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Safety Notifications
Types of Notifications
The Clery Act requires institutions of higher education to maintain two types of alerting systems, timely warnings and emergency notifications, for separate and distinct purposes. Below is information about the distinctions between these two types of alerts.
A safety notification or crime bulletin will be posted when incidents that concern the safety of the university occurs, but do not meet the requirements of the Timely Warning or Emergency Notification disclosures.
Timely Warning
When Clery crimes reported to a campus security authority or local law enforcement pose a serious or ongoing threat to the campus community.
Only required for Clery crimes occurring within Clery geography
that pose a serious or ongoing threat.
Date, nature, location of incident; prevention tips; how to report a similar occurrence.
Must reach entire campus community. Can be segmented, if appropriate.
Case-by-case analysis if the factors above are present.
The Chief of Police will confer with the Clery Director or designee, if available, to determine the most appropriate method(s) to distribute a Timely Warning.
Multi-modal system intended to reach the entire campus community; most commonly emails, website updates, and social media posts.
Emergency Notification
When there is confirmation of an immediate threat to the health and safety of the campus community, such as severe weather warning, environmental emergency, Criminal activity with an imminent threat to campus community, health pandemic on campus.
On-campus emergencies only.
Information about the nature of the emergency and what changes one needs to make immediately as a result; evacuation procedures if necessary; assurance that an allclear will be sent when emergency is over.
Can be segmented, if appropriate.
Once UPD has received the report, the Chief of Police, or designee, will confer with the appropriate public official (e.g., fire chief, health department) and any campus officials.
The Chief of Police will determine the most appropriate method(s) to distribute an Emergency Notification.
Multi-modal system is best to ensure delivery (Emergency Notification System) most commonly texts, phone calls, desktop alerts, website updates and social media posts; segmentation of messaging is permitted, if appropriate.
Emergency Notification System
For more information on the Sac State Emergency Notification System
Additional ENS Eligibility
Sacramento State Auxiliary staff
UEI, ASI, UU, CPR, OWP members are strongly encouraged to join ENS, and need to request a SacLink email account from the IRT Service Desk if they don’t currently have one.
Visiting Contractors & Volunteers
Are welcome to join ENS, and will need a SacLink email account requested by their campus sponsor from the IRT Service Desk.
Parents, Spouses, Guests, and our Community
The ENS program supports current students, faculty, staff, and visitors with active SacLink accounts who would be immediately impacted by a campus emergency. ENS notifications for third parties such as parents, spouses, guests, and other interested parties is being planned. In the meantime, we encourage you to download the free Sac State Mobile app and enable push notices on your mobile device(s) to receive ENS alerts.