{"id":506683,"date":"2026-10-24T15:53:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T15:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/506683\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T15:53:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T15:53:36","slug":"oakland-911-outage-police-probe-protentional-criminal-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/506683\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland 911 outage: Police probe protentional criminal act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ki6vnhxgsez7d7zm.jpg\" alt=\"Police say AT&amp;T lines for Oakland 911 system severed, now a criminal investigation into (photo credit: AT&amp;T)\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ki6vnhxgsez7d7zm.jpg\" alt=\"Police say AT&amp;T lines for Oakland 911 system severed, now a criminal investigation into (photo credit: AT&amp;T)\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image vod-poster-image--embedded\" data-v-fab1b86c=\"\"\/>     <\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; Phone service was restored Friday morning in Oakland, after the 911 system went down, possibly due to vandalism of copper wiring, officials reported.<\/p>\n<p>   911 back online <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTVU\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">The city of Oakland said that the computer dispatch systems were fixed Thursday afternoon, and the 911 service was up and running as of Friday morning, after city and AT&amp;T crews worked through the night to perform repairs to the damaged infrastructure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/alameda-county\/oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Oakland\u2019s <\/a>911 emergency system went offline Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. after fiber-optic and copper lines were damaged, prompting police to investigate whether the disruption was criminal.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Emergency calls to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/organization\/opd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Oakland Police Department<\/a> were rerouted to the Alameda County Sheriff\u2019s Office dispatch center and to Oakland fire&#8217;s dispatch center.<\/p>\n<p> OPD fallbacks compromised <\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">At a Thursday afternoon press conference, Oakland Police Chief James Beere said the department had two fallback systems in place, but both were compromised during the system outage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Beere underscored that this level of service disruption is not normal.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">&#8220;We really need to ensure that the security of our systems are in place,&#8221; Councilwoman and chair of the Oakland Public Safety Committee Charlene Wang said. &#8220;I&#8217;m glad we have a backup plan but we need to make sure this isn&#8217;t happening because I know many of our constituents rely on the non-emergency line, and we&#8217;ll have to see too if there&#8217;s any delays in the 911 response time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/svcf184ek0hibhdu.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland 911 disruption: Possible criminal cause\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/svcf184ek0hibhdu.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland 911 disruption: Possible criminal cause\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image vod-poster-image--embedded\" data-v-fab1b86c=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTVU\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Investigators are following leads to determine if the lines were intentionally tampered with.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">AT&amp;T said in a statement the damage to its network was due to &#8220;theft and vandalism,&#8221; including cuts to fiber and copper wire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MorganHillPD\/posts\/pfbid022Uc39SAVmqkkwZsvrqmQihY2Ah64rV1YZnmLSGQH6T4Bw2d7kCzcNfw4muTbtZ4rl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Morgan Hill police also reported its non-emergency phone lines <\/a>went down on Thursday as of 1 p.m. because of someone cutting copper cables that affected Verizon service. Morgan Hill police said the 911 emergency lines remained fully operational.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> No delays reported for priority calls <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTVU\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Local perspective:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Despite the outage in Oakland, Alameda County Sheriff&#8217;s Sgt. Roberto Morales said there weren&#8217;t any delays being reported because of the disruption.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">OPD dispatchers sat next to the county dispatchers and taking the calls that pertain to Oakland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Due to limited call capacity, OPD dispatchers only responded to Priority 1 calls.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">The OAK311 lines were also impacted by the disruption, but as of Friday, they were working again, the city reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story comes from Oakland police, AT&amp;T, Councilwoman Charlene Wang and the Alameda County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/organization\/opd\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Police Department<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; Phone service was restored Friday morning in Oakland, after the 911 system went down, possibly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[100,143,145,144,4310,1768],"class_list":["post-506683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-opd","tag-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506683","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=506683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}