Triton

Timely Warning Reports and Rave Alert emergency notification

ILIssuance criteriaRave Alert / Connect Edhigh confidence

Triton College Police Department documents timely warning practice and Rave Alert auto-enrollment on its Clery Act page, including Connect Ed opt-in-by-enrollment messaging, campus PA, and Thor Guard lightning sirens.

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Institution

Triton College

Community College · IL

~9,000 studentsRave Alert / Connect Ed / Thor Guard

In the policy’s own words

What the policy says

Timely warnings via Connect Ed and PAverbatim

The Triton College Police Department will put out timely warnings to students and staff for severe weather warnings and closures and other crises. The Department will issue notifications via the Connect Ed system that everyone has opted in by being a student or staff member at Triton College. Other times the Police Department will broadcast warnings via the PA System that has installed throughout every building on campus.

Weather-inclusive TW practice and Connect Ed auto opt-in.

Triton Clery Act page Timely Warning Reports

Rave Alert auto enrollmentverbatim

Triton’s Rave Alert emergency notification system will allow you to receive instant notifications by email, phone, and text message in the event of an emergency. You will not need to take steps for sign up as all staff and students are automatically placed into the system.

Automatic enrollment for all staff and students.

Triton Police and Campus Safety Rave Alert section

Thor Guard lightning sirensverbatim

Also, Triton College has the Thor Guard System. This system alerts the College of pending lightning activity within a 25 mile radius of the campus. If you hear a long siren sound, that means the air is conducive to lightning. Go inside a building or your vehicle for your protection. If you hear three short siren sounds then an 'all-clear' has been presented to you by the Thor Guard System.

Institution-specific lightning detection and siren code.

Triton Clery Act page Thor Guard

At a glance

How this policy works

When it activates: Timely warnings for severe weather warnings and closures and other crises. Rave Alert for emergency situations requiring instant multi-channel notification.
Who decides: Triton College Police Department issues timely warnings and PA broadcasts. Rave Alert is the college emergency mass-notification system with automatic enrollment.
Timeliness standard: Not quantified beyond instant notifications language for Rave Alert and timely warnings for weather and other crises.
Emergency notification vs. timely warning: Public Clery Act page Timely Warning Reports section plus Rave Alert auto-enrollment system overview; weather-inclusive warning practice broader than crime-only TW language at many institutions.
Testing cadence: Not specified on the Clery Act page reviewed.
Scope & limits: Connect Ed/Rave reach depends on portal contact data; Thor Guard covers lightning within about a 25-mile radius of campus.

ChannelsSmsEmailPhone CallPa System

Analysis

Reading the policy

Source: Triton Clery Act page. Triton College, an Illinois community college in River Grove, publishes a public Clery Act criteria page rather than only an embedded ASR excerpt for its notification systems. The Timely Warning Reports section states that the Triton College Police Department issues timely warnings to students and staff for severe weather warnings and closures and other crises via the Connect Ed system that everyone has opted into by being a student or staff member, and may also broadcast via building PA systems. Separately, the campus safety pages describe Triton’s Rave Alert emergency notification system for email, phone, and text, with automatic placement of all staff and students into the system and self-service portal profile maintenance. The college also operates a Thor Guard lightning detection system with a long siren for lightning risk and three short sirens for all-clear.

Takeaways

Key findings

Police Department timely warnings cover severe weather and other crises via Connect Ed auto opt-in and building PA.

Rave Alert auto-enrolls all staff and students for email, phone, and text.

Thor Guard lightning sirens: long tone hazard, three short tones all-clear.

Policy, meet practice

When this system actually fired

1 documented time Triton’s alert system was used, from the case archive.

Provenance

Sources

Official
Triton Clery Act page
triton.edu
archived copy
Official
Triton Police and Campus Safety
triton.edu
archived copy