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Keene State Owl Alert Emergency Notification System
Keene State College's Owl Alert page provides students, faculty, staff, guests, and visitors a free emergency alert system by text, email, and/or voice calls, including weather-related events that may lead to a campus closure or curtailed operations. The Clery report issues notifications without delay unless a professional-judgment exception applies.
Read the official policyInstitution
Keene State College
Public Bachelors · NH
Owl Alert
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Owl Alert definitionverbatim
Keene State College provides students, faculty, staff, guests, and visitors with a free emergency alert system, called the Keene State Owl Alert.
- Guests and visitors are in the consumer class.
Owl Alert channelsverbatim
This alert system allows Keene State to contact individuals directly by text, email, and/or voice calls.
- Text, email, and voice.
Weather and campus emergenciesverbatim
The Keene State Owl Alert system will be used to notify community members of campus emergencies including weather-related events that may lead to a campus closure or curtailed operations.
- Weather-related closure or curtailment is in the trigger class.
Automatic employee and student updatesverbatim
This emergency notification system receives automatic updates for all Keene State College employees and students.
- Employees and students auto-update; visitors opt in.
Without-delay emergency notificationverbatim
The College will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system, 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.
- Standard HEOA without-delay sentence.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Owl Alert for campus emergencies including weather-related events that may lead to a campus closure or curtailed operations. Emergency notification when a significant emergency or dangerous situation involves an immediate threat on campus.
- Who decides
- The College determines the content of the notification and initiates the notification system. The Director of Campus Safety and Compliance or designee issues timely warnings or emergency notifications when a responding officer determines significant or imminent danger.
- Timeliness standard
- Without delay, taking into account the safety of the community, unless issuing a notification would compromise victim assistance or mitigation.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- Owl Alert is the emergency-notification product. Timely warnings are for Clery crimes that represent an ongoing or continuing threat.
ChannelsSmsEmailPhone Call
Analysis
Reading the policy
Keene State College (public-bachelors, New Hampshire thin-state, one filed case, no prior policy file) publishes a live Owl Alert page (HTTP 200) and a live Annual Security and Fire Safety Report PDF (HTTP 200). The consumer system receives automatic updates for all employees and students. Guests and visitors can opt in. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live HTML or PDF.
Takeaways
Key findings
Owl Alert covers campus emergencies and weather-related closures or curtailment.
Employees and students receive automatic contact updates.
Notifications go out without delay unless a professional-judgment exception applies.
Provenance
Sources
- Official
- Clery ASR
Tags
policysystem-overviewemergency-notificationnew-hampshirepublic-bachelorsrave
Added 2026-09-14Updated 2026-09-14Via ingestion