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  "id": "2026-03-29-university-of-texas-at-arlington-police-dispatch-network-outage",
  "slug": "university-of-texas-at-arlington-police-dispatch-network-outage-2026-03-29",
  "institution": {
    "name": "University of Texas at Arlington",
    "shortName": "UTA",
    "state": "TX",
    "type": "public-r1",
    "alertSystemName": "MavAlert / @UTArlington",
    "enrollment": 42000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2026-03-29",
    "type": "it-systems-outage",
    "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification",
    "resolution": "unknown",
    "headline": "Network outage drops police dispatch phones; alternate numbers posted",
    "headlinePublic": "Network outage drops police dispatch phones; alternate numbers posted",
    "summary": "UT Arlington [@UTArlington](https://x.com/UTArlington/status/2038326954328301958) issued an Urgent MavAlert that a campus network outage took police dispatch phone lines down and provided alternate call numbers.",
    "outcome": "Dispatch phones down at alert time; alternate numbers published."
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestamp": "2026-03-29T13:46:30-05:00",
      "channel": "twitter-x",
      "verbatimText": "Urgent MavAlert! Due to a campus network outage, police dispatch phone lines are down. If police assistance is needed, call 682-209-7174 or 682-209-6976",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "confidence": "high",
      "sourceUrl": "https://x.com/UTArlington/status/2038326954328301958",
      "sourceDescription": "@UTArlington MavAlert dispatch",
      "annotations": [
        "Dual independent X fetch match 2026-08-03. SPN 523."
      ],
      "characterCount": 152
    }
  ],
  "context": "UTA posts MavAlerts on [@UTArlington](https://x.com/UTArlington).",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Network outage cascading to police dispatch phones with alternate numbers."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "@UTArlington MavAlert dispatch",
      "url": "https://x.com/UTArlington/status/2038326954328301958",
      "type": "official-social",
      "accessDate": "2026-08-03",
      "archiveUrl": null,
      "archiveNotes": "SPN 523"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "public-r1",
    "texas",
    "it-systems-outage",
    "uta"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-08-03",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-08-03",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}