Coker
OmniAlert Emergency Notification and Timely Warnings (2025 ASR)
Coker University's 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report brands OmniAlert for simultaneous voicemail, email, and text emergency messages, assigns confirmation and activation to the Director of Campus Safety and Security or designee with without-delay issuance, and places Timely Warning decisions with the Director of Safety and Security or designee (Hartsville PD as a report path).
Read the official policyInstitution
Coker University
Private Bachelors · SC
~1,200 studentsOmniAlert / Coker Emergency Notification System
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
OmniAlert brand and simultaneous multi-channel deliveryverbatim
The Coker Emergency Notification System (OmniAlert) uses a secure, web-based service to selectively store electronic contact information provided by students, faculty, and staff, through which the University is able to communicate information and instructions in the event of an emergency. Emergency messages are sent simultaneously via voicemail, email, and/or text messaging to all the numbers and addresses on file for each person.
- Branded OmniAlert with simultaneous voicemail/email/text.
Director confirms and activates without delayverbatim
In the event of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on the campus the Coker University Director of Campus Safety and Security or designee is responsible for confirming a dangerous situation or immediate threat exists and will activate some or all of the notification system.. The notifications will occur without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim; or to contain, respond to or otherwise mitigate the emergency.
- Named Director of Campus Safety and Security with without-delay standard.
Director content/segment decisions with Executive Leadership Team consultverbatim
Once a determination has been made to issue an emergency notification, the content of the notification and the appropriate segment(s) of the campus community who receive the notification will be determined by the Director of Campus Safety. Consultation with campus officials (which may include the Executive Leadership Team) will occur as appropriate.
- Local Director + optional Executive Leadership Team consult.
Director of Safety and Security Timely Warning decisionverbatim
The decision to issue a timely warning shall be decided on a case-by-case basis in compliance with the Clery Act. The decision is made by the Director of Safety and Security, or his designee, considering all available facts, including whether the crime is considered a serious or continuing threat to students or employees, and the possible risk of compromising law enforcement efforts.
- Named Director of Safety and Security as TW decision maker.
Hartsville Police Department reporting pathverbatim
These crimes may be reported to the Office of Campus Safety and Security, a campus security authority, or to the Hartsville Police Department.
- Local municipal PD named as TW report path.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Emergency notification for significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat to health or safety of students or employees on campus. Timely warning when serious crime on campus, university property, or near vicinity constitutes ongoing or continuing threat (Clery categories listed plus others as Director/University Administration determine).
- Who decides
- Emergency notification: Director of Campus Safety and Security or designee confirms threat and activates system; Director of Campus Safety determines content and segments, consulting campus officials/Executive Leadership Team as appropriate; ERT may segment. Timely Warning: Director of Safety and Security or designee case-by-case.
- Timeliness standard
- Emergency notifications occur without delay, taking into account community safety, unless issuing would compromise victim assistance or mitigation efforts. Subsequent messages with updates as necessary.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- ASR separates OmniAlert emergency notifications (immediate threat) from Timely Warnings (ongoing/continuing threat crimes), with explicit list of TW crime types and exceptions when no ongoing threat exists.
- Testing cadence
- Not stated as a fixed numeric cadence in the extracted OmniAlert/Timely Warning sections of the 2025 ASR.
- Scope & limits
- Messages may target all or segments of campus as determined by Director/ERT. Victim names withheld as confidential on Timely Warnings. Near-vicinity crimes may trigger TW.
ChannelsSmsEmailPhone CallUnknown
Analysis
Reading the policy
Coker University (Hartsville, South Carolina) is a private bachelor's institution. Its 2025 ASR brands the Coker Emergency Notification System as OmniAlert, a secure web-based service storing student/faculty/staff contact information. The Director of Campus Safety and Security or designee confirms immediate threats and activates some or all of the system without delay unless professional judgment finds compromise of victim assistance or mitigation; the Director determines content and campus segments, consulting the Executive Leadership Team as appropriate. The Emergency Response Team (ERT) may limit notifications to segments of campus. Timely Warnings are decided case-by-case by the Director of Safety and Security or designee, including serious or continuing threat and law-enforcement compromise risk, with Hartsville Police Department listed among reporting paths.
Takeaways
Key findings
OmniAlert is the branded emergency notification system for voicemail, email, and text.
Director of Campus Safety and Security confirms threats and activates OmniAlert without delay.
Timely Warnings are decided by the Director of Safety and Security or designee.
Hartsville Police Department is an explicit reporting path for crimes that may trigger warnings.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
1 documented time Coker’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
- Clery ASR
Tags
policyprivate-bachelorstimely-warningemergency-notificationsouth-carolinawider-reach
Added 2026-07-26Updated 2026-07-26Via ingestion