Institution
The Ohio State University
OSUOHPublic R1Buckeye Alert~60,000 students
- Cases
- 26
- Alerts
- 57
- Verbatim
- 100%
- Span
- 2016–2026
Official alert policy
How OSU says it will alert: when and how Buckeye Alert activates, summarized, quoted, and analyzed.
Case log
Every documented incident
26 cases · 57 of 57 alert messages verbatim-confirmed
2025
2024
- burglary: 2024-10-28Five unlocked residence hall rooms burglarized in five days; three juveniles arrestedtimely warningverbatim
- robbery: 2024-10-17Two students assaulted and robbed near campus; both hospitalizedtimely warning2 injuredverbatim
- shooting: 2024-09-18Shooting, September 18, 2024emergency notificationverbatim
- tornado: 2024-02-28Tornado warning, February 28, 2024emergency notificationverbatim
2023
- aggravated assault: 2023-11-10Two students assaulted near campus in an attack classified as an antisemitic hate crimetimely warning2 injuredverbatim
- police activity: 2023-06-02Vendor maintenance error sent a false 'active attacker' alert; corrected within minutestestverbatim
- shooting: 2023-04-21Shooting near 12th & Highemergency notificationverbatim
2022
2021
2020
2016
- armed person: 2016-11-28Vehicle-and-knife attack near Watts Hall left 13 people injuredemergency notification13 injuredverbatim
- robbery: 2016-10-21Armed robbery at 8th / Highlandemergency notificationverbatim
- bomb threat: 2016-10-04Bomb threat bus stop near the football stadiumemergency notificationverbatim
- robbery: 2016-08-03Armed robbery Park-Stradley areaemergency notificationverbatim
- robbery: 2016-06-25Robbery in Safe Auto garageemergency notificationverbatim
- robbery: 2016-05-27Knife robbery near student family housingemergency notificationverbatim
- shooting: 2016-04-27Home invasion shooting W Northwood off campusemergency notificationverbatim
- robbery: 2016-04-07Attempted robbery Safe Auto Garageemergency notificationverbatim
By incident type