PHSC
Timely Alert Notices and Emergency Notification System (2025 Annual Security Report)
Pasco-Hernando State College documents Timely Alert/Safety Alert and emergency mass-notification practice in its 2025 ASR, with Department of College Safety and Security plus Campus Leadership Team authority, PHSCAlert Rave multi-channel delivery, Alertus desktop, campus siren, and twice-yearly ENS tests.
Read the official policyInstitution
Pasco-Hernando State College
Community College · FL
~10,000 studentsPHSCAlert (Rave) / Alertus
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Timely Alert serious or continuing threatverbatim
The Pasco-Hernando State College Department of College Safety and Security will issue a crime alert for any crimes that are considered by Pasco-Hernando State College to present a serious or continuing threat to the campus community.
- Defines serious-or-continuing-threat Timely Alert trigger.
Without delay emergency standardverbatim
Emergency messages will be issued without delay unless in the judgment of the first responders it will compromise the efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.
- Clery-style without-delay standard with first-responder withhold carve-out.
Twice-yearly ENS tests and channel stackverbatim
The emergency notification system is tested twice a year, once during the Fall semester and once during the Spring semester. PHSC has various systems in place for communicating information quickly to the college community. These methods include the mass notification system PHSCAlert (Rave: text, email, phone), Alertus (computer monitors), display monitors throughout the campuses and campus siren.
- Names twice-yearly test cadence and PHSCAlert/Alertus/siren stack.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Timely Alert for crimes considered to present a serious or continuing threat to the campus community, case by case. Emergency mass notification for confirmed imminent threat on campus.
- Who decides
- Department of College Safety and Security and the Campus Leadership Team prepare Timely Warning/Safety Alerts. Emergency content determined by College Safety and Security and/or Campus Leadership Team in conjunction with the Senior Director of Marketing and Communications; confirmation by College Safety and Security and/or Campus Leadership Team.
- Timeliness standard
- Every attempt to release Timely Alerts in a timely manner after the crime has occurred and availability of facts has been determined. Emergency messages issued without delay unless first responders judge compromise of victim assistance or mitigation efforts.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- ASR Timely Alert Notices and Emergency Notification System sections implement Clery timely-warning and emergency-notification tracks with named Rave/Alertus systems and twice-yearly tests.
- Testing cadence
- Emergency notification system tested twice a year, once during the Fall semester and once during the Spring semester.
- Scope & limits
- Alerts may omit information that would compromise law enforcement efforts. Outdoor siren currently on West Campus only. Enrollment in PHSCAlert encouraged for full reach.
ChannelsSmsEmailPhone CallDesktop PopupPa SystemWebsite
Analysis
Reading the policy
Pasco-Hernando State College, a multi-campus Florida College System institution north of Tampa Bay, publishes Clery notification procedures inside its 2025 Annual Security Report. Timely Alert Notices (also called Timely Warning/Safety Alerts) are prepared by the Department of College Safety and Security and the Campus Leadership Team for crimes presenting a serious or continuing threat, with case-by-case threat review and updates when new facts arrive.
Emergency notifications for confirmed imminent threats use the mass notification system without delay unless first responders judge that messaging would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Content is determined by College Safety and Security and/or Campus Leadership Team in conjunction with the Senior Director of Marketing and Communications. Named systems include PHSCAlert (Rave: text, email, phone), Alertus computer monitors, display monitors, outdoor siren (West Campus), webpage, and social media. The emergency notification system is tested twice a year, once in Fall and once in Spring.
Takeaways
Key findings
Timely Alerts prepared by Safety and Security plus Campus Leadership Team for serious or continuing threats.
Emergency messages without delay unless first responders judge compromise of response.
PHSCAlert Rave plus Alertus and outdoor siren; ENS tested twice yearly.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
2 documented times PHSC’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
- Official
Tags
floridacommunity-collegeclery-asrphsc-alertwider-reach
Added 2026-07-26Updated 2026-07-26Via ingestion