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LCC-Alert System Emergency Notification and Timely Warning (ASR)

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Lansing Community College's Annual Security Report brands the LCC-Alert System (LCC-AS) for email, text, text-to-voice, and RAVE Guardian app delivery, names an Incident Command Group for emergency message composition, and assigns Timely Warning recommendations to LCC PD in consultation with ICG with Chief/designee notification.

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Institution

Lansing Community College

Community College · MI

~15,000 studentsLCC-Alert System (LCC-AS) / RAVE Guardian

In the policy’s own words

What the policy says

LCC-AS multi-channel brand including RAVE Guardianverbatim

Alerts will be issued via LCC-Alert System (LCC – AS). These LCC -AS notifications are sent by email, text message, text -to-voice, and to the RAVE Guardian App used by LCC. The College community may also be notified using the Public Address Systems, the College website, social media, local media outlets, and f ace-to face communication.

Branded LCC-AS with RAVE Guardian and PA stack.

LCC ASR alert communications

Without-delay Emergency Notification purposeverbatim

The purpose of an emergency notification is to provide timely urgent notification to all students, employees, and visitors of a threat, occurring or imminent that poses an immediate danger to their health, safety, or general welfare while on campus. LCC will notify the campus community without delay upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus.

Local without-delay EN standard for on-campus immediate threats.

LCC ASR Emergency Notification

Incident Command Group message composition rolesverbatim

Emergency Notifications are normally composed and issued by members of the Incident Command Group (ICG) if the emergency is not an immediate life safety issue. The ICG is composed of the following individuals: Incident Command (Executive Director of Administrative Services, Emergency Management Director, and/or Remote Campus Coordinator), Public Information Officer, and/or the LCC PD.

Named multi-role ICG including Remote Campus Coordinator.

LCC ASR ICG composition

LCC PD Timely Warning recommendation with ICGverbatim

The LCCPD Chief of Police and/or designee will notify the ICG of any of the above crimes. The decision to issue a timely warning is considered on a case-by-case basis considering all the known facts surrounding the crime, including nature of the crime, danger to the community, and the possible risk of compromising law enforcement efforts. The recommendation to issue a Timely Warning will be made by LCCPD in consultation with the ICG. LCCPD and ICG also determine the message content.

Named Chief/designee + LCCPD-ICG consult for TW decisions and content.

LCC ASR Timely Warning decision

Fall and Spring EN test cadence for auto-enrolled affiliatesverbatim

Emergency Notification test sent to all those enrolled (students and employees are automatically enrolled) in the fall within the first 3 weeks of the fall and spring semesters. This notification helps all to become familiar with LCC Alert communication procedures and emergency response guidelines since the alert points all to these webpages for information.

Local first-three-weeks Fall/Spring EN test for auto-enrolled users.

LCC ASR testing

At a glance

How this policy works

When it activates: Emergency Notification for threat occurring or imminent posing immediate danger to health, safety, or general welfare while on campus. Timely Warning when Clery crimes reported to CSA or law enforcement pose serious or ongoing threat on LCC Clery geography (listed crime classifications plus hate-crime expansions).
Who decides: Emergency Notifications: normally composed and issued by Incident Command Group (ICG) members; police dispatch may issue immediately for confirmed life-safety issues; weather via NWS confirmation. Timely Warning: LCC PD Chief of Police and/or designee notifies ICG; recommendation by LCCPD in consultation with ICG; content by LCCPD and ICG; composed and sent by ICG member.
Timeliness standard: Emergency Notifications without delay upon confirmation of immediate campus threat. Timely Warnings as soon as pertinent information is available under case-by-case analysis. EN tests within first 3 weeks of fall and spring semesters for all enrolled.
Emergency notification vs. timely warning: ASR separates Emergency Notification (immediate threat) from Timely Warning (Clery crimes with serious/ongoing threat) and notes Public Safety Notices as a third category in the TOC.
Testing cadence: Emergency Notification test sent to all enrolled within the first 3 weeks of fall and spring semesters. Monthly preparedness email themes listed year-round.
Scope & limits: LCC-AS distribution includes students, employees, and others signed up; emergency notifications target the campus community including visitors for on-campus immediate threats. IPAWS and other systems used if LCC-AS is out.

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Analysis

Reading the policy

Lansing Community College (Michigan) is a community college. Its Annual Security Report is institution-specific: Emergency Notifications go out without delay upon confirmation of immediate campus threats via LCC-AS (email, text, text-to-voice, RAVE Guardian) plus PA, website, social media, local media, and face-to-face. The Incident Command Group (Executive Director of Administrative Services, Emergency Management Director and/or Remote Campus Coordinator, Public Information Officer, and/or LCC PD) normally composes and issues non-immediate-life-safety emergency messages; police dispatch may send immediately for life-safety issues after confirmation. Weather life-safety (tornado) alerts issue immediately after NWS confirmation via Baron Weather app. Timely Warnings are recommended by LCCPD after Chief/designee notifies ICG; case-by-case on nature, community danger, and law-enforcement compromise risk; content set by LCCPD and ICG; sent via LCC-AS to the full distribution. Emergency Notification tests go to all enrolled (auto-enrolled students/employees) within the first three weeks of fall and spring semesters.

Takeaways

Key findings

LCC-Alert System (LCC-AS) brands multi-channel emergency messaging including RAVE Guardian.

Incident Command Group normally composes non-immediate emergency messages.

LCC PD recommends Timely Warnings in consultation with ICG after Chief notifies ICG.

EN tests within first three weeks of fall and spring for all auto-enrolled affiliates.

Provenance

Sources

Clery ASR
Annual Security Report - Lansing Community College
lcc.edu
archived copy