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WarnMe emergency alert service
warnme.berkeley.edu For a safer UC Berkeley
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WarnMe emergency alert service
We're improving campus safety.

• WarnMe is a new alerting and warning service for
  UC Berkeley, to help keep members of the campus
  community safe if there is a threat to health and
  safety on campus
• Service was launched on August 25, 2008
• Uses contact information that members of the
  campus community provide
• Individually alerts faculty, staff, and students
  who sign up and provide contact information in
  advance
• Sends immediate alerts via phone, text message,
  e-mail, and TTY
• Registrants choose how the campus contacts them

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WarnMe emergency alert service
You get the information you need, fast.

• WarnMe is activated only when absolutely
  necessary, by the UC Police Department or Public
  Affairs
• Alerts are delivered to members of the campus
  community within minutes
• The contact information registrants provide is
  kept private

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WarnMe emergency alert service
Be warned, and know what to do next.

• Registrants are warned and receive instructions
  in the event of an immediate threat to health or
  safety on campus
• Approaching fire? Gunman or violence on
  campus? Chemical spill or biohazard?
  Earthquake response? Bomb threat? Other
  significant emergencies on or near campus
• WarnMe may also be activated to send urgent
  messages when information will be helpful but no
  individual action is immediately required

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WarnMe emergency alert service
Faculty, students, and staff make it work.

• WarnMe is an opt-in system
• Members of the campus community must sign up by
  providing their contact information and choosing
  the best way to reach them
• Registrants sign up at warnme.berkeley.edu
• Registration began in mid-July 2008
• Currently, 15,900 students, faculty, and staff
  have registered
• Students sign up or review contact information
  each semester when they enroll for classes

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WarnMe emergency alert service
You choose how to be contacted.

• Sign up to receive messages up to seven ways
• Text message E-mail (2 addresses) Cell
  phone Office phone Home phone TTY
• WarnMe will contact registrants on all devices
  for which they have provide contact information

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WarnMe emergency alert service
Good data equals effective warning.

• The more current and complete registrants contact
  information, the more helpful the system is
• Registrants can update their contact information
  at any time at warnme.berkeley.edu
• Updates are operational within 24 hours
• All contact information is protected and kept
  private in the campus LDAP system

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• WarnMe emergency alert service

Managers and supervisors have special
responsibilities in an emergency.

• Many campus employees do not have access to
  phones and e-mail. WarnMe alerts cannot reach
  them
• It is vital that their managers and supervisors
  immediately alert them to emergency situations
  and provide instructions

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WarnMe emergency alert service
The campus siren alert will still be used.

• WarnMe will be tested in conjunction with the
  campus siren alert, which is tested at noon on
  the first Wednesday of each month
• At all other times, when campus community members
  hear the siren, they should
• Shelter in place
• Shut doors and windows
• Seek information and instructions
  on the web at www.berkeley.edu or
  emergency.berkeley.edu by phone at
  [phone] on the radio at KALX
  (90.7 FM)

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WarnMe emergency alert service
WarnMe is carefully planned and tested.

• Chancellor Birgeneau charged a taskforce to plan
  and implement an alerting and warning system by
  Sept. 2008
• To ensure reliable service 24/7, UC Berkeley is
  working closely with a commercial provider,
  Wide-area Rapid Notification that specializes in
  rapid public notification
• There is a redundant infrastructure around the
  country to support the system
• UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, and UCSF are using the
  same provider for their alerting and warning
  system
• Periodic large-scale tests of the system at UC
  Berkeley will be scheduled and announced. The
  first test will be conducted on November 5.

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WarnMe emergency alert service
For more information
Jon Conhaim Email conhaim_at_berkeley.eduTelephone
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