Campus Alert Archive

Institution

University of California, Santa Barbara

UCSBCAPublic R1UCSB Timely Warning / WarnMe~26,100 students

Cases: 10
Alerts: 18
Verbatim: 17%
Span: 1970–2026

Official alert policy

How UCSB says it will alert — when and how UCSB Alert activates, summarized, quoted, and analyzed.

Case log

Every documented incident

10 cases · 3 of 18 alert messages verbatim-confirmed

2026

sexual assault: 2026-05-0912:39 AM Sunday Push to 26,100 Inboxes: UCSB's Clery Timely Warning for a Rape-and-Strangulation in Campus Housingtimely warning1 injuredverbatim
stalking: 2026-04-04Two Bus Rides, One Pattern: UCSB Links a January and April Incident in a Content-Warned Stalking Alerttimely warningverbatim

2025

sexual assault: 2025-10-19Unknown Male Forces Student to Ground Near UCSB Lagoon at Night; Victim Escapes; Police Issue Campuswide Timely Warningtimely warning1 injured

2024

2014

active shooter: 2014-05-23Off-Campus Carnage, On-Campus Terror: Isla Vista's Six Victims and the Birth of 'Not One More'emergency notification6 killed · 14 injured

2013

disease outbreak: 2013-11-13Four MenB Cases at UCSB in Three Weeks Lead to Bilateral Foot Amputation and Bexsero Authorizationadvisory4 injured

2011

civil unrest: 2011-01-25Four Gauchos Airlifted Out of Cairo as State Department Mandates Evacuation of US Studentsadvisory

2001

other: 2001-02-23'I Am the Angel of Death': A Car Driven Into a Crowd in Isla Vistaemergency notification

1970

civil unrest: 1970-02-25Isla Vista Burns: UCSB Students Torch Bank of America Branch in Anti-War Riot, Student Later Killedemergency notification1 killed

By incident type

What UCSB has alerted about

Sex Offense · 4 Civil Unrest · 2 Active Shooter · 1 arson · 1 other · 1 Public Health · 1

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