Emergency Notifications / LoboAlerts and LoboAdvisory (Timely Warning) Policy

A LoboAlert is an 'Emergency Notification' triggered by any significant emergency or dangerous situation that is currently occurring on or near the campus involving an imminently threat to the health or safety of students, staff, faculty and/or visitors. It is issued immediately upon confirmation of the emergency.

• — Sets the LoboAlert activation threshold and the 'issued immediately upon confirmation' timing. The exact phrasing — including the grammatical quirk 'an imminently threat' — appeared identically across three independent retrievals, a strong authenticity marker; the campussafety.unm.edu host blocked direct fetching, so it was captured from the search index.

UNMPD, in collaboration with the Director of Crisis Management and Preparedness and the Clery Coordinator 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.

• — Names the three-party decision authority (UNMPD + Director of Crisis Management and Preparedness + Clery Coordinator) and applies the Clery 'without delay' standard with the federal mitigation exception. Recurred identically across two independent retrievals and is echoed in branch-campus ASR PDFs.

A LoboAdvisory is a 'Timely Warning' triggered by crimes that have already occurred but represent a serious ongoing threat to students, staff, faculty and/or visitors on the UNM Campus. It is issued as soon as the pertinent information is available and is disseminated through text, email and UNM Newsroom.

• — Brands the Clery timely warning as a 'LoboAdvisory,' distinct from the LoboAlert emergency notification, and lists its dissemination channels (text, email, UNM Newsroom). Appeared consistently across two independent retrievals.

The University of New Mexico Emergency Alert Sirens are sounded in the event of an emergency that makes it dangerous to be outdoors, such as a severe lightning storm, an environmental hazard or a threat from an armed individual.

• — Defines when the outdoor siren layer is activated (severe weather, environmental hazard, armed threat) — a separate channel from the SMS/email LoboAlert. Appeared identically across two independent retrievals.

The entire Campus Warning System (warning siren system, text messaging, e-mail messages and web page update) is tested at the beginning of each semester (spring, summer, and fall).

• — Establishes a per-semester test cadence (three advertised tests per year, branded LoboTest). The substance was corroborated across 3+ retrievals, but the exact sentence wording varied page-to-page, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution.