Truman
2025 Combined Annual Security Report and Fire Safety Report - Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications
Truman State University's 2025 Combined Annual Security Report issues a campus-wide timely warning when criminal activity on or off campus constitutes a serious or continuing threat, and the University Police Department initiates emergency notifications without delay. The Timely Warning Policy page uses the same ongoing or continuing threat standard. Faculty, staff, and students are enrolled automatically in TruAlert.
Read the official policyInstitution
Truman State University
Public Bachelors · MO
TruAlert
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Campus-wide timely warningverbatim
In the event of criminal activity occurring either on campus or off campus that in the judgment of the Director of Public Safety/Chief of Police or his/her designee constitutes a serious or continuing threat to members of the campus community, a campus-wide “timely warning” will be issued.
- On or off campus. Named decision-maker is the Director of Public Safety/Chief of Police or designee.
Without-delay emergency notificationverbatim
The University Police Department in collaboration with other appropriate personnel, will determine who should be notified, and will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system, unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to or otherwise mitigate the emergency.
- Standard HEOA without-delay sentence.
TruAlert automatic enrollmentverbatim
All faculty, staff, and students are enrolled automatically
- ASR table cell for TruAlert Emergency Notifications.
Timely Warning Policy ongoing threatverbatim
Timely warnings therefore, will be issued in response to reported crimes committed either on campus or, in some cases, off campus if, in the judgment of TSUPD, the situation constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat to students, staff and faculty of the University.
- Consumer policy page. TSUPD is the named judge.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Timely warning for criminal activity on or off campus that constitutes a serious or continuing threat. Emergency notification without delay unless a professional-judgment exception applies.
- Who decides
- Director of Public Safety/Chief of Police or designee for timely warnings. University Police Department in collaboration with other appropriate personnel for emergency notifications.
- Timeliness standard
- Emergency notification without delay unless issuing a notification would compromise victim assistance or mitigation.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- The ASR keeps timely warnings distinct from emergency notifications. TruAlert is the mass-notification path. Faculty, staff, and students are auto-enrolled.
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Analysis
Reading the policy
Truman State University (public-bachelors, Missouri, two filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live 2025 ASR PDF (HTTP 200) and a live Timely Warning Policy page (HTTP 200). TruAlert is the emergency-notification product (campus email, desktop, digital signage, outdoor warning, website, optional text via TruView). The 2007 ITS emergency-notification policy HTML this pass contains NBSPs in the President-authorization sentences and is not quoted. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF or HTML.
Takeaways
Key findings
TruAlert auto-enrolls faculty, staff, and students.
Timely warnings cover on- or off-campus crimes that are a serious or continuing threat.
Emergency notifications go out without delay unless a professional-judgment exception applies.
Provenance
Sources
- Clery ASR
- Official
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policyclery-asremergency-notificationtimely-warningmissouripublic-bachelors
Added 2026-09-14Updated 2026-09-14Via ingestion