Campus Alert Archive

Institution

Brown University

BrownRIPrivate R1Brown Alert~11,000 students

Cases: 6
Alerts: 9
Verbatim: 56%
Span: 2023–2026

Official alert policy

How Brown says it will alert — when and how BrownAlert activates, summarized, quoted, and analyzed.

Case log

Every documented incident

6 cases · 5 of 9 alert messages verbatim-confirmed

2026

hazmat: 2026-05-26A Curing Bucket of Epoxy Off-Gassed and Emptied Barus and Holleyemergency notification
burglary: 2026-03-13Three Masked Strangers in Vartan Gregorian Quad A: Brown's Friday-Night Breaking-and-Entering Alert After a Mass-Shooting Yeartimely warningverbatim

2025

active shooter: 2025-12-13Finals Week Massacre: Former Graduate Student Opens Fire in Barus and Holley, Killing Twoemergency notification2 killed · 9 injuredverbatim

2024

2023

robbery: 2023-06-11The Fake Fall: A Staged Collapse and a Knife at Fones Alleytimely warningverbatim

By incident type

What Brown has alerted about

Property Crime · 3 Active Shooter · 1 Hazmat / Gas · 1 Sex Offense · 1

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