{
  "id": "2022-07-07-community-college-of-rhode-island-providence-bomb-threat",
  "slug": "community-college-of-rhode-island-providence-bomb-threat-2022-07-07",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Community College of Rhode Island",
    "shortName": "CCRI",
    "state": "RI",
    "type": "community-college",
    "alertSystemName": "CCRI Alert"
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2022-07-07",
    "type": "bomb-threat",
    "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification",
    "headline": "Phoned-in bomb threat evacuates downtown campus for about an hour; not credible",
    "headlinePublic": "Phoned-in bomb threat evacuates downtown campus for about an hour; not credible",
    "summary": "CCRI's Liston Campus in Providence was evacuated on the morning of July 7, 2022, after a bomb threat was phoned in to Providence police. The college was [notified at about 10:30 a.m. EDT and cleared the building](https://www.abc6.com/ccris-providence-campus-cleared-after-bomb-threat/), and the threat was quickly deemed not credible. The campus [reopened just before 11:30 a.m. EDT](https://www.abc6.com/ccris-providence-campus-cleared-after-bomb-threat/), with no device found.",
    "outcome": "Providence police investigated the phoned-in threat and found it not credible. No explosive device was located. The Liston Campus in downtown Providence was evacuated around 10:30 a.m. EDT and reopened just before 11:30 a.m. EDT on July 7, 2022. The incident occurred during a nationwide wave of college bomb threats that summer.",
    "resolution": "confirmed-hoax"
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestampApprox": "Around 10:30 AM EDT on July 7, 2022",
      "channel": "sms",
      "verbatimText": "We are evacuating the Liston campus due to a public safety threat.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.abc6.com/ccris-providence-campus-cleared-after-bomb-threat/",
      "sourceDescription": "ABC6 News, quoting the alert sent to students and staff",
      "annotations": [
        "ABC6 reported this as the alert sent to CCRI students and staff, quoting the message text directly.",
        "The single-sentence evacuation order names the campus by its formal name (Liston) and cites only a generic 'public safety threat' rather than the bomb threat phoned in to Providence police.",
        "CCRI was notified at about 10:30 AM EDT on July 7, 2022 of a threat that had been called in to Providence police, per ABC6."
      ],
      "characterCount": 66
    },
    {
      "sequence": 2,
      "type": "all-clear",
      "timestampApprox": "Just before 11:30 AM EDT on July 7, 2022",
      "channel": "sms",
      "verbatimText": "",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": false,
      "sourceDescription": "Reconstructed from ABC6 coverage; reopening time confirmed",
      "annotations": []
    }
  ],
  "context": "CCRI's Providence campus, the Liston Campus, sits in downtown Providence. On July 7, 2022, a bomb threat was phoned in to Providence police; CCRI was [notified at about 10:30 a.m. EDT and evacuated the campus](https://www.abc6.com/ccris-providence-campus-cleared-after-bomb-threat/), with the threat found not credible and the building reopening just before 11:30 a.m. EDT The episode came amid a [nationwide wave of bomb threats disrupting college campuses in July 2022](https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/07/14/bomb-threats-disrupt-campuses-across-country), many traced to spoofed numbers and treated by authorities as a coordinated hoax campaign. CCRI maintains a published [timely-warning policy](https://www.ccri.edu/campuspolice/clery/report/timely-warning.html) under the Clery Act and uses an emergency alerting system to push evacuation and all-clear messages to students and staff.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "CCRI's Providence (Liston) Campus was evacuated and reopened within about an hour on July 7, 2022",
    "The threat was phoned in to Providence police and quickly deemed not credible; no device was found",
    "The incident was part of a nationwide summer-2022 wave of college bomb threats, many using spoofed numbers"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "CCRI's Providence campus cleared after bomb threat",
      "url": "https://www.abc6.com/ccris-providence-campus-cleared-after-bomb-threat/",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "Bomb threats disrupt campuses across the country",
      "url": "https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/07/14/bomb-threats-disrupt-campuses-across-country",
      "type": "other"
    },
    {
      "title": "Timely Warning Policy – CCRI",
      "url": "https://www.ccri.edu/campuspolice/clery/report/timely-warning.html",
      "type": "official-archive"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "medium",
  "tags": [
    "bomb-threat",
    "evacuation",
    "hoax",
    "rhode-island",
    "community-college",
    "2022-bomb-threat-wave"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-05-29",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-16",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}