Emergency Notifications
the Sumner College community in the event of an emergency by sending messages to preferred electronic devices. These devices include: • Cell Phone • E-mail Update • Phone (land line) Other methods may be used to notify the campus community of various emergency events that may impact students, staff, faculty and visitors of Sumner College: • Sumner College Website • Sumner College social media pages (e.g., Facebook) • Runner Alert is not used to send non-emergency, routine or spam messages. How Alert Works We are committed to providing a safe learning environment for its students, faculty, staff and administrators. With this commitment comes a responsibility to notify the campus community of emergency situations if they arise on the Sumner College Campus. Sumner-Alert fulfills this commitment with emergency information available to the campus community and by providing emergency information and notification to a large scale of persons on campus and the larger outlying community. Sumner-Alert will provide emergency information without delay to the campus community and beyond once an emergency situation or threat is confirmed and the appropriate officials on campus are notified for purposes of emergency response and possible evacuations. In the event that Sumner College receives a confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees at or near the Sumner College Campus, a Sumner College official that is recognized as an emergency information provider will confirm the given emergency through other emergency channels on or off campus. These ‘‘other channels’’ may include but not be limited to the following: such as • Portland Police Bureau, • Oregon State Police, • Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office, • Multnomah County Health Department, • Department of Homeland Security • other legitimate off-campus emergency response and/ or law enforcement agencies When the emergency is confirmed and the scope of the emergency is determined (campus-wide, section of campus
In October 2009, the Department of Education finalized the rules to the Higher Education Opportunity Act amendment that Congress passed in 2008. The changes affected many parts of the original act, but significant changes were put in place that impact emergency management and reporting. Institutions of higher learning must have mass notification plans and provide detailed reports to the Department of Education about campus security and fire safety. There are strict guidelines in place regarding what information must be included in these reports and how the institution should provide access to the reports to current and prospective students and employees. Timely Warnings The issuance of timely warnings on campus satisfies the Clery Act for the purposes of reporting an ongoing threat to the campus community. If there is a crime with an element of a continued threat to the safety of campus faculty, staff, students or visitors, a timely warning to the campus community will be communicated 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. The timely warning will be comprised of the initial crime, suspect description (if known), generic victim information where appropriate along with the time and location the crime took place. The timely warning will also include information regarding the continued or ongoing threat to the campus community’s safety and precautions to take until the threat is removed or no longer considered a threat to campus. The timely warning will originate from the office of the President or Director of Education. The timely warning can also originate from the office of the College President. The timely warning will be released through Sumner College student and employee e-mail addresses along with campus-wide notifications through Human Resources on campus. Timely warnings can also be found on Sumner College’s Website. Updates to the Timely Warning will also be found on all of the same locations mentioned under this heading when new or updated information is confirmed and released. Sumner College Alert System Sumner College has implemented the Sumner -Alert system to alert the on-campus and off-campus community to an emergency situation. It is our hope that this information will insure and assist in having the best experience possible with the college as a student, faculty member, staff member or visitor. It is our mission to assist the campus community in providing a safe and secure environment in pursuing educational or work experiences. The Alert notification system enables the college to contact
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