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Crime and Emergency Alerts

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The University of North Georgia, one of the nation's six senior military colleges and the state-designated Military College of Georgia, publishes its Clery emergency-notification and timely-warning practices on its Crime and Emergency Alerts page, centered on the manually-registered **UNG Alert** text and phone-call system.

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Institution

University of North Georgia

Public Masters · GA

~20,317 studentsUNG Alert

In the policy’s own words

What the policy says

UNG Alert scopeverbatim

UNG Alert will only be used in the event of severe weather, a campus emergency, or other situation in which the University believe your wellbeing may be in danger and some type of action is required of you.

Defines UNG Alert's scope narrowly to severe weather, campus emergencies, and wellbeing-threatening situations requiring action; grammar ("University believe") preserved as published.

University of North Georgia - Crime and Emergency Alerts

Timely-warning trigger and authorityverbatim

In the event that a situation arises, either on or off campus, that, in the judgment of the UNG Chief of Police, constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat, a campus wide "timely warning" will be issued through the university's mass notification system to students, faculty and staff.

Names the UNG Chief of Police as the specific decision-maker for the ongoing-or-continuing-threat judgment that triggers a timely warning.

University of North Georgia - Crime and Emergency Alerts

Registration mechanismverbatim

Students, faculty, and staff must manually register their cell phone number(s) in the UNG Alert system within Banner to receive text message alerts and phone call alerts.

An opt-in, self-service registration model through the university's Banner student-information portal, rather than an automatic feed from enrollment data.

University of North Georgia - Crime and Emergency Alerts

Threat-determination criteriaverbatim

All available information, both public and confidential, will be taken into consideration when determining if a serious or continuing threat exists. Those considerations include, but are not limited to, the relationship between victims and perpetrators, whether an arrest has been made that mitigates the threat and the amount of time that has passed between the commission of the crime and University Police being notified of the crime.

Lays out a specific multi-factor balancing test behind the timely-warning determination, beyond a bare Clery-crime checklist.

University of North Georgia - Crime and Emergency Alerts

At a glance

How this policy works

When it activates: UNG Alert is used only for severe weather, a campus emergency, or a situation in which the university believes a person's wellbeing may be in danger and some type of action is required; a timely warning is issued when a situation, on or off campus, constitutes, in the judgment of the UNG Chief of Police, an ongoing or continuing threat.
Who decides: The UNG Chief of Police makes the judgment call on whether a situation constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat requiring a campus-wide timely warning; all available public and confidential information is weighed, including victim-perpetrator relationship, whether an arrest has mitigated the threat, and elapsed time since the crime was reported to police.
Timeliness standard: A specific minutes-based or hours-based timing standard for issuing a UNG Alert or timely warning was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.
Emergency notification vs. timely warning: UNG separates its emergency-notification tool (UNG Alert, for severe weather and campus emergencies) from its Clery timely-warning process (triggered by the UNG Chief of Police's judgment of an ongoing or continuing threat from a Clery crime), issuing timely warnings through the same mass-notification system.
Testing cadence: A specific testing cadence for UNG Alert was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.
Scope & limits: UNG Alert requires students, faculty, and staff to manually register cell phone number(s) within Banner to receive text and phone-call alerts; the system and the timely-warning process apply across UNG's campuses university-wide, not as a separate track for the Corps of Cadets.

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Analysis

Reading the policy

UNG Alert is scoped narrowly by design: UNG Alert will only be used in the event of severe weather, a campus emergency, or other situation in which the University believe your wellbeing may be in danger and some type of action is required of you (grammar preserved as published). That scoping statement functions as UNG's own definition of what counts as "emergency notification"-worthy, distinct from the separate timely-warning process the university runs for Clery crimes. UNG explicitly channels its timely-warning obligation through a named decision-maker: in the event that a situation arises, either on or off campus, that, in the judgment of the UNG Chief of Police, constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat, a campus wide "timely warning" will be issued through the university's mass notification system to students, faculty and staff. The university also documents the multi-factor balancing test behind that judgment: all available information, both public and confidential, is weighed, including the relationship between victims and perpetrators, whether an arrest has been made that mitigates the threat, and how much time has passed between the crime and police being notified, criteria that go beyond a bare 'was this a Clery crime' checklist. Registration is opt-in rather than automatic: students, faculty, and staff must manually register their cell phone number(s) in the UNG Alert system within the university's Banner portal to receive text message alerts and phone calls, a self-service model rather than the auto-fed-from-enrollment-data pattern seen at some other public universities in this archive. UNG's Corps of Cadets, one of only three full-time military programs embedded in a larger civilian university (alongside Texas A&M and Virginia Tech), is not run on a separate alert system from the rest of campus; UNG Alert and the timely-warning process apply university-wide across UNG's five campuses. Because ung.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were captured from official UNG Public Safety page text as reproduced in search-engine results and corroborated across multiple independent queries. No fixed testing cadence or minutes-based response standard was reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.

Takeaways

Key findings

UNG Alert is scoped by UNG itself to severe weather, campus emergencies, and wellbeing-threatening situations requiring action, distinct from the separate timely-warning process.

The UNG Chief of Police is the named decision-maker for the ongoing-or-continuing-threat judgment that triggers a campus-wide timely warning.

Registration is opt-in and manual, through the university's Banner portal, rather than auto-fed from enrollment records.

UNG documents a specific multi-factor threat-determination test (victim-perpetrator relationship, mitigating arrests, elapsed reporting time) beyond a bare Clery-crime checklist.

UNG is one of only three universities nationally combining a full-time military Corps of Cadets with a large civilian student body (with Texas A&M and Virginia Tech), and UNG Alert applies university-wide rather than as a separate cadet-only channel.

Provenance

Sources

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Crime and Emergency Alerts - University of North Georgia
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Emergency Information - University of North Georgia
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The Military College of Georgia - University of North Georgia
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ON-CAMPUS EMERGENCIES Emergency Action Plan - University of North Georgia Public Safety
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Enrollment jumps 5.3% to record 20,317 - University of North Georgia News
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