SMCM
2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - SEAHAWK ALERT and Timely Warning Policy
St. Mary's College of Maryland's 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report may issue a Timely Warning when a Clery-reportable crime, hazing, or other serious crime presents a serious or ongoing threat, and uses SEAHAWK ALERT to immediately notify the campus upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat on campus.
Read the official policySEAHAWK ALERT
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Timely Warning triggerverbatim
St. Mary's College of Maryland may issue a Timely Warning to the College community whenever a report of a Clery reportable crime, Hazing, or other serious crime is reported to the Office of Public Safety, a Campus Security Authority or the local police if the incident presents a serious or ongoing threat.
- Hazing is named alongside Clery-reportable crime as a Timely Warning trigger.
Timely Warning timingverbatim
A Timely Warning will be issued as soon as pertinent information is available and within a reasonable amount of time.
- Pairs 'as soon as pertinent information is available' with 'within a reasonable amount of time'.
SEAHAWK ALERT immediate notificationverbatim
St. Mary’s College of Maryland will utilize the SEAHAWK ALERT emergency notification system to immediately notify the campus community upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students and/or employees occurring on the campus unless the notification will, based on professional judgment, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to or otherwise mitigate the emergency.
- Live PDF uses a curly apostrophe in St. Mary’s in this sentence; the Timely Warning trigger sentence uses a straight apostrophe.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Timely Warning for a Clery-reportable crime, hazing, or other serious crime that presents a serious or ongoing threat. SEAHAWK ALERT upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to students and/or employees on campus.
- Who decides
- Director of Public Safety or designee writes and distributes Timely Warning Notices. The Director may confer with the Vice President for Student Affairs on the notified segment and with Integrated Marketing on notification content.
- Timeliness standard
- Timely Warning as soon as pertinent information is available and within a reasonable amount of time. SEAHAWK ALERT immediately upon confirmation.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- The ASR keeps Timely Warning Notices distinct from SEAHAWK ALERT immediate notification. If an emergency notification is sent, a timely warning may not be issued.
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Analysis
Reading the policy
St. Mary's College of Maryland (public-bachelors, Maryland, four filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live 2025 ASR PDF (HTTP 200). Distinct from St. Mary's University in Texas, which already has a timely-warning SOP in this archive. The Director of Public Safety or designee writes and distributes Timely Warning Notices without requiring other-department approval, as soon as pertinent information is available and within a reasonable amount of time. SEAHAWK ALERT is the emergency-notification product for a confirmed immediate threat on campus, with a professional-judgment exception. Consumer Seahawk Alerts HTML this pass returned the generic Public Safety chrome, not the policy body, so excerpts are from the ASR PDF text layer only. Every excerpt was character-checked against that PDF (whitespace-only wrap).
Takeaways
Key findings
SEAHAWK ALERT is the emergency-notification product for a confirmed immediate threat on campus.
Timely Warnings cover Clery-reportable crime, hazing, or other serious crime presenting a serious or ongoing threat.
The Director of Public Safety or designee issues Timely Warning Notices without other-department approval.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
4 documented times SMCM’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
- Clery ASR
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policyclery-asremergency-notificationtimely-warningmarylandpublic-bachelors
Added 2026-09-14Updated 2026-09-14Via ingestion