Institution
Indiana University Bloomington
IUINPublic R1IU Notify~47,000 students
- Cases
- 17
- Alerts
- 37
- Verbatim
- 32%
- Span
- 1990–2026
Official alert policy
How IU says it will alert — when and how IU Notify activates, summarized, quoted, and analyzed.
Case log
Every documented incident
17 cases · 12 of 37 alert messages verbatim-confirmed
2026
- shooting: 2026-04-26Nine Wounded on Kirkwood After Little 500: An IU Notify Alert That Had To Distinguish 'Near Campus' From 'On Campus'emergency notification9 injuredverbatim
- tornado: 2026-02-19'SEEK SHELTER NOW': IU Notify Pushed Two Tornado Warnings as an EF2 With 120 MPH Winds Tracked Within 3.73 Miles of Campusemergency notificationverbatim
2025
2024
- bomb threat: 2024-10-30'I Have a Bomb': An Elevator Announcement at Forest Quad Triggers a K-9 Search the Night Before Halloweenemergency notification
- gas leak: 2024-10-18Just-After-Noon Natural Gas Leak at Faculty and Atwater: IU Notify Tells the Campus to Avoid the Corneremergency notificationverbatim
- power outage: 2024-09-27Downed Power Lines Close 13th Street Just North of Campusadvisory
- civil unrest: 2024-04-25Dunn Meadow Showdown: IU Changes Its Protest Rules Overnight, Then Arrests 56 at Gaza Solidarity Encampmentadvisoryverbatim
- suspicious package: 2024-04-25Six-Minute Scare: IU Notify Fires for Suspicious Device at 4th and Indiana, All-Clear in Record Timeemergency notificationverbatim
- shooting: 2024-04-20Little 500 Weekend Gunfire: IU Notify Sent After Officers Heard Shots Near Dunn and 17th Streetemergency notificationverbatim
- fire: 2024-02-27A Smoke Detector Near the Balcony Elevator: Fire Alarm Evacuates Assembly Hall Mid-Game Against Wisconsinemergency notificationverbatim
2023
- sexual offense: 2023-10-07Forced to Drink, Then Assaulted Twice in One Shift: A Contracted Janitor's Supervisor Preyed on Her at Two IU Buildingstimely warning
- stabbing: 2023-01-11'One Less Person to Blow Up Our Country' — Bloomington Transit Bus Stabbing of an 18-Year-Old IU Student Because She Was Asianadvisory1 injuredverbatim
By incident type