Regis
Clery Act Policy Statements
Regis University, a private Jesuit Catholic institution in Denver and the only Jesuit university in the Rocky Mountain region, issues RU Alert timely-warning notifications by email and text through its Clery Act Policy Statements whenever a reported crime within Regis's Clery Geography is judged by the Campus Safety Director, Assistant Director, or designee to be a serious or continuing threat to the University community, with all RegisNet account holders automatically enrolled to receive real-time Campus Safety updates by email.
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In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
RU Alert trigger and decision authorityverbatim
Timely Warning Notification (RU ALERT) will be issued to the community in the event of a reported Clery Act crime that occurs within the Regis University Clery Geography (On Campus, On Campus Residential Facility, Public Property and Non-campus locations), that, in the judgment of the Campus Safety Director, Assistant Director, or designee, constitutes a serious or continuing threat to the University community.
- This exact sentence recurred identically across independent search queries of Regis's published Clery Act Policy Statements, naming both a Clery Geography scope and a specific decision-authority role.
Timeliness and victim confidentiality standardverbatim
As soon as the pertinent information is available and as soon as is practicable, a Timely Warning Notification Alert will be issued through the University's mass notification System as an RU Alert in the form of email and as a text message. RU Alerts will be provided to students and employees in a manner that is timely, that withholds the names of victims as confidential, and that will aid in the prevention of similar occurrences.
- Recurred identically across independent search queries; explicitly folds victim-name confidentiality into the same sentence as the timeliness standard.
Campus Safety Administrator reviewnot yet verified against the source
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Regis University, Clery Act Policy Statements (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)Automatic RegisNet enrollmentverbatim
All RegisNet users are automatically enrolled to receive real-time campus safety updates via email.
- Documents automatic, not opt-in, email enrollment tied to a RegisNet account.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- A Timely Warning Notification (RU Alert) is issued when a reported Clery Act crime occurs within Regis's Clery Geography (On Campus, On Campus Residential Facility, Public Property, Non-Campus) and is judged by the Campus Safety Director, Assistant Director, or designee to constitute a serious or continuing threat to the University community.
- Who decides
- The Department of Campus Safety is responsible for initiating the Timely Warning Notification process; Campus Safety Administrators or their designees review reports to determine whether a serious or ongoing threat exists and whether an RU Alert is warranted, with the Campus Safety Director or Assistant Director exercising judgment on the underlying threat determination.
- Timeliness standard
- As soon as the pertinent information is available and as soon as is practicable, a Timely Warning Notification Alert will be issued through the University's mass notification system as an RU Alert by email and text message, provided in a manner that is timely, withholds victim names as confidential, and aids in the prevention of similar occurrences.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- Regis separates Timely Warning Notifications, which it also calls crime alerts, issued for a Clery-geography crime judged a serious or continuing threat, from the broader category of emergency notifications for other significant incidents, tracking the standard federal Clery Act distinction.
- Testing cadence
- A published RU Alert-specific testing schedule was not found in the public sources reviewed.
- Scope & limits
- All RegisNet account holders are automatically enrolled to receive real-time campus safety email updates; RU Alert text-message delivery and the 911 Inform integration extend the system beyond email alone, but a specific opt-in requirement for the text channel was not found in the public sources reviewed.
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Analysis
Reading the policy
Regis University's Clery Act Policy Statements spell out an explicit trigger and authority chain for RU Alert: a Timely Warning Notification will be issued to the community in the event of a reported Clery Act crime that occurs within the Regis University Clery Geography, defined as On Campus, On Campus Residential Facility, Public Property, and Non-Campus locations, that, in the judgment of the Campus Safety Director, Assistant Director, or designee, constitutes a serious or continuing threat to the University community. That same page states that as soon as the pertinent information is available and as soon as is practicable, a Timely Warning Notification Alert will be issued through the University's mass notification system as an RU Alert in the form of email and as a text message, and that RU Alerts will be provided to students and employees in a manner that is timely, that withholds the names of victims as confidential, and that will aid in the prevention of similar occurrences, folding victim-confidentiality directly into Regis's stated timeliness standard.
Decision-making runs through Regis's Department of Campus Safety, which the University describes as responsible for initiating the Timely Warning Notification process in the form of an RU Alert; Campus Safety Administrators, or their respective designees, review all such reports to determine if there is a serious or ongoing threat to the community and whether distribution of an RU Alert is warranted. Regis draws the standard federal distinction between its two alert categories, calling timely warnings crime alerts internally and separately maintaining emergency notifications for the broader category of significant incidents.
On the technology side, Regis's Campus Safety page states that all RegisNet users are automatically enrolled to receive real-time campus safety updates via email, with individuals able to update their information to add further channels for critical safety messages; Regis has also adopted 911 Inform, a system that simultaneously routes an on-campus 911 call to the public dispatch center and notifies Campus Safety that the call has been placed, tightening the loop between an emergency call and an internal RU Alert response.
Because regis.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were reconstructed from official Regis University Clery Act Policy Statements and Campus Safety page text as reproduced in search-engine indexing and corroborated across multiple independent queries, and are marked accordingly.
Takeaways
Key findings
Regis's Clery Act Policy Statements name a specific decision authority (Campus Safety Director, Assistant Director, or designee) and a defined Clery Geography for triggering an RU Alert timely warning.
Regis's timeliness standard is published in the same sentence as its victim-confidentiality commitment: RU Alerts must be timely, withhold victim names, and aid in preventing similar occurrences.
All RegisNet account holders are automatically enrolled for real-time campus safety email updates; RU Alerts are also delivered by text message.
Regis has adopted 911 Inform, which simultaneously notifies Campus Safety when an on-campus 911 call is placed, tightening the loop between an emergency call and an RU Alert response.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
3 documented times Regis’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
- Official
- Official
- Clery ASR
- Student Paper
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Added 2026-07-03Updated 2026-09-14Via ingestion