BGSU
Campus Security Report - Emergency Notification and AlertBG
Bowling Green State University's Campus Security Report issues emergency notifications immediately upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to students, employees, guests or visitors on campus, via AlertBG text, digital signage, mass email, social media, and the home page. The AlertBG page auto-enrolls students, faculty, and staff who have a cell number on file in MyBGSU.
Read the official policyAlertBG
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Emergency notification upon confirmationverbatim
Emergency notifications will be issued immediately upon confirmation that any significant emergency or dangerous situation exists that involves the immediate threat to the health or safety of students, employees, guests or visitors on campus.
- Guests or visitors are in the live sentence.
AlertBG EN channelsverbatim
An emergency notification will be issued via an AlertBG text message, digital signage, mass email, and posts to BGSU-operated social media and the BGSU home page.
- Named EN channels.
AlertBG system definitionverbatim
AlertBG is a comprehensive, multi-channel communication system designed to deliver accurate, real-time information during emergencies to ensure the safety of our campus community.
- Consumer definition.
Automatic text enrollmentverbatim
Students, faculty, staff who have a current cell phone number on file in MyBGSU will automatically receive a text alert.
- No serial comma after faculty.
Police send AlertBGverbatim
The BGSU Police Department manages and sends all AlertBG notifications.
- Named sender.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Emergency notification immediately upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to students, employees, guests or visitors on campus.
- Who decides
- The BGSU Police Department manages and sends all AlertBG notifications.
- Timeliness standard
- Immediately upon confirmation.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- The Campus Security Report distinguishes emergency notifications from timely warnings or crime alerts.
- Scope & limits
- Students, faculty, and staff are auto-enrolled for email and for text if a cell number is on file. Guests and visitors may opt in.
ChannelsSmsEmailDigital SignageWebsite
Analysis
Reading the policy
BGSU (Ohio public-r2, five filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live Campus Security Report (HTTP 200). Emergency notifications issue immediately upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, employees, guests or visitors on campus, via AlertBG text, digital signage, mass email, BGSU-operated social media, and the home page. The live AlertBG page (HTTP 200) describes a comprehensive, multi-channel system. Students, faculty, staff with a current cell number on file in MyBGSU automatically receive a text alert. Students, faculty and staff automatically receive an email alert. The BGSU Police Department manages and sends all AlertBG notifications. A timely-warning Crime Alert sentence contains an NBSP and is not quoted. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live HTML.
Takeaways
Key findings
Emergency notifications issue immediately upon confirmation of an immediate on-campus threat.
AlertBG auto-enrolls students, faculty, and staff for email and for text when a cell number is on file.
BGSU Police manages and sends AlertBG.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
4 documented times BGSU’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
- Clery ASR
- Official
Tags
policyclery-asremergency-notificationohiopublic-r2
Added 2026-09-14Updated 2026-09-14Via ingestion