{
  "id": "2021-11-07-brown-university-suspicious-package-investigation",
  "slug": "brown-university-suspicious-package-investigation-2021-11-07",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Brown University",
    "shortName": "Brown",
    "state": "RI",
    "type": "private-r1",
    "alertSystemName": "Brown Alert",
    "enrollment": 11000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2021-11-07",
    "type": "suspicious-package",
    "cleryCategory": "community-notification",
    "resolution": "under-investigation",
    "headline": "Notice of a police investigation of a suspicious package",
    "headlinePublic": "Notice of a police investigation of a suspicious package",
    "summary": "Brown Public Safety [posted a public notice](https://publicsafety.brown.edu/alerts/police-investigation-suspicious-package) on 2021-11-07. Full text is preserved from the [official alerts archive](https://publicsafety.brown.edu/alerts/crime-alerts).",
    "outcome": "See the official notice for investigation status and community guidance.",
    "casualties": {
      "killed": 0,
      "injured": 0
    }
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestampApprox": "Published on or about 2021-11-07 on the Brown Public Safety alerts archive",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "Brown Alert: The Department of Public Safety and the Providence Police are investigating a suspicious package on Meeting Street near the Life Sciences Building. Please avoid the area until further notice.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://publicsafety.brown.edu/alerts/police-investigation-suspicious-package",
      "sourceDescription": "Brown DPSEM public alerts archive (publicsafety.brown.edu)",
      "annotations": [
        "Full text from official Brown Public Safety alert page paragraphs"
      ],
      "characterCount": 204
    }
  ],
  "context": "On 2021-11-07, [Brown University](https://www.brown.edu/) Department of Public Safety published a community-facing notice now archived at [publicsafety.brown.edu](https://publicsafety.brown.edu/alerts/police-investigation-suspicious-package). The [crime alerts index](https://publicsafety.brown.edu/alerts/crime-alerts) lists multi-year Clery and community notices.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Full official text recovered from Brown's public alerts archive",
    "Verbatim transcription for emergency-management research use"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Notice of a police investigation of a suspicious package (Brown Public Safety)",
      "url": "https://publicsafety.brown.edu/alerts/police-investigation-suspicious-package",
      "type": "official-archive"
    },
    {
      "title": "Brown Public Safety crime alerts index",
      "url": "https://publicsafety.brown.edu/alerts/crime-alerts",
      "type": "official-archive"
    },
    {
      "title": "Brown University emergency information",
      "url": "https://www.brown.edu/emergency",
      "type": "official"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "suspicious-package",
    "brown"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-07-21",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-21",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}