Highline
2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - Public Safety Alerts and Emergency Notification
Highline College's 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report requires the Public Safety Office to issue timely warning notifications for Clery-geography crimes that represent a serious or continuing threat, and to immediately notify the campus upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation. The emergency information page states that all Highline students are enrolled in the campus alerts notification system (Regroup / HC Text Alerts).
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In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Timely warning policyverbatim
Highline College Public Safety Office will issue “timely warning” notifications about crimes, occurring on campus or within our Clery Act geographic area, that have been reported to the Public Safety Department or local law enforcement AND are considered by the college to represent a serious or continuing threat to students and employees.
- Curly quotes around timely warning are live. AND is capitalized in the PDF.
Emergency notification upon confirmationverbatim
Highline College will immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus.
- Followed by Public Safety's confirmation duty.
Student auto-enrollmentverbatim
All Highline College students are enrolled in our campus alerts notification system.
- Consumer-facing enrollment sentence. A following sentence contains an NBSP and is not quoted.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Timely warnings: Clery-geography crimes reported to Public Safety or local law enforcement that the college considers a serious or continuing threat. Emergency notifications: confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety of the campus.
- Who decides
- Public Safety Office issues timely warnings and confirms emergencies. Case-by-case for timely warnings, weighing nature of the crime, continuing danger, and risk of compromising law enforcement.
- Timeliness standard
- Emergency notification is immediate upon confirmation. Timely warnings as pertinent information is available.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- The ASR separates timely warning notifications (post-crime continuing threat) from emergency notification to the college community about immediate threats.
- Scope & limits
- All students are enrolled in campus alerts. Employees also receive text and/or automated calls. Desktop Alert can reach college computers.
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Analysis
Reading the policy
Highline (Washington community college, seven filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a substantial 2024 ASR. The live PDF (HTTP 200, text layer, second read) uses curly quotes around timely warning. The Public Safety Office issues those notifications for crimes on campus or in Clery geography reported to Public Safety or local law enforcement AND considered a serious or continuing threat. Emergency notification is immediate upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to campus health or safety, with Public Safety responsible for confirming the emergency. The consumer page auto-enrolls all students and sends text and/or automated phone calls to actively enrolled students and all employees. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF or HTML.
Takeaways
Key findings
Timely warnings are issued by Public Safety for Clery-geography crimes that are a serious or continuing threat.
Emergency notifications go out immediately upon confirmation of an immediate threat to campus health or safety.
All students are enrolled in HC Text Alerts; employees also receive text and/or automated calls.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
8 documented times Highline’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
- Clery ASRHighline College 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)documents.highline.eduarchived copy
- Official
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Added 2026-09-14Updated 2026-09-14Via ingestion