UNH Alert — Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Crime Alert Policy (Annual Security and Fire Safety Report)

UNH Alert is used to notify users of significant events that may cause an immediate or on-going threat to the health and/or safety of our campus communities: Durham, Manchester, Concord (Law School), and the USNH office. The system is designed to notify a large population quickly of hostile events, severe weather, or hazardous situations. The system may also be used to announce Curtailed Operations, serious traffic delays or other public safety concerns.

• — UNH's own definition of the system's activation scope; identical wording recurred across the Campus Alerts page, Emergency Alert FAQ, and University Alerts page.

All UNHPD sergeants, captain, deputy chief, chief, and dispatchers are authorized to initiate and use the Rave Alert notification system. During situations in which there is a time-critical threat to campus, a Rave Alert message and messages sent via other systems are sent immediately on authority of the Chief of Police or his/her designee.

• — Names the authorized initiators and sets the timing standard as 'sent immediately' on authority of the Chief of Police or designee. Recurred across multiple ASR-year retrievals; the .edu PDF host blocked direct fetch.

Administrators can also send notifications to UNH Police social media (facebook: @UNHPolice and X: @UNH_Police), on-campus television screens located in a variety of locations on the Durham and Manchester campuses, and the my.usnh.edu portal.

• — Lists UNH's supplementary channels beyond text/email; UNH separately states it 'has opted not to use the telephone feature,' so voice calls are intentionally excluded.

The University of New Hampshire's 'Timely Warning Crime Alert' is intended to warn of criminal incidents so people can make informed decisions regarding their safety. The Clery Act requires UNH to distribute Timely Crime Alerts regarding certain Clery crimes that occur within UNH's Clery geography and represent a serious or continuing threat to the safety of students or employees.

• — Establishes 'Timely Warning Crime Alert' as UNH's named term for the Clery timely-warning function, triggered by Clery crimes in Clery geography posing a serious or continuing threat.

When UNH tests the systems, it includes a test of all notification systems as well. The University of New Hampshire conducts a campus-wide drill and exercise on an annual basis. Annually UNH will publicize the emergency response and evacuation procedures in conjunction with the test, and will document each test, to include a description of the exercise, the date, time and whether the exercise was announced or unannounced.

• — Documents UNH's annual campus-wide drill and the requirement to publicize and document each test; the separate outdoor siren system is tested each July.