Marymount
2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - Emergency Notifications and Timely Warning Notices
Marymount University's 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report authorizes the Campus Safety Officer in Charge to issue emergency notifications under the Emergency Communication Plan, requires without-delay initiation of the notification system with the federal mitigation exception, and uses MU Alerts to carry timely-warning content that helps the community protect itself and prevent similar crimes.
Read the official policyMU Alerts
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Who authorizes an emergency notificationverbatim
The Campus Safety Officer in Charge or other designated official will authorize the emergency notification based on the operational guidelines in the Emergency Communication Plan.
- Names the Officer in Charge and the Emergency Communication Plan.
Without-delay initiationverbatim
In addition, the University 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.
- Federal without-delay template with mitigation exception.
MU Alerts timely-warning contentverbatim
MU Alerts issued by the Office of Campus Safety will contain information to enable members of the campus community to protect themselves, as well as providing information that would aid in the prevention of similar crimes.
- Prevention-content duty on MU Alerts.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Emergency notifications follow the Emergency Communication Plan when authorized by the Campus Safety Officer in Charge. MU Alerts timely-warning content covers reported crime, location, dates, suspect description if applicable, reporting options, and safety tips.
- Who decides
- Campus Safety Officer in Charge or other designated official authorizes emergency notifications. MU Alerts are issued by the Office of Campus Safety.
- Timeliness standard
- Without delay, taking into account the safety of the community, unless issuance would compromise victim assistance or mitigation.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- The ASR pairs emergency notifications and timely warning notices in one chapter. MU Alerts carry the timely-warning prevention content.
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Analysis
Reading the policy
Marymount (Arlington private-masters, six filed cases, no prior policy file) posts a live 2025 ASR PDF (HTTP 200, text layer). The Campus Safety Officer in Charge or other designated official authorizes the emergency notification based on the Emergency Communication Plan. The University then, without delay and taking community safety into account, determines content and initiates the system unless issuance would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. MU Alerts issued by Campus Safety carry information to enable self-protection and aid prevention of similar crimes. The public MU Alerts HTML page returned 403 in this pass, so consumer-channel sentences from that page are not quoted. Every excerpt was character-checked against the PDF text layer.
Takeaways
Key findings
The Campus Safety Officer in Charge authorizes emergency notifications under the Emergency Communication Plan.
Initiation is without delay unless it would compromise victim assistance or mitigation.
MU Alerts carry timely-warning self-protection and prevention content.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
6 documented times Marymount’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
- Clery ASR
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Added 2026-09-14Updated 2026-09-14Via ingestion