{
  "id": "2025-10-31-skagit-valley-college-whidbey-island-internet-outage-cancellations",
  "slug": "skagit-valley-college-whidbey-island-internet-outage-cancellations-2025-10-31",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Skagit Valley College",
    "shortName": "SVC",
    "state": "WA",
    "type": "community-college",
    "alertSystemName": "SVC Alert / Emergency Communications",
    "enrollment": 8000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2025-10-31",
    "type": "infrastructure-failure",
    "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification",
    "resolution": "resolved",
    "headline": "Afternoon Whidbey classes canceled after internet outage",
    "headlinePublic": "Afternoon Whidbey classes canceled after internet outage",
    "summary": "On October 31, 2025, [Skagit Valley College canceled Whidbey Island campus classes and activities starting at 1 p.m. or later due to a widespread internet outage](https://www.skagit.edu/security-services/emergency-communications.html).",
    "outcome": "Afternoon and later classes and activities on the Whidbey Island campus canceled for Oct. 31.",
    "casualties": {
      "killed": 0,
      "injured": 0
    }
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestamp": "2025-10-31T12:50:00-07:00",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "Due to a widespread internet outage, Skagit Valley College Whidbey Island campus classes and activities starting at 1 p.m. or later today Friday, Oct. 31 are canceled.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.skagit.edu/security-services/emergency-communications.html",
      "sourceDescription": "SVC Emergency Communications — Oct. 31, 2025 Whidbey internet outage",
      "characterCount": 167,
      "annotations": [
        "Verbatim text transcribed from the official SVC or university page cited in sourceUrl."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "context": "On October 31, 2025, [Skagit Valley College canceled Whidbey Island campus classes and activities starting at 1 p.m. or later due to a widespread internet outage](https://www.skagit.edu/security-services/emergency-communications.html).",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Full English text recovered from the official SVC Emergency Communications page.",
    "Spanish parallel versions exist on the same page and were not transcribed as separate alerts."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Emergency Communications (Skagit Valley College Security Services)",
      "url": "https://www.skagit.edu/security-services/emergency-communications.html",
      "type": "official-archive"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "skagit-valley-college",
    "infrastructure",
    "community-college"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-07-27",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-27",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}