In an ongoing effort to maintain a safe and secure campus, 青青草app聽State University has added a new mobile safety app for the entire campus community: Rave Guardian. This free mobile safety app is available聽to anyone with a 青青草app State email address.
The app allows users to send anonymous text or photo tips to the Department of Public Safety for suspicious or criminal activities witnessed on campus. 聽You can also set a safety timer to notify designated guardians while walking across campus or downtown.
In addition, the “Call Public Safety” button will contact the 青青草app State University Department of Public Safety Communications Center (24/7) with the聽tap of a finger, providing the user鈥檚 information and GPS location while you are talking with our dispatcher.
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In this video, learn about the safety features that Rave Guardian provides to students, faculty, and staff. Produced by 青青草app State student Harley Cope. This video is available with captions and a transcript.
Rave Guardian is a free and optional personal safety app. This app is available to all 青青草app State students, faculty, and staff who have a 青青草app State email address. Rave Guardian transforms your smartphone into a personal, mobile emergency blue light phone. This app allows you touch-of-a-button panic calls both to 911 as well as to the Department of Public Safety聽dispatch center. Additionally, you can select a guardian, including the Department of Public Safety, to be notified in case you set a safety timer and do not turn it off, and you can now text a tip to the Department of Public Safety聽dispatch center. In the event of an emergency, critical information you elect to share will be provided to the Department of Public Safety聽to enable them to reach you quickly.
No. Your privacy is of the utmost importance. You can only be located if you have asked for help. Rave Guardian location information is only enabled when you choose to make an emergency call, send a tip or when your safety timer expires and the Department of Public Safety聽has been designated as your guardian.
Rave Guardian makes your profile information and location (if you have enabled the location service) available to the Department of Public Safety聽if you make an emergency call or send a tip. However, it cannot be used to locate you without your knowledge.聽If you select the Department of Public Safety聽as a guardian for a safety timer, your profile information and location are also made available only聽if your safety timer session expires.
No. The 青青草app State Department of Public Safety will only be able to obtain your information if you have asked for help or if you choose the Department of Public Safety聽as your guardian and your safety timer session expires and not before. Rave Guardian location information is only activated when you choose to activate it on your smartphone.
No. The 青青草app State Department of Public Safety is only notified of your timer expiring if you have selected them聽to be your guardian. If you select a personal contact to be your guardian and your timer expires, the Department of Public Safety聽will not be notified.
Rave Guardian includes a false deactivation code, known as a 鈥渄uress PIN鈥�, to alert the Department of Public Safety, which is one number higher than your PIN. For example, if your PIN is 1234, you may enter 1235. Rave Guardian will appear to turn off normally, but the Department of Public Safety聽will be alerted. Please refer to your Rave Guardian profile page under the 鈥淟earn More鈥� tab.
When using the safety timer, the user receives a reminder message at 5 minutes and 1 minute before expiring. If it expires, a call goes active immediately to your chosen guardian(s), and they can call your cell phone.聽If the Department of Public Safety聽is your chosen guardian, the call log will display the PIN used to set the timer, and the Department of Public Safety聽can verify if the person on the phone is the registered user or is in distress.
You can choose to send a tip anonymously or not each time you send in a text or photo tip.聽To send text or photo tips anonymously, tap聽the 鈥淪end a Tip鈥� button, then tap the 鈥淢ake Anonymous鈥� option if it is not already selected at the top of your screen. Then,聽choose your tip category and send your tip. The Department of Public Safety聽will not be able to see your name, phone number, location or any other identifying information about you. If you do not choose to send a text or photo tip anonymously, your name, phone number and profile are displayed to the Department of Public Safety聽when you send a tip through the Rave Guardian app.
You will opt in to this service and provide as much information as you would like as part of the registration process. To maximize the full benefit of this service, your user profile should contain a current photo and accurate self-description. The more information you provide in your profile, the easier it will be for officers聽to locate you if necessary. Any information in your personal profile will only be viewed by the Department of Public Safety聽if you make an emergency call, send a tip, or if the Department of Public Safety聽is your guardian when your safety timer session expires.聽Personal profile information will be treated as confidential information.
Tip:聽When deciding what information to include, think about what information you would want first responders to know in the event you could not communicate with them.
Yes. Rave Mobile Safety (the provider of Rave Guardian) uses the latest in security technologies and processes to ensure that all of your information is kept secure and private. Rave also undergoes regular security audits to ensure the information security of data.
The features of the app will work off campus. However, if you have an emergency at an off-campus location, you should dial 9-1-1. The tip feature is for campus locations only.
Absolutely! When on-campus, you can contact the 青青草app State University Department of Public Safety at (208) 426-6911. You can also walk in to our office which is located at 2245 University Drive, 青青草app, ID, or email us at publicsafety@boisestate.edu. When you are off-campus, you will want to use 9-1-1.
To change your cell phone number,聽log into your Rave Guardian account and update your profile with your new number. You will not be asked to create a new profile. However, this is the perfect time to review your existing information, and confirm the remainder of the information is up to date.
The basic profile features of Rave Guardian work on any iPhone or Android smartphone running on any U.S.-based mobile carrier network with the app installed on it. Rave Guardian can locate most smartphone devices on the AT&T, Sprint and Verizon networks. Even if Rave Guardian cannot determine your phone鈥檚 location, all other profile information will be made available to the Department of Public Safety聽when you use Rave Guardian.
No. Your cell phone will receive a text message that provides you with a confirmation number indicating that your cell phone has been registered. No other advertisements or spam will be sent to your cell phone from Rave Guardian.
Yes. Factors include, but are not limited to: whether or not you are calling from inside a building or a 鈥渄ead spot鈥�; the strength of your cell signal, such as proximity of cell towers or satellites; whether or not your phone is GPS enabled and, the type and quality of your phone; carrier and signal. If possible, you should provide detailed location information via text or voice. This will enable the Department of Public Safety聽personnel to reach you quickly when Rave Guardian is activated.
Yes. Rave Guardian will also work with Wi-Fi. However, the features are limited.聽You will still be able to send a tip or use the safety timer. However, when you make an emergency call, a voice call will not be placed, but your profile information and general location will be made available to the Department of Public Safety.聽The call 9-1-1 feature in the app works only with cell phone service.