CGTC
Public Safety
Central Georgia Technical College, the largest two-year institution in Georgia with more than a dozen campus and center locations across middle Georgia, publishes its emergency-notification practices on its Public Safety page around a system it calls **CampusCast**, and in 2025 announced a parallel partnership with Regroup to expand its mass-notification reach.
Read the official policyInstitution
Central Georgia Technical College
Technical College · GA
~12,700 studentsCampusCast
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
What CampusCast isverbatim
CampusCast is a service notification system used by the college to connect with students and staff through voice, SMS text, email, and social media.
- Names the branded system (CampusCast) and its four channels: voice, SMS text, email, and social media.
Emergency-notification 'without delay' commitmentverbatim
Should a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees arise at CGTC, without delay, we will implement our Emergency Alert Systems.
- Tracks the Clery Act's 34 CFR 668.46(g) emergency-notification 'without delay' standard.
Operational notification triggerverbatim
Should a significant security or weather event arise that may impact services offered by the College, emergency notifications will be sent automatically to current credit students and employees.
- Documents a broader, non-Clery-qualified trigger for automatic notifications covering weather and service-impacting security events.
Regroup-partnership administrator quoteverbatim
We're committed to keeping our community safe and informed. This system gives us the tools to share critical information instantly, so everyone can take the right steps to protect themselves and their loved ones.
- On-the-record quote from Dr. Craig Jackson, CGTC's Vice President for Student Affairs, announcing the 2025 Regroup partnership.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Emergency Alert Systems are implemented, without delay, when a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees arises at CGTC; a broader class of emergency notifications is also sent automatically for significant security or weather events that may impact services the college offers.
- Who decides
- A single named approving official or office was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed; the college's 2025 Regroup-partnership announcement is attributed on the record to Dr. Craig Jackson, CGTC's Vice President for Student Affairs.
- Timeliness standard
- CGTC commits to act 'without delay' for the Clery emergency-notification standard. No separate minutes-based or hours-based SLA was reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- CGTC's 'without delay' Emergency Alert Systems commitment tracks the Clery Act's 668.46(g) emergency-notification standard; a broader, non-Clery-qualified notification is also sent automatically for security or weather events affecting college services.
- Testing cadence
- A specific testing cadence for CampusCast or the Regroup partnership was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.
- Scope & limits
- CampusCast/Regroup notifications reach current credit students and employees across CGTC's many locations in middle Georgia; the college's Public Safety page and 2025 Regroup announcement do not specify whether continuing-education-only or dual-enrollment high school students are covered on the same channel.
ChannelsSmsPhone CallEmail
Analysis
Reading the policy
CGTC's Public Safety page names its notification system directly: CampusCast is a service notification system used by the college to connect with students and staff through voice, SMS text, email, and social media. Separately, the college's own news page describes a newer partnership: CGTC has partnered with Regroup to launch a new mass notification system designed to keep the community informed and prepared during critical events, delivering urgent updates through phone calls, text messages, emails, and more. Read together, these two official pages describe either a rebrand of CampusCast onto the Regroup platform or a second, complementary system; this review treats both as accurately reported rather than resolving the ambiguity, since neither GMC-style Wikipedia coverage nor a directly fetchable page was available to adjudicate it.
CGTC documents both an emergency-notification standard and a narrower operational-alert standard. On the Clery emergency-notification side: should a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees arise at CGTC, without delay, the college commits to implement its Emergency Alert Systems, tracking the federal 34 CFR 668.46(g) template. On the operational side, the college documents a broader trigger for routine service-impacting events: should a significant security or weather event arise that may impact services offered by the college, emergency notifications are sent automatically to current credit students and employees, without the immediate-threat-to-health-or-safety qualifier attached to the Clery standard.
The college's own announcement of the Regroup partnership quotes a named administrator on the record: "We're committed to keeping our community safe and informed," said Dr. Craig Jackson, CGTC's Vice President for Student Affairs. "This system gives us the tools to share critical information instantly, so everyone can take the right steps to protect themselves and their loved ones." That quote ties day-to-day ownership of the notification relationship to Student Affairs rather than solely to Public Safety/Campus Police.
Because centralgatech.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were captured from CGTC's own Public Safety page and news announcements as reproduced in search-engine results and corroborated across multiple independent queries. No fixed testing cadence or minutes-based response standard was reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.
Takeaways
Key findings
CGTC names its emergency-notification system CampusCast (voice, SMS text, email, social media) on its Public Safety page.
In 2025 CGTC separately announced a partnership with Regroup for a 'new mass notification system,' without the two official pages clarifying whether this replaces or supplements CampusCast.
CGTC's Clery emergency-notification commitment uses the federal 'without delay' template, alongside a broader automatic-notification trigger for weather/security events affecting college services.
The college's Vice President for Student Affairs, not Public Safety, is the named spokesperson quoted in the Regroup-partnership announcement.
CGTC is the largest two-year institution in Georgia and the largest by fall enrollment among the Technical College System of Georgia's 22 colleges.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
1 documented time CGTC’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
- Official
- OfficialCentral Georgia Technical College Emergency Notification (sign-up portal)notify.centralgatech.eduarchived copy
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Added 2026-07-20Updated 2026-07-20Via ingestion