Re: email threats

[Roger Safian <r-safian () NORTHWESTERN EDU>]

At 03:52 PM 9/4/2007, Mark DeSerio put fingers to keyboard and wrote:
> Does anyone have procedures in place regarding email threats to their college? Such as certain key words in a message 
> would get forwarded to personnel to handle the email threat.   This would be bomb threats and threats to employees. 
> The recent occurrences at other colleges that have be in the news our college is interested in what other schools have 
> in place for email threats.

We let our police department deal with threats.  personally,
even if I suspect that the threat is likely nothing to be
worried about, I don't want to be the person who makes that
decision.  Especially if it's the wrong one.



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