Last Updated on February 7, 2024

Security

Charlestown has uniformed safety and emergency services (SES) officers on duty twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week. The officers make periodic rounds throughout the campus. For your convenience, there is a Security Dispatcher on duty (24) hours a day, (7) days a week. You are welcome to contact them at 410-737-8806.

AlertMedia (EMNS)

Emergency Line
For any emergency, call 410-737-8838, x8806

Alert Line
To hear about an alert message, call 410-314-7944

Provides special emergency information pertinent to the community
Call this line to hear the AlertMedia alerts that come through the automated phone messaging system
Updated Monday - Friday

The AlertMedia System messages will come from the number 410-632-6424. This allows Security to notify you in emergency situations like

Significant weather alerts
Fire or environmental emergency
Police activity nearby

If you are not receiving Alert Media phone calls, please contact Deanna Booker in Resident Life at extension 601-8230.

Please add 410-632-6424 to your Contacts, so that it will recognize calls, texts and emails coming to you from that number.

After Hours
After hours, on holidays, and on weekends, only emergencies will be addressed by contacting Security at 410-737-8838, x8806.

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AT&T Data Breach

Jul 12, 2024 | Safety, Safety & Security Committee, Scams

Many of us at Charlestown have AT&T cell service. AT&T reported July 12 that hackers stole at least six months of 2022 phone records for almost everyone with AT&T service, about 95 million customers. AT&T said those whose data was taken would be notified. The US has almost no regulations protecting Americans’ private data held by companies.

The information stolen from AT&T included phone records of home and wireless customers from May to October 2022 and on January 2, 2023. The numbers called or texted, duration of calls and cell tower locations were included, but not call or text content. The company says that account holders’ names, Social Security numbers and credit card numbers were not stolen.

The records could be used fraudulently to spoof your frequent contacts in calls or texts to you. In some cases, the data could be used in blackmail, to discover private connections or expose law enforcement or public service officials’ locations and contacts.

AT&T reportedly is offering customers a way to determine what data of theirs was taken. But regardless of what the provider says, victim customers should be careful of any unsolicited contacts, even if they seem to come from a boss, relative, business contact or any frequently called or texted number. Fraudsters now have another way to find and cheat us.

submitted by Ed Appel, Chair, Safety & Security Committee