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2025 Annual Security Report - Timely Warning Notifications and Emergency Notifications
Gateway Technical College's 2025 Annual Security Report issues a campus-wide timely warning when a crime in Clery geography constitutes a serious or continuing threat, and initiates without-delay emergency notifications through the RAVE system referred to as AlertME, with students, staff, and faculty automatically enrolled from My Gateway.
Read the official policyAlertME
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Emergency notification without delayverbatim
In the event of an emergency, Gateway Technical College will initiate and provide, without delay, immediate notifications to the appropriate segment(s) of the College’s community upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, employees and visitors.
- Visitors are named in the immediate-threat class alongside students and employees.
AlertME automatic enrollmentverbatim
Gateway Technical College students, staff, and faculty are automatically enrolled into receiving emails and text messages to the cell phone number on file at “My Gateway.” Visitors can opt-in for emergency text messaging by texting GTCAlerts to 77295.
- Students and employees are auto-enrolled; visitors opt in by short code.
Timely warning serious or continuing threatverbatim
In the event a crime is reported, or a situation arises, within the Gateway Technical College Clery geography (On Campus, Public Property and Noncampus property), that, in the judgment of the Director of Safety and Security and in consultation with responsible authorities when time permits, constitutes a serious or continuing threat, a campus wide “timely warning” notice will be issued.
- Live text is campus wide, not hyphenated, and Noncampus is one word.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Timely warning when a crime or situation in GTC Clery geography constitutes a serious or continuing threat. Emergency notification upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to students, employees and visitors.
- Who decides
- Director of Safety and Security, in consultation with responsible authorities when time permits. An attempt is made to consult the CEO/President, CFO/VP of Finance and Administration, and the Manager of Communications and Media Relations.
- Timeliness standard
- Timely warning as soon as the pertinent information is available. Emergency notification without delay upon confirmation.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- The ASR keeps Timely Warning Notifications distinct from Emergency Notifications. AlertME (RAVE) is the consumer product for both email and text.
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Analysis
Reading the policy
Gateway Technical College (Wisconsin technical-college, four filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live 2025 ASR (HTTP 200; the page serves a Google Document). The Director of Safety and Security, in consultation with responsible authorities when time permits, issues a campus-wide timely warning for a serious or continuing threat in On Campus, Public Property, and Noncampus geography. Emergency notifications go out without delay upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to students, employees and visitors. RAVE (AlertME) is the named mass-notification channel; visitors opt in by texting GTCAlerts to 77295. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live document export.
Takeaways
Key findings
AlertME is the RAVE consumer product; students, staff, and faculty are auto-enrolled from My Gateway.
Emergency notifications go out without delay to the appropriate segment upon confirmation of an immediate threat, including visitors.
Timely warnings are campus-wide notices for a serious or continuing threat in Clery geography, issued by the Director of Safety and Security.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
4 documented times GTC’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