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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
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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:
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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
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