{"id":161286,"date":"2026-02-03T03:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/161286\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T03:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:04:17","slug":"csu-bakersfield-placed-on-lockdown-after-reported-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/161286\/","title":{"rendered":"CSU Bakersfield placed on lockdown after reported threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 California State University, Bakersfield placed its campus on lockdown Monday afternoon following a reported threat.<\/p>\n<p>The university issued an emergency alert around 2:45 p.m. instructing students and staff to &#8220;barricade doors and windows&#8221; out of an abundance of caution.<\/p>\n<p>School officials say the message received was threatening to come to shoot the campus and blow themselves up.<\/p>\n<p>CSUB says there is no signs of an open shooter.<\/p>\n<p>The lockdown has since been lifted.<\/p>\n<p>The Bakersfield Police Department said that CSUB put themselves on a lockdown, and requested BPD\u2019s assistance in containing the entrance abd exit to the campus.<\/p>\n<p>The Bakersfield College Southwest Campus has also placed itself on lockdown, according to an alert on the college&#8217;s website. The southwest campus has canceled the remaining classes for the day. <\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield College&#8217;s Southwest Campus is just south of CSUB on Camino Media. <\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770087857_743_.png\" alt=\"\"  width=\"1052\" height=\"1004\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 California State University, Bakersfield placed its campus on lockdown Monday afternoon following a reported&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,155,153,152,78299,23314,162,78300],"class_list":{"0":"post-161286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-downtown","10":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","11":"tag-bakersfield-news","12":"tag-campus-lockdown","13":"tag-csu-bakersfield","14":"tag-kern-county-news","15":"tag-university-threat"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}