 but we feel like in their current format the Warnmeys are not of much use to anybody. Warnmey is UC Berkeley's brand name for warning notification sent to the Cal community when an incident occurs that poses an immediate threat to the health and safety of the campus community. According to UC Berkeley's Cleary Coordinator and Director of Cleary Compliance Abigail Ogden, most warning messages are required by the Cleary Act, a federal statute that requires colleges and universities to keep and disclose information about crime on and near their respective campuses. Here's how Warnmey works according to Ogden. Phase one, an incident occurs. The life of a Warnmey starts when a significant emergency or dangerous situation such as a robbery, a gas leak, an armed intruder or civil unrest occurs within the geographic area specified under the Cleary Act. Phase two, UCPD is notified of the situation. Once UCPD is aware of the incident, the UCPD patrol sergeant on duty is responsible for sending the initial emergency notification in a timely manner to all students and employees. Phase three, the UCPD dispatcher drafts the Warnmey. The university has a wide range of message templates addressing several different situations. The UCPD individual authorizing the alert will modify the template to address the specifics of the present incident or develop a new one for unprecedented cases where there is no predetermined template. As for what's included in a Warnmey, the on-duty patrol sergeant determines what incident details are necessary and appropriate to promote safety and help prevent similar crimes. Phase four, the Warnmey is sent out to the Cal community. Per the Warnmey website, by default all UC Berkeley email addresses are automatically enrolled in UC Berkeley Warnmey. These emails are sent using the Everbridge mass notification system. But although these Warnmeys are immediately sent as emails, people can also manually register to receive these notifications as texts instead. Phase five, the Warnmey situation is demoted to non-threatening. Once those within UCPD assess that a situation no longer poses an active threat to the Cal community, a Warnmey is considered a closed case. Throughout this process, Warnmey is self-advertised as just one part of the warning system employed to keep campus safe. But do students actually find Warnmeys helpful? I personally don't. Some of them I just ignore. I do kind of. They do flood my email quite a bit as they do everyone's. Honestly, they kind of make me anxious about the campus in general. It's a lot to throw in students. The students complaints about Warnmeys being unhelpful are best summarized by Sagar Jattani, the president and co-founder of Safe Bears, a nonprofit started by a group of parents who are dedicated to raising awareness about the safety situation around campus and encouraging admin and UCPD to do more. Well, boiling it down, there are three big issues that we see with the Warnmey system. Three things about it that need to be improved upon. They don't cover the true scope of dangerous incidents that are taking place. Two, they're sent out too late to really be of use to folks. And three, they don't contain enough specific information to help people avoid going into harm's way. We've talked to many students who just don't feel safe. If you look at what they're talking to the media about what they're telling the Daily Cow, what they're saying on Reddit, it all comports. It all forms part of a cohesive picture. Crime at Cal is really bad. Fixing the Warnmey system by itself doesn't really solve that problem. But while we pursue bigger, hopefully more systemic fixes to the causes, the root causes of crime in Berkeley, the Warnmeys need to follow suit. They need to be improved so that while the crime is still happening, the Warnmeys are at least useful enough so that they can take reasonable steps to keep themselves safe. Reporting for Cal TV News, this is Bella Lu. I'll see you guys next time.