Lafayette
2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - Emergency Notification Process and Leopard Alerts
Lafayette College's 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report determines notification content and initiates the system without delay unless issuing would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Emergency Notifications go via the Leopard Alerts Emergency Alert Service. The emergency contacts page describes an outdoor warning system that supplements Leopard Alerts.
Read the official policyLeopard Alerts
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Without-delay initiationverbatim
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.
- Live has no comma after respond to. PDF wraps notification and contain with end-of-line hyphens.
Leopard Alerts as EN channelverbatim
Emergency Notifications will be made via the Leopard Alerts Emergency Alert Service.
- Named EN product.
Outdoor warning systemverbatim
The college features an outdoor warning system that can activate a siren and deliver voice messages during an emergency on or around the campus.
- college is lowercase in the live sentence.
Outdoor system supplements Leopard Alertsverbatim
This outdoor warning system supplements the emergency notification service known as Leopard Alerts.
- Pairs the consumer page to the ASR product name.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Without-delay emergency notification unless issuing would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Outdoor warning during an emergency on or around campus.
- Who decides
- The ASR names the Director of Public Safety or designee for timely-warning content; that two-column sentence is not quoted here. Dispatch notifies the Director or designee to issue an emergency notification after first responders confirm a significant emergency.
- Timeliness standard
- Without delay, taking into account the safety of the community.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- The ASR separates Timely Warning procedures from the Emergency Notification Process. This file quotes the emergency-notification track plus the outdoor-warning supplement.
- Scope & limits
- The ASR later states participation in Leopard Alerts is voluntary; that sentence is not quoted from the two-column layout.
ChannelsSmsEmailSirenPa SystemWebsite
Analysis
Reading the policy
Lafayette (Pennsylvania private liberal-arts college, five filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live 2025 ASR PDF (HTTP 200, two-column text layer). The College determines content and initiates the notification system without delay, taking community safety into account, unless responsible authorities judge that issuing would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Emergency Notifications are made via the Leopard Alerts Emergency Alert Service. The live emergency contacts page (HTTP 200) states that an outdoor warning system can activate a siren and deliver voice messages and that this system supplements Leopard Alerts. The HTML Leopard Alerts definition sentence contains NBSPs around the service link and is not quoted. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF or HTML.
Takeaways
Key findings
Emergency notifications initiate without delay unless issuing would compromise victim assistance or mitigation.
Emergency Notifications go out through Leopard Alerts.
An outdoor siren and voice system supplements Leopard Alerts.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
3 documented times Lafayette’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
- Clery ASRLafayette College 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (PDF)publicsafety.lafayette.eduarchived copy
- Official
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Added 2026-09-14Updated 2026-09-14Via ingestion