CSC
2025-2026 Campus Crime Security and Fire Safety Report - Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings
Chadron State College's 2025-2026 Campus Crime Security and Fire Safety Report initiates, without delay, an emergency notification of a confirmed threat to health or safety to the appropriate campus segments, with content and population set by the EAP Team. Timely warning is provided as soon as pertinent information is available for a serious crime thought to be a continuing threat.
Read the official policyCSC emergency alert system
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Emergency notification without delayverbatim
Depending on the extent of the situation, CSC will take into account the safety of the campus community and initiate to the appropriate segments of the campus, without delay, an emergency notification of a confirmed threat to health or safety; unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise the efforts to assist victims or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.
- Live wording is initiate to the appropriate segments.
EAP Team sets content and populationverbatim
The content of the notification and the population to be notified will be determined by the EAP Team.
- Named decision body for EN content.
Timely warning for continuing threatverbatim
Students, faculty, and staff will be provided timely warning as required by federal law (20 U.S.C. § 1092) as to the occurrence of a serious crime that is thought to be a continuing threat to members of the campus community as soon as pertinent information becomes available.
- Section sign is live in the PDF.
Student information system loads alert numbersverbatim
Cell phone numbers that are listed in the CSC student information system will be loaded in the CSC emergency alert system.
- Enrollment path for the alert system.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Emergency notification of a confirmed threat to health or safety. Timely warning for a serious crime thought to be a continuing threat to members of the campus community.
- Who decides
- The EAP Team determines emergency-notification content and the population to be notified.
- Timeliness standard
- Without delay for emergency notifications. Timely warnings as soon as pertinent information becomes available.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- The ASR keeps Emergency Notifications (confirmed threat to health or safety) distinct from Timely Warnings (serious crime that is a continuing threat).
- Scope & limits
- Cell phone numbers listed in the CSC student information system are loaded into the emergency alert system. START Office handles number updates.
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Analysis
Reading the policy
Chadron State (Nebraska public bachelor's college, five filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live 2025-2026 ASR PDF (HTTP 200, text layer). Emergency notifications go without delay to appropriate segments on a confirmed threat to health or safety, unless issuing would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. The EAP Team determines content and the population to notify. Timely warning is framed as federal law 20 U.S.C. section 1092 for a serious crime thought to be a continuing threat, issued as soon as pertinent information becomes available. Cell numbers in the student information system are loaded into the CSC emergency alert system. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF.
Takeaways
Key findings
Emergency notifications go without delay to appropriate segments on a confirmed health or safety threat.
The EAP Team sets notification content and the notified population.
Timely warnings issue as soon as pertinent information is available for a serious crime thought to be a continuing threat.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
4 documented times CSC’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
- Clery ASR
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Added 2026-09-14Updated 2026-09-14Via ingestion