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Emergency Notification, Timely Warning, Public Health and Safety Issuance Policy and Procedure

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Mid Michigan College publishes a dedicated Emergency Notification, Timely Warning, Public Health and Safety Issuance Policy and Procedure that defines 'confirmation' as verification by the college's Core Crisis Team, lets Campus Security act without waiting for that team when time is critical, and adds a third, non-Clery notice type, the Public Health or Safety Advisory, for situations that do not meet the warning or notification threshold.

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Institution

Mid Michigan College

Community College · MI

~3,900 studentsMid Alert

In the policy’s own words

What the policy says

Definition of confirmationreconstructed

The term 'confirmation' indicates that a member or members of the college's Core Crisis Team have verified that a legitimate emergency or dangerous situation exists. Confirmation does not require that ALL pertinent details are known or available and will be based upon what authorized, trained individuals conclude, dependent upon the facts and information available to them at the time.

— Defines the procedure's central term and clarifies that confirmation is a judgment call by trained individuals, not a requirement for complete information.

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Notification before confirmation when time is criticalreconstructed

In some circumstances, when time is of the immediate essence, Campus Security or Security Operations and Systems may have to initiate the notification, without prior confirmation, and thereafter follow up with the Core Crisis Team or members thereof.

— Builds an explicit bypass into the normal confirmation sequence for time-critical situations, naming Campus Security and Security Operations and Systems as the roles authorized to act first.

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Timely Warning escalation and distributionreconstructed

Members of Safety and Security Operations are responsible for reviewing all reports of criminal activity to determine if they meet the Clery Act's standard for a Timely Warning Notice. If so, they are to communicate with a member of the college's Core Crisis Team. The Core Crisis Team, or member thereof, will review the report to determine if there is an ongoing threat to the community and if a Notice is warranted.

— Lays out the two-stage escalation path from Safety and Security Operations' initial Clery review to the Core Crisis Team's ongoing-threat determination.

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Third-tier Public Health or Safety Advisoryreconstructed

When deemed necessary and when the issuance of an Emergency Notification or Timely Warning is not required, the college's Core Crisis Team may choose to provide information to the campus community by way of a Public Health or Safety Advisory.

— Formalizes a discretionary, non-Clery third notice tier below Emergency Notification and Timely Warning, distinguishing this procedure from documents that only cover the two federally mandated categories.

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At a glance

How this policy works

When it activates: An Emergency Notification is issued upon Core Crisis Team confirmation of a legitimate emergency or dangerous situation. A Timely Warning is issued when Safety and Security Operations, escalating to the Core Crisis Team, determines a reported crime meets the Clery standard and represents an ongoing threat. A Public Health or Safety Advisory is issued at the Core Crisis Team's discretion when neither threshold is met but the college still wants to inform the community.
Who decides: The Core Crisis Team confirms emergencies and determines Timely Warning content, with Safety and Security Operations doing the initial review of criminal reports. In time-critical situations, Campus Security or Security Operations and Systems may initiate a notification before the Core Crisis Team has confirmed it, and brief the team afterward.
Timeliness standard: No fixed minutes-based standard was reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed; the procedure instead builds timeliness into its confirmation workflow, explicitly authorizing notification before Core Crisis Team confirmation when time is of the immediate essence.
Emergency notification vs. timely warning: The procedure covers both Clery-mandated categories, Emergency Notification and Timely Warning, under one umbrella policy, and adds a third, non-Clery Public Health or Safety Advisory tier for situations, such as an elevated but non-imminent health risk, that do not meet either Clery threshold.
Scope & limits: Public Health or Safety Advisories may cover situations within the college's Clery reportable geography or outside it, when there is potential to affect the campus community; Timely Warning distribution runs through blast email to all active MidMail accounts plus the Mid Alert system.

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Analysis

Reading the policy

Mid Michigan College, a public community college with campuses in Harrison and Mount Pleasant, Michigan, maintains a combined Policy and Procedure document that covers Clery emergency notifications and timely warnings together with a third, college-created category: the Public Health or Safety Advisory. The document opens by defining its own key term. 'Confirmation' indicates that a member or members of the college's Core Crisis Team have verified that a legitimate emergency or dangerous situation exists, and confirmation does not require that all pertinent details are known or available; it is based on what authorized, trained individuals conclude given the facts available to them at the time. That definition matters because the rest of the procedure is built around it: Campus Security or Security Operations and Systems is normally expected to route a potential emergency through the Core Crisis Team for that confirmation before a notification goes out. The procedure explicitly anticipates situations where that sequencing is too slow. In some circumstances, when time is of the immediate essence, Campus Security or Security Operations and Systems may have to initiate the notification without prior confirmation, and follow up with the Core Crisis Team afterward. For timely warnings specifically, Safety and Security Operations reviews reports of criminal activity against the Clery standard, then escalates to the Core Crisis Team, which determines both whether there is an ongoing threat and the content of the message; a Timely Warning is then communicated through a blast email to all active MidMail accounts as well as through the Mid Alert system. When neither an Emergency Notification nor a Timely Warning is required but the college still wants to inform the community, the Core Crisis Team may issue a Public Health or Safety Advisory instead, a formal third tier below the two Clery-mandated categories. Because midmich.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the passages above are reconstructed from search-engine-indexed extracts of the page rather than a firsthand line-by-line read, so every excerpt below is marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false out of caution even though the underlying search results present them as close quotations. Confidence is set to medium on that basis.

Takeaways

Key findings

Mid Michigan College's procedure defines 'confirmation' as Core Crisis Team verification and explicitly notes that confirmation does not require complete information, tying the rest of the workflow to that one term.

The procedure authorizes Campus Security or Security Operations and Systems to notify before Core Crisis Team confirmation in time-critical situations, then brief the team afterward.

Timely Warnings pass through a two-stage review, an initial Clery-standard screen by Safety and Security Operations followed by an ongoing-threat determination by the Core Crisis Team, before a blast email and Mid Alert notice go out.

The procedure adds a third, non-Clery tier, the Public Health or Safety Advisory, for situations that do not meet the Emergency Notification or Timely Warning threshold but that the college still wants to communicate.

Provenance

Sources

Official
Emergency Notification, Timely Warning, Public Health and Safety Issuance Policy and Procedure, Mid Michigan College
midmich.edu
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Official
Mid Alert, Mid Michigan College
midmich.edu
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