Pierce College
2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - Timely and Emergency Notifications
Pierce College District's 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report issues an emergency notification and activates procedures in the event of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the college community. The notification page says Campus Safety, after confirming a threat, works with College Administration to determine Emergency Notification content.
Read the official policyPierce College Emergency Notification System
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Emergency notification triggerverbatim
In the event of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the college community health or safety, the college will issue an emergency notification and activate the emergency notification procedures.
- Live wording omits 'of' before health. Preserved.
Campus Safety and Administration determine contentverbatim
In the event Campus Safety receives information from any office or department on the college campus, and confirms that a situation may pose a threat, or is an immediate threat, to the health and safety of the Pierce College community, Campus Safety will work collaboratively with the College Administration to determine the content of an Emergency Notification message.
- Confirmation plus collaborative content determination.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to college-community health or safety. Campus Safety confirms a threat or immediate threat from any campus office or department.
- Who decides
- Campus Safety works collaboratively with College Administration on Emergency Notification content. HTML also names the Director of Safety and Security or an Executive Team Member for timely warnings; that sentence is not quoted because of an NBSP.
- Timeliness standard
- Not stated as a minutes-based SLA in the quoted sentences.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- The ASR pairs Timely and Emergency Notifications in one chapter. This file quotes the emergency-notification track.
ChannelsSmsEmailPhone CallDigital SignageWebsite
Analysis
Reading the policy
Pierce College District (Washington community college, six filed cases, no prior policy file) posts a live 2025 ASR PDF (HTTP 200, text layer) and a live Notification of Immediate Threat page (HTTP 200). The ASR states that in the event of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the college community health or safety, the college will issue an emergency notification and activate the emergency notification procedures (the live sentence omits 'of' before health). The HTML page states that when Campus Safety confirms a situation may pose a threat or is an immediate threat, Campus Safety works collaboratively with College Administration to determine Emergency Notification content. A timely-warning sentence on the HTML page contains an NBSP and is not quoted. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF or HTML.
Takeaways
Key findings
Emergency notifications activate on a confirmed significant emergency or immediate threat.
Campus Safety and College Administration jointly determine Emergency Notification content.
The system uses text and email; the ASR also lists digital-display clocks.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
6 documented times Pierce College’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
- Clery ASR
- Official
Tags
policyclery-asremergency-notificationwashingtoncommunity-college
Added 2026-09-14Updated 2026-09-14Via ingestion