{
  "id": "2026-02-05-virginia-peninsula-community-college-campus-police-phone-outage",
  "slug": "virginia-peninsula-community-college-campus-police-phone-outage-2026-02-05",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Virginia Peninsula Community College",
    "shortName": "VPCC",
    "state": "VA",
    "type": "community-college",
    "alertSystemName": "Gator Alert",
    "enrollment": 9000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2026-02-05",
    "type": "utility-failure",
    "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification",
    "resolution": "resolved",
    "headline": "Campus police phone lines down; dial 911 from a cell",
    "headlinePublic": "Campus police phone lines down; dial 911 from a cell",
    "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/) and told anyone with an emergency to dial 911 from a cell phone.",
    "outcome": "Same official archive posts a 6 February 2026 email follow-up establishing temporary Campus Police number 757-825-3899 for the weekend, then Gator Ready Text DPSS from Monday 7:00 AM."
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestampApprox": "2026-02-05",
      "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",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "confidence": "high",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.vpcc.edu/about/department-of-police-safety-and-security/vpcc-alert-updates/",
      "sourceDescription": "VPCC Gator Alert archive (February 2026 police phone outage)",
      "annotations": [
        "Dual independent fetches of vpcc.edu alert-updates 2026-08-16. sha256 1ebf3d153920f48a3ba590da735d62130107d45d5a3246b5a2c21e2ff2d915ce.",
        "Thread checked N/A (official HTML archive, not an X thread).",
        "Distinct incident from 2025-02-05-virginia-peninsula-community-college-campus-police-phone-outage: different year. The 6 February 2026 email on the same page names Saturday and Sunday February 7th and 8th, which is the 2026 calendar.",
        "Not a scheduled test: live product redirects emergencies to 911."
      ],
      "characterCount": 158
    }
  ],
  "context": "VPCC publishes Gator Alert products and follow-up email text on the official alert-updates page. The 2026 February section also holds a next-day email about a temporary Campus Police number; that email is not transcribed as a second confirmed alert this batch.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Recurring Campus Police telephone-path outage with 911-from-cell guidance, one year after a similarly worded 2025 product."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "VPCC Alert Updates and College Operational Status Information",
      "url": "https://www.vpcc.edu/about/department-of-police-safety-and-security/vpcc-alert-updates/",
      "type": "official-archive",
      "accessDate": "2026-08-16",
      "archiveUrl": null,
      "archiveNotes": "SPN 523/500 earlier this run; not retried this file"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "community-college",
    "virginia",
    "vpcc",
    "gator-alert",
    "phone-outage"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-08-16",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-08-16",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}