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Section 4: Collin College’s Emergency and Safety Procedures Emergency Notification Procedures Collin College is committed to ensuring its community receives timely, accurate, and useful information in the event of a significant emergency or dangerous situation on campus or in the local area that poses an immediate threat to the health and safety of Collin College students, faculty, and staff. Collin College has a multi-tiered notification system, which employs various means for communicating information quickly. Collin College will immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students, faculty, and/or staff. An “immediate threat” includes an imminent or impending threat, significant emergency, or dangerous situation (e.g., approaching tornado or other extreme weather condition, armed intruder, bomb threat, chemical or hazardous waste spill, explosion, fire, gas leak, outbreak of a serious illness, etc.). In these instances, Collin College’s chief public relations officer in consultation with the chief of police and College District president will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the campus community, determine the content of the emergency notification and initiate the emergency notification system, unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of Collin College officials, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency. Emergency notifications may be sent to the entire campus community or only to the segment of the campus community directly affected by the emergency. CougarAlert is Collin College’s official emergency notification system, providing critical information to the entire Collin College community via text message, phone message, and/or email. For more information, see the CougarAlert section in this document. Additionally, Collin College utilizes a public address system through campus phones and 2019-2020 Collin College Resident Handbook posts information prominently throughout the campuses and on the homepage of its website, www.collin.edu. Traditionally, all of these methods of communication are utilized in the event an emergency notification is needed. Official updates to and discontinuance of an emergency notification will be posted prominently on the homepage of Collin College’s website, www.collin.edu, and may also be sent through the CougarAlert and public address systems. Anyone with information warranting an emergency notification should immediately report the circumstances to the Collin College Police Department by phone at 972.578.5555 or in person at any of the following Collin College Police Department office locations: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Collin Higher Education Center (CHEC) Room 134, Courtyard Center (CYC) Room 125, Frisco Campus Room LH-179, McKinney Campus Room C-119, or Plano Campus Room K-119. Timely Warning Notice Procedures In the event a Clery Act crime occurs within Collin College’s Clery Act geography that, in the judgment of the Collin College Police Department, constitutes a serious or continuing threat to members of the college community, a campus-wide timely warning notice will be issued. The purpose of a timely warning notice is to notify the Collin College community of the Clery Act crime and provide information that may enable Collin College student, faculty, and staff to better protect themselves. To provide timely notice in the event of a Clery Act crime occurs within Collin College’s Clery Act geography and may pose a serious or continuing threat to members of the Collin College community, the Collin College Police Department, Collin College’s Public Relations Department (PR), and designated Collin College officials will coordinate Page 37