The emergency alert system Umpqua Community College had in place failed them during the shooting Thursday morning, several associate professors have told The News-Review, Roseburg’s paper. The emergency alert is supposed to send text message alerts to numbers registered and shut down school computers with a crawling message on the screen, but did not.
Professor John Blackwood was teaching a computer information systems class the morning of the shooting. He told The News-Review he had his campus computer in front of him and his cell phone next to him, and neither received data from the system. Other faculty confirmed what he said.
Board of Trustees chair Vanessa Becker said Saturday that she plans to investigate the reports. However, she said that she has received conflicting reports.
Securities assistant Kathy Frazer did send an email, according to Blackwood, that simply said “Shooting on campus. Please go into lockdown. Not a drill.”
UCC’s emergency alert system failed during the shooting, faculty say
Scott Greenstone
October 2, 2015
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