Lakeland
2025 Annual Security Report - Emergency Notification and Timely Warning
Lakeland Community College's 2025 Annual Security Report defines an emergency notification as the immediate announcement to the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an imminent threat to students or employees on campus. Faculty, staff and students are automatically registered with SchoolMessenger.
Read the official policySchoolMessenger / VENS
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Emergency notification definitionverbatim
An emergency notification is the immediate announcement to the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an imminent threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus.
- Live wording is imminent threat.
President or LCCPD may initiateverbatim
Emergency notifications may be initiated by the College President or designee and LCCPD personnel.
- Named initiators.
SchoolMessenger auto-registrationverbatim
Faculty, staff and students are automatically registered with SchoolMessenger.
- No serial comma after staff in the live sentence.
Timely warning when suspect not apprehendedverbatim
When a Clery reportable crime occurs on campus and the suspect has not been immediately apprehended, LCCPD personnel will decide whether a timely warning to the campus should be issued.
- Live wording is Clery reportable without a hyphen.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Emergency notification upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an imminent threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus. Timely warning considered when a Clery reportable crime occurs on campus and the suspect has not been immediately apprehended.
- Who decides
- Lakeland Community College Police Department issues emergency notifications. The College President or designee and LCCPD personnel may initiate them. LCCPD personnel decide whether a timely warning should be issued.
- Timeliness standard
- An emergency notification is the immediate announcement upon confirmation. No minutes-based SLA is quoted.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- The ASR keeps Emergency Notification (imminent on-campus threat) distinct from Timely Warning (Clery reportable crime, suspect not immediately apprehended).
- Scope & limits
- Faculty, staff and students are automatically registered with SchoolMessenger. Others affiliated with the college can elect to register via a link on the LCCPD web page.
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Analysis
Reading the policy
Lakeland (Ohio community college, seven filed cases, no prior policy file) serves the live 2025 ASR as a PDF at that URL (HTTP 200, text layer). LCCPD issues emergency notifications. The live definition uses imminent threat, not immediate. Notifications may be initiated by the College President or designee and LCCPD personnel. Faculty, staff and students are automatically registered with SchoolMessenger; VENS is the Voice Emergency Notification System. A timely-warning case-by-case sentence wraps as case-by- case in the PDF and is not quoted. A without-delay sentence is split by a page number and is not quoted as a single string. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF.
Takeaways
Key findings
Emergency notifications are immediate announcements upon confirmation of an imminent on-campus threat.
The College President or designee and LCCPD personnel may initiate notifications.
Faculty, staff and students are automatically registered with SchoolMessenger.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
9 documented times Lakeland’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
- Clery ASR
Tags
policyclery-asremergency-notificationtimely-warningohiocommunity-collegeschoolmessenger
Added 2026-09-14Updated 2026-09-14Via ingestion