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FDTC Alerts Emergency Alert System (Regroup) - Campus Security Report

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Florence-Darlington Technical College documents its FDTC Alerts Regroup-based Emergency Alert System in the 2025 Campus Security Report, with opt-in mobile alerts, prepopulated email, web/Facebook postings, and scrolling signs/sirens.

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Institution

Florence-Darlington Technical College

Community College · SC

~5,000 studentsFDTC Alerts

In the policy’s own words

What the policy says

FDTC Alerts EAS adoptionverbatim

Florence-Darlington Technical College's Emergency Alert System (FDTC Alerts) is an EAS system the college has adopted to communicate vital information to academic credit students, faculty/staff, and the public as efficiently as possible of potential events on campus.

Named FDTC Alerts as adopted campus EAS.

FDTC 2025 Campus Security Report - Emergency Alert System

Registration required; text preferredverbatim

You must register with FDTC Alerts to receive timely notifications of campus emergencies or events. The quickest form of notification is a text message, so you are strongly encouraged to opt in and provide a number to receive text (SMS) on capable devices.

Opt-in registration with SMS as preferred channel.

FDTC 2025 Campus Security Report - FDTC Alert registration

At a glance

How this policy works

When it activates: FDTC Alerts used for campus emergencies or events requiring timely community notification; hazardous weather closings use overlapping media and info-line channels.
Who decides: Director of Marketing and Strategic Communications is spokesperson for hazardous weather media notification; Facilities and Security Director notifies other sites. EAS activation framed as college-adopted system for vital campus event information.
Timeliness standard: Text described as quickest notification form; no fixed minutes standard stated for emergency activation.
Emergency notification vs. timely warning: Campus Security Report Overview of Alerts and Notifications / Emergency Alert System section implementing Clery timely-warning and emergency-notification capacity.
Testing cadence: Not specified as a fixed cadence in the Alerts overview section reviewed.
Scope & limits: Mobile alerts require opt-in registration; email prepopulated for students/faculty/staff. Available to academic credit students, faculty, staff, and visitors.

ChannelsSmsPhone CallEmailWebsiteFacebookSirenDigital Signage

Analysis

Reading the policy

FDTC (Florence, SC) publishes Overview of Alerts and Notifications in its 2025 Campus Security Report. FDTC Alerts is the college Emergency Alert System (EAS) adopted to communicate vital information about potential campus events to academic credit students, faculty/staff, and the public. Methods include mobile text and/or voice (opt-in), email to prepopulated FDTC accounts, web alerts on fdtc.edu and Facebook, and scrolling signs and sirens in key campus areas. The report names Regroup as the FDTC Alert Notification System backend and points registration to fdtc.app.regroup.com/signup. Users must register to receive timely emergency/event notifications; text is described as the quickest method and strongly encouraged. Visitors and clients may sign up; students are encouraged to add parent contact numbers. Hazardous weather closings are also pushed via local radio/TV, website, and the main information line (843.661.TECH). Complements South Carolina technical-college policy coverage with York Tech Alerts and Spartanburg procedures.

Takeaways

Key findings

FDTC Alerts / Regroup EAS with opt-in SMS and prepopulated email.

Multi-channel stack includes web, Facebook, scrolling signs, and sirens.

Weather closings also use local broadcast media and 843.661.TECH info line.

Provenance

Sources

Official
Florence-Darlington Technical College 2025 Campus Security Report PDF
fdtc.edu
archived copy