (enrollment in the low thousands), and its published emergency-communications material is correspondingly leaner than the dedicated standalone policy pages found at larger research universities.\n\nWVSU's baseline emergency channel is University email, which students, faculty, and staff receive automatically without any signup step. Additional communication channels, specifically text messaging and phone calls, are available through opt-in, referenced in university materials as the WARN notification system; recipients choose these channels individually through the [WARN emergency notification page](https://wvstateu.edu/administration/public-safety/emergency-response/) on the university's site. This two-tier structure (automatic email, opt-in text/phone) mirrors the pattern seen at several other institutions in this archive, where email is treated as the default because it requires no separate action from the university community.\n\nBecause wvstateu.edu hosts return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the material below was captured from search-indexed summaries of the [Crime Statistics](https://wvstateu.edu/administration/public-safety/crime-statistics/) and [Emergency Response](https://wvstateu.edu/administration/public-safety/emergency-response/) pages rather than a directly loaded and quoted policy document, and no search result returned a distinctive, exact-wording sentence from a WVSU-specific timely-warning or emergency-notification policy statement (as opposed to email/WARN channel descriptions). Accordingly, every excerpt below is marked as not verbatim-confirmed, and a specific activation standard, named decision authority, and numeric timeliness benchmark for WVSU (as opposed to the general Clery framework described in secondary summaries) were not confirmed in this pass. This case should be treated as a candidate for direct-fetch verification in a future session with broader web access.","whenCriteria":"A specific, WVSU-authored activation standard (e.g., a 'serious or continuing threat' or 'immediate threat to health or safety' trigger phrase unique to WVSU's own policy text) was not confirmed in the sources reviewed; WVSU's Clery compliance is described only in general terms tied to the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990 and the 1998 HEOA Amendment.","decisionAuthority":"The University Police Department is identified as the office responsible for compiling and publishing WVSU's Clery-related crime and safety disclosures; a specific named decision-making role for issuing individual alerts was not confirmed in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"No specific numeric timeliness standard was confirmed in the sources reviewed for this pass.","cleryFraming":"WVSU's Crime Statistics page situates its disclosures within the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990 and the 1998 Amendment to the Higher Education Act of 1965, the combined statutory basis generally referred to as the Clery Act, without a WVSU-specific emergency-notification-versus-timely-warning distinction confirmed in the sources reviewed.","testingCadence":"No specific published testing cadence was confirmed in the sources reviewed for this pass.","scopeLimits":"University email is the automatic, default channel for all students, faculty, and staff. Text messaging and phone calls are available only to those who opt in individually through the WARN emergency notification page.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Clery statutory basis","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://wvstateu.edu/administration/public-safety/crime-statistics/","sourceDescription":"West Virginia State University, Crime Statistics page","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"University Police Department publication role","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://wvstateu.edu/administration/public-safety/crime-statistics/","sourceDescription":"West Virginia State University, Crime Statistics page","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Email as automatic baseline channel","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://wvstateu.edu/administration/public-safety/emergency-response/","sourceDescription":"West Virginia State University, Emergency Response page","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"WARN system opt-in","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://wvstateu.edu/administration/public-safety/emergency-response/","sourceDescription":"West Virginia State University, Emergency Response page","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["WVSU is a small (roughly 2,900-enrollment) historically Black public university whose published emergency-communications material is leaner than larger research universities' dedicated policy pages.","The University Police Department is the named office responsible for WVSU's Clery security-policy and crime-statistics disclosures.","University email is the automatic, no-signup baseline channel; text and phone alerts via the WARN system require individual opt-in.","No WVSU-specific activation trigger phrase, named decision authority for individual alert issuance, or numeric timeliness standard could be confirmed given this environment's 403 blocks on direct wvstateu.edu fetches; this is a strong candidate for a future direct-verification pass."],"sources":[{"title":"Crime Statistics, West Virginia State University","url":"https://wvstateu.edu/administration/public-safety/crime-statistics/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Emergency Response, West Virginia State University","url":"https://wvstateu.edu/administration/public-safety/emergency-response/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"University Police Department, West Virginia State University","url":"https://wvstateu.edu/administration/public-safety/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","warn","hbcu","west-virginia"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"west-virginia-university-wvu-alert-policy","slug":"west-virginia-university-wvu-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"West Virginia University","shortName":"WVU","state":"WV","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"WVU Alert","enrollment":23532},"policy":{"title":"WVU-PD-1-B — Emergency Notifications (WVU Alerts), Timely Warnings (Campus Warnings) and WVU Community Notices","systemName":"WVU Safety Notification System","documentType":"standalone-policy","url":"https://police.wvu.edu/about-us/policies-and-procedures/wvu-pd-1-b-emergency-notifications-wvu-alerts-timely-warnings-campus-warnings-and-wvu-community-notices","lastReviewed":"2025-09-23"},"summary":"West Virginia University runs a three-tiered [WVU Safety Notification System](https://police.wvu.edu/campus-safety/wvu-safety-notification-system) — Tier 1 WVU Alert (emergency notification), Tier 2 Campus Warning (Clery timely warning), and Tier 3 Community Notice — in which, per [policy WVU-PD-1-B](https://police.wvu.edu/about-us/policies-and-procedures/wvu-pd-1-b-emergency-notifications-wvu-alerts-timely-warnings-campus-warnings-and-wvu-community-notices), the WVU Police Department confirms a significant emergency and the Chief of Police or designee decides to initiate a WVU Alert 'without delay.'","analysis":"West Virginia University (WVU) — the only R1 institution in West Virginia, reaffirmed in the February 2025 Carnegie classification — operates one of the more explicitly structured emergency-communication frameworks in this archive: a [three-tiered WVU Safety Notification System](https://police.wvu.edu/campus-safety/wvu-safety-notification-system). Tier 1 is **WVU Alert**, the Clery emergency notification for imminent threats; Tier 2 is the **Campus Warning**, WVU's brand for a Clery timely warning; and Tier 3 is the **Community Notice** for lower-urgency safety information. The mass-notification engine is powered by Omnilert (the sign-up portal lives at alert.wvu.edu, hosted on wvu.omnilert.net), and a separate mobile-app layer is delivered through LiveSafe, which adds push notifications, two-way anonymous tip reporting, and (since March 2025) a Morgantown-campus panic alarm.\n\nThe governing document is [WVU-PD-1-B](https://police.wvu.edu/about-us/policies-and-procedures/wvu-pd-1-b-emergency-notifications-wvu-alerts-timely-warnings-campus-warnings-and-wvu-community-notices), a WVU Police Department policy whose title itself equates 'Emergency Notifications (WVU Alerts)' with 'Timely Warnings (Campus Warnings).' On timing, it applies the federal Clery standard: upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat, 'the University will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of an Emergency Notification (WVU Alert) and initiate its emergency notification procedures.' The decision authority is unusually crisp and single-pointed compared with committee-style policies: 'the significant emergency or dangerous situation will be confirmed by the University Police Department and it is the Chief of Police or designee's decision to initiate an Emergency Notification (WVU Alert).'\n\nWVU's public-facing explainer reinforces the speed standard. Per the [E-News procedures article](https://enews.wvu.edu/articles/2023/01/12/wvu-emergency-alert-procedures-detailed), a WVU Alert is 'only sent when our community is believed to be in immediate danger' and 'will be sent to our community immediately upon confirmation of the situation,' while a Campus Warning is 'sent as soon as sufficient information is available, though they may not be sent instantly.' That distinction — instant for Tier 1, as-soon-as-able for Tier 2 — mirrors the Clery split between emergency notification and timely warning.\n\nConfirmed channels are text/SMS, email, LiveSafe push notifications, digital signage, the WVU website, and social media (the @WVUsafety / @WVUalert accounts, plus Instagram and Facebook). The system carries a concrete published test cadence: WVU sends one test message each semester (fall, spring, and summer) — three test messages per academic year — and real-world test announcements corroborate it. Two honesty notes: an outdoor warning siren and WEA/IPAWS participation could NOT be corroborated for WVU and are therefore not asserted (the documented channels do not include them); and because police.wvu.edu, safety.wvu.edu, and the ASR PDF returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, the excerpts below were captured from search-index snippets and corroborated across multiple independent retrievals. The decision-authority sentence and the per-semester test cadence reproduced identically across retrievals and are marked verbatim-confirmed; the longer Clery activation-clause tail and the 'immediate threat' definition appeared with slight wording variation and are marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false.","whenCriteria":"A WVU Alert (Tier 1, emergency notification) is sent upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on campus that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees — only when the community is believed to be in immediate danger. A Campus Warning (Tier 2, timely warning) is sent for Clery-reportable crimes considered to represent a serious or continuing threat. A Community Notice (Tier 3) covers lower-urgency safety information.","decisionAuthority":"The WVU Police Department confirms the significant emergency or dangerous situation, and the Chief of Police or designee makes the decision to initiate an Emergency Notification (WVU Alert). The public-facing framing also references WVU Police and University leadership discretion.","timingStandard":"Per WVU-PD-1-B, upon confirmation the University will, 'without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community,' determine the content of a WVU Alert and initiate its notification procedures, subject to the standard Clery exception. Public guidance adds that WVU Alerts are sent 'immediately upon confirmation of the situation,' while Campus Warnings go out 'as soon as sufficient information is available.'","cleryFraming":"WVU's three-tier system maps directly onto Clery: Tier 1 WVU Alert = emergency notification; Tier 2 Campus Warning = timely warning for Clery-reportable crimes representing a serious or continuing threat; Tier 3 Community Notice = supplemental safety information. WVU produces an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.","testingCadence":"WVU sends one test message each semester (fall, spring, and summer) — three test messages per academic year. Real-world test announcements (Aug 2024, Sept 2025, Feb 2026) corroborate the cadence.","scopeLimits":"The mass-notification engine is Omnilert (portal at alert.wvu.edu / wvu.omnilert.net), with a separate LiveSafe mobile-app layer. An outdoor warning siren and WEA/IPAWS participation could not be corroborated for WVU and are not asserted. Confirmed channels are SMS, email, LiveSafe push, digital signage, website, and social media; voice calls and desktop pop-ups were not explicitly confirmed.","channels":["sms","email","push-notification","digital-signage","website","twitter-x","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Decision authority — WVU Police confirms, Chief of Police or designee initiates","quotedText":"...the significant emergency or dangerous situation will be confirmed by the University Police Department and it is the Chief of Police or designee's decision to initiate an Emergency Notification (WVU Alert).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://police.wvu.edu/about-us/policies-and-procedures/wvu-pd-1-b-emergency-notifications-wvu-alerts-timely-warnings-campus-warnings-and-wvu-community-notices","sourceDescription":"WVU-PD-1-B — WVU Police Department emergency-notification policy","annotations":["Names a single-pointed decision authority: WVU Police confirms the situation, and the Chief of Police or designee decides to initiate the WVU Alert. This exact sentence appeared identically across two independent retrievals; police.wvu.edu blocked direct fetching, so it was captured from the search index."],"characterCount":209},{"label":"Activation criteria + 'without delay' timing standard","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://police.wvu.edu/about-us/policies-and-procedures/wvu-pd-1-b-emergency-notifications-wvu-alerts-timely-warnings-campus-warnings-and-wvu-community-notices","sourceDescription":"WVU-PD-1-B — WVU Police Department emergency-notification policy","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Tier-1 WVU Alert timing — immediate danger","quotedText":"WVU Alert notifications are sent at the discretion of WVU Police and University leadership and are only sent when our community is believed to be in immediate danger. These messages will be sent to our community immediately upon confirmation of the situation.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://enews.wvu.edu/articles/2023/01/12/wvu-emergency-alert-procedures-detailed","sourceDescription":"WVU E-News — emergency alert procedures detailed (Tier-1 WVU Alert)","annotations":["Public-facing framing of the Tier-1 standard: WVU Alerts go out 'immediately upon confirmation of the situation' and only for immediate danger. 'immediately upon confirmation of the situation' and 'believed to be in immediate danger' appeared across two-plus retrievals (E-News plus the Tier-1 safety/police pages)."],"characterCount":259},{"label":"Campus Warning (timely warning) framing","quotedText":"A Campus Warning is sent when a Clery-reportable crime occurs within the area designated by the Clery Act and reported to campus security authorities like WVU Police or local police agencies, and are considered by the University to represent a serious or continuing threat to students and employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://enews.wvu.edu/articles/2023/01/12/wvu-emergency-alert-procedures-detailed","sourceDescription":"WVU E-News — emergency alert procedures detailed (Tier-2 Campus Warning)","annotations":["Frames the Tier-2 Campus Warning as WVU's Clery timely warning, triggered by Clery-reportable crimes representing a serious or continuing threat. Appeared in a single retrieval, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false; the 'serious or continuing threat' trigger is the standard Clery timely-warning language and is consistent with the WVU-PD-1-B policy title."],"characterCount":299},{"label":"Testing cadence — one test per semester","quotedText":"WVU is required to send out one test message each semester (fall, spring, and summer), so expect three test messages during the academic year.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.wvu.edu/safety-on-campus/wvu-alert-system/tier-1-wvu-alert","sourceDescription":"WVU Safety & Wellness — Tier 1: WVU Alert","annotations":["Establishes a concrete published test cadence of three tests per academic year (fall, spring, summer). This wording appeared identically across two-plus retrievals and is corroborated by real-world test announcements (Aug 2024, Sept 2025, Feb 2026)."],"characterCount":142}],"keyFindings":["WVU runs a three-tiered WVU Safety Notification System: Tier 1 WVU Alert (emergency notification), Tier 2 Campus Warning (Clery timely warning), and Tier 3 Community Notice.","Decision authority is single-pointed: WVU Police confirms the emergency and the Chief of Police or designee decides to initiate a WVU Alert 'without delay.'","The mass-notification engine is Omnilert (portal at alert.wvu.edu / wvu.omnilert.net), with a separate LiveSafe mobile-app layer adding push, anonymous tips, and a Morgantown panic alarm.","Test cadence is concrete and published: one test message each semester (fall, spring, summer) = three per academic year.","WVU is the only R1 institution in West Virginia (reaffirmed Feb 2025). An outdoor siren and WEA/IPAWS could not be corroborated and are not asserted; police.wvu.edu, safety.wvu.edu, and the ASR PDF blocked automated fetching, so excerpts were captured from search-index snippets corroborated across retrievals."],"sources":[{"title":"WVU-PD-1-B — Emergency Notifications (WVU Alerts), Timely Warnings (Campus Warnings) and WVU Community Notices","url":"https://police.wvu.edu/about-us/policies-and-procedures/wvu-pd-1-b-emergency-notifications-wvu-alerts-timely-warnings-campus-warnings-and-wvu-community-notices","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"WVU Police — Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (Clery ASR)","url":"https://police.wvu.edu/clery-act/annual-security-and-fire-safety-report","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"WVU emergency alert procedures detailed (E-News, Jan 12 2023)","url":"https://enews.wvu.edu/articles/2023/01/12/wvu-emergency-alert-procedures-detailed","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"WVU Safety & Wellness — Tier 1: WVU Alert","url":"https://safety.wvu.edu/safety-on-campus/wvu-alert-system/tier-1-wvu-alert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"WVU Police — WVU Safety Notification System","url":"https://police.wvu.edu/campus-safety/wvu-safety-notification-system","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"WVU Alert sign-up / portal (Omnilert)","url":"https://alert.wvu.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"WVU releases annual Clery Act report (WVU Today, Sept 23 2025)","url":"https://wvutoday.wvu.edu/stories/2025/09/23/wvu-releases-annual-clery-act-report","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"West Virginia University — Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University","type":"reference"},{"title":"WVU Facts (fall 2025 Morgantown campus enrollment 23,532; WVU System 26,046)","url":"https://www.wvu.edu/about-wvu/wvu-facts/","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","public-r1","west-virginia","wvu-alert","omnilert","livesafe","three-tier","multi-channel"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"west-virginia-wesleyan-college-alert-policy","slug":"west-virginia-wesleyan-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"West Virginia Wesleyan College","shortName":"WVWC","state":"WV","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"WVWC Emergency Alert"},"policy":{"title":"Campus Safety and Security, Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.wvwc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Annual-Fire-Safety-and-Security-Report-2025.pdf"},"summary":"West Virginia Wesleyan College, a small private liberal arts college in Buckhannon, encourages students and employees to sign up for its [Emergency Alert service](https://www.wvwc.edu/campus-safety-security/), which sends text messages to cell phones during a campus emergency, and publishes campus crime statistics annually each October under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act, with reports handled by the Office of Campus Safety and Security.","analysis":"West Virginia Wesleyan College's [Campus Safety and Security office](https://www.wvwc.edu/campus-safety-security/) encourages the campus community to sign up for its Emergency Alert service, described as providing text messages to cell phones in the event of a campus emergency, the college's primary named alerting tool for a residential campus of roughly 1,300 students. As required by federal law through the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act, WVWC publishes campus crime statistics annually during October, with current statistics available on request from the Office of Campus Safety and Security, and the college maintains successive Annual Security and Fire Safety Reports, including editions covering 2024 and 2025.\n\nStudents can report suspicious persons or activities directly to Campus Security, and separate reporting channels exist for Title IX concerns through a form posted at the college's Title IX page and a Campus Conduct Hotline. As a small private liberal arts college bound by the same Clery Act obligations as much larger institutions, WVWC's public facing pages emphasize the opt in Emergency Alert text service and annual statistical disclosure rather than publishing a lengthy standalone notification procedure document on its main safety webpage; the fuller notification and timely warning procedure language would sit inside the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report itself.\n\nBecause wvwc.edu returned blocked connections to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below are reconstructed from search engine indexed extracts of the official pages and report rather than a firsthand character by character read, and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation; this record is scored at medium confidence on that basis.","whenCriteria":"The Emergency Alert service is described as providing text messages to cell phones in the event of a campus emergency; a specific numeric or crime-type triggering threshold distinct from that general framing was not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed.","decisionAuthority":"WVWC's Office of Campus Safety and Security is presented as the office maintaining crime statistics and administering campus safety generally; a single named official with sign off authority to trigger a specific Emergency Alert was not confirmed in the sources reviewed.","timingStandard":"Not specified with a numeric standard in the sources reviewed.","cleryFraming":"WVWC states it complies with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act, publishing campus crime statistics annually during October; the specific text distinguishing an emergency notification from a timely warning was not independently confirmed on the pages reviewed.","scopeLimits":"The Emergency Alert service reaches cell phones by text message for students and employees who sign up; current crime statistics may separately be requested directly from the Office of Campus Safety and Security.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed.","channels":["sms"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Emergency Alert text service","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wvwc.edu/campus-safety-security/","sourceDescription":"West Virginia Wesleyan College, Campus Safety and Security (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Annual Clery disclosure","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wvwc.edu/campus-safety-security/","sourceDescription":"West Virginia Wesleyan College, Campus Safety and Security (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Reporting suspicious activity","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wvwc.edu/campus-safety-security/","sourceDescription":"West Virginia Wesleyan College, Campus Safety and Security (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["WVWC's named alerting tool is an opt in Emergency Alert text service reaching cell phones during a campus emergency.","The college publishes campus crime statistics annually each October under the Clery Act, with current statistics available on request from Campus Safety and Security.","Wvwc.edu could not be directly loaded in this environment, so this record is scored at medium confidence and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation."],"sources":[{"title":"Campus Safety and Security, West Virginia Wesleyan College","url":"https://www.wvwc.edu/campus-safety-security/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual Security and Fire Safety Report 2025, West Virginia Wesleyan College (PDF)","url":"https://www.wvwc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Annual-Fire-Safety-and-Security-Report-2025.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","clery-act","private-liberal-arts","west-virginia"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-27","lastUpdated":"2026-09-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"western-colorado-university-alert-policy","slug":"western-colorado-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Western Colorado University","shortName":"Western","state":"CO","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"Rave Mobile Safety","enrollment":3568},"policy":{"title":"Western Colorado University Emergency Operations Plan","systemName":"Rave Mobile Safety","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://western.edu/campus-life/safety-security/operations-plan/"},"summary":"[Western Colorado University](https://western.edu/campus-life/safety-security/operations-plan/), a small public, primarily undergraduate institution in Gunnison enrolling about 3,600 students, publishes an [Emergency Operations Plan](https://western.edu/campus-life/safety-security/operations-plan/) that vests the President and Cabinet with ultimate policy authority and pairs the plan with a [Rave Mobile Safety](https://western.edu/student-life/safety-security/emergency-guide) text-alert system in place since fall 2010.","analysis":"Western Colorado University, in the small mountain town of Gunnison at over 7,700 feet in elevation, is a public, primarily undergraduate institution (roughly 88 percent of its approximately 3,600 students are undergraduates), making it one of the smaller public four-year universities documented in this archive and a useful counterweight to the large research-university EOPs that dominate published campus emergency planning. Its [Emergency Operations Plan (EOP)](https://western.edu/campus-life/safety-security/operations-plan/) is described by the university as a basic guide for providing a coordinated response by Western staff, faculty, and administrators to major emergencies occurring on university property, with stated objectives to protect and preserve human life and health, minimize loss or damage to the university's facilities, grounds, and resources, ensure appropriate communications and notifications within the university, the surrounding community, and beyond, and respond appropriately to the magnitude of the crisis.\n\nAuthority sits at the top of the institution: the President and Cabinet hold ultimate responsibility for policy decision-making and carry primary responsibility for recovery and continuity of operations following a campus emergency. Day-to-day coordination runs through an Emergency Operations Group (EOG), which reports into that structure, while a Workplace Safety Committee assists the EOG with identifying safety issues across campus; any exception to or change in the plan's outlined procedures must be presented by the EOG and approved by the President's Cabinet before implementation, keeping ultimate sign-off with executive leadership even for operational adjustments.\n\nMass notification runs through [Rave Mobile Safety](https://western.edu/student-life/safety-security/emergency-guide), which Western implemented beginning with the 2010 fall semester; students, faculty, and staff sign up at getrave.com using their Western email and password, and the university periodically tests the system throughout the semester. As a Title IV, Clery-covered institution, Western is bound by the standard federal split between timely warnings for continuing threats and emergency notifications upon confirmation of an imminent danger, although this review could not independently confirm Western's exact Annual Security Report notification-criteria wording.\n\nA sourcing caveat: western.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this review's environment, so the passages above are reconstructed from search-engine-indexed excerpts of the plan's public-facing page and its supporting safety pages rather than a directly retrieved copy of the underlying document. No excerpt below is confirmed word-for-word against the source, so this record carries medium confidence.","whenCriteria":"The EOP is described as a basic guide for a coordinated Western Colorado University response to major emergencies occurring on university property, with stated objectives spanning life safety, facilities/resource protection, internal and external communications, and a response scaled to the magnitude of the crisis.","decisionAuthority":"The President and Cabinet hold ultimate responsibility for policy decision-making and primary responsibility for recovery and continuity of operations. The Emergency Operations Group (EOG) coordinates day-to-day response, assisted by a Workplace Safety Committee; exceptions to plan procedures require EOG presentation and President's Cabinet approval.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed. As a Clery-covered institution, Western is bound by the federal standard of emergency notifications issued without delay upon confirmation and timely warnings as soon as pertinent information is available.","cleryFraming":"Standard federal two-track distinction applies (timely warning vs. emergency notification). Western's specific Annual Security Report notification-criteria language was not independently retrievable and is reconstructed from the federal standard.","testingCadence":"Western conducts periodic Rave Mobile Safety system tests throughout the semester; a fixed, published cadence (e.g., monthly or per-semester) was not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Rave Mobile Safety enrollment uses Western email/password sign-up at getrave.com and covers the Gunnison campus. As a small, primarily undergraduate institution, Western's EOP structure (EOG plus Workplace Safety Committee reporting to the President's Cabinet) is comparatively lean relative to large research-university plans; exact opt-in/opt-out mechanics were not independently confirmed.","channels":["sms","email"],"excerpts":[{"label":"EOP purpose as a basic response guide","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://western.edu/campus-life/safety-security/operations-plan/","sourceDescription":"Western Colorado University Emergency Operations Plan page (captured via search-engine-indexed excerpt; western.edu 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"President and Cabinet's ultimate authority","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://western.edu/campus-life/safety-security/operations-plan/","sourceDescription":"Western Colorado University Emergency Operations Plan page (captured via search-engine-indexed excerpt)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Approval required for procedural exceptions","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://western.edu/campus-life/safety-security/operations-plan/","sourceDescription":"Western Colorado University Emergency Operations Plan page (captured via search-engine-indexed excerpt)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Western Colorado University's EOP is explicitly framed as a basic guide for coordinated response rather than an exhaustive procedural manual, fitting its small, primarily undergraduate scale (about 3,600 students).","Ultimate decision authority, including recovery and continuity of operations, sits with the President and Cabinet; the Emergency Operations Group (EOG) and a Workplace Safety Committee handle day-to-day coordination beneath that layer.","Any exception to the plan's outlined procedures requires EOG presentation and President's Cabinet approval, keeping executive sign-off over operational deviations.","Mass notification has run through Rave Mobile Safety since the 2010 fall semester, with periodic in-semester system tests.","western.edu 403-blocks automated fetching in this review's environment, so all quoted language is reconstructed from search-indexed excerpts rather than a directly retrieved document; confidence is medium, not high.","Though primarily undergraduate (about 88 percent of its roughly 3,600 students), Western runs an active School of Graduate Studies with nine master's programs, making it a Carnegie-classified master's-granting institution (`public-masters`) rather than a purely bachelor's-granting one."],"sources":[{"title":"Western Colorado University Emergency Operations Plan","url":"https://western.edu/campus-life/safety-security/operations-plan/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Western Colorado University Emergency Guide","url":"https://western.edu/student-life/safety-security/emergency-guide","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Western Colorado University Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (ASFSR)","url":"https://western.edu/campus-life/safety-security/reports/annual-security-policies-and-report/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Western Colorado University, Data USA profile","url":"https://datausa.io/profile/university/western-colorado-university","type":"other"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-operations-plan","colorado","public-masters","small-institution","rave-mobile-safety","emergency-notification","timely-warning"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"western-iowa-tech-community-college-timely-warning-alert-asr","slug":"western-iowa-tech-community-college-timely-warning-alert-asr","institution":{"name":"Western Iowa Tech Community College","shortName":"WITCC","state":"IA","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"College Alert System","enrollment":6000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning Procedure and Emergency Notification - Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","systemName":"College Alert System","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.witcc.edu/pdf/clery-report/","lastReviewed":"2025-10-01"},"summary":"Western Iowa Tech Community College documents [Safety Supervisor Timely Warnings and multi-channel College Alert System emergency notifications](https://www.witcc.edu/pdf/clery-report/) with opt-in text at witcc.edu/alerts and multi-campus Clery geography coverage.","analysis":"WITCC (Sioux City multi-campus/learning centers, IA) publishes Timely Warning Procedure and Emergency Notification Response in its [2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.witcc.edu/pdf/clery-report/). A campus-wide timely warning issues when the Safety Supervisor or designee judges a serious or continuing threat within WITCC Clery Geography or learning centers. The Safety Supervisor develops the notice for serious/continuing crimes against people; typical classifications include murder, manslaughter, major arson, robbery, and strings of burglaries/MVT; aggravated and sexual assault are case-by-case.\n\nPrimary TW distribution is all-student/all-employee email (campus-specific notes included); Safety Supervisor writes and distributes after VP Finance/Administrative Services and/or Dean of Students approval. Optional channels: mass notification text (Dean of IT), campus emails, posted notices, PA. Text is opt-in at witcc.edu/alerts. EN upon confirmation of immediate threat to health/safety; incident coordinator determines content and initiates without delay unless compromise exception. Systems include College Alert System (email, cell text, voice), fire alarm, PA, social media, digital signage, local media, webpage, and in-person. Complements Iowa coverage with Hawkeye Alert.","whenCriteria":"Timely warning: serious or continuing threat within WITCC Clery Geography or learning centers in judgment of Safety Supervisor or designee. Emergency notification: confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat to health or safety of students, employees, and visitors.","decisionAuthority":"TW: Safety Supervisor develops and distributes after VP Finance/Admin Services and/or Dean of Students approval. EN: incident coordinator in charge (Safety Supervisor, Director of Physical Plant and College Safety, VP Finance, Dean of IT) collaborates on content and systems.","timingStandard":"Timely warnings in a manner that is timely, withholds victim names, aids prevention. EN without delay taking community safety into account, unless professional judgment holds notification would compromise victim assistance or mitigation.","cleryFraming":"ASR Timely Warning Procedure and Emergency Notification Response and Evacuation sections with College Alert System and opt-in text.","scopeLimits":"No TW for crimes reported only to pastoral/professional counselors. Multi-campus email reaches all students/employees; campus-specific incidents noted. Text opt-in. Segmented EN for student housing vs full campus at Sioux City.","testingCadence":"Not specified as a fixed cadence in the Timely Warning / Emergency Notification sections reviewed.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call","pa-system","website","digital-signage","facebook"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Safety Supervisor timely warning trigger","quotedText":"Should an incident occur, on any of the WITCC campuses Clery Geography (On Campus, Public Property and Noncampus property), or learning center, that in the judgment of the Safety Supervisor or designee presents a serious or continuing threat, a campus wide timely warning notification will be issued.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.witcc.edu/pdf/clery-report/","sourceDescription":"WITCC 2025 ASR - Timely Warning Procedure","annotations":["Safety Supervisor TW judgment across multi-campus Clery geography."],"characterCount":300},{"label":"Opt-in text alert signup","quotedText":"Students and staff are highly encouraged to sign up for the texting service, which can be found at http://witcc.edu/alerts This is an opt-in system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.witcc.edu/pdf/clery-report/","sourceDescription":"WITCC 2025 ASR - texting service","annotations":["Opt-in text alerts at witcc.edu/alerts."],"characterCount":148}],"keyFindings":["Safety Supervisor owns TW drafting with VP/Dean approval; email blast primary.","College Alert System for EN: email, cell text, voice plus PA and social media.","Opt-in text at witcc.edu/alerts; multi-campus and learning-center coverage."],"sources":[{"title":"Western Iowa Tech Community College 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","url":"https://www.witcc.edu/pdf/clery-report/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"WITCC Emergency and Weather Alerts signup","url":"https://www.witcc.edu/alerts/","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["iowa","community-college","clery-asr","timely-warning","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"western-kentucky-university-wku-alert-policy","slug":"western-kentucky-university-wku-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Western Kentucky University","shortName":"WKU","state":"KY","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"WKU Alert","enrollment":16291},"policy":{"title":"WKU Alert Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Procedures","systemName":"WKU Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.wku.edu/police/wkualert.php","lastReviewed":"2025-01-01"},"summary":"Western Kentucky University operates [WKU Alert](https://www.wku.edu/police/wkualert.php), an emergency notification system that pushes Rave text messages, campus email, a Voice Outdoor Warning System, and homepage/social-media posts when a crisis threatens the immediate health or safety of the campus community, and issues separate Clery [timely warnings](https://www.wku.edu/police/wkualert.php) through the WKU Police Department.","analysis":"Western Kentucky University, a public R2 master's-and-doctoral institution in Bowling Green, brands its emergency-notification system [WKU Alert](https://www.wku.edu/police/wkualert.php). WKU describes it as a system 'to communicate official information during an emergency or crisis situation that disrupts normal campus operations or threatens the immediate health or safety of members of the campus community' — language that maps to the federal Clery emergency-notification threshold.\n\nWKU Alert rides on the Rave Mobile Safety platform. WKU states that when a potentially dangerous threat arises, 'timely warnings and emergency alerts will be issued by means including, but not limited to: Rave text messages, Voice Outdoor Warning System, and campus emails,' and that the WKU Alert system will additionally post to the WKU homepage (www.wku.edu), the WKU Facebook page, the Twitter/X feed, and the WKU News feed. Members of the community opt into text alerts by registering a cell phone under the Personal Information tab in TopNet, WKU's self-service portal. The outdoor layer is the Community Outdoor Warning System (COWS) — four siren units (three on Main Campus, one at South Campus) activated for tornado warnings and other emergencies.\n\nWKU publishes an unusually concrete decision-authority and content-origination workflow on the WKU Alert page. It states that the content for a WKU Alert is gathered by university officials, [WKU Public Relations](https://www.wku.edu/mediarelations/emergency.php), WKU Police Officers, or WKU Communications Officers; that any of those individuals may place information into the WKU Rave system; and that 'the decision to send a \"WKU Alert\" will be decided upon by WKU Public Relations or WKU Police Supervisors.' That dual-authority model — communications and police sharing the trigger — is comparatively explicit for a regional public university. All official communication originates from WKU News or the [WKU Police Department](https://www.wku.edu/police/wkualert.php).\n\nFor Clery timely warnings, WKU emphasizes victim privacy: victim names and other identifying information are kept strictly confidential and not printed as part of a timely warning, and timely warnings may be printed and distributed to residence halls, libraries, and other campus areas. WKU produces an [Annual Campus Safety and Security Report](https://www.wku.edu/police/2025_annualcsreportfor2024.pdf) and runs scheduled tests of its alert systems. Because the wku.edu host returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, excerpts were captured from indexed snippets of the official WKU Alert page; two passages (the system definition and the channel list) appeared with identical wording across multiple retrievals of that official page and are marked verbatim-confirmed, while the timely-warning privacy passage is marked reconstructed pending a clean live fetch.","whenCriteria":"WKU Alert emergency notifications are issued during an emergency or crisis situation that disrupts normal campus operations or threatens the immediate health or safety of the campus community. Timely warnings are issued for crimes that constitute a potentially dangerous, ongoing threat to the community.","decisionAuthority":"Per the WKU Alert page, content is gathered by university officials, WKU Public Relations, WKU Police Officers, or WKU Communications Officers, who may place it into the WKU Rave system; the decision to send a WKU Alert is made by WKU Public Relations or WKU Police Supervisors. All official communication originates from WKU News or the WKU Police Department.","timingStandard":"WKU states it will use all available emergency communication methods to alert campus 'in the most timely fashion possible,' consistent with the federal Clery standard of notifying without delay upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation. The exact phrasing of any internal time target was not byte-for-byte confirmable (wku.edu blocked automated fetching).","cleryFraming":"WKU distinguishes Clery emergency notifications (immediate threats to health/safety, issued via WKU Alert across SMS/email/siren/web/social) from Clery timely warnings (ongoing crime threats, with victim-identifying information kept strictly confidential). WKU publishes an Annual Campus Safety and Security Report.","testingCadence":"WKU periodically tests its emergency alert systems and announces scheduled tests (for example, a January campus alert-systems test). The exact published periodic cadence was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","scopeLimits":"Text-message reach depends on community members opting in by registering a cell phone under the Personal Information tab in TopNet; WKU mitigates single-channel dependency with email, the Voice Outdoor Warning System / COWS sirens, homepage posting, and social media. The COWS sirens are an outdoor-warning layer primarily for severe weather and are not a substitute for indoor notification.","channels":["sms","email","siren","pa-system","website","facebook","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"WKU Alert definition / activation threshold","quotedText":"Western Kentucky University utilizes an emergency notification system, WKU Alert, to communicate official information during an emergency or crisis situation that disrupts normal campus operations or threatens the immediate health or safety of members of the campus community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wku.edu/police/wkualert.php","sourceDescription":"WKU — WKU Alert page (WKU Police)","annotations":["Sets the activation threshold at a crisis that disrupts normal operations or threatens immediate health or safety. Identical wording appeared across multiple retrievals of the official WKU Alert page."],"characterCount":276},{"label":"Channel list (Rave / sirens / email / web / social)","quotedText":"When a potentially dangerous threat to the University community arises, timely warnings and emergency alerts will be issued by means including, but not limited to: Rave text messages, Voice Outdoor Warning System, and campus emails.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wku.edu/police/wkualert.php","sourceDescription":"WKU — WKU Alert page (WKU Police)","annotations":["Names the underlying Rave platform, the outdoor siren system, and email as the core channels, with homepage and social-media posting added elsewhere on the page. Identical wording appeared across multiple retrievals of the official WKU Alert page."],"characterCount":232},{"label":"Decision authority for sending a WKU Alert","quotedText":"The decision to send a \"WKU Alert\" will be decided upon by WKU Public Relations or WKU Police Supervisors.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wku.edu/police/wkualert.php","sourceDescription":"WKU — WKU Alert page (WKU Police)","annotations":["Establishes a dual trigger authority shared between communications staff and police supervisors — unusually explicit for a regional public university. Wording matched across multiple retrievals of the official WKU Alert page."],"characterCount":106},{"label":"Timely-warning victim confidentiality","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wku.edu/police/wkualert.php","sourceDescription":"WKU — WKU Alert page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["WKU's emergency-notification system is WKU Alert, a Rave-based system triggered when a crisis disrupts operations or threatens immediate health or safety.","Channels span Rave SMS, campus email, the Voice Outdoor Warning System / COWS sirens, the WKU homepage, Facebook, and Twitter/X.","Decision authority is explicit and shared: WKU Public Relations or WKU Police Supervisors decide to send a WKU Alert; content originates from university officials, PR, police, or communications officers.","Clery timely warnings keep victim names and identifying information strictly confidential and may be physically posted in residence halls and libraries.","Text reach is opt-in via TopNet registration; verbatim confirmation was limited because wku.edu blocked automated fetching, so two excerpts confirmed across multiple snippet retrievals and one is flagged reconstructed."],"sources":[{"title":"WKU Alert (WKU Police)","url":"https://www.wku.edu/police/wkualert.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"WKU — Emergency Notification Information","url":"https://www.wku.edu/emergency/notifications.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"WKU — Emergency Communication (Media Relations)","url":"https://www.wku.edu/mediarelations/emergency.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"WKU — 2025 Annual Campus Safety and Security Report (for 2024)","url":"https://www.wku.edu/police/2025_annualcsreportfor2024.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"WKU — Campus Safety at WKU","url":"https://www.wku.edu/emergency/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","public-r2","kentucky","wku-alert","rave","outdoor-siren"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"western-michigan-university-wmu-alert-policy","slug":"western-michigan-university-wmu-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Western Michigan University","shortName":"WMU","state":"MI","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"WMU Alert","alertPlatform":"Rave","enrollment":16000},"policy":{"title":"WMU Alert and Advisory Notification Information","systemName":"WMU Alert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://wmudps.wmich.edu/safety-info.php","lastReviewed":"2025-09-29"},"summary":"Western Michigan University's [WMU Alert](https://wmudps.wmich.edu/safety-info.php) system, run on the Rave platform, is reserved for cases of extreme and immediate danger, school closings, and system testing, is sent automatically to every WMU email account, and requires an additional opt-in for students and employees who also want text and voice notification.","analysis":"WMU Public Safety describes [WMU Alert](https://wmudps.wmich.edu/safety-info.php) as the university's emergency notification system for on-campus emergencies, with a narrow, explicitly stated scope: alerts will only be used in cases of extreme and immediate danger, school closings, and system testing. That framing sets WMU Alert apart from general campus communications, and the university separately maintains broader 'advisory' notifications for less urgent situations, based on the page title pairing 'Alert' and 'Advisory' notification information.\n\nDelivery defaults to universal email coverage: every WMU (@wmich.edu) email account receives WMU Alerts automatically for on-campus emergencies, with no opt-in required for that channel. Text and voice notification is opt-in on top of the email baseline, and the university publishes the specific short codes and phone number recipients will see (short codes including 226787, 67283, 78015, and 22911, and a voice line at (269) 387-0911), a level of channel-identification detail useful for verifying that an incoming alert is legitimate rather than a phishing attempt. WMU's [2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://wmudps.wmich.edu/annualsecurityreport.pdf) situates this system within Clery Act obligations covering the Annual Security Report, crime log, timely warnings, and multi-year crime statistics.\n\nBecause wmich.edu hosts return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were captured from search-indexed page text across the WMU Public Safety alert pages, cross-checked across multiple independent search queries that returned matching wording for the 'extreme and immediate danger' scope language. A named decision-authority role (e.g., a specific police chief or duty officer title) and a numeric timeliness standard for timely warnings specifically (as opposed to WMU Alert broadly) were not confirmed in the sources reviewed for this pass.","whenCriteria":"WMU Alerts will only be used in cases of extreme and immediate danger, school closings, and system testing; documented message types include on-campus extreme emergencies, extreme or severe weather such as tornado warnings, and school closure notifications.","decisionAuthority":"WMU Public Safety operates the system; a specific named decision-making role or title was not confirmed in the sources reviewed for this pass.","timingStandard":"No specific numeric timing standard for WMU Alert issuance was confirmed in the sources reviewed; the emergency notification is described as being for extreme and immediate danger, implying rapid issuance, but no minutes-based SLA was located.","cleryFraming":"WMU situates WMU Alert within its broader Clery Act compliance program, which the university describes as covering the Annual Security Report, the crime and fire log, timely warnings, and multi-year crime statistics; WMU Alert and 'advisory' notifications appear to be treated as related but distinct tiers.","testingCadence":"WMU Alert scope explicitly includes 'system testing' as one of its three stated uses, indicating periodic tests occur, though no fixed calendar cadence was confirmed in the sources reviewed.","scopeLimits":"All WMU email accounts receive WMU Alerts automatically for on-campus emergencies; text and voice notification requires an additional opt-in, and specific sender short codes/phone numbers are published so recipients can verify legitimacy.","channels":["email","sms","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Scope of WMU Alert","quotedText":"WMU Alerts will only be used in cases of extreme and immediate danger, school closings and system testing.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://wmudps.wmich.edu/safety-info.php","sourceDescription":"WMU Public Safety, Safety Services, Resources and Information","annotations":["This exact three-part scope statement (extreme/immediate danger, closings, testing) appeared consistently across multiple independent search queries of WMU Public Safety pages."],"characterCount":106},{"label":"Universal email coverage","quotedText":"Everyone with a WMU (@wmich.edu) email address will receive WMU Alerts for on-campus emergencies.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://wmudps.wmich.edu/safety-info.php","sourceDescription":"WMU Public Safety, Safety Services, Resources and Information","annotations":["Establishes that email is the default, non-opt-in channel for the entire WMU email-holding population."],"characterCount":97},{"label":"Text and voice sender identification","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://wmudps.wmich.edu/safety-info.php","sourceDescription":"WMU Public Safety, Safety Services, Resources and Information","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"General notification mechanism","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://wmudps.wmich.edu/annualsecurityreport.pdf","sourceDescription":"WMU 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["WMU Alert scope is explicitly limited to three cases: extreme and immediate danger, school closings, and system testing.","Email delivery is universal and automatic for every @wmich.edu account; text and voice require opt-in.","WMU publishes the exact sender short codes (226787, 67283, 78015, 22911) and voice number ((269) 387-0911) so alerts can be verified as legitimate.","Beyond WMU Alert, the university's Annual Security Report describes a broader mechanism set for serious/continuing threats: email, portal, digital signage, and overhead announcements per facility."],"sources":[{"title":"WMU Alert and Advisory Notification Information","url":"https://wmudps.wmich.edu/safety-info.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","url":"https://wmudps.wmich.edu/annualsecurityreport.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"WMU Alert system, Office of the President","url":"https://wmich.edu/president/wmu-alert-system","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Campus Alert Settings, goWMU Knowledge Base","url":"https://go.wmich.edu/s/article/Campus-Alert-Settings","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","wmu-alert","rave","public-r2","michigan"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"western-washington-university-alert-policy","slug":"western-washington-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Western Washington University","shortName":"WWU","state":"WA","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"Western Alert","enrollment":14710},"policy":{"title":"Western Washington University Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP)","systemName":"Western Alert","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://embc.wwu.edu/emergency-planning"},"summary":"[Western Washington University](https://embc.wwu.edu/emergency-planning) in Bellingham maintains a [Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP)](https://policy.wwu.edu/POL-U5950.03-Managing-University-Emergencies) built on National Incident Management System principles and overseen by a 25-person Emergency Management Committee, paired with the Rave-powered [Western Alert](https://emergency.wwu.edu/faq) text-notification system.","analysis":"Western Washington University (WWU), a public master's-granting institution in Bellingham enrolling roughly 14,700 students, documents its emergency framework in a [Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP)](https://embc.wwu.edu/emergency-planning), which the university's [Emergency Management & Business Continuity office](https://embc.wwu.edu/) describes as the document outlining the most critical elements of the university's emergency management approach and enabling supplemental and supporting documents on vulnerability reduction, response, and recovery under a common, structured framework. WWU frames the CEMP alongside its Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) as the two primary documents providing the standards, procedures, and guidance the university uses to prepare for, respond to, maintain essential operations during, and recover from significant emergencies.\n\nGovernance runs through a defined delegation chain, set out in [University Policy POL-U5950.03, Managing University Emergencies](https://policy.wwu.edu/POL-U5950.03-Managing-University-Emergencies): the Vice President for Business and Financial Affairs delegates overall responsibility for the Office of Emergency Management and Business Continuity program to the Assistant Vice President of Risk, Ethics, Safety, and Resilience (AVP of RESR), with day-to-day program operations further delegated to the Director of the Office of Emergency Management & Business Continuity. An Emergency Management Committee composed of 25 people from across the campus community meets regularly to provide recommendations on emergency management matters, reviewing and evaluating mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery measures. The program is explicitly built on National Incident Management System (NIMS) principles to support coordinated planning and integration with external agency operations.\n\nMass notification runs through [Western Alert](https://emergency.wwu.edu/faq), the university's integrated, multi-method emergency communication system; students and employees maintain contact information through Web4U, and the university has reported that 97 percent of students, 75 percent of staff, and 71 percent of faculty have provided cell phone numbers to receive emergency text messages, which arrive from a short numeric code rather than a number identifying Western by name. As a Title IV, Clery-covered institution, WWU is bound by the standard federal split between timely warnings for continuing threats and emergency notifications upon confirmation of an imminent danger, although this review could not independently confirm WWU's exact Annual Security Report notification-criteria wording.\n\nA sourcing caveat: the wwu.edu family of hosts returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this review's environment, and no direct public PDF of the current CEMP text itself could be located, only the pages describing and governing it. The passages above are therefore reconstructed from search-engine-indexed excerpts of those pages rather than a directly retrieved copy of the plan, so this record carries medium confidence.","whenCriteria":"The CEMP and its companion Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) provide the framework, standards, procedures, and guidance the university uses to prepare for, respond to, maintain essential operations during, and recover from a variety of potentially significant emergency situations, rather than listing narrow trigger events.","decisionAuthority":"The Vice President for Business and Financial Affairs delegates overall program responsibility to the Assistant Vice President of Risk, Ethics, Safety, and Resilience (AVP of RESR), with day-to-day operations delegated to the Director of the Office of Emergency Management & Business Continuity. A 25-person Emergency Management Committee provides recommendations across mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed. As a Clery-covered institution, WWU is bound by the federal standard of emergency notifications issued without delay upon confirmation and timely warnings as soon as pertinent information is available.","cleryFraming":"Standard federal two-track distinction applies (timely warning vs. emergency notification). WWU's specific Annual Security Report notification-criteria language was not independently retrievable and is reconstructed from the federal standard.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the sources reviewed. The Emergency Management Committee meets regularly to evaluate mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery measures, but a fixed published testing cadence for Western Alert itself was not independently confirmed.","scopeLimits":"Western Alert relies on contact information maintained through Web4U; as of the university's own reported figures, 97% of students, 75% of staff, and 71% of faculty had provided cell phone numbers for emergency texting, meaning coverage is not universal. Messages arrive from a short numeric code rather than a Western-identified sender. The program is delivered via the Rave Mobile Safety platform (getrave.com/login/wwu).","channels":["sms","email","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"CEMP purpose and structure","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://embc.wwu.edu/emergency-planning","sourceDescription":"WWU Emergency Management & Business Continuity, Emergency Planning page (captured via search-engine-indexed excerpt; wwu.edu 403-blocks automated fetch)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Delegation chain for the emergency management program","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://policy.wwu.edu/POL-U5950.03-Managing-University-Emergencies","sourceDescription":"WWU Policy POL-U5950.03, Managing University Emergencies (captured via search-engine-indexed excerpt)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Emergency Management Committee composition and role","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://bfa.wwu.edu/emergency-management-committee","sourceDescription":"WWU Business & Financial Affairs, Emergency Management Committee page (captured via search-engine-indexed excerpt)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["WWU's emergency framework is a Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP) paired with a Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP), governed by University Policy POL-U5950.03 and built on NIMS principles.","Program authority runs through a two-tier delegation from the Vice President for Business and Financial Affairs to an Assistant Vice President and then to a program director, advised by a 25-person cross-campus Emergency Management Committee.","Western Alert relies on self-reported contact information via Web4U, and the university's own figures show incomplete coverage: 97% of students but only 75% of staff and 71% of faculty had provided cell numbers for text alerts.","No direct public PDF of the current CEMP text could be located; only the governing policy and descriptive pages are publicly indexed, a notable transparency gap relative to peer institutions that post their full EOP as a PDF.","The wwu.edu host family 403-blocks automated fetching in this review's environment, so all quoted language is reconstructed from search-indexed excerpts of governing pages rather than a directly retrieved plan document; confidence is medium, not high."],"sources":[{"title":"WWU Emergency Management & Business Continuity, Emergency Planning","url":"https://embc.wwu.edu/emergency-planning","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"WWU Policy POL-U5950.03, Managing University Emergencies","url":"https://policy.wwu.edu/POL-U5950.03-Managing-University-Emergencies","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"WWU Emergency Management Committee","url":"https://bfa.wwu.edu/emergency-management-committee","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"WWU Safety and Emergency Information, Frequently Asked Questions","url":"https://emergency.wwu.edu/faq","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-operations-plan","washington","public-masters","nims","continuity-of-operations","rave","emergency-notification","timely-warning"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"western-wyoming-community-college-rave-alert-policy","slug":"western-wyoming-community-college-rave-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Western Wyoming Community College","shortName":"WWCC","state":"WY","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"RAVE Alert","alertPlatform":"Rave","enrollment":2653},"policy":{"title":"Campus Security and Fire Consumer Information Report","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.westernwyoming.edu/_resources/pdf/campus-safety.pdf","lastReviewed":"2026-07-03"},"summary":"Western Wyoming Community College's [Campus Security and Fire Consumer Information Report](https://www.westernwyoming.edu/_resources/pdf/campus-safety.pdf), its Clery Annual Security Report, states that notifications are issued \"without unnecessary delay\" through the Rave Alert Messaging System, email, and a Campus Interior Annunciator System in the Rock Springs main building, with an Emergency Response Team advising the College President during activations.","analysis":"Western Wyoming Community College (Rock Springs, WY) documents its emergency notification procedures inside its annual [Campus Security and Fire Consumer Information Report](https://www.westernwyoming.edu/_resources/pdf/campus-safety.pdf), the college's Clery Annual Security Report, rather than in a separate standalone marketing page for the alert system. The report's section structure includes headers for \"Emergency Response and Evacuation Procedures,\" \"Emergency Response Team (ERT),\" and \"Testing of Emergency Response and Evacuation Procedures,\" the standard Clery-required components.\n\nThe notification language captured from the report describes a without-unnecessary-delay standard delivered through one or more of three channels: the Rave Alert Messaging System, email notification, and a Campus Interior Annunciator System specific to the main building on the Rock Springs campus, an internal building-announcement channel distinct from the more common exterior siren approach seen at some peer institutions. RAVE Alert itself is opt-out, with all students and employees registered by default and notified via text message, phone call, and email; the college separately maintains an Emergency Response Team (ERT) that advises and assists the College President during emergencies and coordinates the campus community's response.\n\nThis environment's outbound network returns HTTP 403 for direct fetches of westernwyoming.edu, so the excerpts below were captured from report and page text as reproduced in search-engine indexing rather than a direct PDF fetch. None of the excerpts below returned independently byte-identical across a second query in this session, so all are reported as reconstructed rather than verbatim-confirmed; this is the most conservative confidence rating among the Wyoming institutions researched, reflecting the thinner corroboration available for a PDF-hosted document compared to the standalone HTML pages at other Wyoming colleges. No named individual decision authority beyond the ERT/President framing, and no specific testing-frequency figure, could be confirmed from the sources available.","whenCriteria":"Notifications are issued without unnecessary delay upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous condition, delivered through one or more of the Rave Alert Messaging System, email notification, and (for the Rock Springs main building) the Campus Interior Annunciator System; targeting may be limited to an affected segment of campus or extended to the entire community depending on the nature of the threat.","decisionAuthority":"The Emergency Response Team (ERT) advises and assists the College President during emergencies and is responsible for coordinating and directing the campus community's response; a single named activating official beyond this President/ERT framing was not confirmed verbatim.","timingStandard":"Notifications are described as issued \"without unnecessary delay,\" the standard Clery phrase, without a more specific minutes-based figure confirmed verbatim.","cleryFraming":"The report references FERPA's allowance for releasing otherwise-protected information when necessary for a timely warning or to protect campus safety, indicating WWCC draws the standard Clery emergency-notification/timely-warning distinction, though the report's own dividing-line language between the two categories was not independently confirmed verbatim.","testingCadence":"The report's section structure includes a \"Testing of Emergency Response and Evacuation Procedures\" heading, consistent with the Clery-required at-least-annual test, but a specific stated frequency or date was not confirmed verbatim from the material available.","scopeLimits":"RAVE Alert Notifications are opt-out, with all students and employees registered by default; the Campus Interior Annunciator System is scoped specifically to the main building on the Rock Springs campus rather than campus-wide.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Notification channels and timing standard","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.westernwyoming.edu/_resources/pdf/campus-safety.pdf","sourceDescription":"Campus Security and Fire Consumer Information Report - Western Wyoming Community College","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"RAVE Alert default registration","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.westernwyoming.edu/campus-safety/index.php","sourceDescription":"Campus Safety - Western Wyoming Community College","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Emergency Response Team role","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.westernwyoming.edu/_resources/pdf/campus-safety.pdf","sourceDescription":"Campus Security and Fire Consumer Information Report - Western Wyoming Community College","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["WWCC documents its notification procedures inside its Clery Annual Security Report rather than a standalone alert-system marketing page.","The report describes a without-unnecessary-delay standard across three named channels: Rave Alert Messaging, email, and a Campus Interior Annunciator System limited to the Rock Springs main building.","RAVE Alert is opt-out, registering all students and employees by default across text, phone call, and email.","An Emergency Response Team (ERT) advises and assists the College President during emergencies and coordinates the campus community's response.","No excerpt returned independently byte-identical across repeated queries in this session, making this the most conservatively rated of the Wyoming policies researched."],"sources":[{"title":"Campus Security and Fire Consumer Information Report - Western Wyoming Community College","url":"https://www.westernwyoming.edu/_resources/pdf/campus-safety.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Campus Safety - Western Wyoming Community College","url":"https://www.westernwyoming.edu/campus-safety/index.php","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","rave","clery-act","community-college","wyoming"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-03","lastUpdated":"2026-07-03","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"wichita-state-shockeralert-policy","slug":"wichita-state-shockeralert-policy","institution":{"name":"Wichita State University","shortName":"WSU","state":"KS","type":"public-r2","alertSystemName":"ShockerAlert","enrollment":23000},"policy":{"title":"ShockerAlert System — Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings","systemName":"ShockerAlert","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.wichita.edu/services/emergency/shockeralert.php","lastReviewed":"2026-06-22"},"summary":"Wichita State University's emergency-notification platform is the [ShockerAlert System](https://www.wichita.edu/services/emergency/shockeralert.php), a Rave Wireless–backed network of email and text blasts, message boards, web alerts, a campus TV channel, the Rave Guardian app, and Alertus desktop pop-ups that is used for both [emergency notifications and timely warnings](https://www.wichita.edu/about/clery/Safety_Resources.php) under the Clery Act.","analysis":"Wichita State University (WSU) is a public R2 doctoral university in Wichita, Kansas. Its confirmed emergency-notification brand is the [ShockerAlert System](https://www.wichita.edu/services/emergency/shockeralert.php) (styled 'ShockerAlert' or 'Shocker Alert System'), described by the university as 'a network of various emergency communication assets which can be activated within minutes' and explicitly 'utilized to provide timely warnings and emergency notifications' — making ShockerAlert WSU's single platform for both Clery functions rather than two separate systems.\n\nWSU states ShockerAlert is triggered in three categories: a dangerous criminal threat; outages that impact classes or class start times; or severe weather events, including instant tornado warnings from the National Weather Service — a meaningful design choice for a Kansas campus, where the [Rave](https://www.wichita.edu/services/shockeralert/faq.php) backend can push NWS tornado warnings automatically. The channel mix is broad: campus-wide email, text messaging, wireless emergency message boards, web alerts, a campus information channel / Campus TV, time/date display boards, and Facebook. Two endpoint layers extend the reach — [Alertus Desktop](https://www.wichita.edu/services/shockeralert/Alertus.php), which delivers Shocker Alerts directly to university-owned computer screens, and the Rave Guardian app, which delivers alerts to users who register a @shockers.wichita.edu or @wichita.edu profile.\n\nThe backbone is commercial. WSU states it 'has contracted with Rave Wireless to build the most reliable notification system possible,' and Rave's carrier arrangements are cited as the reason text alerts transmit quickly. Email enrollment is automatic: at the beginning of each semester, WSU email addresses for all students, faculty, and staff are set up for the email alert channel, while text messaging — described by WSU as the fastest method — requires the user to add a mobile number via the Rave self-service site at wichita.edu/alert using a myWSU ID. WSU also publishes a clear self-test discipline: 'Once each semester, you should perform a self test of your SAS account.'\n\nOn Clery framing, WSU's Annual Security Reports separate the instruments cleanly: 'Timely warnings are only issued in response to the occurrence of crimes specified in the Clery Act; other dangers to the campus community are addressed through a safety alert or an emergency notification.' WSU lays out the case-by-case timely-warning factors — nature of the crime, continuing danger, and risk of compromising law-enforcement efforts. The named position authorized to activate ShockerAlert and a precise 'without delay, upon confirmation' timing sentence were not confirmable to a verbatim standard because the wichita.edu host and ASR pages returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching; those fields are reconstructed and flagged, while the system definition, trigger categories, Rave-contract, semester self-test, and the timely-warning-vs-other-dangers sentence recurred identically across multiple official-attributed retrievals and are marked verbatim-confirmed.","whenCriteria":"ShockerAlert is triggered in the event of a dangerous criminal threat; outages that impact classes or class start times; or severe weather events, including instant tornado warnings from the National Weather Service. Timely warnings are issued only for Clery-specified crimes; other dangers are addressed through a safety alert or an emergency notification.","decisionAuthority":"ShockerAlert is operated within WSU's emergency-management / police function and built on a Rave Wireless contract. The specific named position authorized to confirm and activate a ShockerAlert was not confirmed verbatim in this review (wichita.edu and ASR pages blocked automated fetching).","timingStandard":"WSU describes ShockerAlert as a network that can be 'activated within minutes' and, per its ASR, issues an emergency notification upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees. A precise published 'without delay' sentence was not corroborated to a verbatim standard in this review.","cleryFraming":"ShockerAlert is WSU's single platform for both Clery functions: emergency notifications and timely warnings. WSU's ASR states timely warnings are issued only for crimes specified in the Clery Act, while other dangers are addressed through a safety alert or an emergency notification, and lists case-by-case factors (nature of the crime, continuing danger, risk of compromising law-enforcement efforts). WSU is not required to issue a timely warning for non-Clery crimes or for crimes reported to a pastoral or professional counselor. WSU publishes an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.","testingCadence":"WSU publishes a per-semester self-test discipline for account holders: 'Once each semester, you should perform a self test of your SAS account,' done by logging into the Rave site and clicking the Test button for each contact. The institution-run periodic full-system test cadence was not confirmed verbatim in this review.","scopeLimits":"Email is automatically enrolled each semester for all students, faculty, and staff (students via @shockers.wichita.edu, faculty/staff via @wichita.edu); text messaging — the fastest channel — requires the user to add a mobile number via the Rave site at wichita.edu/alert, so SMS reach depends on opt-in and current contact data. Alertus Desktop reaches only university-owned computers where it is installed; Rave Guardian reaches only users who register a profile.","channels":["email","sms","website","digital-signage","push-notification","facebook","desktop-popup"],"excerpts":[{"label":"ShockerAlert system definition and dual Clery role","quotedText":"WSU's ShockerAlert System is a network of various emergency communication assets which can be activated within minutes.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wichita.edu/services/emergency/shockeralert.php","sourceDescription":"WSU — ShockerAlert System","annotations":["Defines the brand and its 'activated within minutes' speed posture. WSU separately states the system 'is utilized to provide timely warnings and emergency notifications,' so one platform serves both Clery functions. Wording recurred identically across official wichita.edu retrievals."],"characterCount":119},{"label":"Trigger categories (crime / outage / severe weather)","quotedText":"The ShockerAlert system is triggered in the event of a dangerous criminal threat; outages that impact classes or class start times; or severe weather events, including instant tornado warnings from the National Weather Service.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wichita.edu/services/shockeralert/faq.php","sourceDescription":"WSU — Shocker Alert FAQs","annotations":["Notably includes automatic NWS tornado warnings — a Kansas-campus design choice. Wording recurred identically across official wichita.edu retrievals."],"characterCount":227},{"label":"Rave Wireless backbone","quotedText":"Wichita State University has contracted with Rave Wireless to build the most reliable notification system possible.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wichita.edu/services/shockeralert/faq.php","sourceDescription":"WSU — Shocker Alert FAQs","annotations":["Identifies the commercial backbone (Rave Wireless) behind ShockerAlert email/text/Guardian delivery. Wording recurred identically across official wichita.edu retrievals."],"characterCount":115},{"label":"Per-semester self-test discipline","quotedText":"Once each semester, you should perform a self test of your SAS account.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wichita.edu/services/shockeralert/faq.php","sourceDescription":"WSU — Shocker Alert FAQs","annotations":["Pushes a per-semester user-side test cadence (SAS = Shocker Alert System), done via the Rave site Test button. Wording recurred identically across official wichita.edu retrievals."],"characterCount":71},{"label":"Timely warning vs. other dangers (Clery framing)","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wichita.edu/about/clery/Safety_Resources.php","sourceDescription":"WSU — Campus & Community Safety Resources / Annual Security Report (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["WSU's emergency-notification brand is the ShockerAlert System (a.k.a. Shocker Alert System / SAS), used for both timely warnings and emergency notifications.","ShockerAlert is built on a Rave Wireless contract and spans email, text, wireless message boards, web alerts, campus TV/info channel, Facebook, Alertus Desktop pop-ups, and the Rave Guardian app.","Trigger categories are a dangerous criminal threat, outages impacting classes, or severe weather — including automatic NWS instant tornado warnings.","Email is auto-enrolled each semester for all @shockers.wichita.edu / @wichita.edu accounts; text (the fastest channel) is opt-in via the Rave site, and WSU asks users to self-test their SAS account once each semester.","WSU's ASR keeps Clery functions distinct (timely warnings only for Clery-specified crimes). The named activation authority and full-system test cadence were not confirmable verbatim (wichita.edu/ASR blocked automated fetching)."],"sources":[{"title":"WSU — ShockerAlert System","url":"https://www.wichita.edu/services/emergency/shockeralert.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"WSU — Shocker Alert FAQs","url":"https://www.wichita.edu/services/shockeralert/faq.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"WSU — Alertus Desktop (ShockerAlert)","url":"https://www.wichita.edu/services/shockeralert/Alertus.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"WSU — Campus & Community Safety Resources (Clery)","url":"https://www.wichita.edu/about/clery/Safety_Resources.php","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"WSU — Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","url":"https://www.wichita.edu/services/police/annualsecurityreport.php","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","public-r2","kansas","shockeralert","rave-wireless","tornado","multi-channel"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"wilkes-community-college-emergency-notification-procedure-erp","slug":"wilkes-community-college-emergency-notification-procedure-erp","institution":{"name":"Wilkes Community College","shortName":"Wilkes CC","state":"NC","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"InformaCast EAM / WCC Alerts","enrollment":3000},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification Procedure (Emergency Response Plan Appendix)","systemName":"InformaCast EAM / WCC Alerts","documentType":"emergency-operations-plan","url":"https://www.wilkescc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/WCCEmergencyResponsePlan.pdf","lastReviewed":"2020-08-01"},"summary":"Wilkes Community College embeds a campus-specific [Emergency Notification Procedure](https://www.wilkescc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/WCCEmergencyResponsePlan.pdf) in its ERP appendix, detailing InformaCast EAM activation paths for Wilkes and Ashe campuses and intercom/word-of-mouth initiation at Alleghany and North Wilkesboro centers, with highest-on-site administrator resolving conflicts.","analysis":"Wilkes Community College, a multi-site North Carolina Community College System institution, publishes emergency notification activation steps as an appendix to its Emergency Response Plan. Source: [WCC Emergency Response Plan PDF](https://www.wilkescc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/WCCEmergencyResponsePlan.pdf). The procedure is institution-specific by campus: Wilkes and Ashe campuses escalate from 911 and campus police/security to an approved administrator who initiates an Emergency Alert Message (EAM) via InformaCast or a trained operator. Alleghany Center uses telephone intercom announcements then escalates to the Ashe Campus administrator; North Wilkesboro Center uses word-of-mouth notification then escalates to a Wilkes Campus administrator.\n\nThe ERP also authorizes the president and Campus Police to activate WCC emergency notification resources. When local authorities order evacuation or lockdown, administrators obtain agency identification, communicate the emergency nature, ensure compliance, and initiate EAM or emergency notification as appropriate. If notification orders conflict, the highest ranking WCC administrator on site at the time of the emergency is followed. Complements the existing WCC Alerts system-overview policy.","whenCriteria":"When an emergency situation exists requiring campus emergency notification activation; also when local authorities order evacuation or lockdown of a campus or center.","decisionAuthority":"Approved WCC administrator initiates EAM via InformaCast on Wilkes/Ashe campuses; Alleghany director/administrative assistant initiates intercom; North Wilkesboro director/administrative assistant initiates word-of-mouth then escalates. Highest ranking on-site administrator resolves conflicting notification orders. President and Campus Police authorized to activate emergency notification resources in ERP body.","timingStandard":"Procedure is stepwise immediate escalation (911, then campus security/administrator, then InformaCast/intercom); no fixed minutes standard stated.","cleryFraming":"ERP appendix operational activation procedure for multi-campus emergency notification, complementary to Clery ASR and WCC Alerts system overview.","scopeLimits":"Different channels by site (InformaCast vs intercom vs word of mouth); center-level notifications escalate to main campus administrators; media staging handled separately under Notification Provisions.","testingCadence":"Not specified in the Emergency Notification Procedure appendix.","channels":["pa-system","phone-call","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Wilkes Campus InformaCast EAM path","quotedText":"The WCC administrator shall initiate an EAM, by directly activating the InformaCast system or contacting one of the trained operators.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wilkescc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/WCCEmergencyResponsePlan.pdf","sourceDescription":"WCC ERP Emergency Notification Procedure – Wilkes Campus","annotations":["Administrator activates InformaCast EAM or trained operator."],"characterCount":134},{"label":"Alleghany intercom initiation","quotedText":"The director or administrative assistant shall initiate emergency notification, by directly activating the telephone intercom system and making an announcement.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wilkescc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/WCCEmergencyResponsePlan.pdf","sourceDescription":"WCC ERP Emergency Notification Procedure – Alleghany Center","annotations":["Center-level telephone intercom announcement path."],"characterCount":160},{"label":"Highest on-site administrator conflict rule","quotedText":"In any event where a conflict arises related to emergency notification, the directive of the highest ranking WCC administrator on site at the time of the emergency shall be followed.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wilkescc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/WCCEmergencyResponsePlan.pdf","sourceDescription":"WCC ERP Conflicting Orders","annotations":["Conflict-resolution rule for competing notification directives."],"characterCount":182}],"keyFindings":["Campus-specific activation paths: InformaCast EAM at Wilkes/Ashe; intercom at Alleghany; word of mouth at North Wilkesboro.","911 first, then campus security/administrator, then notification system.","Highest ranking on-site administrator resolves conflicting notification orders."],"sources":[{"title":"Wilkes Community College Emergency Response Plan PDF","url":"https://www.wilkescc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/WCCEmergencyResponsePlan.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["north-carolina","community-college","emergency-operations-plan","informacast","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"wilkes-community-college-wcc-alerts-system-overview","slug":"wilkes-community-college-wcc-alerts-system-overview","institution":{"name":"Wilkes Community College","shortName":"WCC","state":"NC","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"WCC Alerts (RAVE)","enrollment":3000},"policy":{"title":"WCC Alerts Campus Alert Notification System","systemName":"WCC Alerts","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.wilkescc.edu/alerts/","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Wilkes Community College's [WCC Alerts](https://www.wilkescc.edu/alerts/) page describes a redundant Campus Alert Notification System using phones and speakers, RAVE text messaging, media, website posts, social networks, and email for emergency and campus operational messages including weather closings.","analysis":"Wilkes Community College is a multi-campus North Carolina community college. Its [WCC Alerts](https://www.wilkescc.edu/alerts/) system-overview page is institution-specific: primary alerts use campus-wide phones, speakers, and the alarm system; text messaging reaches registered students faculty staff via RAVE and parents or community via texting WCCALERTS to 226787; media updates cover campus closing and other emergencies especially during inclement weather; web alerts post on the college website; social posts go to official Facebook and X; email may go to all WCC accounts depending on the situation. This record documents the multi-channel emergency and operational notification overview rather than a full ASR rewrite.","whenCriteria":"Campus emergencies and operational messages including campus closings and other emergency information, particularly during inclement weather.","decisionAuthority":"Not confirmed verbatim on the WCC Alerts overview page reviewed.","timingStandard":"Not confirmed as a fixed clock-time target on the overview page; multi-channel redundant notification as situations warrant.","cleryFraming":"Emergency notification system overview; Clery procedure details may appear separately in ASR or public safety materials.","testingCadence":"Not confirmed verbatim on the alerts overview page reviewed.","scopeLimits":"Applies to WCC community; parent and community opt-in is separate from student faculty staff RAVE registration.","channels":["sms","phone-call","email","website","twitter-x","facebook","pa-system","siren"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Redundant multi-method approach","quotedText":"Wilkes Community College’s emergency notification system approach is based on redundancy, using multiple methods to reach members of the college community with information as quickly and accurately as possible.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wilkescc.edu/alerts/","characterCount":210},{"label":"Primary phones speakers and alarm","quotedText":"WCC will issue primary alerts using the college’s alarm system, the phones located in classrooms, offices, stairwells and other public locations, and the speaker system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wilkescc.edu/alerts/","characterCount":169},{"label":"Media for closings and weather","quotedText":"Regular updates regarding campus closing and other emergency information will be provided to the news media. Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to consult local media broadcasts particularly during inclement weather.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wilkescc.edu/alerts/","characterCount":224}],"sources":[{"title":"WCC Alerts","url":"https://www.wilkescc.edu/alerts/","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["community-college","north-carolina","system-overview","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"williams-college-alert-policy","slug":"williams-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Williams College","shortName":"Williams","state":"MA","type":"private-liberal-arts","alertSystemName":"Williams College Emergency Notification System (Blackboard Connect)","enrollment":2164},"policy":{"title":"Campus Safety Services Alerts and Timely Warning Notices","systemName":"Williams College Emergency Notification System","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.williams.edu/css/announcements/security-alerts/"},"summary":"Williams College operates a two-track Clery framework administered by [Campus Safety Services (CSS)](https://www.williams.edu/css/): immediate **Emergency Notifications** for significant emergencies or dangerous situations threatening the campus, delivered via the [Emergency Notification System (Blackboard Connect)](https://www.williams.edu/css/announcements/security-alerts/) text/voice/email plus an outdoor siren, and separate **Campus Safety Services Alerts / Timely Warning Notices** sent by blast email for Clery crimes posing a serious or ongoing threat.","analysis":"Williams College, a small private liberal-arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts, runs its emergency-notification and Clery timely-warning functions through [Campus Safety Services (CSS)](https://www.williams.edu/css/). The college separates the two Clery tracks cleanly. The emergency-notification track covers immediate threats: per the college's [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.williams.edu/css/reporting/), if there is an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus, Williams follows its Crisis Communication Plan to issue emergency notifications immediately upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation, including a threatening situation, a crime in progress, or a fire.\n\nEmergency notifications are distributed through the [Williams College Emergency Notification System (Blackboard Connect)](https://www.williams.edu/css/announcements/security-alerts/), which sends broadcast text messages, phone/voice calls, and email, supplemented by the college website and an outdoor [emergency siren notification system](https://today.williams.edu/announcements/williams-to-test-new-emergency-siren-april-3/). The college describes the means of distributing emergency notices as including the notification system (broadcast text message, a phone call, and/or email), the college website, and a fire/emergency alarm, so that in an emergency posing an immediate threat to the college community, students, faculty, and staff are notified via email and cell phone/text messaging as well as the siren.\n\nThe second track is the Clery timely-warning function. [Campus Safety Services Alerts](https://www.williams.edu/css/announcements/security-alerts/) are sent primarily by blast email to all students and employees to provide timely notice when there is a criminal situation that may pose a serious or ongoing threat, withholding victim names as confidential and aiming to aid prevention of similar crimes. These alerts notify the community about specific Clery Act crimes reported to CSS that occurred on campus, on non-campus property, or on public property within Williams's Clery geography. Decision authority rests with the Director of Campus Safety and Security or a designee, in consultation with some or all of the Vice President for Campus Life, the Dean of the College, the Chief Communications Officer, and the Office of the President, who together determine whether a timely warning notice is warranted.\n\nA notable scope limit is the college's late-reporting threshold: alerts are typically not issued for incidents reported more than five days after they occurred, because such delay has not afforded the college an opportunity to react or respond in a timely manner; such late-reported serious incidents are instead evaluated on a case-by-case basis. The full procedures — including the Immediate Emergency Notification section and any testing cadence — are documented in the [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.williams.edu/css/reporting/) rather than the public security-alerts page; the college also separately announces and tests its outdoor emergency siren.","whenCriteria":"Emergency Notifications: issued immediately upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on campus involving a threatening situation, a crime in progress, or a fire — i.e., an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees. Timely Warning / CSS Alerts: issued for a criminal situation (specific Clery Act crimes reported to CSS) that may pose a serious or ongoing threat to the campus community.","decisionAuthority":"The Director of Campus Safety and Security (CSS) or a designee, in consultation with some or all of: the Vice President for Campus Life, the Dean of the College, the Chief Communications Officer, and the Office of the President, determines whether a timely warning notice is warranted.","timingStandard":"Emergency notifications are issued immediately upon confirmation of a significant emergency. Timely-warning CSS Alerts are sent as soon as pertinent information is available. Incidents reported more than five (5) days after they occurred are typically not issued as timely warnings (evaluated case-by-case) because the delay denies the college a timely opportunity to respond.","cleryFraming":"Two-track Clery framework: Emergency Notifications for immediate threats to health or safety on campus (significant emergency / dangerous situation), and separate Campus Safety Services Alerts (Timely Warning Notices) for Clery Act crimes posing a serious or ongoing threat. Victim names are withheld as confidential in alerts.","testingCadence":"The college tests its outdoor emergency siren and Emergency Notification System; detailed testing procedures are documented in the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report rather than the public security-alerts page.","scopeLimits":"Timely warnings are generally not issued for incidents reported more than five days after occurrence (case-by-case thereafter). CSS Alerts apply to Clery Act crimes within Williams's Clery geography (on-campus, non-campus, and public property), and victim names are kept confidential.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","siren"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely warning decision authority","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.williams.edu/css/announcements/security-alerts/","sourceDescription":"Campus Safety Services Alerts and Timely Warning Notices","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Five-day late-reporting limit","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.williams.edu/css/announcements/security-alerts/","sourceDescription":"Campus Safety Services Alerts and Timely Warning Notices","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Emergency notification trigger","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.williams.edu/css/reporting/","sourceDescription":"Williams College Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["Williams runs a two-track Clery system: immediate Emergency Notifications for significant emergencies/dangerous situations, and Campus Safety Services Alerts (timely warnings) for Clery crimes posing a serious or ongoing threat.","The Emergency Notification System is Blackboard Connect — broadcast text, voice/phone call, and email — supplemented by the college website and an outdoor emergency siren.","Timely-warning decisions are made by the Director of Campus Safety and Security or a designee in consultation with the VP for Campus Life, Dean of the College, Chief Communications Officer, and the President's Office.","CSS Alerts are sent primarily by blast email to all students and employees as soon as pertinent information is available, with victim names withheld as confidential.","A five-day late-reporting limit applies: serious incidents reported more than five days after occurrence do not automatically generate a timely warning and are handled case-by-case."],"sources":[{"title":"Campus Safety Services Alerts and Timely Warning Notices","url":"https://www.williams.edu/css/announcements/security-alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Campus Safety Services","url":"https://www.williams.edu/css/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Annual Security & Fire Safety Report — Campus Safety Services","url":"https://www.williams.edu/css/reporting/","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Williams College 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (CY2024)","url":"https://www.williams.edu/css/files/2025/09/2025-Annual-Security-Report-for-Calendar-Year-2024-1.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Williams to Test New Emergency Siren — Today @ Williams","url":"https://today.williams.edu/announcements/williams-to-test-new-emergency-siren-april-3/","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","massachusetts","private-liberal-arts"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"wilmington-university-emergency-notification-policy","slug":"wilmington-university-emergency-notification-policy","institution":{"name":"Wilmington University","shortName":"WilmU","state":"DE","type":"private-masters","enrollment":18787},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notification System","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.wilmu.edu/safety/emergencynotification.aspx","lastReviewed":"2026-08-23"},"summary":"Wilmington University, a private nonprofit university headquartered in New Castle, Delaware with the state's largest total enrollment among private institutions, documents a [mass-notification system](https://www.wilmu.edu/safety/emergencynotification.aspx) reaching phones, email, SMS, and building audible alerts, and publishes an unusually explicit [approval chain](https://www.wilmu.edu/titleix/understanding-clery-report.aspx) for Clery warnings in which University Safety assesses the threat, Legal and Administrative Affairs drafts the message, and an Executive Team member approves it before distribution through the ReGroup platform.","analysis":"Wilmington University's alerting documentation stands out in this archive for how much of the internal decision pipeline it puts in public view. The university's [Understanding the Clery Report page](https://www.wilmu.edu/titleix/understanding-clery-report.aspx) describes a four-station chain for a Crime Alert: University Safety is responsible for assessing the nature of the threat and issuing warnings, the Assistant Vice President of Legal and Administrative Affairs develops the content of the notification, the draft is sent to a member of the Executive Team for approval, and the Web Communications team distributes the alert via the group email and ReGroup system. Each station adds accountability, and each adds latency; most institutions in this archive publish at most the first station.\n\nThe same material draws the Clery line cleanly: Timely Warnings are described as mass communication notices advising of a Clery crime that represents a current or ongoing threat to the university community, while Emergency Notifications are activated when a threat to the safety of the university community is present, which the university states is not contingent upon Clery crimes being committed. That not-contingent phrasing tracks the federal distinction between 34 CFR 668.46(e) warnings and 668.46(g) notifications.\n\nOn the delivery side, the [Emergency Notification System page](https://www.wilmu.edu/safety/emergencynotification.aspx) describes a mass-notification system deployed for campus emergencies or urgent situations such as threats to the safety or security of persons or property on university-owned or operated premises, reaching students, faculty, and staff by recorded voice call, university email, and SMS to the mobile numbers on file, plus audible alert messages in university-owned or managed facilities. The university also states that it conducts numerous emergency response exercises each year, including tabletop exercises, fire drills, field exercises, and tests of the mass emergency notification systems at all primary campuses, and it maintains a recorded emergency information line at (302) 356-6701 for closings. The 2025 [Annual Security Report](https://calendar.wilmu.edu/titleix/documents/2025-annual-security-report.pdf) is the formal policy home.\n\nWilmington University is a private nonprofit institution enrolling [18,787 students in fall 2024](https://www.collegetuitioncompare.com/edu/131113/wilmington-university/) across its Delaware and New Jersey locations and online programs; the Carnegie classification places it among doctoral and professional universities, and this archive files it under the private-masters type, the nearest available category for a non-research-classified private doctoral institution. Its multi-site, heavily online enrollment shapes the alerting problem: most of the covered population is not on a campus on any given day, which makes the phone-and-email channels the primary path rather than a supplement to sirens.\n\nProvenance caveat: wilmu.edu refused automated fetching from this research environment, so the excerpts below are reconstructed from search-index reproductions of the official pages and are marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false. A minutes-based timing standard was not reproduced in the reviewed material.","whenCriteria":"The mass-notification system is deployed for campus emergencies or urgent situations, such as threats to the safety or security of persons or property on university-owned or operated premises; Emergency Notifications are activated when a threat to the safety of the university community is present and are not contingent on a Clery crime, while Timely Warnings follow Clery crimes representing a current or ongoing threat.","decisionAuthority":"University Safety assesses the nature of the threat and issues warnings; the Assistant Vice President of Legal and Administrative Affairs develops the notification content; a member of the Executive Team approves it; the Web Communications team distributes it via group email and the ReGroup system.","timingStandard":"A minutes-based service-level standard was not confirmed in the sources reviewed in this session; the published process routes each Crime Alert through drafting and executive approval before distribution.","cleryFraming":"Timely Warnings are mass communication notices advising of a Clery crime representing a current or ongoing threat; Emergency Notifications address any present threat to community safety and are explicitly not contingent upon Clery crimes being committed.","testingCadence":"The university states it conducts numerous emergency response exercises each year, including tabletop exercises, fire drills, field exercises, and tests of the mass emergency notification systems at all primary campuses.","scopeLimits":"Delivery reaches university-provided email addresses, recorded voice calls, and SMS to mobile numbers provided to the university, plus audible alerts in university-owned or managed facilities; with a largely commuter and online population across Delaware and New Jersey sites, remote channels are the primary path. A recorded emergency information line, (302) 356-6701, covers closings.","channels":["phone-call","email","sms","pa-system","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"System purpose and deployment trigger","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wilmu.edu/safety/emergencynotification.aspx","sourceDescription":"Wilmington University, Emergency Notification System (host blocked automated fetch; text reconstructed from search-index reproduction)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true},{"label":"Four-station warning pipeline","quotedText":"The Assistant Vice President of Legal & Administrative Affairs will develop the content of the notification and it is sent to a member of the Executive Team for approval. The Web Communications team is responsible for distributing the Crime Alert via the group e-mail and ReGroup system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wilmu.edu/titleix/understanding-clery-report.aspx","sourceDescription":"Wilmington University, Understanding the Clery Report (host blocked automated fetch; text reconstructed from search-index reproduction)","annotations":["An unusually explicit published approval chain, drafting by a legal officer, sign-off by an executive, distribution by a web team through ReGroup, that most peer institutions leave internal; wording reconstructed from search-index text because wilmu.edu refused automated fetching from this environment."],"characterCount":287},{"label":"Emergency notifications not contingent on Clery crimes","quotedText":"Emergency Notifications are activated when a threat to the safety of the University community is present; this is not contingent upon Clery Crimes being committed.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wilmu.edu/titleix/understanding-clery-report.aspx","sourceDescription":"Wilmington University, Understanding the Clery Report (host blocked automated fetch; text reconstructed from search-index reproduction)","annotations":["Draws the federal distinction between timely warnings, which require a Clery crime, and emergency notifications, which require only a present threat; wording reconstructed from search-index text because wilmu.edu refused automated fetching from this environment."],"characterCount":163}],"keyFindings":["Wilmington University publishes a four-station warning pipeline: University Safety assesses, the AVP of Legal and Administrative Affairs drafts, an Executive Team member approves, and Web Communications distributes via group email and ReGroup.","The university explicitly states that Emergency Notifications are not contingent on Clery crimes, cleanly separating the two federal alert categories.","Delivery spans recorded voice calls, university email, SMS, and audible alerts in university facilities, with remote channels primary for a largely commuter and online population of 18,787 students.","Annual exercises are published as a commitment: tabletop exercises, fire drills, field exercises, and mass-notification tests at all primary campuses.","Each published approval station adds accountability and latency; no minutes-based timing standard appears in the reviewed material."],"sources":[{"title":"Wilmington University, Emergency Notification System","url":"https://www.wilmu.edu/safety/emergencynotification.aspx","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Wilmington University, Understanding the Clery Report","url":"https://www.wilmu.edu/titleix/understanding-clery-report.aspx","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Wilmington University, Annual Security Report 2025","url":"https://calendar.wilmu.edu/titleix/documents/2025-annual-security-report.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Wilmington University, University Safety","url":"https://www.wilmu.edu/safety/index.aspx","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Wikipedia, Wilmington University","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_University","type":"reference"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","regroup","private-masters","delaware","multi-campus"],"dateAdded":"2026-08-23","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"winston-salem-state-university-ramalert-policy","slug":"winston-salem-state-university-ramalert-policy","institution":{"name":"Winston-Salem State University","shortName":"WSSU","state":"NC","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"RamALERT","enrollment":5200},"policy":{"title":"RamALERT Emergency Notification System","systemName":"RamALERT","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.wssu.edu/administration/finance-and-administration/emergency-management/ramalert/index.html","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Winston-Salem State University's [RamALERT page](https://www.wssu.edu/administration/finance-and-administration/emergency-management/ramalert/index.html) brands RamALERT as the emergency notification system that instantly sends emergency information to students, faculty, and staff; auto-subscribes @wssu.edu and @rams.wssu.edu addresses; supports SMS/voice via registered mobiles, text-to-67283 keyword RamAlert, parent contacts via student Rave accounts, and Rave Guardian for affiliated users.","analysis":"Winston-Salem State University is an HBCU in North Carolina. Its [RamALERT Emergency Notification System](https://www.wssu.edu/administration/finance-and-administration/emergency-management/ramalert/index.html) page is institution-specific: RamALERT instantly sends emergency information to students, faculty, and staff; all WSSU email addresses ending in @wssu.edu and @rams.wssu.edu are automatically subscribed; mobile numbers must be registered for text and voice; students may add up to three emails and three cellular contacts including parents; unaffiliated users can text keyword RamAlert to 67283 for text-only alerts; Rave Guardian is available to currently registered students and current employees using a WSSU email and includes safety timers and anonymous reporting to WSSU Police and Public Safety; summer camps have a dedicated RamALERT registration path.","whenCriteria":"Emergency situations for which the University uses RamALERT to instantly send emergency information to the campus community.","decisionAuthority":"Police and Public Safety is the contact for RamALERT questions; specific activation authority titles are not further enumerated on this overview page.","timingStandard":"Instant emergency information delivery via registered channels.","cleryFraming":"Page is emergency-notification system oriented rather than a Clery Timely Warning crime criteria page.","scopeLimits":"Auto-subscribed university emails; optional SMS/voice with mobile registration; keyword SMS for non-affiliates; Rave Guardian limited to current students and employees with WSSU email.","testingCadence":"Not stated on the RamALERT overview page.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"RamALERT brand and instant emergency purpose","quotedText":"RamALERT is Winston-Salem State University's Emergency Notification System. A RamALERT is an emergency notification that the University uses to instantly send emergency information to students, faculty, and staff.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wssu.edu/administration/finance-and-administration/emergency-management/ramalert/index.html","sourceDescription":"WSSU RamALERT Emergency Notification System page","annotations":["Local RamALERT brand and purpose language."],"characterCount":213},{"label":"Auto-subscribed WSSU email domains","quotedText":"All WSSU email addresses (ending in @wssu.edu and @rams.wssu.edu) are automatically subscribed to the RamALERT system. You can add your mobile phone to the system if you wish to receive text or voice alerts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wssu.edu/administration/finance-and-administration/emergency-management/ramalert/index.html","sourceDescription":"WSSU RamALERT Emergency Notification System page","annotations":["Institution-specific auto-subscribe domains and optional mobile."],"characterCount":207},{"label":"Keyword SMS registration for text alerts","quotedText":"To receive text alerts only, anyone can text the code \"RamAlert\" to number 67283. You will then be registered to receive Winston-Salem State University RamALERT emergency text messages.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wssu.edu/administration/finance-and-administration/emergency-management/ramalert/index.html","sourceDescription":"WSSU RamALERT Emergency Notification System page","annotations":["Local short-code keyword enrollment path."],"characterCount":185},{"label":"Rave Guardian affiliation and features","quotedText":"The application is available for use by all currently registered Winston-Salem State University students and current employees of the university. Subscribers to the application must use a WSSU email address to login. Rave Guardian contains a digital safety timer. The app also has a safety feature that directly connects you to WSSU Police and Public Safety (or 9-1-1 if off-campus) in an emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wssu.edu/administration/finance-and-administration/emergency-management/ramalert/index.html","sourceDescription":"WSSU RamALERT Emergency Notification System page","annotations":["Local Rave Guardian eligibility and WSSU Police connection."],"characterCount":399}],"keyFindings":["RamALERT is WSSU's local emergency notification brand on Rave.","HBCU policy with dual @wssu.edu/@rams.wssu.edu auto-subscribe and keyword SMS path."],"sources":[{"title":"RamALERT Emergency Notification System - Winston-Salem State University","url":"https://www.wssu.edu/administration/finance-and-administration/emergency-management/ramalert/index.html","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["hbcu","north-carolina","ramalert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"worcester-state-university-rave-wsu-alert-asr","slug":"worcester-state-university-rave-wsu-alert-asr","institution":{"name":"Worcester State University","shortName":"Worcester State","state":"MA","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"RAVE / WSU Alert","enrollment":5500},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings (RAVE / WSU Alert) - Annual Security Report","systemName":"RAVE / WSU Alert","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.worcester.edu/title-ix/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2025/09/2025-ASR-Working-Document-.docx.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-09-01"},"summary":"Worcester State University documents [RAVE Mobile Safety/WSU Alert with automatic community opt-in](https://www.worcester.edu/title-ix/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2025/09/2025-ASR-Working-Document-.docx.pdf) for emergency notifications and timely warnings, with University Police initial send and MARCOM handoff during escalating incidents.","analysis":"Worcester State University (Worcester, MA public-masters) publishes Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings policies in its [2025 Annual Security Report](https://www.worcester.edu/title-ix/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2025/09/2025-ASR-Working-Document-.docx.pdf). Emergency Notifications fire upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat to health or safety on campus, or events requiring campus closure/limited access (e.g., severe weather). The system is not used for nearby criminal activity unless it presents an immediate on-campus safety threat. Chief of Police or designee confirms with public officials and campus emergency managers. Content is determined without delay taking community safety into account, initiating WSU Rave Mobile Safety/WSU Alert unless compromise exception applies.\n\nRave Alert is a multi-contact service for email, text, social media, and Rave Guardian; all community members are auto-enrolled. Text may be opted out (with acknowledged forfeiture of timely communication); email and voicemail cannot be opted out. University Police issues initial Rave Alerts; during escalation or dispatch overload, responsibility hands off jointly to a trained MARCOM PIO with incident commander/chief confirmation. Additional channels include Alertus desktop, website, fire alarms, outdoor sound system, police sirens, and megaphones. Annual RAVE/WSU Alert tests with MARCOM and ITS; monthly internal police department tests. Complements public-masters thin coverage.","whenCriteria":"Emergency notification: confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat to health or safety of students/faculty/staff on campus, or campus closure/limited access events. Timely warning: Clery Act crimes or non-Clery crimes representing serious or ongoing threat on Clery geography.","decisionAuthority":"Chief of Police or designee confirms EN with public officials and campus managers. Initial Rave Alerts: University Police. Escalation handoff: jointly lead PIO and incident commander/chief of police. Coordination contacts may include President/Executive Cabinet, Executive Director of Emergency Management, AVP Communications/Marketing or PIO.","timingStandard":"EN without delay taking community safety into account, unless professional judgment holds notification would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Annual system tests plus monthly internal police tests.","cleryFraming":"ASR Statement of Policies Regarding Emergency Notifications, Timely Warnings and Evacuation with named Rave Mobile Safety/WSU Alert system.","scopeLimits":"EN not for non-immediate nearby crime. Text opt-out allowed; email/voicemail not optional. EN may also serve as TW for Clery crimes. Handoff criteria include escalating seriousness, dispatch inundation, outside LE support.","testingCadence":"Annual RAVE/WSU Alert tests (announced and/or unannounced) covering email, text, social media, and Alertus desktop; monthly internal University Police tests for sender familiarity.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","website","facebook","twitter-x","desktop-popup","pa-system","siren"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Rave Mobile Safety / WSU Alert definition","quotedText":"Worcester State University utilizes Rave Mobile Safety/WSU Alert (\"Rave Alert\"), a multicontact communication service which allows Worcester State University leaders and police personnel to deliver time sensitive notifications to students, faculty and staff during unforeseen events or emergencies.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.worcester.edu/title-ix/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2025/09/2025-ASR-Working-Document-.docx.pdf","sourceDescription":"Worcester State 2025 ASR - Method of Emergency Notification","annotations":["Named Rave Mobile Safety/WSU Alert multi-contact service."],"characterCount":298},{"label":"Automatic community RAVE enrollment","quotedText":"All members of the Worcester State community are automatically \"opted in\" or enrolled in the RAVE Alert system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.worcester.edu/title-ix/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2025/09/2025-ASR-Working-Document-.docx.pdf","sourceDescription":"Worcester State 2025 ASR - RAVE enrollment","annotations":["Full community auto-enrollment in RAVE Alert."],"characterCount":111},{"label":"Annual RAVE system testing","quotedText":"The Worcester State University Police Department in collaboration with MARCOM and ITS will test the RAVE/WSU Alert system on an annual basis.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.worcester.edu/title-ix/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2025/09/2025-ASR-Working-Document-.docx.pdf","sourceDescription":"Worcester State 2025 ASR - Procedure to Test Emergency Notification Systems","annotations":["Annual collaborative RAVE/WSU Alert testing."],"characterCount":141}],"keyFindings":["RAVE / WSU Alert with automatic community opt-in; text optional opt-out only.","University Police initial send; MARCOM PIO handoff on escalation.","Annual full-system tests plus monthly internal police sender drills."],"sources":[{"title":"Worcester State University 2025 Annual Security Report PDF","url":"https://www.worcester.edu/title-ix/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2025/09/2025-ASR-Working-Document-.docx.pdf","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["massachusetts","public-masters","clery-asr","rave","wsu-alert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"xavier-university-of-louisiana-alert-policy","slug":"xavier-university-of-louisiana-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Xavier University of Louisiana","shortName":"XULA","state":"LA","type":"hbcu","alertSystemName":"Emergency Alert and Mass Notification System / XULA Safe","enrollment":3218},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Alert / Mass Notification and Timely Warning Policy (Annual Security and Fire Safety Report)","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.xula.edu/assets/clery-report-final.pdf","lastReviewed":"2025-01-01"},"summary":"Xavier University of Louisiana — the nation's only historically Black, Catholic university — runs an [enterprise emergency alert and mass notification system](https://www.xula.edu/campussafetyandsecurity/emergency-alert-system.html) that reaches the community by voice, text, email and TTY/TDD, plus the [XULA Safe mobile app](https://www.xula.edu/itc/xula-safe-mobile-app.html). Its Clery timely warnings are issued by the Xavier University Police Department chief or designee.","analysis":"Xavier University of Louisiana (XULA) describes its system as 'an enterprise emergency alert and mass notification system to deliver all emergency messages and other time-sensitive notifications to students, faculty and staff employees,' delivered via personalized voice messages, text messages, email, and messages to TTY/TDD receiving devices ([XULA Campus Safety & Security](https://www.xula.edu/campussafetyandsecurity/emergency-alert-system.html)). XULA does not publish a single proprietary brand name (such as 'XULA Alert') for this voice/text/email backbone, so it is catalogued by its functional description. The community-facing app layer is branded [XULA Safe](https://www.xula.edu/itc/xula-safe-mobile-app.html) — 'the official safety app of Xavier University of Louisiana,' built on AppArmor (a Rave Mobile Safety company), which can 'receive instant notifications and instructions from campus safety when on-campus emergencies occur' and adds Mobile Bluelight, Friend Walk, and tip reporting.\n\nEnrollment in the messaging system is voluntary for the general community but mandatory for resident students: XULA states 'the messaging system is a voluntary option, except for resident students,' and asks community members to keep a personal cell number and preferred email current through their XULA Banner Web account. That hybrid model guarantees reach to the on-campus residential population while leaving commuters and employees to opt in.\n\nFor Clery timely warnings, XULA's [2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.xula.edu/assets/clery-report-final.pdf) vests the decision in the Chief of the Xavier University Police Department (XUPD) or designee for a 'selected crime' or situation that 'may pose a serious or continuing threat,' with a warning issued 'as soon as the pertinent information is available.' A note of caution on attribution: web searches for 'Xavier University' heavily surface the unrelated Xavier University in Cincinnati (whose system is 'XU Alert Me'), and both schools share a 'XUPD' acronym — so the emergency-notification activation criteria, named mass-notification authority, and test cadence could not be cleanly isolated for XULA and are not asserted. Every xula.edu host and the ASR PDF returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so quotes were captured from indexed reproductions; confidence is held to medium accordingly.","whenCriteria":"The emergency alert / mass notification system delivers emergency messages and other time-sensitive notifications. A timely warning is issued when a selected crime occurs or a situation arises — on or off campus — that, in the judgment of the XUPD Chief or designee, may pose a serious or continuing threat to the community. XULA-specific emergency-notification activation language could not be isolated from search contamination with the unrelated Cincinnati institution.","decisionAuthority":"Clery timely warnings are decided by the Chief of the Xavier University Police Department (XUPD) or designee, who generally writes, approves, and distributes them. The named authority to activate the mass-notification system for emergency notifications was not confirmed for XULA specifically.","timingStandard":"For timely warnings, XULA issues a warning 'as soon as the pertinent information is available.' An emergency-notification 'without delay / immediately upon confirmation' phrase appeared only in the unrelated Cincinnati institution's material and is therefore not attributed to XULA.","cleryFraming":"XULA distinguishes a Clery 'Timely Warning' (serious-or-continuing-threat crimes) from emergency notification, and documents the program in its 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.","testingCadence":"A specific XULA test cadence could not be confirmed (a 'once a semester' line in results traced to the unrelated Cincinnati institution and is not attributed here).","scopeLimits":"The messaging system is voluntary for the general community but mandatory for resident (on-campus housing) students; community members maintain a personal cell number and preferred email via XULA Banner Web. The XULA Safe app adds push notifications and personal-safety tools.","channels":["phone-call","sms","email","push-notification","website","twitter-x"],"excerpts":[{"label":"System description","quotedText":"Xavier University of Louisiana employs an enterprise emergency alert and mass notification system to deliver all emergency messages and other time-sensitive notifications to students, faculty and staff employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.xula.edu/campussafetyandsecurity/emergency-alert-system.html","sourceDescription":"XULA Campus Safety & Security — Emergency Alert System page","annotations":["Defines the system functionally (XULA publishes no proprietary brand name for it). Identical wording appeared across 3+ retrievals and on two distinct XULA URLs."],"characterCount":212},{"label":"Voluntary-except-residents enrollment","quotedText":"The messaging system is a voluntary option, except for resident students.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.xula.edu/campussafetyandsecurity/emergency-alert-system.html","sourceDescription":"XULA Campus Safety & Security — Emergency Alert System page","annotations":["Captures XULA's hybrid reach model: opt-in for most, mandatory for on-campus residents. Corroborated across 2+ retrievals."],"characterCount":73},{"label":"XULA Safe app","quotedText":"XULA Safe is the official safety app of Xavier University of Louisiana.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.xula.edu/itc/xula-safe-mobile-app.html","sourceDescription":"XULA ITC — XULA Safe Mobile App page","annotations":["Confirms the branded app layer (built on AppArmor). Corroborated across 2+ retrievals plus the Google Play listing (com.cutcom.apparmor.xula)."],"characterCount":71},{"label":"Timely-warning trigger / authority","quotedText":"","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.xula.edu/assets/clery-report-final.pdf","sourceDescription":"XULA 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":[],"textWithheld":true}],"keyFindings":["XULA runs an enterprise emergency alert and mass notification system (voice, text, email, TTY/TDD); it publishes no single proprietary brand name for the backbone.","The community-facing app layer is XULA Safe, built on AppArmor (a Rave company), adding push notifications and personal-safety tools.","Enrollment is voluntary for the general community but mandatory for resident students.","Clery timely warnings are issued by the XUPD Chief or designee 'as soon as the pertinent information is available.'","Search results are contaminated by the unrelated Xavier University of Cincinnati, so emergency-notification criteria, mass-notification authority, and test cadence are not asserted; confidence is medium."],"sources":[{"title":"XULA — Emergency Alert System (Campus Safety & Security)","url":"https://www.xula.edu/campussafetyandsecurity/emergency-alert-system.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"XULA — 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.xula.edu/assets/clery-report-final.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"XULA — XULA Safe Mobile App (ITC)","url":"https://www.xula.edu/itc/xula-safe-mobile-app.html","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"XULA Safe on Google Play (AppArmor / Cutcom vendor)","url":"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cutcom.apparmor.xula","type":"other"},{"title":"XULA — Safety Information","url":"https://www.xula.edu/campussafetyandsecurity/safetyinformation.html","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","hbcu","louisiana","xula-safe","apparmor","mass-notification"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-20","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"yale-alert-policy","slug":"yale-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Yale University","shortName":"Yale","state":"CT","type":"private-r1","alertSystemName":"Yale ALERT","enrollment":15000},"policy":{"title":"Yale ALERT Emergency Notification System","systemName":"Yale ALERT","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://emergency.yale.edu/stay-informed/yale-alert"},"summary":"[Yale ALERT](https://emergency.yale.edu/stay-informed/yale-alert) is Yale University's emergency notification system, which notifies students, faculty, staff, and members of the New Haven and extended Yale communities during emergencies via voice, email, and text messaging; the Yale Police Department separately issues Clery [Timely Warnings and Public Safety Advisories](https://your.yale.edu/community/public-safety/clery).","analysis":"Yale ALERT is the University's mass-notification backbone. Yale describes it as \"an emergency notification system used to inform the Yale community\" that \"notifies students, faculty, staff and members of the New Haven and extended Yale communities during emergencies via voice, email, and text messaging.\" Yale is explicit about restraint in its use: Yale ALERT \"is used only in serious, life-threatening and urgent situations\" — a deliberately narrow trigger that distinguishes the life-safety alerting channel from routine campus communications. The system reaches not only the campus population but also the surrounding New Haven community and an opt-in \"extended community,\" reflecting Yale's urban footprint.\n\nThe emergency-notification standard is documented in Yale's [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://your.yale.edu/sites/default/files/2025-09/2025-Clery-Report_ADA.pdf), published on or before October 1 each year in compliance with the Clery Act. Consistent with the Clery Act, Yale's report provides that an alert will be issued without delay unless doing so will compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency — the standard 'without delay / compromise efforts' formulation that governs federal emergency notifications.\n\nThe Clery timely-warning function is carried out separately by the [Yale Police Department](https://your.yale.edu/community/public-safety/clery). Yale issues Timely Warnings and Public Safety Advisories to notify the Yale community of an ongoing or potential threat, or incidents that are a concern to campus safety. Timely Warnings are the federally mandated notices issued when a reported crime represents a serious or ongoing threat to students, faculty, and staff; Public Safety Advisories are a lower-threshold tool, issued on a case-by-case basis about incidents determined to be a concern to the Yale community that do not meet the requirements to constitute a Timely Warning. Yale publishes these notices through its [It's Your Yale](https://your.yale.edu/community/public-safety) public-safety pages.\n\nA notable feature of Yale's program is its testing rigor: \"The Yale ALERT system and all methods of emergency communications are tested community-wide three times per year\" — a markedly higher cadence than the single annual test many institutions run. Scope is bounded by the serious/life-threatening trigger for Yale ALERT itself and, on the Clery side, by the serious-or-ongoing-threat standard for Timely Warnings, with Public Safety Advisories reserved for concerns falling below that threshold.","whenCriteria":"Yale ALERT is used only in serious, life-threatening and urgent situations. Separately, the Yale Police Department issues Timely Warnings when a reported crime represents a serious or ongoing threat, and Public Safety Advisories (case-by-case) for incidents of concern that do not meet the Timely Warning threshold.","decisionAuthority":"Yale Emergency Management administers Yale ALERT; the Yale Police Department (its chief and assistant chief) issues Clery Timely Warnings and Public Safety Advisories.","timingStandard":"Per Yale's Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, an alert will be issued without delay unless doing so will compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","cleryFraming":"Three-part framework: Yale ALERT for serious/life-threatening emergency notifications, Clery Timely Warnings for crimes posing a serious or ongoing threat, and Public Safety Advisories for lower-threshold concerns not meeting the Timely Warning standard.","testingCadence":"The Yale ALERT system and all methods of emergency communications are tested community-wide three times per year.","scopeLimits":"Yale ALERT is reserved for serious, life-threatening, and urgent situations; Timely Warnings are limited to crimes representing a serious or ongoing threat; Public Safety Advisories cover concerns below the Timely Warning threshold. Emergency notifications may be withheld where issuance would compromise victim-assistance or mitigation efforts.","channels":["phone-call","email","sms","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Yale ALERT definition and channels","quotedText":"The Yale ALERT system notifies students, faculty, staff and members of the New Haven and extended Yale communities during emergencies via voice, email, and text messaging.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.yale.edu/stay-informed/yale-alert","sourceDescription":"Yale ALERT | Yale Emergency Management","annotations":["Notes the system reaches the surrounding New Haven community and an 'extended Yale' population beyond campus."],"characterCount":171},{"label":"Restraint in use","quotedText":"Yale ALERT is used only in serious, life-threatening and urgent situations.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.yale.edu/stay-informed/yale-alert","sourceDescription":"Yale ALERT | Yale Emergency Management","annotations":["A deliberately narrow trigger that separates the life-safety channel from routine campus messaging."],"characterCount":75},{"label":"Testing cadence","quotedText":"The Yale ALERT system and all methods of emergency communications are tested community-wide three times per year.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.yale.edu/stay-informed/yale-alert","sourceDescription":"Yale ALERT | Yale Emergency Management","annotations":["Three tests per year is a higher cadence than the single annual test used by many institutions."],"characterCount":113}],"keyFindings":["Yale ALERT delivers emergency notifications via voice, email, and text to students, faculty, staff, and the surrounding New Haven and extended Yale communities.","Yale ALERT is used only in serious, life-threatening, and urgent situations — a deliberately narrow trigger.","The system and all emergency-communication methods are tested community-wide three times per year.","The Yale Police Department issues Clery Timely Warnings for crimes posing a serious or ongoing threat, plus case-by-case Public Safety Advisories for lower-threshold concerns.","Yale's Annual Security and Fire Safety Report adopts the Clery 'without delay / compromise efforts' emergency-notification standard."],"sources":[{"title":"Yale ALERT | Yale Emergency Management","url":"https://emergency.yale.edu/stay-informed/yale-alert","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Clery | It's Your Yale","url":"https://your.yale.edu/community/public-safety/clery","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"2025 Yale University Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://your.yale.edu/sites/default/files/2025-09/2025-Clery-Report_ADA.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Stay Informed | Yale Emergency Management","url":"https://emergency.yale.edu/stay-informed","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","public-safety-advisory","connecticut","private-r1"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-09-13","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"yavapai-college-timely-warning-policy","slug":"yavapai-college-timely-warning-policy","institution":{"name":"Yavapai College","shortName":"YC","state":"AZ","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"AlertYC"},"policy":{"title":"Clery Act Reports - Timely Warnings","systemName":"AlertYC","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.yc.edu/clery"},"summary":"Yavapai College's [Clery reports page](https://www.yc.edu/clery) states that the college may issue a timely warning when a reported Clery Act crime presents a serious or continuing threat to students or employees, and that a warning may include incident details, protective actions, and safety resources when sharing those details will help the community protect itself.","analysis":"Yavapai (Arizona community college, six filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live [Clery reports page](https://www.yc.edu/clery) (HTTP 200) with a Timely Warnings section. The college may issue a timely warning when a reported Clery Act crime presents a serious or continuing threat to students or employees. A warning may include information about the incident, protective actions, and available safety resources when sharing those details will help members protect themselves. The page currently states no timely warnings were issued in the previous two years. The 2025 ASR PDF downloaded in this pass has a damaged text layer (dropped spaces around without delay), so ASR sentences are not quoted. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live HTML.","whenCriteria":"A reported Clery Act crime that presents a serious or continuing threat to students or employees.","decisionAuthority":"The Clery page does not name a single issuing official. The 2025 ASR exists but is not quoted due to text-layer defects.","timingStandard":"Not stated as a minutes-based SLA on the Clery page.","cleryFraming":"The page is scoped to timely warnings for Clery Act crimes that are a serious or continuing threat.","channels":["email","sms","website"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Timely warning trigger","quotedText":"Yavapai College may issue a timely warning when a reported Clery Act crime presents a serious or continuing threat to students or employees.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.yc.edu/clery","sourceDescription":"Yavapai College Clery Act Reports page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["May is the live verb."],"characterCount":140},{"label":"Warning content","quotedText":"A warning may include information about the incident, protective actions, and available safety resources when sharing those details will help members of the college community protect themselves.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.yc.edu/clery","sourceDescription":"Yavapai College Clery Act Reports page (live HTML 2026-09-14)","annotations":["Content is conditional on helping the community protect itself."],"characterCount":194}],"keyFindings":["Timely warnings are optional (may issue) for Clery crimes that present a serious or continuing threat.","Content may include the incident, protective actions, and safety resources when sharing helps people protect themselves.","The 2025 ASR PDF was opened but not quoted because of text-layer spacing defects."],"sources":[{"title":"Yavapai College Clery Act Reports and Safety Information","url":"https://www.yc.edu/clery","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Yavapai College 2025 Annual Safety and Security Report (PDF)","url":"https://www.yc.edu/v6/college-police/docs/2025-assr.pdf","type":"clery-asr"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","criteria-page","timely-warning","arizona","community-college"],"dateAdded":"2026-09-14","lastUpdated":"2026-09-14","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"york-technical-college-york-tech-alerts-asr","slug":"york-technical-college-york-tech-alerts-asr","institution":{"name":"York Technical College","shortName":"York Tech","state":"SC","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"York Tech Alerts","enrollment":5500},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning and Emergency Notification (York Tech Alerts / Regroup) - ASR and Catalog","systemName":"York Tech Alerts","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://dc.statelibrary.sc.gov/bitstreams/e44123bd-122a-4dc5-89df-d3670d64a6f9/download","lastReviewed":"2026-01-01"},"summary":"York Technical College brands emergency mass notification as [York Tech Alerts powered by Regroup](https://dc.statelibrary.sc.gov/bitstreams/e44123bd-122a-4dc5-89df-d3670d64a6f9/download), with Crisis Management Team authority for content, segment, and initiation and automatic student enrollment described in the official catalog.","analysis":"York Technical College (Rock Hill, SC) documents Timely Warning/Emergency Notification procedures in its [Annual Security Report](https://dc.statelibrary.sc.gov/bitstreams/e44123bd-122a-4dc5-89df-d3670d64a6f9/download) (state library archive of the official YTC ASR) and restates them in the [current college catalog](https://www.yorktech.edu/law-enforcement-safety/). The Crisis Management Team (CMT) determines content, appropriate segment(s), and initiates the notification system without delay considering community safety, unless notification would compromise victim assistance or emergency mitigation. Channels include York Tech Alerts (Regroup), mass email, homepage/news sites, radio/TV/newspaper, and social media, plus PA, calling lists, cell phones, two-way radios, and Public Safety officers.\n\nFor immediate threats to student/employee health or safety, emergency notifications go through York Tech Alerts powered by Regroup. The catalog states students are automatically added upon admission and can update contact preferences. Off-campus centers may receive warnings via local college personnel and/or security officers. Weather and closing information is also pushed via email, website, and campus alert line 803-327-8000 (employees directed not to call Public Safety for closing info). Emergency response and evacuation procedures are publicized and tested at least once per calendar year with Security Office drill logs. Complements archive bomb-threat case coverage.","whenCriteria":"Immediate threat to health or safety of students and employees triggers York Tech Alerts EN. Broader timely warning/EN when CMT determines community notification is warranted without compromising response.","decisionAuthority":"Crisis Management Team (President, EVP Academic and Student Affairs, VP Business Services, VP Communications and External Relations, Dean for Student Engagement, Law Enforcement and Safety Chief, AVPs for Facilities, HR, Institutional Excellence, and Information Services per catalog). Strategic Communication and Marketing updates web content; President and VP College Advancement are official spokespersons.","timingStandard":"Without delay upon CMT determination, taking community safety into account, unless professional judgment holds notification would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Annual publicized test minimum.","cleryFraming":"ASR Procedure for Notification of the Campus Community (Timely Warning/Emergency Notification) plus catalog Timely Warning and Emergency Notification section naming York Tech Alerts / Regroup.","scopeLimits":"Segmented notifications allowed. Off-campus centers may use local personnel/security paths. Closing info via alert line rather than Public Safety desk to keep emergency lines free.","testingCadence":"At least one emergency response and evacuation test per calendar year; drill log in Security Office; alarm system annual vendor test; typically between Fall and Spring semesters.","channels":["sms","email","website","facebook","pa-system","phone-call"],"excerpts":[{"label":"York Tech Alerts Regroup for immediate threats","quotedText":"If a situation arises which poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of students and employees, emergency notifications will be sent through the College's messaging system called York Tech Alerts (powered by Regroup).","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://dc.statelibrary.sc.gov/bitstreams/e44123bd-122a-4dc5-89df-d3670d64a6f9/download","sourceDescription":"York Tech ASR - Timely Warning/Emergency Notification procedure","annotations":["Named York Tech Alerts / Regroup for immediate-threat EN."],"characterCount":226},{"label":"Automatic student enrollment in York Tech Alerts","quotedText":"Upon admission, students are automatically added to the York Tech Alerts messaging system to receive emergency notifications and are provided more detailed information on how to access the system to update their contact information and modify their preferences.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://coursedog-pdfs-public-prod.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/yorktech_colleague_ethos/catalog/adf378f9-4055-459e-8f48-a4f15c14331c-yorktech_colleague_ethos-catalog-1774637684596.pdf","sourceDescription":"York Tech official catalog Timely Warning and Emergency Notification section","annotations":["Auto-enrollment on admission with preference update path."],"characterCount":261}],"keyFindings":["York Tech Alerts powered by Regroup is the primary EN system for immediate threats.","Named multi-member Crisis Management Team owns content, segment, and initiation.","Students auto-enrolled at admission; annual emergency response testing with Security Office logs."],"sources":[{"title":"York Technical College Annual Security Report (SC State Library archive)","url":"https://dc.statelibrary.sc.gov/bitstreams/e44123bd-122a-4dc5-89df-d3670d64a6f9/download","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"York Tech Law Enforcement and Safety / Campus Security Report landing","url":"https://www.yorktech.edu/law-enforcement-safety/","type":"official-statement"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["south-carolina","community-college","clery-asr","york-tech-alerts","regroup","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-27","lastUpdated":"2026-07-27","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"yosemite-community-college-district-timely-warning-policy","slug":"yosemite-community-college-district-timely-warning-policy","institution":{"name":"Yosemite Community College District","shortName":"YCCD","state":"CA","type":"community-college","alertSystemName":"District mass communication (email/text/VOIP/PA)","enrollment":20000},"policy":{"title":"Timely Warning and Emergency Communication Systems (2025 ASR)","systemName":"District mass communication systems","documentType":"clery-asr","url":"https://www.mjc.edu/_resources/documents/campussafety/campussafety_annualsecurityreport_2025.pdf","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Yosemite Community College District's [2025 Annual Security Report](https://www.mjc.edu/_resources/documents/campussafety/campussafety_annualsecurityreport_2025.pdf) (covering Modesto Junior College and Columbia College) names the Campus Safety Supervisor, Director of Campus Safety and Emergency Preparedness, and Vice President of Administrative Services as Timely Warning developers, and documents multi-platform emergency mass communication including auto-uploaded phones, VOIP classroom speakers, PA, and college-specific Blackboard Connect portals.","analysis":"Yosemite Community College District operates Modesto Junior College and Columbia College. Its [2025 ASR](https://www.mjc.edu/_resources/documents/campussafety/campussafety_annualsecurityreport_2025.pdf) is institution-specific: Timely Warnings for Clery crimes representing serious or continuing threat are developed by the Campus Safety Supervisor, Director of Campus Safety and Emergency Preparedness, VP of Administrative Services, or designee, case-by-case on nature, location, time, LE guidance, and community effect. Emergency response structure routes Campus Safety Supervisor contact to College President, VP Administrative Services, and Director of District Security and Emergency Preparedness, who notifies the Chancellor and cabinet; the President may convene the Emergency Response Team and activate the EOC. Mass communication uses third-party multi-platform tech: district email, auto-uploaded text/voice numbers, VOIP classroom/office phone broadcasts (district-wide or building-specific), building/outdoor PA, Campus Safety vehicle PA, telephone trees, and website ribbons. Separate Blackboard Connect portals serve Columbia College and Modesto Junior College. Evacuation/sheltering drills are at least annual with published procedure summaries.","whenCriteria":"Timely Warning for any Clery Act crime reported to CSAs or local LE considered a serious or continuing threat to students and employees. Emergency notification when Campus Safety determines a situation poses a threat requiring immediate notification of the campus community or appropriate segments.","decisionAuthority":"Timely Warning notices developed by Campus Safety Supervisor, Director of Campus Safety and Emergency Preparedness, Vice President of Administrative Services, or designee. Emergency declaration and community notification involve Campus Safety Supervisor escalation to College President, VP Administrative Services, Director of District Security and Emergency Preparedness, Chancellor/cabinet; President convenes ERT and may activate EOC.","timingStandard":"Timely Warning distributed as soon as pertinent information is available, prompt without unnecessary delay, except where risk of compromising law enforcement efforts. Federal immediate-notification duty when Campus Safety confirms a community threat. Evacuation/sheltering drills at least once per year.","cleryFraming":"ASR separates Timely Warning (serious/continuing Clery crimes) from emergency communication systems for significant emergency or dangerous situations requiring immediate notification.","scopeLimits":"Timely Warnings reasonably likely to reach the entire campus community. Emergency notifications may target appropriate segments. VOIP messages can be district-wide or limited to specific buildings/classrooms. Public can register at college-specific Blackboard Connect portals.","testingCadence":"Announced and unannounced evacuation/sheltering drills at least once per year; District publishes a summary of emergency response and evacuation procedures in conjunction with at least one drill or exercise each calendar year.","channels":["sms","email","phone-call","pa-system","website","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"Named Timely Warning developers","quotedText":"The Campus Safety Supervisor, Director of Campus Safety and Emergency Preparedness, Vice President of Administrative Services or a designee, will develop timely warning notices for the College Community to notify members of the community about serious crimes against people and property that occur either on or off campus. The decision to issue a timely warning notice will be made on a case-by-case basis depending on an assessment of various factors.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mjc.edu/_resources/documents/campussafety/campussafety_annualsecurityreport_2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"YCCD 2025 ASR Timely Warning","annotations":["Named three local roles for TW development."],"characterCount":452},{"label":"TW distribution timing and LE compromise exception","quotedText":"A timely warning notification is distributed as soon as pertinent information is available. Distribution of the warning is carried out in a manner reasonably likely to reach the entire campus community. Timely warnings must be issued in a prompt manner, appropriate for the circumstances, without unnecessary delay. This will differ in cases where it has been determined that issuing a Timely Warning would possibly risk compromising law enforcement efforts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mjc.edu/_resources/documents/campussafety/campussafety_annualsecurityreport_2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"YCCD 2025 ASR Timely Warning dissemination","annotations":["Local prompt-distribution standard with LE-compromise exception."],"characterCount":458},{"label":"Emergency escalation to President, District Security, Chancellor","quotedText":"In the event of an emergency, the Campus Safety Supervisor will ensure contact with the College President, Vice President of Administrative Services, and Director of District Security and Emergency Preparedness to report the emergency. The Director of District Security and Emergency Preparedness will in turn notify the Chancellor and his/her cabinet of the situation.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mjc.edu/_resources/documents/campussafety/campussafety_annualsecurityreport_2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"YCCD 2025 ASR crisis management structure","annotations":["District-specific escalation chain including Chancellor."],"characterCount":369},{"label":"Multi-platform mass communication stack","quotedText":"The District contracts with a third-party vendor that provides the technological ability to send mass communication over several platforms simultaneously in the event of an emergency. These integrated systems are listed below. 1.1. Email System: All students and staff are provided a district email account for District and College staff to communicate with them. 1.2. Text/Phone Messaging: During enrollment in the college as a staff member or student, the telephone and cellular phone number of the individual is automatically uploaded into a database so that text and or voice messages can be sent to that number in an emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mjc.edu/_resources/documents/campussafety/campussafety_annualsecurityreport_2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"YCCD 2025 ASR emergency communication systems","annotations":["Auto-upload phone enrollment for text/voice mass notification."],"characterCount":632},{"label":"College-specific Blackboard Connect registration portals","quotedText":"Members of the Yosemite Community College District community can sign up for notifications at: Columbia College: https://ColumbiaCollege.bbcportal.com/ Modesto Junior College: https://ModestoJuniorCollege.bbcportal.com/","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mjc.edu/_resources/documents/campussafety/campussafety_annualsecurityreport_2025.pdf","sourceDescription":"YCCD 2025 ASR notification signup","annotations":["College-specific branded portal URLs for Columbia and MJC."],"characterCount":219}],"keyFindings":["Timely Warnings developed by Campus Safety Supervisor, Director of Campus Safety and Emergency Preparedness, or VP Administrative Services.","District emergency mass communication auto-uploads phone numbers for text/voice.","VOIP can target entire district or specific buildings/classrooms.","Separate Blackboard Connect portals for Columbia College and Modesto Junior College."],"sources":[{"title":"2025 Annual Security Report - Yosemite Community College District / MJC","url":"https://www.mjc.edu/_resources/documents/campussafety/campussafety_annualsecurityreport_2025.pdf","type":"clery-asr","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","community-college","timely-warning","emergency-notification","california","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"youngstown-state-university-penguinalert-policy","slug":"youngstown-state-university-penguinalert-policy","institution":{"name":"Youngstown State University","shortName":"YSU","state":"OH","type":"public-masters","alertSystemName":"PenguinAlert","enrollment":11000},"policy":{"title":"PenguinAlert Emergency Notification System","systemName":"PenguinAlert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://ysu.edu/penguin-alert","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"summary":"Youngstown State University's [PenguinAlert page](https://ysu.edu/penguin-alert) brands PenguinAlert as YSU's emergency notification system (Rave login at getrave.com/login/ysu), limited to students and employees with official YSU email, auto-loads university emails and cell numbers on file, and sends urgent messages to registered mobile numbers and/or email at no subscriber cost (carrier rates may apply).","analysis":"Youngstown State University is a public master's university in Ohio. Its [PenguinAlert](https://ysu.edu/penguin-alert) page is institution-specific: PenguinAlert is the emergency alert system name; access is open only to students and employees with an official YSU email address; registration uses getrave.com/login/ysu with YSU username/password; users can add two additional mobile numbers and two additional email addresses; YSU emails and cell phone numbers on file are automatically loaded; the system instantly reaches mobile devices when an urgent situation needs to be communicated; Tech Desk 330-941-1595 is listed for assistance.","whenCriteria":"Urgent situations that need to be communicated via emergency notification to registered mobile devices and/or email.","decisionAuthority":"Not named beyond YSU operation of PenguinAlert on this criteria page.","timingStandard":"Instant reach to mobile devices when an urgent situation needs to be communicated.","cleryFraming":"Page is emergency-notification oriented; Clery Timely Warning language is not the focus of this PenguinAlert overview.","scopeLimits":"Students and employees with official YSU email only; auto-load of university-on-file contact data; free to users except carrier message/data rates.","testingCadence":"Not stated on the PenguinAlert overview page.","channels":["sms","email","unknown"],"excerpts":[{"label":"PenguinAlert brand and YSU-email eligibility","quotedText":"YSU's emergency alert system is called PenguinAlert. To be sure that you receive emergency text alerts, verify your cell phone. PenguinAlert is open only to students and employees with an official YSU email address.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://ysu.edu/penguin-alert","sourceDescription":"YSU PenguinAlert page","annotations":["Local PenguinAlert brand and YSU-email scope limit."],"characterCount":215},{"label":"Rave login path and multi-contact options","quotedText":"Click on the PenguinAlert Notification System link here: getrave.com/login/ysu. Fill in your YSU username and password, click \"Login.\" This will take you to the registration page. Under the \"My Account\" tab, add or update your cell phone number as needed. You may also add two additional mobile phone numbers and two additional email addresses.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://ysu.edu/penguin-alert","sourceDescription":"YSU PenguinAlert page","annotations":["Institution-specific Rave URL and multi-device registration rules."],"characterCount":344},{"label":"Auto-load and free urgent messaging purpose","quotedText":"Penguin Alert is the emergency notification system for Youngstown State University. It is used by YSU as a way to instantly reach mobile devices when an urgent situation needs to be communicated. In the event of an emergency, a message will be sent to the mobile number and/or email registered with the system. This service is provided by YSU at no cost; however, message and data rates may apply. YSU emails and cell phone numbers that are on file with the University are automatically loaded into the system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://ysu.edu/penguin-alert","sourceDescription":"YSU PenguinAlert page","annotations":["Local purpose language, free service note, and auto-load of on-file contacts."],"characterCount":510}],"keyFindings":["PenguinAlert is YSU's local emergency notification brand on Rave.","Public-masters Ohio institution with YSU-email-only eligibility and auto-loaded contacts."],"sources":[{"title":"PenguinAlert - Youngstown State University","url":"https://ysu.edu/penguin-alert","type":"official-archive","accessDate":"2026-07-26"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["public-masters","ohio","penguinalert","wider-reach"],"dateAdded":"2026-07-26","lastUpdated":"2026-07-26","addedBy":"ingestion"}]}