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CSUF Emergency Alerts (Titan Alert) and Clery Notifications / Timely Warnings
Titan Alert is California State University, Fullerton's emergency-notification program, run by the CSUF Police Department, which sends Emergency Alerts by email, phone call, and text message (with follow-up posted to the department website, X, and campus digital signage) and issues separate Clery Notifications / Timely Warnings; the underlying Clery framework follows the CSU systemwide public-alert policy and is documented in the CSUF Annual Security Report.
Read the official policyInstitution
California State University, Fullerton
Public R2 · CA
~43,662 studentsTitan Alert
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Emergency Alert channelsverbatim
"Emergency Alerts" may be sent via email, phone call, or text message. The messaging will subsequently be accessible on this website and X. In the event of a critical emergency, the CSUF campus digital signage will be activated, which will visually display notifications.
- — Lists the Titan Alert emergency-notification channels (email, phone call, text) plus the follow-up posting to the website, X, and campus digital signage during a critical emergency.
Clery Notifications / Timely Warningsverbatim
"Clery Notifications" or Timely Warnings are sent via email, published on this website, and via X, and in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Act.
- — Establishes that Clery Notifications / Timely Warnings are a separate channel set (email, website, X) issued for Clery Act compliance, distinct from Titan Alert emergency notifications.
CSU systemwide public-alert purposeverbatim
The CSU Police Systemwide Public Alert policy describes the procedures that will be used to immediately notify the Campus community upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students and/or employees occurring on the Campus, as required by the Clery Act.
- — Identifies the CSU Police Systemwide Public Alert policy as the governing framework and states the Clery confirmation-of-a-significant-emergency trigger.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Emergency Alerts (Titan Alert) are issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students and/or employees occurring on the campus, as required by the Clery Act. Clery Notifications / Timely Warnings are issued separately to provide preventative information about Clery crimes that pose a serious or continuing threat.
- Who decides
- Consistent with the CSU Police Systemwide Public Alert policy, the Chief of Police and/or the Clery Director (or their management designees) prepare the content, determine which members of the campus community are threatened and need to be notified, and authorize transmission of the emergency notification. (Paraphrased from the standard CSU framing; exact CSUF ASR wording not reproduced verbatim here.)
- Timeliness standard
- Following the CSU systemwide framing, the notification is transmitted without delay, taking into account the safety of the community, unless doing so would delay the ability to mitigate and/or contain the emergency, including the ability to provide immediate, life-saving measures.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- CSUF treats Emergency Alerts (Titan Alert emergency notifications) and Clery Notifications / Timely Warnings as distinct obligations: Emergency Alerts go out by email, phone call, and text for immediate threats, while Clery Notifications / Timely Warnings are sent by email, website, and X for serious or continuing Clery-crime threats.
- Testing cadence
- As a CSU campus, the Emergency Notification System is tested at least once annually (announced or unannounced), with the formal cadence stated in the Annual Security Report. (Paraphrased standard CSU framing; exact CSUF ASR sentence not reproduced verbatim here.)
- Scope & limits
- Notification may be withheld or its segment-targeting deferred if doing so would delay the ability to mitigate or contain the emergency or provide life-saving measures. Text/phone delivery depends on community members keeping current contact information in CSUF's PeopleSoft/Student Center and HR systems.
ChannelsEmailSmsPhone CallTwitter XWebsiteDigital Signage
Analysis
Reading the policy
California State University, Fullerton — the largest campus in the CSU system — disseminates emergency information through Titan Alert, administered by the CSUF Police Department. The department's Emergency Alerts page draws a clean distinction between two Clery obligations. Per that page, 'Emergency Alerts' may be sent via email, phone call, or text message, with the messaging subsequently accessible on the department website and on X; in the event of a critical emergency, the CSUF campus digital signage is activated to visually display notifications. Separately, the university issues 'Clery Notifications' (Timely Warnings) via email, the website, and X in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Act to give the community preventative information aimed at helping members avoid becoming the victim of a similar crime.
The governing policy is the CSU Police Systemwide Public Alert policy, which describes the procedures used to immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students and/or employees occurring on the campus, as required by the Clery Act. As a CSU campus, CSUF's emergency-notification decision authority and 'without delay' timeliness obligation mirror the standard CSU framing vested in the Chief of Police and/or the Clery Director (or their management designees), who prepare the notification content, determine which segment of the community is threatened, and transmit the notification subject to the Clery containment/life-saving exception. The current Annual Security Report — which CSUF describes as containing its security and safety-related policy statements, emergency preparedness and evacuation information, and crime- and sexual-assault-prevention information — is the document where these criteria, decision authority, and testing cadence are formally stated.
Enrollment in Titan Alert text/phone delivery is tied to the contact information students and employees maintain in the campus PeopleSoft/Student Center and HR systems; CSUF directs community members to keep their personal contact information current so they receive Titan Alert messages. In January 2026 the CSUF Police Department also launched the TitanSafety mobile app, which complements Titan Alert by letting users call 911, reach counseling services, and chat directly with CSUF PD.
Because CSUF's official .edu hosts return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the verbatim excerpts below were captured from official CSUF Police Department page text as reproduced in search results and corroborated across multiple independent queries; the CSU systemwide-policy and ASR criteria, decision-authority, and testing details are paraphrased from the corroborated standard CSU framing rather than quoted, because the exact ASR sentences could not be reproduced verbatim from the source here.
Takeaways
Key findings
Titan Alert is run by the CSUF Police Department and sends Emergency Alerts by email, phone call, and text message, with follow-up posted to the department website, X, and (during a critical emergency) campus digital signage.
CSUF keeps Emergency Alerts (emergency notifications) and Clery Notifications / Timely Warnings as distinct obligations; Timely Warnings go out by email, website, and X for serious or continuing Clery-crime threats.
The governing framework is the CSU Police Systemwide Public Alert policy, which immediately notifies the community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat, as required by the Clery Act.
Decision authority and the 'without delay' timeliness obligation follow the standard CSU framing vested in the Chief of Police and/or Clery Director (or designees); the current Annual Security Report (hosted via CSUF Risk Management) is the formal policy document.
CSUF complements Titan Alert with the TitanSafety mobile app (launched January 2026) for 911 calls, counseling access, and direct chat with CSUF PD.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
4 documented times CSUF’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
- Official
- Clery ASR
- OfficialEmergency Notification — CSUF Division of Administration and Financeadminfin.fullerton.eduarchived copy
- Official
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policyemergency-notificationtimely-warningclery-acttitan-alertpublic-r2californiacsu
Added 2026-06-21Updated 2026-06-21Via ingestion