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Jeanne Clery Campus Security Act — Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Policy (Administrative Manual 7,012)
The University of Nevada, Reno issues campus-wide emergency notifications through its Emergency Alert System, an automatic-enrollment text/email system used only during a safety emergency or unexpected closing of the University, and issues separate Clery Timely Warnings through University Police Services when a Clery-reportable crime poses a serious or continuing threat to the campus community.
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University of Nevada, Reno
Public R1 · NV
~24,000 studentsUniversity of Nevada, Reno Emergency Alert System
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Emergency Alert System purpose and scopeverbatim
The Emergency Alert System sends a text and/or email message alert to all cell phones in the event of an emergency at the University, and is only used during a safety emergency or unexpected closing of the University.
- — Defines the system as text/email and narrowly scopes it to safety emergencies or unexpected University closings. Identical wording surfaced across multiple official UNR-page retrievals (unr.edu/emergency/alerts and unr.edu/employee-resource-center/safety).
Emergency Notification threshold and authorityverbatim
The University of Nevada, Reno through University Police Services will issue an Emergency Notification when a significant emergency or dangerous situation poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty or staff of the institution.
- — Sets the emergency-notification trigger at an immediate threat to health or safety and names University Police Services as the issuing office. Surfaced identically across multiple Clery-policy retrievals.
Immediacy and targeting of Emergency Notificationsverbatim
Notifications are to be issued immediately upon confirmation of the emergency and may be tailored exclusively to the segment of the campus community at risk.
- — Adopts the federal 'immediately, upon confirmation' standard and authorizes geographically/segment-targeted notifications rather than always all-campus. Corroborated across multiple official-page retrievals.
Timely Warning trigger ('without delay')verbatim
The University of Nevada, Reno through University Police Services will without delay issue a Timely Warning to the entire campus community whenever a crime covered by the Clery Act poses a serious or continuing threat to the main campus, non-campus buildings and properties including those occupied by officially recognized student organizations, and public property within or immediately adjacent to, and accessible from, the main campus.
- — Defines the Clery geographic scope (main campus, non-campus buildings, adjacent public property) and the 'serious or continuing threat' standard, with a 'without delay' timing commitment. Corroborated across multiple Clery-policy retrievals.
Named final decision authorityreconstructed
It is the responsibility of the Assistant Vice President & Director of University Police Services or his/her designee to make the final determination if a Timely Warning is necessary.
- — Assigns a single accountable position for the issue/no-issue decision. Surfaced via the search index; the unr.edu host returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so it is marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution.
Automatic enrollment via MyNevada and Workdayreconstructed
All students, faculty and staff are automatically enrolled in this system through phone and email data contained in University of Nevada, Reno student or human resources systems (MyNevada and Workday, respectively).
- — Guarantees enrollment of the full campus population by pulling contact data from the student (MyNevada) and HR (Workday) systems, refreshed at least monthly. Surfaced via the search index rather than a confirmed live fetch, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- An Emergency Notification is issued when a significant emergency or dangerous situation poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty or staff; notifications are issued immediately upon confirmation and may be tailored exclusively to the segment of the campus community at risk. A Timely Warning is issued, without delay, whenever a crime covered by the Clery Act poses a serious or continuing threat to the main campus, non-campus buildings and properties, and adjacent public property.
- Who decides
- The policy assigns final determination for both Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings to the Assistant Vice President & Director of University Police Services, or his/her designee. The need for a Timely Warning is evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
- Timeliness standard
- Emergency Notifications are to be issued immediately upon confirmation of the emergency. Timely Warnings are issued 'without delay' once University Police Services determines a Clery crime poses a serious or continuing threat — consistent with the federal Clery standard.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- UNR's policy 7,012 explicitly exists to maintain compliance with the Jeanne Clery Act (20 U.S.C. § 1092(f)) and distinguishes Emergency Notifications (immediate threats to health or safety) from Timely Warnings (Clery-reportable crimes posing a serious or continuing threat). UNR publishes an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report through University Police Services.
- Testing cadence
- UNR commits to providing test messages at least twice annually to verify the emergency alert service is working as expected; University Police periodically announce and conduct these campus tests.
- Scope & limits
- All students, faculty and staff are automatically enrolled via MyNevada (students) and Workday (employees), with contact data refreshed at least monthly. An opt-out procedure exists for emergency-alert notifications. Reach depends on accurate contact information in those systems; the Emergency Alert System is limited to safety emergencies or unexpected University closings rather than routine operational messaging.
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Analysis
Reading the policy
The University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) is a public R1 ('Research 1: Very High Spending and Doctorate Production') university that retained its R1 Carnegie designation in 2025 and enrolls roughly 24,000 students. Its emergency-notification function is delivered through what the university calls the Emergency Alert System — a text-and/or-email system that UNR describes as 'only used during a safety emergency or unexpected closing of the University.' Although the system is informally referenced around campus, UNR's own pages and its Clery policy brand it simply as the Emergency Alert System rather than a marketing name; this archive uses the official label.
UNR's central governing document is Administrative Manual policy 7,012, 'Jeanne Clery Campus Security Act', which states its purpose is to maintain compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (20 U.S.C. § 1092(f)). The policy cleanly separates the two Clery functions. For emergency notifications, UNR 'through University Police Services will issue an Emergency Notification when a significant emergency or dangerous situation poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty or staff,' and such notifications 'are to be issued immediately upon confirmation of the emergency and may be tailored exclusively to the segment of the campus community at risk.' For timely warnings, UNR 'without delay' issues a Timely Warning whenever a Clery-covered crime poses a 'serious or continuing threat' to the main campus, non-campus buildings, and adjacent public property.
A notable strength is the named decision authority: the policy assigns the final determination for both functions to a single accountable position — 'the Assistant Vice President & Director of University Police Services or his/her designee.' UNR also documents broad automatic enrollment: 'All students, faculty and staff are automatically enrolled in this system through phone and email data contained in University of Nevada, Reno student or human resources systems (MyNevada and Workday, respectively),' and that contact data is refreshed at least monthly. The university further publishes a structured delivery hierarchy — students receive alerts at their preferred email plus the eAlert/mobile/home phone selected in MyNevada, while employees receive them at primary work email and mobile numbers in Workday.
UNR commits to a published periodic test cadence, stating it 'will provide test messages at least twice annually to ensure that the emergency alert service is working as expected,' a cadence corroborated by University Police test announcements. Because the unr.edu host and the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report PDF return HTTP 403 to automated fetching, the excerpts here were captured from indexed search snippets; the four most-corroborated passages (appearing identically across multiple official-page retrievals) are marked verbatim-confirmed, while passages surfaced from only a single indexed retrieval are marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution.
Takeaways
Key findings
UNR's emergency-notification function is its 'Emergency Alert System' (text/email), used only for safety emergencies or unexpected University closings; the prompt's guessed 'Nevada Alert' brand was not confirmed as the official name.
Governing document is Administrative Manual 7,012 (Jeanne Clery Campus Security Act), which separates Emergency Notifications (immediate threat to health/safety) from Timely Warnings (Clery crimes posing a serious or continuing threat).
Emergency Notifications are issued immediately upon confirmation and may be targeted to the at-risk segment; Timely Warnings are issued 'without delay.'
A single named authority — the Assistant Vice President & Director of University Police Services, or designee — makes the final determination for both functions.
All students, faculty and staff are automatically enrolled via MyNevada/Workday (refreshed monthly), and UNR provides test messages at least twice annually.
unr.edu and the ASR PDF returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching; four most-corroborated excerpts are marked verbatim, two single-source excerpts are flagged isVerbatimConfirmed:false.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
4 documented times UNR’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
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Added 2026-06-22Updated 2026-06-22Via ingestion