Cerritos
2025 Annual Security Report - Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications
Cerritos College's 2025 Annual Security Report 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.
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In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Emergency notification triggerverbatim
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.
- Staff and students is the live order.
Timely Warning definitionverbatim
Timely Warning is a warning of certain Clery-reported crimes that pose a continuous and ongoing threat to the campus community.
- Live wording is continuous and ongoing.
Without-delay initiationverbatim
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.
- No comma after not limited to. Semicolons after community and notification are live.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- 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.
- Who decides
- First responders including the Cerritos College Police Department. The District determines content and initiates the system.
- Timeliness standard
- Without delay, considering the safety of the community.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- The ASR keeps Emergency Notifications (immediate threat) distinct from Timely Warning (Clery-reported crime, continuous and ongoing threat).
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Analysis
Reading the policy
Cerritos (California community college, four filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live 2025 ASR 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.
Takeaways
Key findings
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.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
4 documented times Cerritos’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
- Clery ASR
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Added 2026-09-14Updated 2026-09-14Via ingestion