Timely Notices

To help prevent crimes or serious incidents, the Department of Public Safety, in conjunction with other departments on campus, issues Campus Safety Alerts in a timely manner to notify community members about certain crimes in and around our community. Members of the community who know of a crime or other serious incidents should report that incident as soon as possible to the Department of Public Safety so that a Campus Safety Alert can be issued, if warranted.

If community members report crimes or serious incidents to other campus administrators, those administrators will notify the Department of Public Safety. Representatives of these offices will promptly notify and collaborate with Public Safety to issue a Campus Safety Alert. Campus Safety Alerts are distributed in a variety of ways; campus e-mail, the Tribune, the Monroe Doctrine, flyers, and posters. All Campus Safety Alerts are also posted on the Public Safety website at www.monroecc.edu/depts/pstd/index.htm 

Emergency Mass Notifications

MCC uses a variety of methods to alert students, faculty, staff and visitors of emergency situations on campus. New Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephones and speakers have been installed throughout the MCC Brighton and Damon City campuses that will provide audible and text messages of any emergency situations that require a specific action from the campus community (evacuation, shelter-in-place, lockdown, etc.).  The MCC website, E-mail system and voice mail system are also used for providing emergency notifications.  In addition, the campus radio station, cable TV Channel 4 and other forms of communication are used to keep the campus community informed of safety related information in a timely and efficient manner.

Another method is the new SUNY NY-ALERT system (R U in the Q?) to send emergency and safety information and protective action messages, to students, faculty, staff, and visitors. The SUNY NY-ALERT system will be used by authorized campus personnel to send emergency messages, including emergency protective actions, warnings and post-incident information related to life safety issues to the campus community. Alert notifications are only permitted for events in the categories identified below or other "life threatening" situations. "All Clear" and/or additional follow-up messages pertaining to end of event or additional instructions regarding the event will be acceptable:

• Bomb Threat - based on intelligence that indicates the threat is credible.
• Civil Disturbance - large group disrupting normal campus activities.
• Fire - large-scale fire to building(s), wildfires, local community or industry that endangers campus.
• Hazardous Material - dangerous material, chemical, biological, nuclear spreading from a contained area.
• Major Road Closing/Incident - unanticipated event that would disrupt safe passage to and from campus.
• Medical Emergency - pandemic or event with mass casualties.
• Personal Safety - situations that include use of weapons, violence, perpetrator(s) at large, active shooter, hostage situation or missing persons. Any situation, on or off campus, that, in the judgment of the Chief Administrative Officer or designee, constitutes an on-going or continuing threat to person or property.
• Suspicious Package - reasonable belief that a package may contain chemical, biological or nuclear substance that would cause harm to persons or property.
• Utility Failure - a major disruption or damage to utilities including gas, electrical or water.
• Weather - severe weather conditions to include flooding, snow/ice/cold, thunderstorm, wind, tornado or hurricane.

Students, faculty and staff will have the ability to opt out, but participation is voluntary and strongly encouraged. Those who opt out will have the opportunity to participate at any time by signing up on-line. SUNY NY-ALERT will not replace other means of communication that the College uses to notify the campus community of emergency information such as emails, website, television, posters, etc.

Users will be asked to sign up for SUNY NY-ALERT at the beginning of each semester. This may sound unnecessary, but this is for your protection and is the only means to manage the list. Signing up only takes a few minutes, but the time spent could one day prove useful to you in the event of an emergency.

At this time, only college community members with access to the Campus Information System (Banner) can sign up directly. This includes all current MCC students, faculty and staff. However, when you sign up you can use the phone, e-mail or cell information of parents, guardians, spouses and others. You will be allowed to enter up to three telephone numbers, two email addresses, one fax number and four text message numbers. They can be your local, work, home, cell or whatever number you want to enter.

The system does NOT detect an answering machine or answering service. Unfortunately there is no standard on how long the system should wait until the phone is answered or how long the pre-set message should be. So, if a message was left, some participants might only receive part of the message, or none at all. The feature of "Press any number to receive this message" was incorporated to address this issue. The notification alert message will start immediately after a number has been pressed.

If you are a student or employee of Monroe Community College you may register through Banner Web. Sign in to the Banner Web system with your Banner ID and password; go to the Personal Information Tab; and use the link to Emergency Alert Contact Information (NY-Alert). You can go into Banner Web and update the information as often as possible. The latest information will override any information you previously entered. Any information submitted to the SUNY NY-Alert system at MCC will only be used to subscribe college community members to the Alert system.