Cayuga
2024-2025 Annual Security Report - Emergency Notifications and Everbridge Alerts
Cayuga Community College's 2024-2025 Annual Security Report issues emergency notifications when a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat occurs on campus or in the immediate adjacent area, without delay unless doing so would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. The public safety services page uses Everbridge Alert notifications for potential emergencies involving imminent danger to health or human safety.
Read the official policyEverbridge Alert / RAVE Alert
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Emergency notification triggerverbatim
Emergency notifications shall be issued when a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurs on the campus or in the immediate area adjacent to campus.
- Adjacent-area scope is live.
Without-delay issuanceverbatim
Emergency notifications will be issued without delay unless doing so would compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.
- Without-delay clause.
Everbridge Alert consumer triggerverbatim
Cayuga uses Everbridge Alert notifications to reach students, faculty and staff for potential emergencies involving imminent danger to health or human safety.
- Consumer page names Everbridge. No serial comma after faculty.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Emergency notifications for a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat on campus or immediately adjacent. Everbridge for potential emergencies involving imminent danger to health or human safety.
- Who decides
- The Director of Public Safety/Chief, or in their absence the on-duty Lieutenant, confirms whether a situation merits a warning or notification.
- Timeliness standard
- Emergency notifications will be issued without delay unless doing so would compromise victim assistance or mitigation.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- The ASR keeps Timely Warnings (Clery-listed crimes) distinct from Emergency Notifications (immediate threat on or adjacent to campus).
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Analysis
Reading the policy
Cayuga (New York community college, four filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live 2024-2025 ASR PDF (HTTP 200). Emergency notifications shall be issued when a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurs on the campus or in the immediate area adjacent to campus, and without delay unless doing so would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. The live public safety services page (HTTP 200) says Cayuga uses Everbridge Alert notifications to reach students, faculty and staff for potential emergencies involving imminent danger to health or human safety. The ASR also names a RAVE Alert System among timely-warning channels. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF or HTML.
Takeaways
Key findings
Emergency notifications cover an immediate threat on campus or immediately adjacent, issued without delay.
The consumer page names Everbridge Alert for imminent danger to health or human safety.
The ASR also lists a RAVE Alert System among timely-warning channels.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
3 documented times Cayuga’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
- Clery ASR
- Official
Tags
policyclery-asremergency-notificationnew-yorkcommunity-collegeeverbridge
Added 2026-09-14Updated 2026-09-14Via ingestion