UDC

2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications

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The University of the District of Columbia's 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report 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.

Read the official policy

Institution

University of the District of Columbia

Hbcu · DC

LiveSafe

In the policy’s own words

What the policy says

Timely warning triggerverbatim

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.

Named issuer is OPSEM.

University of the District of Columbia 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)

Timely warning channelsverbatim

Timely warnings may be sent by University-wide email, social media and LiveSafe.

No serial comma after media.

University of the District of Columbia 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)

Emergency notification triggerverbatim

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.

On or near campus is live.

University of the District of Columbia 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)

LiveSafe emergency notificationsverbatim

In addition, emergency notifications are sent via LiveSafe.

Named app channel.

University of the District of Columbia 2025 ASR (PDF text layer)

At a glance

How this policy works

When it activates: 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.
Who decides: The Office of Public Safety and Emergency Management (OPSEM) issues both timely warnings and emergency notifications.
Timeliness standard: Not stated as a minutes-based SLA in the quoted sentences.
Emergency notification vs. timely warning: The ASR keeps Timely Warnings distinct from Campus Safety Alerts and Emergency Notifications.
Scope & limits: Emergency notifications cover on or near campus. Timely warnings go to the University community.

ChannelsEmailSmsWebsitePush Notification

Analysis

Reading the policy

UDC (District of Columbia HBCU, four filed cases, no prior policy file; DC is a thin-state gap) publishes a live 2025 ASR 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.

Takeaways

Key findings

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.

Policy, meet practice

When this system actually fired

3 documented times UDC’s alert system was used, from the case archive.

Provenance

Sources

Clery ASR
University of the District of Columbia 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)
docs.udc.edu
archived copy