{
  "id": "2025-02-05-virginia-peninsula-community-college-campus-police-phone-outage",
  "slug": "virginia-peninsula-community-college-campus-police-phone-outage-2025-02-05",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Virginia Peninsula Community College",
    "shortName": "VPCC",
    "state": "VA",
    "type": "community-college",
    "alertSystemName": "Gator Alert",
    "enrollment": 9000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2025-02-05",
    "type": "utility-failure",
    "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification",
    "resolution": "resolved",
    "headline": "VPCC Campus Police phone lines inoperable (Feb 5, 2025)",
    "headlinePublic": "VPCC Campus Police phone lines inoperable (Feb 5, 2025)",
    "summary": "Virginia Peninsula Community College [issued a Gator Alert that Campus Police phone lines were inoperable](https://www.vpcc.edu/about/department-of-police-safety-and-security/vpcc-alert-updates/), directing emergencies to 911 and non-emergencies to the Gator Ready app Text DPSS feature.",
    "outcome": "Temporary alternate contact pathways until regular service restored."
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestampApprox": "2025-02-05",
      "channel": "sms",
      "verbatimText": "VPCC Gator Alert: Campus Police phone lines are inoperable, emergency dial 911 from your cell, Adnl. Info and contact info: https://www.vpcc.edu/alert-updates",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.vpcc.edu/about/department-of-police-safety-and-security/vpcc-alert-updates/",
      "sourceDescription": "VPCC Gator Alert police phone outage",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "confidence": "high",
      "annotations": [
        "Verbatim Gator Alert text archived on official VPCC alert-updates page."
      ],
      "characterCount": 158
    }
  ],
  "context": "Wider b256 VPCC Gator Alert archive residual campus police phone utility failure.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Utility outage affecting emergency contact path with 911 redirection."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "VPCC alert updates archive",
      "url": "https://www.vpcc.edu/about/department-of-police-safety-and-security/vpcc-alert-updates/",
      "type": "official-archive",
      "accessDate": "2026-07-26"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "virginia",
    "utility-failure",
    "community-college",
    "wider-reach",
    "gator-alert"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-07-26",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-26",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}