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ACC Emergency Alert
ACC Emergency Alert is Austin Community College District's mass-notification system, powered by Rave Mobile Safety, 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, published by October 1 each year.
Read the official policyInstitution
Austin Community College District
Community College · TX
~39,727 studentsACC Emergency Alert
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
What ACC Emergency Alert isverbatim
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.
- — 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.
Vendor and contact capacityverbatim
Rave Mobile Safety is ACC's service provider. You can provide up to three emails and three mobile phone numbers for notifications.
- — 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.
Scope and privacy limitsverbatim
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.
- — 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.
Mandatory ACCmail enrollmentreconstructed
You can't edit notifications to your ACCmail account. You will always receive ACC Alert emails.
- — 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.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- 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.
- Who decides
- 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.
- Timeliness standard
- 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.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- 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.
- Testing cadence
- 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.
- Scope & limits
- 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.
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Analysis
Reading the policy
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, with Rave Mobile Safety 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.
Enrollment 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.'
The 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 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 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.'
The 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.
Takeaways
Key findings
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.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
3 documented times ACC’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
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- Clery ASRAnnual Security Report / Clery Act - ACC Catalog & Student Handbookcatalog.austincc.eduarchived copy
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Added 2026-06-21Updated 2026-06-21Via ingestion