Chattanooga State
2025 Annual Security Report - Timely Warnings and Immediate Notification
Chattanooga State Community College's 2025 Annual Security Report distributes an Immediate Notification or a Timely Warning campus-wide when it is reasonably believed that a reported violent crime may endanger additional campus citizens. The College intends to immediately notify all members of its community of incidents on or near campus property that have the potential to immediately endanger lives or threaten severe bodily injury or extensive property damage.
Read the official policyImmediate Notification / Timely Warning
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Immediate Notification or Timely Warningverbatim
An Immediate Notification or a Timely Warning will be distributed campus-wide by the Chattanooga State Community College Police Department when it is reasonably believed that a reported violent crime may endanger additional campus citizens, i.e., employees, students, and guests.
- Police Department is the named distributor.
Commitment to notify of threatening eventsverbatim
Chattanooga State Community College is committed to notifying persons regarding significant types of threatening events or situations that may occur on or near its campus properties.
- On or near campus properties.
Immediate notification of endangering incidentsverbatim
Chattanooga State Community College intends to immediately notify all members of its community of incidents or situations on or near Chattanooga State Community College campus property that have the potential to immediately endanger lives or that threaten severe bodily injury or extensive property damage.
- Lives, severe bodily injury, or extensive property damage.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Immediate Notification or Timely Warning when a reported violent crime may endanger additional campus citizens. Immediate notification of incidents on or near campus that may immediately endanger lives or threaten severe bodily injury or extensive property damage.
- Who decides
- Chattanooga State Community College Police Department distributes Immediate Notifications and Timely Warnings.
- Timeliness standard
- Immediate notification. No minutes-based SLA is quoted.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- The ASR pairs Immediate Notification and Timely Warning in one distribution sentence, then defines emergency notification as properly and immediately notifying persons of events that potentially threaten lives or property.
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Analysis
Reading the policy
Chattanooga State (Tennessee community college, four filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live 2025 ASR PDF (HTTP 200, text layer). An Immediate Notification or a Timely Warning is distributed campus-wide by the Police Department when it is reasonably believed that a reported violent crime may endanger additional campus citizens, i.e., employees, students, and guests. The College is committed to notifying persons regarding significant types of threatening events or situations that may occur on or near its campus properties. It intends to immediately notify all members of its community of incidents or situations on or near campus property that have the potential to immediately endanger lives or that threaten severe bodily injury or extensive property damage. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF.
Takeaways
Key findings
The Police Department distributes Immediate Notifications or Timely Warnings campus-wide when a reported violent crime may endanger additional campus citizens.
The College intends immediate notification of incidents on or near campus that may immediately endanger lives or threaten severe injury or extensive property damage.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
4 documented times Chattanooga State’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