TSTC
Emergency Notification System (Everbridge) and Clery Policy (Annual Security & Fire Safety Report)
Texas State Technical College, the statewide public technical college system of Texas, runs an Emergency Notification System (ENS) powered by Everbridge that reaches participating community members by text, cell, landline, and email, with the TSTC Police Department preparing its Clery report.
Read the official policyInstitution
Texas State Technical College
Technical College · TX
~12,077 studentsEmergency Notification System (ENS)
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
ENS / Everbridge + channelsverbatim
TSTC has partnered with Everbridge to offer an emergency notification system (ENS) to the TSTC community. The ENS will send emergency messages to participating TSTC community members via text, cellphones, landlines or email.
- — Confirms the Everbridge vendor and the channel set (text, cell, landline, email). Appeared identically across 3+ independent retrievals (tstc.edu host blocked automated fetch).
Crime-log recording windowverbatim
An entry, an addition to an entry or a change in the disposition of a complaint must be recorded within two business days of the reporting of the information to the TSTC Police Department or Security Department.
- — Documents the two-business-day crime-log standard. Consistent across the 2021 and 2023 ASR retrievals.
Clery report authorshipverbatim
The TSTC Police Department prepares the report to comply with the Clery Act in cooperation with local law enforcement agencies in the area, Housing and Enrollment Management, additional security authorities and other departments that may have information necessary to comply with the Clery Act.
- — Names the TSTC Police Department as the Clery-reporting authority. Seen across 2 independent retrievals.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- The ENS sends emergency messages to participating TSTC community members. TSTC's ASR follows standard Clery requirements for emergency notifications and timely warnings, but the institution-specific activation-threshold wording could not be isolated from generic Clery boilerplate and is not asserted here.
- Who decides
- The TSTC Police Department prepares the Clery report and is the named security authority, working in cooperation with local law enforcement, Housing and Enrollment Management, and other departments. A specific triggering official/position for emergency notifications was not isolated in TSTC sources.
- Timeliness standard
- TSTC's ASR reflects standard Clery requirements; an institution-specific 'without delay' / timing commitment could not be confirmed as TSTC's own wording and is not asserted.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- TSTC publishes an Annual Security & Fire Safety Report and maintains a crime log (entries recorded within two business days), with the TSTC Police Department as the Clery-reporting authority.
- Testing cadence
- No TSTC-specific ENS testing cadence was found and none is asserted.
- Scope & limits
- The ENS reaches 'participating' community members — implying opt-in/self-registration via the Everbridge portal — by text, cell, landline, and email. No siren/PA, social, app-push, or WEA/IPAWS channels were documented in TSTC sources.
ChannelsSmsPhone CallEmail
Analysis
Reading the policy
Texas State Technical College (TSTC) is a statewide public technical college with multiple campuses across Texas. Its emergency-notification program is described generically as the **Emergency Notification System (ENS)** — there is no marketed brand like 'TSTC Alert' (that name belongs to other schools) — and it runs on the **Everbridge** mass-notification platform. TSTC's Emergency Notification page states that it 'has partnered with Everbridge to offer an emergency notification system (ENS) to the TSTC community,' and that the ENS 'will send emergency messages to participating TSTC community members via text, cellphones, landlines or email.'
The reference to 'participating' community members indicates a self-registration / opt-in model through the Everbridge member portal, consistent with how Everbridge deployments typically work; TSTC's public materials do not explicitly state auto-enrollment, so that is not asserted here. The named channels are limited to SMS, voice (cell and landline), and email — no siren, social, app-push, or WEA/IPAWS surfaced in TSTC sources.
For Clery, TSTC maintains a dedicated TSTC Police Department and publishes an Annual Security & Fire Safety Report. The ASR states that 'the TSTC Police Department prepares the report to comply with the Clery Act in cooperation with local law enforcement agencies in the area, Housing and Enrollment Management, additional security authorities and other departments,' and specifies that a crime-log entry or disposition change 'must be recorded within two business days of the reporting of the information to the TSTC Police Department or Security Department.' The standard Clery activation-threshold language ('significant emergency or dangerous situation,' 'without delay') appears to be generic boilerplate that could not be isolated as TSTC-specific wording, and no test cadence or named triggering official surfaced, so those are not asserted. Every tstc.edu host and ASR PDF returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so excerpts were captured from search-index reproductions and corroborated across 2+ independent retrievals.
Takeaways
Key findings
TSTC's emergency-notification system (ENS) runs on Everbridge — there is no marketed 'TSTC Alert' brand.
The ENS reaches participating community members by text, cell, landline, and email.
'Participating' indicates an opt-in / self-registration model via the Everbridge portal (auto-enrollment is not claimed).
The TSTC Police Department prepares the Clery ASR and maintains a crime log with a two-business-day recording window.
Institution-specific activation/timing wording and a test cadence could not be isolated (403-blocked hosts), so they are not asserted; confidence high on the corroborated facts.
Provenance
Sources
- Official
- Clery ASR
- Clery ASR
- Official
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policyemergency-notificationtimely-warningtechnical-collegetexaseverbridgeensstatewide-system
Added 2026-06-21Updated 2026-06-21Via ingestion