{"generatedAt":"2026-07-05T21:08:44.133Z","datasetVersion":"2026.07","count":318,"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":"Annex 2: Communications and Notifications. Appendix 3 to Annex 2: Timely Warning & Emergency Notification Statement.","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":["Reconstructed from the plan's indexed table-of-contents structure rather than a directly loaded copy of the document; presented as the closest available approximation of the actual section headings, not a certified quotation.","Shows that the Timely Warning and Emergency Notification Statement is embedded as an appendix inside the broader Communications and Notifications annex, not published as its own standalone document, which is the basis for this record's emergency-operations-plan classification."],"characterCount":116},{"label":"Rave registration channel","quotedText":"Register or update your contact information in Rave Mobile Safety to receive weather and emergency closure notifications.","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":["Documents the Rave-based self-registration channel that feeds the college's text and email alert system, referenced separately from the EOP itself."],"characterCount":121}],"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":"2026-07-03","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":false,"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":"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.","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":["Ties Bulldog Alerts directly to the federal HEOA/Clery duty to warn. Recovered from the search index; aamu.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so the surrounding sentence could not be byte-for-byte confirmed and is marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":262},{"label":"Student-reported notification delay (March 2024 shooting)","quotedText":"Students told WAAY 31 they felt Alabama A&M alerted its campus of the incident in the Knight Student Housing Complex a little too late.","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":["A real reliability data point: after a March 2024 shooting, students said the Bulldog Alert lagged behind family calls and social-media video. Paraphrased from the news report rather than a single confirmed verbatim quote, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":135}],"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."],"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"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","hbcu","alabama","bulldog-alerts","blackboard-connect","notification-delay"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-06-22","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":"Notification methods include voice mail, e-mail blasts, building announcements by each floor Building Safety Coordinator, and through announcements aired on ASU's WVAS (90.7 FM) Radio Station.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.alasu.edu/_qa/public-safety-emergency-preparedness-plan.pdf","sourceDescription":"Alabama State University Public Safety Emergency Preparedness Plan","annotations":["Enumerates ASU's secondary notification channels, including the distinctive WVAS campus-radio and Building Safety Coordinator routes; surfaced via a search snippet from the Public Safety Emergency Preparedness Plan (host 403-blocks direct fetch), so flagged as not byte-confirmed."],"characterCount":192},{"label":"Public Safety / Emergency Management Team response design","quotedText":"The Disaster/Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan 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.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.alasu.edu/_qa/public-safety-emergency-preparedness-plan.pdf","sourceDescription":"Alabama State University Public Safety Emergency Preparedness Plan","annotations":["Places confirmation and response within the Department of Public Safety and the Emergency Management Team; surfaced via a search snippet from the Public Safety Emergency Preparedness Plan, so flagged as not byte-confirmed."],"characterCount":267}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":6000},"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":"Albany State University Police Department uses the LiveSafe App to communicate important information to students, faculty, and staff during emergency situations.","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":["Establishes LiveSafe as the principal app-based channel. Surfaced via the search index; the asurams.edu host returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":161},{"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":false,"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"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","hbcu","georgia","livesafe","blackboard-connect-5","siren","multi-channel"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-06-21","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":1900},"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":"The mission of American Samoa Community College Campus Security Division is to provide safety and security services for students, faculty, staff, and general public while on or in any property or facility owned or operated by the college.","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":["Defines the Security Division's scope of responsibility, including the general public on college property. Captured from search reproductions of the Security Division page rather than a directly fetched copy, so flagged unconfirmed."],"characterCount":238},{"label":"President establishes emergency procedures (DEP)","quotedText":"The President shall establish administrative procedures and plans of action to enable the faculty, staff, and students to respond appropriately during emergency situations.","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":["Locates ultimate decision authority for emergency procedures with the President. Captured from search reproductions of the DEP rather than a directly fetched PDF, so flagged unconfirmed."],"characterCount":172}],"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"}],"confidence":"low","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","territory","american-samoa","community-college","tsunami","disaster-emergency-plan"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-06-21","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":14000},"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"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","safety-advisory","washington-dc","private-r1"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-06-21","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. The specific named positions authorized to trigger AC Alert are listed inside the full policy document, which the amherst.edu host returned without a directly fetchable byte stream to this tool; that field is therefore described generically and flagged. Two excerpts (the 'without delay' policy statement and the AC Alert channel description) appeared with identical wording across multiple official Amherst-page retrievals and are marked verbatim-confirmed.","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. 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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":"Parents and families can register for test-only AppState-ALERTs by texting 'appstatefamily' to 67283.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.appstate.edu/parents","sourceDescription":"App State Emergency Preparedness — emergency info for parents/family","annotations":["Shows that the parent/family tier is opt-in and limited to test messages only, not live emergency alerts. Surfaced via the search index; the .edu host returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":101}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":80000},"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":"2026-06-21","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":"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.","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":["Describes the system's purpose and its text/email channels and use cases (weather, closures, emergencies). Surfaced via the search index; astate.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":201},{"label":"Automatic enrollment with opt-out","quotedText":"Every student is automatically signed up, and you can update your settings anytime in the Pack Portal.","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":["Documents auto-enrollment of all students with self-service opt-out via the Pack Portal. Surfaced via the search index rather than a confirmed live fetch (astate.edu returned HTTP 403), so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":102},{"label":"ASR section: Emergency Notification Policy and Alerting Protocol","quotedText":"Emergency Notification Policy and Alerting Protocol","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":["The ASR's table of contents lists a dedicated 'Emergency Notification Policy and Alerting Protocol' section. The PDF returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so the body text of that section could not be captured and this heading is marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":51}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":"The plan is a controlled and numbered document, and distribution of revised versions is the responsibility of Tech.","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":["Establishes the EOP's document-control status and the university's responsibility for distributing updates. Captured from search-indexed text rather than a directly fetched copy of the PDF, so flagged unconfirmed."],"characterCount":115},{"label":"Delegated authority to develop the plan","quotedText":"The Department of Emergency Management and Administration, operating under delegation from the University President, is responsible for developing the Tech Emergency Operations Plan.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.atu.edu/emergency/index.php","sourceDescription":"ATU Office of Emergency Management (captured via search-engine-indexed excerpt)","annotations":["Locates plan-development authority with the Department of Emergency Management and Administration under presidential delegation. Captured from search-indexed text, so flagged unconfirmed."],"characterCount":182},{"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":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)","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":"2026-07-03","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":"2026-06-21","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":39727},"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 40,000 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":"You can't edit notifications to your ACCmail account. You will always receive ACC Alert emails.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://offices.austincc.edu/emergency-management/acc-emergency-alert/","sourceDescription":"ACC Emergency Alert page (austincc.edu)","annotations":["Establishes that the ACC email channel is permanent and non-removable, unlike the optional text/voice channels. Captured from a single search-snippet rendering and not confirmed across multiple identical retrievals, so flagged isVerbatimConfirmed:false pending byte-confirmation."],"characterCount":95}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":20709},"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":"2026-06-21","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":2700},"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":"Wildcat Alert is the University's emergency notification system that sends text messages or emails – whichever you choose – on emergency conditions, including weather cancellations and delays.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.cookman.edu/campussafety/alerts.html","sourceDescription":"Wildcat Alerts — Department of Campus Safety","annotations":["Defines Wildcat Alert as the emergency-notification system with selectable SMS/email and a weather-operations scope; sign-up is by texting COOKMAN to 237233. Captured from a search snippet of the live page / student handbook and not byte-confirmed against the source, so flagged as reconstructed."],"characterCount":192}],"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"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","hbcu","florida"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-06-21","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":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":["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":"Bishop State Community College utilizes its Live Safe application to make timely notifications and puts the resources of campus police at users' fingertips. The app is configured to send push notifications and text messages directly to students' and staff's smartphones in case of emergencies on campus, allowing for immediate awareness of situations like fires, active shooters, or severe weather.","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":["Frames LiveSafe explicitly as a timely-notification tool (the Clery timely-warning vocabulary) layered on top of Wildcat Alert's broader emergency notifications."],"characterCount":398}],"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":"2026-07-03","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":4000},"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":"When the emergency notification system (ENS) is fully activated using email, and cell phone text/voice messaging, college officials will notify campus community members of the emergency situation, its exact location, and will most likely request community members to protect themselves by evacuating the affected area if it is safe to do so and/or by employing the \"shelter-in-place\" concept.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://bismarckstate.edu/uploads/80/EmergencyNotification.pdf","sourceDescription":"BSC — Emergency Notification policy (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Describes the core email + cell text/voice activation and the protective-action guidance (evacuate or shelter-in-place). Surfaced via the search index rather than a confirmed live fetch (host returned HTTP 403); a curly quote/hyphen normalization was applied, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":392}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":27250},"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"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","broncoalert","policy-12110","public-r1","idaho"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-06-21","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":15000},"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":"BC Safe is integrated with BC's Rave Alert Emergency Notification System and notifies anyone with the app of the emergency alerts sent out to faculty, staff, and students.","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":["Identifies Rave Mobile Safety (Rave Alert) as the underlying vendor. Marked not verbatim because the exact sentence was surfaced from a 403-blocked page and could not be re-verified character-for-character against a second identical source."],"characterCount":171}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":37000},"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":"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.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bu.edu/police/safetyoncampus/annual-security-report/","sourceDescription":"Boston University Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","annotations":["Reconstructed from the Annual Security Report as surfaced in search results; the source PDF returned HTTP 403 in this environment, so exact wording could not be re-verified character-for-character. Marked not verbatim out of caution."],"characterCount":297}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":1881},"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 roughly 1,880 students. 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":"Once the pertinent facts are received from the police, campus security, or campus security authority (CSA) the decision to issue a timely warning shall be determined on a case-by-case basis by the Executive Director of Safety and Security or Associate Director of Safety and Security, in coordination with other College officials and/or local law enforcement.","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":["Names the Executive Director or Associate Director of Safety and Security as the case-by-case timely-warning decision-maker. Appeared in 2 retrievals but one rendered the verb as 'is determined' rather than 'shall be determined,' so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":359},{"label":"Lockdown authority (immediate threat to life safety)","quotedText":"Safety and Security may order a lockdown at any time on their authority when a situation arises that is deemed an immediate threat to personal life safety.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bowdoin.edu/security/emergency-planning/emergency-response-guidelines.html","sourceDescription":"Bowdoin College — Emergency Response Guidelines (official safety page)","annotations":["Establishes that Safety and Security can independently order a lockdown for an 'immediate threat to personal life safety.' Appeared in only one snippet, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":155}],"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"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","private-liberal-arts","maine","apparmor","alertus","multi-channel"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-06-21","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":6353},"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":"The system, currently administered through the external company Omnilert, allows BSU to send instant alerts via email and text message to keep our community informed.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://bowie.omnilert.net/","sourceDescription":"Bowie State University BEES subscriber portal (Omnilert) — text from search index","annotations":["Confirms the vendor (Omnilert) and the core text/email channels. Surfaced via the search index rather than a confirmed live fetch, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false; the Omnilert-hosted brand confirmation itself is corroborated by the bowie.omnilert.net subscriber portal."],"characterCount":166}],"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":"wikipedia"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","bees","omnilert","hbcu","maryland","system-overview","multi-channel"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-06-22","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":11244},"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":"Brown University uses the Rave Mobile Safety platform to broadcast urgent information via text, phone call, and email, a service known as BrownAlert or Brown ENS (Emergency Notification System).","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.brown.edu/emergency/brownalert-system","sourceDescription":"Brown University — BrownAlert System","annotations":["Identifies the vendor (Rave Mobile Safety) and the three primary channels; surfaced via an official Brown search snippet (host 403-blocks direct fetch), so flagged as not byte-confirmed."],"characterCount":194},{"label":"BrownSiren outdoor warning system","quotedText":"The system consists of three strategically placed sirens that will be used to warn the University community in the event of a life threatening emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.brown.edu/emergency/brown-siren","sourceDescription":"Brown University — About BrownSiren","annotations":["Describes the three-siren outdoor BrownSiren component reserved for life-threatening emergencies; surfaced via an official Brown search snippet, so flagged as not byte-confirmed."],"characterCount":153}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":"Bunker Hill Community College has partnered with Rave Mobile Safety to provide emergency text messaging, text to voice and emails in the event of an emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bhcc.edu/emergency/","sourceDescription":"BHCC — Emergency Alerts & Procedures (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Confirms the BHCC Alert vendor as Rave Mobile Safety and the three channels (text, text-to-voice, email). Surfaced via the search index; the bhcc.edu host returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":159},{"label":"SMS keyword signup","quotedText":"Currently-enrolled students and active faculty and staff members will automatically have their BHCC email addresses loaded into the Rave system each semester.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bhcc.edu/alertsignup/","sourceDescription":"BHCC — BHCC Alert Signup (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Documents the automatic per-semester email-enrollment baseline that complements the opt-in SMS keyword (text BHCCAlert to 226787). Surfaced via the search index, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":158},{"label":"Clery crime-alert responsibility","quotedText":"Bunker Hill Community College's Office of Public Safety and Campus Police is responsible for issuing crime alerts in compliance with the Clery Act.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bhcc.edu/publicsafety/","sourceDescription":"BHCC — Public Safety (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Names the Office of Public Safety and Campus Police as the Clery crime-alert authority. Surfaced via the search index, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":147}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":"2026-06-21","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":43662},"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":"2026-06-21","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":41189},"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 — 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"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","beachalert","public-r2","california","csu"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-06-21","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":31943},"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":"2026-06-21","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":2000},"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":"2026-06-21","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":"It allows you to register to receive approved Casper College emergency communications and other important information via text message and email.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.caspercollege.edu/alert/","sourceDescription":"CC Alert - Casper College","annotations":["Reconstructed from search-engine indexing of the CC Alert page; wording is plausible and consistent with the confirmed sentence above, but was not independently byte-verified."],"characterCount":145},{"label":"Automatic enrollment","quotedText":"All students and employees are automatically signed up following the fall and spring enrollment periods.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.caspercollege.edu/alert/","sourceDescription":"CC Alert - Casper College","annotations":["Describes the hybrid auto-enroll model; reconstructed from indexed page text, not independently fetch-verified."],"characterCount":104},{"label":"Voice-call option and cost","quotedText":"CC Alert also offers voice call notifications. CC Alert is free, though standard text messaging rates may apply depending on your phone plan.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.caspercollege.edu/alert/","sourceDescription":"CC Alert - Casper College","annotations":["Two source renderings of this sentence differed slightly in phrasing between queries, so it is reported as reconstructed paraphrase rather than confirmed exact wording."],"characterCount":141}],"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":"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":"The Central State University Police Department manages the system and is responsible for sending out all emergency alerts to the campus.","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":["Establishes CSUPD as the owner of Marauder Alert. Surfaced via the search index rather than a confirmed live fetch (centralstate.edu returned HTTP 403), so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":136}],"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":"wikipedia"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","marauder-alert","alertus","siren","hbcu","ohio","system-overview","multi-channel"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-06-22","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":"The CWC Mass Communication System (RUSTLER ALERT) is an additional part of the College's emergency notification system and 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.","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":["Captured from a single search rendering of the college's Clery Safety & Security Report; not independently repeated in a second query, so reported as reconstructed rather than confirmed exact wording."],"characterCount":308},{"label":"Asymmetric opt-out","quotedText":"Staff and Students can opt out of texts and phone notifications. They cannot opt out of Emails.","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":["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":"2026-07-03","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. 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Captured from a single search-snippet rendering of the ASR; could not be re-confirmed verbatim across multiple retrievals, so it is flagged not-verbatim-confirmed."],"characterCount":78}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":"2026-06-21","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":"The old security system, \"e2Campus,\" was replaced with the new Colgate Alert system because it was not able to automatically download contact information from the Colgate database, and required students to opt-in and register themselves individually, which resulted in a number of students being left out of the alert system.","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":["Explains the institutional rationale for the auto-enrolled model. This sentence is a paraphrase surfaced via the search index rather than a confirmed verbatim quote, so it is marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":325}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":"University Police Services disseminates CSN Alert messages to students, faculty, and staff during an emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://news.csn.edu/info/","sourceDescription":"CSN, Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Names University Police Services as the disseminating office; surfaced once in this review's retrieval, so marked reconstructed out of caution."],"characterCount":111},{"label":"Login and enrollment mechanism","quotedText":"CSN students and employees are automatically enrolled in the system and can login to CSN Omnilert using their Canvas/GoCSN login credentials.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://news.csn.edu/info/","sourceDescription":"CSN, Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Describes the Omnilert-based platform and its reuse of existing Canvas/GoCSN credentials for login; surfaced once in this review's retrieval and not independently corroborated elsewhere, so marked reconstructed out of caution."],"characterCount":141}],"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":"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":2200},"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":"Timely warnings, emergency notifications, and security notices are issued to inform the community about potentially dangerous situations at or near Colorado College, enabling our students and employees to make informed decisions and take appropriate protective actions.","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":["Establishes CC's three-tier set — timely warnings, emergency notifications, and security notices. Surfaced via the search index; coloradocollege.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":269},{"label":"Standard Response Protocol use","quotedText":"Colorado College uses the Standard Response Protocol (SRP) for all emergency messaging.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.coloradocollege.edu/offices/campussafety/","sourceDescription":"Colorado College — Campus Safety (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Documents CC's adoption of the Standard Response Protocol's plain-language action verbs for all emergency messaging through Rave. Surfaced via the search index rather than a confirmed live fetch (coloradocollege.edu returned HTTP 403), so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":87}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":33500},"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":"CSU uses the Everbridge notification system that is supported by the Larimer Emergency Telephone Authority (LETA) and activated for CSU-related emergencies by CSU personnel. This system issues email notifications to all CSU students and employees who maintain an @colostate.edu email address. Additionally, text alert notifications are also made to employees and students who have a telephone number on file with the university.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://clery.colostate.edu/emergency-notifications-and-timely-warnings/","sourceDescription":"CSU Clery — Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings","annotations":["Identifies the vendor (Everbridge) and the LETA partnership, and establishes email as universal while text is contingent on a phone number on file. Captured from official page text reproduced and corroborated across multiple independent searches; the .edu page 403-blocks automated fetching, so not directly confirmed verbatim."],"characterCount":428},{"label":"Safety Alert = Clery timely warning","quotedText":"Safety alerts are sent as a timely warning to the university community of a crime committed on or near a university campus, in accordance with Clery Act guidelines, providing increased community awareness of ongoing or dangerous situations.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.colostate.edu/types-of-alerts-and-advisories/","sourceDescription":"CSU Safety — Types of Alerts and Advisories Used at CSU","annotations":["Defines the 'Safety Alert' label as CSU's branding for a Clery timely warning. Captured from official page text reproduced across multiple searches; .edu page 403-blocks fetching, so marked unconfirmed."],"characterCount":240},{"label":"Safety Advisory definition","quotedText":"A safety advisory is sent to the university community for issues that are not threats or emergencies. Safety advisories inform the community of activity that may impact campuses.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.colostate.edu/types-of-alerts-and-advisories/","sourceDescription":"CSU Safety — Types of Alerts and Advisories Used at CSU","annotations":["Distinguishes the non-emergency 'Safety Advisory' tier from the threat-based Emergency Alert and Safety Alert tiers. Captured from reproduced official page text; .edu page 403-blocks fetching."],"characterCount":178},{"label":"Timely warning decision authority","quotedText":"Determinations about whether to issue timely warnings 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.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://clery.colostate.edu/emergency-notifications-and-timely-warnings/","sourceDescription":"CSU Clery — Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings","annotations":["Names the four-role decision matrix for timely warnings. Captured from reproduced official page text and corroborated across searches; .edu page 403-blocks automated fetching, so marked unconfirmed."],"characterCount":289}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":"Colorado Technical 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.","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":["The core timely-warning standard, tying the trigger directly to crimes already tracked for the Annual Security Report.","This sentence did not reproduce verbatim attached to CTU across repeated independent searches, and the same sentence pattern surfaced attached to a different institution (South College). It reads as shared Clery-boilerplate language rather than confirmed CTU-specific text, so it is reported as reconstructed rather than verbatim-confirmed."],"characterCount":277},{"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":"2026-07-03","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":36000},"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":"2026-06-21","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":"Emergency messages may be issued by either the Auraria Higher Education Center (AHEC) Alert System or directly by the Community College of Denver (CCD).","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":["Defines CCD's distinctive shared-campus alert model: an alert may come from AHEC's system or directly from CCD. Surfaced via the search index; the ccd.edu host returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":152},{"label":"Rave text/email closure notifications","quotedText":"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.","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":["Identifies the underlying platform as the Rave Emergency Notification Alert System and shows it is used both for emergencies and for closure/delay/dismissal messaging. Surfaced via the search index, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":207},{"label":"Automatic enrollment across the shared campus","quotedText":"CCD, MSU Denver, and CU Denver faculty, staff and students as well as Auraria Campus staff, vendors and Auraria Early Learning Center parents are automatically enrolled in the emergency notification system.","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":["Documents the unusually broad automatic-enrollment population on a tri-institution shared campus, including vendors and early-learning-center parents. Surfaced via the search index, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":206}],"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":"2026-06-22","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), the largest community college 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":"In the event that a situation arises either on or off campus, which in the judgment of the 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\" will be issued through the college email system to students, faculty, and staff.","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":["Names CCRI Police plus the Director of Administration as the timely-warning decision authority and routes the warning through the college email system. Surfaced via the search index; the ccri.edu host returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":347},{"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":"Using the RAVE Alert system, CCRI has identified three different types of emergency messages for you to become familiar with.","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":["Introduces CCRI's three pre-defined alert categories — shelter in place, limited lockdown and full lockdown — each tied to a protective action. Surfaced via the search index rather than a confirmed live fetch, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":125}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":"The Emergency Response Plan has been designed to prepare members of CT State's Three Rivers Campus for potential emergency situations, and is intended to protect staff, faculty, students, and visitors at properties owned, leased, or operated by Connecticut State Community College through effective use of campus and outside agency resources.","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":["States the plan's protective scope explicitly by property ownership/operation, covering owned, leased, and operated Three Rivers sites."],"characterCount":342},{"label":"Everbridge as primary notification system","quotedText":"CT State's Three Rivers Campus uses the Everbridge Alert System as its primary emergency notification system to immediately advise staff, faculty, and students when it is determined that there is a significant emergency.","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":["Names Everbridge as the primary channel and ties activation to a 'significant emergency' determination, the standard Clery emergency-notification trigger."],"characterCount":220}],"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":"Campus Police actively monitors the national threat level, as well as specific threats to the Coppin State University community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.coppin.edu/campus-police","sourceDescription":"Coppin State University — Campus Police (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Establishes Campus Police as the monitoring authority behind the alert program. Surfaced via the search index rather than a confirmed live fetch (coppin.edu returned HTTP 403), so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":128}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":"The CornellALERT system is tested each semester to ensure it works reliably and so our campus community is familiar with the sounds, messages, and channels used during real emergencies.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.cornell.edu/emergency-notifications/","sourceDescription":"Emergency Notifications – Office of Emergency Management, Cornell University","annotations":["Reproduced from the Office of Emergency Management page via search-result text; the .edu host 403-blocks direct fetching in this environment, so marked not-confirmed despite distinctive phrasing."],"characterCount":185}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":"Emergency notifications are CreightonAlerts issued by the Department of Public Safety 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.","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":["Names the decision authority (Department of Public Safety) and the Clery confirmation trigger. Surfaced via the search index; creighton.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":317},{"label":"Acknowledge-to-stop delivery design","quotedText":"CU Alert will send an alert to you as a text message first. If you acknowledge receipt of the text message within a minute of receipt, all further alerts will stop.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://my.creighton.edu/cualert/faqs/","sourceDescription":"Creighton University — CUAlert FAQs (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Documents the text-first, acknowledge-to-stop escalation logic that distinguishes CUAlert's delivery engine. Surfaced via the search index rather than a confirmed live fetch, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":164}],"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":"2026-06-22","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. 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. The officials who authorize immediate-threat emergency notifications are 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":"To sign up for text alerts, send a text message with \"DallasCollegeAlerts\" to 226787.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.dallascollege.edu/resources/online-services/emergency-alerts/","sourceDescription":"Dallas College Emergency Alerts page (dallascollege.edu)","annotations":["Keyword opt-in path for SMS delivery. Captured from a single search-snippet rendering; the exact punctuation could not be confirmed across multiple retrievals, so it is flagged not-verbatim-confirmed."],"characterCount":85}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":6747},"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":"DartAlert sends 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.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.dartmouth.edu/security/office-of-emergency-management/emergency_notifications.html","sourceDescription":"Dartmouth College — Register for Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Enumerates the simultaneous channels and names Alertus as the desktop-pop-up technology; surfaced via an official Dartmouth search snippet (host 403-blocks direct fetch), so flagged as not byte-confirmed."],"characterCount":314},{"label":"Clery testing of emergency plans","quotedText":"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.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.dartmouth.edu/security/office-of-emergency-management/plan_testing.html","sourceDescription":"Dartmouth College — Annual Test of Plans","annotations":["Documents Clery-required testing conducted throughout the year; surfaced via an official Dartmouth search snippet, so flagged as not byte-confirmed."],"characterCount":173}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":"Davidson College's Student and Staff Emergency Response system, SSAFER, is completely separate from the WEA system and is not part of the national test.","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":["Clarifies SSAFER is separate from the federal Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) system. This was a search-engine paraphrase (and rendered the acronym as 'Student and Staff Emergency Response'), so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":152}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":6000},"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":"The Emergency Slider works like a 'digital blue light' - if you need help from DSU Police while on campus, you swipe from left to right.","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":["Describes the app's one-swipe police-summon feature and its on-campus geofencing. Surfaced via the search index; marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false because the page could not be byte-for-byte fetched."],"characterCount":136},{"label":"Emergency-text shortcode and vendor portal","quotedText":"Emergency text messages are sent from 588-43.","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":["Confirms the SMS shortcode used by the 911 Cellular system and the publicsafetycloud.net community-registration portal. Surfaced via the search index, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":45}],"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"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","hbcu","delaware","dsu-emergency-alert","911-cellular","campusshield","multi-channel"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-06-21","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":"Each Delaware Tech campus provides reports (Timely Warnings) to its College Community concerning the occurrence of any Reportable Offense reported to either a local law enforcement agency or to a Campus Security Authority where the occurrence of such an offense is deemed by the relevant Vice President and Campus Director, after consultation with the relevant Chief of Public Safety, to constitute a threat to students or employees.","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":["Describes the decentralized, per-campus decision chain: a Vice President and Campus Director decide after consulting that campus's Chief of Public Safety, rather than one named systemwide official.","Recovered through an AI-summarized search snippet rather than a direct page load, so it is treated as reconstructed rather than confirmed verbatim."],"characterCount":433},{"label":"Warning content requirements","quotedText":"Warnings are designed based on the severity of the crime, the continuing threat to the College Community and the population most likely to be at risk, and will provide a description of the incident, where and when it occurred, a physical description of the perpetrator, any connection to previous reported incidents, category of individuals who may be at risk and the date and time the warning was issued.","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":["Lists the specific content elements the college says each Timely Warning will contain, closely mirroring the Clery Act's own timely-warning content guidance.","Recovered via search-engine summary, not a direct page load; treated as reconstructed pending independent confirmation."],"characterCount":405},{"label":"Delaware Tech Alert mass-notification system","quotedText":"In the event of an emergency or weather-related closing, Delaware Tech will deploy the mass notification system \"Delaware Tech Alert\" to provide important information via email, but can also include text and voice messages.","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":["Names email as the primary channel with text and voice as secondary or supplemental channels, an inversion of the SMS-first pattern common at many other institutions in this archive.","Recovered via search-engine summary; treated as reconstructed pending a direct page load."],"characterCount":223},{"label":"Crime Alert Bulletin authority (Safe Campus Program)","quotedText":"The Chief of Public Safety at each campus is responsible for determining when crime alert bulletins will be made and the duration of the crime alert warning.","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":["Confirms fully campus-level authority for both issuing and closing out a Crime Alert Bulletin, consistent with the four-campus decentralized structure described elsewhere on the site.","This sentence surfaced in two independent search queries with only a capitalization difference between them, offering some cross-corroboration, but it is still marked unconfirmed because neither query loaded the source page directly."],"characterCount":157}],"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":"devry-university-alert-policy","slug":"devry-university-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"DeVry University","shortName":"DeVry","state":"IL","type":"for-profit","alertSystemName":"SIREN","enrollment":24000},"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":"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.","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":["Documents annual testing with date/time/announced status. Wording was lightly normalized by the search summarizer, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":171}],"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":"wikipedia"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","for-profit","illinois","siren","incident-commander","multi-campus"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-06-21","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":"2026-06-21","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":4504},"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":"Bulldog Alerts is an emergency notification service enabling Drake University to notify the campus quickly about major emergencies on campus and to provide information and instructions.","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":["States the Bulldog Alert mission: rapid notification about major emergencies with information and instructions. Surfaced via the search index; drake.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":185},{"label":"Timely Warning for ongoing/continuing threats","quotedText":"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.","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":["Defines the Timely Warning channel (campus-wide email) and trigger (ongoing/continuing threat). Surfaced via the search index; the ASR PDF returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":164},{"label":"Bulldog Alert for immediate threats","quotedText":"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.","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":["Contrasts the immediate-threat Bulldog Alert channel with the email Timely Warning. Surfaced via the search index rather than a confirmed live fetch, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":218},{"label":"Rave Guardian management","quotedText":"Bulldog Alerts are managed by a system called Rave Guardian.","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":["Identifies the underlying vendor platform (Rave Guardian / Rave Mobile Safety) and links Bulldog Alert to the Drake Guardian app. Surfaced via the search index, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":60}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":17680},"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":"For some DukeAlerts, an alert tone may be broadcast on campus using the outdoor siren system, and if you hear this alert, you should immediately seek shelter and check for a DukeALERT with further instructions.","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":["Explains the outdoor-siren layer and the seek-shelter / check-for-a-DukeALERT instruction; reproduced from a search snippet and not independently double-confirmed, so left not verbatim-confirmed."],"characterCount":210},{"label":"Testing cadence","quotedText":"The DukeALERT system is tested each semester and once during the summer. The test includes activation of the outdoor sirens and distribution of an email to all students, faculty and staff.","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":["Documents the each-semester-plus-summer testing cadence including siren activation and an all-community email; reproduced from search snippets and not independently double-confirmed as a single verbatim string, so left not verbatim-confirmed."],"characterCount":188}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":28000},"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":"2026-06-21","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":14000},"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":"The notification systems include an outdoor siren system with five large speakers placed on the ETSU and Veterans Affairs Medical Center campuses, an ETSU Alert link on the ETSU home page and an alert message on all computers logged in to the ETSU network, a public address (PA) unit in selected campus buildings, and GoldAlert, the university's emergency text and e-mail system.","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":["Inventories the full channel set: outdoor sirens (ETSU + VA medical campus), homepage alert link, desktop messaging, building PA, and GoldAlert text/email. Speaker count varies between four and five across ETSU sources; surfaced via the search index (etsu.edu returned HTTP 403), so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":379}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":"At no time shall this system be used for normal messaging, notifications, or otherwise standard contact as this would compromise the importance of these messages and may create an environment where students and employees are able to overlook these types of messages because of the frequency of such communications.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://ewc.wy.edu/emergency-notification/","sourceDescription":"Emergency Notification - Eastern Wyoming College","annotations":["Captured in a single search query rather than independently repeated in a second; reported as reconstructed rather than confirmed exact wording, though stylistically continuous with the confirmed excerpts above."],"characterCount":314}],"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":"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":"It is the intention of Fayetteville State University to provide a safe environment for members of the University community. In support of this goal, the University has developed an all hazards approach to managing disasters/emergencies to include mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery.","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":["States the plan's guiding intent and its all-hazards mitigation/preparedness/response/recovery structure. Captured from search-indexed text rather than a directly fetched copy of the PDF, so flagged unconfirmed."],"characterCount":296},{"label":"Chancellor's authority over emergency activation level","quotedText":"The Chancellor, in consultation with the EHS Director and/or the Chief of Police, shall be responsible for determining the emergency activation level.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uncfsu.edu/a/10382","sourceDescription":"FSU Adverse Weather and Emergency Events procedures (captured via search-engine-indexed excerpt)","annotations":["Locates decision authority for emergency activation with the Chancellor, advised by Environmental Health and Safety and campus police leadership. Captured from search-indexed text, so flagged unconfirmed."],"characterCount":150},{"label":"Layered notification channels","quotedText":"The Emergency Notification System is designed to have overlapping methods of delivery that includes text messages, Twitter, Facebook, emails, network pop-ups, intercoms and outdoor public address system.","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":["Describes the redundancy built into FSU's notification stack, spanning text, social, email, in-building, and outdoor channels. Captured from search-indexed text, so flagged unconfirmed."],"characterCount":203}],"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":"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":1058},"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. 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Marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false because the Campus Safety page returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching."],"characterCount":89}],"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":"wikipedia"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","hbcu","tennessee","clery-asr","opt-in","small-college"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-06-22","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":9700},"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. 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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":"2026-06-21","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":"Skyhawk Alert is a free service to Fort Lewis College faculty, students and staff. FLC enrolls all current students and employees to receive Skyhawk Alerts at their official FLC email address and at the cell phone number listed in WebOpus.","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":["Documents automatic (not opt-in) enrollment sourced from WebOpus contact data, with an option to add up to two cell numbers and six email addresses."],"characterCount":239},{"label":"Timely warning consultation partner","quotedText":"As soon as pertinent information is available, the Fort Lewis College Police Department, in consultation with the Vice President for Finance and Administration, will evaluate the need to issue a timely warning.","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":["Names the Vice President for Finance and Administration as FLC Police's specific consultation partner for timely-warning decisions, a detail not common across the archive."],"characterCount":210}],"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":2700},"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":"In the event that 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. The warnings are sent out as soon as the pertinent information is available.","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":["Names the decision authority (Chief of Police or administration), the 'ongoing or continuing threat' standard, and the 'as soon as pertinent information is available' timing rule for Clery timely warnings. Captured from a search-index snippet of the official ASR PDF (HTTP 403 on direct fetch), so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":290},{"label":"Broadcast alert function (local-media corroboration)","quotedText":"When emergencies occur, FVSU immediately notifies students via the electronic alert system called RAVE.","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":["Confirms that the RAVE platform behind Wildcat Alert is used for broadcast emergency notifications (here, a campus shooting). Paraphrased description from the news report rather than a confirmed official verbatim sentence, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":103}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":"The effectiveness of this system depends upon individuals providing up-to-date personal contact information. The College asks community members to register their cell phone number, as well as other emergency contact information.","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":["Frames Olin EAS's real-world reach as contingent on registrants keeping contact information current, rather than a guaranteed network-level broadcast."],"characterCount":228}],"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":"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":21000},"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. 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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. 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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":"2026-06-21","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":53067},"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":"2026-06-21","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":35000},"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":"If, in the professional judgment of the Police Department, issuing a timely warning notification would compromise efforts to address the crime, the notification may be delayed or information may be limited. In those cases the University's Chief of Police, or the highest-ranking officer in charge, will be notified.","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":["Establishes the timely-warning delay standard and names the Chief of Police / highest-ranking officer in charge. The full sentence surfaced in only a single indexed retrieval (safety.gsu.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching), so it is marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":315}],"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":"wikipedia"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","public-r1","georgia","panther-alert","rave","multi-channel"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-06-21","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":"ZagAlert...to help ensure the safety and security of the campus community by providing rapid notification of life-saving information during emergencies.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gonzaga.edu/about/offices-services/emergency-management/zagalert","sourceDescription":"ZagAlert, Gonzaga University","annotations":["Reconstructed from a page-title style search snippet with an ellipsis gap; treated as not fully verbatim-confirmed pending direct access to the live page."],"characterCount":152},{"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":"2026-07-03","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":"The Director of Campus Safety or designee shall have final authority whether to issue a status update/all clear.","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":["Names a single accountable role for the all-clear decision, distinct from the broader consultation process used to draft the initial warning."],"characterCount":112},{"label":"Who is consulted before a warning is issued","quotedText":"In order to determine if timely warning is required and to determine the content of the warning, the Office of Campus Safety may consult with all relevant outside authorities, including local emergency responders, and with offices on campus, including 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.","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; 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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":"Campus Safety Alerts 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.","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":["Documents an email-primary, text/voice-secondary delivery model. Captured from a search-engine paraphrase of the ASR rather than a byte-confirmed extraction, so flagged as reconstructed."],"characterCount":201},{"label":"Grambling Alerts sign-up by text","quotedText":"To subscribe to Emergency SMS text messages, you can text \"Grambling\" to 38276.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gram.edu/tools/notifications.php","sourceDescription":"GSU Mandated Notifications","annotations":["Opt-in keyword and short code for Grambling Alerts; alerts are free of charge though standard messaging rates may apply. Captured from a search snippet and not byte-confirmed, so flagged as reconstructed."],"characterCount":79}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":"Ground students are automatically registered for the AlertGCU system. Faculty and staff automatically are registered for the emergency alerts with the information that is on file.","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":["Clarifies that auto-enrollment covers ground students and employees but not GCU's large online population. Assembled from two adjacent sentences surfaced via the search index (host 403-blocked), so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":179}],"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":"government"},{"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":"2026-06-21","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":"Emergency notification systems are activated upon confirmation of an imminent threat to the health and safety of the GIL community.","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":["Sets the activation threshold at an 'imminent threat to the health and safety' of the community ('GIL' = Grinnell-in-London/Grinnell community usage as surfaced). Surfaced via the search index rather than a confirmed live fetch (grinnell.edu returned HTTP 403), so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":131}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":"In consultation with the EMC, the Public Information Officer (PIO) determines which segments of the community are to be contacted and then issues timely warnings periodically through text alerts, website announcements, social media, mass email, phone or local media outlets to administrators, faculty, staff and students.","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":["Documents GCC's notification process (PIO decides who to contact, in consultation with the EMC) and its channel set (text, website, social media, mass email, phone, local media). The substance appeared across 2+ retrievals, but the wording came through a search-engine summary of a 403-blocked PDF, so it is treated as a faithful close paraphrase and marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":321},{"label":"Plan activation / decision authority (EOPP)","quotedText":"The EMC, or his or her authorized representative, will be responsible for notifying the EOCOs (Emergency Operations Control Officers) when to activate or deactivate the EOPP based on the state of an emergency. When an emergency arises, the EMC will activate the EOPP.","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":["Establishes the activation decision chain: the Emergency Management Coordinator (EMC) activates/deactivates the plan and notifies the EOCOs. Appeared across 2+ retrievals but via a summarizer of a 403-blocked PDF, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":267},{"label":"Branded text-alert subscription categories","quotedText":"Guam Community College Emergency Alerts; Guam Community College Emergency Updates","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":["Confirms GCC's branded SMS service ('GCC Text Alerts') offers two opt-in categories — Emergency Alerts and Emergency Updates. Subscription requires a local-carrier (Docomo/GTA/IT&E) number. Surfaced via the search index rather than a confirmed live fetch, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":81},{"label":"Campus security contacts and contracted security","quotedText":"GCC contracts a private security company coordinated by Student Support Services; 24-hour Campus Security can be reached at 671-637-8084.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://guamcc.edu/campus-security","sourceDescription":"GCC — Campus Safety & Security (host blocked automated fetch; text reconstructed from search index)","annotations":["Describes GCC's contracted private security coordinated by Student Support Services and the 24-hour Campus Security line. Reconstructed from indexed snippets (not a guaranteed word-for-word quote), so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":137}],"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":"2026-06-21","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"},"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":"Everbridge and/or the outdoor warning siren's PA function are used to alert the campus community.","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":["Documents the siren/PA layer alongside Everbridge; the page separately notes Alertus Desktop on all managed computers. 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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":"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.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://police.hamptonu.edu/pns","sourceDescription":"Hampton University Police Department — Pirate Notification System (PNS) page","annotations":["Defines PNS as the University's urgent notification system; reproduced consistently across the HUPD PNS page and mirror pages but surfaced via search snippet (host 403-blocks direct fetch), so flagged as not byte-confirmed."],"characterCount":188},{"label":"PNS contact channels","quotedText":"Ways to contact include: Text messages (SMS) to mobile devices, Calls to home, office, and mobile phones, and E-mails to non-Hampton University addresses.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://police.hamptonu.edu/pns","sourceDescription":"Hampton University Police Department — Pirate Notification System (PNS) page","annotations":["Enumerates the three PNS delivery channels and notably routes email to non-Hampton (personal) addresses; surfaced via search snippet, not byte-confirmed against the live page."],"characterCount":154},{"label":"Automatic import of community members","quotedText":"Students, faculty and staff are automatically imported into PNS.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://police.hamptonu.edu/pns","sourceDescription":"Hampton University Police Department — Pirate Notification System (PNS) page","annotations":["Establishes that enrollment is automatic, with users then invited via email to add contact methods through the Everbridge Member Portal; surfaced via search snippet, not byte-confirmed."],"characterCount":64},{"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":false,"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"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","hbcu","virginia"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-06-21","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":"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.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hupd.harvard.edu/timely-warnings","sourceDescription":"Harvard University Police Department — Timely Warnings & Campus Advisories","annotations":["Captures the Clery overlap rule between emergency notifications and timely warnings; surfaced via an official HUPD search snippet (host 403-blocks direct fetch), so flagged as not byte-confirmed."],"characterCount":221}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":800},"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":"Sending an emergency notification is the responsibility of the Safety Office. The Safety Officer will base their decision on the information they receive from the Public Relations Specialist and Haskell Security officer(s) on scene.","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":["Centralizes the launch decision in the Safety Officer, informed by the on-scene Security officers and the Public Relations Specialist. Text appears near-identically across multiple search returns of the ASR but could not be confirmed against a directly fetched copy of the PDF, so it is flagged unconfirmed."],"characterCount":232},{"label":"Haskell E2 Alert message template","quotedText":"A Haskell E2 Alert message is sent via text message and email. All Haskell E2 Alert messages will include the following: an indication the message is a Haskell E2 Alert, time/date, brief description of emergency, where and when to receive further information.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://haskell.edu/university-operations/federal-campus-security/","sourceDescription":"Haskell Federal Campus Security page / ASR (captured via search-engine reproduction)","annotations":["Defines a fixed four-part template for every alert: identity, timestamp, description, and follow-up instructions. Confirms dual-channel SMS+email delivery via e2Campus. Not directly fetchable (403), so flagged unconfirmed."],"characterCount":259},{"label":"Tornado-warning channel stack","quotedText":"tornado warnings are communicated through Safety and/or Facilities Offices, Administration, e2Campus, Emergency P.A., and via the Outdoor Tornado Siren","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":["Shows a layered, redundant channel stack for the most likely local hazard (tornado), pairing the opt-in e2Campus app with subscription-independent siren and PA coverage. Paraphrase-grade exactness; flagged unconfirmed."],"characterCount":151}],"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"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","tribal-college","e2campus","tornado-siren","kansas","clery"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-06-21","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":"The Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) shall provide the necessary guidance to organize and direct Hawai'i Community College's operation in the event of an emergency and/or civil defense action that may be necessary.","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":["States the plan's purpose in the college's own words and ties it to University of Hawaiʻi Administrative Procedure A-9.700 for emergency and civil-defense events."],"characterCount":213},{"label":"Scheduled EOC situation updates","quotedText":"Following initial notification of emergency, the EOC shall issue update notifications at 6 AM, 12 noon, and 6 PM or more frequently as required.","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":["Commits the EOC to a fixed update cadence rather than a single notification, so the community receives scheduled situation refreshes as a multi-day event unfolds."],"characterCount":144}],"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":"houston-community-college-alert-policy","slug":"houston-community-college-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"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 Houston Community College's mass-notification service, 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 Community College — one of the largest community-college systems in Texas, serving the greater Houston area across multiple colleges and centers (and recently rebranded in public-facing materials as 'Houston City 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.' 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 repeated search-snippet renderings of the official Alerts page and cross-checked across multiple independent retrievals before being flagged.","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."],"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"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","community-college","hcc-alert","texas"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-06-21","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":12000},"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":"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.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://publicsafety.howard.edu/emergency-management/emergency-notifications","sourceDescription":"Howard University Department of Public Safety — Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Mirrors the federal Clery 668.46(g) standard; surfaced via search snippet and could not be byte-confirmed against the live page (host blocks direct fetch), so flagged as reconstructed."],"characterCount":214},{"label":"Bison S.A.F.E. app integration","quotedText":"the Bison S.A.F.E. app is powered to integrate seamlessly with Howard University's safety and security systems to keep our community safer and informed and is designed to provide you with essential resources and real-time alerts while on or near campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://howard.edu/bison-safe","sourceDescription":"Howard University — Bison S.A.F.E. app","annotations":["Describes the app's real-time alert role; phrasing captured from a search snippet and not byte-confirmed against the live page, so flagged as reconstructed."],"characterCount":253}],"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"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","hbcu","washington-dc"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-06-21","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-masters","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":"2026-06-21","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":"Bengal Alert (ISU Emergency Notification System)"},"policy":{"title":"Bengal Alert / ISU Emergency Notification System — Emergency Notifications & Timely Warnings","systemName":"Bengal Alert (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 [Bengal Alert / the ISU 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 branded [Bengal Alert](https://www.isu.edu/publicsafety/safety-and-security/isu-alerts/) and is also referred to as the ISU Emergency Notification System; 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 Bengal Alert 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":"A Bengal 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 Bengal Alert / 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 Bengal Alert 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 (Bengal Alert)","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":"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.","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":["Vests timely-warning judgment in the Chief Security Officer/Director of Public Safety or designee. Surfaced via the search index from a single retrieval; isu.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":297},{"label":"Mandatory email reach / opt-out limits","quotedText":"You can opt out of all notifications except to your official university email address.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"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. 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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":false,"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":false,"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":false,"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":false,"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":"2026-06-21","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":4360},"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":"La Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico ha implementado el sistema Connect Alert para mantener informados a los estudiantes, facultad y personal en caso de emergencias, utilizando correos electrónicos, teléfonos celulares, teléfonos residenciales y mensajes de texto.","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":["English translation: 'The Inter American University of Puerto Rico has implemented the Connect Alert system to keep students, faculty, and staff informed in case of emergencies, using emails, cell phones, residential phones, and text messages.' Establishes Connect Alert as the branded multi-channel emergency notifier. The wording was paraphrased consistently across retrievals but not reproduced byte-for-byte from a live official fetch (inter.edu hosts blocked automated access), so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":272},{"label":"Contingency-plan activation (Spanish)","quotedText":"Los Planes de Contingencia se activan ante cualquier situación de emergencia de acuerdo con la naturaleza y severidad del evento y conforme a los protocolos previamente establecidos para su adecuado manejo.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://metro.inter.edu/seguridad/","sourceDescription":"UIPR — Recinto Metro, Seguridad page; host blocked automated fetch, text from search index","annotations":["English translation: 'The Contingency Plans are activated in any emergency situation according to the nature and severity of the event and in accordance with previously established protocols for their proper management.' Sets the activation logic for emergency response. Surfaced via the search index, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":206},{"label":"Portal contact-update requirement (Spanish)","quotedText":"Es importante que cuando sea necesario o se produzcan cambios, los empleados y estudiantes actualicen esta información en Inter Web a través del portal.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://metro.inter.edu/seguridad/","sourceDescription":"UIPR — Recinto Metro, Seguridad page; host blocked automated fetch, text from search index","annotations":["English translation: 'It is important that, when necessary or when changes occur, employees and students update this information in Inter Web through the portal.' Identifies self-maintained contact data as the practical limit on Connect Alert's reach. Surfaced via the search index, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":152}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":"2026-06-21","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":6900},"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":"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.","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":["A distinctive scope-limit clause preserving the original emphatic ALL-CAPS 'ONLY'; surfaced via search snippet (host 403-blocks direct fetch), so flagged as not byte-confirmed."],"characterCount":168},{"label":"Tornado-watch activation example","quotedText":"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.","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":["Concrete weather-activation example; surfaced via search snippet and not byte-confirmed against the live page, so flagged as reconstructed."],"characterCount":139},{"label":"Social-media auto-syndication of alerts","quotedText":"Messages sent via JSU's Emergency Alert System will automatically post to JSU's official Facebook page and Twitter account.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.jsums.edu/universitycommunications/emergency-alerts/","sourceDescription":"Jackson State University — Emergency Alerts (University Communications)","annotations":["Documents automatic cross-posting of alerts to Facebook and Twitter/X; surfaced via search snippet, not byte-confirmed against the live page."],"characterCount":123}],"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":"2026-06-21","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/police/emergency_notifications.shtml"},"summary":"James Madison University issues [emergency notifications](https://www.jmu.edu/police/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/police/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.","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."],"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."],"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":"When emergencies happen on JMU's campus, the emergency information will be sent out through the Rave Emergency Notification System.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.jmu.edu/police/emergency_notifications.shtml","sourceDescription":"Emergency Notifications — JMU Police, James Madison University","annotations":["Reconstructed/paraphrased from search-result summaries identifying Rave as JMU's notification platform (connected through MyMadison); exact wording not confirmed identically across two or more sources, so marked unconfirmed."],"characterCount":131}],"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/police/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":"2026-06-21","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":"By default, you're subscribed to receive notification to your Hopkins email account for your primary campus. If you've provided your cell phone number, you'll also receive emergency alerts via text message notification.","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":["Describes the default email subscription and the opt-in for text alerts; reproduced from a search snippet and not independently double-confirmed, so left not verbatim-confirmed."],"characterCount":219}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":"2026-06-21","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":"When appropriate, the university will alert faculty, staff and students via email, text messaging and/or UH Alert.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.kapiolani.hawaii.edu/campus-safety/","sourceDescription":"Kapiʻolani Community College, Campus Safety & Emergency Management","annotations":["Kapiʻolani's own phrasing of when and how it alerts its community; an earlier retrieval used 'the administration will alert' rather than 'the university will alert' and omitted text messaging, so the exact current wording is treated as reconstructed."],"characterCount":114},{"label":"Opt-in SMS enrollment","quotedText":"Members of the UH community may also opt to receive emergency alerts via text messages (SMS), and users must login to their UH Rave Alerts account and add their mobile phone number if they wish to receive SMS alerts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hawaii.edu/alert/","sourceDescription":"University of Hawaiʻi System, Information About UH Rave Alert","annotations":["Describes the additional opt-in step required for SMS coverage on top of automatic email enrollment; surfaced once in this review's retrieval, so marked reconstructed out of caution."],"characterCount":216},{"label":"Semester test cadence","quotedText":"Tests of the UH Rave Alert system will be conducted once a semester, during which UH community members will receive a test email alert, and those enrolled in SMS-based alerts will also receive a test SMS alert.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hawaii.edu/alert/","sourceDescription":"University of Hawaiʻi System, Information About UH Rave Alert","annotations":["States the twice-yearly (once-per-semester) test schedule and the two-tier test delivery to email versus SMS-enrolled recipients; surfaced once in this review's retrieval, so marked reconstructed out of caution."],"characterCount":210}],"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":"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":"The primary purpose of the Kent State University Emergency Management Plan is to prevent, protect against, and mitigate, respond to, and recover from the impact on life or property from the effects of an emergency event.","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":["States the plan's all-hazards purpose across the prevent/protect/mitigate/respond/recover cycle. Captured from search-indexed text rather than a directly fetched copy of the PDF, so flagged unconfirmed."],"characterCount":220},{"label":"Delegated authority to develop and maintain the plan","quotedText":"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 encompassing all university campuses and locations.","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":["Establishes the chain of delegated authority for the plan, from the president through the senior vice president for finance and administration to the director of public safety. Captured from search-indexed text, so flagged unconfirmed."],"characterCount":249},{"label":"Annual review requirement","quotedText":"The Department of Public Safety, Emergency Management Services has been tasked with reviewing and updating this plan on an annual basis in order to keep up with any safety and security changes that may arise from year to year.","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":["Documents the annual review cadence for the KSU-EMP. Captured from search-indexed text, so flagged unconfirmed."],"characterCount":226}],"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":"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":1900},"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":"RAVE Emergency Alerts can be sent through text, voice, and email accounts, and is the avenue used by Kenyon 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.","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":["Defines RAVE Emergency Alerts and the activation threshold (significant emergency / immediate threat to health or safety). One indexed retrieval truncated the 'immediate threat to the health or safety' clause, so this excerpt is reconstructed from the corroborating retrievals and marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":302}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":"the President or designee will maintain the College's educational functions and services","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":["Establishes the President or designee as the responsible authority for maintaining operations during an emergency; reconstructed from a search-summary paraphrase, so marked not verbatim-confirmed pending direct page access."],"characterCount":88},{"label":"Discretionary emergency definition","quotedText":"other conditions as the President or designee deems as appropriate","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":["Shows the policy leaves the definition of a qualifying emergency open-ended rather than an enumerated list; reconstructed from a search-summary paraphrase, so marked not verbatim-confirmed."],"characterCount":66},{"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":"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":1900},"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":"Langston University has contracted with Rave Mobile Safety to provide an emergency notification system. All Langston University students and employees are automatically registered for alerts upon activating their LionKey.","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":["Establishes the Rave vendor foundation and the LionKey auto-enrollment model (LU's substitute for a branded alert name). Recovered from the search index; langston.edu returned HTTP 403 to direct automated fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":221},{"label":"LU Police authority and 'without delay' timing (ASR)","quotedText":"The Police Department will determine the content of the notification and initiate 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.","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":["Names the LU Police Department as decision authority, sets the 'without delay' timing, and includes the standard Clery exception language. Captured from a search-index snippet of the official ASR PDF (HTTP 403 on direct fetch), so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":306},{"label":"Timely-warning crime categories and channels (ASR)","quotedText":"Timely Warning notifications will be issued for incidents involving violent crimes, crimes against persons, and serious threats to property when the threat is ongoing or continuing. Notifications may be sent via voicemail, or electronically to campus email accounts, through LU's social media platforms and the Rave system.","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":["Specifies the Clery crime categories that trigger a timely warning and enumerates the channel set (voicemail, campus email, social media, Rave). Captured from the search index of the official ASR PDF (HTTP 403 on direct fetch), so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":323}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":"Those signing up for emergency alerts will probably only receive two to four messages each year based on the number of times campus usually closes each year, however, if there's a more serious type of campus emergency, numerous messages may be sent in a single day to make sure everyone has the latest information.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lccc.wy.edu/services/technology/alerts.aspx","sourceDescription":"Emergency Alerts - LCCC","annotations":["Reconstructed from a single search rendering of the page; consistent in substance with the confirmed sentences above but not independently repeated word-for-word in a second query."],"characterCount":314}],"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":"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":"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.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lcsc.edu/public-safety/safety-on-campus/warrior-alerts","sourceDescription":"Lewis-Clark State College, Warrior Alerts, Public Safety","annotations":["Extends Warrior Alert enrollment to non-affiliated parents and community members; surfaced once in this review's retrieval as a closely worded paraphrase, so marked reconstructed out of caution."],"characterCount":140},{"label":"Daily contact-data refresh and correction path","quotedText":"The Warrior Alerts system is automatically updated every day and the contact information within the system is wholly dependent upon what the student or employee has provided to the Registrar or Human Resources, respectively.","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":["Explains that Warrior Alert has no independent contact database, it mirrors the Registrar (students) or HR (employees) system daily, so corrections must go through those offices; surfaced once in this review's retrieval, so marked reconstructed out of caution."],"characterCount":224}],"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":"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":80000},"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":false,"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. Reconstructed from a search-snippet rendering of the Annual Security Report; PDF host 403-blocks direct fetch, so flagged reconstructed."],"characterCount":286},{"label":"Timely-warning posting practice","quotedText":"When LSC Police receives 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.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.lonestar.edu/Departments/Campuspolice/AnnualSecurityReport.pdf","sourceDescription":"LSC Annual Security Report","annotations":["Describes the timely-warning practice and victim-identity protection. Reconstructed from a search-snippet rendering of the Annual Security Report; PDF host 403-blocks direct fetch, so flagged reconstructed."],"characterCount":188}],"keyFindings":["LoneStarCollegeAlert sends emergency updates by LSC email and text, mirrored on LoneStar.edu and on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and X; the SafeZone app adds a personal panic alarm and direct line to LSC PD Dispatch.","Emergency notifications go out as soon as a threat is confirmed; the LSC Police Department is primary sender, with the Office of Emergency Management and Office of Marketing and Communications as a documented fallback.","The Chief of Police serves as the System's designated Clery Compliance Officer and decides whether each reported incident warrants a timely warning.","Timely warnings are posted quickly around campus while protecting victim identity, framed under the Clery Act's timely-warning requirement.","Community members opt in to phone/email alerts via my.LoneStar.edu or by registering at LoneStarCollegeAlert; full procedures live in the LSC Annual Security Report."],"sources":[{"title":"LoneStarCollegeAlert","url":"https://www.lonestar.edu/lonestarcollegealert.htm","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"LSC Annual Security Report","url":"https://www.lonestar.edu/Departments/Campuspolice/AnnualSecurityReport.pdf","type":"clery-asr"},{"title":"Lone Star College Police Department","url":"https://www.lonestar.edu/campus-police.htm","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Office of Emergency Management","url":"https://www.lonestar.edu/emergency-management.htm","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"LSC Alert SafeZone App","url":"https://www.lonestar.edu/SafeZone","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","community-college","safezone","texas"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-06-21","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"lsu-alert-policy","slug":"lsu-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Louisiana State University","shortName":"LSU","state":"LA","type":"public-r1","alertSystemName":"LSUalert","enrollment":40000},"policy":{"title":"LSUalert System / Emergency Notification and Timely Warnings","systemName":"LSUalert","documentType":"criteria-page","url":"https://www.lsu.edu/oep/lsualerts/index.php","lastReviewed":"2026-06-21"},"summary":"Louisiana State University operates [LSUalert](https://www.lsu.edu/oep/lsualerts/index.php), the emergency notification system the Office of Emergency Preparedness uses to notify the campus community in a timely manner about serious emergencies, ongoing threats, or disruptions, delivered via text message, an accompanying email, and a red banner on the LSU homepage — distinct from Clery [timely warnings issued by LSU Police](https://www.lsu.edu/police/alerts/index.php).","analysis":"LSU separates immediate emergency notifications from Clery timely warnings. 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.","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"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","lsualert","public-r1","louisiana"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-06-21","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":11000},"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":"2026-06-21","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":2200},"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":"Communication to campus through the Rave Alert system and any other available means will be as frequent as necessary to ensure that the community is kept informed of material changes to the situation and that they receive appropriate direction.","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":["Sets an ongoing-update standard ('as frequent as necessary') beyond the initial alert. Surfaced via the search index; macalester.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so this sentence is marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":244},{"label":"Branded text-messaging label","quotedText":"Members of the Macalester community are advised to monitor mobile phone Macalester Alert text messaging, email, and voicemail for updates.","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":["Documents 'Macalester Alert' as the branded text-messaging label and lists the channels (text, email, voicemail). Surfaced via the search index rather than a confirmed live fetch (macalester.edu returned HTTP 403), so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":138}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":140000},"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 roughly 140,000 students across metropolitan Phoenix — 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; 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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":"2026-06-21","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. 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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":"MCLA 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. The College has bolstered its internal and external emergency communication capabilities with RAVE Guardian, emergency notification technology that enables the rapid and seamless distribution of information.","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":["Names both the underlying Rave platform and the RAVE Guardian branding MCLA uses for it, and frames the system's purpose as rapid, seamless information distribution."],"characterCount":415},{"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":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mcla.edu/administration/public-safety/emergency-notification.php","sourceDescription":"MCLA Emergency Notification page (host blocked automated fetch; 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text from search index)","annotations":["Ties cell-based alert delivery to the Banner student-information system rather than a separate alert-specific registration portal."],"characterCount":182}],"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":"2026-07-03","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":11900},"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":"2026-06-21","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":"The Mercer Police Shift Supervisor will not issue timely warnings if doing so would compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","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":["An explicit exception to the duty to warn, naming the shift supervisor as the role that applies it and naming victim assistance and containment as the two grounds for withholding a warning."],"characterCount":184},{"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":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":["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":"The Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff, or the Senior Assistant Vice President for Marketing Communications, coordinates with Mercer Police on any follow-up communications to the initial Timely Warning, using text messages, emails, radio, TV or the University website.","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":["Splits authority between Mercer Police for the initial warning and named senior communications leadership for coordinated follow-up across a wider channel mix."],"characterCount":274}],"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":"2026-07-03","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":"2026-06-21","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":51316},"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":false,"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":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":["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":"Delivery modes include email, SMS text messaging, and traditional phone calls. Additionally, the MSU campus also is equipped with a mass notification outdoor speaker system to launch severe weather warning sirens and/or an audible message detailing actions to take.","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":["Lists the multi-channel delivery: email, SMS, phone, and the outdoor speaker/siren system. Not verbatim-confirmed because the official page could not be fetched directly."],"characterCount":265},{"label":"Testing cadence","quotedText":"MSU DPPS regularly tests the mass notification system in the Spring, Summer, and Fall, and the Spartan community will be notified in advance prior to any testing of the mass notification system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://alert.msu.edu/faq/","sourceDescription":"MSU Alert FAQ (reproduced via search snippet; official page HTTP 403)","annotations":["Documents the three-season (Spring, Summer, Fall) testing schedule and advance notice to the community. Not verbatim-confirmed pending direct access to the official FAQ page."],"characterCount":194}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":"The 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. Confirmation does not require that ALL pertinent details are known or available and will be based upon what authorized, trained individuals conclude, dependent upon the facts and information available to them at the time.","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":["Defines the procedure's central term and clarifies that confirmation is a judgment call by trained individuals, not a requirement for complete information."],"characterCount":387},{"label":"Notification before confirmation when time is critical","quotedText":"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 thereafter follow up with the Core Crisis Team or members thereof.","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":["Builds an explicit bypass into the normal confirmation sequence for time-critical situations, naming Campus Security and Security Operations and Systems as the roles authorized to act first."],"characterCount":250},{"label":"Timely Warning escalation and distribution","quotedText":"Members of Safety and Security Operations are responsible for reviewing all reports of criminal activity to determine if they meet the Clery Act's standard for a Timely Warning Notice. If so, they are to communicate with a member of the college's Core Crisis Team. The Core Crisis Team, or member thereof, will review the report to determine if there is an ongoing threat to the community and if a Notice is warranted.","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":["Lays out the two-stage escalation path from Safety and Security Operations' initial Clery review to the Core Crisis Team's ongoing-threat determination."],"characterCount":418},{"label":"Third-tier Public Health or Safety Advisory","quotedText":"When deemed necessary and when the issuance of an Emergency Notification or Timely Warning is not required, the college's Core Crisis Team may choose to provide information to the campus community by way of a Public Health or Safety Advisory.","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":["Formalizes a discretionary, non-Clery third notice tier below Emergency Notification and Timely Warning, distinguishing this procedure from documents that only cover the two federally mandated categories."],"characterCount":242}],"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":20000},"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":"If University Police, other key University offices/departments, local authorities, or weather monitoring services (i.e., AccuWeather) confirm 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 MTSU community, an MTSU Alert will be issued immediately and the President of the University will be notified.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mtsu.edu/policies/p715/","sourceDescription":"MTSU Policy 715 (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Spells out the multi-source confirmation chain (including AccuWeather), the 'issued immediately' timing, and President notification. Surfaced via the search index rather than a confirmed live fetch (mtsu.edu returned HTTP 403), so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":387}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":"The determination to issue a timely warning will be made by the Associate Vice President of Safety or designee.","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":["Names the Associate Vice President of Safety (or designee) as the timely-warning decision authority. Surfaced in only a single retrieval and the middlebury.edu host returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so it is marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":111}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":"Medical eMergency, Active shooter situAtion, Severe weather","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":["The guide's own cover-page category listing, reflecting the multi-hazard scope (medical, active-shooter, severe weather among the listed categories) of the districtwide document."],"characterCount":59},{"label":"Guest access to Rave Alert","quotedText":"Individuals on campus temporarily can text MATCRaveAlert to 226787 to enable them to receive the same emergency messages that are sent to students and employees.","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":["Extends the notification system to non-enrolled, non-employee visitors on campus, an explicit design choice for a commuter-heavy technical college with heavy public foot traffic."],"characterCount":161}],"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":"The purpose of this Standard Operating Procedure is 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.","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":["States the SOP's purpose in the standard Clery 'informed decisions to protect themselves' register used across the timely-warning literature.","This environment could not directly load minnesota.edu, so the wording is reconstructed from indexed extracts of the page rather than confirmed firsthand."],"characterCount":255},{"label":"Worksheet-driven determination","quotedText":"When a possible Clery Act crime has been reported, M State's vice president of academic and student affairs, or a designee, will use the Clery Act Timely Warning Worksheet to determine if the college is required to send a timely warning.","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":["Names the specific decision-maker and the specific instrument used for the Clery determination on every reported crime, a level of procedural specificity distinct from a general criteria page."],"characterCount":237},{"label":"Star Alert issuance and minimum content","quotedText":"If it is determined that members of the college community need to be notified about a serious crime that poses an ongoing threat, the designated official will use the college's Star Alert emergency notification system, which shall include at minimum information about the crime that triggered the warning and information that would promote safety and aid in the prevention of similar crimes.","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":["Ties the SOP's Clery determination directly to activation of Star Alert and specifies the two minimum content elements Clery guidance requires."],"characterCount":391},{"label":"Documenting a decision not to warn","quotedText":"If it is determined a timely warning does not need to be issued per the Clery Act regulations, the college's Compliance Officer will save a copy of the Timely Warning Worksheet so the rationale for that decision can be documented and reported.","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":["An accountability provision rarely made explicit in public-facing policy pages: M State documents and retains the rationale even when it decides not to warn, not just when it does."],"characterCount":243}],"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":"2026-06-21","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"},"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. 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Identical wording appeared across two official-attributed retrievals of the MSU Alert emergency-notifications page."],"characterCount":299},{"label":"Everbridge WENS platform","quotedText":"MSU Alert is a Wireless Emergency Notification System (WENS) powered by EverBridge.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.montana.edu/msualert/","sourceDescription":"Montana State University — MSU Alert (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Names the underlying Everbridge platform; the 2018 Gallatin County partnership integrated the system county-wide. 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Surfaced via the search index from a single ASR retrieval; montana.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":248}],"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":"2026-06-22","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"},"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":"In an emergency situation, an alert will be sent by the Montgomery College Office of Public Safety and Emergency Management, which serves as the MC Alert administrator.","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":["Identifies the operational administrator of MC Alert; a companion sentence states an 'All Clear' message is issued once the incident stabilizes. Captured from a single search-snippet rendering and not confirmed across multiple identical retrievals, so flagged isVerbatimConfirmed:false pending byte-confirmation."],"characterCount":168},{"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":"2026-06-21","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":"used when there is a severe threat to the public safety and health of the entire campus","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":["Captured as a sentence fragment from the indexed ASR, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false despite appearing in 2+ retrievals."],"characterCount":87},{"label":"Emergency-notification routing (EMT)","quotedText":"In the event of an emergency, notification between the EMT and the campus community (faculty, staff, and students) will be made via Blackboard Connect® or Campus Police.","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":["Describes the Emergency Management Team routing path. Surfaced via the search index; marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":169}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":9900},"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":"Timely Warning Notices are usually distributed for arson, criminal homicide, and robbery, while cases of aggravated assault and sex offenses are considered on a case-by-case basis, and Timely Warning Notices may be distributed for other crimes as determined necessary by the Chief of Police or his or her designee.","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":["Lays out the timely-warning trigger crimes and vests authority in the Chief of Police or designee; surfaced via search snippet from the Clery PDF (host 403-blocks direct fetch), so flagged as not byte-confirmed."],"characterCount":314},{"label":"Timely-warning distribution methods","quotedText":"Timely Warning Notices are sent to all students and employees on campus via blast email, posted on the campus police website, shared with the Student Newspaper, or may be posted by the MSUPD in campus buildings when deemed necessary.","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":["Enumerates the multi-channel distribution of timely warnings (distinct from the SMS/email/website set used for emergency notifications); surfaced via search snippet from the Clery PDF, not byte-confirmed against the live document."],"characterCount":233}],"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"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","hbcu","maryland"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-06-21","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":2178},"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":"The emergency notification system will be tested once a semester and over each summer. Additional testing may be conducted as part of drills and exercises, or as necessary.","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":["An explicit published test cadence (per-semester plus summer) stronger than many peers state. Surfaced via the search index (mtholyoke.edu returned HTTP 403), so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":172}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":"RacerAlert emergency notifications are sent to students, faculty, and staff who have provided their cell phone contact information through their MyGate accounts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.murraystate.edu/about/Offices/police/racerAlert/index.aspx","sourceDescription":"RacerAlert, Murray State University","annotations":["Describes the opt-in MyGate registration basis for text delivery; 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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":"NTU complies with federal reporting requirements under the Clery Act and produces an annual Clery Act Crime and Safety Report.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.navajotech.edu/about/disclosures/","sourceDescription":"NTU — Disclosures page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Establishes NTU's Clery posture and its named disclosure document. Surfaced via the search index rather than a confirmed live fetch (navajotech.edu returned HTTP 403), and minor wording (produce vs. produces) varied across snippets, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":126}],"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":"2026-06-21","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). Appeared identically across 2+ independent retrievals (neit.edu host blocked automated fetch)."],"characterCount":106},{"label":"Student enrollment model","quotedText":"All students are enrolled in the ENS system through contact information maintained in the Registrar's Office. 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.","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":["Shows auto-enrollment via Registrar records with opt-in cell texting. 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. 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Corroborated across 2 retrievals."],"characterCount":212},{"label":"Activation threshold (“without delay”)","quotedText":"In the event that a situation arises on campus 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 NEIT's Rave Emergency Notification System.","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":["Core clauses ('ongoing or continuing threat,' 'without delay,' 'through NEIT's Rave Emergency Notification System') each appeared across multiple retrievals, but the full sentence was seen once, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":425}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":"Upon being notified of an emergency on campus, the NJIT Department of Public Safety will immediately dispatch Police Officers to the reported emergency. The only reason NJIT will not immediately issue a notification for an emergency is if in the professional judgment of police officials that the notification will compromise efforts to assist victims or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.","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":["States NJIT's Clery-permitted exception to immediate notification: only withheld if it would compromise victim assistance or emergency response."],"characterCount":415},{"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":"The Campus-Wide Notification System (CWNS) allows NJIT to communicate important information on an expedited basis with students, faculty and staff via text message, phone and email. The CWNS is used only for situations such as delayed openings or closings caused by weather or potential, imminent threats to the safety of the university community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"http://www.njit.edu/campusnotifications","sourceDescription":"NJIT Campus Wide Notification System page","annotations":["Defines the CWNS channel set (text, phone, email) and its explicit scope limitation to weather closings and imminent safety threats."],"characterCount":347},{"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":false,"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":"2026-07-03","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":22711},"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 roughly 22,711 students 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 (~22,711 students). 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"}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":5500},"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":"2026-06-21","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":13800},"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. 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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. 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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). 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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":false,"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":"2026-06-21","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":12000},"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":"2026-06-21","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":"The authority to declare and end a university state of emergency rests with the University President or his/her designee. The University President/designee, in consultation with the University Incident Management Team (IMT), serves as the overall incident command during any minor emergency, major emergency situation.","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":["Centralizes both declaration and incident-command authority in the University President or designee, consulting the Incident Management Team for both minor and major incidents."],"characterCount":318},{"label":"Quarterly Emergency Alert System testing","quotedText":"The EAS is tested quarterly to ensure proper operation. At least one of these tests will include the public address system and will be publicized.","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":["Gives a specific, checkable testing cadence (quarterly) for the outdoor alert system, distinct from the plan's separate annual procedures review by the Department of Public Safety."],"characterCount":146}],"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":38000},"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":"The NU Alert system can deliver voice message, e-mail, text message, and social media posts based on the type of communication required.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://nupd.northeastern.edu/nualert/","sourceDescription":"NU Alerts Emergency Notification System | NUPD","annotations":["Lists the four delivery channels. Marked not verbatim because the exact sentence was surfaced from a 403-blocked page and could not be re-verified against a second identical source; NUPD separately states the system is 'powered by RAVE Mobile Safety.'"],"characterCount":136}],"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"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","rave-alert","nu-alert","massachusetts","private-r1"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-06-21","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":"The purpose of the Northern Arizona University (NAU) Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) is to establish policies, procedures, and an organizational structure for response to major emergencies occurring on or near the campus.","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":["States the plan's core purpose in establishing policy, procedure, and organizational structure for major-emergency response. Captured from search-indexed text rather than a directly fetched copy of the PDF, so flagged unconfirmed."],"characterCount":221},{"label":"ICS/NIMS integration and named hazard types","quotedText":"This plan incorporates operating procedures from the Incident Command System (ICS) and the National Incident Management System (NIMS) for handling major emergencies which disrupt normal campus operations such as, but not limited to: fires, floods, storms, earthquakes, hazardous materials incidents, terrorist threats.","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":["Names the plan's ICS/NIMS operating framework and its illustrative, non-exhaustive list of major-hazard types. Captured from search-indexed text, so flagged unconfirmed."],"characterCount":318},{"label":"NAU Alert as fastest notification channel","quotedText":"NAU Alert is the fastest way to receive notification in the event of an emergency or campus closure.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://nau.edu/about/safety/alerts/","sourceDescription":"NAU Alerts page (captured via search-engine-indexed excerpt)","annotations":["Frames text-based NAU Alert as the university's primary, fastest emergency-notification channel. Captured from search-indexed text, so flagged unconfirmed."],"characterCount":100}],"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-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":1253},"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":"All students and employees should continue to monitor their official NMC email accounts for any announcements, including information that may involve safety precautions, campus closures or impacts to class schedules.","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":["Drawn from a search-engine snippet of an NMC Campus Alert; the marianas.edu host blocked automated fetching, so exact wording could not be verified and isVerbatimConfirmed is set to false."],"characterCount":216},{"label":"Official NMC platforms for announcements","quotedText":"official NMC platforms including the NMC website, NMC Facebook Page, NMC Instagram, and news outlets including radio stations","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":["Enumerates NMC's emergency channels. Reconstructed from a search snippet and not verified word-for-word; isVerbatimConfirmed is false."],"characterCount":125}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":"2026-06-21","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":false,"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":"By October 1 of each year the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report is distributed to full time employees and each residential student living on campus through the internal mail system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://nwc.edu/security/report.html","sourceDescription":"NWC Security & Fire Safety Report - Northwest College","annotations":["Describes NWC's Clery ASR distribution timeline; reconstructed from a single search rendering, not independently re-verified in a second query."],"characterCount":186}],"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":"2026-07-03","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":600},"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":"NWIC uses the RAVE Alert notification system to contact registrants by email and cell-phone text message.","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":["Describes RAVE Alert's email/text delivery for NWIC. Paraphrased from indexed snippets plus the standard Rave Mobile Safety model; the SmartCatalog host returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so exact page wording could not be byte-for-byte confirmed. Marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":105}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":"The Northwestern University Emergency Notification System disseminates timely information to the campus community in the event of a threat to safety affecting the University.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Northwestern Emergency Management - Emergency Notification Systems page (text reproduced via search snippet; official page returned HTTP 403 in this environment)","annotations":["States the system's overall purpose. Reproduced from a search-engine snippet of the official page; could not be re-verified against the live page (HTTP 403), so not marked verbatim-confirmed."],"characterCount":174},{"label":"AlertNU trigger","quotedText":"For an immediate or imminent life safety threat believed to be occurring on or near campus, immediate action is required and community members should follow instructions in AlertNU communications.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Northwestern Emergency Management - Emergency Notification Systems page (reproduced via search snippet; official page HTTP 403)","annotations":["Defines the AlertNU activation threshold (immediate/imminent life-safety threat) and instructs recipients to follow the message's directions. Not verbatim-confirmed because the official page could not be fetched directly."],"characterCount":196},{"label":"Crime Notices / Clery","quotedText":"For incidents of crime considered to be serious or continuing threats to safety, as required by the Clery Act, community members should review the notice in its entirety, including any listed practices that will allow you to protect yourself and aid in the prevention of similar crimes.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Northwestern Emergency Management - Emergency Notification Systems page (reproduced via search snippet; official page HTTP 403)","annotations":["Frames Crime Notices as the Clery-required notice for serious or continuing threats and emphasizes prevention guidance. Not verbatim-confirmed pending direct access to the official page."],"characterCount":286},{"label":"Community self-enrollment","quotedText":"Members of the larger community can enroll in AlertNU for 365 days by texting \"AlertNU\" to 226787 and will receive a confirmation text indicating successful subscription.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Northwestern University Police - Emergency Notifications page (reproduced via search snippet; official page HTTP 403)","annotations":["Documents the public self-enrollment path and its 365-day duration. Not verbatim-confirmed because the official page could not be fetched directly."],"characterCount":170}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":"Norwich University has partnered with RAVE Mobile Safety to implement the Norwich University Emergency Notification System.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.norwich.edu/offices/emergency-information","sourceDescription":"Norwich University, Emergency Information page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Names the RAVE Mobile Safety platform underlying Norwich's branded RAVE Alert system."],"characterCount":123},{"label":"Timely warning decision authority","quotedText":"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.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"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 from search index)","annotations":["Names the Chief of Public Safety, in consultation with senior leadership, as the case-by-case timely-warning decision authority."],"characterCount":219},{"label":"Multi-channel delivery","quotedText":"The alert will be sent to each of the communication devices that a student, faculty, or staff member specifies during their initial registration, including email accounts, cell phones, landlines, and text messaging devices.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.norwich.edu/offices/emergency-information","sourceDescription":"Norwich University, Emergency Information page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Documents the multi-device fan-out model: a single registrant's alert can reach email, cell phone, landline, and text simultaneously."],"characterCount":223}],"keyFindings":["Norwich uses a RAVE Mobile Safety-powered Emergency Notification System, and student registration is mandatory at the start of each fall or spring semester during orientation, unlike the purely opt-in model at many peer institutions.","The Chief of Public Safety, in consultation with University senior leadership, decides case-by-case whether to issue a Clery timely warning; 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":"2026-07-03","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":"When a serious incident occurs that may pose a threat to college community members, the Office of Campus Safety, in conjunction with the offices of the Dean of Students and Communications, issues Timely Warnings in a timely manner to notify the college community members about Clery crimes that occur within the Clery geography of the college community.","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":["Names the decision partners (Campus Safety with Dean of Students and Communications) and Clery-geography scope. Surfaced only as a single paraphrased snippet from a 403-blocked source, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":353}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":1400},"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":"Campus Security is provided by the Oglala Sioux Tribe Public Safety Department, which regularly patrols the campus and District College Centers.","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":["Establishes the Oglala Sioux Tribe Public Safety Department as OLC's campus security. Drawn from indexed snippets; olc.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so exact wording could not be byte-for-byte confirmed. Marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":144},{"label":"Emergency-reporting structure (paraphrased from index)","quotedText":"Any student or staff member who has an emergency may contact the local police by dialing 911 from any of the District Centers, and at Piya Wiconi you must dial 9-911 to reach the emergency police dispatcher.","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":["Documents OLC's decentralized emergency-reporting structure across district centers and Piya Wiconi. Paraphrased from indexed snippets; host returned HTTP 403, so not byte-for-byte confirmed. Marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":207},{"label":"Piya Wiconi emergency handling (paraphrased from index)","quotedText":"Emergencies at Piya Wiconi are reported to Campus Security/Maintenance, who assess the situation and decide if police need to be notified, and all incidents are documented.","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":["Names Campus Security/Maintenance as the first responders/assessors at Piya Wiconi. Paraphrased from indexed snippets; host returned HTTP 403, so not byte-for-byte confirmed. Marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":172}],"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"}],"confidence":"low","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","tribal-college","south-dakota","pine-ridge","oglala-sioux","thin-documentation"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-06-21","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":"2026-06-21","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":23000},"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":"2026-06-21","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":37900},"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":"2026-06-21","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. Appeared identically across 2+ independent retrievals (pct.edu host blocked automated fetch)."],"characterCount":377},{"label":"PCT Alerts definition + channels","quotedText":"PCT Alerts is a messaging system designed to alert employees and students of situations that may require immediate attention. Employees and students who register for PCT Alerts can receive text and/or voicemail messages on their cell phones. PCT Alert messages are also sent to all college email addresses, and they may be posted on the home page of the college's public website and the college's Facebook page.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://pctoday.pct.edu/closings-delayed-starts","sourceDescription":"Penn College — Guidelines for college closings, delayed starts, emergencies","annotations":["Defines PCT Alerts and its channels (text/voice opt-in; email automatic; website/Facebook). 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. 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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":"2026-06-21","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":88914},"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":false,"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."],"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":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":["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."],"characterCount":258},{"label":"Emergency Notification definition","quotedText":"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.","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":["States the confirmation + immediate-threat threshold for an emergency notification. Not verbatim-confirmed because the official page could not be fetched directly."],"characterCount":227},{"label":"Responsible University Authority","quotedText":"A Responsible University Authority is defined as a Penn State employee that has the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to evaluate whether or not a particular event requires an emergency notification and to determine if such a notification would compromise the efforts to contain the emergency.","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":["Defines the decision authority for issuing emergency notifications and the contain-the-emergency consideration. Reproduced from the 2025 ASR via search; not verbatim-confirmed because the PDF could not be fetched directly."],"characterCount":302}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":10000},"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"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","everbridge","livesafe","emergency-operations-committee","private-r2","california"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-06-21","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":41000},"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":"2026-06-21","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":"When an incident constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat, a campus-wide \"timely warning\" will be issued. The warning will be issued through University e-mail, text alert, and web systems to students, faculty, and staff.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.plymouth.edu/police/services/laws-policies","sourceDescription":"Plymouth State University Police Department, Laws and Policies","annotations":["States the trigger (ongoing/continuing threat) and the three delivery channels for a campus-wide timely warning."],"characterCount":223},{"label":"Case-by-case decision factors","quotedText":"The decision to issue a timely warning should be made on a case-by-case basis, taking into account the nature of the crime, the danger to the campus community, and the possible risk of compromising law enforcement efforts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.plymouth.edu/police/services/laws-policies","sourceDescription":"Plymouth State University Police Department, Laws and Policies","annotations":["The standard Clery three-factor case-by-case test, applied by Plymouth State's UPD."],"characterCount":222},{"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":false,"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":"Once you register, the system sends a test text message to your phone to validate your account. Additionally, students may add a parent/guardian phone number as a secondary contact.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.plymouth.edu/about/emergency-information/emergency-text-alert-system","sourceDescription":"Plymouth State University, Emergency Text Alert System","annotations":["Documents the validation-text signup step and the option to extend reach to a parent or guardian's phone."],"characterCount":181}],"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":"2026-07-03","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/2024/10/Clery-Report-2024-POM.pdf","lastReviewed":"2024-10-01"},"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/2024/10/Clery-Report-2024-POM.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/2024/10/Clery-Report-2024-POM.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.","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":"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.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://services.claremont.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Clery-Report-2024-POM.pdf","sourceDescription":"Pomona College — 2024 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (PDF; host blocked automated fetch, text from search index)","annotations":["Sets the Clery activation standard — 'upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation ... immediate threat to the health or safety.' Surfaced via the search index; the claremont.edu ASR PDF blocked automated fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":236},{"label":"Campus Public Alert System (49 broadcast stations)","quotedText":"Pomona College has 49 emergency alert broadcast stations located throughout the campus that can be used as a public address system. In an emergency, they will be used to broadcast warning tones and short messages.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pomona.edu/emergency/preparation/campus","sourceDescription":"Pomona College — Campus Emergency Communications (host reachable via search index)","annotations":["Documents the hardened outdoor PA layer — 49 broadcast stations, some with blue-light emergency phones to Campus Safety — that does not depend on personal devices. Surfaced via the search index, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":213},{"label":"Timely warning decision matrix / seven-year retention","quotedText":"A timely warning notice decision matrix/timely warning notice determination form will be used in the decision-making process to document the decision to alert or not to alert the community.","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":["Requires a documented decision matrix / determination form for every timely-warning alert-or-not decision, with the completed form retained by TCC for a seven-year period — an auditable paper trail. Surfaced via the search index, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":189},{"label":"Definition of 'timely'","quotedText":"For purposes of this policy, \"timely\" means as soon as reasonably practicable, after an incident has been reported to: Campus Safety, one of the Campus Security Authorities (CSAs) identified by each College, or a local police agency.","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":["Defines the timely-warning clock — 'as soon as reasonably practicable' after a report to Campus Safety, a CSA, or local police. Surfaced via the search index, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":233}],"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 — 2024 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (PDF)","url":"https://services.claremont.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Clery-Report-2024-POM.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":"2026-06-21","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":19951},"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 19,951 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":false,"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":"2026-06-22","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":9000},"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":"Upon 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, 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.","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":["Vests activation authority in the Chief of Police/designee and adopts the Clery 668.46(g) 'without delay' standard; surfaced via search snippet from the Clery PDF (host 403-blocks direct fetch), so flagged as not byte-confirmed."],"characterCount":333},{"label":"Panther Alert testing cadence","quotedText":"The Clery Coordinator tests the Panther Alert system on a monthly basis. The Clery Coordinator tests the Timely Warning notification system on a quarterly basis.","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":["Distinctively granular testing cadence (monthly Panther Alert, quarterly timely warning) exceeding the federal minimum; surfaced via search snippet from the Clery PDF, not byte-confirmed against the live document."],"characterCount":161},{"label":"Rave Alert channels and opt-in","quotedText":"RAVE Alert allows alerts to be sent to Students & Faculty/Staff via phone call, text message, email and push notifications to RAVE Guardian App. Additionally, RAVE Alert allows parents, friends, and community members to receive alerts via text message by opting into messages.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pvamu.edu/emergency/","sourceDescription":"Prairie View A&M University — Panther Alert System page","annotations":["Documents the four core channels plus the public opt-in (text-only) tier after the Spring 2022 migration from Blackboard Connect to Rave Alert; surfaced via search snippet, not byte-confirmed against the live page."],"characterCount":276}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":"Examples of situations that may warrant an emergency notification include armed/hostile intruder, bomb/explosives threat, communicable disease outbreak, severe weather, terrorist incident, civil unrest, natural disaster, and hazardous materials incident.","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":["One of the more explicitly enumerated activation-criteria lists in this archive: eight named incident categories rather than a single open-ended standard."],"characterCount":254},{"label":"Timely warning issuance and approval chain","quotedText":"In the event a crime is reported within the Pratt Institute Clery Geography on campus, public property, and non-campus that in the judgement of the director of Pratt campus safety or designee constitutes an ongoing or serious threat, a campus-wide 'timely warning' will be issued by the director of Pratt campus safety or their designee, with the approval of the assistant vice president for campus safety and preparedness.","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":["Names both an issuing official (director of Pratt Campus Safety or designee) and an approving official (assistant vice president for campus safety and preparedness) in a single decision chain."],"characterCount":423},{"label":"Pratt Emergency Alert System sign-up","quotedText":"Signing up for the Pratt Emergency Alert System is the critical first step to ensure you get vital information about any building or campus emergencies, campus closings, and weather emergencies.","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":["Frames registration as opt-in and 'critical,' consistent with a text/email system that only reaches self-enrolled community members."],"characterCount":194},{"label":"Testing cadence","quotedText":"The emergency mass notification system is tested twice annually.","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":["A concrete, published twice-a-year testing cadence, more specific than many peer policies in this archive."],"characterCount":64}],"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":8500},"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":"Princeton University issues a timely warning for any Clery Act crime that represents a serious or continuing threat to students and employees, and also issues emergency notifications 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":false,"sourceUrl":"https://publicsafety.princeton.edu/safety/alerts-warnings","sourceDescription":"Alerts & Warnings, Princeton Department of Public Safety","annotations":["Reproduced from the Department of Public Safety / Annual Security Report via search-result text; the .edu host 403-blocks direct fetching in this environment, so marked not-confirmed despite the standard Clery phrasing."],"characterCount":358}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":"2026-06-21","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":1600},"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":"Those with the authority 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.","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":["Lists the named positions authorized to issue a Timely Warning Notice — an unusually explicit decision chain for a small college. Surfaced via the search index; reed.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":222}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":"Campus Safety Administrators, or their respective designees, will review all such reports to determine if there is a serious or on-going threat to the community and if the distribution of a RU Alert is warranted.","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":["Describes the review step performed by Campus Safety Administrators before an RU Alert is distributed."],"characterCount":212},{"label":"Automatic RegisNet enrollment","quotedText":"All RegisNet users are automatically enrolled to receive real-time campus safety updates via email.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"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":"2026-07-03","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":8973},"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":"2026-06-21","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; text corroborated across independent search-index queries appearing on multiple official Ringling College pages)","annotations":["This exact sentence recurred identically across independent search queries and multiple official Ringling College pages (Alerts and Public Safety)."],"characterCount":196},{"label":"Automatic enrollment","quotedText":"All students and employees with a valid Ringling College email address are automatically added to the distribution list for alerts when they join the College.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ringling.edu/about/news-and-events/alerts/","sourceDescription":"Ringling College of Art and Design, Alerts page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Documents automatic, not opt-in, enrollment tied to a Ringling College email account."],"characterCount":158},{"label":"Trigger standard","quotedText":"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.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ringling.edu/campus-and-student-life/student-support-services/public-safety/","sourceDescription":"Ringling College of Art and Design, Public Safety page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Combines criminal and natural-hazard triggers under a single 'ongoing threat' standard rather than separate Clery categories."],"characterCount":223},{"label":"Testing cadence","quotedText":"The system is tested twice a year.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.ringling.edu/about/news-and-events/alerts/","sourceDescription":"Ringling College of Art and Design, Alerts page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["A concrete, published twice-a-year testing cadence."],"characterCount":34}],"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":"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":"Rowan Alerts and Rowan Timely Warnings are designed to alert the campus community (students, employees, and often guests) to potential threats or other concerning situations that are occurring on campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://sites.rowan.edu/publicsafety/clery/aboutemergencynotifications.html","sourceDescription":"Rowan University Public Safety, About Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings","annotations":["Establishes Rowan's two-track Clery naming convention (Rowan Alerts vs. Rowan Timely Warnings); Rowan also maintains a separate, non-Clery Rowan Advisories product not covered by this excerpt."],"characterCount":203},{"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":false,"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":"2026-07-03","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":"2026-06-21","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":17059},"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":"SLU alerts inform the campus community of immediate action steps that will preserve safety. Notifications will be issued and shall be continually updated until it has been determined that the threat is contained or ended.","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":["Commits SLU to continual updates until the threat is contained or ended, defining the 'all clear' obligation. Surfaced via the search index; slu.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":221},{"label":"Immediate-threat Clery trigger","quotedText":"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.","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":["Anchors the SLU Alert trigger to the federal Clery immediate-threat standard, including the 'segment of the community' targeting option. Surfaced via the search index rather than a confirmed live fetch, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":251},{"label":"Multi-channel SLU Alert reach","quotedText":"The SLU Alert emergency notification system allows the University to reach students, faculty, staff and visitors within minutes through text messages, cell phones, landlines, emails and digital signage.","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":["Lists the SLU Alert delivery channels (text, cell, landline, email, digital signage) and the 'within minutes' reach goal. Surfaced via the search index, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":202}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":700},"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":"SKC has partnered with Rave Mobile Safety to offer an emergency notification system, Rave Alert, capable of sending users text, voice, and email messages.","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":["Drawn from the SKC online-catalog description as surfaced in the search index; the catalog host (skc.smartcatalogiq.com) returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so exact page wording could not be byte-for-byte confirmed. Marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":154}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":45000},"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. Reproduced consistently across multiple independent retrievals of the official policy page; slcc.edu 403-blocks direct fetch, so it could not be byte-confirmed against the live page."],"characterCount":145},{"label":"Timely-warning distribution channels","quotedText":"Timely Warnings 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.","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":["Email is the default channel for timely warnings, with text, posters, desktop alerts, and website as additional channels 'when appropriate.' Reproduced consistently across retrievals; slcc.edu 403-blocks direct fetch."],"characterCount":187},{"label":"Issuing authority and timing","quotedText":"If the Timely Warning criteria are met, a notice will be drafted using crime-specific templates and issued by the executive director of Public Safety or designee as soon as pertinent information is available.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"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":["Names the executive director of Public Safety (or designee) as issuer and sets 'as soon as pertinent information is available' as the timing standard. Reconstructed from a search-snippet paraphrase of the policy that may not be word-for-word; slcc.edu 403-blocks direct fetch, so flagged reconstructed."],"characterCount":208},{"label":"Emergency Alert System safety directions","quotedText":"Alerts include safety directions, such as \"evacuate\" or \"secure in place.\"","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.slcc.edu/_announcements/emergency-alert-signup.aspx","sourceDescription":"SLCC Emergency Alert System Sign-Up Info page","annotations":["Shows the EAS carries actionable protective directions, not just notice of an event. 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"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","community-college","slcc","utah"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-06-21","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":"2026-06-21","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":22563},"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":"2026-06-21","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":"2026-06-21","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":8900},"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"}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":"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.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://admin.smc.edu/administration/police/documents/2025annualsecurityreport.pdf","sourceDescription":"SMC Police Department 2025 Annual Security Report","annotations":["Draws the standard Clery two-instrument distinction. Captured from search-snippet rendering of the ASR PDF; the admin.smc.edu host 403-blocks direct fetch and exact wording could not be byte-confirmed across multiple identical retrievals, so flagged isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":232},{"label":"Annual testing of communication methods","quotedText":"All emergency communication methods are tested annually, at minimum.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://admin.smc.edu/administration/police/documents/2025annualsecurityreport.pdf","sourceDescription":"SMC Police Department 2025 Annual Security Report","annotations":["Documents a testing cadence (at least annual) plus regular evacuation drills. Captured from search-snippet rendering of the ASR PDF; host 403-blocks direct fetch, so exact wording is unconfirmed and flagged isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":68}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":"Emergency notifications are also sent via SPU-Alert, displayed on electronic reader boards, announced on the outdoor public address system, and announced by Building Emergency Coordinators.","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":["Documents four parallel notification channels beyond the alert platform itself: digital reader boards, outdoor PA, and human relay via Building Emergency Coordinators."],"characterCount":189},{"label":"Reporting channel","quotedText":"To report a campus emergency, call the Office of Safety and Security at 206-281-2911 or dial x2911 from any campus phone. An OSS dispatcher is on duty at all times to receive calls regarding crime reports.","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":["Establishes the always-staffed OSS dispatch line as the University's single point of report intake for both crimes and emergencies."],"characterCount":205},{"label":"Testing tied to drills","quotedText":"The University conducts tests of the SPU-Alert system in connection with drills.","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":["States that system testing is exercised alongside emergency drills rather than run as an isolated technical check."],"characterCount":80},{"label":"Reporting protects the community","quotedText":"Reporting incidents to OSS is important because it can help the University take action that may prevent harm to yourself and other members of the community by sending emergency notifications or timely warning messages.","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":["Explicitly links individual incident reporting to the University's ability to issue emergency notifications or timely warnings, framing reporting itself as protective."],"characterCount":218}],"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":"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":false,"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":"Alert Me emergency notification system (by ReGroup): All College-issued email addresses will receive emergency notifications through our Alert Me system automatically.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sheridan.edu/student-life/campus-safety/emergency-notifications/","sourceDescription":"Emergency Notifications - Sheridan College","annotations":["Names the Regroup-based \"Alert Me\" system and confirms automatic enrollment of all college-issued email addresses; reconstructed from indexed page text."],"characterCount":167},{"label":"NWCCD Alert app features","quotedText":"It includes an emergency option that dials campus police; iReport, where the user can communicate, with an option to remain anonymous, to campus police about a potentially harmful situation, with the possibility of also attaching a photo or video; and Safety Escort, where an officer accompanies a student to a dorm or campus building.","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":["Describes the companion NWCCD Alert mobile app's three features, distinct from the Alert Me mass-notification channel itself; from a student-newspaper source, reconstructed rather than a direct quote lift."],"characterCount":335}],"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":"2026-07-03","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":"The Dayton campus has a campus-wide 1500 speaker sound system that is used for lockdowns or other emergency announcements, and it covers the exterior of all campus buildings and the parking garages.","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":["Documents an unusually large outdoor PA layer — 1,500 speakers covering all building exteriors and parking garages — used for lockdowns. Surfaced via the search index; the sinclair.edu host returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":198},{"label":"Nixle crime-alert distribution and crime list","quotedText":"Sinclair Police make timely warning reports to the campus community of serious crimes, such as murder, manslaughter, robbery, arson, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft, rape and hate crime.","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":["Lists the specific serious crimes that trigger a Sinclair Police timely warning. Surfaced via the search index, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":204},{"label":"Discretionary authorizing authority","quotedText":"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.","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":["Names a notably broad set of officers authorized to trigger an alert, with consultation expected among those available if time permits. Surfaced via the search index, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":168}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":"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.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sintegleska.edu/security","sourceDescription":"SGU — Security page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Establishes that SGU's safety documentation is framed by the Clery Act. Surfaced via the search index rather than a confirmed live fetch (sintegleska.edu blocked automated access), so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":227},{"label":"Annual October 1 notice of availability","quotedText":"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.","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":["Documents email as the confirmed distribution channel for SGU's required Clery disclosures — an annual mechanism, not a real-time emergency notifier. Surfaced via the search index, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":222},{"label":"Prompt crime-reporting encouragement","quotedText":"Sinte Gleska University encourages accurate and prompt reporting of all crimes to campus security and appropriate police agencies.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sintegleska.edu/security","sourceDescription":"SGU — Security page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Reflects SGU's reporting posture but does not establish a real-time alerting threshold. Surfaced via the search index, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":130}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":300},"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":"Issuing Emergency Notifications ... TIMELY WARNINGS ... Timely Warnings Policy and Procedures ... Decision to Issue a Timely Warning","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":["These are the named section headings in SBC's 2025 ASR that demonstrate distinct Clery emergency-notification and timely-warning procedures. Surfaced via the search index; sittingbull.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so the surrounding policy prose could not be byte-for-byte confirmed. Marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":132},{"label":"Emergency-notification sign-up (paraphrased from index)","quotedText":"Students who wish to sign up can receive emergency notifications by email or phone.","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":["Indicates SBC's notification reach is partly opt-in via email or phone. Drawn from indexed snippets of SBC material; the host returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so exact page wording could not be byte-for-byte confirmed. Marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":83}],"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":"2026-06-21","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"},"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":"The college has an emergency mass notification system that is activated when there is an immediate threat to the campus community, with notifications sent via text message, voice message and email.","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":["States the 'immediate threat' activation threshold and the text/voice/email channel set. This is a close paraphrase surfaced via the search index (smith.edu returned HTTP 403), so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":197}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":3500},"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":"Notification to the community of the immediate threat shall be given in collaboration with the Office of External Affairs and Communications and the UCITS department without delay. Communications utilizing e-mail, text, audible siren, loudspeaker, campus telecommunication lines, and the Rave Guardian app Campus Emergency Notification System will enable students and employees to better protect themselves and save lives.","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":["Establishes 'without delay' timing, the collaborating offices, and an unusually broad channel set (siren and loudspeaker alongside email/text/phone/Rave). Recovered from a search-index snippet of the official ASR PDF, which returned HTTP 403 to direct fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false despite being substantively accurate and corroborated across report years."],"characterCount":422},{"label":"Timely-warning dissemination (ASR)","quotedText":"When there is a serious or continuing threat to students and employees, SC State University DPS will issue a campus-wide \"timely warning\" notice. The timely warning notice will then be forwarded to the Public Relations Director and disseminated to the University community.","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":["Sets the 'serious or continuing threat' standard for Clery timely warnings and the DPS-to-Public-Relations dissemination chain. Captured from the search index of the official ASR PDF (HTTP 403 on direct fetch), so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":273}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":12065},"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 a record ~12,065 students in fall 2024. 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 (~12,065 students, fall 2024) 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"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","campus-alert-system","everbridge","alertus","public-r2","south-dakota"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-06-21","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":6713},"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":"More updates will be made via campus email and the Jags Safe app available on Apple and Android platforms.","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":["Identifies campus email and the Jags Safe app as the active update channels; surfaced via a search snippet from a Southern University campus-alert notice (host 403-blocks direct fetch), so flagged as not byte-confirmed."],"characterCount":106}],"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"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","hbcu","louisiana","jags-safe"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-06-21","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":2600},"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":"Spelman ALERT is 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.","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":["Defines the system and enumerates its three delivery channels (email, voice, text); surfaced via repeated search snippets from the Spelman Public Safety pages (host 403-blocks direct fetch), so flagged as not byte-confirmed."],"characterCount":201},{"label":"Automatic email enrollment","quotedText":"Everyone who has a Spelman College e-mail address will receive emergency alerts to their campus e-mail address.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.spelman.edu/student-life/public-safety/public-safety-frequently-asked-questions.html","sourceDescription":"Spelman College Public Safety FAQ","annotations":["Establishes that email delivery is automatic for all account holders, with text/voice requiring opt-in phone information; surfaced via search snippet, not byte-confirmed against the live page."],"characterCount":111},{"label":"Without-delay notification standard (2025 ASR)","quotedText":"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.","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":["Reproduces the Clery 668.46(g) emergency-notification trigger including the standard mitigation exception; surfaced via search snippet from the ASR PDF (host 403-blocks direct fetch), so flagged as not byte-confirmed."],"characterCount":261},{"label":"Annual testing of notification and evacuation systems","quotedText":"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.","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":["States the at-least-annual testing cadence and the announced/unannounced + documented-results practice required by the Clery Act; surfaced via search snippet from the ASR PDF, not byte-confirmed against the live document."],"characterCount":205}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":"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.","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":["Documents a specific three-step draft, review, and final-review sequence between University Police and the Office of Communications rather than a single-office sign-off."],"characterCount":252},{"label":"Sexual assault and the limits of timeliness","quotedText":"In cases involving sexual assault, they are often reported long after the incident occurred, thus there is no ability to distribute a 'timely' warning notice to the community. All cases of sexual assault, including stranger and non-stranger/acquaintance cases, will be assessed for potential issuance of a Timely Warning Notice.","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":["An unusually direct acknowledgment that reporting delays common in sexual assault cases can defeat the purpose of a 'timely' warning, while still committing to assess every case for issuance."],"characterCount":328},{"label":"More likely than not confirmation standard","quotedText":"St. Mary's University Police will confirm 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 St. Mary's University Community, using the determination of 'more likely than not' to confirm an immediate threat.","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":["Names a specific evidentiary threshold, 'more likely than not,' for the emergency-notification confirmation decision, more precise than the undefined 'confirmed' standard many institutions publish."],"characterCount":291}],"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":17000},"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":"2026-06-21","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":"2026-06-21","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":"StrayerALERT will use email and text messaging to quickly inform students of a campus emergency.","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":["Defines the system and its two channels (email, text). Appeared across 2+ retrievals but could not be opened at the source (HTTP 403), so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":96},{"label":"Decision authority (Crisis Response Team)","quotedText":"If it is determined that an emergency notification should be sent, a member of the Crisis Response Team will send the notification through Strayer University's third-party notification service provider and iCampus, with certain messages pre-formulated to expedite the notification process.","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":["Names the Crisis Response Team as the activation authority and the pre-formulated-message practice. Snippet-only (HTTP 403), so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":289},{"label":"Activation call procedure","quotedText":"any employee who is aware of the emergency should call 9-1-1 and alert the members of the Crisis Response Team by calling 877-616-7878.","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":["Documents the 9-1-1-first activation sequence and the Crisis Response Team hotline. Single strong retrieval; marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":135}],"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":"wikipedia"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","for-profit","washington-dc","strayeralert","everbridge","rave","crisis-response-team"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-06-21","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":"SwatSafe is the official safety app of Swarthmore College and is the only app that integrates with Swarthmore College's safety and security systems.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.swarthmore.edu/public-safety","sourceDescription":"Swarthmore College — Public Safety (host reachable only via search index)","annotations":["Identifies SwatSafe as the integrated official safety app that pushes alerts and accepts reports to DPS. Surfaced via the search index rather than a byte-for-byte fetch, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":148},{"label":"Phone-system emergency notification tools","quotedText":"The College's voicemail system has the ability to send a single voicemail message to all students, all faculty and staff, or to the full campus community, and these alerts will activate the message light on all campus Cisco phones.","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":["Documents the campus-voicemail/Cisco-phone blast channel that is central to Swarthmore's phone-system-based notification toolset. Surfaced via the search index, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":231},{"label":"Externally hosted emergency website","quotedText":"The College also maintains an externally-hosted emergency website at http://emergency.swarthmore.edu/, which is always live and can be updated with information about an ongoing emergency.","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":["Establishes an always-live, off-campus-hosted emergency site as a resilient channel that survives a campus outage. Surfaced via the search index, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":187}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":22698},"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":"Orange Alert is Syracuse University's crisis notification system, designed to provide rapid notification and instruction to SU students, faculty and staff, and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry 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.","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":["Defines Orange Alert, its audience (including SUNY-ESF students), and the in-progress / immediate-threat trigger. Reproduced consistently across searches; not verbatim-confirmed because the official page could not be fetched directly."],"characterCount":358},{"label":"Orange Alert channels","quotedText":"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 of what to do.","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":["Enumerates the Orange Alert delivery channels. Reproduced consistently across searches; not verbatim-confirmed because the official page could not be fetched directly."],"characterCount":229},{"label":"Timely warning message types","quotedText":"A Public Safety Notice designates a timely warning related to an ongoing concern for violence. Public Safety Information designates a warning related to an ongoing property crime problem or about general safety-related information. Public Safety Update provides information regarding a threat that has passed or an update to a previously issued Public Safety Notice.","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":["Defines SU's three Clery timely-warning message labels (Notice / Information / Update). Reproduced via search; not verbatim-confirmed because the official page could not be fetched directly."],"characterCount":366},{"label":"Siren test cadence","quotedText":"The Orange Alert siren has a Test mode consisting of a seven-second single alarm every Saturday at 1 p.m. and in conjunction with Orange Alert tests each semester.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://news.syr.edu/blog/2009/08/28/sireninstructions/","sourceDescription":"Syracuse University News - Orange Alert siren instructions (reproduced via search)","annotations":["States the weekly siren test (seven-second single alarm, Saturdays at 1 p.m.) and the per-semester full Orange Alert tests. Reproduced via search of Syracuse University News."],"characterCount":163}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":50000},"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":"2026-06-21","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":33530},"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":"TUalerts are sent in accordance with the Temple University Emergency Communications and Timely Warnings Policy.","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":["Ties TUalert messages to the named Emergency Communications and Timely Warnings Policy. Reproduced consistently across searches; not verbatim-confirmed because the official page could not be fetched directly."],"characterCount":111},{"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":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":["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":"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.","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":["Distributes send authority across TUPD, Office of Emergency Management, Facilities Management, and other authorized users. Reproduced via search; not verbatim-confirmed because the official page could not be fetched directly."],"characterCount":189},{"label":"Timely warning definition","quotedText":"Timely warnings are used to communicate information about events that show a pattern that suggests an on-going threat to the community. In isolation, these events may seem innocuous, but taken together, indicate a need for increased vigilance or safety precautions.","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":["Defines a timely warning as a pattern-of-events notification distinct from an immediate-threat emergency notification. Reproduced via search; not verbatim-confirmed because the official page could not be fetched directly."],"characterCount":265}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":8000},"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":"Phone calls, emails and text are sent to all Tennessee State University Tiger Alert accounts during an emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tnstate.edu/emergency/ens.aspx","sourceDescription":"Tennessee State University Emergency Notification System page","annotations":["Enumerates the three Tiger Alert delivery channels (phone, email, text); reproduced consistently across the Emergency Notification System and Emergency Notifications pages but surfaced via search snippet (host 403-blocks direct fetch), so flagged as not byte-confirmed."],"characterCount":113},{"label":"Tiger Alert critical-information capability","quotedText":"Tiger ALERTS can send a text message, email, and phone call delivering critical information during a campus emergency situation.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tnstate.edu/pr/notifications.aspx","sourceDescription":"Tennessee State University Emergency Notifications page","annotations":["Describes Tiger Alert's purpose and channel set; surfaced via search snippet from the TSU Emergency Notifications page, not byte-confirmed against the live page."],"characterCount":128},{"label":"Conditions that necessitate an alert","quotedText":"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.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tnstate.edu/emergency/ens.aspx","sourceDescription":"Tennessee State University Emergency Notification System / Emergency Management pages","annotations":["Lists the activation conditions spanning both Clery categories (certain crimes plus immediate threats); surfaced via search snippet from the TSU emergency pages, not byte-confirmed against the live document."],"characterCount":231}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":"2026-06-21","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":9000},"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":"Timely Warnings and Campus Crime Alerts will not include the name of the victim(s).","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":["Privacy guardrail consistent with Clery practice. Surfaced via the search index; the ASR PDF returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so the surrounding context could not be byte-for-byte confirmed and is marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":83},{"label":"Blue-light emergency phones supplement","quotedText":"Emergency blue light phones provide a direct and immediate line to University Police, ensuring rapid response in urgent situations.","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":["Describes the fixed-location supplemental channel. Surfaced via the search index rather than a confirmed live fetch (tsu.edu returned HTTP 403), so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":131}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":"2026-06-21","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":41499},"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":"2026-06-21","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":"All campus users with citadel.edu email accounts are automatically registered for Bulldog Alert emails.","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":["Describes the email channel as auto-enrolled from a citadel.edu account, distinct from the opt-in phone/text channels registered via PAWS and WISE."],"characterCount":103},{"label":"Emergency notification versus timely warning","quotedText":"An 'emergency notification' is broader than a 'timely warning.' 'Timely Warnings' address certain criminal actions that represent a serious or ongoing threat to the campus community, whereas 'emergency notifications' may address both criminal actions and other significant incidents or emergencies, such as weather and medical emergencies.","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":["States the Clery-standard scope distinction between timely warnings and the broader category of emergency notifications in The Citadel's own report language."],"characterCount":339}],"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":"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":"2026-06-21","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":60000},"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":"2026-06-21","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":40000},"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":"2026-06-21","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":13191},"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":"Southern Miss students, faculty and staff are required to participate via email, and while full participation is highly encouraged, have the option to opt-out of participation by text and phone messages.","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":["Establishes mandatory email coverage with opt-out text/voice. Surfaced via the search index; usm.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":203}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":53082},"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":"2026-06-21","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)"},"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":"TCC Alerts is an emergency notification service available to faculty, staff, and students that operates as a closed, opt-out system and can be used to send emergency messages within minutes of the occurrence of an incident.","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":["Establishes the closed/opt-out enrollment model and the 'within minutes' timing expectation. Drawn from the 2024 ASR via the search index; the tcc.edu host returned HTTP 403 and the ASR is a large PDF, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":223},{"label":"Multi-channel delivery list","quotedText":"During an emergency, severe weather event, or other time-sensitive situation impacting the college community, TCC officials can send notifications to subscribed phone numbers, email addresses, assigned college office phones and college monitors (that are turned on).","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":["Lists an unusually broad channel set for a community college — phones, email, office phones and powered-on digital monitors. Surfaced via the search index, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":266},{"label":"Purpose / instruction framing","quotedText":"TCC Alerts is your 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.","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":["Frames alerts around actionable protective instructions rather than mere notification. Surfaced via the search index, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":168}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":1174},"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":"Sign up for TOCC Alerts to receive important safety notifications in the event of a campus emergency.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tocc.edu/campus-safety-security","sourceDescription":"TOCC — Campus Security page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Establishes TOCC Alerts as the opt-in campus emergency-notification subscription. Surfaced via the search index rather than a confirmed live fetch (tocc.edu blocked automated access), so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false; the exact lead-in ('Sign up for') is reconstructed from the snippet's enrollment framing."],"characterCount":101},{"label":"Clery disclosure of policies and statistics","quotedText":"The College provides to all prospective students and employees the Campus Security Policies and Procedures and the most recent campus crime statistics as part of the Student Right-to-Know and the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tocc.edu/campus-safety-security","sourceDescription":"TOCC — Campus Security page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Documents TOCC's Clery disclosure obligation to share security policies and crime statistics with prospective students and employees. Surfaced via the search index, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":278},{"label":"Reliance on Tohono O'odham Nation Police","quotedText":"If you are a victim of a crime or witness any crimes or suspicious circumstances, call Tohono O'odham Nation Police Department at 520-383-3276 immediately.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tocc.edu/campus-safety-security","sourceDescription":"TOCC — Campus Security page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Shows TOCC's jurisdictional model — campus security coordinates with the Nation's police rather than a stand-alone campus PD, characteristic of colleges on sovereign tribal land. Surfaced via the search index, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":155}],"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":"wikipedia"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","tribal-college","arizona","tocc-alerts","tribal-police-jurisdiction"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-06-22","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":"Such emergencies can occur at any time and without warning, but their effects can be minimized if proper emergency procedures are followed.","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":["States the rationale for Tougaloo's pre-planned emergency procedures. Surfaced via the search index rather than a confirmed live fetch (tougaloo.edu returned HTTP 403), so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":139}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":19777},"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"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery-act","tu-alert","public-masters","maryland","usm","multi-channel"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-06-21","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":"If you do not wish to receive emergency text messages from TuftsAlert, please text STOP to 67283 and your cell phone number will be removed from the system.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://emergency.tufts.edu/alert/faq/","sourceDescription":"TuftsAlert Frequently Asked Questions | Tufts OEM","annotations":["Documents the opt-out mechanism. Marked not verbatim because the exact sentence was surfaced from a 403-blocked FAQ page and could not be re-verified against a second identical source."],"characterCount":156}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":15000},"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":"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.","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":["Reconstructed from quoted ASR language surfaced in search; the official .edu PDF host 403-blocks direct fetch, so marked unconfirmed pending byte-for-byte verification."],"characterCount":254}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":599},"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":"Turtle Mountain Community College has adopted the ALERTNOW Notification Service which will allow them to send a telephone or e-mail message providing important information about school events or emergencies.","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":["Establishes ALERTNOW as a combined routine-and-emergency notifier delivered by automated phone call and email. Surfaced via the search index rather than a confirmed live fetch (tm.edu returned no direct automated access), so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":207},{"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":"An SMS (text message) option for ALERTNOW is available; each person who wants to use it must opt-in to receive text messages.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tm.edu/departments/it_department/alertnow/","sourceDescription":"TMCC — IT Department, ALERTNOW page (paraphrase of indexed snippet)","annotations":["Documents that text alerts are opt-in, not automatic — recipients must contact the IT Department (477-7984) for the registration pin. This is reconstructed from the indexed snippet and is marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false; phone and email are the guaranteed channels, SMS is supplemental."],"characterCount":125}],"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":"wikipedia"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","tribal-college","north-dakota","alertnow","blackboard-connect","thin-documentation"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-06-22","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; reproduced from the TUPD Emergency Preparedness Plan."],"characterCount":259},{"label":"Opt-in registration and channels","quotedText":"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 by downloading the RAVE Secure App.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tuskegee.edu/alert/index.html","sourceDescription":"Tiger Alert page, Tuskegee University","annotations":["Establishes that email is limited to campus accounts and that voice/text require opt-in registration, with the Rave/TU Secure app as the enrollment channel; reproduced from the Tiger Alert page."],"characterCount":226},{"label":"Timely warning standard","quotedText":"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.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tuskegee.edu/police/Clery_Report_Crime_and_Safety_Report_2025_2.pdf","sourceDescription":"Tuskegee University 2025 Crime, Fire and Safety Report","annotations":["States the Clery timely-warning trigger and timeliness language; surfaced via a search snippet from the Clery report (host 403-blocks direct fetch), so flagged as not byte-confirmed."],"characterCount":155}],"keyFindings":["Tiger Alert is Tuskegee University's emergency notification system, operated by TUPD and delivering mass email, text, and voicemail alerts to the campus community.","In 2025 the University moved Tiger Alert onto the Rave Mobile Safety (Rave Alert) platform, paired with the TU Secure mobile app, officially launched April 7, 2025.","Voice and text delivery are opt-in via TigerWeb registration; 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":"2026-06-21","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":"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 the authority to launch the timely warning or emergency notification as the Director's designee.","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":["Explicitly time-shifts launch authority from a business-hours role to an overnight Duty Supervisor, closing the gap a single-named-official policy would leave after hours."],"characterCount":278},{"label":"Two-part timely warning test","quotedText":"A timely warning is a notification to Union College faculty, staff, students, and known visitors that will be issued when both elements are present: a Clery crime has been reported to Campus Safety which occurred on Union College Clery geography, and the Director of Campus Safety or designee has determined that the crime poses a serious or continuing threat to the campus community.","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; 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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":"The AtHoc system is not used for regular communication, but rather only for emergency notifications or information related to abnormal events (i.e. extreme weather, base level threats).","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":["States affirmatively that AtHoc is reserved for emergency/abnormal-event use, explicitly naming extreme weather and base-level threats as examples, and disclaiming routine use."],"characterCount":185},{"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":false,"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":"The emergency alert notification service gives the Academy the ability to communicate health, safety or emergency information quickly using text messaging or desktop alerts.","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":["Names the two delivery channels, SMS text and desktop pop-up alert, that make up USAFA's public description of the AtHoc service."],"characterCount":173}],"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":"2026-07-03","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":"The Academy may send emergency alerts via text message or email instructing people to shelter in place, and in these cases, people should immediately enter the nearest building if they are not already indoors.","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":["Describes the two-channel (text/email) alert method and the default shelter-in-place instruction for anyone outdoors at the time of an alert."],"characterCount":209},{"label":"In-class guidance","quotedText":"Faculty, staff, and midshipmen members who are in class should remain in their classroom.","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":["Extends the shelter-in-place instruction specifically to the classroom setting, naming all three campus populations, faculty, staff and midshipmen, together."],"characterCount":89},{"label":"Department of Public Safety role","quotedText":"The USMMA Department of Public Safety is a full-service law enforcement agency responsible for campus safety and security.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.usmma.edu/leadership/deputy-superintendent/department-public-safety","sourceDescription":"USMMA Department of Public Safety page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Establishes Public Safety, not a garrison-style military directorate, as the campus's designated law-enforcement authority, consistent with USMMA's Department of Transportation administration."],"characterCount":122},{"label":"Mutual-aid partners","quotedText":"mutual-aid agreements with multiple agencies in both Great Neck and Nassau County, including the Kings Point Police Department, Great Neck Alert Fire Department (fire and rescue coverage), Great Neck Vigilant Fire Department (EMS coverage), and the Nassau County Police Department, as well as investigative support from the Federal Bureau of Investigation","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":"West Point relies on mass warning and notification systems (MWNS) and traditional communications to alert and inform the West Point community of emergency conditions.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.westpoint.edu/emergency-information","sourceDescription":"West Point Emergency Information page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Frames West Point's alerting as a combination of the Army's mass warning and notification system plus traditional (non-digital) communications, rather than a single dedicated campus platform."],"characterCount":166},{"label":"ALERT! registration process","quotedText":"West Point encourages all community members to register for emergency alerts through ALERT!, with sponsors able to register with their CAC, and household members can be added to the Sponsor's account.","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":["Documents the CAC-based (Common Access Card) registration model unique to a military installation: a sponsor registers with a military credential and extends coverage to household members rather than each individual self-registering independently."],"characterCount":200},{"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":false,"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":"DES provides quality force protection, law enforcement, physical security, access control, Fire & Emergency services, and Police and Community Liaison Services to the Community.","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":["Lists the operational functions bundled under West Point's Directorate of Emergency Services, the office that would field and respond to an incident before any ALERT! notification is issued."],"characterCount":177}],"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":"2026-07-03","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":false,"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":"General information can be obtained by calling the on-duty Watch Commander at 410-293-5770.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.usna.edu/Contact/emergency.php","sourceDescription":"USNA Emergency Information page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Names the on-duty Watch Commander, a military-installation role rather than a civilian campus-police dispatcher, as the point of contact for non-911 emergency information."],"characterCount":91},{"label":"Midshipmen medical emergency guidance","quotedText":"For emergency issues (life, limb, eyesight), midshipmen shall immediately contact emergency medical services (3-3333 or 911), and notify the duty health care provider as soon as possible.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.usna.edu/Contact/emergency.php","sourceDescription":"USNA Emergency Information page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Midshipmen-specific medical emergency protocol, including the internal extension (3-3333) alongside 911, reflecting the Yard's closed-campus telephone system."],"characterCount":187},{"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":false,"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":"2026-07-03","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":"Each year by Oct. 1, Universal Technical Institute publishes an Annual Security Report that includes, but is not limited to, the following information: reporting procedures for emergency situations and criminal activity on and around campus, Universal Technical Institute's response plans, including information about timely warnings and emergency notification/evacuation procedures.","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":["Confirms that timely-warning and emergency-notification procedures are formally documented in UTI's annual Clery report. Captured from search-index snippets; marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false because it could not be byte-for-byte confirmed across two independent retrievals."],"characterCount":383},{"label":"Emergency Management Plan framing","quotedText":"UTI prioritizes the safety of the campus community in all cases of emergencies and is committed to developing and administering a comprehensive emergency management plan (EMP). The EMP supports UTI's emergency preparedness provisions to ensure an effective response for the protection of UTI's students, employees and visitors.","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":["States the EMP as the backbone of UTI's emergency response. Search-index snippet; marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":327},{"label":"Notification channels (email + mobile registration)","quotedText":"UTI notifies all UTI email accounts of emergencies or incidents, and all employees and students are advised to register and consistently update their email addresses and mobile phone numbers with the school for ease of contact.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uti.edu/campus-safety","sourceDescription":"UTI — Campus Safety (text from search index; host blocked automated fetch)","annotations":["Establishes the email-first notification model and the registration responsibility placed on students and employees. Search-index snippet; marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":227}],"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":"wikipedia"}],"confidence":"medium","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","for-profit","technical","arizona","emergency-management-plan","multi-campus"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-06-22","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":"Sistemas de alarma de emergencia ubicados en los pasillos del edificio, que se activan rompiendo el cristal y halando la manija.","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":["English: 'Emergency alarm systems located in the building hallways, activated by breaking the glass and pulling the handle.' This is a Spanish reconstruction of the indexed English summary of the plan, not a confirmed verbatim quote — uprp.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching — so it is marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":128}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":11312},"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":"2026-06-21","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":"Los boletines de alerta incluyen información que promueva la seguridad en la comunidad, información que permita a las personas protegerse, y la hora, lugar y tipo de delito.","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":["English translation: 'The alert bulletins include information that promotes safety in the community, information that allows people to protect themselves, and the time, location, and type of crime.' This content recipe corresponds to a Clery timely warning. The wording was paraphrased consistently across retrievals but not reproduced byte-for-byte from a live official fetch (sagrado.edu blocked automated access), so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":173},{"label":"Jeanne Clery framing (Spanish)","quotedText":"La ley Jeanne Clery requiere que toda institución de educación superior que participe en programas de asistencia económica federal informe a la comunidad universitaria sobre todo incidente criminal que ocurra en el recinto.","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":["English translation: 'The Jeanne Clery law requires that every higher-education institution participating in federal financial-assistance programs inform the university community about every criminal incident that occurs on campus.' Establishes the statutory basis for Sagrado's bulletins. Surfaced via the search index, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":223},{"label":"Multirisk plan supervised by San Juan municipal OMME (Spanish)","quotedText":"El Plan de Desastres y Emergencias Multirriesgos de la Universidad del Sagrado Corazón fue preparado bajo la supervisión de la Oficina Municipal para el Manejo de Emergencias del Municipio de San Juan.","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":["English translation: 'The Multi-Risk Disaster and Emergency Plan of the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón was prepared under the supervision of the Municipal Office for Emergency Management of the Municipality of San Juan.' Shows the plan's external governance basis. Surfaced via the search index, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":201}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":"2026-06-21","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":"The UAB Police and Public Safety Department and UAB Marketing and Communications are approved communicators during an emergency affecting UAB. If a public statement is necessary in social or traditional media, they will confirm facts and provide the appropriate statement.","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":["Names UAB Police and Public Safety and Marketing and Communications as the 'approved communicators' during emergencies. The full two-sentence wording surfaced in only a single indexed retrieval (uab.edu returned HTTP 403), so it is marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false; the 'approved communicators' concept was corroborated in a second search."],"characterCount":272}],"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":"wikipedia"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","public-r1","alabama","b-alert","academic-medical-center","multi-channel"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-06-21","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":10500},"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":"The University Police Chief or designee reviews all reports to determine if there is a serious or continuing threat to the community and if the distribution of a timely warning notice is warranted.","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":["Places the timely-warning decision with the University Police Chief or designee, distinct from the emergency-notification trigger held by UPD/IMT. The exact sentence form appeared cleanly only once; a second retrieval paraphrased it, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":197},{"label":"Multi-modal channel set (Rave Mobile Safety)","quotedText":"This multi-modal system of notification includes: Personal Notification: Via e-mail, telephone, and text message blasts via the RAVE Mobile Safety system.","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":["Identifies the underlying Rave Mobile Safety platform and the personal-notification channels (email, telephone, SMS). The broader channel set (siren, web, social media, Alertus beacons/desktop, digital signage) is consistent across retrievals, but exact sentence phrasing varied by page, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":154}],"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":"wikipedia"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","public-masters","alaska","ua-alert","rave-mobile-safety","system-wide","siren"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-06-21","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)"},"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":"Emergency notifications will go out simultaneously via a variety of channels: 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 in buildings, messages on digital signage, the UAF on Alert website and loudspeaker messages.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://catalog.uaf.edu/handbook/campus-safety/","sourceDescription":"UAF Catalog — Campus Safety (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["One of the most multi-channel descriptions in the archive — adds desktop pop-ups, desk-phone text, in-building yellow alert beacons, digital signage and outdoor loudspeakers to the usual SMS/voice/email/social mix. Surfaced via the search index from a single retrieval; catalog.uaf.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":410},{"label":"Automatic enrollment via UAOnline/Banner","quotedText":"The UA Alert Notification System integrates with the University's UAOnline/Banner system, automatically enrolling all persons with active records, all faculty, staff, and registered students.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://uaalert.alaska.edu/home/faqs","sourceDescription":"UA Alert — FAQs (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Establishes automatic enrollment of the entire active university population through the UAOnline/Banner records integration, with public self-subscription available separately. Surfaced via the search index; alaska.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":191}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":53000},"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":"2026-06-21","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":"2026-06-21","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":45000},"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 $2.4 million in 2020 over crime misclassification, and the U.S. Department of Education opened a focused Clery review in 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":"Factors that affect whether a timely warning is issued include the amount of time that has passed since the initial report, as well as whether the incident involved physical violence or a weapon, if there were multiple victims and if it was an isolated incident or pattern of behavior.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://dailycal-projects.netlify.app/2023-06-30-warnme/","sourceDescription":"The Daily Californian — investigation of WarnMe","annotations":["Attributed to The Daily Californian's reporting on WarnMe rather than quoted directly from a Berkeley policy page; flagged unconfirmed as policy text."],"characterCount":285}],"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 $2.4M 2020 Clery settlement and a 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":"2026-06-21","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":39679},"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":"2026-06-21","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":46000},"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":"2026-06-21","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":42875},"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":"2026-06-21","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":26420},"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":"2026-06-21","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":"The Safe@UCA Info Line at (501) 852-INFO (4636) provides recorded messages about the status of the University and any current alert or safety information.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://uca.edu/umac/emergency-communications/","sourceDescription":"UCA, Emergency Communications, University Marketing and Communications","annotations":["Documents a call-in status line as a fallback channel independent of a person's registered contact information; surfaced once in this review's retrieval, so marked reconstructed out of caution."],"characterCount":154},{"label":"Outdoor Warning System","quotedText":"The UCAAlert Outdoor Warning System is an outdoor tone alert/public address system designed to alert persons outside of campus buildings of an emergency situation on campus.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://uca.edu/umac/emergency-communications/","sourceDescription":"UCA, Emergency Communications, University Marketing and Communications","annotations":["Describes an outdoor tone/PA layer aimed at people outside buildings who would miss desk-phone or indoor-only alerts; surfaced once in this review's retrieval, so marked reconstructed out of caution."],"characterCount":173},{"label":"myUCA contact-information enrollment","quotedText":"Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to provide their contact information through myUCA to receive UCAAlert notifications.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://my.uca.edu/tasks/ucaalert-contact-info/","sourceDescription":"myUCA, UCAAlert Contact Info","annotations":["States the self-service enrollment path through myUCA; surfaced once in this review's retrieval, so marked reconstructed out of caution."],"characterCount":128}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":50000},"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":"2026-06-21","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":38799},"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":"2026-06-21","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":"2026-06-21","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":24000},"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":"2026-06-21","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":13700},"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":"2026-06-21","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":55000},"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":"2026-06-21","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":41000},"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":"2026-06-21","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":3500},"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":"2026-06-21","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":2781},"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"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","security-alert","clery","territory-pacific","hawaii"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-06-21","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":19000},"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":false,"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":"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.","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":["Distinguishes the email-only Clery timely warning from the UH Alert emergency notification. Captured from search reproductions of the DPS page (403-blocked to direct fetch), so flagged unconfirmed."],"characterCount":146}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":47000},"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":"The University of Houston will test all emergency notification channels of UH ALERTS at least once each fall and spring semester.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://alerts.uh.edu/emergency/faqs/","sourceDescription":"UH ALERT Frequently Asked Questions","annotations":["Reconstructed from quoted FAQ language surfaced in search; the official .edu host 403-blocks direct fetch, so marked unconfirmed pending byte-for-byte verification."],"characterCount":129}],"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":"2026-06-21","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-r2","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":false,"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-r2","idaho","vandal-alert","pacific-time"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-22","lastUpdated":"2026-06-22","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":59238},"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":"2026-06-21","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":"2026-06-21","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":"2026-06-21","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":34000},"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":"2026-06-21","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":"2026-06-21","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":10600},"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":"2026-06-21","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":"2026-06-21","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":"2026-06-21","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":"TigerText will never be used for non-emergency notifications.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.memphis.edu/_alert/","sourceDescription":"UofM Alert / Crisis Management (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["A self-imposed scope limit restricting the emergency text service (originally branded TigerText, now consolidated under UofM Alert / Everbridge) to genuine emergencies. Surfaced via the search index rather than a confirmed live fetch (memphis.edu returned HTTP 403), so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":61}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":19000},"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":"2026-06-21","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":52065},"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":"UM Emergency Alert is a free, mass notification system by which the University can notify students, faculty and staff of an active, major campus emergency. Alerts can be received via text message (SMS), voice message to phones, or emails.","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":["Defines the system and its delivery channels. The identical wording appeared across multiple independent searches of the DPSS page and the Dean of Students page, but could not be re-verified against the live page (HTTP 403), so it is not marked verbatim-confirmed."],"characterCount":238},{"label":"Who activates and when","quotedText":"When the U-M Police Department (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 UM Emergency Alert system.","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":["Names UMPD as the deciding authority and the activation threshold. Wording reproduced consistently across searches; not verbatim-confirmed because the official page could not be fetched directly."],"characterCount":215},{"label":"When the system won't be used","quotedText":"U-M Emergency Alert usually won't be used for localized incidents within a building such as a small fire.","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":["States the scope limit: the alert is reserved for campus-wide emergencies, not localized building incidents. Not verbatim-confirmed pending direct access to the official FAQ page."],"characterCount":105},{"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":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":["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":"2026-06-21","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":56666},"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":"2026-06-21","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":"2026-06-21","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":"2026-06-21","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":"Announcements through the UMKC Alert Emergency Mass Notification system are sent to all students, faculty and staff during campus emergencies or significant changes.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.umkc.edu/alert/","sourceDescription":"UMKC — Alert (Home Suite) page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Defines who receives UMKC Alert (all students, faculty and staff) and when (campus emergencies or significant changes). Surfaced via the search index; umkc.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":165},{"label":"Automatic employee alerts by channel","quotedText":"UMKC faculty and staff receive automatic alerts related to severe weather and emergency events on campus via phone, text and email.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.umkc.edu/alert/","sourceDescription":"UMKC — Alert (Home Suite) page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Confirms automatic enrollment for employees and the three delivery channels (phone, text, email). Surfaced via the search index rather than a confirmed live fetch, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":131},{"label":"Keyword opt-in for community members","quotedText":"Parents and community members can sign up for alerts via text message by texting \"UMKCAlert\" (all one word) to 67283.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.umkc.edu/alert/","sourceDescription":"UMKC — Alert (Home Suite) page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Documents the confirmed keyword brand 'UMKCAlert' and short code 67283 for non-affiliate opt-in — corroborating 'UMKC Alert' (not 'RooAlert') as the system name. Surfaced via the search index, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":117},{"label":"UM System mass-notification purpose","quotedText":"The University of Missouri System uses an automated, rapid notification system to supplement the communication tools currently used to notify students, faculty and staff about campus emergencies and closings, as well as class cancellations due to inclement weather.","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":["Establishes that UMKC Alert is the campus instance of a System-wide automated rapid-notification platform. Surfaced via the search index; umsystem.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":265}],"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":"2026-06-22","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"},"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":"A UM Public Service Announcement is sent via e-mail with an option to be sent as a text message.","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":["Defines the discretionary third tier for non-Clery activity. Surfaced via the search index from a single retrieval; umt.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":96}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":"The UNO Alert notification system helps reach a broad audience quickly and automatically includes all current students, faculty, and staff.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.unomaha.edu/emergency/notifications.php","sourceDescription":"UNO Emergency Notifications","annotations":["Describes automatic inclusion of the full campus community rather than opt-in-only enrollment; wording varied slightly (a comma-splice versus two sentences) between independent retrievals, so treated as reconstructed rather than byte-for-byte confirmed."],"characterCount":139},{"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":false,"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":false,"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":"2026-07-03","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":23600},"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":"UNL Alert is a mass notification system that sends text messages and emails to the device and address you designate. UNL Police determines when UNL Alerts are sent.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://safety.unl.edu/campus-safety/unl-alert/","sourceDescription":"Safety at Nebraska — UNL Alert","annotations":["Establishes UNL Alert as a mass-notification system and assigns the send decision to UNL Police. Captured from official page text reproduced across multiple searches; safety.unl.edu 403-blocks automated fetching, so marked unconfirmed."],"characterCount":164},{"label":"Trigger criteria for UNL Alert","quotedText":"UNL Police initiates UNL Alerts for any significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on the campus involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students and employees.","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":["Restates the Clery emergency-notification trigger ('significant emergency or dangerous situation ... immediate threat'). Captured from the student-newspaper text reproduced in search results; the article 403-blocks automated fetching, so marked unconfirmed."],"characterCount":189},{"label":"Multi-channel delivery","quotedText":"The UNL Alert system is a service that sends emergency messages to text, email, Alertus desktop popups, banners on unl.edu Websites, indoor Alertus Beacons and social media.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://unlalert.unl.edu/unlalert/default.aspx","sourceDescription":"About UNL Alert — University of Nebraska-Lincoln","annotations":["Enumerates the six delivery channels, including indoor Alertus Beacons and desktop popups. Captured from official page text reproduced across multiple searches; unlalert.unl.edu 403-blocks fetching."],"characterCount":173},{"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":false,"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":"2026-06-21","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":30000},"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":"When a Timely Warning is issued, it will contain the phrase \"Timely Warning Notification\" and the body of the alert will include a short description of the crime involved, and depending on the nature of the crime, a description (if available) of the suspect.","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":["Establishes that every UNLV timely warning carries the literal label 'Timely Warning Notification.' Surfaced via the search index; the unlv.edu host returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so the surrounding sentence could not be byte-for-byte confirmed and is marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":258},{"label":"Automatic enrollment","quotedText":"All UNLV students and employees are automatically enrolled in the system and will receive an email notification when an emergency or disaster occurs.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.unlv.edu/info","sourceDescription":"UNLV — Emergency Notifications page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Guarantees at least email reach to every student and employee. Surfaced via the search index rather than a confirmed live fetch (unlv.edu returned HTTP 403), so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":149}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":24000},"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":"It is the responsibility of the Assistant Vice President & Director of University Police Services or his/her designee to make the final determination if a Timely Warning is necessary.","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":["Assigns a single accountable position for the issue/no-issue decision. Surfaced via the search index; the unr.edu host returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so it is marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":183},{"label":"Automatic enrollment via MyNevada and Workday","quotedText":"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).","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.unr.edu/emergency/alerts","sourceDescription":"UNR — Emergency Alerts page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Guarantees enrollment of the full campus population by pulling contact data from the student (MyNevada) and HR (Workday) systems, refreshed at least monthly. Surfaced via the search index rather than a confirmed live fetch, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":215}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":13000},"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"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","public-r1","new-hampshire","unh-alert","rave","text-email-only"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-06-21","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":"The entire Campus Warning System (warning siren system, text messaging, e-mail messages and web page update) is tested at the beginning of each semester (spring, summer, and fall).","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://campussafety.unm.edu/education/emergency-preparedness/emergency-communication.html","sourceDescription":"UNM Campus Safety / UNM Emergency Management","annotations":["Establishes a per-semester test cadence (three advertised tests per year, branded LoboTest). The substance was corroborated across 3+ retrievals, but the exact sentence wording varied page-to-page, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":180}],"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":"wikipedia"}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":"2026-06-21","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":"Alert Carolina covers a whole suite of communication methods — text messages, emails, social media, sirens, website banners, flashing lights and messages on computer screens.","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":["Captured from a search-result summary rather than confirmed identical across two sources, so flagged unconfirmed; the underlying channel list is reliable but the exact wording is uncertain."],"characterCount":174}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":"2026-06-21","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":"2026-06-21","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":"2026-06-21","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":"In compliance with the Clery Act, PennSOS is tested annually, in conjunction with the annual UPennAlert drill, using the actual siren. To promote system reliability, monthly tests, using Westminster Chimes, will be conducted on the first Friday of each month at 11:00 a.m.","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":["Documents the annual Clery drill and monthly first-Friday-at-11 a.m. Westminster Chimes reliability test; reproduced from a search snippet and not independently double-confirmed, so left not verbatim-confirmed."],"characterCount":272},{"label":"Personal Messaging method","quotedText":"In the event of a significant emergency affecting the Penn and University City community, you will receive an emergency communication on your phone numbers registered in the Penn Directory via text-message in addition to an email notification sent to your Penn email account.","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":["Describes the Personal Messaging (text + Penn email) delivery method tied to the Penn Directory; reproduced from a search snippet and not independently double-confirmed, so left not verbatim-confirmed."],"characterCount":275}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":"Timely Warnings are specific to Clery Act crimes; therefore, non-Clery Act crimes may warrant a \"Campus Alert.\"","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":["Establishes UOPX's third notification category ('Campus Alert') for non-Clery crimes. Surfaced via search-index snippets of the ASR rather than a confirmed live fetch, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":111},{"label":"Timely Warning authority and Matrix","quotedText":"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\".","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":["Names the Clery Compliance Officer as the decision authority and references a 'Timely Warning Matrix.' Drawn from indexed snippets; marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false because the surrounding sentence could not be byte-for-byte confirmed."],"characterCount":177},{"label":"Timely Warning distribution (posters)","quotedText":"Timely Warnings are generally distributed via posters in visible, accessible areas at the Phoenix Main Campus.","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":["Notably low-tech distribution for a 2025 policy, reflecting that the in-person audience is concentrated at the headquarters campus. Marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false (search-index snippet)."],"characterCount":110}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":"Upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees, Pitt's 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.","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":["States the Clery 'without delay / unless it would compromise mitigation' activation standard for ENS. Reproduced identically across multiple searches; not verbatim-confirmed because the official page could not be fetched directly."],"characterCount":379},{"label":"Crime Alert criteria","quotedText":"The Police Department issues a crime alert 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.","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":["Defines the threshold for a Crime Alert (Pitt's term for a Clery timely warning). Reproduced consistently across searches; not verbatim-confirmed because the official page could not be fetched directly."],"characterCount":316},{"label":"ENS administration and channels","quotedText":"Delivery of these emergency alert 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.","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":["Identifies who delivers and directs ENS messages and the automatic email enrollment scope. Reproduced via search of Pitt's IT service catalog/FAQ."],"characterCount":261},{"label":"Chief of Police Crime Alert authority","quotedText":"In the event of a reported crime, the chief of police or their designee is responsible for: 1) determining whether a Crime Alert is required, 2) approving the content of the Crime Alert, and 3) coordinating the distribution of the Crime Alert as promptly as reasonably possible to aid in the prevention of similar occurrences.","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":["Assigns Crime Alert decision, content, and distribution authority to the chief of police or designee. Reproduced from AO 07 via search; not verbatim-confirmed because the official policy page could not be fetched directly."],"characterCount":326}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":12000},"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":"El Coordinador de Emergencias o su representante notifica a la Guardia Universitaria y a otros oficiales del recinto sobre una emergencia.","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":["Translation: 'The Emergency Coordinator or their representative notifies the University Guard and other campus officials of an emergency.' Reconstructed in Spanish from a paraphrased search summary of the plan — NOT byte-confirmed against the source (uprm.edu 403-blocks direct fetch and no exact sentence was reproduced), so isVerbatimConfirmed is false."],"characterCount":138},{"label":"Intercom system for emergency notification","quotedText":"El recinto ha instalado un sistema de intercomunicacion que facilita la notificacion de emergencias.","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":["Translation: 'The campus has installed an intercom system that facilitates emergency notification.' Reconstructed in Spanish from a paraphrased search summary of the plan — NOT byte-confirmed against the source, so isVerbatimConfirmed is false. Accents omitted because the exact diacritics could not be verified."],"characterCount":100}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":"...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, unless issuing a notification will compromise efforts to contain the emergency.","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":["This is the federal Clery statutory standard URI follows, not confirmed as URI's own verbatim wording; URI's Clery PDF returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":294}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":35000},"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":"2026-06-21","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":"The University president or their designee has the authority to declare a Campus State of Emergency when circumstances require changes to normal operations.","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":["Locates decision authority for a Campus State of Emergency with the President or a designee. Captured from search-indexed text rather than a directly fetched copy of the document, so flagged unconfirmed."],"characterCount":156},{"label":"After-Action Report requirement","quotedText":"The University of South Dakota will develop an After-Action Report (AAR) that provides a structured process to review the actions taken during the response, identify shortcomings in resources or equipment, improve operational readiness, and highlight strengths.","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":["Documents USD's formal post-incident review requirement, the plan's stated accountability mechanism after an activation. Captured from search-indexed text, so flagged unconfirmed."],"characterCount":261},{"label":"USD Campus Alert system description","quotedText":"An emergency notification tool for the public universities governed by the SD Board of Regents.","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":["Frames the alert system as shared Board of Regents infrastructure built on the Everbridge platform rather than a USD-only tool. Captured from search-indexed text, so flagged unconfirmed."],"characterCount":95}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":49500},"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":"2026-06-21","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":"In the event that 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 and in consultation with responsible authorities when time permits, constitutes a serious or continuing threat, a campus wide notification is issued.","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":["Defines the USM Clery Geography scope (On Campus, Public Property, Non-campus) and the 'serious or continuing threat' judgment standard used to decide whether to issue a campus-wide notification.","The search-engine summary that surfaced this text marked part of the closing clause with editorial brackets, a sign of paraphrase rather than an exact quote; that bracketed wording has been replaced here with plain text, and the excerpt is treated as reconstructed rather than confirmed verbatim."],"characterCount":348},{"label":"Timely Warning distribution channels","quotedText":"Timely Warning Notices are typically issued to the campus community via email blast to all USM-assigned email accounts. Timely warnings may also be issued using some or all of the following methods of communication: text messages or email sent through the University's USMALERT or building postings by Building Administrators.","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":["Establishes email blast to USM-assigned accounts as the primary channel, with USMALERT text or email and physical building postings by Building Administrators as supplemental methods.","Recovered via search-engine summary of the PDF, not a direct load; treated as reconstructed pending independent confirmation."],"characterCount":326},{"label":"Decision authority and case-by-case standard","quotedText":"The decision to issue a Timely Warning is on a case-by-case basis in compliance with the Clery Act. The decision is made by the Vice President of Public Safety or a designee, in coordination with other campus administrators, considering all available facts, whether the crime is considered a serious or continuing threat.","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":["Names the Vice President of Public Safety, or a designee, as the deciding authority for Timely Warnings, distinct from the broader UMS Blackboard Connect chain described elsewhere in this policy.","Reconstructed from a search-engine summary of the report; not independently confirmed by a direct page or PDF load."],"characterCount":321},{"label":"Blackboard Connect opt-out enrollment","quotedText":"On the USM campuses, the service is an \"opt-out\" program: all students and employees are automatically entered into the system and may opt out of the service or message subscriptions if they choose.","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":["Documents the opt-out default: unlike many peer systems in this archive, USM/UMS auto-enrolls the entire community and requires an affirmative action to leave the system.","Recovered via search-engine summary rather than a direct page load; treated as reconstructed rather than confirmed verbatim."],"characterCount":198}],"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":"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":38728},"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":"2026-06-21","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":"The plan is activated whenever emergency conditions exist in which normal operations cannot be performed and immediate action is required.","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":["Defines the plan's activation threshold in broad, all-hazards terms rather than enumerating specific triggering events. Captured from search-indexed text rather than a directly fetched copy of the PDF, so flagged unconfirmed."],"characterCount":138},{"label":"Readiness-condition recommendation chain","quotedText":"Levels of readiness conditions will be recommended to the University President for his/her decision by the Executive Vice President for Finance & Administration, the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, the UTRGV Emergency Management Director or the UTRGV Chief of Police.","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":["Sets out the multi-officer recommendation chain that feeds the President's final activation decision. Captured from search-indexed text, so flagged unconfirmed."],"characterCount":279},{"label":"UTRGV Alerts (EAS) purpose","quotedText":"The UTRGV Emergency Alert System (EAS) provides mass, urgent and timely communication using multiple methods to promptly notify students, faculty and staff of an active major campus emergency or high risk incident.","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":["States the notification system's purpose and multi-method design. Captured from search-indexed text, so flagged unconfirmed."],"characterCount":214}],"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-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":2000},"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":"Bucs Alert is UVI's Rave emergency notification system which is used to share critical information via text messages and e-mail.","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":["Reconstructed from the official UVI announcement as relayed by search results; the .edu page returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, so exact wording could not be byte-confirmed. Identifies Bucs Alert as the Rave-powered text/email system."],"characterCount":128},{"label":"Bucs Alert enrollment method","quotedText":"All UVI students and employees are strongly encouraged to register for Bucs Alert by logging into MyCampus, navigating to the Personal Information section in your BanWeb account, and entering your cell phone number and email address.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uvi.edu/about/emergency-preparedness.html","sourceDescription":"UVI Emergency Preparedness & Communication Methods","annotations":["Reconstructed from the official emergency-preparedness page via search results (direct fetch 403-blocked). Describes the BanWeb/MyCampus self-enrollment path."],"characterCount":233},{"label":"Emergency notification platforms","quotedText":"In the event of an emergency, UVI will use its emergency notification platforms which may include MyCampus and social media posts such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, as well as Bucs Alert.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uvi.edu/about/emergency-preparedness.html","sourceDescription":"UVI Emergency Preparedness & Communication Methods","annotations":["Reconstructed from the official page via search results (direct fetch 403-blocked). Lists the multi-channel mix: Bucs Alert plus MyCampus and social media."],"characterCount":194}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":35000},"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":false,"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. 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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":"2026-06-21","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. 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Captures the \"without delay\" standard and the limited-exception clause; exact original wording not confirmed verbatim."],"characterCount":324},{"label":"Authorized initiators","quotedText":"Authorized University officials who can create message content and authorize alerts include the Associate Vice President for Safety and Security, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Director and Assistant Director of the Office of Emergency Management, Director of Medical Center Emergency Management, command staff personnel of the University Police Division, the UPD shift commander, or a UPD services clerk.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://uvapolicy.virginia.edu/policy/IRM-013","sourceDescription":"IRM-013: Issuance of an Emergency Notification | UVA Policy","annotations":["Reconstructed from search-result summary of IRM-013; names the roster of officials authorized to author and authorize UVA Alerts. Not confirmed word-for-word."],"characterCount":428},{"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":"2026-06-21","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":60000},"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":"2026-06-21","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":51791},"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":"2026-06-21","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)"},"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":"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.","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":["States the federal Clery 'immediately, upon confirmation' standard. 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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":"2026-06-22","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":"2026-06-21","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 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that USU will alert before full fact verification, prioritizing speed for serious/ongoing threats."],"characterCount":145},{"label":"Code Blue naming continuity","quotedText":"Alerts to the campus will still start with \"Code Blue.\" The system has become synonymous with this name and people are used to the term signaling a campus alert about safety.","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":["Documents that USU deliberately preserved the 'Code Blue' lead-in text through at least one system/platform change for recipient recognition."],"characterCount":174},{"label":"Channel speed comparison","quotedText":"The Code Blue system sends text messages over 20 seconds, and emails in about 9 minutes.","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":["USU's own test data shows a roughly 27x delivery-speed gap between text and email, relevant to which channel actually functions as the fast-response alert."],"characterCount":88}],"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. 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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":"2026-06-21","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":"AlertVU rapidly sends messages to the delivery points the user has chosen - cell phone (voice or text), landline, and Vanderbilt email account - in the event of an emergency that poses an imminent threat or danger to the Vanderbilt community.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceDescription":"Vanderbilt Public Safety AlertVU page (text reproduced via search snippet; official page returned HTTP 403 in this environment)","annotations":["Defines AlertVU's activation trigger and its core delivery points. 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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":"Methods may include but are not limited to the following: Campus-wide email, Automated telephone, Email and text message via RAVE Mobile Safety, Vassar College Website Home, Campus Safety Patrol announcements via portable loudspeaker, Emergency Siren, Digital signage emergency messaging.","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":["Names RAVE Mobile Safety as the text/email backend and enumerates the full channel stack. Surfaced via the search index (vassar.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching), so the list formatting could not be byte-for-byte confirmed and it is marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":288},{"label":"Twice-yearly test of automated telephone and text systems","quotedText":"Twice a year the college tests the automated telephone and text systems by sending a text message to cell phones (students and employees) and recorded voice messages to cell phones (students and employees) and home phones (employees only) whose users have contact information registered in Banner.","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":["Documents the semiannual test cadence and that the recipient list is keyed off Banner contact data. Captured from the search index rather than a confirmed live fetch (vassar.edu returned HTTP 403), so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":297}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":"Public Safety will collaborate with appropriate offices to determine the content of the message and will use some or all the systems described to communicate information to the community or the appropriate segment of the community if the threat is limited to a particular building or segment of the population.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://vermontstate.edu/student-life/university-handbook/public-safety-policies/","sourceDescription":"Vermont State University, University Handbook, Public Safety Policies","annotations":["Describes narrowing a notification to an affected building or population segment rather than the whole university; surfaced once in this review's search-index retrieval, so marked reconstructed out of caution."],"characterCount":310},{"label":"Automatic Rave enrollment","quotedText":"VSC has automatically enrolled VSC email and personal cell phone numbers in Rave, so users will be promptly alerted in case of emergencies requiring immediate action.","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":["Confirms automatic enrollment of both VSC email and personal cell numbers; wording differed between independent retrievals of this page and the description on vermontstate.edu/emergency-response, so treated as reconstructed rather than byte-for-byte confirmed."],"characterCount":166}],"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":"The College has three means of emergency notification in the event of an incident that endangers the health and safety of the College community: college-wide email to all Vermont Tech users, college website with scrolling emergency messages, and updates communicated through these channels as details become available.","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":["Describes the pre-merger, campus-specific notification baseline (email and website only); the post-merger VTSU SAFE / Rave Alert layer was added afterward and is not part of this excerpt."],"characterCount":318},{"label":"Floor Warden evacuation role","quotedText":"Each floor of every VTC building has a Floor Warden assigned, whose duties include making a floor sweep to ensure everyone is out of the building, checking the safe area for that floor, and helping anyone who needs assistance evacuating.","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":["Shows the plan's building-level, distributed-responsibility design rather than a single central decision authority for evacuation confirmation."],"characterCount":237}],"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":"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":"An emergency situation/incident is classified as an event or series of events that disrupts the normal course of University operations that may involve emergency services. When these conditions occur, the President, or his/her designate, may declare a state of emergency.","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":["Establishes the plan's activating definition and vests declaration authority in the President or a designate."],"characterCount":271},{"label":"Annual testing requirement","quotedText":"Testing of the EMP capabilities will be completed once a year, and a designee for each building shall be responsible for updating and submitting the building plan once a year.","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":["States two parallel annual review cycles: plan-wide EMP testing and building-level individual plan updates."],"characterCount":175}],"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":28000},"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). Direct fetch of the .edu page returned HTTP 403."],"characterCount":198},{"label":"Confirmation requirement","quotedText":"VCU Police and campus safety officials do not issue emergency notifications unless the incident has been confirmed.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://alert.vcu.edu/know/emergency/","sourceDescription":"In an emergency | Alert | Virginia Commonwealth University","annotations":["Recurred identically across independent searches of the VCU Alert pages; establishes the confirmation-before-activation standard. Direct fetch 403-blocked."],"characterCount":115},{"label":"Automatic email enrollment (2025)","quotedText":"All VCU-issued email addresses will be automatically enrolled in the university's emergency notification system beginning on Thursday, Oct. 23.","isVerbatimConfirmed":true,"sourceUrl":"https://news.vcu.edu/article/2025/10/vcu-alert-emergency-notifications-will-go-to-all-university-inboxes-starting-oct-23","sourceDescription":"VCU News — VCU Alert emergency notifications will go to all university inboxes","annotations":["Reproduced from the official VCU News announcement; documents the October 23, 2025 shift to automatic email enrollment for the emergency notification system."],"characterCount":143},{"label":"Alerting channels","quotedText":"Types of alerting technologies include Alertus boxes, desktop alerts on VCU-supported computers, digital signage, LiveSafe app messages, mass email, outdoor sirens, text messages and social media.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://alert.vcu.edu/know/types-of-alerts/","sourceDescription":"Types of alerts | Alert | Virginia Commonwealth University","annotations":["Reconstructed from search-result text of the VCU Alert pages (direct fetch 403-blocked); enumerates the multi-channel delivery stack. Exact wording not confirmed word-for-word across sources."],"characterCount":196}],"keyFindings":["VCU Alert is VCU's umbrella emergency notification brand serving the VCU and VCU Health community, separating emergency notifications (confirmed active incidents) from Clery crime alerts/timely warnings (serious or ongoing-threat crimes).","Activation is confirmation-gated: VCU Police and campus safety officials do not issue emergency notifications unless the incident has been confirmed and a serious, active threat exists.","Crime/timely-warning alerts are issued by public-safety officials (typically VCU Police); text alerts are reserved for ongoing-risk situations, not every crime, while qualifying-crime emails go to everyone at VCU.","As of October 23, 2025, all VCU-issued email addresses are automatically enrolled in the emergency notification system; text delivery still requires sign-up at alert.vcu.edu/signup.","Delivery spans a one-minute outdoor siren, text, mass email, Alertus boxes, desktop alerts, digital signage, the LiveSafe app, the VCU Mobile app, and the VCU Alert website; full tests run at least twice a year (historically at noon)."],"sources":[{"title":"Types of alerts | Alert | Virginia Commonwealth University","url":"https://alert.vcu.edu/know/types-of-alerts/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"In an emergency | Alert | Virginia Commonwealth University","url":"https://alert.vcu.edu/know/emergency/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"Alert | Virginia Commonwealth University","url":"https://alert.vcu.edu/","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"VCU Alert emergency notifications will go to all university inboxes starting Oct. 23 — VCU News","url":"https://news.vcu.edu/article/2025/10/vcu-alert-emergency-notifications-will-go-to-all-university-inboxes-starting-oct-23","type":"official-archive"},{"title":"VCU will conduct a test of the VCU Alert system on Sept. 3 — VCU News","url":"https://news.vcu.edu/article/2025/09/vcu-will-conduct-a-test-of-the-vcu-alert-system-on-sept-3","type":"official-archive"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","clery","virginia","public-r1"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-06-21","addedBy":"ingestion"},{"id":"virginia-military-institute-alert-policy","slug":"virginia-military-institute-alert-policy","institution":{"name":"Virginia Military Institute","shortName":"VMI","state":"VA","type":"military","alertSystemName":"VMI Mass Notification System","enrollment":1700},"policy":{"title":"Emergency Management","systemName":"VMI Mass Notification System","documentType":"system-overview","url":"https://www.vmi.edu/cadet-life/health-wellness-safety/emergency-management/"},"summary":"Virginia Military Institute, a state-supported senior military college in Lexington, is not a federal service academy and so remains fully subject to the Clery Act, publishing an [Annual Security and Fire Safety Report](https://www.vmi.edu/media/content-assets/documents/police/VMI-SecFireSafe-2025.pdf) alongside its [Emergency Management](https://www.vmi.edu/cadet-life/health-wellness-safety/emergency-management/) page describing the VMI Mass Notification System, which instantly reaches cadets, faculty, and staff by text message, email, and phone call.","analysis":"VMI's public emergency-communication posture is anchored by the [VMI Mass Notification System](https://www.vmi.edu/cadet-life/health-wellness-safety/emergency-management/), described on the Institute's Emergency Management page as a service that allows VMI to instantly send emergency information to cadets, faculty, and staff via text messaging, email, and phone call. 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":false,"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":"When weather conditions or other emergencies present problems, announcements will be sent to employees via the VMI Mass Notification System, on the Human Resources voice mail message, and the VMI website.","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":["Documents the same Mass Notification System doubling as VMI's employee-facing inclement-weather and office-closing channel, alongside a dedicated Human Resources voicemail line."],"characterCount":204},{"label":"Timely warning intent","quotedText":"The intent of a timely warning is to enable people to protect themselves; therefore, warnings should be issued as soon as pertinent information is available.","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":["General Clery-interpretive timeliness language reflected on VMI's own Clery Reporting page, shared in substance with many peer institutions' policies."],"characterCount":157}],"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":"2026-07-03","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":38000},"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":"Emergency Notifications (VT Alerts) are deployed in the event of an immediate significant danger to the health or safety of the university and the community needs to take immediate action.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://police.vt.edu/safety-security/emergency-notification.html","sourceDescription":"Emergency Notification Protocol | Virginia Tech Police","annotations":["Reconstructed from the VT Police emergency-notification protocol page and FAQ via search results (the .edu page returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch). States the activation criterion: an immediate significant danger requiring immediate action."],"characterCount":188},{"label":"Authorized initiators","quotedText":"The Virginia Tech Police Department, Marketing and Communications, Virginia Tech Emergency Management, and other university administrators are authorized to initiate VT Alerts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.alerts.vt.edu/questions.html","sourceDescription":"VT Alerts FAQs and Help | Virginia Tech","annotations":["Reconstructed from the VT Alerts FAQ via search results (direct fetch 403-blocked). Names the four authorized initiator groups."],"characterCount":176},{"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":"2026-06-21","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":4700},"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":"VSU Police will send emergency notifications through the RAVE Alert System using text messages, voice messaging, emails, and loudspeakers when emergency situations arise.","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":["Identifies VSU Police as the issuing authority and adds a loudspeaker/PA channel to the SMS/email/voice set. Recovered from the search index; vsu.edu returned HTTP 403 to direct fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":170},{"label":"Hard vs. soft lockdown definitions","quotedText":"A hard lockdown is for imminent, direct threats on or inside a building, such as an active shooter. A soft lockdown is used for potential threats in the vicinity but not directly on campus, or for internal searches.","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":["Shows how RAVE Alert messaging maps onto VSU's two-tier lockdown protocol, with 'imminent, direct threats ... such as an active shooter' as the hard-lockdown trigger. Captured from the search index (HTTP 403 on direct fetch), so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":215}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":"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":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":["Sets the Timely Warning timing ('as soon as pertinent information is available'), victim-confidentiality, and prevention purpose. Surfaced via the search index; the wustl.edu host returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":224},{"label":"Two-department Crime Alert responsibility","quotedText":"The Washington University Police Department and, depending on the location of the crime, the Washington University School of Medicine Protective Services Department are responsible for developing the content for Timely Warning Notices (also called Crime Alerts).","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":["Documents the location-based split between WUPD (Danforth) and School of Medicine Protective Services (Medical Campus) for Crime Alert content. Surfaced via the search index rather than a confirmed live fetch, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":262}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":"Wayne State University issues timely warnings to notify the campus community of Clery Act crimes or other serious incidents that the University determines represent a serious or ongoing threat to the campus community. The University distributes timely warnings through email blasts.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://generalcounsel.wayne.edu/timely_warning_policy.pdf","sourceDescription":"Wayne State University Timely Warning Policy (General Counsel)","annotations":["States the Clery trigger (serious or ongoing threat) and names email blasts as the distribution channel for timely warnings specifically, distinct from the broader WSU Alert system."],"characterCount":282},{"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":false,"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":false,"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":"Members of the WSU community are automatically signed up to receive text and email notifications during an emergency. External community members without an AccessID such as parents or our community partners can opt in to Wayne State Alerts by texting WAYNESTATEALERT to 77295.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://police.wayne.edu/safety/alerts","sourceDescription":"Wayne State Police and Campus Safety, Wayne State alerts page","annotations":["Documents the two-tier enrollment model: automatic for AccessID holders, opt-in-by-text for external community members."],"characterCount":276}],"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":"2026-07-03","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":"A timely warning will be posted on the Wellesley College Public Safety web page. Fliers may also be placed around campus and in campus buildings.","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":["Shows timely warnings get a physical-posting layer (web page plus fliers) separate from SMS/email/voice. A trailing clause varied between retrievals, so this excerpt is marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":145}],"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":"wikipedia"}],"confidence":"high","tags":["policy","emergency-notification","timely-warning","private-liberal-arts","womens-college","massachusetts","rave","blue-alert"],"dateAdded":"2026-06-21","lastUpdated":"2026-06-21","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"},"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. 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Captured from search-index snippets of the 2024 ASR PDF; marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false because it could not be byte-for-byte confirmed."],"characterCount":306},{"label":"Timely Warning Notification definition","quotedText":"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.","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":["Defines the Clery timely-warning trigger by crime type and geography. Search-index snippet; marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":211}],"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":"2026-06-22","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"},"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":"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 will be utilized. This is done via the Connect-Ed system.","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":["Names the Connect-Ed system and its voice/text/email channels for the Connecticut university (distinct from Wesleyan College, GA, which uses 'WesAlert'). Captured from search-index snippets; marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":281},{"label":"Emergency-notification trigger and delay discretion","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":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":["Captures the Clery discretionary-delay standard tied to first responders' professional judgment. Search-index snippet of the 2025 ASR; marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":260},{"label":"Crime Alert (timely warning) three-pronged criteria","quotedText":"The University issues Crime Alerts whenever the following criteria are met: 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.","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":["Spells out the explicit three-pronged test Wesleyan uses for Clery timely warnings (branded 'Crime Alerts'). Search-index snippet; marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":267},{"label":"Director of Public Safety coordinates broadcasts","quotedText":"In an effort to provide timely notice and in the event of a serious incident which may pose a threat to members of the Wesleyan community, all campus e-mails and voice mail broadcasts will be coordinated by the Director of Public Safety to alert the campus community.","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":["Centralizes broadcast authority in the Director of Public Safety. Search-index snippet; marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":267}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":"WVSU provides information as part of the University's commitment to safety and security on its campus and its compliance with the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990 and the 1998 Amendment to the Higher Education Act of 1965.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://wvstateu.edu/administration/public-safety/crime-statistics/","sourceDescription":"West Virginia State University, Crime Statistics page","annotations":["Grounds WVSU's disclosure obligations in the Clery Act's founding statutes, referencing both the original 1990 act and its 1998 HEOA amendment."],"characterCount":237},{"label":"University Police Department publication role","quotedText":"The West Virginia State University Police Department publishes a report that discloses relevant information about campus security policies and crime statistics that can be found on the UPD website.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://wvstateu.edu/administration/public-safety/crime-statistics/","sourceDescription":"West Virginia State University, Crime Statistics page","annotations":["Names the University Police Department as the office responsible for compiling and publishing WVSU's Clery security-policy and crime-statistics disclosures."],"characterCount":197},{"label":"Email as automatic baseline channel","quotedText":"WVSU students, faculty and staff receive notification via University email, and by choosing to opt-in, additional communication systems such as texting and phone calls can be individually selected.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://wvstateu.edu/administration/public-safety/emergency-response/","sourceDescription":"West Virginia State University, Emergency Response page","annotations":["Describes the two-tier notification structure: automatic university email plus individually selectable opt-in text and phone channels."],"characterCount":197},{"label":"WARN system opt-in","quotedText":"residents can opt in by going to the WARN emergency notification page on the WVSU website","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://wvstateu.edu/administration/public-safety/emergency-response/","sourceDescription":"West Virginia State University, Emergency Response page","annotations":["Names the WARN emergency notification system as the opt-in mechanism for supplemental text/phone alerts beyond the default university email."],"characterCount":89}],"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":22900},"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":"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, 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.","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":["Applies the Clery 'without delay' standard to the WVU Alert. The core clause ('the University will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community...') reproduced identically across retrievals, but the surrounding sentence (especially the mitigation-exception tail) varied slightly, so the full sentence is marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false."],"characterCount":375},{"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":false,"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":"wikipedia"}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":"The Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) is a basic guide for providing a response by Western Colorado University staff, faculty and administrators to major emergencies occurring on Western property.","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":["States the plan's framing as a basic, coordinated-response guide rather than an exhaustive procedural manual. Captured from search-indexed text rather than a directly fetched copy of the source, so flagged unconfirmed."],"characterCount":194},{"label":"President and Cabinet's ultimate authority","quotedText":"The President and Cabinet have ultimate responsibility for policy decision making and would have primary responsibility in any recovery and continuity of operations in the event of a campus emergency.","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":["Locates ultimate decision authority and recovery responsibility with the President and Cabinet. Captured from search-indexed text, so flagged unconfirmed."],"characterCount":200},{"label":"Approval required for procedural exceptions","quotedText":"Exceptions or changes to the outlined procedures must be presented by the Emergency Operations Group (EOG) and approved by the President's Cabinet before implementation.","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":["Keeps executive sign-off over any operational deviation from the written plan. Captured from search-indexed text, so flagged unconfirmed."],"characterCount":169}],"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-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":16000},"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":"Victim names and any other identifying information is kept strictly confidential and is not printed as part of the Timely Warning.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.wku.edu/police/wkualert.php","sourceDescription":"WKU — WKU Alert page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)","annotations":["Codifies that timely warnings omit victim-identifying details. Surfaced via the search index rather than a confirmed live fetch (wku.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching), so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":130}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":false,"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":"Text messages will be from the following phone numbers: 226787, 67283, 78015, or 22911, and voice phone calls will be from (269) 387-0911.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://wmudps.wmich.edu/safety-info.php","sourceDescription":"WMU Public Safety, Safety Services, Resources and Information","annotations":["Publishing the exact short codes and phone number helps recipients distinguish a legitimate WMU Alert from a spoofed message."],"characterCount":138},{"label":"General notification mechanism","quotedText":"In the event that certain crimes or emergency situations occur that pose a serious or continuing threat or danger, WMU will notify the campus community in a timely manner via the emergency notification system (with email and text options) or other mechanisms such as email, portal, digital signage, or the overhead announcement system within each facility.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://wmudps.wmich.edu/annualsecurityreport.pdf","sourceDescription":"WMU 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","annotations":["Lists the fuller channel set (email, text, portal, digital signage, overhead announcement) available beyond the core WMU Alert system for serious or continuing threats."],"characterCount":356}],"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":"2026-07-03","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":"The CEMP is a document that outlines the most critical elements of the University's emergency management plan, allowing for the development of supplemental and supporting documents that relate to vulnerability reduction, response, and recovery under a common, structured framework.","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":["Describes the CEMP's role as the university's core emergency-management document, feeding supplemental and supporting plans. Captured from search-indexed text rather than a directly fetched copy of the source, so flagged unconfirmed."],"characterCount":281},{"label":"Delegation chain for the emergency management program","quotedText":"The Vice President for Business and Financial Affairs delegates overall responsibility for Western's 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 operations delegated to the Director of the Office of Emergency Management & Business Continuity.","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":["Sets out the two-tier delegation chain from the Vice President for Business and Financial Affairs down to the program's day-to-day director. Captured from search-indexed text, so flagged unconfirmed."],"characterCount":364},{"label":"Emergency Management Committee composition and role","quotedText":"Western's Emergency Management Committee is composed of 25 persons from across the campus community that meet regularly.","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":["Documents the size and cross-campus makeup of the committee that advises on emergency management matters. Captured from search-indexed text, so flagged unconfirmed."],"characterCount":120}],"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":"Notifications are issued without unnecessary delay through one or more of the following channels: Rave Alert Messaging System, Email Notification, and Campus Interior Annunciator System (Main Building, Rock Springs Campus Only).","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":["Captured from a single search rendering of the Clery ASR PDF; reported as reconstructed rather than independently byte-verified, though the specificity of the building-scoped annunciator detail is consistent with genuine institutional policy language rather than generic boilerplate."],"characterCount":228},{"label":"RAVE Alert default registration","quotedText":"In the event of an emergency on-campus, or if classes are ever cancelled, all registered students will receive a call and/or text providing information. The RAVE Alert Notifications system uses Text Message, Phone Call, and Email, and is an opt-out system with all students and employees registered by default.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.westernwyoming.edu/campus-safety/index.php","sourceDescription":"Campus Safety - Western Wyoming Community College","annotations":["Reconstructed from a single search rendering of the Campus Safety page; not independently repeated in a second query."],"characterCount":310},{"label":"Emergency Response Team role","quotedText":"The College President is advised and assisted during emergencies, and the ERT is responsible for coordinating and directing the campus community's efforts in response to an emergency.","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":["Reconstructed from a single search rendering of the Clery ASR PDF's Emergency Response Team section; not independently repeated in a second query."],"characterCount":183}],"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":"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.","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":["Cleanly separates the Clery timely-warning trigger (only Clery-specified crimes) from safety alerts / emergency notifications. Surfaced via the search index from ASR text; wichita.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":204}],"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":"2026-06-22","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":2200},"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":"The Director of Campus Safety and Security or a designee, in consultation with some or all of the following: the Vice President for Campus Life, the Dean of the College, the Chief Communications Officer and the Office of the President will determine if a timely warning notice is warranted.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.williams.edu/css/announcements/security-alerts/","sourceDescription":"Campus Safety Services Alerts and Timely Warning Notices","annotations":["Reconstructed from the official security-alerts page as relayed by search results; the official .edu page returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, so exact wording could not be byte-confirmed. Names the consultation group for timely-warning decisions."],"characterCount":290},{"label":"Five-day late-reporting limit","quotedText":"Serious incidents or crimes not reported to Campus Safety and Security in a timely manner (5 days) will not automatically generate a timely warning, but will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.williams.edu/css/announcements/security-alerts/","sourceDescription":"Campus Safety Services Alerts and Timely Warning Notices","annotations":["Reconstructed from the official page via search results (direct fetch 403-blocked). Establishes the five-day reporting window after which timely warnings are not automatic."],"characterCount":195},{"label":"Emergency notification trigger","quotedText":"Emergency Notifications are issued by Williams College to the Williams College community immediately upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on campus that involves a threatening situation, to report a crime in progress, or to report a fire.","isVerbatimConfirmed":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.williams.edu/css/reporting/","sourceDescription":"Williams College Annual Security and Fire Safety Report","annotations":["Reconstructed from the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report via search results (PDF/host 403-blocked to direct fetch). Mirrors the Clery 'significant emergency or dangerous situation' / 'immediately upon confirmation' standard."],"characterCount":283}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":"In the event a selected crime occurs or other situation arises, either on or off campus, that, in the judgment of the Chief of the Xavier University Police Department or designee, may pose a serious or continuing threat to members of the community, a campus wide \"Timely Warning\" will be issued.","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":["Names the XUPD Chief/designee as the timely-warning authority. One retrieval mixed in the unrelated Cincinnati institution's language, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution."],"characterCount":295}],"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":"2026-06-21","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":"2026-06-21","addedBy":"ingestion"}]}