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Employees of campus auxiliary organizations can now sign up for text message alerts.

In light of university emergencies such as the tragedy at Virginia Tech, as well as a mandate from the California State University Chancellor’s Office, Sacramento State will debut its Emergency Notification System that automates delivery of urgent announcements. The system is designed to send out text messages, voice mail messages and e-mail messages to students, faculty and staff in the event of a critical situation that has the potential to cause harm or imminent danger.

The alerts would only be used in the event of an emergency that threatened the campus community’s health and safety, as well as provide protective action recommendations. Examples of such events would be a campus shooting, bomb threat, hazardous materials spills, flood or fire.

In the event of an actual emergency event, Public Safety may send a text message, pre-written for a variety of emergency scenarios. A follow-up e-mail can be sent shortly thereafter, with more specific details of the event and safety procedures, and an all-clear message sent upon incident resolution. The community may also be alerted to visit the campus’ homepage, www.csus.edu, for more information.

Students, faculty and staff are strongly encouraged to provide accurate contact information.

There was a functional exercise to test the system, as well as a simulated critical incident involving an active shooter and a Public Safety response, on Friday, April 25, in the Residence Halls.